the week's top stories on our t.v. lead a new back in russia's presidential cycle with all eyes now on his plans and policies following the latest wave of discontent with him retaking the top job. radical islamists say they carried out a deadly bombing in the syrian capital in response to the actions of government troops confirming fears that terror groups are fighting on the rebel side. as many as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against austerity in spain is fresh political turmoil in greece again threatens to unravel a severely weakened euro zone. russian rescue teams join the search for

answers in indonesia at the site of a sukhoi superjet crash that killed all forty five aboard. five pm in moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a new president but a familiar face of lattimer putin sworn into office this week in a lavish culmination of russia's tumultuous election period with opposition activism out of historic high the focus is now on how putin will deal with the huge challenges faced at home and abroad or he's alexei he has more. for the third time but he made a push into the thirty three word oath to become russia's president with an air of ease and calm. as i fulfill the gigi's 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 right experts believe any data. 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 he's 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 that. the 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 and. 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 their 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 failed reset policy that hillary clinton offered when video of first the people and 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. see mosco. putin's return to the kremlin has seen people turn out into the streets on mosques with major anti-government rallies happening in moscow some of the most recent protests descended into clashes and hundreds of arrests artie's any so now a set down with political analysts to be tree babbage to take a closer look at the aims and ambitions of the opposition movement. 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 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. is not a comparable leftist populist like will does he use them 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 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 so what they write because it will do so for recently decode. he's. left from the reason why all of the communist party of russian federation human being chronically ill but dissipating all these actions get him constantly arrested that's his style what's like is that they're on a kibbutz where he 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 front or with the communist party job 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 sometimes i believe it's white there it is. what's this is what it means. you know all of the groups all the

nationalist groups that are strongly opposed to the current government strong white . and red. but who also but would not like to be associated with communists or leftists why 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 he's not simply contradictory that's just in the school of the nationalistic he was put in of being a liberal the liberal secular would have been a nationalist the leftist accused would you know the sort of social system is the liberal secular revive in the soviet period 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 meet their political

analyst from west 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 played a series of anti putin demonstrations has also seen an ongoing and indefinite sit in one of moscow's central square is the gatherings already been labeled the occupy all by from the name of the poet who's monument stands in the square not many people there right now just a few dozen but there are some surprising visitors one former brought his cow out to the protest we've got some serious people over russia joining the world trade organization it was an eye opener though for jaded muscovites who aren't used to seeing livestock on the streets but police say so long as the animals on a leash there are no broken laws. meanwhile around two thousand opposition activists were marching through central moscow sunday in what they dubbed a controlled walk or discipline say they wanted to check how the police would

respond to their mass rally no one stood in their way though when the march passed peaceful. islam is the extremists have claimed responsibility for twin bombings in the syrian capital thursday that killed fifty five people and injured four hundred more it was the worst terror attack in the country since the start of the uprising there last year a group called the. nusra front is thought to share the same jihad of ideology it says suicide bombings were in response to attacks on residential areas by president assad's forces they claim seems to confirm fears that all titling to extremists have joined the n.t. regime fight or to sarah ferguson syrians who are living through more than a year of violence and whose hopes rest with a new one observes. the sound of gunfire and heavy artillery rings out in it lipsky line with the units that is in it late in this being some pretty heavy . to at the nights. now we'll see government seemingly hands from the control of

the century and it's in the air it's a bit late and the faceplate teams continuing business here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we fully the u.n. is into it lead the way poncing three homes and how much of the area is money it is that based and there is that it seems some of the base destructive fighting as we passed three homes we have a brief animation of conversation with the residents of to win in safety. what the people who feel about the fighting that happened. or but it's clear. that it is he tries hard not to show as 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 live on 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 is 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 u.n. 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 at civil war sara furth r.t. . in bahrain anti-government protesters stepped up their rallies demanding the release of the country's top human rights activist nabeel rajab was arrested a week ago for allegedly organizing and taking part in protests days before that he spoke with wiki leaks founder julian assange in an interview aired on r t tuesday rajab himself thinks that's what prompted the arrest when i said in my twitter account 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.

and they realized that i was not at home didn't they just. to tell me to come to the public prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am going to do or i'm going to go back i mean i have to face. journalist in middle east affairs expert option rotund see things very jobs arrest exposes the west selective approach in dealing with 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 his 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. i understand his daughter who is also be in custody you know they are 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 that cover it. next edition of julian assange his show airs on our team next tuesday and if you missed the program that allegedly triggered arrest you can head over to our web site and catch all the previous editions online that's at assad dot com. speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed was that egypt where the revolution is now into the world what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go or. recovery teams are scouring the site of wednesday's deadly plane crash that saw a sukhoi superjet slammed into a mountainside in indonesia killing all forty five people aboard now the search is

on for the flight data recorder to see if it holds the answers to what went wrong artie's preassure to reports from jakarta. 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 have happened to the plane they've also been putting up memorials like this one to remember the lives that were lost that day did it go mad 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 was in the 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 part just 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 this is going to have a temporary. very much depends on the crew pool to cool.

