you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big which. we stop stories on our t.v. letting your moving back and russia's presidential saddle with all eyes now on his plans and policies all 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 that terror groups are fighting on the rebel side. as many as hundreds of thousands of protesters marching against austerity in spain as fresh political turmoil grips risa get ready to unravel a severely weakened euro zone. russian rescue teams join the search for answers in indonesia at the site of a super super jet crash that killed all forty five aboard. seven

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 vladimir putin again sworn into office this week the culmination of russia's tumultuous election period but opposition activism at a historic high the focus is now on how putin will deal with the huge challenges facing him home and abroad parties aleck's arish as he takes a look. 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 is 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 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 pavement 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 to 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 moscow couldn't 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 an isa now a sits down with me dmitri babich political analyst to take a closer look 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 aleck's 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 use nor a typical leftist populist like what does he use the morning to take 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 what they write because it would also friesen to decode. he's. left prong the reason why all of the

communist party of russian federation human being chronically ill but you should pay to know all these actions get him constantly arrested that's his style what's like is that there. is the 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 with the communist party job to 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 you 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 views they're not simply i think he has to go and it seems to contradict you that's just an excuse for the nationalistic use but you know being a liberal the liberal secular wouldn't of been a nationalist the leftist accused would you know the sort of social system is a 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 analysts 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 lead a series of anti putin demonstrations is also seen in the ongoing and indefinite sit in in one of moscow's central squares the gatherings already been late you labeled occupy a by from the name of the poet whose monument adorns the square there are people not many people there are a couple of dozen but there are some surprising visitors including a farmer who brought his cow out of the protest he's got a series before joining the world trade organization it was an eye opener for moscow values who are used to livestock on the streets but police say so long as the animals on a leash no laws were broken. meanwhile around two thousand opposition activists have been marching through central moscow sunday and what they dubbed a control walk participant say they want to check how police would respond to their mass rally but no one stood in their way and the march passed peacefully. islamist extremists claimed responsibility for the twin bombings in the syrian capital

thursday which killed fifty five people and injured four hundred others it was the worst terror attack in the country since the start of the uprising last year the group calling itself the all nusra front is thought to jihad as ideology it says the suicide bombings were in response to attacks on residential areas by president assad's forces their claim seems to confirm fears that al qaeda linked extremists have joined the anti regime fight for syrians living through more than a year of unrest and whose hopes rest with u.n. observers. the sound of gunfire and heavy artillery rings out in its skyline with the units in it late in this being some pretty heavy gunfire. to out the night. 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 fighting is continuing. here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we fully into it lead on the way three homes and

hama other areas monnet is that based and there is that is seen some of the base destructive fighting as we passed three homes we have a brief animation of conversation with the residents of to. safety. we would what the what. the fighting. 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 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 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 spark clashes in neighboring lebanon where a soldier and two civilians were reportedly killed sunday gunfire broke out in the northern city of tripoli 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 and lebanese society over attitudes toward assad meanwhile 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 beforehand he spoke to wiki leaks founder julian assange had an interview that aired on r.t.e. on tuesday where job himself thinks that's what's prompted the arrest and when i

sit in my tweets at a column that i'm going to meet julian assange then i'm going to instruct him in the t.v. program my house was set on that by almost under the policemen and. machine guns and i did you guys you know was not at home didn't do you just to. me to come to do. what i am going to do or i'm going to go back i mean i have to face. journalist and middle east affairs expert off camera tante 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 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 protest and to this is ongoing and they know journalists that a cover of. the next edition of a songes show here on r t tuesday and if you missed the program that allegedly triggered arrest head over to our website there you can catch all the previously aired editions that's at a song dot com. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution old ones that egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go for.

