to ranks of the military and police i'm able to control dissent our reporter at the scene bring you the latest. north korea scraps its non-aggression pact with the south in response to more u.n. sanctions blaming seoul in washington for ruining nuclear disarmament talks and conducting war games. john brennan voted is the new cia chief despite controversy on capitol hill over his endorsement of the u.s. deadly drone program. nine am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t we begin today in egypt where the city of port site is said to be a war zone army and police units protecting government buildings from angry anti-government protesters have been on a rampage since sunday at least seven people killed in this spate of unrest bell

true has more. there are ten scenes here in egypt's coastal city of post as the clashes continue into the night time standing right in front of the front line here we've witnessed excessive use of tear gas by the security forces as well as hearing gunfire although i cannot confirm whether this is my munition all the reports have come in that i mean it has been used in the past few days these protests broke out a few days ago off the defendants in this very contentious. verdicts were being moved from one prison to on the unknown location the families of the defendants in this trial were very angry and that's how these clashes began speaking the protestors this evening they tell me that need is being used as a scapegoat in this particular trial they believe that protesters in cairo a not so treated in the same way that people here being ignored so forgotten by the government on targeted by the police the president for his part president mohamed morsi has torn to the idea of the withdrawing the police from the city possibly

putting the military in power they have of course said change the head of security here as well in advance to quell dissent although we expect the clashes in the run up to this very contentious verdict. belcher's sharing with you what she's witnessing at the scene and sometimes that puts her at risk you can see how some protesters weren't happy with her up close reporting to follow her tweets or the latest from the middle of the action and it makes little difference what verdict is passed over the deadly football unrest riots unrest may only get worse according to sheriff cruz and gyptian american journalist from democracy now. many people expect that whatever the verdict comes down that some party will be angry either people important people in cairo or both if the security officials are seen as getting off with a very light sentence for getting innocent then i think both sides will be very angry and see this lingering sense of injustice that is hanging over egypt for the past

two years. on the streets of point sight and cairo but really what i think what goes to the heart of it is that now there hasn't been much of any pounds for the former the state bureaucracy on how the citizens and the states are dealt with. that is that they really are just switched who is at the top from bottom to mohamed morsi and many people are now protesting against the brotherhood on the hama morsi saying that instead of trying to really reform citizens or should try to assert control over its maoists and. north korea officially scraps a hotline and non-aggression pact with the south and says washington and seoul are responsible for ruining nuclear disarmament talks after pyongyang threatened the u.s. with a preemptive nuclear strike this after a u.n. vote approving more sanctions artie's honest i see it you're going to has more from new york. the fifteen member united nations security council presided this month by russia has adopted a new sanctions resolution against north korea and response to

a third nuclear test conducted by pyongyang on february twelfth in defiance of existing united nations security council resolutions which basically bad of any kind of nuclear testing by north korea and this latest resolution was drafted by the united states and china during three weeks of negotiations and adopted this thursday unanimously by the security council to give you a more general idea of what this resolution is all about what it basically does is condemns this latest nuclear test as well as any other nuclear activities conducted by north korea including uranium enrichment it also bans any further nuclear tests and calls upon north korea to return to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and most importantly the security council in this text calls for north korea to return to six party negotiations in terms of north korean reactions we have to say of course that this thursday north korean officials have threatened with a preemptive nuclear launch if young yang were to be attacked by another country

and this is of course a hint at the united states because this week the u.s. has kickstarted joint military drills with south korea on the border between the two koreas something that pyongyang has dubbed an open declaration of war and we have to mention that analysts of course are saying that north korea is actually far from a while from having the technology to be able to set up and a nuclear weapon a specific target but was of the biggest concern here is of course this provocative language that's dangerous in the united nations security council to hopes to achieve is basically for north korea to return to six party negotiations with this latest push of this new resolution from the security council and. new york restrictions imposed by the security council after previous nuclear tests and rocket launches of all fell to deter young yang co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war erik's iraq and think sanctions will only take

