dmitri medvedev is expected to be voted in as the prime minister by the country's lawmakers before forming a new government. and really inaugurated president putin is already oshie day in his own corrections to russia's political calls join me in a few moments for all the latest. hundreds of activists remain in the central moscow to protest against putin. all of more from that congregation shortly. and france's newly elected leader francois hollande has little time to enjoy the fruits of victory and he needs to get out of business bring about a promise to change leaving behind the era of psychosis.

now at just after five pm on tuesday here in moscow this is arts he lives with me rover sushi crushers the lawmakers are meeting to vote on dmitri medvedev see for prime minister and president putin is already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies that delve more deeply into this with our pretty all of a standing by in central moscow peter with dmitri medvedev expected to be voted in as the new prime minister what are the expectations and tell us about the challenges he's well potentially poised to face. well that meeting still as you say is expected to result in dimitri made yet of being the prime minister now mr medvedev was introduced by the president vladimir putin he said that mr medvedev was willing to quit. all parties in the russian political system in all

spectrums all of the political system mr medvedev that took the stage himself saying that they needed to be changed in the upper echelons of russian politics and he vowed to continue to hold nice runs develop the economy now not just the economy of course he was key in who in his time as president in trying to increase transparency in the russian political system through technology and invoking many introducing i think many systems involving involving the internet amongst other technologies now dead have also vowed to increase life expectancy in russia by twenty eight he wants to see that jump from the current market seventy to seventy five over the next few years and he also said that the economy was incredibly important that he wanted to see business investing more in russia and he wanted to see more investment for the brule in russia now of course one of the key issues for

anybody campaigning for office is always education system a debt of saying that he wanted to make education a key part of a to if he was to be elected as prime minister he wants to see russian universities rise in the the international rankings and also you see a military industrial complex become a key part of the way of russian society to modernize and develop the russian military to make sure that it remains one of the the strongest in the world finally ending saying that full membership of the w t o was a key priority for him praising the work that it being so far but saying that to get a full membership was the next step that needed to be taken. barely thirty six hours to send president vladimir putin to return to the helm of the country but he's been a rather busy man what are some of his first moves he's been putting his attention to. yes the city being no resting on these laurels from president putin he

signed a series of strategic cold is almost immediately taking office but these include many a foreign policy is looking out the the proposed u.s. . missile defense shield in eastern europe president putin oldring the foreign ministry here in russia to demand from washington that they receive written confirmation that any missile sites put in based in europe will not target russia president putin also you saying that the start treaty must be adhered to closer to home moving away from the international affairs he said that he wants to see corruption stamped out in russia in russian politics one of the ways he wants to see this happen is that all bureaucrats all people involved in politics must. reveal all which they earn per year their incomes must be made public and also that

they should be a increasing transparency in government moving along with plans that had been put in place by a street assessor to meet you made yet of using the internet to increase transparency in government that sounds like something. to take with in his own but his own suit to this time for him but for all of the things that he has said a loss of these policies will require money is the money in the russian economy well a senior economist at deutsche bank believes that the cash is there. the. greater efficiency of state spending and the anti-corruption measures that have been pursued variously will be preserved who. are going forward i think this is going to be certainly one of the most important sources another one privatization is termed as one of the key priorities. for the next several years. is the fact that you have. a. in the course of possibly even busier

far away as the north shore so far nothing in the world. knows how. early one hundred fifty billion dollars worth of reserves and this is yet another source of potential for. one thing that is clear is that a flood of news to put forward his plan his dream for his that he's going to need to work closely with the prime minister it seems on the moment that the prime minister will be dimitri made head of that meeting still ongoing here in moscow but as it is expected to meet him a bit of will be named as the prime minister he has the support of united russia and the liberal democrats that's expected to put him over the fifty percent he needs to take that position all right how he suffered all of a life in central moscow many thanks indeed. and as peter was referring to the i just a reminder you can watch the live broadcast of the ongoing state duma session on our website on dot com. now as of late i'm

