gyptian get their final shortlist of presidential candidates fear a return to mubarak's era with his prime minister back in the rings. drawing europe's border e.u. leaders pander to a flourishing right wing factions with the french president even threatening to quit the shining and free travel zone. the protests mood sweeping through russia and relations with the u.s. president made me do evaluate his legacy and its final media q. and a before of leaving the kremlin. and to business the russian markets have closed up in the red today despite the high oil prices full stop serving us all climbing i'll have a complete run down with the figures that about twenty minutes time.

is uncommon broadcasting to you live from the heart of moscow and karen tara egypt has issued the final list of presidential candidates with a vote less than a month away multiple disqualifications have left voters confused over who to choose one controversial figure is back in the running so our first 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 lewis' pass which barred former senior barack officials from running in this presidential race now he appealed that on the grounds that the law was passed after he'd apply 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 he viewed 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 fool 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 in the candidates themselves we've seen a number of disqualifications happening so much so the fact that from the original shortlist of twenty three candidates you've actually known legal thirteen candidates on that list and a lot of people have 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 itself 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 mandate 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 food really you definitely have a sense here at. the moment that initial excitement and positivity towards this three presidential election all through the revolution now that's been very much 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 is wait almost there bronzing in syria of bonn of revolution steams on

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. involved in alexandria death. lugovoy is a known liar british experts say the u.k.'s main suspect in the killing of alexander of need had nothing to do with the former russian security officers. be shown going free travel zone an 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 by president nicolas sarkozy are cheesier good discount off reports. the shotgun song consists of twenty six nations which enjoy

visa free and checkpoint free travel and it's really 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 for 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 would 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 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 than the residents fled to many of them living by their own rules and often not peaceful once it will be allowed thousands of these refugees onto the mainland and then they spread into other european union nations actually even cause 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 currently growing in europe and especially in france with right wing forces calling to move away 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 illegal 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 due to be eurozone crisis which is often called by many as another factor

of sparking the right wing sentiments dr ike home our publisher of a german news websites cozies drive for tougher immigration it will only hurt the e.u. in the long term. to move around. was one of the major features. was. getting the people behind the e.u. if you know how. you can top one of the main features of the people wanted from. mrs merrill bookworms ms doesn't pose you. the next election she does everything to support you but i think this was just a matter. of the election not for the election and across the atlantic the u.s. debt hole is being successful in disguised by unscrupulous ratings agencies that's

according to max and stacy in the cause a report later this hour. as the financial services sector considers themselves wholly 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 or the pope from the middle ages you've committed a sin give me some money and you're absolved from that so you go directly to heaven same thing with these radios he's give us the money will turn your triple c. rated toxic securities sludge into a aaa rated god loving security. people's political awareness in russia has risen dramatically and the government should respond to that that's according to outgoing president to me i mean very deep he was 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 are it is it even summed up some of the final words this 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 people's are so of content or discontent with the government but he did warn that some people are getting a little carried away with the show of protest for example by a person on 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 with that have 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 rushes for more oil tycoon and now a prisoner of course he also came up somewhere asking why i'd missed me that it didn't give pardon to him it did that to me to mean that if reply did 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 in the only 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 arab counts for russia having spring in all senses of the word as for the situation in the arab world of course the situation is so unstable that this is the 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 the also possible that he will be the 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 was in takes over as president on me seven and of course you know he's had to r.t. dot com for more on all the stories we're covering here also on our web site a slap in the face over facebook comments and then run the war veteran gets deprived of service personnel benefits and is banned from serving in the u.s. army for posting online that he won't obey orders from his president plus. turning fiction into fact a young russian media mogul launches his very own avatar project planning to make a human brain and mortal transplanting it into a robot's body. brush an m.p. andre will go void didn't kill former security officer of exam that let go that's

according to british law detector experts the u.k.'s prime suspect passed a polygraph test conducted by the country specialist for a documentary our london correspondent laura smith looks into how it might change the murder in curry. stephen did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko no but were you involved in alexandria has been in cause death you know. have you ever had any dealings with borneo you know another step towards proving 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 give a result. more and more and the right result is for naught i don't give a result it's inconclusive i would my guns one hundred percent and if it was

admissible in court i would be very pleased a good thing called a skeptic might say that as a former security services agent look up void 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 to date as far as they're 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 and look of oil 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 scene with the help of russian specialists at the british would have been suspicious about the results so i insisted that the test 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 i think 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 said he welcomed the news and

also it's 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 nora smith r.t. london martin mccauley an expert on russia at the university of london believes the revelation could open a new much more positive chapter and relations between the kremlin and downing street i would see it as a positive step forward of course the next step is for scotland yard common to look at the evidence and to say whether they think it's a step forward to examine it and so on and so forth and then after that when we for the british government then to make a move because the lugovoy case litvinenko case really russian relations for several years both countries need to move forward so therefore if this problem

could be removed then one could look forward to a much more positive chapter in the russian relations. xander living in course while there are two men on friday to find out what he thinks of the mystery surrounding his son's death and who could be behind it. and massive explosion at an alleged rebel bomb making law has killed up to seventy people in the syrian city of hama our state t.v. says militants accidentally triggered an explosion resulting in a blast that leveled an entire row of houses that amid revelations that the american mercenary company formerly known as blackwater is heavily involved in training rebel fighters and information coming via wiki leaks security circles have apparently agreed that the notorious organization is sending its forces to syria through iraq government and business consultant christophe believes their presence

