which owns the book at least doesn't give a doing about anything to submission to teach creation and why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the. week's top stories on our t.v. fighting near putin back in russia as a presidential saga with all eyes now on his plans and policies following the latest wave of discontent with him retaking the top job. radical islamists a day carried out a deadly bombing in the syrian capital in response to the actions of government troops confirming fears terror groups are fighting on the rebels' side. as many as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against austerity in spain as fresh political turmoil in greece again threatens to unravel a severely weakened eurozone. and russian rescue teams join the search for answers in indonesia at the site of a sukhoi superjet crash that killed all forty five aboard.

six pm in moscow i mattresses 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 season with opposition activism at a historic high the focus is now on how putin will deal with the huge challenges faced at home and abroad. he has more. for the third time vladimir putin took the thirty three word oath to become russia's president with an air of ease and calm you know it 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 x. birds believe any leader who's been in power 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 we'll 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 to point out 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 meeting him individual 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 a strong not a decisive shift but a strong shift in emphasis away from the failed reset policy that hillary clinton offered when video first the man is 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. curity 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. on see. putin's return to the kremlin has seen people turn out on the streets on moscow with major anti-government rallies happening in moscow some of the roast recent protests descended into clashes and hundreds of arrests artie's in eastern hour he speaks with political analyst dimitri babich to look more closely at the aims and ambitions of the opposition. 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. 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 read russia communist so widely right because it will do so for recently because. he is. 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 but it's like is that they're on a kiss where he is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of there are several groups which do want to live themselves with the left front or with the communist party job you gone off sunday i was there and there were clearly some people who were trying to provoke violence a lot of these so-called anarchists you can see here basically were running into the riot police and also 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. yes 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 strung up all 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 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 he's not seem to contradict you that's just an excuse for the nationalistic use pushing of being a liberal the liberal secular wouldn't of been a nationalist the leftist would you know the sort of social system is the liberal secular revive in the soviet period is 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 analysts 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 the latest series of anti putin demonstrations also saw an ongoing an indefinite sit in at one of moscow's central squares the gatherings already been labeled occupying a by from the name of the poet whose monument stands in the square not many people there just a few dozen but there are some surprising visitors one former brought his cow out of a protest he's got a serious before joining the world trade organization it was an eye opener though for jaded muscovites who aren't used to seeing livestock in the streets but police say as long as the animals on a leash there's been no laws broken. meanwhile around two thousand opposition activists have been marching through central moscow sunday in what they dubbed a controlled walk participant say they wanted to see how the police will respond to their mass rally but no one stood in their way and the march passed peaceful. is the most extreme as claimed responsibility for twin bombings in the syrian capital thursday that killed fifty five and injured four hundred more it was the worst

terror attack in the country since the start of the uprising there last year the group called the al nusra front is thought to be hardest ideology it says the suicide bombings were in response to attacks on presidential areas by president assad's forces the claim seems to confirm for us at al-qaeda linked extremists have joined the n.t. regime fight or to sarah first met syrians who've been living through more than a year of violence and whose hopes rest with u.n. observers. the sound of gunfire and heavy artillery brings out in it let's skyline with the u.n. observers in it live in this been some pretty heavy gunfire. to out the night. now we'll see government seemingly has very tight control at the century and it's in the air it's a bit late and the fighting is continuing. here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we fully the u.n. is into it on the way poncing three homes and how many other areas mon it is that

based and there is that it's seen some of the destructive fighting as we passed three homes we have a brief animation of conversation with the residents of to win safety. but what. about the fighting that. would be the skids. that is he tries hard not to show perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been wreaks 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 let's governor and ask him about the situation here. even if there is a little unrest in some areas here 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 at civil war sara furth r.t. . the turmoil in syria has sparked clashes in neighboring lebanon where a soldier and two civilians were reportedly killed sunday gunfire broke out in the city of tripoli in the north of the country most of the fighting happened between a neighborhood primarily populated by sunni muslims who oppose syria's president assad and alawite who support him the two countries share multiple religious and political traits and there are deep rifts in the lebanese society over attitudes towards assad. meanwhile in bahrain anti-government protesters stepped up their rallies demanding the release of the country's top human rights activist he was arrested a week ago for allegedly organizing and taking part in protests days before he spoke to wiki leaks founder julian assange in an interview aired on r t tuesday rashad himself thinks that's what prompted the arrest and what i said in my tweets

at a column that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to instruct him in t.v. program my house was set on that by almost under the policeman. machine guns in the daily advised and i was not at home didn't you just to. me to come to do. what i am going to do and i'm going to go back i mean i have to face. journalist and middle east affairs commentator optionor aton see things where jobs arrest exposes the west selective approach in dealing with arab uprisings. so there is no case against in the cases against the british and american and european governments that have 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. going under strike i understand 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 that cover it. the next edition of julian assange just show airs on our team next tuesday and if you missed the program that allegedly triggered job's arrest you can find it on our website along with all the other previous editions has on its own special section a songe dot com. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution old ones with egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go.

