straight to live pictures for you here on odds he has to be true made v.h.f. is expected to be voted in as the prime minister by the country's lawmakers before forming a new government again these are live pictures all right from the state duma session here in central moscow you can follow this live for yourself at r.t. dot com. andre inaugurated president putin is already oh shoot in his own corrections to russia's political calls join me in a few moments rule the latest. hundreds of activists remain in the central moscow to protest against putin's it's. all up for the next target cation shortly.

and france's newly elected leader francois hollande has little time to enjoy the taste of victory and he needs to get down to business and bring about promised change leaving the stock cozy era behind. worldwide news twenty four hours a day this is artsy with me rule research and live in moscow russia is a little makers are meeting to vote on dmitri medvedev scandal to see for prime minister and president putin's already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies let's get all the details now from our he's pretty all of a standing by for us live right now in central moscow peter with dmitri medvedev expected to be voted in as the new prime minister what all the expectations and i will kind of challenges does he face. that meeting is ongoing right now and to me

to make it a kind of nice addressing of the pall of the building but before the former president spoke to the new president speaking introducing him got to be approved saying that the meeting made good it was willing to cooperate and work with all parties and organizations in russia and russia currently his current political sphere dmitri medvedev himself during his speech has said that they need to be changes in the upper echelons of russian political power he vowed to continue the policies of economic. development funds and my station that he implemented himself while he was president he also vowed to increase life expectancy in russia to about the current level of seventy years old up to seventy five by the year twenty eight c. but he also said that he wanted to see more investment in a new russia business is looking to get more investment from abroad into russia to

bolster the economy now it's expected that united russia and the liberal democratic policy will vote for it to be two major debt if that will give him more than the fifty percent of what he needs to be become the new prime minister or the communists on the fair russia have said that they won't be voting for him however as i say the fight that united russia and the liberal democrats on his side mean that we're expecting that he should be named as the new prime minister very shortly before our separate and you talk about the new prime minister or should i say the possibly a possible new prime minister let's turn our attention now to a lot of a person he's been back about hell now as president for well for a little over twenty four hours but as far as we understand it here at r.t. he's been a busy man for the past day. yes says the president has certainly hit the ground running signing a series of strategic orders now the most. still important of these revolving

around foreign policy and addressing at the united states's on time missile defense shield the proposed by missile defense shield in eastern europe now the president has ordered the foreign ministry here in russia to demand from washington written confirmation that any missiles based any missile sites i think you need eastern europe will not target russia president putin also saying that the start treaty must be as he had to a closer to home he said he wants to stamp out corruption by making sure that political corruption by making sure that all bureaucrats have to declare all of their incomes and he also wants to expound heading crease the transparency in russia's government using technology on especially the internet well of course that was something that is pre-decided to me to be made good if the how the regionally put same place looks like a lot to me a putin looking to continue that trend of increasing transparency in russia's

political systems no political analysts have been looking at the situation at the moment essentially it looks as though russia's two political big guns are going to switch positions with putin now as president and perhaps we're going to see we look like we are going to see mitt get of take over as prime minister but political analysts say that they are going to have to work very closely together if they go to achieve their goals. to raise their salaries by fifty percent by the year two thousand and eighteen knew their end of his term he plans to create by that time twenty five million you drop in the country and he plans to have ninety percent of all their important medicines to be produced in russia domestically so these are very ambitious plans and a lot of them will have to be implemented by mr means good so i don't expect them to be arguing ideological but i think there will be a very tough job ahead of them to feel what mr borden sees as his vision for his new. president. so the would say is that if president putin's

plans are going to be achieved that he's going to have to it very closely with his prime minister. say we're expecting in the next few moments that that prime minister will be named as former president dmitri medvedev of course we will bring you all of that to you on see as soon as we get it you can follow the life feed to meet you may get it speaking to politics on our website all t.v. dot com of us all right how he suffered a lot of live in central moscow kremlin in the distant background there many many thanks indeed. well as a peter was just saying again just to remind you you can watch the live broadcast of the ongoing state duma session on our website or our dot com now as of late emir putin gets busy in his new role as president some of the public on the streets of central moscow showing their discontent with his return to office activists have been holding marches against putin's inauguration with some protests turning into overnight camps our correspondent jake aggrieved is at the scene of the opposition

