rebels in the golan heights. thousands of venezuelans publicly more in their late leader with the death of who go chavez leaving behind a political vacuum and uncertainty. unknown drones the u.s. and pakistan trade accusations over who was behind air strikes last month as the spread of unmanned aircraft right raises the specter of unaccountable killings. it's nine am in moscow matras a good to have you with us here on our teeth our top story starts out in syria where the u.n. is demanding the immediate release of a group of its peacekeepers who were taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights the militants say they're using the observers as human shields and the hold them until syria's government forces pull back from a nearby village the provocative move by the opposition comes despite some leading

u.n. members increasing their support for the rebels artie's paula slee are reports. the united nations says that around twenty of its peacekeepers have been detained by about thirty armed syrian rebel fighters not only the rebels released a video where they accuse the united nations of assisting the syrian president bashar assad's forces in entering rebel captured areas in the same video they also put forward their demands. we demand from the u.s. the u.n. and the security council that the troops of bashan ascends regime withdrawn from the village until then the peacekeepers will remain our hostages if our demand is not fulfilled during the next twenty four hours we will treat the hostages as prisoners now the united nations has of course condemned this incident the u.n. is currently negotiating with the rebels it demands the immediate release of its

forces there is no reason at all under any circumstances in any kind of a sick imagination to try to harm harm those people so clearly gross disrespect for united nations gross disrespect of international norms of behavior of the united nations says that it's absurd as well on a regular supply mission earlier on wednesday when they were stopped by the militants the un force was established back in one nine hundred seventy four to monitor the disengagement of israeli and syrian forces and maintain the cease fire between the two countries who are technically still of war it will come to the golan heights from syria back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and syrian troops are not allowed in this area but recently the area has been the scene of clashes between syrian rebels and government forces last week the u.s. secretary of state john kerry announced that the united states will provide food and medical supplies directly to the rebels kerry also pledged in addition some

sixty million dollars in assistance to syria's political opposition to topple the. now this is the first time that the united states has publicly committed itself to sending non lethal aid to the armed factions that are battling the syrian president but i'm also hasn't ruled out supplying the the rebels with weapons in the future also on wayne state arab league ministers said that arab states are free to offer military support to rebels fighting the forces of syrian president bashar assad if indeed that is what they wish the arab league secretary general also said that the ministers have invited the opposition syrian national coalition which is the umbrella body for and political and rebel groups to occupy the seat of syria at the league now what this does mean is more political as well as a more diplomatic support for the rebels earlier my colleague bill dodd spoke with our tease correspondent

a really good loucheux about the ramifications of the increased foreign backing for radical syrian rebels. we do know where they get their arms from at least there has been plenty of information to deduce that from we do know that saudi arabia as well as qatar as well as turkey libya and the united states have all offered some sort of aid financial or military in one way or another to the syrian rebels we don't know exactly how much has been shipped to these countries we do know that for example qatar has offered has made the latest offer to the syrian rebels which amounts to one hundred million dollars and of course there is also talk from the united kingdom where william hague has already said that he thinks the u.k. should step up their aid if the words. towards the syrian rebels as well and he is talking about something in the amount of roughly one thousand in a half million dollars and that would include armored vehicles body armor search and rescue and disease prevention so there's plenty of aid coming to the syrian

rebels and really countries do not seem to shy away from offering it to them john kerry he's expressed confidence that weapons are going to the right people so who then of the so-called right people taking u.n. peacekeepers hostage hard line islamic jihad this which there are reports show there is plenty off in syria and these are the types of people that the u.s. qatar saudi arabia and the rest of them have been supporting and given them plenty of aid they have offered them basically everything they have on the table and now we can assume that it's safe for them to say that they have in fact created a monster because now these very people are taking hostages international peacekeeping troops which are on the ground and it really have no role in the syrian conflict whatsoever so i'm analysts say the hostage crisis should be a wake up call for the groups that are supporting the rebels and have no control over how that assistance is distributed. kind of make sure that the weapons will end up in the intended sides and again if you look at the fact that what this

