behind the walls of the kremlin what was it like the first time i've ever witnessed the you know gratian of the russian president firsthand and we arrived at about ten o'clock am moscow time we did for a little less than two hours before the the whole inauguration process commenced and i was surprised that the whole process the whole ceremony took just less than an hour first we saw live on the huge plaza screens everywhere in the in the in the george and george hall the very beautiful aerial shots of the motorcade traveling from the government building from the white house to the kremlin certainly something unprecedented and novelty for the way this integration has been televised in russia so far then. apart from that and the kremlin walls he greeted the kremlin regiment the presidential special regiment then put in arrived he went in walked past us in the sand george foster thousand odd guests to guess who gave it there greeted with a lot of loud of a shit and certainly the people who were there were really happy to see. it is rushed present for the third term now. then he calmly and c

recent months but they were peaceful why did events suddenly turn violent on the eve of you know gratian do you think. i would say i would actually divide this problem into two parts because obviously there are people that do doughty agree with their politics that their with their cores that putin is pursuing is always going to pursue you and that can be unhappy with him or with their elections as such read but i think i can tell you who actually led the provocations but the purpose of those and arrests and . rush harsh reactions on the part of the trout and then reaction of their police as that in return could be to demonstrate kind of to. demonstrate. actions counter to his words because he just said about talking about people's rights and preserving people's freedoms and then suddenly this way it could be. pretended or shown as a crackdown on people's freedom so i guess there was there could be an intention on their part of the opposition. part of it to kind of show the discrepancies between what he says and what he does at the very least in also to not to make it so bright and so gla

eight ten becoming the first russian president to be sworn in of course that time and also don't gratianhe's signed in to steal some of his promise to films to make government apparatus more. also socialist francois hollande wins the french president to make me quit outside to see them they just easier leave it to crumble under the weight of economic worries when you get elected president promises to fight against germany that instead of symmachus the dealers. you also are she's in bahrain a recipe for mental human rights activist one of the cable biggers of the country's uprising this comes just days before using to be with the world's most notorious whistleblower as an aussie i don't place the truth in a song just controversial program right here in just a couple of hours.

gratian is now probably the most important feeling that i have every day i can just give you one example you know we are tackling huge problems. you know he's in tunisia. having hunger strike because he's asking for his release but i can't release him because libya is asking for him and we have a lot of common interest with libya but you know giving back this man to libya means that he could kill he could be he could have an unfair trial and i told my friend that. my honor as a human rights activist. i can't just you know give this man to this to libya. but you know facing huge pressure from from outside and inside the country to get this man to libya and there are have every day to say no no we have to stick to our position and it's very difficult you know to conciliate the human rights activist opinions and the head of state what also has changed for you. well our i don't think i'm still the same person you know i'm still human rights activist i still believe in my and my values and i pray to and to be faithful to all this values so i think i'm not going to change i will stick to my op

together and pulls together for may this thing a day before president elects volunteer persons and nor gratian on may the seventh they wanted to make a stronger show of it then now as for those in attendance today fundamentally many of them coming from state duma parties or others also being represented such as nationalists choosing this day to march. and may the first is also be marked with mass labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demos are underway let's get at the latest pictures from with france here where it is election week and in supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right they hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial presidential vote and over to spain as well where the euro crisis has seen the country plunge into a double dip recession people their voice their anger at the ongoing stringent cuts and unemployment but also to greece crowds marched outside the parliament building in athens and through the city in of course the austerity protests and in asia indonesia is helping its biggest labor day rally with around

all so i won't see seems to change the extension on that because that is precisely it gets you know gratian of blood i'm a person as president it's something i stood against for a while now we have seen a stage in these talks systems just yesterday but people amassed near a local square in central moscow and therefore any political slogans is this risk arrest these are sites and demonstrations that what they do is they see unlike other mass now the number rests on the back of this two hundred is the official figure for just yesterday alone although protesters put the figure much higher than that you know among them they have doubts of the head of the left from the left from the government he has been detained on a number of occasions he stood attention and he say he may go on hunger strike also alexina bounty and seek russian oh you know for someone who's not a few people are very active and we think you know you guys you know say see why yes he has been detained now speaking to some of those in the crowd associated with the what remove for free and fair let. it's things they want off this