gathering joining us live on the programmer jacob you've been with the crowds throughout the day just can you tell us one thing or just who are these protesters . or sure they're quite passionate they're still raving the elements as moscow whether at the moment has the offer of see them gathered just behind me at present now there cooder poem the behest of alexei only prods opposition activists and he did that early tuesday morning tweeting and asking all his followers to send in central moscow they did so somewhere else in quito i originally and that was in the early hours of tuesday morning but they were staging somewhat of a sit in to see what he saw at times of people singing and open straight in quite a peaceful demonstration and the key lead they didn't want to actually be saving anything political that's because it's an unsanctioned demonstration that would have likely led to

a rest now actually coming back to this protest well alexina value all the key organizers and that sort of. head of the left front of also played a key part when it comes to organizing demonstrations or they were detained around four am in the morning mass as they sort of moved the demonstration elsewhere they were stopped by police but they have since been released three hours detained those two key figures like since are released and they've actually made appearances here early stay. can you tell us of just just how far these demonstrators say they're going to take their call is this going to carry on because ultimately a demonstration from yesterday evening turning into a possibly a down pajama party just how far are they going to take this. show you get the impression this is all about maintaining pressure the past more importantly some attention on that vladimir putin the recently inaugurated president taking when it

comes to his first days first couple of days in office and indeed the leaders when speaking here of this opposition movement at the moment said that if they get ousted again by the police then they will want to read out hate somewhere else in moscow so they do want to keep the momentum on this going of course that comes on the back of those that markedly violent demonstrations so taking place on sunday just ahead of but of a person's official inauguration there were still clashes between protesters and police and usually comes this opposition movement number of injuries on both sides and a markedly lower amount of arrests being made police say that they were attacked and some he says by protesters and has some of their broad gay people from the. we've we've heard you discuss in the stats as you know as we know there were some violent clashes with police on the eve of putin's inauguration with about four hundred arrests being made that's of course on top of a string of protests we've seen in moscow over the past five months can you just

explain and just put this into layman's terms for all of us here particularly me ultimately at the end of the day what does the opposition want to achieve. was official tagline for a long time now has been for free and fair elections and we can't arise by the white ribbons that many of the protests where when they are demonstrating but they soon was born on the back of the parliamentary elections back in december rule with allegations of electoral fraud and then the pressure grew as we saw mass demonstrations taking place in moscow and also. around the rest of russia that led into the presidential elections now as to what they want to achieve for here there is somewhat of a split is a picture in those violent demonstrations we saw as i can place on sunday for those and more of a fringe me with the hardliners who want to see a complete overhaul of the political system as it is at present there are those who just want a rerun when it comes to disputed elections right after you sir jacob grieve there

in central moscow thank you. still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. a small step towards order and stability. we have that to prove that we can move forward yes for syria no for tourism no for holding guns yes for peace yes for developing vic country syrians parliamentary votes the country still divided over whether the ballot will make a difference to people's lives. more victims of police abuse in the u.s. leave many questioning whether the lower is failing to control the officers responsible for upholding it. france will be hoping for a positive future following the election of a new president but while francois hollande may have beaten his rival nicole are so cozy in the recent run off considerably tough task now awaits him many voters want

to see a change in the country's foreign policy course and to see their economy grow from paris with this report. out with the old guy. who didn't. trust to ask a victory in the first presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful if they're here they have voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of crowds are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question. is is that people rejected because it would then france would also france for many reasons one of them was his personal arrogance so we can hope that in foreign policy is going to move in the right direction that is less arrogant. be it arrogance or something else there was no hiding nicolas sarkozy's eagerness

to lead the libyan intervention sending french warplanes in first. he of course betrayed himself all along as deliberate of libya but he kept that extremely quiet as allegations kept coming out about his relationship with gadhafi the result tonight or it's clear they wanted to stop that kind of policy and that going about your c.v.t. and tonight it's not the night of hope again you know the march good to see has created an overall image of frons we don't want divisions within the french society we don't want the bombing of arab countries we are friends of the arabs yet it is not. a lot is being branded france's new hope or gadget one task ahead of him to sort through the euro crisis and clean up an image which many think is no longer in line with what's traditionally french while foreign policy took a backseat during the campaign a lot it did throw out two moves one go head to head with germany's angela merkel

