dmitri medvedev is voted in as prime minister by the country's lawmakers will now form a new government here in russia. and grated president putin is already ushered in is corrections to russia's political goals to meet a few moments for all the latest. hundreds of activists remain in central moscow protesting against putin's return to office this comes after some four hundred arrests following violent clashes on the. and also reporting this france's newly elected leader has little time to enjoy the taste of victory as he needs to get down to business to bring about promised change leaving the era behind.

online on screen this is our live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day so russia has a new prime minister dmitry medvedev who will now form a cabinet before getting down to business and newly inaugurated president putin is already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies. breaks down premium acceptance speech. changes to the upper echelons of russian political system also to continue with what he sees as his efforts to malta nice the right political system in russia highlights you need call me as a major point that he wants to to push saying that he wants to increase investment into russia's economy and increase your base you know from a brewery as well also he's saying it's full membership of the still eugenio is

a must and something that he will push for as hard as he can doing his time in the role of the prime minister and in terms of the military he wants to see a industrial military complex see making sure this russia's armed forces can remain amongst the best in the world for more reaction to the fact that dmitri medvedev is now the prime minister of russia i'm joined by michael i don't the editor in chief of g q russia michael thanks very much for talking to you so what is your reaction to the election of a beachhead yet of his prime minister well i i think has just got any observer of russian politics over the last few years i guess the proper reaction would be a complete and utter lack of surprise i think. that's been something that could have been easily predicted and especially you know yesterday's pageantry. indicated that the tandem as we know it is still very much alive or at least by outward

appearances dmitri medvedev said that one of his proudest achievements president was that he believed he didn't like the political discourse in russia as prime minister of course he's going to be have a lot more input his input is going to be with domestic politics do you think we could see an increase in widening of the discourse in terms of local politics in russia with get of his prime minister i think so i'm not sure exactly how much credit for this i would describe to the bit of but it's undeniable that the discourse has widened. you know things have gotten much more interesting and much more volatile in a few places. i think of focusing on municipal and local politics is a smart thing for everyone right now because a lot can be a lot to accomplish absolutely. thank you very much the editor in chief of g q russia well let me a putin is the president and he's been delivering this on the strategic goal just highlighting what he wants to achieve while he's in power he amongst those who have

been foreign policy decisions revolving around the proposed u.s. 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 a clear written commitment that they will not target russia with any of those missile sites placed in eastern europe a clue closer to home he's also said that he wants to cripple corruption in russia by forcing all bureaucrats to declare their incomes and 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 me of putin if they're to be able to live up to some of the promises of what some people think hooten two point zero is the loss of key

economic decisions to be made and both prime minister dmitri medvedev on president vladimir putin's going to have to work very closely to knock those promises. peter over reporting there in central moscow one is vladimir putin gets busy in his new role as president some of the public on the streets all central moscow assuring big 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 agrees reports from the scene of the opposition gathering. but there still raving the elements that moscow weather at the moment has the offer but now they're called upon the behest of alexei downie prods opposition activists and he did that early tuesday morning tweeting nasty all his followers to send in central moscow they did so somewhere else in quito 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 orchestrating 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 elsewhere they were stopped by police but they have since been released they're free i was detained those two key figures since are released and they were 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 relocate somewhere else in moscow so they do want to keep

the momentum on this going of course it comes on the back of those markedly violent demonstrations so taking place on sunday just ahead of that of a person's official inauguration there were still clashes between protesters and police and usually comes this opposition movement number of injuries on both sides and a markedly large amount of arrests being made police say that they were attacked and somebody says by protesters and has some of their raw gear pulled from them but this was born on the back of the. hala mentary 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 pit in my eyes in those violent demonstrations resource they can place on sunday for those and more of a fringe move 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. jake agrees there and auntie's and he said no you know it takes a closer look at what drives the anti putin campaign hell united it actually is. 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 h. 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 self 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 of our let me use in all my typical leftist populist like why does 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 there these are 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 would also friesen to declare he's. left for aung to be an ally of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill but he should break in all these actions get him constantly arrested that's his style it's like is that they're on a kiss rather than where is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of there are several groups which do more time why themselves with

