honestly votes to adopt more sanctions on north korea following pyongyang's nuclear test last month. hostage heights syrian rebels say they'll keep using captured peacekeepers as human shields in the disputed heights despite calls by the un for their immediate release. could spend up to twelve years in prison for masterminding an attack on his artistic director who is to admitted his involvement but said splashing acid on his boss was the plan. and venezuelans are in mourning as the country braces itself for change after the death of its flamboyant leader hugo chavez who examined the prospects of the political transition our top stories .

around the world on screen on international news and comment from the new center here in moscow this is. the u.n. security council has stepped up sanctions against north korea in response to pyongyang's defiant nuclear test last month the resolution for more penalties was unanimously approved by all fifteen member states well let's get more on this from you can. you know what exactly these sanctions that have been imposed on north korea this time around and what will their likely effect be there on pyongyang. well bill north korea is definitely paying the price for that nuclear test last month the u.n. security council has unanimously condemned the vote and now they also unanimously voted on a resolution to strengthen sanctions on the on the regime the sanctions will target

north korean banks and cash core years who might be funneling money to the regimes nuclear and missile programs the resolution also outlines measures to step up to scrutiny of suspicious sea shipments and air cargo and it expands restrictions on several institutions and senior officials in north north korea's weapons industry as well as the range of materials and technology known to be used in uranium enrichment and this is just yet another round of sanctions on north korea you can say the world is pretty much united on that although china is north korea's ally to condemn the test together with all of the members of the u.n. security council north korea carried out a nuclear test in two thousand and six and in two thousand and nine which prompted the security council to impose sanctions including a ban on the import of nuclear and missile technology and an arms embargo and two months ago again they tighten those sanctions against pyongyang in response through

to its december will get launch and now there are some doubts on the effect of those sanctions the rounds of polls after previous nuclear tests and rocket launchers have pretty much failed to deter north korea from while doing it again but it's also contributing to the tension here military drills are taking place at the moment on either side of the heavily armed border that divides careers and now you say that the combination of sanctions and joint military exercises by the united states and south korea has sent the. north korea has said pyongyang into a frenzy over pull off the go. threats north korea has called the those annual training exercises and. open declaration of war so that there is a there is a real concern that further military buildup around north korea could could just

contribute to destabilizing the region and could add to to the simmering tension there thanks very much indeed for that live update out is going to come on reporting there from washington. the u.n. is demanding the immediate release of a group of its peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights the militants say they're using the observers as human shields and will hold them until syrian government forces pull back from a nearby village or his middle east correspondent paula sweer has the details or twenty one you impersonal 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 you emptying as human shields

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 it's 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. u.n. teams came under fire ten times from the syrian rebels last year and a group were also seized near the jordanian border this january dr abraham aleutian from these out in a university in jordan says he's not remotely surprised this rebel gang is behind

such illegal actions. at the same time human rights watch said that these same rebels the so-called martyrs of yarmouk group are being investigated for the summary execution of armed troops that were captured from a syrian post nearby at the same time out of countries decided that these rebels are to be armed further afield 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 that are arming them wine and sing them and providing them with political support this makes nato countries g.c.c. and all others accessories to him out of the kidnapping

a violation of international law. well leading up to the hostage crisis western powers in that arab allies have been stepping up support for the syrian rebels arab league ministers have decided to let member states. government forces but some states like germany have surprisingly warned against sending weapons to the militant opposition but it is also so far remained hesitant over a training mission unlike britain and france have no tortillas and he said here in the studio and he seems to some of the countries of no started to realize that supporting the rebels could actually have large scale consequences it would seem that way this shift is on the heels of secretary of state john kerry announcing last week that the u.s. would finally provide direct aid to the syrian opposition and help push forward the

two year push to topple president asad well opposition groups despite not being united are already getting plenty of cash in arms and training from friends in the region especially gulf states like saudi arabia and qatar well not only were the rebels disappointed the u.s. isn't being more hands on so to say they're having a bit of a laugh check out this video that has emerged on facebook fighters on the ground trying to survive on so-called non lethal weapons closer look great models being used. coming up a little later it seems they take a chair to be used as a weapon in defense you can hear actually shelly it's seen in the background another spray bottle they're. there. and if you look closely you can hear them laughing in the background certainly many

of the civilians on the ground won't find this funny especially with the international community countries like germany germany finally it seems seeing how serious this crisis is in the fact that. sending more arms or any kind of lethal weapons could worsen an already dire situation like i said most recently germany the foreign minister saying that sending arms to militants in syria would broaden the conflict in the country and throughout the region which would be a catastrophe bill and he said thanks very much indeed for that that's. nowhere. in egypt for the city of port saeed once again the epicenter of the troubles the egyptian army and police struggle come to hold the city which has been plagued with unrest and violence for a fourth day we reported on that later. but first the bolshoi ballet dancer suspected of masterminding an attack on his artistic directors is facing twelve years in jail together with two others involved

in the assault he's charge of causing grievous bodily harm but thursday's pretrial hearing in a moscow court. said he did order the attack but didn't mean for his boss to be splashed with acid ortiz 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 richard cheney had said that he did admit that he had committed a crime but he had to collude with his two accomplices and pay 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 rumor 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 the 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 fill in 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 me to change girlfriend also a famous dancer at the bolshoi who has been turned down by surrogate fill in more