on really go sharing the e.u. fiscal pact believe me she will experience in the coming month the the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because america will face an election in one year and she will not be willing to compromise we said with a french president and to withdraw french troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned it's a sign that i think he wants to scale down the foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be more considerate of what is happening in there and the rest of the world and will focus on economic issues within europe at the end of the day all the french really want are jobs and leadership to truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser cilia our team partners. and any time to get more information on any of the stories you fancy just log on to dot com of course

website some of the items are standing by for you there right now include other farrah. flying pilots refused to operate one of the world's most advanced jets the f. twenty two after safety concerns suggest the planes could be deadly for the crew. also online head to our you tube channel to watch a special report on the tragic fate of the refugees displaced escaping the ongoing violence in the arab states. it's a quarter past the hour here in moscow syria is counting votes after the country held its parliamentary election a ballot however was formally boycotted by the opposition of what's called a sham but as all these are reports amid continuing violence in the country many syrians believe the election has given them a real chance to help their country. it didn't get the stamp of approval from the opposition he'd called for a boycott the people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament she elections the

elections taking place against the backdrop of instability in the country and the credibility of the vote being called into question with the opposition boycotting the vote so that that participation the real question is just how serious a change will this election bring to the political landscape in syria and that's what we've been finding out. because we have some disturbance and some of this is ok we have the to approve that we can move forward and we can overcome this obstacle here. for people who are like people who would like to support syria people who would like to say yes for syria no for to resume holding yes for peace yes for developing vic country there were no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people think of a thing we're doing say objective lay and the monitor at this poll told us there's been a violation say far. everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in

the motions with violations. more than seven thousand candidates have been vying for public support fourteen million people allowed to vote in syria and they've been trying to gain the support to win one of those two hundred fifty seats that are going to be available in the new parliament fourteen million people were eligible to vote but amongst those not participating would be the tens of thousands of political prisoners and the huge chunks of the population who are now refugees having fled their homes from the violence this is the serious questions about the legitimacy of the ballots but as international opinion surrounds the political developments in syria one analyst stress that this is a very full syrians and by syrians to me legitimacy comes from the people one. sees that. president assad goes.

to most. of this for him probably. the one who can declare that president assad is a legitimate or illegitimate. lost his legitimacy. his legitimacy the syrians. or the rights that is a right that they've been exercising whether it's turning out to cast the ballots or attempting to demonstrate in the streets even amongst those voting there was something he said they felt the elections were unlikely to bring about any serious change but they said they believe that after fifteen months of unrest they had to at least try sara for r.t. syria. it is good to have you with us today. leading a human rights activist remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks now bill was arrested just days after featuring on julian assange

just program right here on our see on the show the question and an egyptian cimon rights activist about the origins and the future of the arab spring and he went for a job has always openly criticized the bahraini ruling family and the state's western allies and london based author and journalist afshin rattansi believe job and his fellow activists face a future of very tough challenges. there is a new case against in the case against the british an american and european governments that are backing bahrain i don't know how long julian has been under house arrest here in this country without charge but they obviously seem to think that they get a rest interviewees very disturbing what's happening to the president of the bahrain center for human rights is not just him more worryingly of course is the. longest drag i understand his daughter who is also being in custody case not coming

up till later in the week you know killing people fifty dead in a country that small equates to a lot of people this is an apartheid state being backed by the obama administration in the years two thousand and nine two thousand and ten as if seeing what was about to happen in bahrain the obama administration stepped up sales which include equipment used by the authorities in bahrain to suppress the protests and to this is ongoing and they know journalists that are covered. under the next episode of julian program a featuring job is on. next hour here on r.t. for now though a small preview of what is. a lot of people who have i mean i would then be surprised or you should not be surprised to see half of the bunny population coming out and want to protest it's still happening it's not happening in any of the revolution what none of that evolution we had in the history in the past fifty years you would see fifty percent of the population out in this city didn't want to

