power of persuasion a russian woman convinces a london tribunal she wasn't spying while having an affair with a british member of parliament. the cool reject sam-i five claims can't use that sort of yet so was a honeytrap with the lawyers say the case against it was based entirely on speculation conjecture and prejudice join me on bennett for the full details in just a moment. egypt's first parliamentary poll in decades attracts all record number of voters despite days of violent protests against the army regime. thousand so up to have their say in the future of the country but many boycott the vote demanding the military rulers step down immediately i mean he's now in cairo with more details

and the new russian radar guard on its western most border with strike force is in the cards if nato doesn't guarantee a european missile shield isn't aimed against moscow. six pm in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story a russian woman accused of being a spy has won her legal battle against deportation from britain. to leave after was accused of trying to siphon information while having an affair with a british member of parliament who she worked for artie's ivor bennett has more from london. the cotton panel of three judges including a former head of the british security service ruled on balance of probability she was not and is not a russian spy but is not certainly not we need her to reach this point she was

arrested twelve months ago back in december last year on suspicion of being a spy and since then according to her lawyer she's been living a cash guest nightmare and she's been living under scary strict bail conditions the home secretary after her arrest a year ago said that she should be deported she was given the chance to contest that ruling but during that those whole proceedings she was never actually allowed to see or hear the evidence against her that the m i five said it had the m i five security service said it was too too sensitive in terms of national security for it to be made public cording to catch is that with his lawyers the m i five case against her was indeed based more on speculation than fact that crisis was built entirely on speculation and prejudice and conjecture it was amateur poorly with tragedy and we hope that the government will look like very carefully on today's judgement which must raise serious confounds as to the standards of professionalism

and competent stay within the security staff there she was accused of being used as a honey trap by the russians intelligence services tapped up from her time in some petersburg where she studied international relations and specifically targeted british member of parliament in order to gain access to top secret documents how the man in question was my can call a member of parliament and also he who had a seat on the parliamentary select committee for defense and also russia we do know also that they had an affair for four years and also we do know that she was working for him as he is researching in parliament so potentially had access to these documents but that's about all we know so in terms of concrete proof and concrete evidence that's about all we heard so her defense the bulk of it throughout the hearing was to try and show that her relationship with my can call was indeed a genuine. one even though he was three times her age and actually the cool in its ruling did actually say that it decided that a relationship with him was in jewing and genuine on both sides and of course those

three judges who did hear the evidence behind closed doors they also said that we have seen nothing which satisfies us that she was recruited as an agent or was tossed or acted as one that's very much convinced on balance that she was a spy and therefore has been allowed to remain in britain and will not be deported . loglines at a strong turnout very much in evidence on day two of egypt's landmark elections but thousands of protesters in tahrir square say they are boycotting the polls if you're the military rulers who replaced president mubarak in february will stay in power or he's a nice in our way has more from cairo. it really seems like a gypsy is are split into two camps and very simply outlined how they feel about this election and you have the group that is flat out boycotting this vote because they say the military rulers are still very much in charge it's them who came up with this system of voting they will essentially be the top people monitoring these votes and then you have the camp of people who don't agree of course with the

military rulers especially in light of that crackdown that we saw just ahead of this vote that they feel like if they don't come out to have their say that they would be essentially giving up giving up the months that protesters spent on talk we're square trying to bring change to egypt so really a split of opinion like i said and really some some long lines of people very excited about coming out to be able to vote a lot of people are voting here for the first time in their lives and it almost seems as if they're not really thinking so much about whether this will be a valid election what the results will be for them what's important is that this vote is taking place there have been some minor violations the most common that we heard were counted it's coming up to actual polling stations and campaigning up into the end on twitter you could read about some people actually trying to go into the booths would people be heard as a minor i don't think you can even call them clashes but fights that happened at polling stations with people understanding that this was wrong that it was of this was a flat out violation we also heard of some parties actually setting up booths if you

will with laptops trying to help voters because what we're hearing is that the system that was created is quite complicated in a lot of people came to the polling station and didn't actually understand how it all works but really in light of the violence that we've saw some very minor violations still it's relatively calm here of course no security situations but people are very aware that anything could happen at any moment and you really can sense that in the year along with that excitement about this first vote how can we tell if this vote is fair well first of all it's only the first round of this parliamentary election in fact the parliament will going to set. sometime in march also not even the whole country is voting in this first round it's selected by districts in cities so a lot more of the country house has their say and with the situation with these military rulers and powers no one knows what will happen between these rounds of elections just before these elections when this clampdown happen on talks where there were actually that many protesters when they came in actually decided to

