boy a leader who go chavez dies at age fifty eight following an almost two year battle with cancer. how chavez has gone energy dependent nations wonder how the new leadership will distribute venezuela's vast oil reserves and whether they could get a bigger slice. of the battle over banker bonuses in europe sees britain routed but still defending the lavish executive pay outs of london's last great industry. palestinian protesters in the line of fire as israeli security forces accuse the resorting to live bullets as a method of crowd control. nine am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r.t. as we give you our breaking news update venezuela's long standing president hugo

chavez has died after losing a battle against cancer that lasted almost two years the charismatic outspoken leader suffered a number of health complications after returning from his latest round of treatment in cuba seven days of mourning have started in a country where millions are grieving words of condolence have come in from around the world including from traditionally friendly latin american states plus russia and the u.s. but among the sadness also anger venezuela's vice president nicolas maduro who broke the news and assumed interim power has accused the country's quote historical enemies of having a hand in the death chavez held a hardline anti-u.s. stance during fourteen years in power is latest reelection coming last october archies marina porter has more from new york. president chavez died around sixteen twenty five that's four forty five pm caracas time at a military hospital and now that as well in vice president nicolas maduro accompanied by senior ministers announced that president chavez had passed

describing the news as a moment of deep pain now the country's national armed forces also pledged their unconditional allegiance to vice president maduro chavez before he passed many weeks ago said that when the time would come he would like for majority to be his successor and the vote for the new president should be held within the next thirty days and will likely pit vice president doro against. the opposition leader and state governor who lost to shelve this in the october election one recent opinion poll gave the door a strong lead enjoying much support among many of the working class to previous in the meantime flew over to the united states over the weekend in miami and new york author and journalist evil interest says it's no coincidence that during a time of instability in venezuela the opposition leader from that country is attending meetings in the united states this is been also typical over the past few

years over the past decade really members of the opposition venezuela frequently coming to the united states to meet with their either because they get multimillion dollar funding from the u.s. government and it's different agencies or from its allies their allies here in the united states primarily members former administrations in the bush administration but also the actual administration and clearly. this was coming to the united states to miami to new york to meet with these individuals to discuss the future of venezuela if you want to put it that way and chavez was one of the world's best known socialist leaders and a staunch critic of the united states chavez never held back on. criticizing what he called the imperialistic motives of the west he ruled his country a country the world's largest oil reserves for fourteen years he was a powerful player in the world of geopolitics i can tell you when he was visiting new york city for the annual united nations general assembly devika debate

everybody anticipated that his speech the international body would be one that made headlines because he never held back he never mince his words he always took on a challenge and he clearly was not intimidated to take on the united states and its western allies of course that as well in the united states didn't have good diplomatic relations there's been comments coming from washington with officials expressing that maybe in the future now the u.s. and israel might have better diplomatic relations but google chavez whether you love him or hate him he leaves norma's big shoes to fill. an investigative journalist for the asia times covering latin america thinks the the demonization of chavez in the u.s. will continue after his death. in fact obama's message was a bit ridiculous you know he said that we're going to stand united with the

venezuelan people what kind of people does he mean does he mean that the people who elected and re-elected chavez in thirteen out of fourteen democratic elections or does he mean these are people who go to new york and miami to trade martinis endemol nice job isn't a job used as evil dangerous communist this is ridiculous the most important thing in my opinion chavez in terms of a political leader he was always that referring to an international revolutionary tradition from outside. he was like a nailed fruits of geopolitics of modern geopolitics bigger than now was in fact because of the war on almost all directions that it puts the cicadas and the saying is why this demotivation of chavez even boston or to end it will grow believe me especially in the u.s. first of all venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world so the united

states and european union they can say old you need this law forcing all you need is love to those ghastly petrol monarchies in the portion gulf but even as well as the leader of an as well a decided to use the oil wells the benefit of the lower class is that as well this is something unheard of in the persian gulf stevens in his a professor of politics international studies at the university of san francisco think shot his presidency was significant in venezuela history and it will take a lot to undermine the authority of the regime he leaves behind. who emerges at the top you know could depend on the number of internal factors but i think the main thing is that venezuelan politics has been changed forever while venezuela to its credit was one of the more democratic countries in latin america during a time when much of the hemisphere was under right wing military dictatorships was very much a plutocracy where only dominated the two major political parties there is incredible

