as human shields in the disputed golan heights despite calls for the u.n. for the immediate release. the bolshoi ballet dancer admits a masterminding an attack on his artistic director but claims as blushing his boss with acid wasn't the plan the renowned a soloist dimitri django and his accomplice will remain in jail until next month. and venezuelans are in mourning as the country braces itself would change after the death of its flamboyant leader who. examined the prospects of the political transition. it's six pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t a live with me to bomb

would say it's good to have you with us the u.n. is demanding the immediate release of a group of its peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights militants are say they use in the observers as human shields and will hold them until syrian government forces pull back from a nearby village archies middle east correspondent has the details. all twenty one new in personnel well armed they're all from the philippines and we've heard from the philippines foreign office who has demanded their immediate release the philippines government says that they are being treated well that negotiations are underway to try and secure the release of the militants are admitting that they took these u. n. personnel to try and prevent an attack by assad's loyalists in other words what we're seeing is that the rebel forces are using this new and seen as a human shield now the u.n. has of course condemned this act this action we've heard criticism particularly

from moscow at the united nations there is no reason at all under any circumstances 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 now the united nations is currently also involved in negotiating their immediate release according to the united nations its team were on a regular mission in the area we're talking about an area not far from the israeli syrian border that happened earlier on wednesday when they were taken hostage. let's get more on this from dr abraham aleutian political analyst and professor to nag university in jordan professor the rebels are saying they don't the want to release the un peacekeepers until syrian government forces withdraw from the area is that a realistic demand. well obviously it's not realistic demand what

we're talking about here as i mean it says something about the shade the nature of these so-called rebels that are being promoted by nato countries and g.c.c. go rulers at the same time i'd like to draw your attention to the fact that human rights watch said yesterday that these same rebels the so-called martyrs of yarmouk group are being investigated for the summary execution of armed troops that were caught surge from a syrian post near a boy at the same time i'd like to add that g.c.c. i mean i don't believe countries decided yesterday in cairo that these rebels are to be armed further and that they're going to give these rebels serious seat in the arab league. the fact that william hague the foreign minister of britain has said that britain would be providing those rebels with this final minute pretty hard

work you know if you look at this whole picture you will you will find easily that the problem is not with those rebels but with those who are supporting them the ones who are arming them wine and sing them and providing them with political support this makes nato countries g.c.c. of all orders accessories to him out of the kidnapping violation of international law and the possibility in all having those you and. office that let's talk about let's talk a little let's talk about to those western states who are stepping up in terms of the age to the rebels could they reconsider their approach in light of this hostage crisis. well let's face it the only reason they are acting this way is because they feel they have some sort of support from the west as well as g.c.c.

countries on the muslim brotherhood i think they were they were encouraged by the exchange for their release yesterday of the desire amman jordan on those to infiltrate the into syria illegally who was handed over to the russian on boss of the what you are dealing with here as far as i'm pure and simple the more you give the more they will their mom i think we need to have all the countries of the world to face up to the fact that you have to stand in the in the way of those people otherwise they will turn the streets of damascus and other syrian cities as well as world cup of pills and through blood soaked streets we need to stand up to those people and face up to the west who refused to condemn the bombings that took place in syria on the point of first of february last month professor let me one of the united states professor let me just come in there i mean you've spoken out about.

countries a facing up to what's going on this is happening unfolding white at the doorsteps all the of israel the jewish state to says a it's not planning to get involved why do you think that is. well basically because the zionists have decided that it's better for them to see the syrian regime toppled because they believe this when we can syria and weaken hezbollah and lebanon which would be a strategic gain for them so in fact they are involved in the way of supporting rebels meetings have been held secretly between some of the officers of those rebels in jordan with israeli officers to coordinate action against the syrian regime as well as sport of this already and just like nato is not directly involved

in the way of flying sorties or attacking directly but they are lending support both military and political financial as well as media coverage to those rebels playing with serious security just one one word i would like to throw in here ok cowboy talk about those actions. those actions would not have happened had that not been for weakening the son throw state in syria which is the operation that is being undertaken by the west as well as g.c.c. countries else abraham illusion political analyst and a professor at the university in jordan a very harsh comments from you they we hear you and of course those are your views and they don't necessarily reflect our views here at our thank you give everybody a platform thank you for your time. right at leading up to the hostage crisis western powers and the arab allies have been stepping up support for the syrian

rebels arab ministers have decided to lead member states government fighters but some states like germany has a surprisingly warned against sending weapons to the militant opposition saying it would only broaden the conflict live now to shun a thomas use in the studio with me now sean kwanten unexpected move though from germany there isn't it will certainly tabby a change in rhetoric and possibly even a change of tactics now if you look at germany reports from their intelligence suggest that a large portion of the terrorist attacks in syria are being carried out by possibly al-qaeda or jihadist linked groups and this is something that they're trying to prevent also germany has in the past provided what they call democracy training to the syrian rebels in the case that assad should fall now the world community the global community wants to get involved to try and prevent this syrian crisis from going on any further in fact nato posted some missile battalions on the syrian

