also the top swap in russia president elect live in a polluted picks outgoing leader dimitri medvedev to replace him as head of the country's ruling party but benefits also given the final kremlin speech of his. i'm not so charitable n.g.o.s are being accused of trying to incite foreign action in syria with moves similar to those that led to intervention in libya. hello welcome to says r t it's eight pm here in moscow now i'm kevin know in our top story downgraded from hero to traitor in the blink of an eye whistleblower julian assad was hailed by the major media as a real freedom ambassador now though they're labeling him a nut job after a show debut on r.t. the second episode which is airing here today that is laura smith reports of what's behind the signs use images sasa nation. it was one of the biggest stoops in full time ninety two thousand leaks no detail of the bloody truths of the afghan war from the ground up shared exclusively with a hunter full of newspapers and julian a soldier was its hero a nomad with no fixed address and a backpack full of secrets contacted some of the

the top swap in russia president elect but ima put in picks out going needed dimitri medvedev to replace him as head of the country's ruling party but it was also given the final kremlin speech of his. and not so charitable n.g.o.s are being accused of trying to incite foreign action in syria moves similar to those that led to intervention in libya. hello there in a very good evening for me kevin zero in in moscow this is r.t. it's nine pm moscow time our top story downgraded from hero to traitor in the blink of an eye whistleblower julian sands was hailed by the major media as a real freedom ambassador now the labeling of a nut job after his show did you hear r.t. the second episode which is airing a bit later today laura smith reports behind a sound is image assassination. it was one of the biggest speech and only time ninety two thousand leaked detail of the plucky truths of the afghan war from the ground up set exclusively with a handful of newspapers and julian a soldier was its hero a nomad with no fixed address and a backpack full of secrets contacted some of the big mainstream pl

president elect let him uprootedness pick dimitri medvedev to replace him is the leader of the ruling united russia party putin takes over the country's top job from medvedev until weeks and is out is running. he is going to step down from his post as the chairman of the united pressure and he proposed meeting with candidacy for that post that of course will happen after the inauguration which is to take place on the seventh of may of course the person who is going to be heading the united russia will have to be elected during the session of the united russia so that will also happen in the second half of may now which means that if he has met with the members of the state council and given them a speech on the cheapness and shortcomings off his presidential terms he mentioned among other things that some of the issues which was due to be worked on in russia those words are education increasing the life span in the over the next six years and of course fighting corruption in ancient china they used to say the biggest problem is despising your enemy which we've declared war on corrupti

also headlining president elect but in the potentates outgoing leader dimitri medvedev threw a place in the head of russia's ruling party but it's also given the final kremlin speech of his. own it's claimed that n.g.o.s are trying to incite foreign intervention in syria the organizations are accused of publishing unconfirmed reports similar to those which helped provoke international military action in libya this is r.t. now world sport. thank you very much kevin welcome to the world of sports and here is what we look coming up the spanish inquisition chelsea take a slender one nil lead to the newcomer as they take on paul's alone or for a place in the champions league final. final showdown dinallo moscow thrash album god clive to the level of the dollar in cup finals at three a pace the seven time deciding much now takes place in alums on wednesday. and goals will or will recap game week forty in the russian for emulate as their needs and pitches close in on a second successive title. but starting with football and boss alone and chelsea have just kicked off in the champions league

also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between barack obama and dimitri medvedev leads to an anti russian rhetoric among republicans presidential candidates and trends moscow has condemned as a cold war hollywood cliche. dozens of arrests and riots followed spain's approval of its of years austerity measures and yet let's see twenty seven billion euros slashed from the budget. and poland comes a closer to acknowledging the existence of secret cia run prisons for terror suspects on its territory and prosecutors want an investigation against a former head of the country's intelligence service for helping set up a covert side. up next artie's exclusive interview with the man credited with orchestrating the downfall of colonel gadhafi former n.p.c. leader mahmoud jabril. and on the sidelines of the brussels foreign were sitting down with mahmoud jibril now he was heading the economic and development planning body in libya at the time of the rule of colonel moammar gadhafi and he later read led to the uprising against the regime the interim prime minister of the national transi

a hot mike exchange between barack obama and dimitri medvedev leads to a spike in anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates moscow's already condemning the trend a new one that u.s. politicians against reverse into cold war hollywood stereotypes. and spain with his toughest budget cuts in decades which includes tax and a salary freeze for public sector workers at the start a nationwide strike a mass protest that resulted in funny clashes with police and dozens of arrests. so sports news is next with union there is and you know russia's queen of the cool to see yet another roadblock with season i tell you what maria sharapova must be thinking pale if she ever going to win a final again she's just lost her third of this year alone we're going to have a look at what happened in miami and just the second. thanks for joining us this is sport today plenty ahead over the next ten eleven minutes or so including the stories and three. miami misery maria sharapova suffered her fourth sony ericsson open final defeat going down in straight sets to poland's i.d.'s. thi

