these human shields by syrian rebels in the go on heights. thousands of venezuelans publicly mourn their late leader with the death of who go shop is leaving behind a political vacuum and uncertainty. unknown drones the u.s. and pakistan trade barbs over who was behind air strikes last month as a spread of unmanned aircraft raises the specter of unaccountable killings and. it's eleven am in moscow i met très a very good to have you with us here on our t.v. we begin in the middle east where the u.s. is demanding the immediate release of its group of peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights 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 provocative move was by the opposition it comes despite some leading u.n. members increasing support for the rebels as archy's policy reports from tel aviv. 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 the state 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 we demand from the u.s. the u.n. and the security council that the troops of bashan ascents regime withdrawn from the village until then the peacekeepers will remain on hostages if our demand is not fulfilled during the next twenty four i was we will treat the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 the international norms of behavior of the united nations says that it's observers were 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. earlier my colleague bill dodd spoke with our teams correspondent arena delusional about the ramifications of the increased foreign backing for the syrian rebels. who 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. well the turkey libya and the united states have all i 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 to 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 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 and that actually should be the first question that should come to mind because obviously when john kerry is talking about the right people he means that he hopes that the aids does not go to words that hardline islamic jihad azour of 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 some analysts say the hostage crisis should be a wake up call for the groups who are supporting the rebels and have no control

over how do you sustain this is being 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 are productive nature a lot of control and then any minute three or somebody on the ground for the opposition or outside political will sorry t. is intrigued doing this job and doesn't exercise that one troll 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 by hand using peacekeepers hostage they weren't quite sure and even want kind of the purpose of that young group that was there which is the story has been there to separate israeli and syrian troops sold at the kind of complete they seem to be unfamiliar with what the purpose of those troops are or peacekeepers are and

the kind of their dead asking for a completely irrational demand then again that's another indication of how explosive and irrational the situation has become turning out of some of the day's other top stories venezuela in seven days of mourning after the death of outspoken leader who go chavez thousands throng to the streets after he died tuesday following a long battle with cancer was he failing a producer for artie's video agency roughly roughly reports. caracas today is streams a very calm but really very somebody asli the coffin of hugo chavez was taken through the streets today and was finally taken to the military academy where thousands of people have gathered outside the military academy and there's a queue 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 back as it was 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 that gap has been reduced because of a number of social programs that were aboard ten by hugo chavez thanks to be immense boil well that this country has and to. chavez came to power in one thousand nine hundred nine much of the 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 they get into power then essentially the country would robust back to pre-one thousand nine eleven stream inequality obviously we know that there's going to be elections in the next thirty days and among business 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 or washington the death of who goes chavez will bring an end to a stream of criticism but professor of latin american studies miguel tinker solace things while venezuela just selects its new leader it's in the u.s. best interest to keep a low 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 embassador 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. well stay with us here on r t still to come later this hour a changing tide british public growing weary of its school political leaders with growing support of the polls for the so-called none of the above party plus. egyptian authorities struggling to control the city of port cited were arrested and nonstop anti-government protests have claimed several lives more on this after a short break.

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thanks for staying with us here on r t fourteen minutes past the hour now in egypt protesters have set streets aflame in the city of port sayed in battle security forces and a challenge to the state's authority they're calling for the release of prisoners six people including three police have died since an arrest started three days ago here's the latest from our correspondent bill true. the bottles raged through the night said largely focused around these key buildings these key government buildings in poor sayit with protesters hireling most office says security forces the army again to try to intervene to assist the police force but haven't been able to quell with the sense that these all are heads office against very contentious verdicts in the police i.e. football disasters happened last february basically we're going to see the betting on the final defendants in this trial in points i.e.

they're very angry as twenty people were sentenced to death in the first round of this verdict because the second round coming out with a lot of dissent we're going to get hit also in cairo so we wait to see what's going to happen the government sure used it to change the head of security in course i did this by day so all fighting on the streets near the base came out with your deputies and the whole city president mohamed morsi is opposed to being money minute therea taking a cool site that it would cool nice as i'm getting very much between protesters and the police and so the police actually very angry i was by saying though that the situation for them is extremely vitamins and that maybe have good working conditions eight thousand police officers are currently reputed to be on strike in sinai in suicide they are actually calling for the current mission in syria. to step down and which is a lot of pressure on the current administration. the u.s.

