tonight egyptians get their final shortlist of presidential candidates but fear a return to the barracks with his prime minister back in the race. redrawing europe's borders e.u. leaders pondered a flourishing right wing factions for the french president even threatening to quit the show you can free travels. and protest mood sweeping through russia and relations with the u.s. president but bet evaluates his legacy in his final media q. and a before leaving for credit. hello and welcome i'm kevin now and it's so nine pm here in moscow you're watching at the r t news channel in our top story egypt has issued the final list of presidential candidates with a vote less than

a month away now multiple disqualifications have left voters confused over who to choose but one controversial figure is back in the running sarah firth told us why that 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. fifty now he was disqualified on cheese day after a law is passed 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 upheld so he has been included on that final list of candidates it hasn't gone down to well here has to be said amongst many egyptians see 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 full 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 now only got thirteen candidates on that list and a lot of people have really seeing that as an interference with the election 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 see 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 food really doesn't have a sense or at. the moment that that initial excitement and positivity it's was this first free presidential election after the revolution and now that's been very much a place by a sense of frustration a disappointment some of the people we're speaking to calling for the vote to be postponed to gather and for the electoral commission for the ruling military council to be fired to step aside for another body to come in. first in cairo they will middle east coast shero told me the confusion in the build up to the vote will prevent a gypsy's from expressing their political will and eventually lead to yet more uncertainty. the 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 it's all about become because of this rushed nature and this extreme disqualifications it's 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 that aspiration for a more democratic egypt this will be if whatever they say the next six months or two whatsoever will be a transitional period people will see who the president will be but ultimately this will not be an end to the process there's a lot of spear ations and horse that have been smashed through this process and the liberal parties and the secular parties and the leftist forces in egypt are not going to put up with it. and as egyptians wait on the fruits of their uprising in syria a violent revolution steams ahead coming up in the program the story of a city brought to ruin in a country where neutrality is increasingly no longer an option also. involved

in alexandra with an english dancer. look a voice no liar british experts say the u.k.'s main suspect in the killing of alexander litvinenko nothing to do with the former russian security officers. the 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 want to lead in it's been a running theme in the right wing dominated french presidential election on the ideas quickly been picked up by president nicolas sarkozy to. cannot report. the shotgun zone 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 the 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. thousands of these refugees onto the mainland and then they spread into other european union nations 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 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 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 its. if you do to be eurozone crisis was often called by many as another factor sparking right wing sentiments. camera a publisher of a german news website says sarkozy's drive for tougher immigration lowly hurt the e.u. in the long term to move in. was one of the

major features. was to get the people behind the e.u. if you know how. you can one of the main features that the people wanted from the e.u. mrs merrill bookworms mr suppose the. next elections so she does everything to support you but i think this is just a matter in front of the election nothing for after the election. and across the atlantic the u.s. death toll has been successfully disguised by unscrupulous ratings agencies as we reveal it's not a scape the whole of marx and stacey tell us all about the codes report on air seven thirty pm g.m.t. on this channel. 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 staple indulgences right out of the text but 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 couple see rated toxic securities sludge into a aaa rated god loving security. people's political weather syria russia has risen dramatically and the government should respond to that according to outgoing president dmitri medvedev he was speaking during the last q. and a of his tenure his words were in regard to the latest wave of post-election mass rallies across the country r.t. is a really good summit of some of the various 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 be serious 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 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 of course he also came up somewhere asking why dmitry medvedev didn't give pardon to him and did that speech him instead 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. made it to the situation in the middle east. the arab

spring will turn into a cold. house 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 unstable 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 i 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 two definite of analysis of what if he is going to do after he steps down. puts and takes over as president on me seven. if you had learned from our website tonight r.t.

dot com a slap in the face over facebook comments an iraqi veteran gets the private 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 when read up more about dot com from us turning fifty children into five young russian media mogul launches his very own avatar project planning to make a human brain immortal by transplanting it into a robot body so that our team don't comb. or brush look avoid 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's specialist for a documentary a london correspondent laura smith looks into how it might change the murder inquiry. stephen did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko

no. were you involved in alexandria listening cause death you know. you have never had any dealings with borneo no another step towards proving his innocence in a test administered by british experts andrei look up voigt passes the lie detector polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six give a result. in my mind it's the right result if or not i don't give a result it's inconclusive why would my guns one hundred percent and if it was admissible in court 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're 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 tech set it 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 so 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 his. country 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 the test should be administered by british experts people who came to us we are 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 because wife marino won the rights to a new wider ranging inquest into her husband's death voice 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 may r.t. london. and r.t. also my legs on the liver and his father tune in if you can on friday to find out