disperse protesters but that action brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the street and then we saw ten days of violence you really never know what will happen this is the first round it is being praised as being so far pretty successful but anything can change here at any moment and egyptians are very aware of that egyptians intense frustration with their military rulers palpably clear with hundreds of thousands of people wanting them out immediately coming up a little later in our broadcast middle east expert dr ahmed explains why they feel robbed of their revolution. the mubarak is gone but the regime still and this explains why the demonstrations. at this function continue the supreme council of the forces there are very weary over the actions happening now because they see a alliance that is taking shape between the muslim brotherhood somewhat i mean and

so big old regime and the supreme council of the forces and their vote he would have elections are. the results of the election would be a victory for this coalition and for that would mean the dude if you do should be hijacked. full interview with medvedev coming your way a little more than twenty minutes here on r.t. . russia's assessment of the unrest in syria is that it's mainly being provoked by an armed opposition foreign minister lavrov also says it's time to stop dealing in ultimatums and so. down to the peace talk table you what investigation earlier found syrian forces committed crimes against humanity brutally have a lawyer anti-government demonstrators almost four thousand people have been killed after months of unrest the e.u. is tightening the economic screws on the syrian regime. and bargo which moscow strongly opposes or. time of the e.u.

is putting more pressure on the financial institutions in the syria more specifically they put a ban a long term financial support on trade with the exception of perhaps a few industries such as food and medicine e.u. companies are now prohibited from doing business especially with syrian state banks as well as investing in sectors such as energy and oil there's already an oil embargo on syria that has been imposed by the e.u. sometime in may now e.u. officials would maintain that all of this is to aimed at cutting off financial support to the syrian government but the people themselves so the syrians the state t.v. in syria have been showing them going out into the streets by the thousands granted these are state backed protests but they are frustrated with the growing growing number of sanctions on the country because they are the ones who are feeling the pinch just as an example i was there would be our t. crew about a month ago and it was almost impossible to find it was impossible to actually find it eighty have to get some money and everything was done in cash and when you ask

the locals why is the case they said we say because there are sanctions on our companies the e.u. sanctions are in addition to the arab league sanctions which is the toughest sanctions by the arab league to work towards an arab country and they think that this is a because they feel that an economic war has been waged on the country and that they maintain that by doing so it's simply exacerbated the situation is just encouraging those who are involved in what the government sees the terror as terrorists and those who are part of an opposition that is growing increasingly militarized the government thinks that all these sanctions would just encourage them and those who are opposed to a putting sanctions on the assad government and one of the arguments put. if this if this is really intended to come up with a a solution to the crisis why is it only focus on one side when both sides first of all are both increasing the army capable of violence and so by putting pressure on one side it encourages another side again the end of the day more financial sanctions while it may cripple the economy it may corner the government and

business leaders it will also definitely impact the people political analyst dr his says it's not the syrian civilians the e.u. is concerned about but rather apply apply economic pressure soley to remove the assad government. these sanctions meaningless actually i think that meaningless and on every level on the level on the economic level and on the security lap and it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions and to use the decisions of the arab league for their own purposes to put pressure on syria to put pressure not for the syrian regime to stop the killing as they put it but no they what they want is to weaken the city and to g.m. and to weaken the alliance between syria iran and lebanon i don't think they they. as so much fall for city and blood in libya more than one hundred thousand people

were killed by nato bombings and the come through was devastated that nobody said anyone so i can't actually believe that they're now so so what it about three thousand city and when they are not actually what it's about more than one hundred thousand libyans it has nothing to do with stopping the violence on the contrary they're feeding the bodies we can't expect the syrian government and the syrian army to end the violence if the other if the gangs do not stop atrocities against the city amount forces. stay with us here on r t still ahead time running out for europe to save the single currency brussels muscles for a solution we were aboard the euro zone's third largest economy it was dire straits are being increasingly abridged by beijing and. some unique expert assessment as to who might be in the saddle after this weekend's russian parliamentary vote. but first russia can now keep

