the country's president. raises questions over the future of the country's oil industry some of the world's largest reserves now being eyed by many not least the u.s. we look at the prospects. could move in on the. president morsi is considering handing them full control following days of fierce clashes between protesters and police. but also seen as threatening to drive executives away from the city of london.

you are watching live from the heart of moscow at six pm in the russian capital. seven days of mourning have been declared in venezuela following the death of president hugo chavez at the age of fifty eight after he lost a year long battle with cancer the charismatic socialist leader had suffered a number of health complications following his latest round of treatment in venezuela tens of thousands of grieving supporters amassed in the streets after the news broke that chavez had passed away weeping and chanting slogans the mourners vowed to continue their hero's self-styled revolution the coming days and did one of latin america's most remarkable populist roots but it also left the nation politically divided spoke about that with all of his recently returned from the country. 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 china's really did

for venezuela is drastically revolutionized the way the country is run and operated before choppers came to power it was largely seen close u.s. ally seen as sort of embracing the western economic model of us came from very poor background poor roots and he came to power with his self-styled so-called ball of varian revolution where he wanted to bring socialist ideals to the country and change the country what he meant by that is 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 even though 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. we really sort of saw it the human being comes 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 pull in the social programs he did usual focused on some of the projects that helped consolidate his supporters take a look at them 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 think about an hour and a half used to be no public transportation until president bush has built these cable cars a literal lifeline for venezuela's or 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 why 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 even 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 you know which we talk about how popular the last election the one you were in 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 kind. the 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 are also other problems that have pushed supporters away even from the barrios for example the crime rate as well as a country has about twenty million people something like twenty thousand murders in two thousand and twelve just to contrast that with the united states three hundred fifteen million people twelve thousand murders that same year the crime rate was incredibly incredibly big issue and so was cronyism and 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 exploit those policies to his allies in

the region and sort of try to create radical change in that sense to love him or hate him certainly going to be remembered. in some parts of the world he'll certainly be remembered more than in other words of condolences flooded in from across the globe but there was a notable absence from the u.s. president barack obama to the people of venezuela was america's commitment to promoting democratic principles the rule of law. who's the founder of a u.k. parliamentary group called the ladybug friends of venezuela so those words seem to be contradictory. very noble intentions however if it conflicts really with the history of the united states' involvement in latin america i do wish that they had pledged to support for greater democracy what democracy seems to the american right is actually a political system that delivers a class of people who support the united states and that's his big problem when he came to power a ruptured up relationship and the rich and powerful in the united states have

never forgiven him for that well it's quite an interest in the. probably going to be the candidate against that madoff is actually in the united states at the moment and documents are available which shows that there's a significant amount of many millions of dollars pumped into the opposition parties in venezuela from both the republicans and democrat parties so the americans are certainly trying to influence events in venezuela or chavez championed economic reform funding it with a vast oil wealth venezuela's one of the world's biggest oil producers and nations depending on those supplies a keenly awaiting what happens next not least of course the u.s. parties katie pilbeam explains. venezuela is a major player in the world oil trade its deposits are estimated at around two hundred ninety seven billion barrels as you can see just there that's comparable to those of saudi arabia the world's biggest or producer another country is currently

the fifth largest oil exporter amounting to ninety five percent of the country's export earnings but actual production is far behind that's due to decades of investment since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight or output has fallen twenty five per cent now production price well i can tell you that right now as far as the oil markets are concerned the price has been relatively muted and that's because assad is it sounds chavez's death was already priced in we are expecting a spike depending on who will take power less than a month's time and where their loyalties lie venezuela is one of the largest buyers of russian military hardware and trade between the two is only up russian firms have a strong presence in venice waiter's energy sector rosset is there are local has worked in the country for almost a decade now on the gas side gas problem has been there since two thousand and

eight contracts with venezuela are all based on deals made with chavez and his government and as we know the head igor sechin he'll actually be attending the funeral which have a says funeral and he'll probably be making sure that those deals stay intact. we are of course interested in your views on what awaits venezuela dot com and vote in our online poll to let us know what you think will happen following other news of chavez's death r.t. dot com let's go and take a look at some of the results now and see how your voting so far on our website you can see it there almost half of the forty six percent in the blue think the country will carry on as before led by the vice president around a third you can see in the powerful twenty eight percent say venezuela might fall to the opposition which some are claiming backed by the us a little less fear that the country will descend into chaos due to an imminent power struggle and finally

in the green nine percent think venezuela will become more moderate and the new leadership you can have your say you can affect the shots on our web site at r.t. dot com. elsewhere egypt's president mohamed morsi is considering giving the military full control of the rest of town of port following days of deadly clashes at least six people have been killed and hundreds wounded in the latest wave of street battles between security forces and young egyptians correspondent bell true brings us more . 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 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 crisis began between the police and protesters seeing hundreds injured and at least five kids meanwhile we have violence here in the capital as well just off the three 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 two thousand and eleven a feeling that president obama 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 constitution was drafted by islamist dominated constituent assembly so people really have feeling that nothing has changed and there are many problems in the country which means that is very likely the violence is likely to continue in the next few weeks. coming up later in the program dancing on the edge of a stalinist he masterminded a shocking acid attack on the bolshoi theatre which almost left him blind by life on speechless we've got pulled the details on not also israeli troops are increasingly making live gunfire against palestinian protesters the force. result

despite claims the practice is only being used in emergencies that i'm plenty more after the break. these children. they're serving a sentence just like their mother. the ones born in prison. now must pay for the crimes committed by their parents. kill babies on our cheek.