to the primary cool crash was we have to remember of course because the jet. here in commercial that's a very new coke can very moment russian rescue teams will work alongside indonesian search teams until the investigation is concluded hoping that family members like did can get some answers that it that it's not be able to just want to find out what happened to her. prius three there are teach a card indonesia. lots more lined up for you this hour including a look at how the mighty have fallen portrayed as an arrogant and divisive charge how nicolas sarkozy lost his presidential reelection bid for the socialist francois want but then the winner of verse france's fortunes plus. russian businessman victor boot lashes out of the u.s. justice system describing his case as a witch hunt after being jailed for twenty five years he spoke exclusively with our

team. it's been a truly hectic week though for the e.u. with a violent and stary demonstrations and political deadlock again casting doubts over the future of the euro in spain as many as hundreds of thousands marched in nationwide protests they chanted slogans and waved banners demanding an end to cuts and painful austerity in a believe violent anti a sturdy clashes erupted naples after yet another suicide apparently posed by an oppressive government taxation program above all this is the political turmoil in greece there are freshly elected parliament is deadlocked over whether to abide by an austerity program faction leaders are making a last ditch effort to form a coalition and avoid a new election journalist and political analyst christos the tribe isn't holding out much hope. i think of these borns all of these guys will star in a dead there no one imagined their radical lives liberty brothers lot of course they are there is possibility for bombing their country so at this point i think

that the only way out of this relations but i don't think the police can be sure and if you're honest in there if more hard work there it's not elections again there's little that will be the only result of the elections if we go all or this is going to grow ground then or story big wheel and vegeta delays do that. as well as from a society by the same dime it would leave the sort of the law the problem of the start to plan a story that. all will finance it politics and settle on a whole court who will find us the solution all this stuff of course is not fair because the your grass is mess started and greece. greece was not one of the previews of this crisis the bruiser was graz was the bomb and the politics of on in germany. it was like to know your opinion on the stories we're covering log on to r.t. dot com cast your vote on what you think the austerity measures in europe will lead

to so far most who voted more than forty percent think they'll drive the people to or a billion against brussels more than a quarter say slashing spending more economic growth to the new a similar number think stronger economies will dominate weaker ones in the end and four per cent say the austerity measures will eventually pull out of the crisis log on and have yourself. trouble for the eurozone came this week not only from the struggling south but also the more prosperous north french president elect francois hollande has vowed to renegotiate europe's debt limiting agreements on member nations that may start tuesday when he meets german chancellor angela merkel are key steps are silly reports on the man elected to lead france and whether or not he can really deliver. outwith the old. in with the new. president to ask a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that

france is once again peaceful event here they had voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of crabs are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question. is the people rejected because it would then france would also france for many reasons one of them was his best americans so we can hope that in foreign policy is going to move in the right direction that is less arrogant. be it arrogance or something else there was no hiding the eagerness to lead the libyan intervention sending french warplanes in first. betrayed himself along those deliberatively b.-a but he kept that extremely quiet. allegations kept coming out about his relationship with the. you know the marriage psychos he has created an awful image of frons 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 gadget 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 to additional the 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 she will experience in the coming months the negotiation power of america because just american will face an election in one year and she 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 i think you want to scale down the foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be more considerate to 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 are jobs and leadership to truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser cilia our team paris. it's not just the burden of cutbacks that have europeans fired up as we report on our team dot com hundreds make their voices heard in rwanda and at occupy demonstrations against corporate corruption all the details and video online plus. the secret ties between america's national security agency and google by federal court says revealing the details could threaten the government. away that's how a russian businessman victor boot jailed for twenty five years in the u.s.

for arms trafficking has branded the case against him he still insists on his innocence it was decided to will be housed in a supermax security prison in colorado among the country's most dangerous criminals this despite the trial judge recommending medium security confinement staying for an hour at a new york prison who talked exclusively with our team giving his first interview to an english language channel since extradition to the u.s. from thailand there he gave his views on washington's case. want to happen to me it's a pure political case and kind of. do you know. you don't overreach. where i know you're my kind of good i'm kind of but you. think. that you know i'm going to don't commit it and you're going to have to promise that. when i want a m h me i'm a crime these crimes would never take these out of your government i would not get

back to a crime i'm going to really help with this. you receive your own ball player both. decision you want marriage which is that if you like a magic bullet or split that you're a few. full version of that interview coming your way in the next hour here on our t.v. stick a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a roadside bomb targeting police has killed one officer in northern pakistan injuring several others including a child the device was planted in bush's close to a checkpoint that was destroyed in the blast this after a spate of attacks in the city of peshawar four people were killed saturday in a roadside explosion near a prison convoy. at least eleven al qaeda fighters killed by drone strikes in yemen which are believed to have been carried out by the u.s. this after the yemeni government launched a new offensive against armed groups in the arab peninsula that's already resulted in the deaths of fifteen militants over the past year some of the country's

southern provinces fell under the control of al qaeda. gunmen have shot dead a senior afghan peace negotiator involved in talks with the taliban in a drive by shooting in the capital kabul arsala rahmani was one of the most senior members of afghanistan's high peace council set up two years ago in a bid to reach a peace deal with militants the group of earlier thread in the spring offensive aimed at lawmakers and officials as well as u.s. and coalition personnel. afghan president hamid karzai has offered his views on the tense security situation in the country in an interview with r t s p o l listen to what he has to say monday here's a peek to what extent when i would call them paid mercenaries how much are they going to be in your defense to protect your administration and your successors none none you saying the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role because you do this kind of tradition this is one of the issues over which we have many. but they will be here they will be. gone as far as the afghan

governments goes and no way no mercy and no way no way. can you wait around five minutes the story of czech villagers struggling against the u.s. attempts to build a military base nearby after a round up of our top stories stay with us.

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