been to the kremlin lots of times like it dozens of times was the first time i have attended the gratian certainly a very interesting ceremony rubbing shoulders with so many of you from different sphere from sports from armstrong military from religious fear so many about three thousand guests were there now the ceremony itself was rather short it took less than an hour for the whole process we standing there and it's in george's hall witnessed amazing video shots of how president entered the kremlin of how back then prime minister now certainly a president elect now certainly the president vladimir putin. and the government building and his travel through cordoned off streets of moscow with some amazing aerial shots we all saw that from the from inside the. hall then. in arrived the whole process took about five minutes with the idea with the handing over the actual bits of power to vladimir putin the huge presidential medal made of gold and rubies then there was a short oath pronounced by vladimir putin in fact it was only thirty three words three words shorter than an oath of the amer

to russia in a few moments we'll talk to nato deputy separate trying to go on the new trial called gratian between moscow and. alexander vershbow deputy secretary general great to have you with us sir good to be here so last night was something you probably never heard before. is greatly concerned about nato anti-missile defense system will be able to shoot down its nuclear missiles that's upsetting the balance in the region but the negotiation on this topic has started two years ago in two thousand and ten why do you think that the united states still is and haven't been able to personally rochelle's the opposite well it's not something that is very satisfying and we want to continue to work on this dialogue with russia but it is a serious difference of opinion that we have to overcome because it's really about the facts about the science about the capabilities of the system that nato is developing with the strong contribution from the united states we remain convinced that there is no danger to the russian strategic nuclear force not. today not ten years from now and that the russian ana

collective breath wondering who the country's future president will be russia's preparing for the know gratian of its next leader dimitri medvedev will hand over to vladimir putin at a ceremony in the make never seen halls of the kremlin it's all happening on monday and we'll be covering it live see truly in from seven thirty g.m.t. . anything. at least five people are reported dead in syria's second largest city of aleppo after an explosion at a car wash that follows a blog that ripped through the capital damascus there were no casualties in the bomb which was attached to an army vehicle and went off in front of a military institute there are unconfirmed reports of a second blast in the city in damascus has also been the scene of mass rallies in the funerals of those killed in plashers on friday between rebels and the army parties are further as more. we've got the bodies of those that they carried through the streets of damascus. the people who were killed on the station they get on their way and you can just have a look at how many people have turned out there are thousands of people here.

together and pulls together for may this thick a day before president elects volunteer persons and nor gratian on may the seventh they wanted to make a show. show of it then now as for those in attendance today fundamentally many of them coming from state duma parties or others also being represented such as nasserist choosing this day to march. or group supporting right there well russia is of course not the only country marking may day the traditional workers hold the way of seeing demonstrations all across european cities let's show you the latest pictures we've just got now is tens of thousands march in madrid and the country has been swept up in the euro crisis coupled with very tough austerity measures on sunday the country's main statistics office announced that the country had plunged back into recession when it comes to the issues of unemployment in fact unemployment in spain is twenty five percent that is higher than unemployment levels in my one young people in spain desperately looking for a job those are the latest pictures right there from madrid here on out. in france it is elec

bar as a bizarre school is reportedly offering a bounty to anyone who detains putin at the you know gratian bonded to ivan bennett has details from london. what is plan is to have putin arrested for what he calls the illegal seizing of power so he's offering up a bounty what used to be fifteen million rubles but now one new source in russia is claiming that he's increased that ten times to five hundred million rubles which equates to around seventeen million dollars and he's offering that anyone basically any member of the public who'll arrest the president elect he calls a highly dangerous creep criminal ahead of his inauguration on monday so he's advertising this bounty on his facebook pages live journal blog which is a site very big in russia and he has a number of followers in fact and he's appealing to the general public not just the general public also even. parts of routines in a circle like his bodyguards asking them to start would be a mutiny and he's ultimately wants obviously to see the opposition in power the growing popular protest movement. and he's even calling on the prosecu

collective breath wondering who the country's future president will be russia's preparing for the not gratian of its next lead him to meet you medvedev will hand over to lead me to putin at a ceremony in a magnificent halls of the kremlin it's all happening on monday and we'll be covering it live say tuning in from seven thirty g.m.t. . being with. the first arraignment hearing of a self confessed the nine eleven mastermind and his accomplices got off to a rocky start on saturday as the defendants remained resolutely silent at a military tribunals in guantanamo bay khalid shaikh muhammad to repeatedly refused to answer the judge's questions while he coached his co-defendants and neal to in play him the five men have been charged with almost three thousand counts of murder for the two thousand and one attacks and could face the death penalty how about this was their first hearing in almost three yes' american lawyer eric and one tulfo believe the timing of the military tribunals is politically motivated. within twenty four hours of president obama taking office issued an executive order to clo

