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. acceptance speech. changes to the upper echelons of russian political system also to continue with what he sees as his efforts to mull to the right political 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 an increase in inflation from a brewery as well also saying its full membership. 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 fight to meet you may get it is now the prime minister of russia i'm joined by michael the editor in chief of g.q. russia thanks very much for talking to so what is your reaction to the election all for. his prime minister well i think as just about any observer of russian politics for the last two 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 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 presidents was that he believed he didn't like the political discourse in russia now. 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 a widening of the discourse in terms of local politics in russia with his prime minister i think so i'm not sure exactly how much credit for this i would describe to but it's undeniable that the discourse has widened. you know things have gotten much more interesting much more volatile in the places. i think that focusing on municipal and local politics is a smart thing for everyone right now because a lot can be a lot to accomplish. thank you very much the editor in chief of g q russia to me a putin is the president and he's been delivering some strategic 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 of. 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 little closer to home he's also said that he wants to cripple corruption in russia by forcing all bureaucrats to declare their incomes to work more transparency in russian politics using technology using the internet to do that of course that was something. to do during his time as president now as prime minister he's going to have to work very very closely with putin if they're to be able to live up to some of the promises of what some people who two point zero is the loss of key economic decisions to be made and both the prime minister. president vladimir putin are going to have to work very closely to. peter over reporting their. gets busy in his new role as president some of the public on the

streets all central moscow assuring they discontent with his return to office activists have been holding marches against putin's integration with some protests turning into overnight camps our correspondent jake agrees reports from the scene of the opposition gathering. but there are still raving the elements that moscow weather at the moment has the offer but now they're called upon the behest of alexei downie polls opposition activists and he did that early tuesday morning to eating grass and all his followers to descend in central moscow they do so somewhere else in kids 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're 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'll want to read out hate 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 for 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 some he says by protesters and has some there rog all for them but this was born on the back of the. hala mencia 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 it's a pity that in those violent demonstrations resource they can place on sunday for those and more of a fringe movement 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 name is not a typical leftist just like well does he is more into 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 we're right because it was so friesen to declare he. left for aung to be an ally of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill but dissipating all these actions get him constantly arrested that's his style with flagons that they're on a kibbutz rather than where he is the traditional call of russian anarchists what does that mean there are several groups which do not want to live themselves with the left front 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 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 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 just want to pull from white. bread. 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 to be seen 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 not simply contradictory that's just an excuse of the nationalistic use put in of being a liberal liberal secular which would of been a nationalist the leftist occulus which is. the sort of 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 belgian and they want the current russian state to collapse that's about to meet their 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. well for more vladimir putin's return i'm joined now by f. william author of the sentry 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 vladimir putin back in the kremlin as president the that the rhetoric will increase. i think the rhetoric definitely will increase but for nato or washington to 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 being 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 in the circle russia with nato member countries with ballistic missile i call it off and speakers 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 is 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 that now that he's prime minister nobody concerned 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 video 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 insulations and put more pressure on the russians for the security situation. what about china of course on

a course to economically out run 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 the greater russia and throughout eurasia from china to markets in western europe and in the middle east and i think that that is really a key point the eurasian focus of putin a key point for reviving the interior of russia's economy is 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 at the prime ministership in building this high speed infrastructure when i'm just funny just days before going to be pushing integration there were 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 was as you pointed out in the previous. 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 speeding stirred 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 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 thank you jamie thank you this is all 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 back yes for syria no for tourism no for holding guns yes for peace yes for developing victory. as syrians parliamentary votes the country's still divided over whether the ballot will make a difference to people's minds. but first france will be hoping for a positive future following the election of

a new president also on hand 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 a new. france was allowed to ask a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful event here they are voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of crabs are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question alon belise is that people rejected sarkozy when in france but also france for many reasons one of them was his personal arrogance so we can hope but 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 it's 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 the second sea has created an overall image of france we don't want divisions within the french society we don't want the bombing of arab countries we are friends of the arabs. a lot is being branded france's new hope or gach 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 shading 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 just a militant miracle will face an election in one year and 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 thanking want to scale down during all this it but i would guess that is going to be. considerate of what's happening in there 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. tesser cilia our team paths. 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 the f. twenty two off to safety concerns and just what the culprit in the planes could be deadly for the crew to. head to our you tube channel to watch a special report on the tragic fate of the refugees displaced escaping the only going violence in the arab spring. and on the bryson h.q. the preview of the moscow's massive victory day parade go to our website come 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. it works now builders job was arrested just days after julian assange to show right here naughty on the program the whistleblower question to manage option human rights activists about the origins and the future of the arab spring movement regular shop as always openly criticize the bahraini ruling family and the state's western allies in the next edition of joining us on the show featuring not be able to jump is on air later this hour but his small preview destroying what i said in my twitter column 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 the public prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am you hear it so you'll hear it otherwise you're going to see if that what 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 it i mean it's not the first time but this is the struggle this is the freedom this is democracy that we are fighting for tens of cost and that we have to pay the costs 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 failed 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 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 heat cool 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 i feel 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 here. for people who are like people who support syria people who say 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 seeing the very thing would doing so objective way and the monitor at this poll told us there been leave violations so far. everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the motions with. 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 the 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

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. legitimacy to come. from the. president. of this for him. it. is legitimate or illegitimate. lost his legitimacy. to receive the syrian. rights and it's a right that they've been exercising whether it's turning out to cast the ballots

or attempting to demonstrate in the streets even among there was some they 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. 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 them on 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 c. sixty thousand rounds of ammunition from an italian container ship in lebanon the bullets were found hidden into 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 to police

and several protests in support of the forty uprising against the syrian leader. the us is 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 passengers on the way and detonated aboard a u.s. bound passenger jet a similar plot was attempted in december two thousand and nine but failed when the . as it did not detonate properly device which was seized following a cia operation in yemen is being examined by the f.b.i. . also on the wall of the the cell prime minister benjamin netanyahu says a new israeli government will responsibly promote a peace process with the palestinians the statement came off he reached an agreement with the opposition for an all night negotiations to avoid snap elections 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 joining us on his interview program that's in just a few minutes from now it'll be off to recap of our top stories this is r.t.

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