what he thinks of the mystery surrounding his son's death and who he thinks could be behind it. a massive explosion of alleged rebel bomb making labs killed and injured up to seventy people in the syrian city of hama on state t.v. says militants accidentally triggered an explosion resulting in a blast of leveled the entire row of houses that amid revelations that the american most recover pretty formerly known as blackwater is heavily involved in training rebel fighters and information coming via wiki leaks security circles of apparently agreed that the notorious organization is sending its forces to syria through iraq government a business consultant crystal horsetail told us he believes their presence there was sanctioned by those higher up. the. cause is doing targeted killings doing terrorist attacks and then are sort of gauging in shootouts with personnel or interfering in peaceful demonstrations so we had all

kinds of activities in the past but this time it seems as though saying that this is exceeds services furnishing the mercenaries themselves we can see very clearly and there's 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 nor britain not turkey would be doing anything in syria without a very greedy load or goal from washington russia which is a major backer of peace plan is again criticize 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 terrorism and it's not his exam the boy who found those still at large 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 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 threw 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 do 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 politically motivated and those that are outright criminal we witnessed kidnappings we witnessed. attacks on factories. that are being robberies 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. 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 kids. 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 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 aleppo syria israel's top army chief benny gantz says his forces backed by those of other nations are ready to take direct action against iran now on wednesday the israeli media released earlier comments from the general in which he seemed to distance himself from prime minister netanyahu towards

a military strike beirut based middle east expert at risk leaves the roots of the discord spread across the atlantic. this rift was contribute to your actually the americans had a big role to play in this rift i think that the americans gave i clear message to the israeli military establishment because we all know politically what it comes to the relations amongst american and israeli politicians that there are some problems you know between not on the our want obama the personal chemistry problem so i think that the. americans actually conveyed the message to the military and use their relations if we could say the american israeli military relations to put pressure on those who support military action like netanyahu and other hawks or right wing thinkers inside the israeli government inside the israeli political establishment so i think this makes it more difficult now for netanyahu to make his case that military action is necessary i was not on the whole has been arguing that

for a long time now cover the top world news headlines tonight pakistan's prime minister yousuf raza guillen he's been found guilty of contempt of court for refusing to reopen a corruption case against the country's president he was given what's seen as a symbolic sentence which only lasted a few minutes while he was in court despite immediate calls from the opposition him to step down he is expected to continue in his role as premier. terror attacks have claimed the lives of at least seven people in nigeria a suicide bomber rammed his car into the office of a major nigerian newspaper in the country's capital with people die the rest were killed in a second blast which targeted another of the newspaper's buildings in a city north of a budget today's assault seemed to mirror earlier attacks by radical islamists that have killed hundreds of people in nigeria this year alone. twenty five minutes past nine at night moscow time thanks for being with us you're watching r.t. coming up our latest business headlines live from moscow just sixty seconds hence.

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my welcomes a business is check out the markets this hour the u.s. markets are alive and kicking entering into that afternoon session that was also sentiments going on that we had pending home sales they managed to offset the pessimism triggered by those jobless claims that really fell short of what investors were anticipating but as i say pending home sales were up all that said so therefore we've got the dow jones on the nasdaq rising this hour we also had some negative results coming from exxon mobil and united post so saw it says well that's really helping to boost the office we've also got the physio and the dax they finished up in a positive territory following on from those sentiments that the u.s. had in that early hours if we check out the european it currency will see that it's not she gaining at this hour we can see it's one thirty two thirty three days of the traders favorite pat other brutal finish top makes against the cars is there

again to get the u.s. dollar a lost against the euro the russian markets had a challenging day today they failed to get out of the red territory b.l.t.'s hall five percent down the mine so i was up and down in the red that check out the stocks and see how they got on we had gas they were swimming in the red sea that the company agreed to drill a dozen of gas wells and that by just one hundred ninety million dollars as well as that we got last hydro as well the company's net profit true we're told a lot. yeah but despite they win eighty percent down i was also systemic as well as a financial corporation head point six percent down eighty prices some really positive results for twenty and eleven but certainly didn't help the incised training session if we get into that all will see that prices are indeed gaining at this hour we've got the light sweet over one hundred four dollars per barrel on the forensic edging towards a hundred and twenty days prices are high it will suit what international pressure is taking and that's how the markets for now.

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