the capital moscow the protests come just two days before putin's inauguration for a fourth term rory chalons reports now from moscow. the right side of the aisle two days before putin's fourth presidential inauguration these russians wanted him to hear their demonstration slogan you are not ours are not we have a fascist state a totalitarian regime we should do something about it there is no relation and russia almost like. i'm here because i disagree with the politics the government and our so-called president are leading i want to tell him that he is not ours are not his place in the hague and imprisoned that again on that through several thousands joins the unapproved protest in moscow thousands more demonstrated in other cities across russia there are five or moscow's pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here i

closeness to iran and involvement in syria but russia has its own interests in the middle east as rory chalons explains from moscow. all his meetings with readymade putin are important said benyamin netanyahu before flying to moscow on wednesday but this one is particularly so for israel's prime minister arriving for russia's victory day military parade was an astute courtesy call the holiday celebrates the soviet role in defeating naziism and vladimir putin believe the world isn't grateful enough for russia's sacrifice. especially you. today some try to face from history the fate of a nation but save europe and the world from slavery from extermination from the horrors of the holocaust they try to distort the events leading to the true heroes of the gotten and by history leave it to the store to we will never allow this to happen. but it's netanyahu wasn't here to argue about history he was here to talk about what's happening now in syria one of netanyahu concerns is russia's intention to send the syrians the s. three hundred air defense system the previous generation of interceptor missiles

capital moscow the protests happened just two days before putin's inauguration for a fourth term rory chalons reports now from moscow. the right side of the of the two days before putin's fourth presidential inauguration these russians wanted him to hear their demonstration slogan i you are not ours are not we have a fascist state a totalitarian regime we should do something about it there is no election in russia. i'm here because i disagree with the politics the government and our so-called presidents are leading i want to tell him that he is not ours are those places in the hague prison there again on that was several thousands joins the unapproved protest in moscow thousands more demonstrated in other cities across russia. was almost goes pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all the supporters people

the capital moscow the protests come just two days before putin's inauguration for a fourth term rory chalons reports from moscow. two days before the fourth presidential inauguration these russians wanted him to hear their demonstration slogan i thought ours are not we have a fascist state a totalitarian regime we should do something about it there is no election in russia. i'm here because i disagree with the politics the government and our so-called presidents are leading i want to tell them that he is not ours are places in the hague prison. there again on that roof several thousands joins the unapproved protest in moscow thousands more demonstrated in other cities across russia where hers was almost goes pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop rising in russia just met we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all the supporters people came here because they see that th

is part of the deescalation zone agreement let's go live now to moscow our correspondent there rory chalons rory why says so much concern about the violation of this deescalation zone in syria when that's happened time and time again in many of the other so-called deescalation. well i think this one is particularly concerning for jordan because it is right on the jordanian border the united states is also concerned as well this is a deescalation zone there was agreed between these three countries russia the united states and jordan other deescalation zones in syria have been the product of talks between russia turkey and iran so this one is a little bit different it's right down on the jordanian border also near the israeli border. it's been essentially sort of a reasonably peaceful part of syria for as long as this deal has been in place which is the best part of a year now so the concern amongst these three countries is certainly the united states and jordan is that the syrian government is about to tear this deal up and effectively go marching in there and doing what they have done in ot

patchwork of tensions and conflicts could soon be even more combustible whether russia wants it or not rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. no us could reimpose sanctions on iran as early as next week it follows president trump's withdrawal from the landmark international deal with iran to limit its nuclear capabilities the u.s. move has been widely criticized from london to tehran from there is in basra vs the details i the day after the united states tore up the nuclear deal iran set it on fire members of parliament into one burned a printout of the international pact and the american flag a show of anger and disappointment over what they say is a mistake by washington i doubt all right all your more him as never if europe an important countries like russia and china fill this international vacuum perhaps that will be a way to continue otherwise the islamic republic of iran will bring the us to its senses with its nuclear actions they have to know that under such circumstances iran has no commitment to remain in the nuclear position it was in before. iranians woke up to headlines that highlight the co

to iran and the involvement in syria but russia has its own interests in the middle east says rory chalons reports now from moscow. all these meetings with ready made putin are important said benyamin netanyahu before flying to moscow on wednesday but this one is particularly so for israel's prime minister arriving for russia's victory day military parade was an astute courtesy call the holiday celebrates the soviet role in defeating naziism and bloody may putin believes the world isn't grateful enough for russia's sacrifice a. special you. today some try to face from history the fate of a nation but save europe and the world from slavery from extermination from the hose of the holocaust they try to distort the events leading to the true heroes of the gotten and by history. we will never. has to happen. but netanyahu wasn't here to walk you about history he was here to talk about what's happening now in syria one of netanyahu concerns is russia's intentions to send the syrians the s. three hundred air defense system the previous generation of interceptor missiles he watched drive past him

