the lead us are down amid mass rallies joining us live now from all is investigative journalism tony gosling very good to see they turn eight now london is apparently demanding more evidence from cairo before agreeing to freeze these assets is that a legitimate demand and why does karr fail to provide these evidence. well it's really good to see the b.b.c. doing this report. the important thing to remember here though is that the speed in which the assets were see both daffy in libya and of course of the hundred million or so of president assad in syria this money was seized by the british government in milli seconds with mubarak's money and his friends money it's eighteen months down the line and there's still letters going backwards and forwards between the british and egypt governments asking questions we can't seize the money not only that they have allowed companies to be set up by people who are supposed to be on the egyptian sanctions list those companies have been allowed to continue trading those companies have been shut down with no questions asked so i think the sort of hidden mes

introduced in february last year after he stood down amid mass rallies investigative journalist tony gosling says britain is more concerned about its business ties and that it's diplomatic once the speed in which the assets we see both gadhafi in libya and of course one hundred million or so president assad in syria this money was seized by the british government in milli seconds with mubarak's money and his friends money it's eighteen months down the line and there's still letters going backwards and forwards between the british. governments asking questions we can't seize the money not only that they have allowed companies to be set up by people who are supposed to be on the egyptian sanctions list those companies have been allowed to continue trading those companies have been shut down with no questions asked so i think the sort of hidden message in british foreign policy towards egypt is that we don't actually really. recognize this new regime we are actually wedded to some of our business contacts in the previous old mubarak regime and those business contacts i'm afraid between between