tonight egypt shouldn't get their final shortlist of presidential candidates but fear a return to mubarak's era with its prime minister back in the race. redrawing europe's borders e.u. leaders pander to flourishing right wing factions with the french president even threatening to quit the show and get a free travels of. and the protests move sweeping through russia and relations with the u.s. president medvedev evaluates his legacy in his final media q. and a before leaving the kremlin. however a good evening for me kevin owen here in moscow this is r.t.

it's now eight pm moscow time our top story egypt has issued the final list of presidential candidates with the vote now less than a month away multiple disqualifications have left voters though confused over who to choose but one controversial figure is back in the running sarah first told us why his 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 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 applied to run and that was upheld 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 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 controversy surrounding the candidacies and the candidates themselves we see the 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 you after this list was 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 food really doesn't have a sense or at. maybe that initial excitement and positivity towards this first three presidential election after the revolution and now that's been very much a place by a sense of frustration a disappointment for the people with the calling for the vote to be postponed with gather and for the electoral commission for the ruling military council to be fired to step aside for another body to come in. close to the region and the culture was blogger in the middle east coast shero is joining us on the line from london hi there karl despite a wave of disqualification aguy the most controversial no that we heard that of a barracks from. remains in the race tonight does that mean he still has his

supporters in the ruling authority or simply that he's done his paperwork on time you know i don't think it's a question of paperwork interpretation in egypt at the moment is that this is the military's push to maintain a credible candidate credible that is from their point of view someone that could take votes away from the islamist candidates and other candidates and possibly allow them to control the transition for the transition into egypt and maintain the military's control and all these disqualifications we've witnessed have resulted in a lot of confusion among the voters many favorites of being blocked so how is this going to play out when people actually get their chance to vote in a month. well it's very interesting at the moment but i think we'll see a lot of tactical voting for example you would have thought the. extreme islamists with actually support perhaps the muslim brotherhood and it appears they're going

to vote someone for someone who used to be in the muslim brotherhood. has running as an independent at the same time you might argue that liberals for example is another secularist who wouldn't have anything to do with anyone associated with them or barak era but if they have a choice between an islamist candidate and someone like i would almost. or again used to be a figure in the more administration they might choose. for our room also so again it's all about become because of this rushed nature and this extreme disqualification is going to be into second choices and perhaps third choices and i don't think that at all represents the spirit of egyptian when they started this uprising and aspiration for a more democratic egypt and also of course the way this whole election process has been conducted has not gone down well with many egyptians is it the calling for both the electoral committee and the military rulers to be ousted is there a danger this tension could escalate into a new unrest. well here we have to be careful who might initiate that unrest

because you might have assumed that the muslim brotherhood for example having lost the leading credit of shot there or that salafist when they lost their leading candidate. they would have sort of agitated more to have them be instated but there's only they've done half hearted measures so this points out to two things first that the drivers of the unrest or the uprising in the beginning where not the islamists were more the kind of the more secular forces in egypt who are the second thing that points out to those don't appear to be kind of willing to mobilize on the ground and say go back to tahrir square in order to upset this is the way that rush nature of their lead up to the present television presidential election is going up so i predict in the medium term or the immediate future there's not going to be unnecessarily i mean an unrest but i would say there's going to be a lot of disappointment predominantly for most egyptians because there are going to

be the possibility for the kind of the choice basic question this would interesting i'm open to get from you if faced with a choice between a form of mubarak man and the extreme islamist candidates who do you think the people are going to choose at the end of the day depends what the people are i mean if you look at the results of the lectures undoubtedly it was two thirds of the population voted for an islamist candidate however they are they are split roughly two thirds one one third and it's not kind of a pleasant choice i think what we need to focus on behind the question is why is everyone being deprived the possibility to vote for who would have been their first choice why isn't there a credible liberal candidate say partially due to the military scheming and exclusion of candidates and partially people like but are there excluding themselves who are following closely thanks for your input mideast blogger the joining us on the line from london thank you. there's

