egyptians get their final shortlist of presidential candidates but fear a return to mubarak's era with his prime minister back in the race. redrawing europe's borders e.u. leaders and are children flourishing right wing friends with the french president even threatening to quit the shining in free travel zone. the protest mood sweeping through russia and relations with the u.s. president medvedev evaluates his legacy and his final media to win any before leaving the current one. following thanks for joining our team at six o'clock here in moscow and i'm karen. egypt has issued the final list of presidential candidates with the vote less than

a month away multiple disqualifications have left voters confused over who to choose but one controversial figure is back in the running sarah for a told us why this name is causing concern. further drama added as if any more were needed in this presidential race by the last minute decision by the electoral commission to include on this final candidate list the former prime minister. defeat now he was disqualified on cheese day of the louis pass which barred former senior barrack officials from running in this presidential race now he appealed that on the grounds that the law was passed after he'd applied to run and that was up held so he has been included on that final list of candidates it hasn't gone down too well here has to be said amongst many egyptians to view him as a remnant of the former regime and not someone that they really want to see running

for the future presidential spot nervously then taking the country for so that really is causing quite a lot of anger amongst the people here of course is only added as he said to this control the city surrounding the candidacies and the candidates themselves we've seen a number of disqualifications happening so much so the fact that from the original short list of twenty three candidates you've actually known legal thirteen candidates on that list and a lot of people here are really seeing that as an interference with the electoral system a lot of criticisms of being aimed at the ruling military council people really feel and indeed the electoral commission sells people feeling that they've got t. much power here is one egyptian i was speaking to after this list is announced that you know the moment is all about the rules and they can change at any time of course it's left everyone very very confused here is less than a month until that date is supposed to take place and all this drama surrounding the candidates is really needs the discussion and the focus away from the very

important aspects of what these candidates stand for what their policies are who in these candidates actually are themselves and you know month doesn't really leave them much time to push their policies forward really you definitely have a sense here at. the moment that initial excitement and positivity towards this first free presidential election all through the revolution now that's been very much for a place by a sense of frustration a disappointment some of the people with speaking to a calling for the vote to be postponed with together and for the electoral commission for the ruling military council to be fired to step aside for another body to come in. and as a gyptian to wait on the fruits of their uprising in syria a violent revolution seems like later in the program we report from a once prosperous industrial city where factories are now in ruins and business owners are reportedly blackmailed into supporting the revolt also. rebuild an

alexander litvinenko. lugovoy is a known liar british experts say the u.k.'s main suspect in the killing of our example of the training go had nothing to do with the former russian security officers. the shining and free travel zone and icon of european unity and integration could soon cease to exist with calls for countries to be allowed to decide for themselves just who they let in it's been a running theme in the right wing dominated french presidential election and the idea has quickly been picked up on president nicolas sarkozy. reports. the shine games on consist of twenty six nations which enjoy visa free and checkpoint free travel and it's truly one of the biggest symbols if you will be in unity but this symbol mean they'll be on your friends france and germany are pushing all members of the zone to be able to set up border controls without the

permission of the others they do say that such steps would be measures of last resort and wouldn't last for over thirty days but in reality this could mean a mass reappearance of checkpoints within the european union illegal immigration is quite a serious issue both in germany and in france they've been strongly criticizing the lack of control on the use external border we do remember the story of the tiny talian island of lampedusa in the mediterranean which was allotted with refugees in such great amounts that at some point they were more newcomers on the island then the residents fled to many of them living by their own rules and often not peaceful once it will be allowed fountains of these refugees onto the mainland and then they spread into other european union nations this actually even caused the conflict with france which partially introduced border control since a large quantities of refugees headed to the country the right sentiment in general is clearly growing in europe and especially in france with right wing forces calling to move from the union and concentrate more on domestic problems president

sarkozy has been actively playing the right wing card as he's battling for a second term in office he's even threatened to pull out of the shotguns on altogether if no serious measures are taken to battle the legal immigration in a separate issue the european commission has just allowed to speak to set up temporarily border controls with france in a bid to prevent mass protests at the upcoming central bank summit but millions of europeans have been enjoying free travel since one thousand nine hundred five and many analysts say that their introduction of border controls will be a serious hit to european unity which hasn't been exactly going through. it's easy as times do to be eurozone crisis where you go often called by media as another factor of sparking the right wing sentiments reaction now on europe's growing and time aggression trends and how it all bodes for the union we're now joined by dr i am our publisher of a german news website thanks for being with us dr hammer now there is

a lot of flak coming out mr sarkozy for taking such a strong stance on this issue but isn't he just doing what many among the french public believe is necessary. the one hand he does what you think the public wants. and this is a very national policy but he's going to be position on the one hand he wants to win the election to go to the heart on the other side of us to do what it is you need to want to do and this is going to say to you the other side. now the e.u. a global powerhouse it's an entity that's formed by removing borders not putting them up what are the risks of throwing away these decades of work to a p's what seems like a popular whim. what a little to move around in. more of the major features.

