international news live from moscow this is aussie with me. thanks for joining us russia has a new prime minister dmitry medvedev who will not form a cabinet before getting down to business news or inaugurated president putin it's already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies. breaks down premier and inventive acceptance speech. changes to the upper echelons of russian political system also to continue with what he sees as his efforts to multan the right political system in russia i like to meet call me a major point that he wants 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 for more reaction to the fight to get it is now the prime minister of russia i'm joined by michael the editor in chief of gigi russia thanks very much for talking to you so what is your reaction to the election all of . his prime minister well 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 he's a verdict especially you know yesterday's pageantry. indicated that the tandem as we know it is still very much alive or at least. here and says dimitri medvedev said that one of his proudest achievements presidents was that he believed he would

like the political discourse in russia now. prime minister of course he's going to be 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 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 that 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 some strategic hold is 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 clio written commitment that they will not target russia with any of those missile sites placed in eastern europe they put you closer to home he's also said that he wants to cripple corruption in russia by forcing old 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 blood in me a 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 president vladimir putin i'm going to have

to work very closely to knock those promises. and say push called the head of demons foreign affairs committee told me that the new kremlin is international agenda is a modern era that will follow the course marked out by dmitri medvedev. i expect to will be continue to between. foreign policy under president medvedev and the foreign policy which will be conducted by the russian. federation under president putin in the last six seven years there is a large consensus in russia on foreign policy issues unlike domestic affairs i think that russia will insist on this position on the issue and yesterday vladimir putin signed a decree in which he. stressed that the russian foreign policy will be based on requests on the request for

security guarantees from the united states and nato and those guarantees should state that the new a.b.m. system that will be established by the united states of america and nato in europe will not be directed against the russian nuclear potential however it was also stressed that russia will seek a balanced and constructive relations with the united states what is important in moscow is that there are no military interventions in the countries where there is an internal conflict this trend which we have seen for instance in libya. is not acceptable to the russian federation russia would not like that in syria the military intervention that happened in libya repeats itself and has led to a person gets busy in his new role as president some people have taken to the

streets of moscow showing that discontent with his return to office rise police have been deployed to disperse activists have been trying to hold marches against creating his inauguration our correspondent he is going to have the latest. several groups of protesters remain on the city streets the activists have been wandering around the city center throughout the night to evening and really the entire tuesday in what they call are just walks that they've been taking and sometimes from time to time gathering for unsanctioned protests rallies in different places of the center and were blocked by the police who have been also sort of following them around the city center on the off road you see that they've detained around two hundred people throughout the entire day on tuesday several opposition leaders have also been detained the latest one was. the leader of the left front movement also a blogger. and socialite and t.v.

host who was released shortly after she was detained and right after she was released she did decided to take part in another unsanctioned protest rallies but when we talk about the demands of the opposition this is a really complicated question since the opposition is really diverse throughout these five months but they still haven't been able to establish one leader and establish concrete and well specific constructive demands since the movement itself consists of various and different movements and organizations which often don't share the same political views actually the only thing that unites them is the demand for the new elections and that they don't want to see president vladimir putin as the head of russia the protest movement had really strong momentum in the beginning when it started in december following the parliamentary election and amid

accusations of ballot fraud then we saw tens of thousands of people taking to the streets for peaceful protest rallies the figures we're talking about now are hundreds of people who are attending the unsanctioned. rallies and also the character of these rallies seems to have changed since the latest a large protest rally on may sixth showed us that besides the peaceful middle class which she came to the previous rallies there are also. some a radical activist who often. leads to violence and clashes with the police like it happened on the me when there were injuries. and injuries on both sides and he's an isa now it takes a closer look at the un to peace and calm and how united. 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 a lexington 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 of our name is not a typical leftist populist like would 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 are certain 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 shortly right because it will do so for recently because. he. left for on the reason why all of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill participate in all these actions get him constantly arrested that's his style that's like is that they're on ikea's where he is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of these there are several groups which do not i y themselves with or with the communist party 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 wearing a lot of these masks. let's talk a little bit more about the nationalist fight that we see some time i believe we don't have pictures here yet but it's. white areas yes what's this is it means someone you know all of the groups all the nationalist groups that are strongly