the event singing the national anthem at the kremlin no lack of hope oh sorry our correspondent rory chalons is following the event for us that live from moscow so rory as he begins his fourth presidential because it's an ever looked as strong as he does right now. it's hard to think of a time in the last eighteen years of his political career where you has looked stronger than he does at the moment he has just won the biggest election victory of his career the last eighteen years or so have basically been a project in stripping the country really of any meaningful political opposition. media environment has been. doctored so that's critical voices are almost never. and then when he gets anti-government protests like we saw at the weekends there stamped on fairly tough lee with you know often thousands of people ending up in police cells he's being portrayed now as a kind of father of the nation tirelessly working to keep the country together and there was a rather beautiful moments of the ceremony earlier on where you know all the dignitaries have been assembling in the alexandrescu hall of

patchwork of tensions in conflicts could soon be even more combustible whether russia wants it or not rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. donald trump's pick for cia director says she won't allow the use of harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects jeanne a house bill is facing questions from the u.s. senate says at her confirmation hearing she admitted the cia learned lessons from its interrogation program after the nine eleven attacks in which she was accused of overseeing torture techniques she says she'd never allow that to happen again even if ordered by president trump. be my moral compass is strong i would not allow the cia to undertake activity than i thought was immoral even if it was technically legal i would absolutely not permit it she would not follow the order if you felt that was now i believe that cia must undertake activities that are consistent with american values shavar dancey has more from capitol hill. there are two questions the dog house for her role in talk of blacks in thailand that she was overseeing and her role in the destruction of evidence of torture that congress a

seventeen development to reveal on friday rory chalons al-jazeera sin petersburg russia u.s. president donald trump has posthumously pardoned the first black heavyweight boxing champion jack johnson johnson was convicted in one thousand nine hundred thirteen and charges of taking his white girlfriend across state lines for immoral purposes trunk granted him full pardon the saying his decision corrected a historic wrong move clears johnson's name more than a hundred years after what many called a racially motivated conviction my family now can go forward knowing that the shame and the pain has been raised and history will be written and i sincerely think you and you and everybody there brought me here i am just. indonesia's parliament is expected to pass antiterrorism legislation which will give more power to the army the change in law follows a series of recent suicide bomb attacks as scott high level ports in the capital jakarta. it's been more than two years in coming but indonesia's latest anti-terrorism bill is expected to become law on friday a series of recent suicide b

seventeen development to reveal on friday rory chalons al-jazeera sin petersburg russia ok do stay with us here on al-jazeera when we come back we'll bring you these stories a group of families suing the european union because of climate change. and mercury dumped in a canadian river still affects indigenous communities by decades off. from the waves of the cells. to the contours of the east. welcome back across the levant and western parts of asia weather conditions looking fairly quiet dry for the most part from. parts of afghanistan seen a few showers also the weather conditions through the caucasus extending down into northern parts of iraq and iran and more western parts of turkey also seen some pretty heavy showers at times some storms likely here and some flash flooding but journey around other parts of the eastern side a mediterranean weather conditions looking fine for cyprus through towards lebanon with highs of twenty eight expected in beirut now heading into the arabian peninsula for the most part is all fine and sunny but further towards the south we have our tropical cyclo

and they'll probably go through it all again they feel is their only remaining way to be heard rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. the u.s. is beefing up its naval presence in the north atlantic as russia gets more assertive and there has been a build up the russian and nato forces to levels not seen for decades diane easterbrook reports. the u.s. navy says its second fleet will be back in commission this summer operating out of norfolk virginia the fleet which was eliminated in a cost cutting move seven years ago is being reestablished to counter what the pentagon calls a rising throughout from russia at a ceremony in norfolk on friday admiral john richardson chief of naval operations said our national defense makes it clear that we are back in an era of great power competition as the security environment continues to grow more challenging and complex. russia's navy has stepped up patrols in the atlantic and both russia and nato have been building up forces in eastern europe at levels not seen in decades while russia has fewer ships than it did during the height of the cold war u.s. officials

