dmitri medvedev voted in as prime minister by the country's lawmakers will now form a brand you've got. to president putin is already out shooting his corrections to russia's political goals join me in a few moments for all the latest. hundreds of activists remain in the central moscow to protest against. more. shortly. and france's newly elected leader francois hollande has little time to enjoy the fruits of victory to get down to business to bring about promised change trying to leave behind the era of sarkozy.

it is good to have you with us today here on arts he. live in moscow russia has a new prime minister dmitri medvedev who will now form a cabinet before getting down to business and of course newly inaugurated president putin is already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies . has more on the tandems agenda. changes to the upper echelons of russian political system also to continue with what he sees as his efforts to mull to the root system in russia highlights you need call me a major point that he wants to to push saying that he wants to increase investment into russia's economy and increase investment from a brule as well also you saying it's full membership of the w t o is

a must and something that he will push for as hard as he can doing his time in the role of prime minister and in terms of the military he wants to see a industrial military complex see making sure that russia's armed forces can remain amongst the best in the world well let me a putin is the president and he's been delivering some strategic olders highlighting what he wants to achieve while he's in power he amongst those who have been foreign policy decisions revolving around the proposed us on time missile defense shield in eastern europe now the president has ordered the the foreign ministry in russia to address the united states demands from washington clio written commitment that they will not target russia with any of those missile sites placed in eastern europe closer to home he's also said that he wants to cripple corruption in russia by forcing old bureaucrats to declare their incomes to work to

more transparency in russian politics using technology using the internet to do that of course that was something that dmitri medvedev had put in place had started to do during his time as president now as prime minister he's going to have to work very very closely with the timea putin if they're to be able to live up to some of the promises of what some people are putin two point zero is a loss of key economic decisions to be made and both prime minister dmitri medvedev on prey. didn't lie to me if i'm going to have to work very closely to interrupt those promises. of all of our reporting right there well as vladimir putin gets busy in his new role as president some of the public on the streets of central moscow are 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 agreements 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 tweeting bassy all his followers to descend 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 it seemed quite peaceful at times of people singing and orchestration quite a peaceful demonstration and the key lead 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 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 so taking place on sunday just ahead of that of a person's official inauguration 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 and somebody says by protesters and has some of their raw gaev. but it still was born

on the back of the parliamentary elections back in december 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 small violent demonstrations we saw second place on sunday there are 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 all right now arteries and so now i take a closer look at what drives the antiproton. 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 modern russian opposition is to me three bob which he's a political analyst for voice of russia radio thanks for being with us i want to start with alexis in 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. is not a typical leftist populist like well does he use the morning to 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 is. left from the reason why all of the communist party of russian federation him being chronically ill but dissipating all these actions to 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 there are several groups which do more time why themselves with the left front or with 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 side that we see sometimes i believe we don't have pictures here yet but it's. white there it is yes what's this if it means someone you know all of the groups all the nationalist groups that are strongly opposed to the current government strung up all white. and red. but

who are also but will not like to be associated with communists or leftists why 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 when you see the thousands of people the masses to be see so many different flights 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 in his degree not simply contradictory that's just an excuse if the nationalistic use would you know be liberal the liberal secular would you know give the national the leftist excuse which you know the sort of social system is the liberal secular which will revive in the soviet period so they can't agree on anything the only thing that they can agree on is that they don't like fortune and they want the current russian state to collapse that's about it to me through bob rich political analyst from wastes 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 not easy nice in our reporting right that when i mean time alexander rob the director of the russia and eurasia program at the german council on foreign relations and he says that i was a lot of my putin empower russia can finally deliver on the pledges of modernization. takes some of the ideas which are expressed by me to give the he in my view will be all the better i track because maybe it was the person whole started to change russia from above he was responsible for waking up and this is the middle class the whole internet generation in russia through his speeches through his announcement of his address legal his criticism of that actually political and economic system listed that it is clear they have to diversify have it come out of the economy as soon as possible but in a such a consummate and becoming like russia takes no more than the west expects russia to

do this so a course of oil and gas will remain the backbone of its action by ship but i must say that a lot of other things are happening in russia as well infrastructure has been created a lot of new business opportunities are coming off russia now possibly very serious face more than one thing itself serious not just in words but in practice and which it has now six years time to do it with a prime minister video of course have a possibility to the whole system liberal reforms and that's all this capacity. this is r t it's good to have you with us today still ahead for you in this hour a small step towards order and stability. we have that to prove that we can move forward yes for c.b.s. no four to resume for holding yes corby's guests for developing free syrian parliament three votes the country is still divided over whether the ballot will