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bring us the latest on the scandal. well the latest is that the one of the lead down sides of the bolshoi bible dmitrichenko admitted that he masterminded this acid attack on the artistic director of the bolshoi sergei filin because he disliked his boss certainly this is enough for him to be prosecuted to be punished but the unconfirmed reports suggest that he carried out this attack you masterminded this attack because feeling the feeling as the artistic director of the bolshoi did not allow his wife to perform a leading role in one of the one of the place supposedly the famous sworn lake now the other two men the one who carried out this attack and the driver who brought the executioner to the place also admitted to carrying out this attack and you know all of them could face up to three years in prison for this attack i'd

like to remind you of us that the artistic director of the bolshoi sergei filin was attacked on january the seventeenth when a man called him out by his name and throw through a nasty bowl of acid into his face and certainly now the investigation seems to be rounded off with ole three men admitting to what they did how is feelin now how's his recovery. well feeling old already reacted to the news of this admission of guilt by the three men that he was not surprised to hear who masterminded this attack the good news is for feelin that he partially regain his eyesight we understand that he's now under treatment in germany and his left eye is now almost recovered the still doctors are trying to recover eyesight for his right eye definitely the bolshoi is still shocked and is still trying to recover or losing his artistic director for an uncertain period of time but certainly feeling seems to be on his way to recovery and probably he will be returning to work. in

six or seven months time as has been predicted by doctors now the bolshoi is no stranger to entering is it particularly in recent years. we all saw in the black swan hollywood movie how tough life can be behind the scenes of the big ballet this certainly was fiction but it's no different to reality the bolshoi has been surrounded by lots of control over seas from addresses being cut ahead of the blaze of the big stage to gloss being put in the dancing shoes of the performers in one of the scandals one of the administrators even had to resign because of pornographic pictures were made public on the internet definitely. has been surrounded by control received but it's never made criminal headlines this was the first case like that well obviously the investigation has now gone too close we have to wait for the trial to see what punishment will these three men suffer after

what they did to the artistic director sergei filin. reporting from outside the bolshoi theatre thank you very much. for more on the behind the scenes infighting at russia's main feature you can go to our website dot com. also the energy hungry japan's atomic clock has come back on stream online we'll tell you why pragmatism is overcoming. post fukushima principles. britain has been left as a lonely voice in the by defending bankers' bonuses as the rest of the bloc aims to rein them in the measures are popular with austerity hit europeans many of whom say it's the bankers who triggered the financial rollercoaster in the first place boyko 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 by 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 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 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.

and to that extent written for voices inside the city say that big banks in the u.k. might be forced to pay high a 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 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. another year and with the european economy still flatlining voters want to see those bonuses down but there are fears that the measure could end up putting london at

a disadvantage to the turks tape. coming from buying 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 and although there is has cost the 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 britain right now but the fact is that the financial services industry is vital to the u.k. it's one of me and a few of those that have one famous bit including charles so george osborne say that that concern that it can happen as thinking affects 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 vote penciled in from a bonus season next year could end up being an altogether more subdued affair. see london. to other international news this hour europe's largest active volcano has erupted in a stunning display of sprouting love and filming smoke small villages residing on the slopes of mount etna are said to be at risk for a number of roads in the area has been blocked the volcano which is situated on the italian island of sicily rises more than three thousand meters above the ground and erupts a number of times each year. his crowds of rallied in the philippines after one of the country's muslim groups was attacked by security forces over territorial disputes in malaysia yes strike was carried out on tuesday in the state of. the hundreds of thousands of filipino settlers protesters accuse the country's president of abandoning his people in a territorial struggle and urging

a peaceful resolution to the strife. at least sixty people have been arrested following a huge student candace montreal protesting at a three percent hike inspiration fees police in riot gear used tear gas and sound bombs to disperse the crowds the students claim they've been cheated off to believe in the promise of being made to freeze their feet at a summit last month. israeli troops are increasingly resorting to live gunfire against protesters in the west bank that's according to palestinian reports officials in tel aviv deny the misuse of crowd control weapons before more i.d.f. soldiers and human rights groups say the practice is only being brushed under the carpet. as more. nariman captured on camera the shots that would kill her brother two bullets in his stomach and leg 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 rushed to rush to 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 or. it's managed 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 but 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 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 of them. 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 also 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 when not fired directly on protesters but these really center for human rights has found that in total israeli for. forces have killed fifty six rock throwing palestinians since two thousand and five six were killed by rubber coated missile bullets and two back to 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 only violates it's 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 debate celebre 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 white 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 as it's way beyond our imagination there would be about clouds of tear gas on a village below palestinian angle and defiance an act of despair in the face of his

radio military might rushdie's nice thirteen year old i had to meet faces the soldiers after they risked her brother imprisoned her father and killed her cousin three months after this confrontation her beloved uncle vashti would die a police free r.t. to have it. now stay with us on r.t. for our latest documentary called jail babies that's coming up after this break. wealthy british style. time guys. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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