incident illustrates with these kind of guns or productive nature the lack of control of the any military or somebody on the ground for the opposition or outside political sorry t.v. is intrigue doing its job and doesn't exercise that one truth that he claims it does so the west should really think a lot before doing i'm harming the rebels because they most certainly won't want to end up with with the target groups it seems that the kind of the so-called rebels started has the u.n. peacekeepers hostage they weren't quite sure given what kind of the purpose of that young group that was there which is the story has been there to separate israeli and syrian troops so they kind of completely seem to be unfamiliar with what the purpose of those troops are peacekeepers are and the kind of their asking for a complete international demand and again that's another indication of how explosive and international this situation has become. turning to some of the day's

other top stories venezuela in seven days of mourning after the death of charismatic outspoken leader who go chavez thousands flocked to the streets after he died tuesday after a long battle with cancer lizzy phailin a producer for his video agency ruptly reports from the heart of caracas. practice today as the streets are very calm by really very somebody say the coffin of hugo chavez was taken three the streets today and was finally taken to the military academy where nic turney thousands of people have gathered outside the military. which seems to know no end of people who are waiting to be able to see the body of hugo chavez and pay their final respects the people are still very much in a state of shock obviously hugo chavez has been battling with cancer for a very long time at the moment there's a lot of confusion about what kind of coming days and weeks have to bring all of the. projects that were taken over the last fourteen years that he was in power

benefited the most marginal marginalized sections of venezuelan society of course before hugo chavez came into power in one thousand nine hundred nine venezuela was one of the most unequal societies are not and that gap has been reduced because of a number of social programs that were bought ten by hugo chavez thanks to be immense boil well that this country has and. chavez came to power in one thousand nine hundred nine much of that oil wealth was obviously going into the pockets of a very small elite in venezuela. and which. supporters today say form the backbone essentially of the opposition that if the opposition again took power then essentially the country would robust back to pre-one thousand nine eleven stream and equality obviously we know that there's going to be elections in the next thirty days and among chavez's supporters who are the people who have been out in the streets today very confident that the vice president nicolas maduro is

going so comfortably win the next elections but of course you know that remains to be seen. for washington the death of her chavez will bring an end to a constant stream of criticism but professor of latin american studies miguel tinker salas thinks that while venezuela selects a new leader it's in the u.s. best interest to keep a lower profile. washington that would be will advise to not get involved in venezuela the least they can say at this point is the better this is a process we're going to see a very heated election and any intervention on the part of the u.s. even a misstep on obama would be taken as as as hostility towards venezuela would play into the into the elections in venezuela in this context but after the election of a new president i think that there are good conditions for an effort to reestablish relationships but i think we should understand that it's not just venezuela that had a has had difficulty with washington also ecuador has no ambassador from the u.s. bolivia has no embassador from the u.s.

and the wiki leaks reports really indicate how u.s. attempted to maneuver and to play country against country in latin america and it really provide a revealing look about u.s. foreign policy and how little it has changed either from bush or obama. coming up later this hour a changing tie the british public growing weary of its old school political leaders with growing support at the polls for a so-called none of the above parties stay with us.

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a good idea at all learned the european way with brussels business. in the ocracy it's one person one fault but in brussels business it's one euro one fault. it's easy to. meet. thanks for staying with us here on r t fourteen minutes past the hour now the u.s. dodging accusations its drones killed up to nine people last month in pakistan

saying pakistan's own military could be to blame phantom strikes are becoming a problem because it means people are being killed and no one knows who's accountable artie's merino portnoy has more. america has long been considered the leader of drone warfare dominating the skies in the middle east africa and most recently here in the u.s. in pakistan the cia has reportedly carried out some three hundred thirty drone strikes since two thousand and four but a new problem involving the unmanned aerial weapon is emerging in the problem of anonymous drones when two drone strikes killed nine people in pakistan's tribal belt last month islamorada filed an official protest with the american embassy however u.s. officials say that washington has not carried out any attacks in pakistan since january instead u.s. officials have pointed their fingers to pakistan's air force it is impossible to

know who executed the strikes but some experts believe that the situation can soon open up a pandora's box of anonymous drone strikes around the world it's lending itself to the anonymity why the very nature of the technology that there are zero control hundreds or all of that miles away this is one of the corrosive the dangerous and. the fruition of the use of drones and now has he said the united states government has led the way and negatives around the planet in terms of normalizing the use of drone attacks across international borders as of last month at least fifty countries are reportedly using drones in the united states a new revelation has come to light the attorney general says that washington can authorize lethal drone strikes on americans on american soil without tried and it testimony before the senate judiciary committee eric holder says that under

