the country's president for fourteen years died after a long battle with cancer at the age of fifty eight. raises questions over the future of the country's oil industry with some of the world's largest reserves now being odd by many not least the u.s. we look at the prospects. between police and protesters erupt in egypt despite the prospect of the army taking full control of the restive city something president morsi is considering following days of deadly violence. britain fears losing its financial clout. hailed by taxpayers but also seen as threatening to drive executives away from the city of london.

welcome to you live from the heart of moscow it's seven pm in the russian capital some days of mourning have been declared in venezuela following the death of president hu 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 a mosque in the streets after the news broke that chavez had weeping and chanting slogans the mourners vile to continue the hero's self-styled revolution the coming down to his death has ended one of latin america's most remarkable populist rules but it is also left the nation politically divided earlier i spoke about that with also use news to come from all of these 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 revolutionize the way the country is run and operated before choppers came to power was largely see and 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 bola berrien 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 if i 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 for you know you talk to his charisma there and you mention the poll in the social programs he introduced usual focused on some of the projects that helped him so. if you support us take a look at the 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 how it 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 the popularity of course of course the interesting thing is 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 what the poor do 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 supporters are weighing in. when in from the barrios 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 probably isn't a 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 to love him or hate him certainly going to be remembered well for more on the legacy of chavez and the implications of his passing i'm joined from london by dr francisco domingo's he's the head of the center for brazilian unlocked an american studies at middlesex university on the secretary of the venezuela solidarity campaign funk you very much for your time dr domingo first things first off the talk of a power struggle now in venezuela there's a bit of a political vacuum and there are some concerns it could turn violent do you agree with those concerns. but it is possibly the. from my point of view on what their position does i think the this is bringing all of the chinese to support is being except through all these years despite everything that's been done to them the polarization i think is going to show in the coming elections. cannot predict every you know who is going to win but everything still seemed to be in favor of this of

easters they won the general the presidential elections in october they won the governorship elections on the sixteenth of december twentieth to twenty three governorships and on the same day they won twenty three twenty two out of twenty three local legislature which is quite impressive so their position actually have a hard battle in front of them and on top of that the opposition are deeply divided they're not sure tax which is the best way some of them sections that they're not calling for something quite a verse of course they're trying to thousand and two the coup and then the recall referenda one other things and there are the sections who are a bit more moderate and we'll have to wait and see how they manage to patch together looks like the opposition in october's election they did gain sums of support from what you're saying you don't see them being too much of a threat to the shabbiest as then in the election in around thirty days' time

between the seven the cover on december the sixteenth the opposition lost significant ground. you know in the senate of the gulf or the four percent in the second lesson they go much less and actually the number of world they go with even less and chavez has been on the sentence if you look at the world he won three point seven million in one thousand nine hundred eight. three point eight million in two thousand and five point a million in two thousand and four seven point three million in two thousand and six and in the seven october two thousand and twelve election eight point two million clearly the trend is clear he doesn't need to say the position doesn't have is the strength but the visitors have much more can we talk about the the wider reaction the u.s. president hasn't so far offered any words of condolences di what can we read into that. i think one hundred percent the table of the state department did actually and then also obama made a couple of sentences which were rather sympathetic rather than unpleasant but it's

quite minimal. i think we have to wait and see i think the figure of chavez is going to grow quite dramatically as a symbol of us and i call within venezuela but also it's going to go even quite dramatically when the region is already hugely popular and i think the united states going to find it very difficult given the intense process of regional integration that is going on let america where there are many many situations a ready of original corrected and participate in the affairs of every country in the sense of supporting each other i think the united states can become a little bit of an expect the only one is you know where the people within the state department are really organizing things and monies are being challenged channeled to the position and so on we have to wait and see i think all the monday in little things you know the fact that she said that the devil was in the united nations and bush is something that's going to be forgotten this is not relevant what is relevant is the massive immensely progressive legacy that he's living has

changed society for the better and he's taken millions and millions of people out of poverty or many others in the region know imitating him but you know following and addresses similar problems also are doing the same in that sense his legacy incredible time is unfortunately against us but can i ask you about venezuela's oil reserves because history shows us that far lesser amounts of resources have been the cause for revolutions and even invasions what i mean what do you see happening . well i think they have been very wise in terms in the way they deal with their reserves they have the biggest certified in the world now. but they've been trying to actually move away from the use of oil possibly you know that the electricity in the us will actually come seventy per cent from. the city rather than oil they've been trying to move away from that and i think they're trying to cut that and see and the very fact that they buy records over one hundred

