five pm on tuesday here in moscow this is arts he lives with me rumors showing russia as the lawmakers are meeting to vote on dmitri men here to see for prime minister and president putin is already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies that have us with our. standing by in central moscow of peter with the retreat made yet if expected to be voted in as a new prime minister what are the expectations and tell us about the challenges he's 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 who 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 then 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 and develop the economy now not just modernize the economy of course he was key in when his time as president in trying to increase transparency in the russian political system through technology and invoking many introducing other many systems involving involving the internet amongst other technologies now dead have also vowed to increase life expectancy in russia by twenty eighteen 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 he wanted to see more investment rules in russia now of course one of the key issues for anybody campaigning for off this is always education system a debt of saying that he wanted to make education a key part of a term. 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 russian society to multan nice and develop the russian military to make sure that it remains one of 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 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 certainly be no resting on these laurels from president putin he signed a series of strategic cold is almost immediately from taking office but these include

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 into eastern europe will not get 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 stumptown to 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 how much they put their incomes must be made public also that they should be a increase in transparency in government moving along with plans that have been put in place to meet you may get of using the internet to increase transparency.

government that sounds like something. to take with his own but his own suit to this time for him one 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 believes that the cash is there. greater efficiency in state spending and the anti-corruption measures that have been pursued previously will be pursued pursued. 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. and of course the possibly even busier now than far away as the fourth source of financing you will those how. early one hundred fifty billion dollars

worth of reserves and this is yet another source of the country. one thing that is clear is that a lot of me a good news to put forward his his plan his dream for his that he's going to need to work closely with a prime minister it seems out the moment that the prime minister will be dimitri made head of that meeting still ongoing here in moscow but say he's expected to meet him a bit of will be named as the prime minister he has the support of united russia democrats that's expected to put him over the fifty percent he needs to take that position. put all of a life in central moscow many thanks indeed. and as peter was referring to there 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. agrees reports from the scene of one of the opposition gatherings. they're still raving the elements that moscow weather at the moment has the offer the see them gathered just behind me at present now they're cool hest of alexei no bony poles opposition activists he did that in the early tuesday morning to eating raw seal his followers to send in central moscow they did so somewhere else in quito i originally was in the early hours of tuesday warning that they were saving somewhat of a city and it seemed quite peaceful at times of people singing and overstretching quite a peaceful demonstration and a keeley they didn't want to actually be citing anything political that's because there's an unsanctioned demonstration that would have likely led to a rest now actually coming back to this protest well i like to know about you all

the key organizers and that of. head of the left front of also for pay to keep are when it comes to organizing demonstrations or they were detained around four am in the morning says they saw the demonstration elsewhere they were stopped by police but they have since been released three hours attained those two key figures like since are released and then actually made it here is here to stay and indeed the leaders when speaking here of this opposition movement at the moment said that if they get ousted again by the police 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 so clashes between protesters and police and 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 tied in some ways this by protesters and has some there rob here. from the but they soon was born on the back of the parliamentary elections back in december ruled out a geisha is over let to rule fooled 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 it's a picture in there is all violent demonstrations we saw taking place on sunday and the more the fringe me with the hardliners who want to see a complete overhaul of the political system as it is present there are those who just want a rerun but it comes through just speech it elections. or let's get some more on the return of a lot of my protein i'm now joined by alexander rob 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 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 political interests russia. or europe it's. coming from the politics. or positions in business and society who were born after the end of communism remember the cold war and of the remember there is a war and the people who are today the streets in the first cities not only must also be just group of the whole sort of as well and besides all the personal

freedoms which is that you're in russia for the first time since history you know them and also political freedom better to say. the civilities 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 a 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 as a hood you can take some of the ideas which are expressed by many if 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 address 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 to wear a turban government this is not true only some of them probably out there will say in favor of complete changes but many of them want to see precipitation and it puts you and me to be one thousand years to do with the things larry we're doing and then we also opening up the political system for new parties within the ajman of this new political political leaders participants from outside the president put into those they think will successful hood around russia for the next years of the horse important of the political and social economic situation in russia well those will who will at least look at some of the 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 do you think energy will remain the backbone of russia's economic policy under putin or could it actually diversify and branch out. well the stage is clear they have to diversify have a combo 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 of oil and gas will that mean that they will know for its action much of the say that a lot of other things are happening in russia as well the infrastructure is being created a lot of whom business opportunities are coming up. now a constant a very serious face of more than one thing itself series not just of words but in practice which it has no six years' time to do it was a prime minister movie of course have the possibility of the rules as our liberal reforms and that's the 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 stallings 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 taught kids russia what you have to say about that. we were going to let it cool to obama and it would which probably was said to me to be here was. notional to have journalists listen to this but this protest now what if they misread it or obama said to let me continue with this initial campaign and we finish it and then we can do business again together and i think the obama has they sure will be able to give. russia some kind of guarantees that some of

