dimitry men voted in as for prime minister by the country's lawmakers will now form a new government. and inaugurated president putin is already ushered in his corrections to russia's political goals to meet a few moments for all the latest. hundreds of activists remaining in the central moscow to protest against the terms of office. and france's newly elected leader francois hollande has a little time to enjoy the fruits of victory as he needs to get down to business to bring about promised change as he works to leave behind the era.

it is good to have you with us here one hour to today. live in moscow russia has a new prime minister dmitri medvedev who will now former cabinet and get down to business a newly inaugurated president putin is already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies in the details now from a study by frost. so what are the expectations for the results of the reshuffle also what i will kind of challenges will the tandem face. dimitri made good of is the new prime minister follows him receiving the support of united russia and the liberal democratic party putting in well over the fifty percent of the votes needed to take up the position us despite the communist on the table should vote against

him however the votes you perceive putting him well over that mark now dmitri medvedev while making his address to the parliament said this he wanted to make changes to the political. really are. the political echelon of russia saying that he would continue to look to malta not least the russian political system and placed great emphasis on the economy saying that he needed developing also saying that more investment was needed in russia more foreign investment needed in russia and also picking up on the ascension to the w t o full membership to the w t o saw and seen as a necessity by prime minister dimitri made yet if you know in social times he said he wanted to raise the average age in russia from seventy as it is at the moment to seventy five by two thousand and eighteen he also said he wanted to improve education in the country saying this russia's universities would become some of the

best in the world and rise in the global rankings if he is able to put in place his policies now for more on the reaction to dmitri medvedev being named as the prime minister in russia i'm now joined by michael i don't think they let you join me at the editor in chief of g.q. russia so what's your reaction to it you may get it being named as the prime minister got. a lot of shot. by an every other russian observers perhaps most fellows this was something that could have been a use of a verdict or just personal. badge and three. indicate the tandem you know alive and well they walked together and all that sort of at least in terms of hours right here on since. you know we still have the time to know what was supposed to be a straight swathe should handle them now it is do you think they'll be changing the dynamic old love relationship now that he has the president in may get him to the

prime minister that well i'm doing a bit of a flashback you know i mean you've got all of us asking the same question but i mean heard what you know forty years ago. but no no i would say to you today. and even then. you know how to call every observer of the russian politics and probably i would probably be correct in treating this as food and so forth. as rosy and so on and i would say that that's that's the gist of it at least you know from the way it looks to. someone from the right way you seem quite skeptical about that relationship is there an alternative in your minds to the movement was saying at the moment no i'm not a good enough couple it is what it is i.e. you know i don't doubt that it exists and if that's what you mean it's going to mean do you have hopes that it's not to me putin will be able to put in place the plans he says that he's laid out say i will after being inaugurated on monday these and he said he wants to make some really big changes and in order to do that he's

going to need the help of dimitra make it is going to be the prime minister do you think since you say that they are they are on the side together all they going to be able to work together to an end and not some of those changes because i believe that one of the things that sort of spurred the protests and you know december for example that. sort of the intelligence was in fact bought into the idea that if it was developing into kind of a personal visit and perhaps you know that we were sort of all salivating at the you know happens to have the prospect of some sort of electoral struggle between when a bit of i think it's been complicit for a month you know none of this is going to happen so we have no other choice of observers i think i'm not sure how they're going to watch very closely i know everything one of them or not does has something about their own some kind of thinking ok. michael idol the editor in chief of g.q.

russia thank you very much for talking to us well there is a lot of wood to be done by the prime minister the new prime minister to meet you may get of looking at alongside president putin and president putin laid out some of it. justice. among those who said pivotal among those international policy saying that the regarding the on time missile defense shield in eastern europe the u.s. proposed anti-missile defense shield saying that. he told it the foreign ministry to go to washington to speak to washington and demand written confirmation that say missiles placed at those sites wouldn't be targeted against russia no he also said to president putin also he said that the start treaty to limit and cut down the size of nuclear arsenals between russia and the united states must be a little closer to home there was talk of. lowering house prices and increasing wages for nurses and doctors and for and forward school teachers as well so

a lot of plans being laid out that's just it a selection all of them are there but it's going to take the best of the new president about working alongside the new prime minister if they can be put into practice and what some people are calling proven two point zero putin reloaded can actually work. there are two separate all of that live in central moscow thank you . now as a lot of reporting gets busy in his new role as president some of the public on the streets of central moscow are sharing their discontent with his return to office activists have been holding marches against putin's inauguration with some protests turning into overnight camps strike agrees reports from the scene of the opposition gathering. but there still raving the elements that moscow weather at the moment has the see them gathered just behind me at present now there cooder polled the behest of alexei no bony poles opposition activists he did that early tuesday