a laugh or with the communist party job you gone off 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 right 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 hurt. but who 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 the masses do we see so many different flags if they are so anti putin can't they just get under that banner all these

groups have a mutually exclusive view they're not simply i think in histogram all seem to contradict or that's just an excuse for the nationalistic use put in of being a liberal liberal secular when i've been a nationalist the leftist accuse. the soviet social system is a liberal secular sporting 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 bush and they want the current russian state to collapse that's about it to meet their bob rich political analyst from waste 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 well for more vladimir putin's return i'm joined now by f. william author of a century of war only american oil politics and the new world order for nato in the u.s. often accuse russia of a lack of democratic reforms do you think with. back in the kremlin as president

that that rhetoric will increase. i think the rhetoric definitely will increase but for nato or washington the accused russia of a lack of democratic reforms is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black the kind of measures that have been passed recently by the u.s. congress and signed by president obama essentially tearing up the congressional the constitutional bill of rights is not exactly what i consider going in the direction of democracy in the united states so i think this is a red herring that's been used to try to. paint russia as a pariah but the context of it is that nato policy in washington policy from the pentagon and the white house over the last three administrations has been to encircle russia with nato member countries with ballistic missile i call it off and because it really isn't defensive it's often sort of these missile installations in

poland in the czech republic in romania in turkey that is not at all aimed at iran that is directly aimed at the heart of russia's military security and little wonder that. the russian general staff is a bit on easy about what nato's real intentions are toward russia well what about in general the russians attitude towards the west dimitri medvedev is usually thought of by the west as the softer face of russian's foreign policy but what's now in the cons for moscow and washington now that he's prime minister nobody can say with domestic issues rather than foreign policy which putin is now involved in . well i think the return of putin to the presidency. heralds a strong not a decisive shift but a strong shift in emphasis away from the failed reset policy that hillary clinton offered when i first came in as president and i think it's been clear that the reset has brought nothing positive for security or stability in russia it was

a time bind measure on the part of washington simply to allow it to build more of its political missile defense installations and put more pressure on the russians through the security situation. what about china of course on course to economically outrun the u.s. in the coming years do you think washington will be watching closely how russia deals with china how do you think putin will develop relations with the the with. well first of all i think russia and china have no choice but to deepen their relationships on a strategic basis economically with projects such as what the chinese refer to as the eurasian high speed rail land bridge projects and a network of rail infrastructure throughout greater russia and throughout the eurasia from china to markets and so western europe and the middle east and i think that that is really the key point the eurasian focus of of putin

a key point for reviving the interior of russia's economies from places such as almost from siberia and other areas that have been through the collapse of the soviet union in sad neglect economically and bringing more of a tallit he is the trade between russia and china and countries in between the so-called stans increases greatly over the next years with high speed metallurgy technologies iron ore technologies and so forth russia could play a leading role under a putin presidency and i'm a veggie of prime ministership in building this high speed infrastructure when i'm just funny just days before going to be a person integration there was some violent protests here in moscow against his return do you expect this backlash to continue and does that suggest russian society is becoming more open and with of course medvedev concentrating on domestic policies how do you see the political scene and the opposition developing. well the opposition is really a motley crew is as you pointed out in the previous the presentation the.

leading figures of the opposition talking about corruption are really people whose own track record in there is all their own links to the national endowment for democracy and various washington steered n.g.o.s is not exactly transparent in and of itself so i think the opposition is beating the spirit up by washington to try to paint putin in the worst possible light and try to create as much domestic on rest as they can for a putin presidency because they do not want stability in russia just and i think that's that's rather unfortunate for for world stability ok thank you very much indeed for your thoughts f. william and dol joining us live there thank you jamie thank you this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital still ahead this hour a small step towards order and stability. we have a proof that they can move farther back yes for syria no for tourism no for holding guns yes for peace yes for developing

