a month before egypt's presidential vote confusion and disappointment over the election campaign grows but the reinstatement of the barracks for the prime minister is a candidate casting a shadow over hopes for democratic change. leave greenwald in alexander litvinenko to death. british larger tech two experts clear russian and he of any involvement in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. europe's heralded open borders come under threat as nicolas sarkozy up says and integration rhetoric ahead of the presidential runoff saying france can quickly. this day with a full get the spinal interview as head of state to the media presses outgoing president well some of his for years and power and outline calls for the future

more details minutes ahead. internationally isn't comments twenty four hours a day this is r.t. egypt is due to announce a final list of presidential candidates with a vote less than a month away however there are fresh concerns that the revolution was in vain as a last prime minister under hosni mubarak is back in the running for the top job earlier his candidacy was blocked under a law banning former mubarak officials from taking part in the race multi-server first reports now from current. just the month before the elections and you call this incredibly confusing the political landscape is going to be very difficult for the list of candidates now to get across the policies to the electorate and to getting support where they need to and the different areas of the population pretty very much this controversy about the disqualified candidate kitchens and so we

really don't know where they stand at the moment some of the polls have put almost forty percent of egyptian people as not having any idea or tool at the moment just who they going to support and another large percentage say to the candidates they were going to support and now melissa candidates that have been barred is seen as having taken away from the very important discussion about the policies about just who these candidates are and maybe after this finalists publish you're going to see that discussion now gaining momentum but very much a feeling that where you have this excitement about the first three presidential election a sense really now of disappointment and frustration that we're all seeing if this interference in the electoral system and some of the people we've been speaking to this last week now actually calling for the vote to be postponed until the election commission to be fired and for replacement to be found the full body votes goes

ahead last friday you saw the huge numbers turning out wrong paris where again we've already had the miss the brotherhood calling the sunni million man march the back of the finalists a kind of a being published you probably will see another call from a lot of the queen to come out and protest really to apply pressure to the ruling military council to. to let them know that if they're not seen. going through with this process democratically the no seem to be complying with the cool candy for power in the egyptian people showing that they move the willing to continue fighting. and while egyptians are gauging the results of last year's revolution. in syria people are still suffering from the ongoing conflict there later. once a prosperous and dust your city factories are now in ruins and businesses portably blackmailed into supporting the uprising. british lie detector experts say russian them under a little boy considered by the u.k.

as the main suspect in the murder of a former security officer and xander when younger had nothing to do with his death will go boy passed a polygraph test conducted by specialists from the u.k. as part of a new documentary artie's laura smith looks now it how this revelation might affect a case that's long been a stumbling block in russian british relations. stephen did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko no but were you involved in alexandria listening cause death you know. have you ever had any dealings with borneo no another step towards proving his innocence in a test administered by british experts andrei lugovoy passes the lie detector polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six give a result on certain in my mind the right result if or not i don't get

a result it's inconclusive i would buy my guns one hundred percent and if it was admissible in court i would be very pleased to go about producing called a skeptic might say that as a former security services agent look up voigt might have had training to cheat the test but alexander corrupt core a documentary maker whose idea it was palooka to undergo it thinks that's unlikely even every american police station has a polygraph test and if it was so easy to fall why security services would use it or to date as far as they are concerned examiners they say that this is the ultimate way to determine if one is lying or telling the truth it might not sway british courts where lie detector tests on tech separated as standalone evidence the u.k. authorities are unlikely to make an exception in this case given the extraordinary lengths they've gone to to get their hands on look up boyd even asking russia to

change its constitution to allow his extradition so we were clear that while it was a reasonably big ask it was not unreasonable to say that they should change the constitution to make possible the sort of judicial corp foreign minister sergey lavrov gave his british counterpart short shrift a new government remains in russia but he knows there's nothing he. his country can do to persuade the british that they're accusing the wrong man. if i did the same with the help of russian specialists at the british would have been suspicious about the results so i insisted that it should be administered by british experts people who came to trust me are members of the british polygraph association and we will invite these experts as witnesses in any court proceedings i don't expect any serious change but for me it was the moment of truth and this is just the latest step that has taken to attempt to clear his name with the british authorities last november harris simpang chris coroner's court because wife marino won the right to

a new wider ranging inquest into her husband's death said he well continues and offered to give evidence by video link look of oil realizes this won't close the case but for him it's more evidence to suggest he's as innocent as he's always claimed. but he spoke to the father of alexander litvinenko who explained why he no longer believed russia's security services were behind his son's murder you can see highlights of the interview on friday here r.t. . europeans could soon see the end of the free travel zone and france set to push other states to curb open borders. has its way a sitting president said he no longer wants what he called like europe claiming that a union which cannot control migration flows is finished his stance is widely seen as an attempt to harness

