two ranks of military and police on able to control dissent our correspondent on the scene brings you the latest. north korea scraps its non-aggression pact with the south in response to more u.n. sanctions blaming seoul and washington for ruining nuclear disarmament talks and conducting war games. the body of venezuela's hugo chavez to be involved and put on public display for years to come as latin america mourns the loss of its loudest voice for social justice. noon in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t we begin in egypt where the northern city of port saeed is said to be a war zone army and police units protecting government buildings from angry protesters who've been on the rampage since sunday at least seven have been killed

in this spate of unrest artie's bill 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 an unknown 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 i 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 impose are you being ignored so forgotten by the government and 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 seeing at the scene sometimes putting herself at risk you can see here i was some protesters weren't happy with her up close reporting you can follow her tweets for the latest from the middle of the action and it may make little difference what verdict is passed over the deadly football riots unarrest may only get worse according to sheriff could use an egyptian american journalist for democracy now. many people expect that whatever the verdict comes down that some party will be i'm greedy either people in porn site or people in cairo or both if the security officials are seen as getting off with a very light sentence or regard getting innocent then i think both sides will be

very angry and see and this lingering sense of injustice that is hanging over egypt for the past two years will really ignite on the streets of point sight and cairo but really i think what goes to the heart of it is not how there hasn't been much money pounds for the former and the state bureaucracy on how citizens in the states are dealt with that the gods of the women just switched who was 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' visions of trying to assert control remember it's not listen. north korea's officially scrapped a hotline and non-aggression pact with the south it's also shut down its borders saying washington and seoul are responsible for ruining nuclear disarmament talks this after pyongyang threatened us with a preemptive nuclear strike after a u.n. vote approving more sanctions or he's honest us a church 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 hints 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 kyung yang 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 acquire from having the technology to be able to set up and aim a nuclear weapon at 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. the u.s. is fully capable of defending itself against any possible north korean attack but antiwar activists brian becker from the answer coalition thinks washington could be

deliberately provoking pyongyang. the north koreans realized that the united states strategy with that right wing government in south korea and pressuring china north korea's traditional ally to go along with the program because i think china fears after the asia pivot that there's a growing danger of an actual war in the pacific to to isolate north korea but what has north korea done and north korea has carried out a nuclear test the third but they're doing it in response to major massive u.s. military exercises that our kids are conducted in a way to stage a mock invasion and bombing of their country a country that was indeed invaded twenty years ago exactly twenty years ago in fact the u.s. strategic command said we're reorienting us hydrogen bombs away from the soviet union this is after the demise of the u.s.s.r. and now targeting north korea and that's when d p r k withdrew from the

nonproliferation treaty and began building with great earnestness its own nuclear capacity. 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 is currently lying in state at a caracas military academy was the feeling a producer for artie's video agency ruptly stood in line to see. i'm standing near the military academy where the late president hugo chavez's body is on display in a huff open cosset and literally hundreds of thousands of people continue our off the how it's a stream and to pay their last respects to those now the media here is obviously very some of it as you can hear also people here celebrate the man who they say not only gave them a voice but also gave them the opportunity to participate in a society which prior to chavez coming to power in one thousand nine hundred nine

was one of the most on equal in the world in terms of the divide between rich and poor and the people hey it's a day on very much from the poorest parts of venezuela the poorest parts of the cities known as the barrios and also from the countryside and today they say that very much united in their collective determination to continue those socialist project their nose bolivarian is them which chavez initiated which they say not only transformed by lies but also changed many pas of the wilds and the people here it's say that chavez is very much an immortal kind of figure who will continue to shape venezuela for generations the feelin he got a. russian president vladimir putin says is on display or not chavez has already written his name into the history books hark to. chavez was a brave and very thorough man who is able to showcase strong character to go through with his plans he genuinely wants to rid the country's poorest citizens of

them points and improve the lives of his became the symbol of independence throughout latin america while he was still alive he's joined the legendary ranks of simon bolivar fidel castro and shake of our new wall chavez death has left on certainty not only in venezuela but across latin america with its most vocal opponent out of the picture some experts are wondering whether washington will use the chance to increase its influence in the region or his guy made she takes a look. communities of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of which office 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 so. this liberation process not only on 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 and used to refer to the united states in washington president obama extended his sympathy to the chavis family and herald that 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 then the lines of the 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 survey's perhaps the largest reserves of oil in the world from the u.s. point of view this has enormous potential implications because

a venezuela that moves away from chavez is foreign policy means a venezuela that's what's 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 let to the. the u.s. now calls leftist populist governments in latin america came to power partly in reaction to decades of the us 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 a lot there 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 coup 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 u.s. 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 chavis had expressed his anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors. the devil came here yesterday. and it still smells of

sulfur here 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. on the way a new head of the cia john brennan confirmed as the director of langley despite controversy on capitol hill over his endorsement of the u.s. deadly drone program. but how some british towns are battling to keep age old traditions alive are being put at risk by strict tax policies. did any of you seen darth vader is stormtroopers 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 now probably not that many trust me i understand that using wacky protests 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 there 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 soulless office again media attention is great but if you want to be taken seriously worrying a rainbow wig and thawing while fighting for your rights doesn't seem to send the right message but that's just my opinion.