a gyptian swayed on the fruits of the uprising in syria meantime a violent revolution steams on later in the program we'll report from a once prosperous industrial city where factories are now in ruins and business owners are reportedly blackmailed in suits supporting the revolt is an interesting story coming up also tonight. resembled an alexander litvinenko is death. look avoids no law of british experts say the u.k.'s main suspect in the killing of alexander litvinenko had nothing to do with the former russian security officer is dead. the shang good luck free travel zone and i call of european unity and integration could soon cease to exist with calls for countries to be allowed to decide for themselves just who they want to let in now it's been a running theme in the right wing dominated french presidential election and the ideas quickly picked up by president nicolas sarkozy to r.t.c. god piskun 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 and often peaceful once. thousands of these refugees onto the mainland and then they spread into other

european union nations it's actually even caused a conflict with france which partially introduced border control since a large quantities 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 from the union and concentrate more on domestic problems president sarkozy has been actively playing. card as he's battling for a second term in office until mr right and she threw out. all together it's no serious measures are taken to battle 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. the

easiest times due to be eurozone crisis we have often called by many as another factor sparking right wing sentiments. to try came a publisher of a german news website says sarkozy's drive for tougher immigration really hurt the e.u. in the long term but to move around in europe was one of the major features. was to get the people behind the e.u. if you now set up the borders again you can't look one of the main features that the people wanted from the e.u. and i think mrs marrable at once mr suppose we do. the next elections so she does everything to support team but i think this is just a matter of in front of the election nothing for after the election. across the atlantic the u.s.

death toll has been successfully disguised by unscrupulous ratings agencies but it's not a scope the whole cause of marx and stacy they reveal all because a report tonight at seven thirty g.m.t. . 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 sin you go directly to heaven same thing with these radios he's give us some money on your triple c. rated toxic securities sludge into a aaa rated god loving securing. people's political awareness in russia has risen dramatically and the government should respond to that according to our going president dmitri medvedev 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. because summed up some of my very 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 took that to mean to do that 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 this sort 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 is 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 and some have said that the protests in russia were financed by none other than the united states a state department to that material vetted 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 silver in state and no one can interfere i've got a certain sympathy for one of the candidates but that's my personal opinion that people continue running washington of course the issue of russia's foreign oil tycoon and now a prisoner may have had a costly also came up some were asking why the me that it didn't get pardoned 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 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. case for 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 so unstable that 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 many various 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 the head of russia's largest

political party united russia but again with a different people from making too definite of analysis of what if he is going to do after he steps down when person takes over as president on means seven. we invite you to head to r.t. dot com for more of all the stories we're covering. tonight a slap in the face over facebook comments an iraqi war veteran gets deprived of service personnel benefits and is banned from serving in the u.s. army for posting online that he wanted orders from his president plus. turning fiction into fact a young russian media mogul launches his very own project planning to make a human brain a mortal by transporting it transplanting it into robots and boldly. look avoid didn't kill former security officer alexander litvinenko according to british lie detector experts the u.k.

prime suspect passed a polygraph test conducted by the country specialist for a documentary a london correspondent laura smith looks into how it might change the murder inquiry now. did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko no but you were involved in alexandria has been in 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 when i get a result. in my mind it's the right result if or not i don't give 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 the security services would use it or to date as far as they are concerned they examine as 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 tax acted 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 or even asking russia to change its constitution to allow his extradition we would clear that while it was a reasonably big ask it was not unreasonable to say that they should change their 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 has come. we could do to persuade the british that they're accusing the wrong man. if i did the scene with the help of russian specialists that 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 or members of the british polygraph associations with us and we will invite these experts as witnesses in any court proceeding i don't expect any serious change but for me it was the moment of truth i think at this 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 let me end because wife marina won the rights to a new wider ranging inquest into her husband's death said he welcomed the news and offered to give evidence by video link look of all 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 made r.t. london welty also made of examining his father to know friday if you get a minute to find out what he thinks of the mystery surrounding his son's death and who he thinks could be behind it. massive explosion of the alleged to rebel bomb making labs killed and injured up to seventy people in the syrian city of hama state t.v. says militants accidentally triggered an explosion resulting in a blast leveled fire row houses that have made 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 of apparently a greater than a tourist organization is sending its forces to syria through iraq government and business consultant christophe horsfall believes their presence there was sanctioned by those higher up. the our. cause