a closer eye on europe in the north atlantic with a new radar in its westernmost region the baltic territory of kaliningrad located between lithuania and poland flicking the on switch president medvedev says it can be more than just a response to a nato missile shield in europe or he's an italian overcall that has the details. russia sees installing this radio location system here as an adequate response to nato as plans to deploy an anti-missile defense shield in europe which russia sees as a threat to its national security and they to has been saying that's. the reason for the deployment of the a.m.d. to europe is in fact to be able to do fans from potential nuclear threats coming from iran and north korea however the m.v. shields will be covering a large part of russian territory so russia does see it as a threat and what marshall wants right now is for nato to present its legal written

down proofs of that the entire missile defense shield is not posing a threat to its national security. fortunately willing him or spoken assurances are not enough when we hear that european missile defense is not against you i want to say friends that the radar that came online today is also not against you but it is for you to tackle the issues we're facing today but if your signal is not heard we will deploy other defense systems including tough countermeasures deploying strikes systems wanted further measures could include russia deploying strike system school scandal along the russian border if nato fails to hear russia's position and the worst case scenario would be of course for russia to pull out from the strategic arms reduction treaty that it signed with the united states this would seriously damage the reset of relations between russia and the u.s. that's the treaty symbolise when it was signed this is not the kind of scenario that's present here if wants to pursue he says that russia is still open for

negotiations with nato and that's this particular radio location system could be used both for the benefit of russia and nato if the two come to an agreement. let's turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe protesters in the iranian capital have stormed the u.k. embassy compound during an anti british demonstration militant students clashed with police and threw stones at the windows are also said to have pulled down a british flag and burned it and replaced it with an iranian one the incident comes after iran resolved to reduce diplomatic relations with the u.k. following its decision to impose further sanctions on tehran. norwegian anders bravery who admitted killing seventy seven people in a massacre in july you could escape a prison sentence after a psychiatric report claimed the mass murderer was mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his actions if the court accepts the assessment brief it could be

detained in psychiatric care in a region confessed to the attacks in oslo on the end on the island over toyah but he's not guilty to terrorism. pakistan will boycott next week's talks with the united states and afghanistan's future and he made those supply lines through its territory this after an alliance airstrike on saturday near the afghan border that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers islam bad says the incident violated its sovereignty and the mandate of international forces in afghanistan oh the next stage in saving the euro from collapses underway with finance ministers in brussels trying to bolster the bailout system in case the bigger players go down italy's seeking to balance its books its borrowing costs have soared to more than seven point nine percent it's well over the figure that forced greece ireland and portugal all to ask for help but authorities are a fourth reports its eastern influence that's going so way toward filling the gap.

and the fashion capital of the world the way you can be sure to spoil cinema trends right now is the economy hand this being guessing i'm a cave with the west seeking east an inspiration i don't think this is the new guy and someone says so but they get the business model with a. fine and expensive. business here is saying. that its tiny counterparts but their emphasis on see. some of the high streets here in the chinese influence isn't hard to spot with you know its economy struggling countries like china think back to its time to snuff out the bug and such is the position this year at the well known italian fashion brand series c by a chinese luxury clothing retailer for the interest of the china. very store so.

i suppose the. to catch the west struggles it's been the emerging crepes the brics that is brazil russia india china and south africa the defeat impairing ahead this is really kind of a moment where you might look back and say this is a chance where emerging markets finally got their opportunity to become much bigger players and much bigger powers around the world take a look at the g.d.p. growth to china and italy was this lease that meeting economy has resulted in a slump china in comparison has been full steam ahead emerging as a major manufacturing base but was chinese business is approving strong competition china is being cautious when it comes to buying up your debts the you must be told the more valuable. help me industries you start arriving all blonde is

chinese investments in western companies and infrastructure grows so you tube is china's control and influence across the entire european economy with the chinese trade and investment delegation g. to visit europe next year further investments seem extremely likely so we need to do. the job. that we call it. could be very very. bad in order to. financial crises as the crisis continues to readjust the mic leaders on the global stage emerging economies such as china looks set to remain firmly in the spotlight surf city. you can always find more stories and in-depth analysis on our web site r.t. dot com here's what's online right now. the only daughter of former soviet leader