guests inside here inside the crumb of the walls that this is just one of the holes where the you know gratian process took place we saw he was then still the president elect what you would put in with making his way towards the another hall where he was sworn in officially as russia's president now i believe we can listen to his speech which was only thirty three words long three words shorter than that of the american president. while i was listening to that speech and i was you say. coming on a minute. i do believe even though it's thirty three words. in english but. if you did the duties of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect you guaranteed in rights and freedoms. on our citizens. to surge and protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the shoreline sea and independence. state. and its territorial integrity and to serve its people faithfully. and of the russian federation. very good. we're back with you again alexei. yes as i was saying you know i guess when i really get into the dinner table we spending this dinner to start shortly we'll probably

challenges facing him one of the biggest being the protests that grew into clashes ahead of you know gratian. job as terrorist group says it carried out dual suicide bombings in syria's capital which became the deadliest since the unrest started. the search is on for the reasons why a sukhoi superjet plowed into a volcano killing all forty five aboard russian teams reach indonesia in the hunt for the black boxes. and austerity anger fueling mass protests in spain and clashes in italy with warnings that fury among europeans over economic misery could tear the e.u. apart. two pm in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news russia's latest president took his seat this week as a bloody mary putin returned to the top job it's a very different world though that he has that faces him when he was last in the kremlin and all eyes are on which course he will take the question being if putin can move forward now that he's back or he's like sarah cesky has been. for the third time vladimir putin took the thirty three word oath to become russia's president with

protests dubbed the march of millions it was timed for the evil vladimir putin's presidential you know gratian out of t.s.a. you got a piece can all has the details. the a rally itself originally was pretty peaceful until one of the radical leaders of the opposition i said you will die so if called on the crowd to move away from the authorized area and gather at another spot not agreed with the authorities the police tried blocking the crowd you to see to these ng's but i guess some of the radical activists tried breaking through the very key to leading to scuffles and clashes with the authorities some activists were seeing throwing pieces of concrete molotov cocktails even and small growing aids at the police and this led to injuries on both sides according to the latest figures that we're getting twenty seven people have been injured including twenty policeman at one point the situation here in moscow really began looking like last year's riots in london and many people we spoke with here say they're fed up with this huge you got to deal with the people who carry out such actions are extremi

return to russia's top job in three days we'll be bringing you our special coverage of the very know gratian how we can join us live at some point for all the spender of that from the kremlin halls that starts at seven thirty am g.m.t. on monday i'll be here with the rest of the team to keep you posted. japan is set to turn off its last working nuclear reactor leaving one of the world's largest industrial powers without atomic energy for the first time in over forty years it is heavily relied on the source but the government bowed to immense public protests in the wake of the fukushima disaster physics professor dr howard hayden told us he thinks it's just a matter of time the before tokyo goes back to nuclear again. yes they have fifty four reactors and they have one of them operating but it will be down for refueling as it is what they're doing is burning a lot of residual oil and the the pact on the price of residual oil has been felt awful as far away as whole y. e where the price for electricity now is very very high because of that that decision to shut the nukes and but it's costing t

in march but his return to power has not been without opposition activists also marched on is now gratian day with protests turning into overnight sit ins are jacob graves across the latest for us. this war and in particular was organized on twitter by prominent opposition activist alexei never me now as recently dispersed by riot police but those crowds that assembled pretty much from the early hours of the morning leaving the area and going on to another nearby location now alexei no bound the this organization our last on twitter for some of his followers to come here to show support for future change in russia is something that has gone throughout the course of the evening we saw people camped out on this where peaceful really at times with people singing there are the tires being played in football as well but at some point during the evening about four am we saw some of them trying to move to another area here they met with police and among them to problem types for selection of only being one anti corruption blogger known for some of his nationalist and radical sentiments among tho

helping out with a with the kind of stone gratian rolling back on a couple of a couple of bases for and for military bases include and vietnam for example. now past a while that that was also the case with believe it might be the case that if it was put in an office says as a president it could have been different but it was. the period it was some kind of some some rights positioning for the damage limitation of some sort. with this was the decision which which which you did russia at the moment but with the but it to be is that russian foreign policy has learned from that experience and on syria with for example sort of a much different stance much more subtle much more insistence. on only its own vision on on the vision which is which with food which with philly's right. there full full full full for the situation based on international law based on the notional sovereign it's of the countries so that i think i think that's in the that now is if we stay on it is quite popular with and with a number of countries maybe less so in the west but with china with with with other developing