a far right votes for his reelection bid. reports. no border controls within the zone is surely one of the strongest symbols of european unity but this symbol may now be under threat since france and germany want to see each member of the zone to be able to introduce border controls without the approval of the others the interior ministers of the two countries are formulated a document in which they did say that such steps would be measures of last resort and wouldn't last for over thirty days but in reality it could mean the reappearance of checkpoints illegal immigration is a very serious issue both for germany and for france both have been trying we criticizing the lack of control on the european union's external borders especially when it comes to countries like greece and its border with turkey or italy which has been waiting for two thousand of refugees from arab countries would then go to other european union nations france has already threatened to pull out of the

champions zone altogether if no serious measures are taken to help improve the situation but millions of europeans have been enjoying free travel since one thousand nine hundred five and many analysts have said that the reintroduction of border controls would be a serious hit to european unity which hasn't been exactly going through its easiest times we do to the eurozone crisis. and across the atlantic the u.s. debt hole is being successful to sky unscrupulous ratings agency that's according to max and stacy in today's report. as the financial services sector considers themselves holy some sort of religion moody's and s. and p. of course did give the holy blessing to toxic sinning assets they were sinners and they said no i have sanctified these assets people indulgences right out of the textbook of the pope from the middle ages you've committed a sin give me some money and you're absolved from that sin you go directly to

heaven same thing with these ready and he's give us some money we'll turn your triple c. rated toxic securities sludge into a aaa rated god loving security. yes the latest edition of the kaiser report is coming your way in just over an hour's time. to the highs and the lows in rush hour over the past four years with a focus in a final question and answer session with outgoing president dmitri medvedev a special session with journalists who also be quizzed on his future role in russian politics what he's going to this guy has the details. all eyes will be on the russia's president dmitry medvedev as this will be his last interview to the media in his current position for the first time meets with bet it will actually be talking not just representatives from russia's state run media outlets but also with journalists from opposition t.v. channels now he's expected to sum up his four years in power and also outline goals

for the future as to what is expected to to become prime minister was what was it has already suggested that makes him a bit of do that no good reason is a horse going to take over the presidential post on may seventh and his also suggested to me to me that if head of the united russia party now if it's the largest party in russia it has faced criticism following the december elections to russia's parliament there were allegations of fraud which brought out tens of thousands of people out on the streets especially mosco these were some of the largest of protests in russia's modern history so it will be interesting to see what kind of vision for the future which means that if it has as he is no one to be a rather liberal and progressive politician and whether or not he will be able to breathe new life into this extremely large political body in the country. well that

final question and answer session with dmitri medvedev as head of state is set to begin in less than two hours time with up to bring it to you live here naughty. of russian politics. one last chance to quiz the president before he leaves the kremlin. journalists from across the spectrum go head to head with dmitri medvedev thursday from eight am g.m. g o p. the influence of the familiar one mean cliche from university labs to the outer

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when you force spring overseas my grocery birds will come home to roost. when their massive tongue great. empathy can sway to call the commotions. towards those who live on the current. france's pushing for military intervention in syria saying the u.n. should consider harsher measures if an international peace plan collapses violence from both the government and opposition forces is continuing despite the cease fire agreement on a boy can discover the average syrians are often being forced to engage in the conflict a lifetime of work burned overnight. this is one of

a growing number of businesses in syria destroyed by those claiming to advance the cause of that revolution this factory was a classic example of syrian interpreter ship one hundred fifty employees producing textiles for furniture it was never turning out a lot of profit but provided a distant living for its people all of which is now gone north bratz no warnings one evening in fabry a group of young man threw molotov cocktails into the building the owner says they had just enough time to evacuate the workers to safety but the rest of the inning he just watched his entire fortune go up in flames. the march prided textile machines they bought from spain three years ago had to be sold for scrap most employees lost their only source of income i don't think it was a personal attack against me political person i think the people who did it to me

are seeking to undermine the industry as a home to terrify people into supporting them aleppo is syria's largest city and its industrial capital prior to the uprising it was enjoying some of the highest growth rates in the region. this industrial park alone housed more than three thousand small and mid-sized factories. in the past six months some have gone out of business because of the economic sanctions while others because of industrial terrorism. they had of the local chamber of industry sas it's almost impossible to distinguish between attacks reach out politically motivated and those that are outright criminal we witnessed kidnappings we witnessed. attacks on factories. that are being in our bodies of trucks carrying the raw material or finished goods . threats putting people on hit lists assassinations of

course all these activities criminal activities are taking place on the the cause of supporting the revolution what they call it the us advocated engineer for us al shahabi says many in industry side with the opposition when it calls for fighting corruption and liberalizing the country's economy but they couldn't disagree more with the means of achieving it. the first thing that tell them support us. we will kidnap your son or your kidney because you will be asked to and you didn't pay for our. cause or peaceful cause and i wonder how can this be peaceful if you are getting money like. organized crime and there are many who succumbed to the racketeers to keep their business afloat the owner of this textile factory had to fire his workforce after one of his production shops came under