a toll on ordinary people. they said they're going to limit money that by eight go toward nuclear technology well that means limiting cash when it means limiting cash for a country that can't eat itself because it doesn't have enough arable land to you can do so you're talking about taking food out of people's mouths so we have to examine why we use sanctions as something that is in essence a weapon of war and it cannot be used in this way because we're going to be taking money out of a country that needs the money to feed itself so in the end thank sions really ends up hurting people in a country who need it the most and i think we have to get over this and see if that sanctions haven't worked hasn't worked in cuba and other places in for decades in iraq it didn't because we had to go into a war that didn't stop saddam hussein these sanctions have generally ended up killing people on the ground and really we need to get

a lot more creative than that. well stay with us here on earth you still to come farewell commandante the body of venezuela's charismatic leader shove it is to be involved and put on public display there's a lot in america laurens a lot more in the last of its loudest voice for independence. and how some towns in britain are fighting to keep alive age old traditions that are being put at risk by strict tax policy. but first brought obama's former counterterrorism adviser has been confirmed as the new head of the cia but before the senate could vote in john brennan his nomination was held up by questions over his role in washington's controversial drone program one republican lawmaker spoke for a marathon thirteen hour filibuster to get guarantees that remote controlled strike craft wouldn't be used on the home front as are reports so many u.s. lawmakers have a long objected to john brennan's nomination and there's various reasons before

even getting to the drone program he's considered to have played a major role in the cia's enhanced interrogation program under george w. bush and he's also known as the top cheerleader for america's controversial drone program now that program has been criticized as having a huge lack of transparency last year brought in argued for the legality the morality in the effectiveness of america's drone program and publicly had to acknowledge the cia that c.a.g. own attacks have been taking place in pakistan yemen somalia libya afghanistan and elsewhere now on wednesday senator rand paul spent nearly thirteen hours on the senate floor filibustering brennan's nomination in pursuit of more information about the obama administration's domestic drone policy now confirmation of brennan as cia director that vote came after the obama administration specified limits on the presidential authority to order drone strikes against american citizens in the u.s. senator paul said he was satisfied with the statement that the administration released

saying that about the president is not. i have the authority to use a drone to kill an american in combat on american soil now washington however did not specify what you do in combat and means i know some may say well you might be playing semantics but does combat mean carrying a concealed weapon does it mean carrying a knife does it mean that it has to be a soldier so clearly there are still questions about the wording that the a bottom and a bomb and ministration used but clearly those that were opposed to brought in were satisfied enough with that explanation to the point where he was confirmed as the head of the cia we go live now to the us for more from journalist charlie mcgrath with wide awake news thanks for joining us here so given john brennan's previous experience as a counter terror devise what do you think we can expect from his tenure as cia director. more of the same i mean he you know as your report indicated he is not only supportive of the drone program he's the architect of the drone program and as

well as loving things such as rendition you know so he what we can expect i think with john brennan is absolutely more of the same more what being spilled on foreign soil for the name of spreading so-called democracy now washington says it can order the killing of a u.s. citizen not engaged in combat on american soil but that's kind of a big gray area isn't it how broad is that definition very broad i mean you know as you said what is it what is it how do you have to quantify what combat is i mean if i go on a radio program nightly and i talk against. american policy i talk about the never ending war that we seem to be mired in around this planet is that giving aid and comfort to the enemy you know i know that sounds farfetched but we've seen things such as the report came out saying ron paul supporters could be potential of domestic terrorist and so many other things that fall into that category and many other things that we know the department homeland security and other agencies are

tracking and even just words we use doing it during an interview if the right word pops up it is tucked away so it could be reviewed later so you know i think it's a real gray area is what is causing that and what is it but just to play devil's advocate here let's say we are potentially in say another nine eleven situation you have a plane that you know is under hijack who that is going for a clear target say the pentagon or the white house or the capitol building could that be a place where it could be permissible to use a drone if one is available to take it out before it does more damage. well yeah i mean obviously that would make sense in a scenario like that if we could have done that before nine eleven you know more than sure that would happen but it isn't about the obscure. cohens are the exterior examples of the six obscure scenarios right i mean and that's always the argument we get from our so-called leadership they give us these scenarios that are you know would these one of the millions of things what we need to be concerned about is the

fact that the government our government you know the united states of america has said that we could potentially be having thirty thousand drones flying around this country in the next several years and their policies you know their actions and their policies over the last few decade or the last decade rather has shown that it is growing more and more into a police state and more and more people in this country are falling into the so-called belligerent actor category now the officials are claiming that drones cause minimum collateral damage is there evidence so far to back that up or to the contrary. i would have to say to the contrary but you know it's so big the news that we get or so minimal the news that we get but every time you know the drone isn't going out there and using a ball peen hammer to take out of baghdad and it's in and out of range a seventy thousand dollars hellfire missile and we know that there's been you know a very large percentage of civilians killed a higher percentage of civilians certainly than these so-called high value targets

