progs threatens to pull out of the schengen travel zone unless tougher border powers are granted within the e.u. and it should have critics say undermines the block's principle of european unity. in egypt thousands of businesses are expected to descend on time square for the third friday in a row in a rally they say is aimed at upholding the revolution many feel the fight for democracy has been replaced by a scramble for power. and also the arrests of dozens of university students running against tuition hikes in canada because warnings that police tactics with any joy of discontent and fuel national protest. the father of former security officer alexander litvinenko who died in london of radioactive poisoning tells r.t. he knows who is responsible for his son's murder.

broadcasting live from moscow twenty four seven mrs r.t. . france talks tough in europe tackles illegal immigration or paris pulls out of the troubles and according to president nicolas sarkozy the stance has already caused a stir among some members with belgium saying french election concerns are out playing a bigger role that sarkozy is facing a hard fight in a presidential runoff vote a week on sunday. reports. they say it's better to travel than to write but for european unity the ride has been bumpy to say the least. and where could it be headed and know what the euro is and will implode a considerable number of economists admit when the french of foreign that the eurozone is already dead it will collapse.

so says the candidate who surprised france by securing almost a fifth of the votes in round one of their presidential race all the other candidates without exception regard the european union as part of the solution or as the main solution as she has identified it and her campaign the fact that it's actually the cause of the problems much of the french press catullus are completely wedded to the euro project they cannot conceive of a foreign policy or domestic policy which is deeply. rooted in the whole european project one that finds itself in ever more shaky ground the should get agreement one of european integration sacred cows allowing border free travel across the e.u. is under fire. germany and france want member states to have the option to bring back those internal borders for thirty day period if there's a threat to security and public order there's

a danger and more and more people are also going to start attacking all the good aspects of europe and divisions within the union don't end their amnesty international's recent report documents examples of prejudice in the block against muslims in education and employment ideas that were once very much on the fringe of the through the political spectrum on all being really mainstream in the right certainly able to sort of sort and so when the left would come and see the people more racist certainly not but there has to be some sort of. a wider or fortunately for people to express the hate and to also indulge into violent behavior so where does that leave you or even the people who are against this kind of europe another against the euro in an idea that say they want a different kind of europe the e.u. may be trying to say a path that's to achieve its vision and version of europe the obstacles are getting

bigger from voters rallying behind brussels candidates to oppose also putting back border controls some e.u. leaders have dismissed them as populist threats but the question is are they merely still threats or is this growing resistance already the tip of an iceberg. sylvia r.t. brussels well with skepticism and major issue in the french presidential election member states on nervously awaiting the outcome of the but not web site r.t. dot com we're asking you what the main challenge for next french let me say for your sake main task will be very big but. i think the point of quarter think the most difficult task starting the economy rest of it's almost equally spread so far you see the biggest. challenges and using tension with immigration bill clinton on conflicts. caro's tahrir square world food anger again on friday as the gyptian vent their

frustrations towards the country's current military rulers whatever the same people who are condemning the current leaders for failing the demands of the revolution themselves stand accused of trying to monopolize power and the surf reports for many egyptians the ongoing political wrangling is pushing democracy to the sidelines. protests nation after the revolution toppled president mubarak egyptians have continued to use people power as a way to force change the sights the sounds of protesters on cairo's tahrir square have become a familiar one more than a good president from power with presidential elections just around the corner and the activities here have once again taken center stage but if the last two years taught us anything is that revolution alone is not a democracy make why the upcoming elections appraising so important.