and they'll probably go through it all again they feel it's their only remaining way to be heard rory chalons al-jazeera moscow there have been protests outside a meeting of the u.s. national rifle association in dallas texas the crowds included parents of children shot dead at a florida high school in february calls for a stricter gun control laws have been getting louder since that shooting which killed seventeen president donald trump addressed thousands of gun owners at the convention on friday vowing to protect their rights. thousands of people have been forced to move off to a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook why these big island the biggest hit the area in decades this follows the eruption of killer way a volcano which began spewing lava on thursday residents are dealing with a number of issues. has been seen bubbling up through cracks on streets and there have been several earthquakes and poisonous fumes in the air. reports from near mt killer whale in hawaii. local resident tony lutes shot this cell phone video as new line of the events opened near his neighbor's house the m

patchwork of tensions in conflicts could soon be even more combustible whether russia wants it or not rory chalons al-jazeera moscow . ok let's take you live now to milly's it with the oppositional lines led by the country's former rather authoritarian rule of dr mahathir mohamad has won a big majority in parliament in effect ending six decades of rule government by the national front the election commission saying official results has the opposition so far winning i think it's hundred thirteen out of the two hundred twenty two seats in the parliament the national front. that's in our party has so far won seventy nine is a stunning defeat and it also makes marty a mohamad at ninety two years old the world's oldest elected leader let's just listen in to the prime minister the former prime minister one should say. elect a thing to give my profound stinks. to a leader is often does a national his party. that initial level. also look. at the grassroots level and the friends in those initial know who have worked. day and night. to prepare the programs and activities that. are connected with the general

force in the fall of the was among one thousand six hundred people detained by police more now for rory chalons who's in moscow. what if you're looking for some kind of indication today. as to what the kremlin's tactics were going to be regarding its only problem going forward well we're still waiting the valley was here he for two charges today he was up first of all for disobeying police and also for organizing repeated on authorized rallies both of those charges have been pursued by owns now and the court will come back again on may the fifteenth to hear them now in the valley had come here not quite knowing what to expect because the last time he was up just before the election on similar charges the court released him essentially as a free man kerman has basically kept a broadly similar tactic though when dealing with me and his demonstrations sometimes i make arrests sometimes they don't but novelli is often going through this process of an administrative attention of twenty thirty days or whatever he sits inside a police cell for a while and then he comes out and the whole system repeats

seventeen development to reveal on friday rory chalons al-jazeera sim petersburg russia the us presidentdonald trump has posthumously pardoned the first black heavyweight boxing champion jack johnson he was convicted in one nine hundred thirteen on charges of taking his white girlfriend across state lines for immoral purposes the law at the time could be used to prosecute men for interracial relationships even if they were consensual granted johnson a full pardon saying his decision corrected historic wrong my family now can go forward knowing that the stain and the pool has been raised and history will be written and i sincerely think you stay here with me and you and everybody there brought me here and there's also probably. lose more is a professor of history at the grand valley state university and author of fight for a living boxing and the battle for black manhood he explains now why johnson remains so popular. group stores the sports somebody was born the son of sleighs rise up to be the head weight champion of the world and so he wins that in one thousand allayed what happens to

two years ago is still unsolved and close friends fear he won't be the last journalist to die rory chalons moscow government have attacked the afghan interior ministry in the capital kabul police say a car bomb was detonated at the entrance and then several attackers managed to get inside the compound security forces say they battled them for more than two hours before eventually subduing the gunman jennifer gratz has more from kabul. explosions and gunfire well on for about two hours the interior ministry says there were eight assailants in all first attacker blowing himself up in a car at the main gates of the interior ministry and seven other attackers moving in and they were eventually killed by afghan security forces six police the security forces were injured in this very bold attack the interior ministry is a highly fortified of building it had just recently been moved to the outskirts of town to allow for more room and to make sure that it could be better protected so very very clearly an audacious attack on a major target here now the taliban launched its spring offensive last mon

he was among one thousand six hundred protestors to take and by police more now from our zeros rory chalons who's outside the court in moscow. it's a familiar routine this this tends to happen pretty much every time he calls people out onto the streets the authorities offer him one rallying sites he rejects that because it's too far out of the city center and instead ops to bring his supporters down to somewhere very much in the heart of things in moscow then quite often you get a rest as we did last weekend and it's usual that only is one of those detentions so what i think we're going to get today is perhaps an indication. to me of putin starts his fourth term in office as president an indication of whether or not it's ready made putin is changing his tactics when it comes to the valley previously what he gets is a reasonably short spell in police cells he gets twenty thirty days something like that he sits there it's a bit and then comes out if there's anything on top of that we might suppose to be a putin is tightening the screws but if it stays as a normal twenty or thirty day detentio