these. missile defense that they somehow directed against russia and the best way to abuse is going to use is in buying russia into some kind of corporation even signed this year's corporations the. oh the joy in this house she has. here in the . room. who becomes president sings the words. there we know we're going to step into russia russia. to in many ways. than any other war and this is a very. i said to her our director of the russia and eurasia program by the german council on foreign relations thanks for coming on. this news just in here on russia as 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 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 it will have your own leisure our web site at odd see if they can get the menu. 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 thank. you. trust a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful it 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 threats are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question. is is there. he will reject it out because it would then france would also cite france for many reasons one of them was his best 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'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 police see and that's going

about here c.v.t. and tonight it's the night of the whole for again you know the march good because i can 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 yet it is not. a lot is being branded france's new hope of redemption 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 back seat during the campaign a model did throw out two moves one go head to head with germany's angela merkel on me to go shading the e.u. fiscal pact believe me he will experience in the coming month the the power of i mean the negotiation power of of america because miracle 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 a scaled down foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be more considerate to what is happening in the rest. and will focus on economic issues within europe at the end of the day all the french really want our jobs and leadership to truly represent them both at home and abroad. yes or still your art. let's get more information on any of the stories that we're covering just log on to our website dot com here's a some of the items are waiting for there right now the fear of flying some pilots refused to operate in one of the world's most advanced fighter jets the f. twenty two the safety concerns suggest the cockpit of the planes could be deadly for the crew. also online for us head to our 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. but grains a leading human rights activist who remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks. was arrested just days after featuring on julian sanchez program here on our team in the show the whistleblower questioned him and an egyptian shimon 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 allies 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 case against the british and american and european governments that are backing bahrain i don't know i don't know how long julian assange has been under house arrest here in this country without charge but they obviously seem to think that they're going to arrest his 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. longest strike 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 cover it. reminded her in less than fifteen minutes you can watch the latest edition. of course right here on. as opposed to two leading revolutionaries from bahrain where the revolution was

really egypt where the revolution is though 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 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 ships there the nation 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 four year old an 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 explosive 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 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 off the 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 nationalist forum i could just say you want to see 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 her say let's talk about someone else in topples who just complaining quietly about the latest attacks against civilians i'm talking about american diplomats who actually negotiated peace with egypt but which of the grinning and wonderful understanding and enabled of both of them to say that forward you've got to stop. the inevitable not to the to you know why even if you know you see all you have the good will

smooth the bike speed in action such as the ones that are of god civilians are undermining your entire body of work hard work everyone's there on the ground here in australia. and this is happening with that all of your money and today we need how good is the american basket or the sun is that it's not sure it's not here and we're going to watch you get. the most furious do we need when it will be u.s. military alchemists or with your heart your words when you are going to remove the bugs that go on one of the us military and the cia and the destroy everything basically what you see happening where you're going to kabul is that you say is in the same position as the department in. kabul and instantly it cannot trust the us military did. not to see and sorry if i if i can understand this because i work in the news business but this is

a subtly multi-dimensional aspect you bring on here you're blaming all the 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 with unilateral drone strikes me all saying it's a much bigger equation than just that and that's where we want to say probably has not months to do with. the us military this is just really good. and loose of the issues but where you see the grass. you know you can do it in this endearingly with young going to do it's not movie of the people so basically that means probably major problem in afghanistan and also the mob subway which is the easiest to even see it was concealed until then what do you have. here as the password to drop it's not it was he was assigned he's not the first guy we used to prove who are the senior who have over the past

few years since to you to cut your design and borrow a u.s. diplomat cut short his was enough ghana style 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. a very subdued. and. i won something with this location it was cheap that's a good or good and well. the question of course that we begin to see is the existence of the fires these are the signs of and. this is.

not. trust them it means. all right off the president of the pack national forum of pakistan's first political lobbying group thank you for joining us on. still to come here shortly in the program he's the man who pulls the rug out from underneath the feet of all authorities worldwide with his notorious to wiki leaks julian assange has exclusive our team program in just a moment. wealthy

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flight from moscow this is our t.-r. rory sushi. here are your headlines dmitri medvedev is voted in as prime minister by the country's lawmakers who will now form a new government this just coming into us here at r.t. i mean time a real you know great of president putin has already ushered in his own corrections to russia's future political course. hundreds of activists remain in central moscow protesting against putin's return to office some of them have been camping out overnight after police made around four hundred arrests following violence on the eve of putin's inauguration. and france's newly elected leader francois hollande has little time to enjoy the fruits of victory as he needs to get right down to business to bring about probably.