to. get the people behind the e.u. if you know. you can't one of the main features of the people wanted from the e.u. . the second is the you know you were. movements of capital move free from one side to the other. so if you know the forest again you might really. get you into danger and i think. to send. to prevent very severe problems by gratian is. less probable than. getting the e.u. into a danger. now tell me with

a for a we are also told that the euro would be dead by last christmas that my february and then again by easter yet it still here are you out drastically underestimating the ease resilience. and no i think in the. world. and even the you can be. a long time jew of many. voices. saying you will be. the short of any time when the dog went in to get it. they said of the problems with the youth. and so on and so on to get international money into the dogs instead. thing. the room is much lower than has got of much morris islands. many people. have are our friends

a struggling economy is seen as a major factor in the growing anti immigration sentiment but what about germany your country is also pushing for similar moves us across the wires that what on the one hand mrs merrett does not oppose you. the next election she does everything to support you but i think this is just a matter in front of the election nothing for after the election the main problem for germany and france is. with the strong economies of the world many people are trying to get into germany and france to go. to we have to do something to. the immigration into the social systems all of these are by. the immigration into the sources it was growing.

they enter in my. opinion and i'm afraid that's all the time we have dr ike hammer a publisher of the german online newsletter thank you. thank you. russian m.p. on the day the look of oil didn't kill former security officer alexander litvinenko according to british lie detector experts the u.k.'s prime suspect passed a polygraph test conducted by the country a specialist for a documentary our london correspondent laura smith looks into how it might change the murder inquiry. did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko no but were you involved in el xander listening cause death no. have you ever had any dealings with polonium no another step towards. moving his innocence in a test administered by british experts andrey lugovoy passes the lie detector

polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six when i get a result. in my mind the right result if or not i don't get a result it's inconclusive i want my guns one hundred percent and if it was admissible in court i would be very pleased the good thing 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 pollute our voice 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. 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 sectors stand alone 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 or 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 and lugovoy remains in russia but he knows there's nothing his country can do to persuade the british that they're accusing the wrong man. if i did the scene with the help of russian specialists the british would have been suspicious about the results so i insisted that the tests should be administered by british experts people who came to test 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. this is just the latest step that andrei lugovoy has taken to attempt to clear his name with the british authorities last november harrison pancras coroner's court because wife marino won the rights to a new wider ranging inquest into her husband's death hugo voice said he welcomed the news and offered to give evidence by video link lugovoy 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 norris myth r.t. london r.t. also met alexander of the course father it continued on friday to find out what he thinks of the mystery surrounding his son's death and who could be behind it. people's political awareness in russia has risen dramatically and the government should respond to that according to outgoing president to meet them with it if he were speaking during the last q. and a of his tenure his words were in regards to the latest wave of post-election

mass rallies across the country or it is it even goes summed up some of my final words as president. this is the last interview that medvedev has given to a journalist before handing over reins had to put in so a very broad range of issues was covered not the least of which were of course the protests which followed russia's state duma elections at the end of last year and to that to me it is said that he respected the peoples are so content or discontent with the government but he did warn that some people are getting a little carried away with a show of protest for example by a person on a hunger strikes. regarding people who protest it first of all they have the right but the other thing here is that there can be a genuine protest and there can be a well calculated political opposition and let me say right away i'm not judging anyone on that matter still there's such

a thing as in hunger games if you've seen it it's quite a regular hollywood blockbuster i've seen it and those who do such things often pursue some obvious political goals some have said that they protest in russia were financed by none other than the united states the state department to that material event of replied that people should not get carried away with conspiracy theories too much washington's hand can reach different places but regarding our country we shouldn't demonize americans let alone say that they can influence some serious political processes in our country we are a big sovereign state and no one can interfere i've got a certain sympathy for one of the candidates but that's my personal opinion if people continue running washington of course the issue of russia's foreign oil tycoon and now a prisoner of course he also came up somewhere asking why dmitry medvedev didn't give pardon to him and did that meeting with head of replied that he couldn't do so constitutionally according to russian law the man has to ask to be freed and for

that of course he did not do so in regards to the international situation and russia's role on the on the political arena in the world of course a lot of attention and. paid it to the situation in the middle east. the arab spring will turn into a cold water comes from russia and we're having spring in all senses of the word as for the situation in the arab world of course the situation is unstable that this is radical forces are trying to grasp in a whole number of countries and if they do working with them will be a lot harder and i told this to everyone to both our american and european partners who said that the transfer of power to extremists shouldn't be the purpose of any transformation. now as far as madrid as plans for the future are concerned it does look like he is likely to become a not just russia's next prime minister of course he also said that that is not set in stone but it is also possible that he will be head of russia's largest political