attack he says he now hands over thirty percent of his profits to those who claim to represent the freedom cars at the i've been receiving threats to stop working people to demonstrations we have to pay the money so that they leave us alone while the support for lepers businesspeople is seen as crucial for the survival of assad's government even the most liberal of them now want nothing to do with the militarized position dealing with corrupt officials may be frustrating but it doesn't compare to losing your entire business to the revolution of wreckage tears it's on a boycott see aleppo syria. we're taking a look now at some other news from around the world this hour u.s. republican presidential candidate newt gingrich is expected to end his campaign for the white house next week decision comes just days after republican front runner mitt romney swept five state primaries all but assuring himself nomination gingrich

has only won two primaries south carolina and georgia since the election season began in january but a republican candidate rick santorum suspended his campaign two weeks ago. pakistani prime minister yousuf raza gilani has been found guilty of contempt of court for refusing to reopen corruption cases against the nation's president heard the supreme court only handed him a symbolic sentence of just a few minutes detention before he was released into a sea of supporters the verdict might be seen as a victory for good and is expected to continue his role in office despite previously saying he would step down if found guilty. the news corp chairman rupert murdoch has been questioned about his dealings with the u.k. prime minister david cameron to the official probe into british media ethics its involvement with u.k. politicians is now a key issue following the phone hacking scandal which brought down the media tycoons used the world tabloid speculation grew after the sun revealed he discussed

a proposed takeover of a lucrative satellite broadcaster during a christmas dinner with cameron. continues to give evidence today. israel's top general benny gantz says iran has not and will not build a nuclear bomb israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu continued to push for more sanctions against iran taught us cannot douglas macgregor says he's ready lobbyists in congress are driving the war rhetoric. so i think the american israeli public affairs committee and its a subordinate elements are affiliated elements that represent enormous quantities of money that over many years have cultivated enormous influence and power in congress and you are talking just to appease the lobby well i think you've got a lot of people on the hill who fall into two categories one category that is interested in money and wants to be reelected and they don't want to run the risk

of the various lobbies that are that are pushing military action against iran to contribute money to their opponents. and they can watch that interview in full at later this hour. now the timeline of tension in syria is also covered on our web site r.t. dot com and i spent a morphy one night including wrangling with bacteria russian scientists come up with a way to tack on a dangerous my credit that's devouring the isis and discover how the astronauts plan to save the station dot com. also a children's novel is branded racist by u.k. parents with dozens of other kids' books banned from british libraries being politically incorrect without which titles have come in for criticism at r.t. dot com.

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but cross now to the business desk that attaches there for us and tasha lukoil has found a way to significantly increase its oil production we understand absolutely and it's doing that by investing siri. money into a project in iraq a bit more. in just a moment but first let's take a look at how the markets are performing at the moment the russian markets are trading in the positive territory they opened less than twenty minutes ago so far so good as you can see there both of my six seventy r.t.s. are gaining around a quarter percent each and mainly of course on in sympathy with the global equity markets speaking of global equity markets asia was trading in the block moves to the morning but has slipped but japan's nikkei has slipped into red so it's trading

mixed at the moment japan's actually facing some serious problems that mainly with its power supplies it may have to face a rolling blackout says it plans to close its a laska of remaining nuclear power plant and not solve the asli a big issue for the japanese economy in hong kong the hang seng is managing to sustain its gains over around a quarter percent to the sour and you know that saying an apple a day keeps the doctor away will apple will certainly healthy for wall street wednesday as the company reported better than expected quarterly results and as a result the nasdaq saw its biggest daily gain so far this year and apple itself did quite well it gained almost nine percent to close at six hundred ten dollars a share and of course that statement from the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke who supported the market being quite neutral and by not interfering with positive momentum and let's now check out the oil markets crude is mixed at the

moment the w t i is actually gaining value while brant is slightly down as inventories increase in the united states the biggest oil consumer and staying with the oil sector russia's biggest private oil producer. luke oil has started production at one of iraq's richest oil fields that's called the west corner to the company hopes to boost output to five hundred thousand barrels a day by twenty fourteen that would be ok who are fluke oil's current daily production and major boost the project requires thirty billion dollars of investment spent among other things on clearing the area of thousands of landmines left there from the time of the war with iran in the eighty's and a lot but not least let's now check out the currency markets as you can see there the you're straying pretty much flocked to the dollar the russian ruble on the opening is losing gaining value to the dollar but shedding value to the european

currency and that's the latest from the business desk area i'll be back in about fifteen minutes indeed many thanks for that update it's a. special interview is just a few minutes away after mind of the top stars. that are killing innocent. or is it a call this of course and that's never

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