than once for lead roles in ballets there and that that may also may have had something to do with this fall out which resulted in this acid being thrown in surrogate fill ins 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. well earlier entertainment correspondent martin andrews told my colleague treasurer about the uglier side to life on the stage. in the for the 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 dances there are bitter about their faded career it's it's not an easy world to be in obviously the rivalries

between companies within moscow and with the mets and 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 but there been other kind of scandals or this is 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 she actually went over to canada in fear of her life in fear of that it would escalate beast and shins between the 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 it's like with the black swan film nothing portman really highlights the you

know the extremities and the tensions and especially with the with the management with the hiring in the firing its everyday life. sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it their reality is somewhat different. still to come here all melty this week venezuela's upcoming political transition to the death of its charismatic leader hugo chavez also ahead for you breaking with tradition for british voters the shouting the mainstream parties opting instead for alternatives to take a closer look at the trend shortly after this break stay with us all to you live in moscow. wealthy british scientists are. time to.

market. to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

here in moscow the news continues now in egypt there's no sign of calm after four days of continual brigs of violence protestors have started fires in the streets of port side and battled security forces in a challenge to the state's authority there demanding the release of prisoners six people including three policemen have been killed since unrest erupted three days ago auntie's correspondent bill true has the latest. the battles raged through the night said largely focused around these key buildings these key government buildings in poor sayit with protesters hurling mullets office security forces the army again to try to intervene to assist the police force haven't been able to quell with the sense that this is all a head office against very contentious and i think in the 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 would be was sentenced to death in the fast round of this verdict we have 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 chair used to change the head of security in port side of 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 police i eat out of a draw at least has been 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 that they don't have good working conditions eight thousand police officers are currently report to be on strike in sinai in suicide they are actually calling for the current minister of interior to to step down. to pressure on the current administration

a corresponding bill cruze also reporting the latest details right from the scene you can get updated by following twitter. but israel is a paying respect to the country's late leader he had a long battle with cancer but it was reportedly a hole to turkey which killed the president of fourteen years but his word is now in a week of mourning with elections to be held the month's time producer for all these video agency ruptly as well for us. today is the streets are very calm but really very somber basically 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 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 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 that i'm that gap has been reduced because of a number of programs that were bought him by hugo chavez banks to be immense oil wealth that this country has and prior to. chavez came to power in one nine hundred ninety 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 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 the 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. the u.k.'s traditional political parties are losing supporters to their non mainstream rivals the conservatives suffered a major blow at the recent by election in eastley beaten into third place by the u.k. independence party they were once described by prime minister david cameron as a bunch of free cakes loonies and closet racists. 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 are looking at 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 cost the 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 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 had 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. that's a lot 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 parties stolen the show in a by election last year and the respect party had

a sensational win when george galloway won the proudfit seat from labor of course gaining a bit of media coverage is one thing turning that attention into vait in a ballot box and winning seats is quite another something the smaller parties have yet been able to day but with the general election not say far off and with some polls pitting almost half of the recent support the ukip is coming from former conservative voters well you can perhaps understand why the prime minister's not the picture of happiness right now. r.t. london more news from around the world now starting with italy and for the premier silvio berlusconi has been sentenced to one year in jail he's convicted over the illegal publication of a phone call in a case related to a two thousand and five banking scandal is already appealing another conviction and he's 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 against this latest verdict and remains free in the meantime. just as outside the philippines embassy in kuala lumpur are demanding the arrest of a separatist leader whose groups attempting to claim an area in malaysia thirty two of the separatists sometimes government have been killed in an ongoing crackdown on militant elements in the border region of southern just yesterday an airstrike followed by a large scale ground operations were launched in an attempt to flush out the insurgents tension is also mounting in the philippines where locals continue to protest against their leader's handling of the situation. police and french coworkers have clashed in front of the goodyear headquarters in paris hundreds of employees protested in an attempt to save their factory from closure. to cut costs by moving production to china one thousand two hundred people are set to lose their jobs if the company goes ahead with the location plans.

closed for business as deadly violence sweeps the country in yet another day of protests at least one person was killed during a general strike. in the violence there taking the total death count to eighty four since february the strike was called by the main opposition party which is protesting against the war crimes sentences handed down to its leaders. two main opposition members were convicted of mass murders and rate during the nine hundred seventy one war for independence against pakistan. well drone strike concerns have split the u.s. senate rand paul he began a filibuster on the floor of the u.s. capitol making a speech for more than eleven hours as we report called why he was trying to force the confirmation of the new cia director. also

a click away online for your children suffer from the political games of grown ups a new u.n. report says palestinian boys were cruelly arrested integrated and detained by the israeli army you can read more on this at all t.v. dot com. to bring us up to date for the moment here with news team and movie in about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime. examines the u.s. supreme court case against an agricultural giant in the cause report stay with us for that. 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're 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 and their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in power then how is it going to care 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 thawing while fighting. your rights doesn't seem to send the right message but that's just my opinion.

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