turkish border but europe in general they want to get involved as well they want to help the opposition but they disagree in exactly how to do it for example the u.k. and france they're wanting to go in and provide military training to the syrian opposition this is something that germany does not want to do in fact they are against the idea of arming the rebels saying that they want to prevent a proxy arms race and they also want to prevent this regional civil war within syria from becoming a larger more regional conflict now the u.s. has recently been used to its support the rebels saying that aid is going to the right people what do you make of that well when it comes to the right people i guess it's a matter of where you stand in terms of. the conflict but there is a very interesting graph that we have we'll try and show you that here in

a second but if you see we have this video that video we'll get to that in a second but back to the grab we have saudi arabia the gulf states qatar arms and cash turkey cash arms training libya arms and possibly even fighters now we can't exactly say that they are providing these things but it is believed that the gulf states are really doing what they can to support the opposition now we come down to the united states who have said that they will provide cash and non lethal support that non-lethal support is about sixty million dollars worth of medical aid and supplies but it's not exactly welcome by the syrian opposition in fact and now if we can go to that video and show what we're showing a little bit before there you see it's almost an onion style video take a look they're making fun using these sanitizer bottles using them as weapons someone even comes up and brings a chair and uses it to. act like they're shooting down the syrian

army so basically. reportedly the syrian opposition not exactly welcoming this support from the united states possibly because they're used to other types of support they're used to getting an arms through different channels they're used to getting in actual fighters from different countries by proxy this is something that germany in the united states are saying that they are trying to avoid spawning basically some mockery of the aid that is being given to them but one thing to keep in mind in the past two years of this conflict the u.n. estimates that seventy thousand people have been killed and approximately one million people have fled to the syrian borders to neighboring countries so whether or not they're trying to keep this from becoming a part of the global community it looks like it is already wedding into a world conflict with world interest a satirical take there on a very serious situation that son thomas giving us an update on that story. right egypt is

a flame away the city of port side once again at the at the center of the troubles the egyptian army and police are struggling to control the city which has been plagued with unrest and violence for a fourth day we report on that later in the program. the bolshoi ballet dancer suspected of masterminding an attack on his attested director said he did order it but didn't want him to be splashed with assets police have charged him in and two others involved in the years salt of causing grievous bodily harm falling thursday's pretrial hearing in moscow court is tom barton has been following the scandal. on march the sixteenth pavel dmitrichenko was due in the bolshoi theater behind me to take part in another great performance there he will not be there he will be staying in detention and least until april the

eighteenth a judge has ordered that's when the investigation will wrap up into this case of this acid attack possibly longer that was ordered by a pretrial at a pretrial detention hearing today and that was after mr ricci chain co had said that he did admit that he had committed a crime but he had to collude with his two accomplices and paid them about one and a half thousand dollars but he did not plead guilty to ordering them to throw acid in the face of surrogate fill in the direct the artistic director of the bolshoi theater there is a cloud of rumors circling around this case and there will be as long as it is as long as it goes on all of this stuff sort of starts to fall away from hard facts and it's a lot more based around rumor the police have said that as far as their statement goes that there was

a lot of animosity between surrogate filin and pavel dmitrichenko and that the this attack was likely due to tensions at work beyond that though there is widespread rumors that it may have to do with the puzzle to me to change those girlfriend also a famous dancer at the bolshoi who has been turned down by surrogate phillip. for lead roles in ballets there and that that may also may have had something to do with this fallout which resulted in this acid being thrown in surrogate felons face the trials will take its time to unravel but all of this attention surrounded around these individuals and the bolshoi is making this theater and everyone connected with it famous for all the wrong reasons. entertainment correspondent martin entries told my colleague imette tries about the ugliest side to life on the

stage. in the front of her feet you see a beautiful production but really the drama backstage is i think it's everyday life in a production house and that's what it is it's a factory from from the problems with the understudies from the problems because thing from the problems of of of management who were dancers who are bitter about their faded career it's it's not an easy world to be in obviously the rivalries between companies with a mosque and with the mets in the skull and they all want to be at the top of their game and tensions are always high and fraud and this is the first time we've had these sort of things happen right well this is certainly a very severe there but other kind of scandals well there's this it's called drama for a reason if a year ago stravinsky's rite of spring was postponed and in fact one of the dances that. she was actually said that she was threatened by various people and she's she actually went over to canada in fear of her life in fear of that it would escalate

beast and shins between theatrical ballet world would escalate into violence and obviously as we see with the result. that happened in january it happens and this may reduce it down to a level of a cliche but we have this blockbuster movie black swan that cloud that's absolutely what is live with the black swan film that's the portman it really highlights the you know the extremities and the tensions and especially with the with the management with the hiring in the firing it's everyday life and sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but they reality is somewhat different. still to come here on r.g.p. we examine venezuela's upcoming political transition after the death of his charismatic leader. also a hate breaking with tradition wall bringing. the mainstream parties opting instead to pool while we take a closer look at the trend to this break. speak