recovery teams in indonesia are reportedly focusing their search on a ravine as they try to track down the flight data recorders from the sukhoi superjet that crashed wednesday that's been put on hold overnight but will resume again a dawn all forty five people aboard were killed when a newly designed russian plane slammed into a mountain or 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 but 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 this on med had no idea his wife was on board the judge that took off for the second time on wednesday for a thirty minute demonstration for potential customers an airline executives his wife was heading the cabin crew that day. 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 and 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 country demonstrations had already taken place in kazakhstan pakistan and meehan are 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 border is 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. be very much depends on the report of course. to the primary called the crash will we have to remember of course because the jet thought implying here in commercial it's a very new and coffin very much. russian rescue teams will work alongside indonesian search teams until the investigation is concluded hoping that family members like they can get some answers. i just want to find out what happened to her. preassure either our teacher carda indonesia. a lot more still lined up here this hour including a look at how the mighty have fallen portrayed as an arrogant and divisive recharge on the last two presidential reelection bid the socialist francois lawn but i don't

want to reverse francis fortunes plus. russian businessman victor boot lashes out the u.s. justice system describing his days as a witch hunt after being jailed for twenty five years and spoken exclusively with r.t. . but first it's been a truly hectic week for the e.u. with a violent and how sturdy demonstrations and political deadlock again casting doubts over the future of the euro in spain as many as hundreds of thousands marched in nationwide protest they chanted slogans and waved banners demanding an end to cuts in painful austerity in italy violent anti austerity clashes erupted in naples after yet another suicide apparently caused by an aggressive government tax program above all this is the political turmoil in greece there are a freshly elected parliament is deadlocked over whether to abide by e.u. austerity plans faction leaders are making a last ditch effort to form a coalition and avoid a new election but journalist and analyst christos this isn't holding out much hope

. i think at this point or these guys will star in a dent that no one imagined their radical lives lived there a lot of our stay there or there is possibility for bombing their country so at this point i think the the only way out of this relations by the i don't think the least congress will soon to be honest in their employ hardware it's not elections again there's little that will be the only result of the elections if we go all but mr steady progress then or story b. we'll look 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 star diploma shorey that. all will finance a public soon settle or whole court file you will find as the sellers in all this stuff of course is not fair because they your glasses may start to grease. grease was not one of the producers of this crisis the producer was graduates that

bombed us and the politics of on germany. we're always keen 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 and even europe will be to you so far nearly two thirds of those voting think austerity will drive people into a billion against brussels twenty percent think strong very common these will dominate weaker ones fifteen per cent say slashing spending will alter the economic growth of the union only three percent say it's already meant as the measures will work and eventually told the union out of crisis log on to our t. dot com cast your vote. trouble for the euro zone 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 limit agreements on member nations that could start tuesday when he meets german chancellor angela merkel or tessera cilia reports on the man elected to lead france and whether or not he can

really deliver. out with the old. in with the new. the press all our task a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful event here they are voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of threat are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question alon belise is that people rejected talk is it within france but also france for many reasons one of them was is based on arrogance 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 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 as allegations kept you know coming out about his relationship with gadhafi you know the march heard because i can see has created an overall image of france we don't want divisions within the french society we don't want to see bombing of arab countries we are friends of the arabs yet it is not. 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 dish and the french while foreign policy took a backseat during the campaign a model did throw out two moves one go head to head with germany's angela merkel on really go sharing the e.u. fiscal pact believe me he will experience in the coming month the negotiation power of america because just american will face an election in one year and will not be

willing to compromise we said was a french president and to withdraw for. 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. considered what is happening in the rest of the world and will focus on economic issues within europe at the end of the day all the french really want are jobs and leadership that truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser cilia are telling us it's not just the burden of cutbacks that have europeans fired up as we report on our. hundreds make their voices heard in london the occupy demo against corporate corruption all the details plus a video on why. the ties between the u.s. national security agency and google the federal courts is revealing the details could threaten the government.

a witch hunt is how a russian businessman victor boot jailed for twenty five years in the u.s. for arms tracking arms trafficking has branded the case against him he still insists he's innocent 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 in a new york prison for now but spoke 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 against him. what could happen to me i'd probably think ok kind of trial is a very you know. you don't know we. don't know your mom ok. but do you. think.

that. no i don't want to don't commit to anything to have a mission. and i want a. crime these crimes would not make these i'm going to have got a crime i'm going to revoke. you receive. the future you want marriage which is very like a magic bullet or that you're a few. full version of that interview coming your way in about five minutes after the main news here on r t take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe roadside bomb targeting police killed one officer in northern pakistan injured several others including a child device was planted in bush's close to a checkpoint which was destroyed in the blast this after a spate of attacks in the city of peshawar four were killed saturday in a roadside explosion near a prison convoy. at least eleven al qaeda fighters killed by drone

strikes in yemen believed to have been carried out by the u.s. this after the yemeni government launched a new offensive against armed groups on the arab peninsula that's already resulted in the deaths of fifteen militants over the last year some of the country's southern provinces how fall under the control. of shot dead a senior afghan peace negotiator involved in talks with the taliban in a drive by shooting in 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 who group or earlier threatened a spring offensive aimed at lawmakers and officials as well as u.s. and coalition personnel. afghan president karzai has offered his views on the tense security situation in the country and interview with our team's peter lavelle here's a preview of what he had to say. to what extent and i would call them paid

mercenaries how much are they going to be in your defense to protect your administration tonight and your successors none none you're saying the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role absolutely on this kind of tradition this is one of the issues over which we have immense gentian but they will be here they will be they knocked as far as the afghan government's go so no way no mercenary no way no way. that interview airing monday here on r t will stay with us i'll be back with the headlines shortly.

morning's today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada as. giant corporations are on the day. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. download the official up location to go on the phone only pulled touch from the choose ops to. life on the go.