inequality and that's poverty despite the enormous wealth and child does so too is just credit despite the some some of our tarrying excesses was able to empower the population in power the four majority who are not going to go back to the old ways and so whoever emerges so leaders in a swayed in the coming years and decades this will be a very very different country that they'll be governing thanks so hugo chavez adrian salvucci an argentinean political commentator explains what he thinks the challenges will be for venezuela's vice president planning to stand in the impending presidential vote. my little will be each of his to official list candidate and he stands a certain he stands a very good chance a reelection especially with the country's emotional state right now but chavez had huge enemies within been as more important outside of venezuela so unfortunately the united states in the first instance and other countries such as israel and

other countries in the west in western europe will do all the cash to support the opposition candidate a guy by the name of a company to survive on speech and he could have he was rather came in second in the presidential elections and who would definitely have all the financial political and media support. how structures against mr motherhood are less the chavez candidate. having led the country for more than a decade chavez championed economic reform in use the country's oil wealth to fund it it's a huge oil producer in the nations that depend on its supplies will be nervously awaiting what happens next including the u.s. . takes a closer look at the industry's prospects but as whale has proven reserves of two hundred ninety seven billion barrels that's more than saudi arabia according to opec however the country is very dependent on oil wealth with oil bringing in one thousand five percent of export revenues after decades of under-investment venezuela's state oil company is in trouble chavez used it as

a cash cow for his social spending programs even as reserves have increased and his rule production has fallen by twenty five percent the announced upcoming elections are being watched closely by oil companies across the world if chavez is vice president and announced access certain occulus madeira wins it's widely predicted things will continue much the same however if the opposition's enrique capri less wins there is perceived to be a chance of change in modernization the us helped build then as well as oil industry but now only the u.s. company chevron still has assets there after all the others were thrown out during nationalization in the one nine hundred seventy s. despite its stormy relationship with the chavez government the u.s. still buys over fifty percent of them as well as exported oil and u.s. oil companies a keen to get back to work in venezuela russia's largest private oil company lukoil

has been working with venezuela's state oil company for a decade now and russian state energy giants ross net and gas prom are also pursuing projects that china is also a big buyer trading loans for oil wherever it comes from investment into them as well as oil industry is vital because of the country's reliance on oil money however that is spent. and our online poll at r.t. dot com what you think will happen now in venezuela after the death of president chavez so far the majority think the country will carry on as before the second most popular response that it will fall to the opposition that's backed by the west twenty four percent is the idea that venezuela will become more moderate with the death of chavez and last of all the country will fall into chaos what do you think click on to our g dot com and have your say we'll return to the story a later in the hour but first a look at when we take a look back at chavez rise to power and how it was politics change the face of the latin american country that's still to come. but first

with every you nation besides britain in agreement that banker bonuses need to be curbed case taken it upon itself to champion the executives greatest perk london if you're a smaller checks at the end of the year may drive managers away out of the country depriving britain of the its last great industry of talent or he's probably boyko explains why britain is so adamant. it's that time of year again bonus season is in full swing the chief executive of h.s.b.c. is set to pocket a two million pound bonus this month by the way that u.k. bankers get paid could be about to change that's if the european union has anything to do with it at the moment the average bank a salary is just under seventy thousand pounds a year but bonuses for top bankers can be many times more than their baseline depending on personal performance the success of the bank and the market as a whole last year the bonus pools of leading city banks went up to as much as two

point four billion pounds a b.c. but if the e.u. proposal goes ahead next year banks would be blocked from paying out bonuses larger than double in employees basic salary much against downing street has some banks some teams of people some revenues some profits some tax revenues my say would be britain and to that extent britain will be for voices inside the city say that big banks in the u.k. might be forced to pay higher base salaries in order to keep the most talented executives there are very few sectors in which the united kingdom is a world leading financial services is one of the high basics impose a constant overhead which can be adjusted easily from year to year whereas the bonuses can be part of the success of the market has been that element of