morning to eating grass and all his followers to this day and in central moscow they did so somewhere else in kids who are originally and that was in the early hours of tuesday morning but they were staging somewhat of a sit in the scene quite peaceful at times of people singing and orchestration quite a peaceful demonstration and the keeley they didn't want to actually be saving 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 alexei no bounty on 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 there says they sort of moved the demonstration house where they were stopped by police but they have since been released this three hours

attained those two key figures since released and they've actually made an appearance here earlier state 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 ok somewhere else in moscow so they do want to keep the momentum on this going of course it comes on the back of those of markedly violent demonstrations sort taking place on sunday just ahead of that of a person's official inauguration there were 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 attacked and some he says by protesters and has some of their raw gaev. no 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 it's a pity that in those more violent demonstrations we saw a second place on sunday for those and more of a fringe we're 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. are for now artie's any so now it takes a closer look at what drives the anti putin camp. who is the russian opposition well of course it depends who you ask but also if you take a look for yourself what you'll see most often are a lot of different colors organizations and parties well to help us kind of decipher who's who in this i think we can call it modern russian opposition is to me through bob which he's a political analyst for voice of russia radio thanks for being with us i want to start with alexis the widely and surrogate so just because they're the most well

known at the moment they're constantly getting arrested and being released just briefly tell us who they are and why they've become the prominent leaders not use not a typical leftist populist like would he use the morning to take corruption and nationalist . but let's focus on the flanks for a bit looking at this video this is this is sunday's protest which for the first time turned really ugly you see these there's so and the left front it's called what what are the main focus of that party it's a flag we saw a lot of on sunday you see the red flags with the red star so this is an image abroad people might think it's you know a communist party because they read russia communist so what they write because it will do so for recently because. he's. left from the reason why all of the communist party of russian federation human being chronically ill but dissipating all these actions get him constantly arrested that's his style that's like is that

there. is the traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of the there are several groups which do not i why themselves with the left for on the communist party job if you go on the sunday i was there and there were clearly some people who were trying to provoke violence a lot of these so-called anarchists you can see here basically were running into the riot police and also were wearing a lot of these masks. let's talk a little bit more about the nationalist fight that we see sometimes i believe we don't have pictures here yet but it's. white there it is what's this is what it means someone you know all of the groups all the nationalist groups that are strongly opposed to the current government stronger people white blue and red. but who also but would not like to be associated with communists or leftists what does it mean that. when we see tens of thousands of people on the streets of moscow as opposed to small groups like we see here which we saw after the inauguration sit

ins trying to happen why don't we see the thousands of people the masses do we see so many different flanks if they are so anti putin can't they just get under that banner all these groups have mutually exclusive views they're not simply i think interesting they're not simply contradictory that's just an excuse if the nationalistic use putin of being a liberal liberal secular would have been a nationalist the leftist accuse would you know the soviet social system is the liberal secular splintering of reviving the soviet imperialist so they can't agree on anything the only thing that they can agree on is that they don't like pollution and they want the current russian state to collapse that's about it to me three bob rich political analyst from words of russia radio thank you very much for trying to help us understand what's happening with the opposition in russia because certainly people in the country have never been more involved in politics. he's innocent now right there while i still have for you this hour here on

a small step towards order and stability. we have that to prove that they can move back just for syria to resume holding guns yes for peace yes for developing country syrians calm the parliamentary vote the country is still divided over whether the ballot will make a difference to people's lives. kronk's will be hoping for a positive future following the election of a new president but while francois hollande may have beaten his rival nicolas a cosy in the recent run off a considerably tougher tasca now awaits him many voters want to see a change in the country's foreign policy and they want the economy to grow from paris with this report as aussies test. out with the old guy. in with a new was. present a lot to ask a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that

france is once again peaceful event here they had 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 the people rejected because it would then france would also cite 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 along as deliberate of libya but he kept that extremely quiet. allegations kept coming out about his relationship with gadhafi the result did not . doric clear they wanted to stop that kind of policy and that receive it

