the week's top stories on our bloody medical putin returns to the kremlin that's russia's president with a raft of new challenges ahead one of the biggest being the protests which grew into classrooms i had of his inauguration. a jihad as terrorist groups as it carried out dual suicide bombings in syria's capital which became the deadliest since the owner rust began. its recovery crews home located the flight data recorder from the crash the boys took their jet which had a steep volcano in indonesia up with forty five on board. and austerity anger fuels mass protests in spain or france and italy with warnings about the fury among

europeans over economic misery could they can be well partners. thank you for joining r t a for the weekly with me. this sunday and it's nine o'clock here in moscow russia's latest president took his seat this week as floods him at a putin return to the top job but it's a very different world when he was last in the kremlin and all eyes are on which course he will take the question being if putin can move forward now that he's back piers i would say to shift scheme. for the third time vladimir putin took the thirty three word oath to become russia's president with an air of ease and calm. as i fulfill the duties of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect and guarantee the rights and freedoms of our citizens to observe and

protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of our state to serve its people faithfully . but the task he's taken on could be more like an uphill ride experts believe any data for five six seven years in a difficult position because people get used to him and the taken for granted he has to then reinvent himself international challenges have changed greatly since used two previous terms while russia's new president faces an absolutely different situation at home the country has become more politically active and with so many reforms promised by putin during his campaign he has no choice but to start fulfilling them he needs to set out for reform and not a reform on paper but something real something that both the opposition and you know the regular people not just in moscow but all throughout russia can see that

this is really putin two point zero the eyes of the world are also on what putin's foreign policy will be many believe it's likely to stay close to that of me that he made a video however putin statements on foreign policy have given a hint that we may see something new off to roll first he insisted russia will firmly defend its interests over american missile defense plans in europe he also said he would not be going to the next g. eight summit in the united states it has already made some analysts speculate that the relationship between moscow and washington would not be so rosy the return of putin to the presidency. heralds. strong not a decisive shift but a strong shift in emphasis away from the field reset policy that hillary clinton offered when video first the event 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 ballistic missile defense installations and put more pressure on russia's security situation the next few months say experts will be instrumental in defining putin's long term strategy the question is whether russia and the world will see any you putin willing and able to face difficult challenges. moscow and people which the new government probably needs to convince most are the opposition that drew crowds both before and after the inauguration some of the most recent protests in moscow resulted in ugly clashes with police and hundreds of arrests parties and these are now and political analysts to me to examine who is driving the demonstrations. 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 of our name is not a typical leftist populist like well does he use the morning to corruption and nationalist. but let's focus on the flanks for a bit looking at this video this is this is sunday's protest which for the first time turned really ugly you see these there's so and the left front it's called what what are the main focus of that party it's a flag we saw a lot of on sunday you see the red flags with the red star so this is an image abroad people might think it's you know a communist party because they think red russia communist so would be right because

it will do so for recently because. he is. left from the. all of the communist party a russian federation human being chronically ill but dissipating all these actions get him constantly arrested that's his style that's like is that they're on i.q. tests where is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of the there are several groups which do not i y themselves with the left front or with the communist party job you go on the sunday i was there and there were clearly some people who were trying to provoke violence a lot of these so-called anarchists you can see here basically were running into the riot police and also were wearing a lot of these masks. let's talk a little bit more about the nationalist fight that we see sometimes i believe 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 strong up or 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 mutually exclusive view they're not simply i think in his degree not simply contradictory that's just an excuse of the nationalistic use put in of being a liberal the liberal secular wouldn't have been a nationalist the leftist accused would you know 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 what they want the current russian state to collapse that's about it to me through 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 latest series of anti putin rallies that started last weekend has now the window to an indefinite set out and one of moscow central square the gathering has already been labeled occupy a by from the name of the poet whose monument to arms the square that many people are there just a few dozen but there are some surprising visitors one farmer brought his cow to the protests he's definitely got some serious before over russia joining the world trade organization it was an eye opener for muscovites warrant use to the livestock on the streets but police say so long as it's on a leash no law is being broken. and some opposition activists plan to march through moscow later on sunday they're interested in how the police respond to what they call peaceful walks in the capitol will certainly follow along and tell you what

happens right here on our team. as last extremists say or they're behind the twin bombings in syria's capital on thursday which killed fifty five people and injured around four hundred others the all nusra front thought to share the same jihad as i . posted a video online saying it carried out the worst terrorist assault in syria since the start of the uprising last year it also says the suicide bombings were in response to an attack on residential areas by president assad's forces the claim confirms fears that al qaeda linked extremists have joined the anti-recession fight parties sarah firth met syrians who been living through more than a year of violence and whose hopes rest with the u.n. observer. this sound of gunfire and heavy artillery rings out lipsky line with the u.n. observers in it live in there's been some pretty heavy gunfire. throughout the