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and. welcome back you're watching our team in egypt and there's no sign of calm off the whole days of continual outbreaks of violence protesters have started to fires in the streets of port side and battle security forces and a challenge to the state's authority they demanding the release of prisoners so six people including three police men have been killed since andress erupted three days ago our chief correspondent bell drew has the latest. the battles raged through the night said largely focused around these keep building these key government

buildings in poor signage with protesters hurling mona talks to 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 this is all a heads off to saturday's very contentious verdict in the police our youth football disasters happened last february basically we're going to see the betting on the final defendants in this trial imports i.e. they're very angry and start to question who's to death in the first round of this verdict we have the second round coming up with a lot of dissent we've got a under here also in cairo so we wait to see what's going to happen the government chair used to change the head of security in course i eat off this five days of fighting on the streets they replace him with the deputy also president mohamed morsi is reportedly being mumming a minute taking over for saeed and it would draw police as being very much between protesters and the police themselves the police are actually very angry as well by

saying that the situation for them is extremely violent and evaded have good working conditions eight thousand police officers are currently reported being on strike in sinai in suicide they are actually calling for the current minister of interior to to step down. not to pressure on the current administration. correspondent bill choose also reporting the latest details though right from the scene get updated by following her on twitter. venezuelans are paying their respects to the country's late leader of a seed had a long battle with cancer but it was reportedly

a heart attack who was killed the president of fourteen yes' but as well as now in a week of mourning with the elections to be held in a month's time you see feel when they produce a video agency ruptly has more. caracas today is the streets are very really very somber obviously the coffin of hugo chavez was taken through the streets today and was finally taken to the military academy where literally thousands of people have gathered outside of the military academy and there's a queue which seems to know no end of people who are waiting to be able to go and 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 surveys that was taken over the last fourteen years that he was in power benefited the most 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 brought in by hugo chavez thanks to be immense oil wealth that this country has and prior to. 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. has 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 was a big stream inequality obviously we know that there's going to be elections in the next thirty days and among business supporters here the people who've been out in the streets today they're very confident that the vice president nicolas maduro is going to comfortably win the next elections but of course you know that remains to be seen.

more news from around the world starting with a it's a d. and form of crimea silvio berlusconi has been sentenced to one year in jail was convicted over the legal publication all. the phone call in italy is related to a two thousand and five banking scandal but as tony is already appealing another conviction and is also facing two other trials connected with tax fraud and paying for sex with underage prostitutes the seventy six year old is expected to appeal again this latest verdict and remains free for the meantime. protesters outside the philippines embassy in kuala lumpur are demanding the arrest of a separatist leader with groups attempting to claim an area in malaysia thirty two of the separatist sultans gunmen have been killed in an ongoing crackdown on militant elements in the borneo region of sabbat just yesterday an airstrike followed by large scale ground operations were launched in an attempt to flush out

the insurgents tension is also a mountain in the philippines where locals continue to protest against their leader's handling of the situation. room dot com the world's most renowned internet piracy hands through the new zealand foreign intelligence intelligence agency for illegally spying on him according to a court ruling a request was made to spy on him before the f.b.i. conducted raids on his home and offices is currently battling an extradition order to the u.s. on charges of online piracy and money laundering if convicted by an american court he faces up to twenty years in jail. in the u.k. as a traditional political parties are losing supporters to their number mainstream rivals the conservatives have suffered a major blow at the recent by election in easily beaten into third place by the u.k. independence party they were once described as prime minister prime minister david cameron as a quote bunch of fruitcakes loonies and closet races and quote artists are for it

looks at the shifting shape of british politics. britain's political landscape is changing the stranglehold of the old three party system appears to be listening. and it's opened the door to some colorful alternatives with 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. last week's byelection in eastley saw 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 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 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 is a big issue for many members of the german public puts can certainly be a hard bunch 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 protest has had to go somewhere else and the one of the above party has the moment as you keep many of the parties using the sea change in public opinion as a blank canvas on which to stamp their mark. a protest vote. not to. keep beating the conservatives to second place in eastley last week might have come

as a shock to some but it's not the first time a small party's stolen the show in a byelection last year and the respect party had a sensational win when jews. either way one the profit seeking from the labor of coolest gaining a bit of media coverage is one thing turning that attention into vegas in a ballot bowl and winning seat is quite another something he smaller parties have yet been able to day with a general election will say thorough and with some polls putting almost hope if the recent support the u.k. 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. london. up next a look into how women in russian prison struggle to maintain their family. did

you see darth vader and storm troopers trying to make their way into the ukrainian justice ministry as part of a protest well probably a lot of you saw this fun viral video 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 that 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 protest a culture and language like you see people protesting they're so satisfied with themselves in their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in power then the how is it going to cure cost of goods with the opinion of heartless bureaucrats sitting in some solo.