flexibility you can award a larger bonus in one year and a much lower bonus in another year and with the european economy still flatlining voters want to see those bonuses brought down but there are fears that the measure could end up putting london at a disadvantage the tax take coming from banker. not just in the bonuses but in general is huge estimated to be over in the boat full to a billion pounds a year so the point here is that effectively this is taking away people from the economy this could be forcing people to go elsewhere and the trickle down effect of that will be dramatic overregulation and although there is has cost the many of its manufacturing hubs also new economies coming on board and that has oversee had an effect bankers might not be the most popular characters

in all sincerity stricken writing right now but if we're in the financial services industry it's fine so it's i think you have one in me and a few days ago one famous dead including charles and george on the phone they did not confirm that it can happen and thinking that it's not just on the sea of mountain but on the british economy as a whole the rest of europe however is determined to push compensation in the financial sector down with the final date penciled in from a bonus season next year could end up being an altogether more. playboy see london decades long ceasefire between north and south korea could cease to exist john yang washing out its southern neighbor and america amid a looming u.s. backed sanctions you find out why this time china is backing washington over its traditional ally. but first palestinians say israeli police are increasingly resorting to live fire during protest rallies even peaceful

ones human rights groups reported dozens of civilian casualties from excessive use of force officially israel denies this but those who took part say reality's different policy reports. nariman captured on camera the shots that would kill her brother two bullets in his stomach and leg several holes so when i came people were shouting he got shot with a live bullet i didn't know who got shot they were shouting russia. i didn't know what to do i went down the hill where the soldiers were firing and i started shouting press press the soldiers shouted not come down will shoot you i open my camera and i decided that i'm going there even if i die. now remans brother rushdi hadn't even been part of the stone throwing eyewitnesses say the soldiers fired tear gas and live bullets even before the children started throwing rocks at them rushdie wasn't part of it he went later to help evacuate the injured

out of the images i want to do for the camera down and hold my brother in my arms but i kept filming my brother's face was covered in blood my uncle came in the soldier said do not worry is his leg he's alive from my experience they wanted to help they would have called the ambulance from the closest settlement when they wanted him to bleed i told them you should give him first aid and they said it is not our problem he could die. and two days later rushdie died the bullet that killed him was fired from ten meters away he was unarmed if you follow the official rules yeah it will be almost impossible for soldiers to use ammunition in these situations but we've all been there we've all done that when soldiers face palestinians on the field the the orders and missions we are getting are very far away from what the army claims officially the losses soldiers can only use live ammunition when their life is in clear danger tear gas and rubber bullets are

allowed but only for dispersing crowds from a distance and we're not fired directly on protesters but these really center for human rights has found that in total israeli forces have killed fifty six rock throwing palestinians since two thousand and five six were killed by rubber coated missile bullets and two gas canisters forty eight were killed by live ammunition power of the variations show a wide and systemic culture of the misuse of crowd control weapons by the israeli security forces in the west bank this means that the army violates its own open fire regulations regarding the use of rubber bullets tear gas it's quite a well known practice and the army denies that it exists but you know russian replied requests for an interview the i.d.f. said the debate celebre porter presents a biased narrative relying primarily on incidents that are too old or still under investigation by the military police the i.d.f. went on to say that the i.d.f.

does everything in its power to ensure that the use of white dispersal means is done in accordance with the rules of engagement we're talking about five six hundred one thousand tear gas canisters a day are being shot at these protesters says it's way beyond our imagination there would be about clouds of tears on a village. palestinian anger and defiance an act of despair in the face of his radio military might rushdie's a. i had to meet faces the soldiers off today and we still have brother in prison and killed a cousin three months off to this confrontation beloved uncle would die. tonight . on a lie an energy hungry japan's atomic plants come back onstream tokyo planning to relaunch since you or your stations by the end of the year dropping its post policies and resorting to pragmatism over principle plus. a leading dancer becomes

the main suspect behind an acid attack on the ballet director of moscow's iconic bolshoi theatre that and more a click away at our. north korea's promise to cancel the ceasefire deal that ended the korean war in the one nine hundred fifty s. and threatened to attack the united states with small nuclear weapons if young yang's angered by washington's plans to impose further sanctions on it and by recently launched a joint military drills between the u.s. and south korea america and the north traditional ally china reportedly want to circulate a draft resolution on restrictions at the un after a recent missile test but east asia expert glyn ford things beijing is only siding with washington to shield itself from the bigger u.s.