night. no will say government seemingly has fairly tight control of the century area in the areas of it live and the fierce fighting is continuing there's no ceasefire here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we followed the un observers into it all the way passing through homes and other areas monitors it based and there is that is seen some of the most destructive fighting as we passed through homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with the residents after. the safety. people who are still fighting the. war but it's clear. that is he tries hard not to show perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been wreaked on people's lives here throughout the course of the conflict is on to it and a stretch of road this name for being extremely dangerous it's

a journey that would have been near impossible without the u.n. presence and with the volatile situation criminal gangs thought to operate in this area we find it live under siege like conditions a quiet and intimidated city i don't know since a year and a half ago no one knows what's happening we go to sleep and wake up with fear some say the government and other states armed groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to meet it lives governor and ask him about the situation here. even if there is a little unrest in some areas or in a few spots it's due to people who are breaking the. checkpoint after checkpoint then we enter into an area outside of government control and it's a unique chance to see the u.n. monitors in action almost a month into the peace plan and you're monitors are making small steps on the ground but it's going to be a slow process throughout the course of the conflict it's been hard to come to some

of the areas where the fiercest fighting is happening and get a gauge of exactly what the situation is on the ground the u.n. observers traveling to some of these areas have given them access to what we see is a frightened population and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city civil. r.t. . there's a fear of the u.n. peace mission in syria is being undermined from abroad as the director of the conflicts form organization explain to our team. having militarily experienced witnesses on the ground who can tell what is a mortar shell and what is a burning tar being fired on the top of the roof more than an ordinary journalist can does help but please bring this thing maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing it of course military observers any sort of a con deal with

a few determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives in the middle of a time for head of american intelligence assessment james clapper himself said that americans believe that the earlier bombings were done by groups infiltrating from iraq into syria to places it's most likely those that are sponsoring these groups will be in the gulf states will be gulf states who will be by the funding it or stimulating these sort of attacks it doesn't take a great deal of investigation to work out. for both sides. the peace process is not what they're wanting to see they want to see the ball and overthrow of the regime anti-government rallies have gained momentum and following me around the country's leading human rights activists last weekend now be overtop announce spoken critic of the regime was detained for organizing and participating in the

protests just days after meeting with wiki leaks is chilling assignment for job himself believes the interview which aired on our t.v. last tuesday prompted his arrest when i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to. t.v. program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns in the. eyes and i was not at home didn't they just. to tell me to come to depopulation prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am here what are you going to do it i'm going to go back i mean i have to face. channeling stan middle east affairs expert option written see believes jobs arrest exposes the west selective approach in dealing with the arab uprisings there is no case against in the case against the british and american and european governments that are backing bahrain i don't know i don't know how long julian assange has been under house

arrest here in this country without charge but they obviously seem to think that they can now arrest interviewees very disturbing what's happened to the president of the bahrain center for human rights is not just him more worryingly of course is . no longer strike just on his daughter who is also be in custody you know killing people fifty dead in a country that small equates to a lot of people this is an apartheid state being backed by the obama administration in the years two thousand and nine two thousand and ten as if seeing what was about to happen in bahrain the obama administration stepped up sales which include equipment used by the authorities in bahrain to suppress the protests and to this is ongoing and they know journalists there to cover it the next edition of julian assad will show is here on our t.v. next tuesday and if you've missed the program that allegedly triggered nabila jobs arrest you can head to our website where you can catch all the editions so far at a song dot dot com. speak to two leading

revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution was really where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. russian recovery teams have reportedly located at the flight data recorder out the site where a sukhoi superjet crashed into a mountain in indonesia on wednesday british tritter house story. it was the demo flight that ended in disaster rescuers in indonesia have attempted this week to scale the treacherous terrain outside jakarta at the site of the crash of the russian sukhoi superjet one hundred forty five people were on board and authorities say there are no signs of survivors ever since the plane disappeared on wednesday family members of those who were on the plane have been gathering here at the airport hoping for any word from authorities about what could happen to the plane

they've also been putting up memorials like this one to remember the lives that were lost that day the med had no idea his wife was on board the jet that took off for the second time on wednesday for a thirty minute demonstration for potential customers and airline executives his wife was heading the cabin crew that day because when they got to she was not supposed to fly because shouldn't tell me i wasn't forms of the normally when she flies she would tell me while authorities are still continuing the search an investigation into exactly what happened many believe that the poor visibility and fog that day contributed to the plane crashing into a nearby mountain the sukhoi superjet was on a tour of five asian countries demonstrations had already taken place in kazakhstan pockets son and me and maher the multibillion dollar plane is the first commercial aircraft built in russia since the end of the soviet union and already had one

hundred seventy orders placed for its purchase around the world it's not yet clear if the crash will affect the jets future as well as sukhoi reputation but some aviation experts say it won't and this is going to have a temporary. very much depends on. in the report of course. two hopes the primary cause of the crash was we have to remember of course the cause of the jet li's thought implying here in commercial it's a very new across a very mild russian rescue teams will work alongside indonesian search teams until the investigation is concluded hoping that family members like they can get some answers but that it that it's not be able to i just want to find out what happened to her. preassure either our teacher carda indonesia. and still heard on our t.v. and the pressure is on for friends as new president adoring crowds hotrod and