extraordinary circumstances like september eleventh the president could order strikes to protect the homeland the same type of drone strikes that. being used around the world to fight the war on terror according to new york bring up or not. an alitalia pilot told controllers he recently spotted an unmanned aircraft as he came to land a j.f.k. international airport in new york author and academic mark mason says now more drones than ever are available and they may pose new dangers and a greater risk of being misused. the report was made at this point the information is not available as to it was a data model airplane was it a surveillance drone it was reported to be relatively small three four five six feet didn't really to be small in terms of drones so this point we don't have the information but what we do know with certainty is that drones are curates but going to be billable not only to governments but to individuals and they will diversify

in terms of their midst and size are going to be made the u.s. air force has already announced it's going to be making drones that are the size of an intercept that can assassinate people so these this technology is here. turning now to some other stories making global headlines egypt's city port sayed protesters have continued battling security forces for a fourth day running challenging the state's authority and calling for the release of prisoners there the city suffered turbulence since january when outrage was caused by death sentences handed down to the people involved in the deadly football stadium riot last year latest on arrest in port sayed so far as claimed six lives skirmishes between police and anti-government protesters have also shaken the capital cairo egypt's president under pressure after a court ordered the suspension of a parliamentary election scheduled for next month. in madrid employees of the airline iberia are continuing their protests against layoffs planned by the company

much of the anger directed at the british based managers who say thousands of jobs need cutting the troubled companies already had to cancel thirteen hundred flights thanks to a second week of action. the shape of british politics shifting with swathes of the public growing disillusioned with the policies of mainstream parties and recent byelection saw governing conservatives beaten to second place by the u.k.i.p. a party that's never held a seat in parliament until now has been dismissed as a fringe movement or tea sarraf earth has more. britain's political landscape is changing the stranglehold of the old three party system appears to be listening and it's a pin the door to some colorful alternatives all the polls and percentages and opinions from politicians and pundits it can be hard to get a clear picture of exactly what's happening in british politics right now as are looking at last week's byelection in east lease or not three not four not five but

full team different candidates of all shapes sizes and colors and all of them willing to take on the mainstream party to cost government in britain. and to turn it from top. to bottom up genuine democracy where the larger all forces have to obey the will of the people they to disillusionment it seems is an all time high something that's backed up by recent polls and there's certainly a bit of a perception that maybe the traditional parties aren't concentrating on some issues particularly around immigration that we know research is a big issue for many members of the chick flick puts can certainly be a hard punch to please it used to be that fed up voters would throw their backing behind the liberal democrats but not anymore. possibly for us

as a party which is good but it doesn't mean the protests will have to go somewhere else and the name of the above party has the moment as you could many other parties using the sea change in public opinion as a blank canvas on which to stamp their mark. a protest vote. well let's face it that's a lot to. you keep beating the conservatives to second place in eastley last week might have come as a shock to some but it's not both. first time a small parties stolen the show in a byelection last year and the respect party had a sensational win when george galloway one the profits from labor of course gaining a bit of media coverage is one thing turning that attention into votes in a ballot box and winning seats is quite another something few of the smaller parties have yet been able to day but with

a general election not say far off and with some polls putting almost half of the recent support the u.k. is coming from former conservative voters well you can perhaps understand why the prime minister is not the picture of happiness right now third party london. and on stage and off one of the bolshoi theatre is top dancers who recently played the role of ivan the terrible has admitted he was behind an acid attack on the company's ballet director your song nearly blinded sergei filin art his works here share ski 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 busted because face but it also seems to be losing one of its leading don says libeled me to each and 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 a to say 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 place 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

you know bolshoi has been surrounded by control received but it's never made criminal headlines this was the first case like that or feeling partially regain his eyesight when to stand that he's now on the treatment in germany and probably he will be returning to work in six or seven months time as has been predicted by doctors now. up next a look at how women in russia's pain also struggle struggle to maintain their families while serving time behind bars stay with us. choose your language. killing the killer though if you're going to kill some of us how to. choose the least the concerns get to. choose the opinions that invigorating a good mind. choose the stories that impact the life choose the excess to

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