going back to what made headlines in russia today dimitri medvedev his final interview us president and we now speak to one of the people who was actually quizzing the president me hurl journalist and the editor in chief of the privately owned russian channel t.v. rein so you challenge the president on corruption and people's disappointment with the government so did movies have managed to in any way reassure you what do you want the president to do now. you know actually that thing but it was just the same guy as he used to be he. spoke the same language has accused all these for years it was the the same or that rhetorical so-called liberals were told were the regs but so what they actually admitted it was not liberal politician and he broke a date with every single on sort of he. he didn't agree that. the elections in russia were not fair and he didn't agree with the fact that there is some kind of censorship on russian t.v. and. it was very very nice talk and he behaved like a very friendly and nice man but i'm sorry to interrupt actually i want to address those elections you're ref

democracy is no longer a swear word the message from dimitri medvedev and his last major kremlin speech as president. has vowed to continue political reforms in the fight against corruption if he's appointed prime minister more details just ahead. in other news fueling the fire n.g.o.s are accused of trying to incite foreign action in syria by publishing unconfirmed reports the likes of which help provoke military intervention in libya. but from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital one pm in to mask in syria but we begin with the media that once praised julian assange telling him as a hero for his work as a whistleblower has now drastically changed its tune after the view of his talk show here on our t.v. some say it's due to journalistic jealousy others believe the u. turn its political laura smith reports from london. it was one of the biggest scoops of all time ninety two thousand leaked logs detailing the bloody truths of the afghan war from the ground up shared exclusively with a h

with me dimitri medvedev and co russia will ease the tax burden for companies developing the country's arctic shelf now new projects will be exempted from export duties and that will have low extraction taxes president elect person says the special terms would last for fifteen years and the government believes this could help bring in more than five hundred billion dollars of investment over the next thirteen years. now this announcement came after the close of the russian market so didn't have much of a stir but will be looking at of course tomorrow's session meanwhile in the u.s. it's looking all polls as it were the dow and the nasdaq up more than one percent this on a batch of contradicting data coming in basically jobless claims were up and that's bad but the wholesale prices stayed the same and that's a good sign over in europe are they taking that optimism from the u.s. and that's coupled with a not such a bad bond auction in italy well boring costs rose but not to the extent some feared they were. uncaring sees the euro is gaining massively versus the dollar on the bond auction

in other news president elect has picked dimitri medvedev to replace him as the leader of the ruling united russia party who takes over the country's top job from a day to two weeks more on this charge to use a really believes question joins us live or you know why is was the american indorsing made better as head of the party what does he say. well it's a pleasure putin said seems to have become a sort of tradition and russia where the president is above the belonging to a party and of course he's not prohibited from being a member of any party but the presidents that russia has had over the last several years none of them have been members of any party and that is why he is going to step down from the post of the chairman of the united russia and he has proposed that mitchum is going to take over and that is does of course is still up for discussion off the during the good russia convention which may happen in the second half of me so this of course comes on the tails of these of the statement made today earlier why is still president dmitry medvedev he still has two weeks to go on

also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between barack obama and dimitri medvedev leads to antique russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend of moscow has condemned as a cold war hollywood cliché. and spain adopts its toughest budget cuts in decades despite a nationwide strike of mass protests that resulted in violent clashes with police and thousands of arrests. but for the street demos some muscovites lost their own protest against them report on the anti rallies rally in the center of the russian capital top stories this hour. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. saudi arabia and it's our eyes are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime the decision came as a round of sixteen nations all harsh critics of the syrian government met in turkey to discuss how to bolster the opposition and intensify sanctions against president assad the powers blame assad for violence whereas damascus says it is fighting extremists sara firth has been foll

also announced similar systems for asia and the middle east dimitri medvedev and barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and a part of their private conversation accidently went public. let's. watch. the two leaders exchange was captured by t.v. cameras word for word that was seized on by barack obama the republican rivals with mitt romney even declaring russia as america's number one enemy but as more hawks land on the anti russian bandwagon are please comment if you can comments that there is a prize worth resonating with american voters in. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . a perfect time to drag out the good old cold war skeleton from the closet. to russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while its president elect you should recovery. i think the president represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world but that seeing the world of mitt romney what about well america there is no evidence of an

also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between barack obama and dimitri medvedev leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend in moscow has condemned as a cold war hollywood cliche. dozens of arrests and riots are followed spain's approval of its severest austerity measures yet that sees it twenty seven billion euro zone slashed from the budget. and poland comes closer to acknowledging the existence of secret cia run prisons for terrorist suspects on its territory prosecutors launched an investigation against the former head of the country's intelligence service for helping set up the covert sides. and recapping the week's top stories and a look at today's headlines this is r t with the weekly glad to have you with us. so the arabia and its allies are thought to have agreed to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime the decision came as around sixty nations harsh critics of the syrian government met in turkey to discuss how to bolster the opposition and intensify sanctions against president assad the powers that blame

