hello and welcome to our twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you to our top story now russia has new prime minister dmitry medvedev who will now former cabinet before getting down to business and newly inaugurated president putin is already dishing out directions regarding changes to the country's policies on of a breakdown premium inventive acceptance speech. the changes to the. old 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 and increase investment from a brule as well also you saying its 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 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 you so what is your reaction to the election of a teacher may get it is prime minister well i think has just about 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 you 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 would 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 that increase a widening of the discourse in terms of local politics in russia with that bit 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 and. 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 like a lot of 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 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 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 a clue 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 and president vladimir putin going to have

to have very closely to knock those promises. and an example called the head of demas foreign affairs committee have told us here that the new kremlin is an international agenda is one area that will follow the course of my return to that. i expect to go there will be continued to between. foreign policy to the president going to to go. 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 states that the new a.b.m. system that will be established by the united states of america and need to 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 hundreds less of a person gets busy in his new role as president some people have taken to the

streets of moscow sharing their discontent with his return to office riot police have been deployed to disperse activists have been trying to hold marches against putin's inauguration our correspondent he york 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 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 duty say 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 why only 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 radical activist who often. leads to violence and clashes with the police like it happened on the sixth of me when there were injuries. and injuries on both sides. and he's an isa now it takes a closer look at what drives they aren't a prison camp 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 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 nonviolently is not a typical leftist populist like will 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 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 a communist would be right because it will do so for recently because. he's. left for. all of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill participate in all the sections getting constantly arrested that's he style that's like is that there on ikea's where is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of these protests there are several groups which do not i why themselves with the left or with the communist party over 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 if it means

someone you know all of the groups all the nationalist groups are strongly opposed to the current government stronger porsche two white blue and red. but who also but would not like to be associated with communists or leftists what does it mean that . when we see tens of thousands of people on the streets of moscow as opposed to small groups like we see here which we saw after the inauguration sit ins trying to happen why don't we see the thousands of people the masses do we see so many different flanks if they are so anti putin can't they just get under that banner all these groups have 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 put in of being a liberal liberal secular which you know i've been a nationalist the leftist accuse putin of blair in the soviet social system is a liberal secular bordering on reviving the soviet imperialism so they can't agree on anything the only thing that they can agree on is that they don't like pollution

and they want the current russian state to collapse that's about it to me 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. but we know now the un envoy to syria warns that his peace plan is the last chance for the country to avoid civil war kofi annan has also accused the mascots of failing to implement the road map saying civilians are still coming and the time now he's going to check on 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 bombings. 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 partition which. they came into syria through the syrian borders with the neighboring countries so it's not a secret anymore who is behind these groups the. who are giving orders and try to work through these terrorist. leave. 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 decreasing 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 only 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 has been a 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 eventually went on talking about those who took up arms stepped down to fight for their rights a very dubious question arises here is that an attempt to justify violence on one side while. the other being exclusively 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 see where it is counting the votes of the country how it's election for hoffa century but it was boycotted by the position. that amid continuing violence in the country many syrians believe the election gave them a real chance to help their country. it didn't get the stamp of approval from the opposition huge coup for. boycott the 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 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 you people who say. yes you know for to know for holding. your school developing because 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 there have been a violation so far that everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the motions without violations 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 to me legitimacy comes from the people one. president goes to solicit to visit a message. of this for him probably. the one who can declare the president assad is illegitimate illegitimate. lost his legitimacy who he is do not see the syrians. who are this rights 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 you 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. r.t. syria the office of libya's interim prime minister has been attacked by gunmen in tripoli leaving at least a security officer dead and several others injured the militia man surrounded the building demanding to be paid for the role they played in last year's uprising against monica duffy the premier wasn't present however when the shooting happened and about you know me as a kiwi at so they pan african news wire told us earlier that the security problems the currently been government is facing now might pave the way to foreign intervention. there's a lot of 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 naval blockade 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 creating a situation where there will be a rationale for possible u.s. or nato direct military intervention on the ground in order to poorly stabilize the situation inside the country. bahrain's leading human rights activist remains detained on charges of inciting protests through social networks now bill the job was arrested just days after featuring untruth and assign an r.c. and on the prowl ground there was some plot a question to him and then chip shop human rights campaigner about the origins and the future of the arab spring movement that day of our job has always openly

criticized the bahraini ruling family and the state's western allies the next edition of julian assange featuring the baylor job isn't and next hour but here's a brief preview for you. what i said in my twitter column that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to speak to me 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 do. my duty to me to come to deplete prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am be it do it so you're here to otherwise you're going to i received when i was ten and i think you know it but what i mean what is what are you going to do if 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 of course might be very expensive as

we have. been 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. out of iraq with a recount of all the top stories in just about ten minutes and up next one a president who has crossed arms 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 an aide to his deputy secretary general on the future of cooperation between moscow and that line.

alexander vershbow deputy secretary general great to have you with us sir good to be here so i want to start with something you probably never heard before russia is greatly concerned about nato anti-missile defense system will be able to shoot down its nuclear missiles that's upsetting the balance in the region that the negotiation on this topic has 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 the road kill the i.c.b.m. that it's targeting has finished its 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 it might fire but it will be chasing the tail that missile all the way to crashes into the arctic sea in that case why can't america or nato legally pounding guarantees that's a complicated question relating in part to politics and in part to the nature of the problem the cooperation itself we think is the best guarantee to 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 the a.b.m. treaty 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 that 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 to sound 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're in 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 the kind of confidence that. both necessary and sufficient to move forward well from what we're told they say 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 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 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 stat a new arms race could be in place if the two sides don't come to the 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 would 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 and 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 for this and your pleasure.

this is all c. coming to you live from moscow a quick check of the headlines. the russian parliament. point in time to make that it's prime minister for new government while being new to president putin has already begun mopping out his all in all the countries which. also protests in central moscow continue into the night with around two hundred activists change over the day some on its side of the opposition movement is losing them by the time with you know the coherent leadership and. the one and a void to see where. damascus bloodshed warning that the country blunder into civil and while they syrian ambassador says some of the gulf states are undermining the admission by sending in alt.