make a difference to people's lives. and find out why india could have its knuckles rapped unless it agrees to meet u.s. demands of iranian oil. program. france will be hoping for a positive future following the election of a new president francois hollande may have beaten his rival nicolas sarkozy in the recent runoff a considerably tougher task now awaits him many voters want to see a change in the country's foreign policy and they want the economy to grow as well with a report from paris is us. out with the old. in with the new. the press were large has claimed 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 threat are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question alon belise is that people rejected talk is it when then france would also cite france for many reasons one of them was is based on the 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. allegations kept coming out about his relationship with gadhafi the result tonight or clear they wanted to stop that kind of policy and that going about receive it and tonight it's the night of hope again you know the march could equal psycho scene 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 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. the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because. girl 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 you want to scale down the foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be more considerate of what's happening in the in 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 that truly represents them both at home and abroad. yes or sylvia are two parents it's a quarter past the hour here in moscow to get more information on any of our stories just log on to our website our team dot com let's check out of some of the stories are standing by for you there right now for example the fear of flying some pilots refused to operate one of the world's most advanced jets the f. twenty two soft a safety concern suggest the cockpit of the planes could be deadly for the crew. also online i head over 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. but cranes are leading human

rights activist remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks. was arrested just days after featuring on julian assange program here on . the show there was a blow a question him and an egyptian schuman rights activist about the origins on the future of the arab spring movement. has always openly criticized the black raney ruling family and the state's western allies london based author and journalist afshin rattansi believes not be of our job but 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 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 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. 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 going to this is ongoing and they know journalists that to cover it. just a reminder here on r t that in less than fifteen minutes you can watch the latest edition of julian assange interview show right here on not. speak 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. and i just a moment here not so you will get to the world update but for now syria is counting votes softer the country held its first parliamentary election for half a century the ballot however was family boycotted by the opposition which ultimately called it a sham but as sarah further reports amid continuing violence in the country many syrians believe the election gives them a real chance to help that 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 people who say. yes or no for to. yes for peace yes for developing the country there are no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people overseeing the voting would doing so objective way and the monitor at this poll told us there have 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 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 led to 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. this is to. comes from the people. for. president goes to solicit legitimacy. of this for him probably sees it. their own who can declare the president asserted this illegitimate illegitimate. lost his legitimacy who are usually as it is to mislead the syrians. who disrupt 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 amongst those facing there was something he said they felt the elections were unlikely to bring about any theories change but they said they believe that after fifteen months of unrest they had to at least try. syria. straight to libya now to kick off the r.t. was up to the office of libya's interim prime minister has been attacked by gunmen in tripoli a dozen trucks mounted with aircraft guns have surrounded the building one spokesperson says gunfire has been heard inside and 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 guard has been injured at this point it is unknown whether the prime minister is in the. forty's of seized sixty thousand

rounds of ammunition from an international italian container ship in lebanon or 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. was foiled 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 detonated 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 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 all night 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. afghan president hamid karzai has warned that the recently signed strategic pact with the us is at risk of becoming meaningless if people do not feel safe in their own country this comes after reports that four airstrikes in recent days carried out by international forces left dozens of civilians dead. the president of the lobbying group pac nationalist forum says the american military and the cia are undermining the u.s. afghan relationship. but i think your president concept would have to learn the hard way that he cannot trust commitments by the u.s. military and this you engage the inevitable nazi could not quite the

ceiling and the good of the marketing action such as the ones that killed of civilians on the morning your entire model of your hard work for several months that led to the publishing so basically what you see happening right now in kabul is that because something is in the same position as the. economy needs diplomats not in kabul and instantly it cannot trust the us military it cannot choose to see any problem it has not months to do. this it is the us military this is it's really urban and who simply actions by the. brass. instruments and they're winning again going to do it's not the week of the people. it's us with over the next month and president karzai start work hard not

to trust commitments. washington has asked india to join its attack against terror on its nuclear program but if new delhi doesn't agree to cut its iranian oil imports it could face strict u.s. sanctions secretary of state hillary clinton she's in india for high level talks to push the country to do more to cut its iranian all dependency with details on seas preassure into. iran has dominated this discussion of hillary clinton's visit in india her visit actually happens to coincide with the trade coalition from tehran that is trying to encourage india to continue buying iranian oil obviously that's not what washington wants they recently imposed an oil embargo along with the e.u. on iran over its controversial nuclear program the west believes obviously that iran is developing nuclear weapons and iran has maintained that it has a peaceful nuclear program india along with several other countries like china

japan and south korea aren't following on on these things and they actually happen to those four countries account for sixty percent of iran's oil customers so a lot of people are saying that the things aren't going to work on less washington can get these asian countries on board and sort of to iraq are a scholar. trade with the gulf region will prevent the country from completely cutting ties with iran. if you'll notice that india is perhaps the third largest importer of iranian oil after the european union china and then india india imports about eleven percent already the indian side has indicated that there will be a drop as far as indian imports of iranian oil are concerned this year perhaps in the year two thousand and twelve thirteen the drop is likely to be as much as about thirty two percent on the other hand india has also indicated that iran must.

accept all its obligations which it has agreed to under the n.p.t. but nonetheless it's important to remember that india cannot simply do away with a relationship with iran please do remember that almost six million indian people of indian origin living in the gulf region trade with the gulf region is about one hundred billion dollars if there is conflict. problems as far as in that region is concerned then all this would be an extremely difficult situation . we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow a do stay with us if you can in just a few minutes a jew need a song to a manning the helm here at doughty that'll be up for a recap of the headlines. he

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