the week's top stories on our t.v. a bloody murder brewton they're sworn in as russian president with all eyes now on his plans and policies following the latest wave of this continent with them retaking the top job. radical islamist claimed responsibility for the deadliest terror attack in syria since the start of the uprising there last year confirming fears that terror groups are fighting on the rebel side. uncertainty in europe and you will stare at you protests continue in the full second day in a row while in euro zone exit wound over greece where pointed readers fail to form

a coalition government after the elections. and russian rescue teams join the search for answers in indonesia the site of the super super jet crash which killed all forty five on board. you're watching our tease of the weekly here with me to bomb would say let's take a look at the stories from the last seven days our top story that emerged putin who was sworn into office during the week for a third term as russia's president but with high levels of opposition activism at home and serious changes ongoing in the international arena he faces many new challenges both at home and abroad. skied takes a look at the issues. 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 leader who's been in power for five six seven years in a difficult position because people get used to him and taken for granted he has to then reinvent himself international challenges have changed greatly since used to 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 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 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 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. security situation the next few months will be instrumental in defining putin's long term strategy the question is whether russia and the world will see a new putin willing and able to face difficult challenges alexi russia r.t. moscow putin's return to the kremlin brought the russian opposition on to the streets with major rallies held in moscow and some descended into clashes with police who made hundreds of arrests and he said now i am political analysts a dimitri babbage have been looking more closely 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 of our name is not comparable leftist populist like will does so he's 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 because. he is. left from the reason why all of the communist party of russian federation human being chronically ill participate in all these actions to get him constantly arrested that's his style that's like is that they're on ikea's where is their traditional. russian i guess what does that mean in terms of peace but there are several groups which do not i why themselves with the left or with the communist party or 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 america. 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 strong of course white. and red. but who also but would not like to be associated with communists or leftists what does it mean that. when we see tens of thousands of people on the streets of moscow as opposed to small groups like we see here which we saw after the inauguration sit ins trying to happen why don't we see the thousands of people the masses do we see so many different flanks if they are so anti putin can't they just get under that banner all these groups have a mutually exclusive view they're not simply i think in his degree not simply contradictory that's just in the school of the nationalistic he was put in of being a liberal liberal secular which you know i've been a nationalist the leftist accused in the soviet social system is a liberal secular supporter and of reviving the soviet imperialist 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 three bob rich political analyst from wastes 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. marchers were out in the streets of moscow again on sunday headed notably by some of russia's most prominent writers and musicians police said around two thousand activists a walk through the city center but those taking part claimed over five times the speaker were involved organizers say they wanted to see how do you hold these would respond to a march but as it turned out no one stood in their way with the rally as planned walk ended at a small antigovernment protests that turned into an ongoing sit in it's been called occupy our bed named after a court whose monument i don't see where the demonstrators are camped.

islamist extremists say they are to blame for the twin bombings in the syrian capital on thursday which killed fifty five people and injured four hundred others it was the deadliest terror attack in the country since the start of the uprising last year called the al nusra front of the group is believed that al-qaeda is jihad is the ideology the terrorists say the bombings are in response to attacks on residential areas by government forces seem to confirm that out cried and linked extremists are involved in the fight against the regime. for the med syrians who have been living through more than a year of violence and whose hopes rests with the un observers in the country monitoring the frequency broken a cease fire. the sound of gunfire and heavy artillery rings out in it lipsky line with the u.n. observers in it live in there's been some pretty heavy gunfire going on throughout the night. now also government seemingly has very tight control of the central area

in the areas of it live and the fierce fighting is continuing there's no ceasefire here both sides we're told are violating the peace plan we've followed the un observers into it on the way passing through homs and hama other areas monitors are based and there is that a scene some of the most destructive fighting as we passed through homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with a resident after. safety. what the people who are still 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 names are 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 law. 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 your 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 war. r.t. . the turmoil in syria has sparked clashes in the neighboring lebanon where a soldier and three civilians were reportedly killed on sunday gunfire broke out in the city of tripoli in the north of the country most of the fighting took place in the district between sunni muslims and the alawite sunni's who make up most of the residents support syrian leader president assad a white oppose him the two neighboring countries that share multiple religious and political perils in the deep roots in lebanese society over assad and what's happening across the border. in bahrain antigovernment protesters have

stepped up their rallies demanding the release of the country's top human rights activist and i was arrested a week ago for allegedly organizing and taking part in protests his interview with weekly leaks founder julian assange on r.t. days late on tuesday speaking before his arrest he told the whistleblower that he expected trouble after the program when i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange then i'm going to. give the program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns. and they realized 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 here what are you going to do i'm going to go back i mean i have to face. journalist and middle east affairs expert afshin rattansi believes rejects arrest exposes the was selective approach in dealing with the arab uprisings. there is no case against in the case against the british an american and

european governments that are backing bahrain 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 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. no longer strike just on his daughter who is also being 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 a bomb or administration stepped up sales which include equipment used by the authorities in bahrain to suppress the protests and this is ongoing and then the journalists that cover it if you've missed the program that might have triggered my bill read the rest head to our website you can catch it on

all the previous episodes at our sancia dot r t dot com the next edition of julian assange just show will air on our t.v. on tuesday. i 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. it's a murky story of dodgy financial links between english royalty and a fugitive russian all the guck prince michael of kent is facing questions over reports he's received more than a half a million dollars from the london based tycoon bars abettors off scheme the prince and spokesman says the financial support was private and has now ended our correspondent in london ivo bennett has more. the two men are said to be very close but were these payments just a friendly exchange or was there something more to it both sides have been very