as a discussion group focused on a paced arab spring egypt we met a former members mubarak's regime now a prominent speaker here in egypt the revolution was a must and it's a great action but unfortunately after we have a lot of problems and the challenges we have to discuss and do have to reach a vision for that not everyone will say positive one man asked the panel how they'd feel about the outcome if they'd been one of the young revolutionaries there's no quick pulls but he's not given a clear answer. on forces and the. administration . after. they get. in live in february. we order the protection for values and we will we will give the people what you want we'll give you. freedom we'll give you

a democracy he told us of the frustration of many people he turned out to tahrir but now feel they've been left represented with a new struggle for power creating many of the regimes old guard what is a democracy is the. promise of course is a common complaint with an equally common answer. but the revolutionary meet with homes can last indefinitely i can't say a second wave but we will expect to know waves of. people protesting against certain actions and this is the mcchrystal everywhere i'm sure that when they would realize that they should go in a different way more realistic and to understand the real interest is to reject it so not only slogans or shout things it's the economy the culture and the politics

at the end of the thing i have us in a single thirty in underestimating people seeing regimes across the arab world full now in the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies of those he might become the next president they'll need to be careful not to allow power to turn out the voices of face who are determined that this time they'll be heard i think we will. get right to choice and i think the right the right way in. that evolution and this is. the state. and and home. and then there are a revolution since i don't know. surface r.t. kyra. next day people about his guests discuss whether any lessons were learned from the arab revolutions. libya is

a broken country they are unwilling to look at libya because then it ruins the idea of the so-called libyan model the exporting boom model that some people want to take to syria so any look back at libya is going to caution you about using need to out of an area in such a military kind of militaristic way nobody wants to talk about for instance the fact that an entire town in libya the town of thought it was ethnically cleansed you know there is no call for a food detail forensic human rights investigation of what is happening in libya post nato intervention and nato as you know has refused any public or independent evaluation of its tactics in libya. for.

months of protests in canada boiled over as it can't stop students clashed with riot police over the tuition hike. oh. the spray along with all the fun of police tactics resulted in multiple injuries sense again and two months ago that government pays attention and that's. once conditions down students again students to voice their frustrations sixty stations have since found genest men and discounting says heavy handed policing and strengthen the students' course. they're right there with relatively minor incidents our window was broken and some very close but i realized by the police is using that as a pretext to conduct massive repression and usually the ones who will break your window or another once you get caught the police those that have the they run

faster than the police the ones who get caught there aren't peaceful protesters and people are becoming infuriated by the behavior of the police to where it's peaceful protesters always fueling the fire. this has profound around it think people are very unhappy about the way their political elites are behaving and the feel that the government is not serving the people at all it's only serving big financial interests this is all those are all very repressive and it's only going to fuel more and more and more people are going to join those there actually are. what's ahead for you at this hour on r.t. russia and china major joint military drills we look at the significance in the wake of similar war games conducted in the region by the u.s. . plus a new cyber security act clears a major hurdle as critics who question who can reason it to protect him from the

government and to uphold it. the father of alexander litvinenko the former russian security officer who died of radioactive poisoning in london in two thousand and six says he knows who's behind his son's death he spoke to r.t. shortly before british and i detect experts conclude that scotland yard's main suspect in the edge of the russian pm on the boy was not guilty a correspondent has more on the case that sort of toys between moscow and london pointed to a new low. the promise i'm still not entirely clear you how can you come here and bang the drum for british business while the suspected killer of alexander litvinenko is being protected by the russian state this issue hasn't been pock the fact is that the two governments don't agree and the poor me i would like to remind you that article sixty one of the russian constitution says a russian citizen cannot be extradited to a foreign state for legal proceedings and it will never happen to anyone polonium

can poison a man and relations between the two countries in two thousand more russian spy and creating an alexander litvinenko was poisoned with polonium in a top london hotel britain accuses russian state duma deputy andrei will governor of being behind the murder and wants him extradited russia says there are a serious gaps in the case one of the most scandalous killings in recent decades the poisoning of former officer alexander litvinenko in london remains a permanent fixture in relations between russia and the u.k. and while diplomas struggle to start a war it's a man living in this tiny italian crowd whose shocking revelations could bring the two sides closer together six years after his son was killed seventy three year old while the litvinenko says it's time to speak out for help i should be used as

a witness if you're alexander died in my arms that he wrote important information on a tissue as he died because they might you understand why gesture the room was bugged he didn't want anybody to hear and what was on the tissue. on the p. road to the murder was and the rest but i'll reveal it only in court as up with the u.k. like the truth. he will live. and russia. to be even more. the only accusation up to now from alexander litvinenko was that putin ordered the poisoning when your. statement revealed after he died never exist until the very last moment i was there and such as he would recover. he hardly spoken english and the letter was written in.