threat. the chinese. government is genuinely annoyed with north korea. with this particularly with the third nuclear test because it's a given excuse to the united states and japan to deploy theater missile defense which no doubt he threatens north korea but threatens china and at the same time gives to the you much more nationalistic incoming government hinge upon an excuse for removing article nine from the constitution's a referendum and actually try to sing to a degree japan where clearly those troops are no. army and navy and air force are not just for your area but also are there available with the boundary disputes we have been in the region china whatever it thinks of north korea actually prefers north korea than the americans are only on the yellow river. turning now to some other stories making global headlines at least fifty people have been wounded in

the third day of unrest in the egyptian city of port saïd protests started sunday after rumors spread that dozens of people were taken into custody after a deadly football riot gear could be moved out of the city the list of grievances runs deep are those unemployment and high energy prices also hitting hard. in argentina twenty five people have gone on trial for a host of human rights of abuses including torture in the south america in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's alleged they were part of a plan commodores scheme coordinated between the continents leaders to catch leftist activists among the twenty five defendants on the stand are argentinian junta leaders rafael adela and reynaldo be known they are already serving life sentences for crimes committed under the former dictatorship of argentina you got. these grenada attack in a suburb of kenya's capital nairobi left one person injured two explosives were thrown onto the roof of a pub police and paramilitary forces later secured the area vote counting continues

in kenya following the presidential election violence after two thousand and seven as polls left more than one thousand dead. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says he supports states in the middle east arming the syrian opposition if they are sent to moderates not extremists he made the comments on a trip to cotter whose government's been supplying weapons to rebels this a day after opposition militants overran the city of the north of syria attacking symbols of the national government in archy's debate show cross talk coming up at seven am g.m.t. we look at how weapons going to rebels in syria as the conflict starts to pull in neighboring states. there is no states either from the u.s. all from the european union from to kill from saudi arabia in the sense of supporting them in the way the libyan opposition has supported you'll position once the united and they don't have the. support that aren't and they're now getting it . in training there in the us is now getting involved in training that's. the point

that's not supposed and that's not weaponry ok matthew chance has the weapon matthew jump and you use it. for the rebels and then you train them to use them and that's not that's not arm support that's that's really semantic nonsense. is. turning back now to our top story venezuela's president hugo chavez dead at age fifty eight after a long battle with cancer we take a look now at the controversial leader known for his bombastic speeches and harsh anti u.s. line and lucy caffein us report. a military man known to many as el commandante. years it's a good one is going to work very well a politician devoted to promoting venezuela's role as

a key player on the world stage. often a singer sometimes a dance or occasionally a joke or when people think i'm unable to speak in public for less than five hours were held back no punches from a suppose it was just a day the devil came out here. right here to the letter and it smells of sulfur still today who may have had many faces but it is certain that he was one of the most outspoken and influential leaders of the twenty first century. the world first met him as a young paratrooper with a tank his one thousand nine hundred two coup attempt was doomed to fail but his dream of a radical leftist revolution was not. despite a brief prison stand for his actions chavis went on to run for president of venezuela in one thousand nine hundred eight winning the vote and assuming office in one thousand nine hundred nine under him venezuela went from being a major u.s.

ally governed by and for the ruling class to a test case for the childless experiment with twenty first century socialism that meant nationalizing key sectors of the oil rich nations economy and pouring billions into welfare and social programs to help the previously marginalized poor opponents fought to remove charges from power including a two thousand and two coup attempt and a two thousand and four recall referendum was but he remained winning another term in office in the two thousand and twelve election after facing the toughest electoral battle of his career and his foreign policy spearheaded the creation of today's anti-imperialist the left leaning bloc in latin america working to promote his vision of a multi-polar world it's a follow but it wasn't all smooth sailing when it came to his dealings. in the west chavez was known to donate free heating oil to poor americans but had little love for their government relations have ranged from tense to outright hostility. then he still is independent and free and will never be

a north american colony but in two thousand and eleven child us took up a new battle to fight for his life against cancer but just before the new year and after four operations in cuba chavez named his vice president as the preferred political heir the final war waged by al commandante prepared by some reviled by others it is undeniable that chavez and his bolivarian revolution such a program far on this country this region and the world this is r.t. caracas venezuela. up next a special report on the fate of imprisoned mothers and children born behind bars coming up in a few minutes stay with us. children

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