keen to play down any shady implication here stressing that everything was above board has come out and said that there was nothing underhanded call that just a matter between friends and prince michael of kent who's the queen's first cousin their fathers were brothers his spokes person has said that everything was conducted properly and all the appropriate tax was paid on these payments there were fifty six payments made in total over the years between two two thousand and two and two thousand and eight to one of prince michael's offshore companies amounting to a massive three hundred twenty thousand pounds so over half a million dollars and serious questions still remain over these cash payments such as what was the money used for and why was it needed neither the questions answered so far by either party lawyer however has said that his client client neither saw nor obtained any benefit from this friendship however it's certainly worth noting here that at the time of these of the first payments was and still is

. on the run from the russian government he used to be one of the country's richest men he was highly influential but in two thousand and fled to the u.k. after an investigation was launched into his ass it's so awesome seeking us political asylum here he was actually convicted in russia in absentia in two thousand and seven for embezzlement he's been living here ever since. and obviously was in his interest that he should be allowed to stay in the u.k. despite numerous extradition requests from russia now he said there was nothing in it for him but the fact that substantial cash payments were made to a member of the royal family here certainly begs the question why were these payments made. alexander from the u.k. based production company russell allen says that some are wondering why the british royal family are taking what one american journalist as inscribed as a money tainted with blood the year and to prince michael probably would be

very confirmed concerned about you know issues welfare and i think that is people who have supported that there pretty soon it's the american journalist told me actually referring to that today's article. well i didn't know that the house of windsor takes blood money many in britain not being offended with with people who are you know using their position using their status of the refugee to basically bring a volatile political on the rest elsewhere or using that simply as a leverage and i think that it's not going to reflect very nicely upon either prince michael or mr berezovsky. coming up a look at how the mighty have fallen to trade as arrogant and once it. nicholas a cozy lost his presidential rejection bid to the socialist along but can't go into

reverse france's fortunes. recovery teams in indonesia searching a grave in new way a sukhoi superjet crashed hoping to fly to find the flight data recorders all the black boxes the hunt has been put on hold but will begin again at dawn all forty five people on board were killed when the newly designed russian plane slammed into a mountain in a demonstration flight street to has the 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 happened 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 an airline executives his wife was heading the cabin crew that day because. 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 and investigation into exactly what happened many believe that the poor visibility in fog that day contributed to the plane crashing into a nearby mountain the sukhoi superjet was on a tour of five asian countries. durations had already taken place in kazakhstan pakistan 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 the group or too cool. to the primary cause the crash was we have to remember of course that the cause of the jet li's thought implying here in commercial a very new crop of 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 to that that it's be able to i just want to find out what happened to her preassure either our teacher carda indonesia. had to our website r t v dot com for the latest news of eighty years or stories you may have

missed here's a taste of what's lined up before you iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad says there is no need for war with israel find out why he thinks the jury state will crumble on its own plus. to discover how operations by al qaida doctors are planting explosives in volunteers with suicide attacks and the bizarre way they treated detonated. it's been a truly hectic week for the e.u. with violent enter stare to demos and political deadlock costing doubts over the future of the euro and spain mess and two austerity demonstrations all went on for the second day in a row tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against spending cuts and tax hikes in italy

a violent clashes erupted in the city of naples after yet another suicide apparently triggered by aggressive text collection methods and political turmoil in greece has thrown the eurozone into chaos once again party leaders in athens have failed to form a coalition government and i scheduled to meet with the president on monday once again to attempt a compromise deal new elections however now seem unlikely which could mean greece quitting the euro due to failure to meet the terms of its bailout deal with the e.u. and i.m.f. regardless of the outcome greek journalist and lecture on a g artist or terrorist says do fault is guaranteed on the country's a massive debt and learned. i think the only way to solve the problem is the radical change in turn is it austerity cannot continue in a way it is a choice between austerity. democracy the people have rejected the terms of the bailout agreements they have rejected the terms of the loan agreements they want

a radically different policy the question is not whether or when greece is going to exit but how i think that this default and an exit from the euro zone are now practically inevitable i think it's must but it's much better if i default and an exit from the euro zone takes place according to the will of the people and not in the sense that i think that certain circles in the european union are currently thinking that is i punitive exit from the euro zone as if in a way to punish people for rejecting austerity now trouble for the euro zone came this week not only from the struggling south but also the more prosperous north french president elect france all along has vowed to return negotiate europe's debt limiting agreements on member nations that may begin on tuesday when he meets german chancellor angela merkel tessa sela now reports on the man elected to lead

france and whether he can really deliver. i was out with the old. in with a new. translator large task a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful event here they have 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 alon realizes that people rejected because it would then france would also cite france for many reasons one of them was is based on arrogance so we can help but in foreign policy is going to move in the right direction that is unless 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 much good the second scene has created an overall 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 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 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 he will experience in the coming month the negotiation power of america because america will face an election in one year and will not be

willing to compromise we said was a french president and to withdraw for. troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned it's a sign that i think you want to scale down foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be. considered to what is happening in there and the rest of the world imo 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. yes or still there are two parts. coming up in iran five minutes of the story of czech village as white in the days american attempts to build another military base nearby that's also a round up all my main stories with me later oh.

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