ministry to have a trilateral meeting to try and reach some sort of further agreements on this ok rory chalons thank you. the leaders of libya's factions are to meet with the french president in paris for talks to end the seven euro political crisis the eastern based renegade general is there along with his rival the head of the un backed government in tripoli a prime minister faces a sort of libya has not had a stable government since the former leader moammar gadhafi was toppled in twenty eleven led to a power vacuum with no one all forty having full control and a myriad of armed groups carving their own spaces there are now two rival governments flooding the country into east and west the one in tripoli is backed by the un while the other governments in the eastern city of to blue has been supported by the u.a.e. egypt and russia and they've been coordinating with the renegade general. who is the most powerful political figure in the east france to his supporters who have militarily by deploying advisers and special forces soldiers that's also butler joining us from paris covering the talks

on as prime minister in his new cabinet live now to moscow and our correspondent there henri chalons and rory it seems that the putin arrangement is a very successful formula that the new president doesn't want to tamper with. well i think it's successful in that it offers putin basically consistency and continuity he knows who is he has been working alongside him for many years and of course back in two thousand and eight when putin reached the constitutional limits of his presidency he simply stepped into the prime ministership swapped roles with dmitri medvedev for four years and then in two thousand and twelve came back to the presidency again so he knows who maybe it is he can trust him to a certain extent if you had of his not particular pop particularly popular figure domestically he is known for numerous gaffes and mistakes he's not been particularly successful with his custody and ship of domestic affairs but perhaps for peace that's not the most born thing the important thing for putin here is loyalty putin has for a long time been very conservative in his appointments and i think w

patchwork of tensions and conflicts could soon be even more combustible whether russia wants it or not rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. some other news now and there's been a dramatic result in malaysia's parliamentary elections where the opposition winning power for the first time in the country's history ninety two year old former prime minister mahathir mohamad. will return as linda said could become embroiled in a major corruption scandal bride reports from kuala lumpur. supporters of the opposition alliance gathered as counting began not knowing what the night would bring. his own official results started to come in the growing anticipation of a major political upset. then on a crackly video link an appearance by the de facto leader of this opposition movement the former prime minister mahathir mohamad. shows. and likely is that they would not be on the their government the day began with malaysia's embattled prime minister najib razak voting in an election season.

before and i'll probably go through it all again they feel is their only remaining way to be heard rory chalons al-jazeera moscow the united arab emirates could be removed from the saudi led coalition in yemen after deployed forces to a yemeni arlin without consulting its exile government that's according to a senior yemeni official speaking to the associated press that been further protests on the territory in the arabian sea against the u.s. military presence there thousands of people have been forced to evacuate after a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook her wise big island the biggest to hit the area in decades the killer was a volcano began spewing lava on thursday several tremors of struck since then. an explosion in the gaza strip has killed six members of her masses military wing because sam brigades three others have been injured in the village of zewe day near the coast of gaza where the blast occurred assam brigades say those involved were trying to deal with an unexploded israeli bomb dating from the twenty fourth. the un is warning of disease outbreaks following severe flood

matter how much that might change tegan eyes the west right now we can talk to our correspondent rory chalons who's in moscow he has said that this will be his last term do we believe him. well that's the million dollar question who knows there is a constitution in russia in the constitution says that you cannot see more than two consecutive presidential terms now he sidestepped that of course as mariana was just saying the last time he came to the end of his constitutional limits by stepping into the prime minister role doing that for four years and then stepping back into the presidency well if he did that again then by the time he was back in the presidency he would be probably in his late seventy's now you know he seems fairly fit for the moment so that's not beyond the realms of possibility but there is a problem that the kremlin has of the moments with working out how to manage the transition at the end of this next six year term in office what happens next does he step away from the presidency permanently but keep some kind of guardianship role over the trajectory of the country or doe

whether putin does or doesn't if you believe putinism lens when his presidential term finishes rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. thousands of armenians have gathered to show support for opposition didn't accomplish genuine ahead of tuesday's parliamentary vote has become hugely popular after spearheading weeks of mass protests all in foster walk of a portrait on the emergence of evolutionary brand. name here. when the band performs this song to tens of thousands of armenians on tuesday the crowd would know how to sing the. mice that has become the anthem for a revolution. to. stay composed the music. beat. cannot hide we came to the conclusion that it needed to be in a courageous rock style as the song as a call to step up those steps should constantly be heard in the music. penned by opposition leader nicole pass on the lyrics along with his protest walk inspired thousands of armenians to join the movement both the resignation of former presidents and prime ministers said. and bringing passion to the threshold of power . a smart young armenian such as hiking his brother have led a highly eff