is doing targeted killings doing terrorist attacks and then are sort of gauging and shootouts with personnel or interfering in peaceful demonstrations so we had all kinds of activities in the past but this time it seems it is they say that this is services furnishing the mercenaries themselves we can see very clearly and there is ample proof that without the united states of america ference in syria would not have been possible it is very clear that neither qatar nor saudi arabia or france not britain not turkey would be doing everything in syria without a very greedy load or goal from washington russia which is a major backer of co finance peace plan has again criticized syria's government and its rebels for breaking the ceasefire the foreign ministry of moscow's accused some

opposition fighters who refuse to lay down arms of resorting to terrorism and as artie's exam the boy who discovered those still at large have little patience for neutrality. a lifetime of work burned over night. this closely tea 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 tax tile for furniture and it was never turning out a lot of profit but provided a distiller living for its people all of which is now gone not rats no warnings one evening in fabry a group of young men through a lot of cocktails into the building the owner says they had just enough time to evacuate the workers to safety but the rest of the in mean he just watched his entire fortune go up in flames. so much pride and textile machines they bought from

spain three years ago had to be sold for scrap lost in place lost their only source of income and i don't think it was a personal attack against me i'm not a political person i think the people who did it to me 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 out politically motivated and those that are outright criminal we witnessed kidnappings we witnessed. attacks on factories.

that are being robberies 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. 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 they tell them support us. we will kidnap your son or your kids. because you will ask. for our. cause peaceful cause and i wonder how can this be peaceful if you are getting money like. organized crime and there are many who said harm to the

racketeers to keep their business afloat the owner of this textile factory had to fire half of its 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 the i've been receiving threats to stop working 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 in iraq it tears. on a boycott see. syrian. food surge. to

talk. with the business going to screw the u.s. market is still managing to shrug off the disappointing jobless claims bring us up to date with kevin actually surprisingly so you would have thought that they would have been in red territory this hour but they're really no there's actually been a collision of data today because we had an increase in pending home sales as well and that's modest to offset the pessimism triggered by those jobless claims kept it as well as that we always have bad news coming from exxon mobil and united parcel service is that massive companies in the u.s. you say and they failed to meet investors expectations there were big numbers expected from those companies do we have a look at the u.s. figures now you'll be able to see that they are indeed a gamey of the dow jones on the nasdaq that despite those figures is have a look at the european markets because they too are managing to drop off some bad sentiments coming out in that region it to die it's been a volatile day to say the least in the european region if we can have

a look at the first the and the dutch will be able to see that just recently they've managed to get themselves up and close to turkey which i can't believe because it's been all over the price today and a lot of that is because that was the figures that came out today from the european commission saying that the eight percent of an indicator for the european region both to lows that level since december that really affected the the mood in europe but we've had all shows really rallying in the last hour or trade today that said to finish up if we look at the euro dollar we'll also be able to see that the trade is currency pair the favorite president is doing rather well no one thanks to you thirty three is actually strengthening now the ruble that's how it finished up shop today it was mixed against a basket of currencies if you look at the russian markets will see that they are finished a lower today and that was the coals well they were feeding off all sorts of momentum coming. on the early hours over in the us when they opened up a lot as you see the artist vanished over half

a percent down have them isaac's over a percentage point in negative territory if we look at the stocks we'll see who are the losers and that will open today it's been we had gas pump point seven percent down there there's some interesting news coming from then send that the company is going to be a debt market we also had ross hydro as well that nearing toward two percent down systemic point six percent down as well but despite hazen's more any encouraging figures from two thousand and eleven sixty percent growth for that to collect company and going on to always see that the prices are indeed gaining at this hour are indeed mixed is now as you can see the lights we just don't have as a slightly outcome from the federal reserve meeting we had some comments saying that that the ninety is expecting follow full growth rates that are right all of that feeding three the markets this hour kevin i'll be back in fifteen minutes super duper things from sports news to tell our viewers about in fifteen minutes time the cojones to go in cup suddenly in the russian capital for the first time the league's history is big news more on the landmark trying to do number moscow

than in sports in fifteen minutes time after i've read the i was headlines next though in this quick break. room.