. drone strikes targeted killings not sanctioned by international law up to this point so how transparent are they and is there any way to properly investigate or vet them when they when a civilian is killed especially in the case that we've had recently of civilians being killed in pakistan and no one's quite sure everyone's pointing finger is pakistan saying it's a u.s. drone and vice versa. you know so the verification of what the missions are and who is being killed and the numbers of people being killed obviously i mean we can look at this expansion of the drone program over the last several years and it's usually we find out how dangerous and how barbarous these attacks end up being but we usually find out about it not from the government or not from an official agency but it's usually a either a news agency or the people themselves begging for this kind of activity to stop. now finally the u.s. has been leading so to speak the drone warfare program worldwide but there's other

countries and of course other militaries out there that will be using them potentially do other countries have a chance of catching up are we on the verge of seeing kind of like a drone gap or even like a drone race like the arms race in the in the eighty's and ninety's. that's a great question that the drones the drone raises you know what here's the deal if you're a nation that wants to sit six thousand miles away from a country you're trying to destabilize and you want to do it in the most anesthetic way possible at least for the people the united states we look at it and pretend that there's no blood being spent or spilled so if you're nation that is into spreading your present brand of politics around the world and destabilizing governments and you're not up on the drones you better join the drone race right charlie mcgrath right away to news thanks very much for that time thank you. for the body of venezuela's late president will be i'm bald and put on public display quote for eternity who go chavez reportedly killed by a heart attack after

a long battle with cancer currently lying in state at a military academy in the capital caracas russia's president vladimir putin says on display or not chavez has already written his name into the history books. recto. chavez was a brave and very thorough a man who was able to showcase strong character to go through with his plans he genuinely wanted to rid the country's poor citizens of their plight and improve their lives chavez became the symbol of independence throughout latin america while he was still alive he joined the legendary ranks of simon bolivar fidel castro and shake of our. meanwhile chavez death has left uncertainty not only in venezuela but across the latin american reaction as most vocal opponent out of the picture some experts wondering whether washington will use the chance to increase its influence there or he's got a ship young takes a look millions of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of. the

venezuelan leader enjoyed tremendous popular support in his country as well as the whole region he won four presidential elections and had ruled venezuela for fourteen years. this liberation process not only of the venezuelan people but also of all the latin american peoples must continue. chavis allowed us to restore faith in latin america region so that a profound transformation in the region can be carried out. the only guards and the empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the news empire is the word a host of south american leaders used to refer to the united states in washington president obama extended his sympathy to the chavez family and heralded quote a new chapter in the history of latin america but the u.s. congress was not as restrained in their reaction to the death of the venezuelan leader the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee had this to say his death the lines of and say u.s. leftist leaders in south america good riddance to this dictator in the media

a slew of pundits embarked on a search for new opportunities that might now be available for the u.s. in venezuela. so what does this mean now for the united states and all that oil in that country venezuela is a place of enormous opportunity it has by surveys perhaps the largest reserves of oil in the world from the u.s. point of view this has enormous potential implications because venezuela that moves away from chavez is foreign policy means a venezuela that's less welcoming to iran less friendly to russia less friendly to castro's cuba less friendly to leftwing regimes around the hemisphere which is financed in their campaigns and and other aspects but before america jumps at the chance to explore those new opportunities it might be useful to look back at what washington's previous efforts led to what the u.s. now calls leftist populist governments in latin america came to power partly in

reaction to decades of the u.s. recklessly meddling in the affairs of the region for years washington had seen many of those countries as its outposts after chavez was elected in one thousand nine hundred nine a host of other leaders in latin america followed his example to varying extents including but not limited to ever morales in bolivia rafael correa in ecuador and then they go in nicaragua chavez may not have. been as hardened in his views against washington if not for allegations of the tacit support of the bush administration in the coup against him in two thousand and two he met with bill clinton a couple times and they got along just fine it was really only with george bush then when things really were turned sour and especially after the coup attempt within forty eight hours of the start of the cool with the help of the military and vast popular support chavis returned to power but during that short period when he was deposed some in the us hurried to celebrate the new york times for example ran