dollars i think it gives confidence that you know the economy's going to continue the main difficulty here is i doubt the united states is going to be able to do something dramatic or even a smaller and less the services plate and there is no indication of that whatsoever . they want important i think the venezuelans are going to continue to strengthen organizations such as opec which plays to their advantage and they're using the revenue to extraordinary thing just look at the economy one hundred billion in one thousand nine hundred seventy billion now millions of people out of poverty this is a very modern society with seventeen elections many more than in the previous forty years old where frail. with a citizenship which is extremely conscious active and participating this is something that he led the process transform the society for the better there is no question about dr francisco during his thank you very much for your time here on

r.t. much appreciated that dr francisco dominguez secretary of the venezuela solidarity campaign now we are of course interested in your view on what awaits venezuela had to r.t. dot com and vote in our own line poll to let us know what you think will happen following the news of chavez's death let's go and have a look and see how the vote is going right now as i say you can visit our web site r.t. dot com to effect this pie chart here forty six percent in the blue almost half of you believe that the country will carry. and as before led by the vice president around a third say that venezuela you can see twenty nine percent might fall to the opposition which is backed as you've heard in part by the us a little less fear that the country will descend into chaos seventeen percent last year to the imminent power struggle that we've heard about and finally ten percent or so thing that venezuela will become more moderate under need new leadership and if you want to affect that pie chart then visit our website dot com.

elsewhere clashes are again raging in egypt's restive city of course while president morsi is considering giving the military full control there at least six people have been killed and hundreds wounded in the latest wave of street battles between security forces and young egyptians correspondent bill 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 the four days of clashes between police and government protesters in this restive city including protesters torching the national security agency building with additional fires in the government headquarters and the security directorate this comes of course i had a very contentious verdict on saturday for this. 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 conscious 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 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 here are feeling that nothing has changed and there are many problems in the country which means there is very likely this is the violence is likely to continue

in the next few weeks. coming up later in the program dancing on the edge. start mage the mastermind of the shocking us to talk in the fall of bolshoi theater chief which left him almost blind and speechless we've got all the details on what . israeli saw increasingly making a lot of gunfire. being used in a much. more after the break.

you're watching live from. the stage one of the bolshoi says he recently played in the terrible has admitted he was behind. on the company's direct . the assault left him nearly blind. reports. one of the world's most famous theaters the bolshoi is still recovering from a huge scandal when its artistic director was thrown a ball of acid because face but it also seems to be losing one of its leading don says michael dmitrichenko admitted that he must to mind it 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 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 swarm

like 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 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 ahead 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 controversy but it's never made criminal headlines it was the first case like that feeling partially regain his eyesight we understand that he's now under treatment in germany and probably he will be returning to work in

six or seven months time as has been predicted by doctors now. for more on the behind the scenes in fighting at russia's main theater you can visit our website www dot com. energy hungry japan's atomic clocks come back on stream online we tell you why pragmatism is overcoming the post from. shima principles. now britain has been left as a lonely voice in the e.u. by defending bankers' bonuses as the rest of the book aims to rein them in the measures are popular with austerity hit europeans many of whom sets the bank is 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 in employees basic salary much against downing street swishes some banks some teams of people some revenue some profits some tax revenues.

would be written on to that extent written 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 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. 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 tax 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 all there is 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 staircase for in britain right now but the fact is that the financial services industry is vital to the u.k. economy and a few of the areas that have one famous that is including charles so george osborne say that they're concerned that it can happen as thinking that it's not just on the safety of a 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 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 they sour europe's largest active volcano has erupted in a stunning display of spouting law in pluming smoke small villages residing on the slopes of mount etna said to be at risk although a number of roads in the area have 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. huge crowds are rallied in the philippines after one of the country's muslim groups was attacked by security forces a territorial dispute in malaysia yes strike was carried out on tuesday in the state of self and to hundreds of thousands of filipino settlers protesters accuse the country's president of abandoning his people in territorial struggle and urgent and peaceful resolution. 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 the i.d.f. soldiers i'm 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. 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 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 not come down will shoot you i open my camera and i decided that i'm going there even if i die or love. to smash for now remains brother rushdie 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 wanted to throw the camera down and hold my brother and my arness 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 greet 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 we're not fired directly on the protesters but these really center for human rights has found that in total is really for. 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 so 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 bestselling book 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 to one thousand teargas canisters a day are being shot at these protesters says it's way beyond our imagination it would clouds of tear gas on a village below palestinian anger 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 in police fire r.t. to have it here now back to our top story venezuela is mourning its late president hugo chavez who died at the age of fifty eight after losing his battle with cancer

you're seeing are live pictures now of the ceremony his body is being moved from a hospital in caracas for a military academy where it will lie in state the funeral is due to take place on friday seven days of mourning have been declared in venezuela following his death and. as you can see thousands and hundreds of mourners amassed in the streets the news broke of course attention now turns to the political void left behind following his death with elections scheduled for thirty days time but for now chavez his body as you can see. the morning has begun. plenty more on that next hour here on our table stay with us to cross talk that's coming up next. choose your language. of choice we can without any financial literacy skills.