t.n.t. like it's the night of the hope of getting in the lurch good to see has created an overall image of france we don't want divisions within the french society we don't want to see bombing of arab countries we are friends of the arabs. a lot is being branded france's new hope or gadget a 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 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 he will experience in the coming months the the power of the i mean the negotiation power of america because medicare will face an election in one year and 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 you want to scale down the foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be more considerate of what's happening in there and the rest of the world and more focus on economic issues within europe at the end of the day all the french really want our jobs and leadership to truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser sylvia our two partners. live from moscow this is r.t. now to get more information on any of our stories just log onto our web site it's called some of the items i waiting for the point right now including the fear of flying pilots refused to operate 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 critter. also online head to our you tube channel to watch a special report on the tragic fate of the refugees displaced while escaping the

ongoing violence in the arab states. leading human rights activist who remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks not belittle our job was arrested just days after being featured on julian assange show here on. on the program the whistleblower questioned him and an egyptian tuman rights activist about the origins and the future of the arab spring when there. was always openly criticized the rainy ruling family and the state's western allies london based author and journalist afshin rattansi believes not be our job and his fellow activists face a future of major challenges. there is a case against in the case against the british and american and european governments that have backing bahrain. has been under house arrest

here in this country without charge but they obviously seem to think that they can now arrest interviewees very disturbing what's happened to the president of the bahrain center for human rights it's 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 is 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. just a reminder here an hour to you can watch the latest edition of julian assange his interview show in less than two hours time right here of course on.

a speech to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed. where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. it's twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow syria counting votes after the country held its first parliamentary election for half a century and the ballot however was firmly boycotted by the opposition which called it a sham but as sara furthur reports amid continuing violence in the country many syrians believe the election actually gives them a real chance to help their country. it didn't get the stamp of approval from the opposition who had called for a boycott the people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament to elections the elections taking place against the backdrop of instability in the country and the credibility of the very it's being called into question with the opposition

boycotting the vote so that their 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. cause we have some disturbance and some of this is. we have to approve that we can move forward and we can overcome this obstacle and here. for people who are like people who support shia who are saying yes for syria no for to no for holding yes for peace yes for developing the country there were no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people overseeing the voting would doing so objectively and the monitor at this poll told us they're been levi elations so far. everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the motions without higher nations more than seven thousand candidates have been buying 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 led to serious questions about the legitimacy of the ballots but as international opinion surrounds the political developments in syria one analyst stressed that this is a very full syrians and by syrians to me this is to. comes from the people. for. the. president. to solicit digital most. of this for him probably sees it. there were who can declare the president asserted

it is illegitimate illegitimate. lost his legitimacy who as usual is diminishing the syrians. of the rights that is a right that they've been exercising whether it's turning out to cast the ballot or attempting to demonstrate in the streets even among those voting there was something he said they felt the elections were unlikely to bring about any theories change but they said they believed that after fifteen months of unrest they had to at least try. syria and straight to libya now for the r.t. was the office of libya's interim prime minister has been attacked by gunmen in tripoli a dozen trucks mounted with anti aircraft guns have surrounded the building and a spokesperson says gunfire has taken place inside where the men are believed to be ex rebels demanding payment most people inside the building have fled but there are

reports that at least one security card has been injured it's unknown though whether the prime minister is in the building. authorities have seized sixteen 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 the ship's destination was unknown but syria claims that weapons are being smuggled over the lebanese border to fight against president assad tripoli has seen several protests in support of the fourteen month uprising against the syrian leader. the u.s. has filed 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 detonate aboard 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 but 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 a new israeli government will responsibly promote a peace process with the palestinians the 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 the recently signed strategic pact with the u.s. is at risk of becoming meaningless if the people do not feel safe in their country and this comes after a poor start for airstrikes in recent days carried out by international forces left dozens of civilians dead. the president of the lobbying group pac nationalists says the american military and the cia are undermining the u.s.

afghan relationship. but i think carol president karzai would have to learn the hard way that he cannot trust commitments by the u.s. military and this year again now the american diplomats and couples who could not complain quietly that the ceiling and the good will smooth by getting action such as the ones that killed of god civilians undermining their entire body of work very hard work the work server wants that lead to be published so basically what you see happening right now in kabul is that president karzai is in the same position he has the air he give us what department in kabul and will choose instantly it cannot trust the u.s. military you cannot trust to see any nearer probably has not months to do with civilian yes it is the us military this is it's really the drones urban and loosely actions by the military and it's you know you've grasped the need or. can do it in the past and they're now again going to lead to trouble will beat up gun people

responds the leads us with me over the next few months and birthday parties as a zealot and start work hard to do that you cannot. trust commitments that were smaller here you can see a whole. it is a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today and now just a few minutes we sit down with nato as deputy chief to talk on the missile defense systems in europe that will be after the headlines with me wrong research.

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