chavez dies at the age of fifty eight following almost two year fight against cancer. egypt's president considers taking full military control of the restive city of port saïd off the days of clashes resulting hundreds of injuries and at least five deaths. in the battle over bank bonuses in europe sees britain routed a mounting a last defense of the lavish executive pay outs in london's last great industry. and palestinian protesters are in the line of fire as israeli security forces are accused of resorting to live bullets as a method of crowd control. welcome back to our life from the heart of moscow two pm in the russian capital now our

breaking news in venezuela is a long standing president hugo chavez has died after losing a battle against cancer which lasted almost two years the charismatic leader suffered a number of health complications after returning from his latest round of treatment in cuba words of sympathy poured in from across the world president vladimir putin sense and sincere condolences along with other latin american states and even america a high profile delegation will travel from moscow to caracas to attend the funeral but amongst the sadness is also anger in his way his vice president nicolas maduro who broke the news and issued in the interim leadership accuse the country's historical enemies of having a hand in the death because chavez held a hard line american staunch during fourteen years in charge more on that from artie's marina portnoy. 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 that 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 duro against the prius the opposition leader and state governor who lost a shelf in the october election a prius in the meantime flew over to the united states over the weekend visiting miami and new york author journalist eva golinger 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 financiers because they get multi-million dollar funding from the u.s. government and it's different agencies or from its allies their allies here in the united states 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 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 this well might have better diplomatic relations but. chavez whether you love him or hate him he leaves norma's big shoes to fill. so the venezuela is now coming to terms with the thought of new elections after the death of its leader with me in the studio i was auntie's loosely covered off with

a look at the political divisions in the nation of the comandante used to my she was in venezuela during the last presidential race in october they see it was much maligned abroad of course but popular support at home why was chavez such a divisive divisive figure it's quite interesting to see especially on our trip there we were there for his last election and you know it's often been said the child this is a very charismatic figure it's been quite clear quite evident on the streets in the campaign rallies when we were there watching him operate what shawn is really did for venezuela is drastically revolutionized the way the country is run and operated before charges came to power was largely seen close u.s. ally seen as sort of embracing the western economic model chavez came from very poor background poor roots and he came to power with his self-styled so-called bowl of aryan revolution where he wanted to bring socialist ideals to the country and change the country. radically and empowering the poor communities that for decades

had been neglected in venezuela making them feel that they mattered in a system that for many years was set up in a way that was against them he was often able to sort of connect with people in a way that other politicians you don't often see for example he would play musical instruments at his different press conferences his you know long nine hour marathon t.v. appearances may have been somewhat boring by even even at the political rallies for example the last one that he held before the election we were there was pouring rain he was fighting cancer we knew that he was sick and he got right up there on stage you know walked away from his security detail walked up up front and started dancing with the crowd and you sort of love him or hate him you really sort of saw the human being come through and i think that really helped people feel that they can relate to them especially the four you know you talk to his charisma there and you mention the poll in the social programs. some of the projects that help consolidate his supporters take a look. but

for people living up in those longs or barrios there used to be no way to get down to the city to find work or go to school simply walking down those hills you see about an hour and how they used to be no public transportation until president bush has built these cable cars a literal lifeline for venezuela's poor and i was just cable cause was it that led to his popularity of course of course won't be interesting thing as what you saw in that clip we were sort of driving over riding over the barrio and venezuela is a country with a massively large urban population of some twenty million people about seventeen live in cities and until chavez came to power these people didn't have access i mean they weren't physically able to get down for example into the city to get jobs that's where the cable cars were important they didn't have any social services like health care for example so chavez helped build these free health care clinics that gave them for the first time access to services that most people in in

developed countries are used to he helped create education programs he also got into these sort of micro financing programs for example if you and your friends wanted to start a sewing commune of sorts in the bank would give you money at interest rates that were much lower than typical financial operations and you were able to create businesses that way and so it really it empowered the community but it also led to criticism that he was sort of using petro dollars to win over support with the poor which we talk about how popular the last election the one you were in october the one you were there for was one of the most divisive it was an even though he won that election with pretty much the same percentage that he did in his very first the first time he ran for office fourteen years prior to that there were cracks that were emerging because although he won massive support with the social progress programs among the poor there work there was criticism that he wasn't of this really building the kinds of institutions that would help venezuela develop economically sure they had a lot of oil dollar wealth that doesn't mean that they were necessarily building the kinds of programs that would sustain economic development and there were also