party united russia but again with better foreign people for making two definite of analysis of what it is he is going to do after he steps down when the president puts and takes over as president on and me seven. russia which is a major backer of kofi annan peace plan has again criticized syria's government and its rebels for breaking the cease fire the foreign ministry in moscow also accuse some opposition fighters who refuse to lay down arms of resorting to outright terrorism and those acts on a boy discovered those still at large have little patience for neutrality. a lifetime of work burned overnight. this facility 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 one hundred fifty employees producing tax tiles for furniture it was never churning out a lot of profit but provided

a distant living for its people all of which is now gone north routes no warnings one evening in february a group of young man threw molotov cocktails into the building the owner said they had just enough time to evacuate the workers to safety but the rest of the evening he just watched his entire fortune go up in flames. the much 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 and into 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 chambre 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 you are kidnapped because you will we ask you to be a ransom 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 succumb 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 when he says he now hands over thirty percent of his profits to those who claim to represent different cars but the i've been receiving threats to stop working and send my people to demonstrations we had 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 wreck it tears it's in a boycott see aleppo syria. going back to what made headlines in russia today dimitri medvedev his final interview us president and we now speak to one of the people who was actually quizzing the president me hurl journalist and the editor in chief of the privately owned russian channel t.v. rein so you challenge the president on corruption and people's disappointment with the government so did movies have managed to in any way reassure you what do you want the president to do now. you know actually that thing but it was just the same guy as he used to be he. spoke the same language has accused

all these for years it was the the same or that rhetorical so-called liberals were told were the regs but so what they actually admitted it was not liberal politician and he broke a date with every single on sort of he. he didn't agree that. the elections in russia were not fair and he didn't agree with the fact that there is some kind of censorship on russian t.v. and. it was very very nice talk and he behaved like a very friendly and nice man but i'm sorry to interrupt actually i want to address those elections you're referring to the parliamentary elections back in december now he had signaled president medvedev signals that those behind the protests since december in moscow are using the people to pursue their own political interests do

you see political ambitions behind their slogans. behind home i'm sorry. excuse me. repeat of the last word behind home sure behind to their slogans their advertisements their what they're protesting against do you see any political ambitions behind that. you know the ambition of the people who are protesting. oh yeah yeah yeah yeah he he mentioned these phrase political ambitions twice for speaking about the lexan of ali he called him not saw corruption fights have got a politician and obviously it's true. of ali now. seems to be the most important opposition political figure. second on the human he is this is the same

phrase bickering about the election. the leader of the protests you know. and i think here he's right about now some of these opposition leaders that you were just mentioning and others are planning what they call a march of millions in moscow in just two weeks time to protest against the results of the presidential poll do you think that they're going to get the support they wanted. i don't think that. the they're expecting to have such a large support as they. they had during the. meetings in winter because all the. previous meetings were rather spontaneous they were not organized by the opposition leaders they were organized by the people themselves these march is organized by a so it would hold off and it will gain she's who are supporters of this

for sure all right well me karl is eager to is a journalist and the editor in chief of russia's private channel t.v. ryan thank you. time to get the latest financial update from katie the wall street has already started trading katie tell us what's the sentiment there right well yeah quite right carol they are up and running and they go to church challenging style but technology and consumer companies already helping the market recover in the an issue a few moments i do have a drop to begin with and the drop was triggered by high the full cost of his claims and disappointing earnings up by exxon mobil and united paul so this as well as you can see that they all rebounding we got the dow jones of a percent on the now. just shortly behind if we get on into europe we see how they're faring in the second part of their trading day i'd like to have

a challenging day now they were fighting off the news that the european commission said is a new sentiment indicator for the seventeen nation countries fell to the lowest level since december that had a negative reaction from both the put on the dax but they are fighting back even though they still remain in negative territory get on the see how the common currency is getting on it is gaining ever so slightly we've got the ruble that is gaining against the u.s. dollar figure if we look at the russian markets they will be closing up shop for a short the day then it looks like they're set to close on the back but today it was a disappointing day for both the l.t.s. answer that my set is getting on to the stocks we'll see who really perform today and gasp wrong they are down around two tenths of a percent there was news that the company agreed to drill a dozen gas wells in bangladesh for one hundred ninety million dollars as well as that we've got gas hydro one and a half percent down to stammer just like dropping that will they get out you'll find in the next product and i'll give you the closing figures it's have

a look at how oil is performing and see the prices for this hour as you can see the light sweet just differing slightly below us at exxon mobil they were really anticipating some big numbers for that company and they didn't come through i'm afraid ok that is the markets this out there and i'll be back in about fifteen minutes of the latest updates all right well we look forward to that update candy thank you our interview is coming your way after a recap of our top stories with me.

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