this is r t tonight egyptians get their final shortlist of presidential candidates but a return to the barracks era with this prime minister back in the race. redrawing europe's borders e.u. leaders ponder the flourishing right wing factions of the french president even threatening to quit the show and get in free travels. on the protest mood sweeping through russia and relations with the us president medvedev evaluates his legacy in his final media q. and a before leaving the kremlin. hello and welcome it's eleven pm here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin now in our top story egypt has issued a final list of presidential candidates with

a vote less than a month away now multiple disqualifications of voters confused there were over who to choose but one controversial figure is back in the running sarah firth 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. now he was disqualified on cheese day of louis pass which bars former senior vatican 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 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 see the 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 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 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. moment that initial excitement and positivity it's was this first free presidential election after the revolution 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. our correspondent in cairo there will middle east blogger koshare oh told me the confusion of the build up to the vote is likely to prevent egyptians 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 their military 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 their choices and i don't think that at all represents the spirit of egyptian when they started this uprising and their aspirations for a more democratic egypt this will be for about they say the next six months or whatever 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 a spear a sions and hopes 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. well as the egyptians wait on the fruits of their uprising in syria meantime it's business as usual coming up with a program the world's most famous mercenary company seeks to set up shop in syria

with western funded rebels proving a loop devoted to the for profit as we report plus. we pulled an alexander litvinenko is death. look of always no lie british experts say the u.k.'s main suspect in the killing by xander litvinenko had nothing to do with the former russian security officer. the shang good 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 who they lead it's been a running theme in the right wing dominated french leadership election and the ideas quickly been picked up by president sarkozy to. his can offer a port. 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 the symbol 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 thousands of these refugees onto the mainland and then the 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 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 card as he's battling for a second term in office right and she threw out. altogether if no serious measures are taken to battle a few 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 easiest times do to be eurozone crisis which is often called by many as another sparking right wing sentiments coming up live this hour in the program cyber security versus your online privacy the white house threatening to step in against

a controversial new internet security bill which could leave the online dater of american citizens open to government snooping we'll be talking more about that fingers crossed. next people's political weirdness in russia has risen dramatically in the government should respond to that according to the 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 but he's unwilling because some of my very final words as president. this is the last interview that medvedev has given to a journalist before handing over reins it to the metropolitan 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 david said that he respected 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 you 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 and some have said that the protests in russia were financed by none other than the united states a state department to that material movement 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 the

people continue running washington of course the issue of russia's formal will tycoon and now a prisoner of the cross 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. needed to the situation in the middle east. the arab spring will turn into a cold. 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

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 two definite other analysis of what it is he is going to do after he steps down when he was in takes over as president on and me seven. and if you'd like to watch more of that you watch the full interview with the outgoing russian president on our web site r t v dot com well we're talking about what's online tonight these stories to a slap in the face over facebook comments as we're reporting on a rocky 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 the

creepy cloud of moscow that spreads panic of an alien invasion or a chemical catastrophe but we're actually worried about that for a while i was there when i was walking into work earlier on very strange when very dark we'll explain what really caused the capital scar is to go green or thereabouts for an hour on first. very strange russian and look a void didn't kill former security officer alexander litvinenko according to british lie detector expert the u.k.'s prime suspect passed a polygraph test conducted by the country specialist for a documentary london correspondent laura smith looks into how it might change the murder acquiring. 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 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 on 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 i would be very pleased to get 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 cut up the core a documentary maker whose idea it was palooka to undergo it thinks that's unlikely even every american police station has a polygraph test and if it was so easy to fall why security services would use it or to date as far as they are concerned 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 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 or even asking russia to change its constitution to allow his extradition to we would clear that while it was a reasonably big ask it was not unreasonable to say that they should change the constitution to make possible the sort of judicial corp foreign minister sergey lavrov gave his british counterpart short shrift a new government remains in russia but he knows there's nothing he. his country 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. people who came to us we are members of the british polygraph association is with us 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 did 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 made r.t. . to find out the latest twists and turns in this long running story you'll be interested to know as well we also know exam is live an anchor's farther you continue on friday to this channel to find out what he thinks of the mystery surrounding his son's death and who thinks could be behind it it's can be very interesting to see that. the white house is threatening to veto

a new cybersecurity bill which would leave the federal government free to harvest into the private online dater of american citizens the obama administration strongly opposes cispa which is due to be voted on by congress tomorrow let's talk about this now with. that to vist and founder of demand progress dot org joining someone from new york our own evening to you as simply as you can because this is quite complex complicated can you explain the difference between this legislation in the previous controversial bills aimed at combating piracy what's different about this one. the previous bills were about giving the government the power of the sense of the internet and this is more like a patriot act for the internet it sort of lets the government run roughshod over privacy protections and share personal data about you take it from facebook and other internet providers and use it without the normal privacy protections that are in the law so as far as individuals concerned it is worse even worse than the previous ones more draconian. yeah it's worse because it does allow the government