also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between a barack obama and dimitri medvedev leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend in moscow has condemned as a cold war hollywood cliche. dozens of arrests and riots follow spain's approval of its severest austerity measures yet that seems twenty seven billion euro slashed from the budget. next artie's exclusive interview with the man credited with orchestrating the downfall of colonel gadhafi former n.p.c. leader mahmoud jibril. now on the sidelines of the brussels forum we're sitting down with mahmoud jibril now he was heading the economic and development planning body in libya at the time of the rule of colonel moammar gadhafi and he made her red led the uprising against the regime the interim prime minister of the national transitional council for about seven and a half months i thank you very much unsuitable for joining us today and the first question i would like to ask at this point today is the civil war really over in libya and who is in control at the moment a little first

you're just joining our team the past the hour here's a quick recap of what's making headlines dimitri medvedev outlines the ups and downs on his political reforms gives his view on the protests in russia and the fate of the arab spring arabs of the jailed tycoon called on the outgoing president was speaking to the media for the last time before leaving the kremlin. a month before egypt's presidential vote infusion and disappointment over the election campaign grow the recent reinstatement of mubarak's former prime minister as a candidate has cast a shadow over the results of the revolution which toppled the previous regime. british lie detector experts clear a russian m.p. of any and ball mentor in the killing of former security officer alexander new thing in london six years ago monday will go boy is the u.k.'s prime suspect in the murder but the case a main stumbling block in russian british relations. next up as promised it's the kaiser report. i am max kaiser this is a kaiser report would you buy tainted meat that had a bad rating of course you wouldn't what about a bond government bond st

president elect put him a potent picture outgoing leader dimitri medvedev through play sims head of rush's ruling party but it has also given the final kremlin speech. its claim to n.g.o.s are trying to incite foreign intervention in syria the organizations are accused of publishing unconfirmed reports similar to those held provoke international military action in libya. so as promised is julian assange on r t this time tonight he referees between two guests with very different ideologies coming up just fifteen seconds away. expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemned. illegally should pull five hundred days now being detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us . today on the quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. today i am joined by an intellectual superstar. a former communist dissident now turned so described communist together we call david horowitz a former left wing radical black panther i now a fiery right wing's ionise i want to know what they think about the f

good evening and welcome to the market update on out so you with me dimitri medvedev and co and we're looking at a long weekend up ahead and what's going on the markets is of course cautious trading pretty volatile at times especially in russia first let's take a look at what's going on in the united states a lot of news coming out there jobless claims going down positive sign retail sales coming in better than expected also positive signs but as you can see the dow is barely managing to keep those levels at the close of previous session still but down right now point one percent the nasdaq is faring better than that half of the cent off over in europe trading has ended pretty much with the same feeling mixed feeling with the footsie up point three percent backs pressured still by a yields for bones in spain and italy rising also borrowing cost in france are on the rise and therefore we have seen this cautiousness. easter holidays over in russia where the market will be trading on friday and on monday we are still working days here orthodoxies is coming a bit later this year the r.t.s

and that is how the market is alert dimitri medvedev who will be in the seat next hour he'll be taking over the past and so to speak give you all the latest figures on the markets. all right thanks a lot katie update we'll see you tomorrow back because desk we're going to take a short break here on news and i'll be back with our cup stories in just a moment. well for science technology innovation all the rest of elements from around russia we've got the future of coverage. is easy. to. see.

martha, and whether it was last week, the president with his hot mic gaff, when he was talking to dimitri medvedev what he could do to limit u.s. missile defenses in a treaty with russia in the future, certainly he has talked to different interest groups in his base, to hispanic americans who favor what they call a comprehensive immigration policy, and other things that once he gets into a second term he can do so much more once he's sort of beyond the grip of voters and need to please folks in the middle. martha: well, he has been criticized in some quarters for not doing enough on things like immigration and same sex marriage and you bring up some of those issues. it begs the question whether or not those things will be promised in a second term and on the flipside, chris, every president, when they make it to the second term, is liberated by not having to go through the reelection process to carry out the things they want to accomplish in that second term, right? >> well, it's a fine line, martha, between being liberated and egabout lame duck, because presidents also find when they are no longe

developments on the russia's political scene now we have analysts dimitri bob it's here with us thanks for being with us so president medvedev is largely seen as a liberal leader favoring innovations whereas bloody middle books and is generally considered a more tougher politician is the swap between them likely to see some significant changes throughout russia i don't think so and i think it's a huge misconception to have you made a video for us pro western and putin is anti west i think in the main points. to the same borders. but these seem to be going to do it was interesting i mean in two minded me all of their western aid to you to russia was very full i explained everything and he didn't see any one they knew all the important positions we used to have the same story with the west they always explain to us why you need to expression these before us and they never see the need to on any of the issues now if to me the video of does become prime minister he will no longer be in charge of russia's foreign policy tell me how might that affect moscow's relations with other countries i think it will largely depend on the wes