other problems that had pushed out of supporters away even from the barn. for example the crime rate as well as a country has about twenty million people it's something like twenty thousand murders in two thousand and twelve just to contrast that with united states three hundred fifteen million people twelve thousand murders that same year so the crime rate was incredibly incredibly big issue and so was i mean some of the corruption those were also problems in the country that childlessness trying to battle but you know at the end of the day regardless of how divisive he was he's certainly permanently changed the picture of venezuela and also in the region because he has policies you know he didn't just work in venezuela if you try to export those policies to his allies in the region and sort of try to create radical change in that sense i love him or hate i'm certainly going to be remembered for some reason legacy for sure thank you very much. who's an investigative journalist and times correspondent covering latin america says 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 as united with different as well and people what kind of people does he mean does he mean that the people who elected and reelected chavez in thirteen out of fourteen democratic elections what does he mean these people go to new york and miami to trade martinis endemol nice job isn't a job used as evil danger strawman's this is ridiculous the most important thing in my opinion chavez in terms of a political leader he was always referring to an international revolutionary tradition from outside june. she was like a nailed fruits of jewel for that of more their geopolitics bigger than now is perfect because of the war almost old iraq. and the saying is why this

demoralization all shall be stephen foster and to grow these especially in us 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 wall forcing all you need just love to those ghastly petro monarchies in the persian gulf but even as well as the leader of an israel of decided to use the oil wealth the benefit of the lower classes a bit as well this is something unheard of in the persian gulf now an online poll of r.t. dot com we've been asking what you think will happen now after the death of the venezuelan president let's take a look at how the vote is going so far a majority believe the country will carry on as before forty four percent in second place people think it will fall into the hands of the opposition of course back by the united states twenty seven percent and nineteen percent say the country will descend into chaos last of all the venezuela will become more moderate you can have it you'll say you can change that right is it our website dot com.

egypt's president mohamed morsi is considering a military takeover of the rest of town of course softer days of violent clashes which have seen over seven hundred people wounded and five killed ati's cairo correspondent who has the details. president mohamed morsi met with top security officials on tuesday reportedly to discuss pulling the police out of the restive city of science and instead putting the military in place this is because of four

days of clashes between police and antigovernment protesters in this restive city including yesterday protesters torching the national security agency building with additional fires in the governor headquarters and the security directorate this comes of course ahead of a very contentious verdict on saturday for this football massacre that took place last year in february and it started when thirty nine defendants were moved from a prison the families of those defendants in this case were very upset with this and so the clashes began between the police and protesters seeing hundreds injured and at least five killed meanwhile we have violence here in the capital as well just off the square by the nile has been intermittent street battles between anti-government protesters and police although the opposition is not cohesive there are definitely similar grievances being expressed across the country that there's been no change since the revolution in the end she doesn't eleven

a feeling that president obama knows he is making very unpopular decisions such as backing this four point eight billion dollar i.m.f. loan which will see subsidies cuts and tax hikes in addition people are saying that the can the constitution was drafted by islamist dominated constituent assembly so people really here are feeling that nothing has changed and there are many problems in the country which means that is very likely as is the violence is likely to continue in the next few weeks. a decades long ceasefire between north and south korea could cease to exist as washington prepares tougher sanctions for pyongyang the country promises to hit back hard we find out why this time china is blocking washington over its traditional ally that's coming up later.

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destroy all teach spanish find out more visit eye to eye all tito is calm. welcome back to aussie coming to you live from moscow with every a united beside britain an agreement that bankers' bonuses need to be cut he has taken it upon itself to champion executives greatest puck london face smaller checks at the end of the year it would drive managers away depriving the country's last great industry of talent outings probably boycott explains just 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 for the way that u.k. bank is 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 buying cars 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 of b.c. but if the e.u. proposal goes ahead next year banks would be blocked from paying out bonuses larger than double an employee's basic salary much against downing street swishes some banks some teams of people some revenue some profits some tax revenues. would be britain and to that extent britain before 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 united kingdom is a world leading financial services is one of the high basic salary is 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 tape. coming from because not just in the bonuses but in general is huge estimated to be over and above forty 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 in other areas has cost