protest but you would see in bahrain unfortunately because of the debate the standards of many countries because of the debate the standards of many of. the candidates like just like i don't like the european champions that they don't hire ideas but this is the reality. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed was really gypped where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. are you can watch that later today here on r t for now they were put on kicks off the r.t. what update some of the global news in brief authorities have seized sixty thousand rounds of ammunition from an italian container ship in lebanon the bullets were found hidden in two cars on the vessel which was docked in the northern city of tripoli but the ship starts the notion of what are known but syria claims that

weapons are being smuggled over the lebanese border to fight against president assad tripoli has seen it several protests in support of the fourteen month uprising against the syrian leader. the us has a foil than al qaeda plot to bomb an aircraft on the one year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden and the bomb was designed to fit into a passenger's underpants and detonate a border u.s. bound passenger jet a similar plot was attempted in december two thousand and nine but failed when the explosive pants failed to detonate properly or the device which was seized following a cia operation in yemen is now being examined by the f.b.i. . prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the new israeli government will responsibly promote a peace process with the palestinians and over with another statement came after he reached an agreement with the opposition following all night negotiations to avoid

snap elections the unity government is now expected to hold talks on a range of issues facing clude ing iran's disputed nuclear program. and greece is a radical left wing syriza party is attempting to form a coalition government after conservative groups in new democracy fail to do so syriza party leader. is aiming to form a cap on earth that will reject austerity measures imposed by the international bailout deal that comes after sunday's election results which gave no single party enough votes to govern alone a new government must be formed by may the seventeenth or greece will be forced to hold new elections. footage of two u.s. police officers police officers beating a homeless man to death is the cry for help has been shown in an american courtroom it's the latest in a spate of shocking police brutality cases to grab the headlines and as ati's

marina portnoy found out many in america feel that justice is far from being done. if you were a two thousand and twelve shooting death of teenager trayvon martin well marli graham was shot and killed inside his home two on armed african-american teenagers in two separate states succumb to the same fate in florida trayvon martin was carrying candy when he was gunned down by neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman as a bronze teenager being pursued by police moments before he was killed in new york city where morley graham was standing in his bathroom when he was shot in the chest by a plainclothes narcotics officer who forced himself into the home without a warrant the eighteen year old was not in possession of a gun or drugs and according to n.y.p.d. officials the thirty year old cop who pulled the trigger locks at the proper training to work in his assigned unit two months have passed and there have been no charges in connection with the killing but it's a lack of training in the situation as in a lack of respect for the community so you're patrolling that allows an officer to

sort of act in a unauthorized and disciplined outside the guidelines manner which in essence is acting like a cowboy you know we're not in the wild west in a fatal police shooting of a sixty eight year old ex marine kenneth chamberlain sr was the u.s. war veteran who fell victim to unnecessary deadly police force last november but the sixty eight year old was tasered and shot by officers who responded to a false alarm from a medical alert pendant chamberlain reportedly instructed the officers to leave before they broke his door down an investigation into his killing remains ongoing too often the police are putting themselves in situations where violence becomes a more likely outcome and this is the result often of overly aggressive policing policies the exact number of americans killed by overly aggressive policing remains unknown because the us department of justice does not require police departments to

report fatal shooting statistics meanwhile. the new york city police department the world's largest has refused to release internal reports on police shootings from one thousand nine hundred six through two thousand and six until you begin holding those officers accountable until when they commit certain acts they actually go to jail or they lose their pensions you're going to have a resistance because they feel sometimes that they can commit these acts with impunity meaning that they know that other than a few headaches or hiccups nothing is really going to happen to them which is why we bring cases and actions against the officers. persistent use of police tasers is also being blamed for the death of five hundred people in the u.s. since two thousand and one with your head according to amnesty international dozens of deaths can be traced to unnecessary force oh. policies for taser

use vary from state to state. experts say it's time for washington to create strict national guidelines to protect the public bar. from police growing trigger happy with electric shock devices this would help clarify things both for police departments and also frankly would strengthen the hands of people who want to bring litigation against the police for civil rights violations because it would show it would provide a standard that they could use for challenging these local police practices critics claim that justice is rarely served when those who kill turn out to be u.s. police officers in many instances leaving the very people entrusted with inforcing a law well protected when they violate marine upper nile artsy new york. own interest a few minutes or an hour to you know we sit down with the nato as deputy chief to talk about on t.v. missile defense systems in europe that they write off to

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