there was sanctioned by those higher up the our. cause is doing targeted killings doing terrorist attacks and then also in gauging and shootouts with suits personal or interfering in peaceful demonstrations so we had or kinds of activities in the past but this time it seems it is those saying that this is services furnishing the mercenaries themselves we can save very clearly and there is ample proof that without the united states of america. and syria would not have been possible it is very clear that no the qatar nor saudi arabia or france will not turkey would be doing everything in syria without a very clear green load or goal from washington. russia which is

a major backer of coffee a nonce peace plan has again criticized syria's government and its rebels for breaking the cease fire the foreign ministry and also accused some opposition fighters who refuse to lay down arms of resorting to terrorism and the socks on a boy to discover 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 ship one hundred and fifty employees producing textiles for furniture it was never churning out a lot of profit but provided the decision living for its people all of which is now gone and no threats no warnings one evening in fabry 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 political person i think the people who did it to me is seeking to undermine the industry as a whole 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 europe politically motivated and those that are outright criminal we witnessed kidnappings we witnessed. attacks on factories. that are being in our bodies of trucks burning the raw material or finished goods. threats putting people on hit lists assassinations of course all these activities criminal activities are taking place is. the cause of supporting the revolution what they call it us advocated engineer for us our 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 older support us. we will kidnap your son or your kids. because you will we ask you to be

a new didn't pay for our. cause of 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 he says he now hands over thirty percent of his profits to those who claim to represent the freedom cars of the i've been receiving threats to stop working people to demonstrations we had to pay the money so that they leave us alone while the support for lepers business people 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

on a boycott see. syrian. time now for a look at some other stories making headlines around the world pakistan's prime minister you saw for good lonnie has been found guilty of contempt of court for refusing to reopen a corruption case against the country's president he was given what's been seen as a symbolic sentence which lasted only a few minutes while he was in court despite immediate calls from the opposition for him to step down he is expected to continue in his role as premier. former liberian president charles taylor has been found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes by a u.n. court and exchange for blood diamonds he was found to have armed vicious sierra leone rebel groups that tory is for cutting off the limbs of their enemies during the nation's civil war the four year trial also saw taylor accused of cannibalism

which he denied. ukraine is building a vital new shelter to contain the remains of the nuclear reactor that exploded in trouble it's as the country remembers the twenty sixth anniversary of the disaster parties that exceed a ship ski reports from the town where the tragedy unfolded. it is warm and sunny ensured normal just like exactly twenty six years ago when the fourth block of the nuclear power station here exploded greeting the history's worst manmade nuclear power plant disaster a special new confinement structure is being built by french company and thirty countries have invested their money into building this new ark like structure which would cover this entire nuclear power plant and it would become it would see the danger for at least another hundred years now all these talks of when you can find what happened amid other speculation as to whether this exclusion zone the area

around the nuclear power plant the lifeless zone could be revitalized some say that this area could still be used to grow biological fuel and for other economic needs though there are serious doubts that this land could ever be inhabited again as radiation levels are still believed to be very high and very unsuitable for human beings to live here. all right let's now join katie at our business desk hello katie so are the u.s. markets still managing to shrug off the disappointing childless claims data yeah they are karen actually they are which is surprising legs you would have thought they would have been down but it's an increase in pending home sales and it's managing to offset that pessimism pessimism which has been triggered by those jobless claims as well is that we've had an inch from exxon mobil as well as united parcel service now they too fell short of investors expectations as well so there's a lot of sentiment about the dow jones and the nasdaq showing their resilience

towards all of that news about the dow jones around a third of a stand up on the nasdaq around the same region as well in positive territory if you look at the european markets they're not doing quite so well as tall as you can see you got to see just dipping below that on the around the port of stand down after the european commission said it's a true sense of an indicator for the regional. seventeen nations fell to the lowest level since december that was really worrying investors in the region that's have a look at the euro dollar as we can see that is shrugging off that news that we have the ruble finishing up mixed against the main currencies hard against the u.s. dollar against the year i'm moving on that see how the russian markets finished up today it was a disappointing day despite high oil prices we have the r.t.s. around half a percent down on the my six just over a point down moving on to the stocks we'll see who drowned in the sea of red we have the gas from that point seven percent down of the company has agreed to drill a dozen of the gas wells in bangladesh one hundred ninety million dollars as an

interesting one to watch her as well they needed two percent down the company's net profit almost tripled last year you would have thought investors would be happy that she fell short of what they were hoping for was a stammer as well as a financial organization and it was one of the biggest gainers that today would you believe it managed to just dip below the red in the last few hours of trade despite a profit getting up to sixty percent of growth at least it is yeah and as i say there's over prices are gaining all right this just now i think is interesting for the first time in seventy four years mexico may allow private investment in its all and gas is the largest oil oil producer in south america that's going to watch i think is talk about more oil challenged. russia's biggest private producer started production one of iraq's richest oil fields in the west

corner now the company hopes to boost output to five hundred thousand hours a day by twenty eight forty now if you put that in perspective that would be a quarter of new calls current daily production loss on the project requires thirty billion dollars investment and it will be spent among other things on clearing the area of thousands of land my. is that the left from the war with iran in the nineteen days i cannot smoke it's the now have the next update in about fifteen minutes playing all right kate thank you very much for that update the latest cause report is coming your way shortly after a quick recap of this hour's top stories. when

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