this article venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by would be dictator caracas name provides fifteen percent of american oil imports and with signs of policies could provide more for years after the coup chavez had expressed his anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors i did a tour of the iraqi. george w. bush has long left office but suspicion and mistrust remain some argue if during these challenging times elect america washington continues to deal with that weekend using the same old tactics the hostility could be playing in washington i'm kind of shaken. international officials continuing into negotiate the release of twenty one un peacekeepers held by syrian rebels near the israeli border observers are expected to be set free as early as friday and say they're being treated well

by their captors rebel group has backtracked on earlier claims that it took them hostage as human shields but say they can't release the captives until syria's government forces stop them barred in the area and withdraw the rebel faction involved is suspected of committing war crimes by human rights groups some observers say the kidnapping highlights miscalculations made by those in the west who support the opposition. the syrian rebels the literally move to tools for the us in the west so the throwing money i think sixty million dollars note that the rebels in the chaos in syria over this in the u.n. could not is just consequences in feedback loops of the lack of vision and wisdom it's chaos and they're not looking at the feedback loops the consequences of their actions no which the u.n. kidnapped in this was to come the loops are coming back and they're going to makati thoughts and unfortunately create them do a little and shook so i think some models and we see an ethical compromise is no which is one agree exists on these greatest threats in my opinion russian

scientists have found a new kind of life in the water of antarctica subglacial lake vostok researchers found the bacteria while studying samples of ice taken from a depth of almost four kilometers late last year the project one of the most remote places on earth took years of planning an ecosystem of thought to have been secluded from the surface for millions of years. a traditional british pint could soon become a luxury in the last five years the toxin every beer served has gone up so much that bars are going out of business by the thousands sarah ferguson one town that found an unconventional way to keep their booze are up and running. something is brewing in britain within the budget around the corner beer is set to rise again a third of the cost of a pint already goes to the tax man campaign is have said enough is enough and are calling for a freeze for six drinkers hang around ten times as much as drinkers in germany so.

just be right to hold up. hold on the not increase the tax yes and keep down the cost for pubs or time old tradition in person but fully understand their appeal we have to go three hundred miles from london here to hesketh new market a village in the heart of england's countryside and steeped in history ten years ago when the only pub in this but it was put up the sale the people who lifted a rather than risk seeing it for into the hands of a big chain and if you need character decide it's this something a little bit different and take matters into their own hands. together and pull the pub turning it into a co-operative believed to be the first of its kind in the u.k. i have called. this kind of corporate tart to steamroll it frightens everything in its path around the supermarket aisle right in the right.

time and every high street and every time. the pubs phone leave referred to by locals as a comfy old slipper and his prevent a hit with tourists and villages alike closely and you might even spot a few famous faces sampling the local breweries the pub wasn't about money but it does turn a profit but even here the big g.t. hikes are felt every time the price goes up. the reason it's another. makes it to the right well the corner and the microbrewery that supplies the perp. it's all say a co-operative that is doing well in the u.k. small approaches pay halt the tax of the major companies but has kidney markets been lucky a mixture of good business sense and strong community spirit has been the brewery and the pub have avoided the slight caused by the big g.t. escalator across the u.k.

they and many others haven't been say lucky well big businesses can afford to pick up the tax tab it's small independent pubs that suffered in the last four years nearly six thousand pups have closed is holding in tens of thousands of job losses i mean very little section is the only woman to sleep doing well at the moment for the city going against the trend not falling sales very gradual you know here increasing with. many times the prices the service will tend to be a proper focus. for all you know schools for the big screen sort of thing so for me to still love you know it's an individual basis in an environment way from which the somebody in the world. and beyond profit it's the risk of losing a petition institution this pretty things that just so you bring thoughts crossing so for this work it's a community it brings people together. it's more of

a difference between social networking and meeting something real life there is no substitute for this kind of trivia that's right the old crowd might be unique in britain these days harking back to a time of community that many of us have now gotten but it's a reminder to avoid some traditions best preserved sarah. has kidney market in cumbria. next we unveil the tangled knot of lobbying p.r. and possibly foul play behind europe's celebrated democracy stay with us.

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