together and pulls together for may this thing a day before president elects volunteer persons and nor gratian on may the seventh they wanted to make a stronger show of it then now as for those in attendance today fundamentally many of them coming from state duma parties or others also being represented such as nationalists choosing this day to march. argy dot com is where you can go to get all our stories and you'll find our reports and and shows are ready to go on our you tube channel here's what's a click away right now. preparing for the worst nato's chicago summit still weeks away but security already we're seeing on a plan to evacuate the entire city in the likely event of attack. also online a girl's very best friend about to go under the hammer at the bees this centuries old diamond that once belonged to queen marie demanded she expected to catch more than for to fetch more than four million dollars it's. president obama in afghanistan on an unannounced visit to cement the country's future relations coinciding with the first anniversary of osama bin laden's killing the president signed

you know gratian alleging that putin is now less than twelve hours away so i'll forget to join us from seven thirty g.m.t. in the morning for our special coverage of the event from the stunning splendor of the kremlin hall. well that's the way of any as long as that's our next we report on the u.s. is web of war with almost a quarter of a million military personnel deployed across the world that's right after the have lines here on our team. to a substantial degree and one problem or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is approaching of all the birds. in the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the former misleading empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have power and bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have a

plug together pulls together may this thing a day before president elects bottom of putin's and nor gratian on may the seventh they wanted to make a stronger show of it then now as for those in attendance today fundamentally many of them coming from state duma parties or others also being represented such as nationalists choosing this day to march. now may the first is also being marked with massive labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demonstrations are underway today for example at these right here the latest pictures from spain it's where the euro crisis has seen the country's plunge into a double dip recession amid ongoing stringent cuts here to athens greece crowds gathering outside the parliament building all in the austerity protests and also it is election week in france where supporters of incumbent leader. and the country's far right simle tain asli hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial election asia indonesian workers held the continent's biggest labor day rally with around one hundred thousand demanding better pay and job security meanwh

they can become the opposition movements latest protest told in moscow following let me put it all gratian is president on may the seventh almost one hundred activists a pledge to continue their sit in campaigns indefinitely. this is the weekly here in r.t. don't hesitate to log onto our website r.t. dot com for the stories you may have missed here on screen as well as the latest news and videos here's a quick taste of what's there for you at the moment. and also holding activity in a very holy place an online leak of internal documents from the vatican exposes back door dealings and corruption in what's supposed to be a sacred kingdom plus. a facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg updates his relationship status to married after a surprise wedding ceremony find out more on that party dot com. egyptians vote next week in the country's first presidential elections since former leader hosni mubarak was ousted but they'll cast their ballots amid accusations by human rights watch that the military has been torturing hundreds of protesters arrested earlier this month. has more on the security nightmar

russia gets its new leader as dmitri medvedev hands over to vladimir putin as president you know gratian certainly set to take place in the magnificent also the kremlin from which we will be broadcasting live our special coverage coming your way after seven thirty g.m.t. on monday morning. you. know los angeles is seeing parents teachers and children all taken to the streets in protest over severe cuts to schooling they're blaming the government for failing standards suffer the education budget was slashed by half and reason is that is within a caution of a listen to their plight. ok. parents who join forces can be a powerful voice for change. i have a five hundred social network actually i take was. this is the third year that this has been hopping the server probably if the governor is caught you would go into a place out from ny from two thousand and three told today you will of experience a forty six percent much educational eleven year old vanessa had to repeat her grade and was well behind agents reading ability she lives with her mother to remain in the port town in south californ

concerned with connected with the management of the company which will be clear after the the you know gratian of the new cabinet of ministers now gazprom along with other g. shares is down. in line with the market one point three percent and financials are hit the worst this hour with the t.v. down almost two percent now in currencies the ruble is declining to its lowest level since january it's lost thirty six copecks to the dollar recovered a bit from last and losing versus the euro two and the euro is losing massively eighty five points to the dollar as you can see there one point two six right now against against the dollar and that is because the greenback is considered a safe haven in this in this situation of uncertainty as opposed to gold traditionally and now it's moved over to see what's happening in europe and because this is the epicenter of the problem with greece unable to form a government we are seeing investors also selling stocks because the in germany which showed pretty good g.d.p. growth in the previous session and in london to almost one percent in asia we see a very bad