english someone did it for him before now butter wasn't lined with the victim's close circle all point the finger at former f.s.b. officer. saying he poured colonial in the victim's t. . didn't kill my son with them to kill with polonium you need two to three grains of it in a thimble but large quantities were scattered everywhere it was done on purpose and lugovoy was used as i think i was are you ready to say this will cover directly if we call him right now. i will have. the force of the. things that i said about you i hope you can forgive me you realize of course what sort of people with dealing with hands can explain told viewers what exactly you are apologizing for to us on the floor now under way i know that you. guys have nothing to do with this they were in danger because the polonium was scattered on

them as well. and. me they were understand in person there that. thank you for i'm ready to bring walter to court hearings in london stanton several months important secret documents will have to be revealed by m i six and m i five floors of arena with her revelations and walter is doing the same they have no choice but to resume they'll be no more secrets left my job promises to reveal more secrets in court and makes it clear his sons' once close circle of friends won't like. it sure why didn't she disclose the information to them because if i had to do you think i would be sitting here today we're talking to you if you didn't agree our t.v. month. eataly. we have plenty more in store for you twenty four seventh's dot com here's what we have lined up right now exhausted. all signs of spring

bloggers are going bonkers over green clown of the fallen head over the russian capital to have more pictures on my website. and the commercial that caused the diplomatic route and other good dutch women to stop their husbands from don't think you know try to tell football championship crank it up wired dot com. culture is that so much about taxpayers' money maybe it is a shame if a lot of people at area are they on the brink of war this is how the situation appears to be developing between the recently independent state of south sudan and it's rough.

today. these are the images the world. can. hope for asians are on the day. the yellow sea has become an area of recent international focus as russia and china continue to stage military maneuvers it comes right after the u.s. and philippines conducted joint war games in disputed waters but far from the chinese coast raising tensions with beijing. has been following the developments. i'm standing on board the russian destroyer deadmeat all vinegar out of the just completed its mission as part of joint russian chinese maneuvers in the yellow sea as you can see i'm standing on the how bad that usually carries two was ship based

helicopters they were deployed to perform surveillance and to escort the whole russian convoy for a large warships on to support about falls together with the chinese convoy with about twenty warships several thousand thalers took part in the maneuvers there is a deeper meaning of course besides the obvious advantages of performing a large joint mabel mission these exercises have given. a chance to fly their flags in the asia pacific where the growing presence of the u.s. navy has recently become a concern to both china and russia this time the drills concluded for target practice which was by far the those the brass the part of the five hours was given special permission to film in detail what was happening. so the ships before can and at least two times the machine guns were fired

instantly upon the target detected by sonars all these weapons proven extremely useful in the gulf of aden worthy of mit all been a ground up has guarded civilian convoys we're told that it usually only takes a few warning shots before the pirates we in fear of taking a look now at some other news from around the world this hour bradley manning accused of the us government secrets to wiki leaks has failed in his attempt to persuade the judge to throw out the most serious charge against the crime of aiding the enemy means that maximum penalty of life imprisonment hasn't entered a plea to any of the charges or decided whether he'll be tried by judge jury trial is set to begin in september. medical students in the bolivian the capital of the present held more crucifixions in protest over a new nor extending a doctor's work day by two hours others according for the resignation of the