to shut down websites for national security reasons so it does have all the censorship problems the previous bill did but it also goes much further and allows them to spy on people using the internet to get their personal data and e-mails it's incredibly broad and dangerous but not popular among a lot of internet users what is popular amongst become please like facebook i.b.m. microsoft they're backing the bill i can protest is complete with major corporations and companies like that. but true big corporations are supporting this bill especially the big corporations that make money off of violating people's privacy so it's not a big surprise they're in favor but what we're seeing is that the same way grassroots efforts were able to stop sopa despite millions of dollars of hollywood lobbyist behind it there are now also being able to stop this bill i mean everyone said you know this is just a consensus in washington you can do anything and now even the white house is coming out against this incredibly strong language much stronger than they used to

get so far you know you surprised about going to say you do have one big bucket that is the pin for all this bombers administration is now planning to veto the bill despite the fact that over two hundred in congress is supporting it is this you say you sound a bit surprised by the strength of the way the white house has come about about this is it more about political point scoring or preserving online privacy do you think. you know i think with all these decisions it's a little bit of both i think the white house obviously is interested in you know repairing the record reputation but i think there are some people in the white house who really do care about this in fact is when they looked at this bill and investigated this incredibly bad it was forced them to speak out now this below at the end of the day if you look at it in face value is meant to enforce cyber security and prevent cyber threats if these are real threats and surely the u.s. does need something to safeguard them against it what's your alternative but the thing about this bill is it doesn't really have any protections against cyber

threats it allows people to share information but that's not going to solve the problem what's going to solve the problem is actual security measures protecting the servers in the first place not spying on people after the fact so what i'd like to see is you know and a bunch of security experts have proposed a bill that really does secure our computer systems makes them harder to attack rather than one that just involves more spying and watching people the sunni acronyms flying around me across europe we've been following it closely on the sham we've seen thousands come out in protest recently against the global anti kind of getting agreement called act now depending on friday's vote in congress the expected with same kind of response of the u.s. open system. i mean we've already seen you know quite an outcry i don't think it's going to be quite on the level we've seen in other countries but already you know almost a million people have signed a petition on the internet and many representatives have spoken out against it this is a tougher fight no question because it's harder to go up against you know this notion of cyber terrorists that they're using but i think we're making

a lot of progress and i think we'll see the bill eventually defeated. being on the line there as the fog in the clouds of new york swirl around beyond your head in the studio thanks very much aaron swartz internet activist and founder of the man progress dot all good in the program. let me bring you up to date on more top stories now a massive explosion in an alleged 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 that leveled an entire row of houses that amid revelations that the american mostly company formely down as blackwater is heavily involved in training rebel fighters and information coming via wiki leaks security a circles of apparently agreed that the notorious organization is sending its forces to syria through iraq government and business consultant crystal horsetail told us he believes their presence there was sanctioned by those higher up the.

is doing targeted killings doing terrorist attacks and then indeed you can shoot outs with personally or interfering in peaceful demonstrations so we have our kinds of activities in the us for this time it seems as though he's saying that this is exceeds services furnishing the mercenaries themselves we can see very clearly and . that without the united states of america any interference in syria would not have been possible it is very clear that neither qatar nor saudi arabia france not britain not turkey would be doing anything in syria without a green light or goal from washington. russia which is a major backer of coffee and peace plan is again criticize syria's government and its rebels for breaking the cease fire the foreign ministry of moscow also accuse

some opposition fighters who refuse to lay down arms of resorting to terrorism and as artists have boy discovered the still at large of the patients for neutrality. a lifetime of work burned overnight. this is one of a growing number of businesses in syria destroyed by those claiming to advance the cause of that revolution this factory was a classic example of syrian interpreter ship one hundred fifty employees producing textiles for furniture it was never 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 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. so much pride and textile

machines they've 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 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 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. the cause of supporting the revolution what they call it the us advocated for us our shahabi says many in the 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'll tell them support us. we will kidnap your son or your kids. because you. and you 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 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 different cars but 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 and wreck it tears on a boycott see. syria in just a minute here on our two katie's got today's final business update from moscow

friedman i'll be back with a headline update right after the. hi

there let's get to the market in the u.s. to begin with they are indeed on the rise and thus despite disappointing home sales as investors take their optimism for the better than expected data on the housing front with home sales hitting a two year high it was also shares of technology firms that are running along with her more than she found as you can see the dow jones on the nasdaq nearly one percent let's get on to the euro dollar and we can see it is indeed gaining ever so slightly there and that was following on for the gains made in the european stocks they managed to finish high and that was because altos really set the tone despite confidence data for the euro. declining ok let's have a look at the ruble you can see it's mixed against the basket of currencies we're going to move on to the russian markets and see that they closed up in the red but one stock that was doing a particularly well that i'm going to talk about

a right now is a mile up the dog road now it's russia's internet investment and it's your ville some results it's very news rose forty three percent in the first quarter of the year and that was above expectations the company which owns a little over two percent to facebook also said it's lost in that profit jumped one hundred fifty eight percent of all stories about russian stock russia's top engine yandex has reported a fifty three percent increase in net profit for the first quarter which is actually slightly lower than expected the company now has ambitions to expand globally and it's starting with turkey why turkey the company's c.e.o. explains. we're currently experimenting with this model of working on noncompetitive markets today there are just a few countries where competition is intense there are for example the us russia

and china but users in europe latin america and most of these have almost no choice that's a potential nice where we can come with an appropriate product and be useful. in the store. and that's all the business. will be out with a headline. wealthy british style. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report.