together and pulls together for may this thing a day before president elects volunteer putin's nor gratian on may the seventh they wanted to make a stronger show of it then now as for those in attendance today fundamentally many of them coming from state duma parties or others also being represented such as nationalist choosing this day to march. when anti corporate occupy protesters are reemerging in new york and other american cities in a bid to surge back into the headlines there's going to update from our correspondent marina porter who's in big apple when activists want a nationwide strike on may day it's early in the day where you are marina what does it look like they'll make an impact today. well the crowd is getting our progress as there are thousands gathering in bryant park here in new york city and hundreds more picketing outside of banks and the offices of corporate and multinational headquarters here in new york city just about a half hour ago madison avenue was shut down in. one hundred stormed the street disrupting traffic occupy wall street movement is say many are saying

to plug together gether for may this thick a day before president elects volunteer persons and nor gratian on may the seventh they wanted to make a stronger show of it then now as for those in attendance today fundamentally many of them coming from state duma parties or others also being represented such as nationalists choosing this day to march. well may the first as be marked with mass labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demos have taken place in italy rallies turn violent as riot police beat protesters demanding change from their leaders the city of turin saw the fiercest clashes in france where it's election week supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right the streets of paris five days before the crucial presidential vote in spain where the euro crisis has seen the country plunge into a double dip recession people voice their anger at the ongoing stringent cuts and unemployment in greece crowds marched outside the parliament building in athens and through the city in. protest but that's going to more in-depth look at all this

he will support this so this is a good sign and i think putin is very much intending to continue gratian with the western countries because he does one to have them cooperate in terms of innovative technology etc also fully in the previous course he will continue diversifying to the maximum their foreign policy and talking with brics countries and probably this way of trying to balance russia between those two forces the western world and their emerging brics countries and now it has and he looks at what vladimir putin's third presidential term will mean for russia. they usually but not always tends to be pretty black and white when it comes to what people think of like the mayor putin that was very evident on the streets of moscow just on the eve of his inauguration one thing most people do agree on is if he wants this third term to be a success is going to have to make some changes. he's back for an unprecedented third term after a break as prime minister and many say russia will need to see putin two point zero any leader who's been in power for five six seven years in a difficult pos

and bloody may have putin say now gratian is now just a few hours away saddam forget to join us and seven thirty g.m.t. in the morning plus special coverage of the event from the stunning splendor of the kremlin skulls. a position activists have clashed with police in central moscow after define orders to move to the officially agreed location for their reading the anti-government protest at the march of millions last time before the evil vladimir putin's presidential inauguration is a god of peace cannot has details. the rally itself originally was pretty peaceful until one of the radical leaders of the opposition i said if you called on the crowd to move away from the authorized area and gather at another spot not agreed with the authorities the police tried blocking the crowd you to see if t.v. scenes but i guess some of the radical activists tried breaking through the very key to leading to scuffles and clashes with the authorities some activists were seen throwing pieces of concrete molotov cocktails even and small growing aids at the police and this led to injuries on both sides acc

russia gets its new leader is to be to be vetted hands over to vladimir putin as president you know gratian ceremony set to take place in the magnificent always the kremlin from where we were of course people casting live for your special coverage starts at seven thirty g.m.t. monday morning. you mean. parents teachers and children taking to the streets in protest over severe cuts to schooling they blame the government for failing standards or so after the education budget was slush by half and recently is through the coaching of a listen to their plight. parents who join forces can be a powerful voice for change. i think drinks and actually. was. the third year that this has been how big the search for the governor's budget would go into from ny from two thousand and three told take a look of experience of forty six percent much akin to a lovely view of the nasa had to repeat her great and was well behind agents reading ability she lives with her mother to remain in the pre-term in california. restriction over what she sees as the school standings that hurry to use the state's piney rain p

russia gets its new leader as dimitri medvedev hands over to vladimir putin as president you know gratian ceremony will take place in the magnificent halls of the kremlin from which will be broadcasting live and our coverage is coming your way after seven thirty am g.m.t. on monday. don't miss it on monday that sandra's has seen parents teachers and children taken to the streets and protest over severe cuts to schooling they blame the government for failing standards that's after the education budget slashed by half in recent years he's made in a question and listens to that light. parents who join forces can be a powerful voice for change. i think if you drink socially or actually it was ok this is the third year that this has been observed if the governor is caught you would go into a place that from the air from two thousand and three told today people of experience of forty six percent but you can't know eleven year old vanessa had to repeat her grade and was well behind just reading ability she lives with her mother to remain in the port town in south in california there remains frus