recovery teams in indonesia reportedly focusing their search on a ravine as they try to track down flight data recorders from the sukhoi superjet that crashed on a mountainside wednesday the has been put on hold overnight and will resume again it dawn all forty five people aboard were killed when the newly designed a russian plane slammed into the side of an active volcano or shrewder 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 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. 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 country demonstrations had already taken place in kazakhstan pakistan and me an arm 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. very much depends on the report of course. to the primary cause the crash will we have to remember of course because the jet li's thought implying here and commercial it's a very new. russian rescue teams will work alongside indonesian search teams until the investigation is concluded hoping that family members like their big can get some answers. i just want to find out what happened to her. preassure either our teacher karta indonesia. there's a lot more lined up for you this hour including a look at how the mighty have fallen for trade as an arrogant and divisively charge how nicolas sarkozy lost his presidential reelection bid to the socialist candidate

francois law and what kind of the reverse france's fortunes plus. russian businessman victor good lashes out at the u.s. justice system describe in these cases in which after being jailed for twenty five years he speaks exclusively with our team. first it's been a truly hectic week for the e.u. with a violent anti austerity demonstrations and political deadlock again casting doubts over the future of the euro in spain as many as hundreds of thousands marched nationwide in protest they chanted slogans waving banners demanding an end to cuts and painful austerity in italy a violent end house charity is erupting in naples after yet another suicide apparently caused by an aggressive government tax program above all this is the political turmoil in greece there a last ditch effort to form a coalition has all but collapsed over differences on austerity in belo terms become tree now looks likely to stage new elections but journalists and analysts

christos and tried isn't holding out much hope that they'll solve anything. i think of these storms over the skies and sort of in and then. the right to live. one of course there is possibility for governing the country so with this quote i think that the only way out of this relations with one thing the least can be sure you're honest even if it were hard work and it's not to mention security is low it will be the only result of the elections if we go with this is truly the program then the story we'll eventually did least a little town as well as from a shot at the other the same time it would leave them sort of the look roman look there's no diploma story that. will finance a function it will pull all the fun we finance the soldiers and all the stuff of course is not forever because the grasses may start to grease. grease

wasn't the previews of this crisis the bruce used was gradual. and the politics on germany. it was like to know your opinion of the stories we're covering live on to r.t. dot com cast your vote on what you think the austerity measures are up for the year so far only two thirds who voted think austerity will drive the people into or a billion against brussels twenty per cent think stronger you academies will dominate weaker ones fifteen percent say slashing spending or economic growth of the. minority reaper sense a austerity measures will eventually pull the union out of its crisis log on to our tea dot com and click you of. trouble for the eurozone came this week not only from the struggling south but also the more prosperous north france's president elect francois hollande has vowed to renegotiate europe's debt limiting agreements on member nations that may begin tuesday when he meets with german chancellor angela merkel artie's tests are silly reports on the mat elected to lead france and

whether or not he can really deliver. out with the old. in with the new. the press was allowed to ask 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. is is that people rejected talk is it when then france would also cite 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 coming out about his relationship with gadhafi you know the march goodness 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 traditionally 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 more considerate to 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 to me 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 at an occupy demo against corporate corruption all the details plus video online. the ties between the u.s. national security agency and google and federal courts is revealing the details could threaten the government we have more.

a witch hunt is a russian businessman viktor boot jailed for twenty five years in the u.s. for armis trafficking has branded the case against him he still insists on his innocence it was decided to will be housed in a super max security prison in colorado among the country's most dangerous criminals despite a trial judge recommending medium security confinement currently house new york prison boot spoke exclusively with our team giving his first interview to an english language channel since extradition to the u.s. he gave his views on washington's case against. going to be happening to me as a pure political ok and kind of trial it was very you know. you don't charge well. you know your mom. but you. keep saying. that look how i don't want to don't commit. if you

think you have a mission. and i want a major crime these crimes would never take these a man of your government would not could grab their crotch i'm going to revoke. you receive your own fault. if you can't get what america richard clarke magic bullet or pull the trigger for your. interview coming your way in full in the next hour here on r t stake 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 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 would have least eleven al qaeda fighters were killed by drone

strikes in yemen that 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 killing of fifteen militants over the past year or some of the country's southern provinces how fall on under control. 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 earlier thread into a spring offensive aimed at lawmakers and officials as well as u.s. and coalition personnel. afghan president karzai has offered his view on the tense security situation in the country in our t.v. interview with peter lavelle here's a preview. to what extent when i would call them paid mercenaries how much are they going to be in your defense to protect your administration no and your successors

none none you're saying the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role absolutely obvious kind of tradition this is one of the issues over which we have immense gentian but they will be here they will be they not as far as the afghan governments goes and no way no mercenary no way no way. i'll be back with a recap of our headlines stay with us here on r.t. .

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