nation's health minister carried signs written in blood. ration is one of a month long protest by doctors much as it was the closure of several public hospitals over the past few weeks. tens of thousands of norwegians gather the cross the country to sing a children's song in protest directed against mass murder and brave it in his testimony last week graphic side the one hundred seventy song children of the rainbow is being used to brainwash the nation's new this isn't the legion version of american foot race it's more speaking seven percent more for me gun attack last july was what we did together in defiance of his actions. the controversial cyber security act then the suspect is now a step closer to becoming law for the u.s. congress approval process now heads to the senate the white house had already threatened to veto the bill internet users slam the proposal accusing it of

reaching americans' privacy or is going to check out reports now from washington. cisco would make it legal for service providers like google microsoft facebook to funnel private communications and other user related information to u.s. authorities it would provide the government with unhindered access to private correspondence of every american and mind you it's not just the americans using their services we're talking about your net users from all over the world so that would be done in the name of cyber security they called it cyber intelligence sharing and protection act critics argue who does protect is those providers the likes of microsoft google and others and they are strongly lobbying for the law because analysts say it's not like the companies are not sharing information with u.s. authorities already and your correspondence cannot be monitored it can't but under existing laws the companies can still be liable for sharing private information of their customers so experts say the companies want legal protection for what they're

already doing that's what the proposed law is about sopa was a different story for them service providers heavily lobbied against it because it would hit their businesses it would easily allow to shut down you tube for example they hold tons of copyrighted material anyway so paul was killed in congress largely because of the huge awareness campaign launched by even as service providers but from consumer's point of view whether it's sold or cispa it's seen as a blatant encroachments on privacy and freedoms so who would have given unprecedented tools to shut down websites cisco would allow to effectively legalize the big brother on the web again it's not as if private correspondence is not being monitored already but would cispa americans would be stripped of their last legal means to protect their privacy on the web. let's cross to our piece is this now a marine is there and the russians are spending habits seem to be changing yes that's right carrie apparently they're spending more nominal it's a lot of other people are and fact they spend seven percent they saved only seven

percent of their income as of march and that's actually the lowest. three years and the people spend around three percent more than they spend in the first quarter and took out more loans however analysts say they might soon the to tighten their belts once again as inflation is expected to grow later in the year. all right let's take a look at currencies and al the euro is still losing against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble you see in the closing picture on the thursday it ended mixed of the main currencies it gained against the dollar and lost to the europe i will give you some more updated figures when the russian markets open which is in less than one hour and now let's take a look at asia as you can see you are about to see that would go asia these are the correct figures and both in the u.k. and the hang sang are gaining around half a percent for the hang sang and

a third for that make a now investors are cautious because there is will be a policy decision made by a bank of japan and they're also pricing their a weaker than expected to rise in the poll but there is some a boost from the post of earnings reports and technological and resource companies so let's take a look at the russian markets as i said it's less than an hour now before they open on thursday they ended the day in the red and basically investors here were mainly reacting to this appointing data coming from both europe and the u.s. but we'll see what happens when they open next hour and see if they're as false as their spending habits now let's move on to other news and we know that russia's internet investment firm male adult are you group has revealed some upbeat results its revenues rose a forty three percent in the first quarter of the year which was above expectations and the company which owns a little over two percent and facebook also said its last year's net profit jumped

one hundred fifty eight percent. and there's a new blow for the euro zone the ratings agency standard and poor's has cut spain's credit rating to triple b. plus what's more it's place in the negative outlook which basically means there is a risk of further downgrades in the future and the agency estimates the spanish economy will shrink by one and a half percent this year and that the country may have to take on more debt to support that's. right carry i'll have the russian markets for you next hour finally ok thanks for that update marina speech you see. next the latest a cutting edge device is making their way towards consumers that same technology update for that's how they back their mind of a headline stating. to

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human regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is an approaching of our own liberty. to leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million a more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases are fine or the noise is our noise and doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the into world war two the spaces i've been.

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