patchwork of tensions and conflicts could soon be even more combustible whether russia wants it or not rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. the ebola virus has reemerged in the same area of the democratic republic of congo where another outbreak was eradicated last year at least seventeen people have died in because our world health organization says two of them tested positive for. w h o n doctors without borders is sending teams to help prevent the highly infectious disease from spreading this is the ninth outbreak in the d.r. c. in the past forty years what is needed to deal with that you bowl outbreak is to have in place treatment centers so all those who are infected with hiv virus can be treated appropriately and timely it is also. it is also important to have in place contact tracing teams who will follow for twenty one days old those who may have been exposed to divide it is also important to work with the population so to make sure that the burials are done in a safe and secure way. now having a baby in nigeria is a major risk for women the u.n. says more than one hundred die in childbirth ever

weakness and bloody may putin has too much invested in his global strongman image to back down now rory chalons al-jazeera said petersburg and a corruption police in malaysia have seized twenty eight million dollars from three apartments linked to the family of former prime minister najib razak bags containing jewelry and luxury watches were found in the homes of his son and daughter as she denies stealing billions of dollars from the state investment fund while in office. indonesia is introducing tough new anti terrorism laws sweeping changes were passed by parliament on friday following a series of recent suicide bomb attacks scott high the reports from the capital jakarta. with a much anticipated bang of the gavel. a new anti-terrorism law was approved by the indonesian parliament on friday changes to existing laws were initially proposed two years ago a series of recent suicide bomb attacks renewed focus earlier this month more than twenty people were killed at churches in a main police station in indonesia's second largest city two families including children carried out the attacks claime

people on board they want russia to compensate the victims' families well let's go live now to rory chalons who's in petersburg what does russia have to say about that. well basically the russians are carrying on the lines that they've been using for essentially the last four years ever since that plane was shot out of the sky over eastern ukraine in two thousand and fourteen russia has denied it had anything to do with it there have been you know a whole series of counter narratives forwards from various different parts of the the russian state some of them contradict each other some of them don't but you know essentially the common theme is it was an os and that's what they're saying today that's what they've been saying since the joint investigation team held a press press conference yesterday saying that it was the fifty third brigade of the russian army an anti aircraft missile brigades which would basically push this . missile system across the border into ukraine it was then used to shoot down the the airliner and then it was moved back across into russia again that was the the findi

seventeen development to reveal on friday rory chalons al-jazeera sim petersburg russia families from eight countries is suing the european union for failing to adequately protect them from climate change the claim nicknamed the people's climate case is the first of its kind to be brought against the families say climate change is infringing on their fundamental human rights so you gago reports the warning signs have been alarming forest fires drought sun rising sea levels have all pointed to dramatic climate change and the urgency needed to tackle it but one group of people action just isn't happening fast enough families whose livelihoods have been seriously affected by climate change. lack of rain and when it does rain it's to rent and there are hail storms which just drawing the crowd. if. we have to do something concrete before it becomes totally irreversible. they say that the e.u. is not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and current targets will not protect them or their future i am for meaning because on the scale all families are concerned about the same thing t

think of any other reasons but the russian authorities more now from our correspondent in moscow rory chalons. to arkadi about genco have been coming in from across the russian speaking world and beyond friends and colleagues have been speaking of their shock this was a man who had fought as a russian soldier in the chechen wars then turned into a war correspondent he'd also been an activist against the putin government in two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve he had been advocating for a fairly forceful campaign of civil disobedience but it was an online post that he made at the end of two thousand and sixteen which triggered his flight from russia he was writing about a military plane crash a plane that been traveling from russia to syria and saying that he had no sympathy really for the people who died on that plane crash because of the role that they were playing in russia's military endeavors in syria that triggered a fairly forceful state media campaign against him he felt he wasn't safe in russia anymore and left the country clearly he wasn't safe in kiev either now the russi