opposed to the current government strong of course white blue and red. 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 syrians 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 a mutually exclusive view they're not simply i think in his degree not simply contradictory that's just including school of the nationalistic use putin of being a liberal liberal secular which would be the nationalist the leftist accused would you know the soviet social system is the liberal secure border not 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 what 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. the u.n. envoy to syria warns that his peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid civil war kofi annan has also accused damascus of failing to implement a road marks road map saying civilians are still coming under time and he's going to check on has the details of syria's response. purred the syrian ambassador to the united nations say that a number of regional powers are sponsoring terror in syria to undermine kofi annan . he said the syrian government remains committed to the plan but it faces a surge of terrorist attacks including suicide bomb bombings the massacre shows a d.v.d. and said it has the confessions of dozens of individuals involved in terrorist activities upon the order of thirty countries here's what he said these terrorists

did not come into syria. by using. into syria through the shooting and borders with the neighboring countries so it's not a secret anymore who is behind these. doors and try to work with these terrorist. live in qatar saudi arabia. he also accused turkey of harboring armed groups which are infiltrating syria committing crimes and returning back to turkey because syrian ambassador said what also undermines kofi and his plan is the inflow of arms into syria now both the syrian ambassador to the u.n. and even the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. noted that there has been an decrease of violence in syria but the international envoy kofi annan said there is still

a profound concern that syria is descending into full on civil war up to one hundred international observers are already working there the envoy said the number will reach three hundred by the end of the month so there's going to be more eyes on the ground as of now he said and i'm going to i'm going to quote here there have been worrying episodes of violence by the government but we have also seen attacks against government forces troops and installations it's very interesting how the u.s. ambassador susan rice responded to the claims made by the syrian ambassador she brushed off the question about terrorists and then she went on talking about those who. look up war and step down to fight for their rights very dubious question arises here is it in a campaign to justify violence on one side while. the other being exclusively of the syrian government susan rice confirmed it in a way with her latest statement by putting all responsibility in the hands of the syrian government and never not once mentioning the armed groups in the opposition with this regard and that despite the fact that the u.s.

has accepted kofi annan plan which addresses all sides of the conflict not just the syrian government. meanwhile syria is counting the votes out of the country held its first parliamentary election for hoth a century but it was boycotted by the opposition. says that amid continuing violence in the country many syrians believe the election gave them a real chance to hope that country. stamp of approval from the opposition huge cool for a boycott that people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament she 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. 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. saying yes for syria. yes for your school developing because 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 there been a violation so far that everything has been. people are taking part in the my shoes with 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 will 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 ballot but as international opinion surrounds the political developments in syria one analyst stressed that this is a very full syrians and by syrians. legitimacy comes. from the people. who seized the. president of course to decide to visit innocent question of this for him probably. 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 ballots

or attempting to demonstrate in the streets even amongst those voting there was some 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. r.t. syria. the office of levy as interim prime minister has been attacked by gunmen in tripoli leaving at least two security officials dead and several others injured they relation man surrounded the building demanded to be paid for the role they played in last year's uprising against moammar gadhafi the premier also present however one day shooting happened and i only icici read with a pan african newswire told us earlier that the security problems that currently been government is facing now might pave the way to foreign intervention. there was a lot of our problems that exist are when the national transitional council inside of libya they were put in power socially by the pentagon and nato that had not been

for the air power the mabel blockades the intelligence sharing on the part of the united states government and the various european governments there is no way that the m.t.c. could have defeated the libyan army last year so these are of the dilemmas that the government is facing right now so it actually is quitting a situation where there will be a rationale for possible u.s. or nato military intervention on the ground order to poorly or stabilize the situation inside the country. bahrain's leading human rights activist remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks now baler job was arrested just days after featuring and julian assange on a cd and on the program the whistleblower question to him and an egyptian human rights campaigner about the origins and the future of the arab spring movement builder job has always openly criticized the bahraini ruling family and it states

western allies the next edition of julian assange featuring the builder job is on at this hour and here's a brief preview of. what i said in my column that i'm going to meet julian assange then i'm going to. t.v. program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns in the idealized and i was not at home didn't they just to. my family to tell me to come to depopulation prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am be it your it so you're here to the idea that i deceived when i was ten and i think you know it but i mean what are you going to do is i'm going to go back i mean i have to face it in 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 that we have to pay the costs and the cause might be very expensive as

we have been caused by a man willing to pay for the changes that we are fighting for. a speech to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed was a leadership where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. or said later the sound of fast how about whether recap our top stories in just about ten minutes time and up next want to present a pretense first acts in office was to order the foreign ministry to obtain clear guarantees that america's missile defense shield in europe is not a threat to russia and a few moments we'll talk to nato as deputy secretary general on the future of called gratian between moscow and that line.

