and the posthumous trial of deceased russian lawyer serbian magnitsky has been postponed until next month his death in a detention cell more than three years ago strained relations between moscow and washington. from our studios in moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us two pm now here in the russian capital and twelve noon in cairo our top story this hour protesters in egypt are out on the streets again let's just spite a curfew imposed by president mohamed morsi as part of a state of emergency now the measures followed deadly demonstrations against the government and unrest following the handing down of death sentences to some participants of last year's football riots a local reporter bel true has the latest from the capital. president obama issued the state of emergency yesterday in three cities susan is the lead that seen the worst violence in the last three days he will say and carries a curfew between nine pm and six am to have already been called for protests to break this curfew starting at eight pm tonight they say in defiance of the pre

seized russian lawyer sergei magnitsky will be tried posthumously on tax evasion charges his death and attention sell more than three years ago strained relations between moscow and washington. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh and welcome to the program protesters in egypt are out of the streets again despite a curfew imposed by president mohamed morsi as part of a state of emergency measures followed deadly demonstrations against the government and unrest following the handing down of death sentences to some participants of last year's football riots local reporter bill truman has the latest from the capital. president obama issued the state of emergency yesterday in three cities. it's been a they've seen the worst violence in the last three days he will say and carries a curfew between nine pm and six am to have already been called for protests to break this curfew starting at eight pm tonight they say in defiance of the president what this will mean on the ground is likely to be several street battles between security forces and protesters as they remain on t

to seize the russian lawyer sergei magnitsky will be tried posthumously on tax evasion charges is down a detention cell more than three years ago drain relations between moscow and washington. this is already coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie egyptian president mohamed morsi has declared a state of emergency in the cities of port say smiley and they are surrounding areas that's in response to anti-government protest which have resulted in forty eight deaths since friday seven more people died in ports a funeral procession for previous victims with unrest they were initially sparked by death sentence verdicts in a football riot trial local reporter bell true was caught in the epicenter of the clashes in cairo. in a televised press statement for president mohamed morsi so if he sees me that's going to take us to me i hears a clashes continue in cairo. president hundred most he declared a state of emergency for thirty days according to the constitution without means is that is that basically protests will be found security forces will have the rights to arrest. proteste

death sparked harsh criticism from the us were and were followed by the magnitsky act which targets russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations and the probe into the lawyers death hasn't revealed any evidence of abuse. russian prime minister dmitry medvedev has made a grave warning about the conflict in syria he said unless the country starts over conciliatory process it will face an endless civil war moscow remains neutral while maintaining that foreign intervention should be ruled out but the prime minister did say time is not on president also inside. i think there are fewer chances for him to stay with every new day every week and every month but let me repeat it is up to the syrian people to make a decision not up to russia the united states or any other state now the main task is to launch a national reconciliation process we should think about the future for instance if the opposition which by the way has been formed outside of syria comes to power what is it going to do with its members will exterminate representatives of other islamic movements and othe

death sparked harsh criticism from the us and was followed by the magnitsky act which targets russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations a probe into the lawyers death failed to find any evidence of abuse. prime minister dmitri medvedev says that russia may consider swapping some of its euro reserves for equities and other currencies edging its bets against the euro zone weakening in the future will bring you the full story later today in our business program here's a preview. holding currency reserves are estimated at around five hundred billion u.s. dollars that's quite a lot of money which means production especially in the times of global economic turbulence right now around forty two percent of the reserves are kept in europe most of the rest are kept in the u.s. security but that wouldn't work for the prime minister this may soon change as russia is looking at other currencies and apparently the euro is a losing fight all the more from the school of you know our business schools. you can watch that business bulletin at six thirty g.m.t. right here on our. an

coming to life from moscow a posthumous trial will take place for disease russia lawyer sergei magnitsky who is charged with tax evasion investigation against him was closed after he died in pretrial detention in the vampyr in two thousand and nine but was later reopened the circumstances of his death sparked criticism in the us affecting relations between moscow and washington are just a gorgeous going off has the details. officially this is the first post most trial in russia's history but it seems this is not so much about city magnitsky anymore but about his former employer william browder who used to be the head of the russian office of her british capital investment fund the prosecution believes that the fund was around twenty million dollars short give or take in its taxes and since most of these q was it account he was directly responsible for dealing with taxes that suspected that he submitted think recedes while mr browder may have authorized that if he was detained then william browder managed to leave russia to the u.k. he's a british citizen and london has been refusing to a