dodging out of his asians it's drones go 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 is held to account or he's wearing a port and has more from new york. 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 the problem of anonymous drones went to drone strikes killed nine people in pakistan's tribal belt last month is long allied 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 decompile groups are often thousands of miles away this is one of the corrosive and dangerous impacts of the liberation of the use of drones in the house through the united states government has led her way and negative around a lot of the 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 trying 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 have been. used around the world to fight the war on terror reporting from new york bring up or not . the attorney general's admission that drone strikes could be used inside the u.s. has angered members of the senate because the public in kentucky senator rand paul launched an old school thirteen hour filibuster demanding the obama administration pledge not to target its own people as a result democrats who control the upper chamber were forced to delay a vote on john brennan's nomination as the new head of the central intelligence agency. an alitalia pilot has told controllers he recently spotted an unmanned aircraft as he came to land at j.f.k. 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's 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 really too small in terms of drone so this morning we don't have the information but what we do know with certainty is that through it's going to be a billboard not only to governments but to individuals and they will diversify in terms of their innocent nose size are going to be made us air forces already you know is this going to be making drones that are the size of an insect that can assess it people so these this technology is here. a villain on the stage end off a pretrial hearing has started for one of the bolshoi theater is top dancers who admitted to being behind an acid attack on the company's ballet director this is

a live pictures from the courthouse in moscow you're so nearly blinded sergei filin who is now undergoing treatment in germany and thought to have her again up to half of his sight in one of his eyes the people behind the assault might get up to twelve years in prison artie's alexei reports. one of the world's most famous theatres the bolshoi is still recovering from a huge scandal when it's artistic director was thrown a ball of us to do his face but it also seems to be losing one of its leading don says vital 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 he masterminded this attack because julian 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 swan

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 that we all saw in the black swan holywood 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 . has been surrounded by control received but it's never made criminal headlines as was the. first case like that or 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

the shape of british politics shifting with swathes of public growing disillusioned with the policies of the mainstream parties are recent byelection saw governing conservatives begin to second place by the u.k.i.p. party that's never held a seat in parliament and until now it's been dismissed as simply a fringe movement or more from london. 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 turns to fill 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. looking at last week's byelection and. very little not five but full team differing candidates of all shapes sizes and colors and all of them willing to take on the mainstream party to recast government in britain.

and to turn it from. democracy 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 this certainly a bit of a perception that maybe the traditional parties aren't concentrating on some issues particularly around immigration that we know is a big issue for many members of the german public puts can certainly be a hard punch to please it used to be that fed up for you that backing behind the liberal democrats but not any more. positively for us as a policy which. it's good but it doesn't mean that the protest vote has had to go somewhere else and the none of the above party have the moment as you keep many of the parties easing the sea change in public opinion as a blank canvas on which to stamp them muck. a protest vote

as if. well let's face it it's a lot to pretend. he kept beating the conservatives to second place an easterly last week might have come as a shock to some but it's not the first time a small cost he's stolen the show in a byelection last year and the respect policy had a sensational wind until it got away one the profits from the labor of course gaining a bit of media coverage is one thing turning that attention into fates in a ballot box and winning seat is quite another something few of the smaller parties have yet been able to day but with a general election we'll say thorolf and with some polls putting almost half of the recent support the u.k. it is coming from film a conservative eight is well you can perhaps understand why the prime minister is

not the picture of happiness right now sir aussie london. and still to come the man a love by the people and feared by the banks kaiser and kaiser report stay with us after a short break. did any of you see darth vader and storm troopers trying to make their way into the ukrainian justice ministry as part of a protest or probably a lot of you saw the fun viral video. no but how many people remember what exactly they wanted and what their protest demands were all about probably not that many trust me i understand that using wacky protest tactics gets media attention and if you are pushing

a cause the media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or why you are in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protester culture and language like you see people protesting there so satisfied with themselves in their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in power then the house is going to cure cost of goods with the opinion of heartless bureaucrats sitting in some soulless office again media attention is great but if you want to be taken seriously we're a rainbow wig and for a while fighting for your rights doesn't seem to send the right message but that's just my opinion. max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report. on satan evil genius frankenfood. max kaiser. is in the news there's

a case before the u.s. supreme court about this case the automatic earth dot com says time to stop monsanto and the u.s. supreme court now the case is called bowman versus monsanto company in this case number eleven dash seven nine six and the new york times and their piece about this and this is setting up the automatic earth dot com writing about it the supreme court appears to defend the patent on soybean the question in the case bowman versus months and a company number eleven dash seven nine six was whether patent rights to seize and other things that can replicate themselves extend beyond the first generation the justices appeared alert to the consequences of their eventual ruling not only for months santo's very. the lucrative soybean patents but also from modern agriculture generally and for areas as varied as vaccines cell lines and software well yeah the

patents for seeds that are owned by monsanto are there for one purpose and one purpose only to rise and raise the cost of food just like you have central banks who are in the business of manipulating rates interest rates and money flows to raise the cost of agriculture in general for people by debasing currencies there's monsanto on the other side of this trade they're the beneficiary of debasement of currencies by monopolizing seed in cash crops and making it impossible for people to grow food and grow cash crops or agricultural products in ways that are economically efficient so this is monsanto adding to this the gulag if occasion of the global economy there don't there the war of i think they're the most hated company in the world maybe exxon or monsanto they those are the two most hated company do the most damage to the world they're economically doing the most damage to the world and they're run by people who are obviously.