a putin gets busy in his new role as president some of the public are on the streets of central moscow showing their discontent with his return to office activists have been holding marchers against putin as an organization with some protests turning into overnight camps want to take a greece reports from the scene of one of the opposition gatherings. they're still raving the elements that moscow whether alone has the offer to see them gathered just behind me at present now there cooled upon the behest of alexei no boney poles opposition activists but he did that in the early tuesday morning to eating raw seal his followers to this and in central moscow they did so somewhere else in quito originally and that was in the early hours of tuesday warning that they were staging somewhat of a sit in it seemed quite peaceful at times of people singing and overstretching quite a peaceful demonstration of the keeley they didn't want to actually be saving anything

political that's because this is an unsigned demonstration that will likely lead to arrest though actually coming back to this protest well i like to know about you all the key organizers and that of thousands of head of the left front of also played a key part in it comes organizing demonstrations well they were detained around four am in the morning says they saw the demonstrations elsewhere they were stopped by police but they have since been released three hours attained those two key figures like since are released and they've actually made an appearance here this day and indeed the leaders when speaking here of this opposition movement at the moment said that if they get ousted again by the police and they will want to read ok somewhere else in moscow they do want to keep the momentum on this going of course it comes on the back of those of markedly violent demonstrations so taking

place on sunday just ahead of that of a person's official inaugural ration there was still clashes between protesters and police on usually comes this opposition movement number of injuries on both sides and a markedly large amount of arrests being made police say that they were attacked in some ways this by protesters and has some there rog here. from them but they soon was born on the back of the parliamentary elections back in december rule without a geisha is over like tool for and then they 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 dissipates moisture in those small violent demonstrations we saw taking place on sunday where those and more of the 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 just speech at elections. or let's get some more on the return of a lot of my protein i'm now joined by alexander ra the director of the russia and eurasia program with the german council on foreign. thanks for coming on r.t. today a great pleasure indeed are you once said the putin's new term as president putin two point zero but putin three point zero zero what policies do you think will define this. change so president putin has also changed in order to keep. this is science to say he has its interests it's a political interests russia. is. coming to the politics of. positions in business and in society who were born after the end of communism do not remember the cold war and the remember there is

a war. on the people market there the streets in the first cities not only in most homes are they just broke but will sort of swell and besides all the personal freedoms which they join russia for the first time since history you know them and also political freedom better to say. more civility for the girl. in parties in public who are are so there's a possibility for political engagement i do apologize for interrupting you but i just wanted to just jump on the next one here because certainly putin has some achievements to capitalize on that let's talk about some specific accomplishments of medvedev and his presidency that putin can then move on with and further evolve . well i who didn't take some of the ideas which are expressed by me to give a he in my view will be all the better i trekked because maybe it was the person

who started to change russia for bof a he was responsible for waking up the middle class the whole internet generation of russia through his speeches through his announcement assume his addresses into his criticism of that i should political and economic system. we see you know that there is a political middle class in russia which doesn't want the poor turn of the government this is not true only some of them probably i must say in favor of complete changes but many of them want to see precipitation and if put in the be of one thousand years to do or things like they were doing then we also opening up the political system for new parties within the ajman of this new political political leaders participants from outside the present for those they think will successful hood are under pressure for the next years of the horse reporting of the political and social economic situation in russia while those who will at least will not

get good words or bad when you talk about the economic situation in russia i'm sorry but you talk about the economic situation in russia i want to just bring this up with you as well because ultimately there are many analysts out there that say the russian economy at the end of the day is vulnerable to fluctuating energy prices i mean you think energy were main the backbone of russia's economic policy under putin or could actually diversify and branch out. well the stage is clear they have to diversify the whole of the economy as soon as opposed to vote that in such a country to become the crush it takes longer than the west expects to do this so of course the oil and gas will remain that they will know for the exhaustion budget but i say this that a lot of other things are happening in russia as well the infrastructure is being created a lot of new business opportunities are coming up. now a constant a very serious face more than one thing itself series not just of words but in practice which in a small six years' time could do it was