of who's in is in a much more comfortable position than he was six years ago thank you for that rory chalons live for us in moscow and more now on alexina vonnie he is a lawyer activist and politician who rose to prominence in two thousand and eight by blogging about an edge corruption at major state controlled firms he was the driving force behind massive anti-poaching protests in two thousand and eleven in two thousand and twelve and came in second place in the moscow mayoral election in two thousand and thirteen the rising star of the opposition movement was blocked from running for president in the twenty eight hundred polls over a conviction on financial crimes charges he says were made up this is the fifth time he's been detained in the last year alone in twenty seven hundred seventy served to prison sentences. for violating russian law he was also attacked twice last year by a sale in some dollars same with talks a green die damaging one of his eyes now dimitri babich is a political analyst based in moscow he says alexina bound they won't be able to bring real change in russia by hims

security operation like this as spectacular as it may be might further degrades trust in the long run rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including hollywood film producer harvey weinstein's indicted on rape charges in new york city. also brazil's a striking truck drivers get back on the job now it's the oil workers who say they're fed up and former champion novak djokovic continues his run of the french tennis open as he bounces back from priest injury. you. know iraq's electoral commission says it's cancelling the results from more than one thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote it says it has evidence of fraud at voting centers both in iraq and abroad charles trafford has more from baghdad. members of the iraqi parliament called an open special session on monday following more allegations of fraud during parliamentary elections earlier this month they called the votes in the predominately sunni provinces of. dina nineveh and all ballots cast by iraqis living abroad to be manually recounted the demand was supported by many

dialogue about its conduct and to seek reparations well it speaks well to syria's worry chalons who's in st petersburg rory why have the netherlands in australia taken this step and what does it mean. well they basically reacted to the announcement from the joint investigation team yesterday that essentially russia has provided the buka missile system that shot down m.h. seventeen and that this boot system came from a specific brigade of the russian army the fifty third anti aircraft missile brigades that the system had been moved across the russian ukrainian border in the summer of two thousand and fourteen basically with the full assistance of the russian military and then moved back again into russia rafter the plane was brought down the evidence that was provided by the j.i.t. yesterday in their press conference seems to have been convincing enough for the netherlands and australia to take this step together now the netherlands says that holding a country legally responsible is a complex legal process essentially what they want to happen is for russia to acknowledge its responsibility in some way to en

chalons who's in moscow forests rory i understand just gave an interview what is he saying. yeah he's just given his second press conference in as many days giving a lot more information about what actually took place over the last couple of months and of course on the nights when his murder was staged he talks about how he had had to put on a t. shirt that had already been riddled with bullet holes he had put on makeup or had makeup put on him he had covered himself in fake blood in pig's blood and then lay down on the floor his wife then called the police the police have come the ambulance have come the doctors who arrived in the ambulance were in on the plots they took him to the morgue where he says he changed his clothes was wrapped in a sheet because it was so cold there and then he sat down to watch the t.v. and he says then i watched the news and saw what a great guy i'd been journalists then started turning up at the morgue so the people got worried and they decided they had to move him he says that he was essentially doing what the agents from the ukrainian securit

only was among one thousand six hundred detained by police roy chalons joins us live from outside the courthouse in moscow what happened rory. well jane i think if we were looking for a clue today as to how the new putin administration just starting his fourth term in office as president was going to be approaching the no valley problem going forward well i think we're still waiting for that because these two charges in the was here in courts here against him both been perspiring as they were for organizing an authorized process and also for disobeying the police so now the valley will be in court again on the fifteenth of may to hear both of those cases they basically it was it was a defense arguments that resulted in that they wanted more witnesses to be brought they'd also asked for a different court to be hearing the case when it comes again to court we believe it's going to be here again in central moscow on may the fifteenth but yes when he appears next time i think they'll be more witnesses to help the the court go through the charges against him but thank you for that. malaysia's new prime minister says the king has

patchwork of tensions and conflicts could soon be even more combustible whether russia wants it or not rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. to some other news now and there's been a dramatic result in malaysia's parliamentary elections where the opposition winning power for the first time in the country's history ninety two year old former prime minister mahathir mohamad will return as leader he said could become embroiled in a major corruption scandal rob o'brien reports from kuala lumpur. kuala lumpur supporters of the opposition alliance gathered as counting began not knowing what the night would bring. his own official results started to come in the growing anticipation of a major political upset. then on a crackly video link an appearance by the defacto leader of this opposition movement the former prime minister mahathir mohamad all the shows. that. and likelihood is that they will not be on me their government the day began with malaysia's embattled prime minister najib razak voting in an election seen as a test of his credibility he was confident of victory. i believe the people would give a new