to seize russian lawyer sergei magnitsky will be tried posthumously on tax evasion charges is definite attention sell more than three years ago strained relations between moscow and washington. it's eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie protesters in egypt are out on the streets again ignoring a curfew imposed by president mohamed morsi as part of a state of emergency measures followed deadly demonstrations against the government and unrest following the handing down of death sentences just somber disappearance of last year's football riots well let's now talk to local reporter bill true who is in the egyptian capital for us well bell protesters seem to be ignoring the overnight curfew so what's morsi likely to do now. for president of the state of emergency yesterday in three cities susan it's been a they've seen the worst of the violence in the last three days he will say and carries a curfew between nine pm and six am to have already been cool to protest to break this curfew starting at eight pm tonight they say in defiance of the president what

russia could have slowed in retalionatir retaliation to the magnitsky bill.re are many things russia could have done. even though it's obscene and it's bad, it's tragic. it's one of the mildest things russia could have done. >> since i have you both here, i have to ask you. william, what do you make of the other news out of russia? purdue deciding to take russian citizenship. the french moving to russia? >> well, i think there's one or two french people to russia depardieu and upset about the euthanasia of two elephants at the zoo and she's threatening to move to russia, as well. i don't think she's aware of the unbelievable animal cruelty they do in russia. just to put some perspective on it. there are about 3 million educated russians who have left russia and emigrated and the retrograde society that they have there and putin needed some kind of pr stunt and he gets this sort of silly character to take russian citizenship and puts him up on stage and hope that will dissuade everybody from leaving russia. >> stephen, a sign of anything? >> just fun and games

and were followed by the magnitsky act which targets russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations now the probe into the lawyers dad hasn't revealed any evidence of abuse. still ahead for you in the program obama and clinton looking back at their four year long collaboration later on we look at how the u.s. president is waving goodbye to his secretary of state praising their foreign policy record. as a big achievement for small business find out how a centuries old village shop in britain is surviving the current financial troubles our report coming up after this break. here the reindeer is a dangerous thing for the herders. and when it suffers. people do their best to help go. the distance users. on the roads are. predictable. will the remedy be untidy. download the official publication to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you could watch your t.v. any time anyway. welcome back you're watching our live from moscow russian prime minister dm

so, the magnitsky act came about and the russians said we have to react to it. they looked at the possible reactions. one reaction would be to sanction american businesses, but then putin looked at it and said that might harm my own pocketbook. then they said maybe we'll do some type of reaction in terms of foreign policy. when they looked at the sort of portfolio of how they could react, what they realized is there was really nothing they could not cooperate on because they are not cooperating at the moment already. they looked through their portfolio and said, wait a second. one thing americans want which we have, they want to adopt our disabled orphans. they said, let's take that away from them. not even looking for a second at what that meant for these unbelievably vulnerable children. and, so, essentially what it shows is the absolute sort of lack of morales of vladimir pewter. -- putin. >> steven, isn't it fair to say that russia seems to be in some -- along some of these dimensions moving backwards, that is, that there is less freedom of speech, civil soc

and to seize russian lawyer sergei magnitsky will be tried posthumously on tax evasion charges is definite detention cell more than three years ago strained relations between moscow and washington. it is not am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie. egyptian president mohamed morsi has declared a state of emergency in three cities across the country comes in response to anti-government protests which have resulted in forty eight deaths nationwide since friday seven people were killed in port so you during a funeral procession for previous victims unrest there was initially sparked by death sentences being handed down to several local people found guilty and a full riot trial local reporter bill true was caught in the epicenter of the clashes in cairo. in a televised press statement president mohamed morsi story steve is going to take us to me i hear the questions continue in cairo. president hundred mostly declared a state of emergency for thirty days according to the constitution with that means is that is that basically the protests will be banned security forc