alexander vershbow deputy secretary general great to have you with us sir good to be here so messed up was something you probably never heard before russia is greatly concerned about nato anti-missile defense system in here will be able to shoot down its nuclear missiles that's upsetting the balance in the region but then you go on this topic started two years ago in two thousand and ten why do you think that is that the united states still is and haven't been able to personally

rochelle's the opposite well it's not something that. is very satisfying and we want to continue to work on this dialogue with russia but it is a serious difference of opinion that we have to overcome because it's really about the facts about the science about the capabilities of the system that nato is developing with a strong contribution from the united states we remain convinced that there is no danger to the russian strategic nuclear force not today not ten years from now and that the russian analysis is based on a series of worst case to some sions and and unrealistic assumptions that creates an image of a threat which really doesn't exist but is worried that maybe in five six seven years time the european anti missile defense system will be able to shoot down for example specifically its concern about the modifications of the s m three interceptor that can travel fast enough to actually shoot down russia's new cells

and sat a key issue it's a very technical issue but it's a very fundamental issue is that nato system can't fire and that's today system in the system we might have ten years from now it cannot fire until they were told the i.c.b.m. that it's targeting has. finished it's powered flight until the engine burns out and only then is it going in a ballistic trajectory by the time that happens. if this we're talking about a russian system it'll be too far to the north nato will might fire but it will be chasing the tail of that missile all the way till it crashes into the arctic sea in that case why can't america or nato legally pounding guaranties that's a complicated question relating in part to politics and in part to the nature of the problem the cooperation of self we think is the best guarantees come inside the structure participate in the planning learn more about the system we

could agree to exchange information about what we're going to have not just tomorrow but five years from now ten years from now there's lots of ways to increase predictability which is really what russia is looking for a guarantee. as we saw with the a.b.m. treaty it's just a piece of paper can be torn up and abandoned just took six months for president george w. bush to abandon maybe entry president obama when he sought the ratification of the new start treaty made some very specific commitments to the senate to get that treaty through he said the united states will accept no limits on its ballistic missile capabilities i know president said you have had to make similar deals to get it through the duma. but political leaders need to. understand that no one has the ability to override the will of their of their parliaments i understand but in this case in this particular case america needs this defense system much more than russia because it's. it's

a topic of concern for russia so it's the only thing that's coming in the way of sealing the deal is the legal legal guarantee why not just give it because of the commitments that have been made it would be rejected by our senator we had a worse situation so i just don't think that's the answer i think political guarantees transparency predictability. and the benefits that come from cooperation. in which nato would be helping russia protect its territory just as much as russia would be helping nato i think all that leads to kind of confidence that. both necessary and sufficient to move forward well from what we're told they see european missile defense system is really directed against the iranian threat and it will be fully operational in two thousand and eighteen there are numerous ways right now to contain iran u.s. is building bases around it israel has kept abilities international sanctions are

in place it really doesn't look like in the nearest future for another five six years the iran will be representing a real threat to nato so why so what is the purpose of this whole european anti-missile system if iran is contained well there's a. i think a legitimate debate that we could have maybe if we had more time about can iran a regime that has a radical ideology that has pledged to wipe country not far from its borders off the map whether it could really be contained but yes the threat today is not as bad as we think it will be five ten years ago ten ten years from now so we do have time to work this out right now the threat is concentrated mainly in the southeastern part of europe and southern part of russia if you look at the circles on the map. but we've also seen iran conduct tests of new generation missiles that are even longer range that can begin to threaten central europe by the end of the decade they'll be threatening northern europe will they actually attack. who knows from

the russian perspective the whole missile defense is break or make as far as they do as far as nature relations go president has stated more than one step at a new arms race could be in place if the two sides don't come to agreement but is it really as important to nato as it is to russia i would hope that at the end of the day it will be equally important to both parties because we're talking about our security at the same time we take the russian concerns very seriously so we have to address the concerns about strategic stability i think we can then i think we can really be thinking about nato russia relations in a totally new way we're still not yet free of the hostility of the suspicions of cold war and it's our mutual obligation to try to work together to overcome. nato deputy secretary general thank you very much listen to your pleasure.

welcome back this is. the headline. the russian parliament overwhelmingly to the appointment of dmitri to that of us prime minister the new government while the new . creature has a right a big thing out of his own vision for the country's future. projects in central moscow continue into the night but with opposition members detained the movement loses members of them on field people holding out on the street. u.n. envoy to syria blames damascus for the ongoing violence warning spirit slipping into civil war but the government claims that fighting to protect its people from a foreign funded insurgency saying schools are on the. next journey and a song returns to the small screen here and i'll see where.