friends while i learned that they're all being you know honeymoon period with imminent crucial negotiations which could dictate europe's debt service plus. jailed russian businessman viktor butcher and gives his first interview to english speaking here since his extradition to the west be exclusively tells r t about what's behind his conviction. and spend another turbulent week for the trouble the e.u. has and the anger spilled on to europe streets and spain turns of thousands marched in eighty cities across the country on saturday when a loud demands for an end to parts and economic misery earlier in the week violent and hostility clashes erupted in the italian city of naples where hundreds of protesters attempted to storm a local tax office that's as euro zone's future again descends into doubt over greece sticking to the harsh plan to dig it out of debt party leaders are in

a last ditch effort to form a coalition following last sunday's inconclusive election if they fail it would mean going back to the polls in a few weeks political and strategic analysts dr alison don't believe the serves the protests we're seeing in europe could soon spill into revolution. it is very clear that this financial schulze is like an artichoke first you start with the weaker states and then you go to the heart and the heart is from germany and the other aaa reserves already church you know the bottom. very soon other countries will do the suit because it's not just working class it's really middle middle class which will be squeaky. without any picture for the sake of these financial interests and this is something which. against the grain of democracy and begins to grin of dignity and freedom so i think search of the situation at least in some countries

is really ready for. something very similar to an arab revolution. and another worry for the e.u.'s austerity tampons us france where the newly elected president francois hollande plans to renegotiate the fiscal pact trevon by german chancellor angela merkel they'll meet on tuesday after hollande. tesser cilia some stop the nation's mood as she joined the crowds welcoming their new leader. out to the old. in with a new. president a lot to ask a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful if they're here they had voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of threats are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question. is

is that people rejected because it would then france would also like france for many reasons one of them was his personal merits 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 you know the march third cycles he has created an awful 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 friends. there's new hope or gadget on 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 renegotiating the e.u. fiscal pact believe me she will experience in the coming months the negotiation power of purchase of america because just american will face an election in one year and she will not be willing to compromise we said with a french president and to withdraw french troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned it's a sign that i think he wants to scale down the foreign policy but i would guess that he's going to be more considerate of what is 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 our jobs and leadership to truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser cilia r.t. paris. asia times roving correspondent peppa escobar says clashes over all lines

foreign policy will stretch far beyond france. but i buy me a cozy now is medical and so whole and only terminal front in europe he'll be trying to cool this merkel that this all stare at that business is drowning europe and only external frot hill coordinate with the bridge to say look i'm not only to change the whole system is to try to change the financial system as it works and this is where obama in the hole and it will clash head on in spite of the whole them a sympathy for a whole elder for the left in france and for the left in europe in general i learned once a renegotiation of the financial arrangement in the world and that means the end of the us dollar as a reserve currency the greeks want the same thing in now they have an ally in society european union that happens to be one of the molders of the european union

so expect major fireworks inside europe and across the world as well. it's not just the burden of compaq's that's got your parents lined up as we report on our key to our. hundreds marched through london and occupying demo against corporate corruption we got the details on the video online. class how's this for getting to grips with your i gadgets meet a man who is literally attached to his toys the details are all out on top. fifty. feet. all right twenty five past the hour and russian businessman victor boot convicted of arms trafficking by the u.s. has compared america's justice system to a witch hunt in an exclusive interview with our team he's serving twenty five years

for conspiring to kill u.s. citizens and sell arms to colombian militants but he insists he's innocent but this week it was decided good will be sent to a super maximum security prison despite his trial judge recommending medium security confinement the jail in colorado is known as the alcatraz of the wrong keats and house as america's most dangerous and violent criminals lawyer wants the decision stone right now victor boot is still in a new york prison from where he exclusively spoke tartini about why he's been targeted. what is happening to me it's a pure political kerry and kind of. writer you know from earlier to the do you view an overreach well for inquisition we're going now you're must accept the content of the true work and do you think some of. that will i don't want to don't commit it

and you're going to have published. when i was a very comedic crime these crimes would never take these a lot of food you have got a record not good breadth of crime i've been riddled with this big conspiracy revolved label. decision to kill american richard clarke a magic bullet works for the jury of your. and next hour on our team we will bring you all of victor boots first interview to an english language channel since as extradition to the u.s. from thailand first up let's take a look at some of today's world news. brains which flooded a mountainous region in china's northwest have left at least forty people dead and another eighteen missing the extreme weather knocked out power and left many homeless it's thought hundreds of thousands are people that are affected relief teams have taken emergency supplies to the euro. turkey's football championship

final ended in a mass riot as hundreds of angry supporters of. a reacted to their teams got the last straw the title was given to our trials. and sol raging spectators to storm the pitch as well as throw flares and carriers these had to protect players with their shields as they fled to the locker rooms the violence continued outside the stadium with police cars torched and buildings vandalized. i'll be back with a recap of our headlines shortly. height

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