the k. many of its manufacturing hubs also new economies coming on board and that has obviously had an effect bankers might not be the most popular characters in all sincerity stricken rating right now but if you're in the financial services industry if i sold something you paid for me and a few days ago what famous did you create in charge said george osborne say that they're concerned that it could happen as thinking that it's not just on the city of london but on the british economy as a whole the rest of europe however is determined to push compensation in the financial sector down with a final date penciled in from a bonus season next year could end up being an altogether more subdued. london now where the bolshoi theatre is a top don says has confessed he masterminded the moscow touch which so i said thrown in the face of feeling the company's ballet director police say pavel

dmitrichenko motive was linked to a personal dislike for the director two other suspects that were detained have also reportedly admitted they were involved in the attack in january a free man was attacked near his house receiving severe facial bones which forced him to leave russia in order to seek treatment in germany for the details on the bolshoi food feud you can force visit our website. palestinians say israeli forces are increasingly resorting to live gun fire during protest rallies even peaceful ones human rights groups report dozens of civilian casualties from excessive use of force officially israel denies this but those who took part say the reality is quite different parties paula slay and that some of them. nariman captured on camera the shots that would kill her

brother two bullets in his stomach and leg holes when i came people were shouting he got shot was alive and well it i didn't know who got shot they were shouting rushed. 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 do 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 a part of it he went later to help evacuate the injured out of the images i wanted to throw 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 and the soldier said do not worry

it's 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 meet 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 to 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 law says soldiers can only use live ammunition when their life is in clear danger tear gas and rubber bullets are loaned but only for dispersing crowds from a distance and we're not fired directly on the protesters but these really center for human rights but salem has found that in total is why. 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 are 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 of a well known practice and the army denies that it exists but you know russian reply requests for an interview the i.d.f. say that the bit celibate port 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 riot dispersal means is done in accordance with the rules of engagement we're talking about five six hundred to

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 tear gas on a village below palestinian anger and defiance an act of despair in the face of his way the military might rushdie's nice thirteen year old i had to meet faces the soldiers after they arrested her brother imprisoned her father and killed her cousin three months after this confrontation her beloved uncle rushdie would die in police we are to have it. now some international news in brief in argentina twenty five people are going on trial for a host of human rights abuses including torture committed in south america in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's alleged they were part of one condo or screen coordinated between the continent's leaders to catch leftist activists among the twenty five defendants argentinean gentle leaders roughly all of the day are. already serving a life sentence. as for crimes committed under the former dictatorship of argentina

the united a grenade attack in a suburb of the kenyan capital nairobi has left one person injured two explosives were flown on to the roof of a pub me some paramilitary forces later secured the area but counting continues in kenya for the following the presidential election violence following two thousand and seven as poll left over one thousand people dead. now that no on the italian island of sicily has erupted violently spouting huge amounts of love and smoke plumes into the sky roads have been blocked to traffic in the area the nearby town of the tonya is not in any danger is one of the highest active volcanoes in europe and over three thousand meters. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has said 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 qatar whose government has been supplying weapons to rebels this comes

a day after opposition militants overran the city of our rocka in the north of syria attacking symbols of the national government not to use the brakes or cross talk coming up next hour we look at how weapons are getting to rebels in syria as the conflict starts to pull in neighboring states. there is no state support either from the u.s. or from the european union or from turkey or from saudi arabia in the sense of supporting them in the way the libyan opposition has supported the opposition once and i think they have to establish a. belief they hired support lawrence and they're now getting involved in training there into the u.s. is now getting involved in training. the fight that's not support and that's not weaponry ok matthew chance but weapon matthew jump in you usually hear others give time and on to the rebels and then you train them to use them and that's not that's not arm support that's really semantic nonsense. you. lisa.

the u.s. and china have outlined the new even tougher sanctions they want to impose on north korea to punish it for a recent missile test in response pyongyang promised to counsel the cease fire deal that ended the korean war in the fifty's and threaten to attack the united states with light and small nuclear weapons the south has warned it would not hesitate to strike back but east asia x. but going forward thinks the north traditional ally beijing is only siding with washington this time to shield itself from the big american 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 a missile defense which nobody threatens north korea that threatens china and at

the same time gives to the you much more nationalistic incoming government. and an excuse for removing article nine from the constitutions or 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 career but also are there available with the disputes we have been in in the region trying now whatever it thinks of north korea i actually prefer if north korea rather than the americans are only on the yellow river. now stay with us on our say for our latest documentary called the jail babies that's coming up after this break.