now when talks about so the magnitsky act only started in the u.s. moscow warns that we will view it as an unfriendly act and that will be a massive response and russia lawmakers did pass a law a sort of the russian blacklist which also sanctions american citizens different categories of those connected to my lesions of human rights connected to the go on to animal prison or to the violation of the rights of russian citizens and then fall that was of the general ban for all americans to adopt russian children due to the many cases of the violations of their rights sometimes of even that first by i mean it was viewed as part of russia's response to the london ski act but now. the prime minister has said again that although the general adoption ban was passed on the way an emotional week caused by it among these he act de facto and legally these things are not connected. or thanks very much indeed for. this can offer porting their. well determined that of also spoke about the conflict in syria it says unless the country starts reconciliatory process it

the current chill arguably started with the death of this man, magnitski.for william brouder. to cut a long story short, he claimed to have found that certain russian officials had persecuted browder but also defrauded the russian treasury of $250,000. he was persistent and soon found himself in jail and then died there due to the lack of medical attention. browder urged the u.s. government to charge those with a murder. in early december congress passed the act which banned certain russian officials from coming to the u.s. and froze their assets. and russia responded with a law effectively banning americans from adopting russian children. it is now drafting a list of american officials it wants to ban from russian territory. i brought all this up with russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev. let's talk about corruption. when we look from the outside what we see is a situation which seems still out of control. we hear about the case of sergei. >> translator: i'll tell you. i'm sincerely sorry for surge ai as i would be so for any american who passed away be

from adopting russian children now this button is part of the russian lawmakers response to the magnitsky act passed recently in the united states which gives the green light for sanctioning russian officials suspected there in the states or for a leading human rights of the reason why russian lawmakers chose to balance from adopting russian children is due to the meaning pieces of lobby usually sometimes even deaths of russian kids after they were adopted and brought to the united states in fact the whole issue adoption has been quite a problem between russia and the united states for several years now and officials in moscow say it's not only the cases of abuse themselves but also the lack of a proper legal reaction from american of gordie's including the lack of heavy jail sentences which could have prevented these cases from happening again so authorities say that banning americans from adopting russian kids is actually aimed at protecting them and they do have a fair amount of supporters in society but there are also many of those who are strongly against this ban just recently why t

the russian premier said the magnitsky bill passed on capitol hill falls outside of international law and only aggravates relations between russia and the us. that each country has the right to deny any country citizen an entry visa to its territory this is something normal but something that corresponds with international conventions without having to explain the reasons for it i mean the united states could and still can get any russian officials entrance to america the same way they can examine their accounts or whatever else they have in america this is exactly what russia can do as well but when it becomes a public campaign with congress saying it will draw up a list of individuals who have been involved in a crime what do you think it is if not an extra judicial execution of the convicts these individuals without any trial or prosecution but. dmitri medvedev also spoke out on the twenty two month syrian crisis which shows no signs of abating moscow's stress it doesn't support any side in the conflict while maintaining that foreign intervention should be completely ruled out but

the russian prime minister said the magnitsky bill on capitol hill full outside of international law and only aggravates relations between russia and the u.s. . each country has the right to deny any country's citizen an entry visa to his territory this is something normal something that corresponds with international conventions without having to explain the reasons for it the united states could and still can bring any russian officials entrance to america the same way they can examine their accounts or whatever else they have at america but this is exactly what russia can do as well but when it becomes a public campaign with congress saying it will draw up a list of individuals who have been involved in a crime what do you think it is if not an extra judicial execution of the convicts these individuals without any trial or prosecution. and you get more of dmitri medvedev interview on our website r.t. dot com. now to more international news in brief this is the revised number of deaths in a massive fire at a nightclub in southern brazil nelle stands at two hundred thirty the traged

you know things like the north africa that's going on at the moment which is a tit for tat for the magnitsky you know in the states and you know and they put these things out of course everyone jumps on it but then you know people make these libelous or you know sometimes wrong statements about russia or and there's nothing back from from the from the kremlin side so you know you're talking rubbish and you know this is where the situation is and then it makes it very difficult everyone wonders why russia has a bad investment image because you know they don't invest anything into their image and that's actually russia's biggest problem and as we keep saying you know the economy's doing well we've got one of the best balance sheets in the world but if you look in the international press rusher is you know it's in the talk has it's it's the pariah or of the emerging markets or is it shouldn't be and in some cases even the strengths that russia has it is not presenting these strengths to the outside world for example the fact that russia is the only brics country without capital controls actuall