a prime minister. who of course our possibility to the rules is our liberal reforms and that's this past let's talk about some of the issues are coming out of capitol hill for example many say that in washington d.c. there are still many cold war years there he wasn't too pleased to see putin come back to the helm here and here the kremlin if you think we can exist expect any significant changes in russia's starnes on the u.s. missile defense shield in europe as you know in the past twenty four hours putin has signed a document absolutely demanding that washington guarantee that this missile shield will not talk russia what you have to say about that. well i can only. obama and i quote which probably was said to maybe was always a notion of both have journalists listen to this but this quote is nowhere famous where obama said to let me continue this in actual campaign and we finish it and

then we can do business again together and i think that the obama administration will be able to give. russia some kind of guarantees that some of these. missile defense so they stop directed against russia and the best way to abuse is get to use is in buying russia into some kind of corporation not even signed at sears corp owns the call on the joint missile shield but i fear that if the republicans. in washington. sort of woman becomes president saying civil war it's because then i think there will be no guarantees given to russia and russia that will be treated in many ways like. an enemy of the cold war and this is very unfortunate and i said to her our director of the russia and eurasia program by the german council on foreign relations thanks for coming on our. this news just in here on russia's lawmakers have voted in favor of dmitri medvedev candidacy for

prime minister we can show you live pictures from the state duma session it is now up to the new premier to form a cabinet that's expected to take place within a weird time again these are live pictures right here from the stage in central moscow of course right there at the newly inaugurated president vladimir putin you can follow all of this you have your own leisure our web site at odyssey dot at the home of the jewish dominion. but right now france will be hoping for a positive future following the election of a new president but while francois hollande may have beaten his rival nicolas sarkozy in the recent run off a considerably tough task now awaits him many voters want to see a change in the country's foreign policy and they want the economy to grow. now reports from paris. to the old guy.

who didn't. trust has claimed victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful and they're here they had voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of threat 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 this based on americans 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 eagerness to lead the libyan intervention sending french warplanes in first of course betrayed himself along. right of libya but he kept that extremely quiet as allegations kept you know coming out about his

relationship with gadhafi the result tonight or it's clear they wanted to stop that kind of policy and that about aggressivity and tonight it's that the night of the hope of getting you know the march thirty quid a second see has created an overall image of france we don't want divisions within the french society we don't want the bombing of arab countries we are friends of the arabs. a lot is being branded france's new hope other gadget 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 to dish and the french while foreign policy took a backseat during the campaign armada 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 months the the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because mikhail will face

an election in one year and she will not be willing to compromise we said was 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 he's going to be more considerate of what is happening in there in the rest of the world and more focus on economic issues within europe and at the end of the day all the french really want are jobs and leadership that truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser sylvia our two partners. let's get more information on any of the stories that we're covering just log on to our web site dot com here's a some of the items i waiting for there were you know the fear of flying some pilots refused to operate in a one of the world's most advanced a fighter. jets the f. twenty two after safety concerns suggest the cockpit of the planes could be deadly

for the crew. also online for you i had to you tube channel to watch a special report on the tragic fate of the refugees displaced by escaping the ongoing violence in the arab states. leading a human rights activist who remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks. was arrested just days after featuring on julie sanchez program here on our team in the show the whistleblower question him and an egyptian she made rights activist about the origins on the future of the arab spring movement. has always openly criticized the bahraini ruling family and the state's western alliance a london based author journalist afshin rattansi believes that job and his fellow activists face a future of tough challenges. there is no case against in the cases against the british and american and european governments that are backing bahrain i don't know

how long julian assange has been under house arrest here in this country without charge but they obviously do think that they can now arrest interviewees very disturbing what's happened to the president of the bahrain center for human rights is not just him more worryingly of course is the. i understand his daughter who is also being in custody case not coming up till later in the week you know they are 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 then the journalists that cover it. reminded her nazi they just less than fifteen minutes you can watch the latest edition of julian assange excuse me

