the country's president. who died after a long battle with cancer at the age of fifty eight these are live pictures from the streets of caracas where his body is now being moved from the hospital. and death raises questions over the future of the country's oil industry and some of the world's largest reserves. many least the u.s. look at the prospects. of fresh clashes between police and protesters erupt in egypt. the prospect of the army taking full control of the rest of city something president morsi is considering four days of deadly violence. and britain losing its financial. plans to bankers lavish. by taxpayers but also seen as threatening to drive executives away from the city of the top stories this hour.

around the world on screen online international news and comment. in moscow this is . the morning it's late president hugo chavez who has died at the age of fifty eight after losing his battle with cancer that we're bringing you live pictures from caracas where his body is being moved from a hospital in the city to a military academy and that's where it will lie in state the funeral is due to take place on friday thousands of these socialist leaders supporters have amassed in the streets becoming. one of latin america's most remarkable populist rules but it's also left the nation politically divided. recently returned

from the country. he'd 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 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 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 for you know you talk to his charisma there and you mention the poll in the social programs he introduced usual for some of the projects that helped consolidate his supporters take a look at 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 how it 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. calls 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. 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

but 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 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 in even 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 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 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. and in some parts of the world he'll certainly be remembered more than others while words of condolences flooded in from across the globe there was a notable absence from the u.s. president barack obama offered to the people of venezuela was america's commitment to promoting democratic principles and the rule of law but calling bergen he's the founder of a u.k. parliamentary group called the labor friends of venezuela he said those words are contradictory a very noble intentions however it conflicts really with the history of united states involvement in latin america i do wish that 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 he ruptured the relationship and the rich and powerful in the united states have never forgiven him for that well it's quite interested in the. probably going to be the candidate against that my daughter is actually in the united states at the moment and documents are available 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. has championed economic reform funding it with a vast oil wealth as well as one of the world's biggest oil producers and nations depending on those supplies a keenly awaiting what happens next not least the u.s. bodies kitty pilgrim 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 produce another country is currently the fifth largest oil exporter amounting to ninety five percent of the country's exports but actual production is far behind us to two decades of investment since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight or output has fallen twenty five percent our 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 as it sounds chavez's death was already priced in we are expecting a spike depending on who will take power unless and a month's time of 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 rosneft 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 now contracts with venezuela are all based on deals made with chavez and his government and as we know ross nafs 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. so what happens next but we're interested in your view on what awaits in venezuela and head to r.t. dot com in our online poll which we can see here on screen let us know what you think will happen following the news of chavez's death well we can see that the opinions are divided almost half believe that the country will carry on as before

led by the vice president or other third say that the country might fall to the opposition which is backed by the u.s. and a little less fear that the country will descend into chaos due to an imminent power struggle and finally we can see there less than ten percent eight percent of you think that when that's when venezuela will become more moderate under a new leadership always good to hear your view go to r.t. dot com and have your say. clashes are again raging in egypt's restive city of port saeed 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 auntie's car a correspondent bill true brings us more. president mohamed morsi met with top security officials on cheese day 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 antigovernment protesters in this restive city including protesters torching the national security agency building with additional fires in the governor's 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 the 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 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 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 a 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. you what you want to live in moscow coming up later in the program don't sing all the edge about a star of the most demanded a shocking acid attack on the bolshoi it's a chief which left him almost blind and barely fans speechless we've got all the details for you on that. plus is really. troops are increasingly making law. against palestinian protest as their first resort despite claims the practice is

only being used in emergencies that are more for you after the break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are welcome is a big. news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. operation the day.

continues here on r t a villain on both and off the stage one of the bush with his top dunces who recently played ivan the terrible as admitted he was behind a shocking acid attack on the company's director said if in an assault left him nearly blinded off season like she had a shift key as this report. 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 us into his 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. 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 this is 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 control received but it's never made criminal headlines this 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. well for more on behind the scenes infighting at russia's main fear to go to our website dot com also the moment energy hungry atomic plants come back. on line we tell you why pragmatism is overcoming the. principles. of the last minute lifesaver for one worker in central russia he managed to bail out of his cranes cabin as it tipped over from lifting

a very heavy full video on you tube. britain has been left alone a voice in the. defending bankers' bonuses as the rest of the block aims to rein them in the measures are popular with sturdy hit europeans many of whom say it's the bankers who triggered the financial rollercoaster in the first place. 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. 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 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 written and 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 the world's

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 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 text. 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 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 staring at a second rating right now but the fact is that the financial services industry is vital to the u.k. it's one of me and if you look at what famous 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 nuns and 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 stunning display of spouting lover and pluming smoke small villages residing on the slopes of mount etna aren't 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 the ropes a number of times each year. least sixty people have been arrested following a student demo in canada montreal protesting against the hike in tuition fees police in riot gear used tear gas and sound bombs to disperse the crowd is a repeat on a smaller scale of scenes witnessed during the so-called maple spring of last year back then hundreds of students ended up in jail and get broken promises over education fees. and also our world update this huge crowds have rallied in the philippines after one of the country's muslim groups was attacked by security forces over a territorial dispute in malaysia where strike was carried out on tuesday in the

state of suburbs and to hundreds of thousands of filipinos settlers tess's accuse the country's president of abandoning his people in a territorial struggle and urging a peaceful resolution. israeli troops are increasingly resorting to live gun fire against protesters in the west bank that's according to palestinian reports officials in tel aviv deny the misuse of crowd control weapons but former 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 . 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 rushdie 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 the not come down will shoot you

i open my camera and i decided that i'm going there even if i die or love will have 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 but of the images i want to do for all 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 eat 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 but 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 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 cell of a 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 says it's way beyond our imagination it would be about clouds of tear gas on a village below palestinian and go 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 whisked her brother imprisoned her father and killed her cousin three months after this confrontation and beloved uncle vashti would die

a police free r.t. to have a look at it from the news team for the moment will be back with morphine about half an hour from now in the meantime it's breaking the set with abby martin after this short break. he told language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.r.p. interviews intriguing story for you to. see in trying. to find out more visit arabic t.v. it's called. the for.

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a quick thing i want to quote for a budget because you've never seen anything like this i'm told. jojo everyone this is breaking the set and i'm your host abby martin so in case you haven't heard venezuela's president hugo chavez has just died after two new. long battle with cancer will definitely cover his legacy tomorrow on the show but until then let's talk about an injustice going on within our own country the fact that n.y.p.d. has taken surveillance to a whole other level just recently the department of police has implemented a new program to stalk and harass teenagers who might be susceptible to criminal activity all at the expense of course of us taxpayers so how are they doing this.