joseph stalin has died find out why she considered herself a political prisoner of her father's legacy and never truly managed to escape his shot. and the russian woman who supersized her lips all in a bid to look more like her cartoon idol jessica rabbit discover the next stage of her extreme make over at our t.v. tut. fresh clashes have erupted between nato forces and locals along the serbian border with northern kosovo several peacekeepers and ethnic serbs were injured tensions were running high since nato forces fired tear gas at protesters in the attempt to dismantle road barricades put up by serbs living in the area they've been blocking the route since july when the postal officials tried to take control of the border checkpoints to import impose a trade ban on serbian good kosovo unilaterally proclaimed independence in two thousand and eight a move that's never been recognized by belgrade. it's election week in russia which

will vote for a new parliament on sunday the long ruling united russia party is the clear favorite but polls suggest its wings could be clipped that's opening up thoughts as to which direction the country is going to take as artie's jacob grieves now explores. you know wonderful. variant of who is going to let us see how it's done them bicycle works yeah. i know it's right if so. how do you know. unsteady no more appropriate place right now than the duma wants you made frame you can go to sleep this is what he actually the farmer sent happened to the united russia the party. was set up ten years back and it made a really impressive start and it kept up with allies on the watch but you're wearing off why the mirror putin but what happened after that they relaxed

a bit from the off russian position they preferred to criticize they prefer just to be to be a part of the opposition to be in to right but at the same time to every responsibility . to see if it's. going to be honest a little bit not good for roy i think if you can take the lead in absolutely this is working a bit better i think a life i like about taking a back seat money look at the opposition they were warriors tend to leaders of the country here it comes the business community you know i don't think they're actually capable of leading they don't have that leadership which would take over from united russia as a main legacy or united russia will be a political stability and normal rules and a lot of critics have said that actually what you have

a president has moved on for stability and it's the danger of turning to stagnation i think that's the case if you know what russia remain is a majority power in the duma i think if you're not rational stayed in power through a stability about north stagnation social justice would be number one priority for new. development and as a result are seeing united russia will have to change itself to speak in ten years since she noted russia and now sits. on the political stage coming to power with a mandate was the biggest see that's a message that seems somewhat outdated now among voters and the general consensus we've been hearing that more change will be needed in the future regardless of who's leave the country. or you know up next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . welcome

to our business thanks for joining me russia is currently experiencing a liquidity crunch the central bank has kept interest rates unchanged citing inflationary risks but the. capital says it has other tools to resist a big squeeze. the budget who. want more budget expenditures should come into the system and provide some relief but the. fourth quarter investment so slow and. the central banks. hard currency buying more current current sit in more and. more but still the central. control situation and the domestic money market. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices are higher this i have to sing some gains on

monday like sweden is trading over ninety dollars a barrel while brant is about one hundred and slightly above one hundred ten dollars per barrel european stock markets turned higher with investors building on the gains and pinning some hopes on a meeting of euros on the finance ministers of banks and energy stocks are leading shares of b.m.p. power rose over one point one percent automakers are also higher a no end patient rose two point four and one point seven percent respectively and russia stocks are losing following my six is the biggest gain in seven weeks that's up to moody's investor service warned of downgrades for european banks the wise it's down point nine percent this hour after starting nearly four percent on monday let's take a look at some individual share moves energy majors shutting losses up to seeing shop gains in previous session look for those losing over one percent rosner. it is also down and a car maker after vows is partly on the track it's launching mass production of its

a new as model granta sorry into a pipe make it tame case bucking the trend it's on the rise the company's nine months net profit almost tripled to two hundred seventy nine million dollars. the world's largest social network facebook is preparing a ten billion dollars i.p.o. next year wall street journal says that they flotation would value the company had one hundred billion dollars that's twice facebook's current value and i'll say the plans are too optimistic facebook was reportedly going to hold an offering this autumn but the spawned it after falling short of its revenue target the network has now around eight hundred million members with russian hi tech investment firm. being one of its largest shareholders now over one in three organizations in russia claim to have fallen victim to economic crime according to accounting firm pricewaterhouse coopers but the company's head of forensic services police at the level of corporate crime in russia is far we think the actual use of this rate has

come down and when you compare that compare to those situations two thousand and nine that's probably a surprise to those in the normal in the depths of an economic process opportunity was greater because it was less monitoring the motives were greater in two thousand and nine because everybody was struggling to meet targets get their bonuses actually just so by keep the cash flow going so incidents have come down. we think detection rates have actually dropped in the last two years as well a key messages that organizations need to do more to make sure they are actually looking because where we see organizations looking then the ones that do look very fond. of apps are out there for this hour join me in fifteen minutes for logon to our website r.t. dot com slash best. the

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