assad is interview show of course right here on. as peter two leading revolutionaries from bahrain where the revolution was really where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. straight to a weapons bust to kick off the r.t. world update an authority is have seized sixty thousand rounds of ammunition from an italian container ship in lebanon and the bullets were found hidden in two cars on the vessel which was docked in the northern city of tripoli the ship starts the notion was unknown but syria claims that weapons are being smuggled over the lebanese border to fight against assad tripoli's seen several protests in support of the fourteen month uprising against the syrian president. 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 the bomb was designed to fit into a passenger's underwear and detonator board a u.s. bound passenger jet a similar plot was attempted in december two thousand and nine but failed when the explosives failed to detonate properly but the device which was seized following a cia operation in yemen is being examined by the f.b.i. . prime minister benjamin netanyahu says a new israeli government will responsibly promote a peace process with the palestinians a statement came after he reached an agreement with the opposition following old line negotiations to avoid snap elections the unity government is now expected to hold talks on a range of issues including iran's disputed nuclear program. now afghan president hamid karzai has warned that he recently signed a strategic pact with the u.s.

and that pact is at risk of becoming meaningless if the people do not feel safe in his. country this comes after reports that four airstrikes in recent days carried out by international forces left dozens of civilians dead let's get some more analysis on the situation from the president of the lobbying group nationalists for my good to see you on r.t. today just a week after obama voted off if it visited afghanistan confirming his future commitment to the country here we have yet more news of civilian deaths at the hands of the u.s. military just how strong do you think this partnership really is. but i think your president kind of said have to learn the hard way that he cannot trust commitments by the u.s. military and this you know again and if we talk about the president personally let's talk about someone else in kabul who just complaining quietly about their latest attacks against civilians i'm talking about american diplomats who actually negotiated these figures but i'm sure that we need in them wonderful understanding

speech and that enabled of course of them to say that forward you've got to stop. the inevitable nuts and put on his way why even if you know you see you know you have the good will of the box moved in action such as the ones that will of god civilians are undermining your entire body of work very hard work so everyone's there on the ground and it's fair. and this is one of the that all of the money and today we need how good is the american basket or. is that. it's not here and we're going to washington is the. most feared you are complaining that the u.s. military this is awkward it's a hard. word when you're going to remove the bugs that go on but one of the us military and the cia and the destroy everything so basically what you see happening where you're going to kabul is that the house ok is in the same position as the

department he was humble and instantly became much worse the u.s. military did. not to see and i'm sorry if i if i can understand this because i work in the news business but this is a subtly multi-dimensional asked whether you're bringing on here you're blaming or they're blaming these americans who are working in afghanistan they're blaming the military and the cia i was under the impression that the most recent deaths on the most recent trouble were due to unilateral drone strikes me all saying it's a much bigger equation than just that we're not one of the. probably has not much to do with. the us military this is it's really good. and the actions by. the grass. you know what we can do in the house and their family with young going to do it's not going to be of the people so basically we need probably major problem in afghanistan and also most of my weight is the easiest to even see

a god can still i'm going to be able to have served here as we have now on the passover two bombs not simply wishing he was innocent i mean he's not the first but when he's proof of the scene you're going to have over the past few years since to come to you to cut your design and. so a u.s. diplomat cut short his way in afghanistan but it was just about a week ago we had and we had the american president congratulating his troops on a job well done saying that they are in the process of having peace talks with taliban although they're also targeting the taliban it's not just political rhetoric i thought america was was winning the war on terror. absolutely not i think you heard me sing. and. that's for another. on one side of this illusion it was cheap consider for goodness and with. the question of course that we begin to

see as the existence of the players so these are the signs of that see and. as far as the us with. the birth of moses. the gospel that means you're. all right off mic are actually the president of the pack nationalists forum of pakistan's first political lobbying group thank you for joining us on our. guard still to come here shortly in the program he's the man who pulls the rug out from underneath the feet of authorities worldwide with his notorious to wiki leaks julian assange has exclusive our team program in just a moment.

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