a victory. as syrians count their parliamentary votes the country's still divided over whether the ballot will make a difference to people's lives. but first france will be hoping for a positive future following the election of a new president but while false on and may have beaten his rival nicolas sarkozy in the recent run off a considerably tougher task now wait since many voters want to see a change in the country's foreign policy and economic growth. reports from paris. out with the old. in with the new. the. press was allowed to ask a veteran the french presidential elections the people here say 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 arrogance so we can hope that in foreign policy is going to move in the right direction that is less arrogant. be it arrogance or something else there was no hiding nicolas sarkozy's eagerness to lead the libyan intervention sending french warplanes in first he of course betrayed himself all along as deliberate of libya but he kept that extremely quiet as allegations kept you know 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 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 you have. a lot is being branded france's new hope or dance 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 he will experience in the coming. month the the power of the i mean the negotiation power of america because miracle 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 thank you want to scale down 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 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. tesser cilia are telling parents. to get more information on any of all stories you see here on screen log on to our website don't comments online all the time here's what's waiting for you there right now should you go on the fear of flying pilots refused to operate on one of the world's most advanced jets yet twenty two after safety concerns are just that the culprit in the planes could be deadly for the crew. was online head to our you tube channel to watch a special report on the tragic fate of the refugees displaced escaping the on going violence in the arab spring. and on a brighter note get a preview of the moscow's massive victory day parade go to our web site r.t. dot com to watch the footage of the last grand opera house in the heart of the

russian capital. bahrain's leading human rights activists remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks now billed as job was arrested just days after julian assange to show right here naughty on the program the whistleblower questioned him and an egyptian human rights activist about the origins of the future of the arab spring movement regular shoppers always openly criticize the bahraini ruling family and the state's western allies in the next edition of joining the sunday show featuring not be able to jump is on air later this hour but his small preview when we called you to try it you know what i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to speak to him in

a t.v. program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns and i did realize that i was not at home didn't they just. ask my family to tell me to come to depopulation prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am you hear it so you will hear it otherwise you're going to see if that when i was last night and i think but what i mean what is what are you going to do or i'm going to go back i mean i have to face i mean it's not the first but this is the struggle this is the freedom this is democracy that we are fighting for has a cost and we have to pay the cost and the cost might be very expensive as we have costs in bahrain and i'm willing to pay that for the changes that we are fighting for. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution was really gypped where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes

a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. united nations envoy kofi annan said the u.n. has promised to deploy three hundred international observers in syria by the end of the month and noted that the violence continues in the country statement the statement came as syria council votes after the country held its first parliamentary election for half a century boycotted by the opposition but first reports amid continuing violence in the country many syrians believe the election gives them a real chance to help their country. it didn't get the stamp of approval from the opposition who'd called for a boycott but 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. because we have some disturbance and some of this is ok we have to approve that we can move forward and we can overcome this obstacle and here to vote for people who are like people who support shia people who are saying yes for syria no for to resume 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 seeing the voting would doing so objective way 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 lesions 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 when 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. this is. comes from the people one. sees the. president goes to the city does it innocent question the intention of this for him probably sees it. the one who can declare that president assad is legitimate or illegitimate.

lost his legitimacy or his legitimacy the syrians. of this right 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 voting there was something he said they felt the elections were unlikely to bring about any serious change but they said they believe that after fifteen months of unrest they had to at least try. r.t. syria. twenty six and a half minutes past the hour now some more news in brief. update the office of libya's interim prime minister has been attacked by gunmen in tripoli the men surrounded the building with trucks and weaponry to demand cash for the role they played in last year's uprising against moammar gadhafi at least one person was killed in the attack. was not present when the shooting happened. the forces of sixty thousand rounds of ammunition from an italian container ship in lebanon the

bullets were found hidden in two cars on the vessel which was docked in the northern city of tripoli the ship's destination was unknown but syria claims that weapons are being smuggled over the lebanese border to fight against president assad to police and several protests in support of the forty uprising against the syrian leader. in a 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 did not detonate properly device which was seized following a cia operation in yemen is being examined by the f.b.i. . also 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 for an 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. well as i promised a little earlier we'll be bringing the latest edition of interview program that's in just a few minutes from now it'll be after a recap of our top stories this is r.t. live in moscow.

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