they're serving us. just like your mother. the ones born in prison. must be for the crimes committed by their. babies. on our t.v. . posting with us here on r t sixty minutes past the hour now president barack obama's former counterterrorism visors 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 lawmakers spoke for a marathon thirteen hour speech to get guarantees that remote controlled strike craft wouldn't be used on the home front as archie's marina pornography reports so many u.s. lawmakers have a long and jacked it 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 that program has been criticized as having a huge lack of transparency last year brought in argued for the legality the morality in the effect of ness of america's drone program and publicly it acknowledged the cia that c.-h. 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 it about the president does not 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 of 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 independent journalist charlie mcgrath drugs are likely to become more aggressive and less transparent under the new chief. 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 the drone isn't going out there and using a ball peen hammer to take out of baghdad and it's in a down range a seventy thousand dollars hellfire missile and we know that there's been you know a very large percentage of civilians killed higher percentage of civilian certainly than the so-called high value targets 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 and how far these attacks end up being but we usually find out about it we got 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. international officials continuing to negotiate the release of twenty one un peacekeepers held by syrian rebels here the israeli border the observers are expected to be set free as early as friday and say they're being treated well by their captors the rebel groups backtracked on earlier claims that it took the peacekeepers hostage as human shields and say they can't release the captives until syria's government forces stop them barging the area and withdraw rebel faction involved a suspected of committing war crimes by human rights groups some observers say the kidnapping highlights miscalculations by those in the west who support the opposition. the syrian rebels a 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 obvious in the

u.n. could not is just consequences in feedback loops of of lack of vision and wisdom it's chaos and they're not looking at the feedback loops the consequences of their actions no which like the un kidnapped in this was to come the loops are coming back and they're going to makati thoughts and unfortunately create and builds off and shook some of ethics and morals and we see an ethical compromise is no which is one of greatest andi's greatest threats in my opinion. russian scientists have found a new type of life in the water of antartica subglacial lake voss stock researchers found the bacteria while studying samples of ice retreat from a depth of almost four kilometers late last year the project at one of the most remote places on the planet took years of planning the unique environment is believed to have been secluded from the surface for millions of years. the great survivor of italian politics finding himself convicted and sentenced to a year behind bars find out whether there's

a chance of silvio silvio berlusconi actually being sent to prison and why he was on trial in the first place on our web site plus. the number of international reporters including an r t camera man caught up in a tear gas attack by israeli security forces covering a peaceful protest in the west bank put on our t. dot com for the details. finally in the news block a traditional british pint could soon become a luxury in the last five years the tax on every beer poured has gone up so much pubs and bars are going out of business by the thousands r.t. sara furthur ports on one community that found an unconventional way to keep their booze are up and running. something is brewing in britain with any budget around the corner beer is set to rise again a third of the cost of a pint already goes to the taxman campaign is have said enough is enough and a 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 increase of charge yessica and keep down the cost for a consumer which pumps over time o. 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 cite 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. his kind of corporate talking to steve rowley that frightens everything in its path around the supermarkets are already running the

right side of the track. and every high street and every time. the pubs phone leave or thirty by locals as a comfy old slipper and his prevent a hit with tourists in villages and like closely even supposed to be 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 because of duty or whatever reason or the reason it's another this just makes it to. the right well the corner and the micro supplies the pub is. all stay a co-operative that is doing well in the u.k. small approaches pay halt the tax of the major companies best kidney markets being lucky a mixture of good business sense and strong community spirit has been the brewery and the pub have avoided the slide 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 tack pad it's small independent pubs that suffer in the last four years nearly six thousand cups of closed resulting in tens of thousands of job losses for the very last section is the only woman is actually doing well at the moment for the city going against the trend not falling sales will go gradually you know here increases as we. are used many times the prices they service will tend to be a proper. role for their school losses thanks train savings of destroying logging and it's something individual basis in an environment where from whichever somebody who works. and the own profits it's the risk of losing a petition to cheech and this pretty things that she's savoring thoughts crossing so for this work is 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 career outside 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 a best preserved sarah. has kidney market in cumbria. up next on failing a tangled net of lobbying p.r. and even fellow play by in europe celebrated democracy stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought

you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. is power was the envy of emperors. he had good reason to trust no one. his body was found on the floor of his huge empty house. but did he die of natural causes. the mystery of stalin still going to see. every six months there was in the u.s. on that and every six months that your team it's just

a few days before. the location and date work up come from then till the booking was made two years in advance. left behind was a clear message to the following you some of the heads of governments a few days later. adopt the single market the monetary union infrastructure projects a flexible labor market deregulation downsize public service. as austerity measures and so on and so on hold your liberal agenda for the basically our picture got confirmed by american scholar stepping into the topic maria green towels i was interested in doing something about europe and something about the european union i started talking with some of the c.e.o.'s and in particular the corporate affairs managers of these firms to ask them what happened and everybody had a little piece of the story and then i met with keith richards and. keith and i

would talk about different things and he would give me some ideas and i'd go and i'd talk with other individuals and then i'd come back with more questions and sometimes keith had the answers and sometimes he didn't and finally i believe it was on my seventh meeting with keith when i said to keith you know i can write up out there so i can have all these different interviews but i really want to see the pieces of paper he said to me well you know i have a bunch of cardboard boxes in the basement of the we haven't opened them they're from the earlier days we just we just put this material in the boxes and of course and you know in the back of my mind i was very excited thinking this is it. came across or tell x. . it was from visit decker see your philips.

december ninety five he wrote to the heads of state just before the signing of the single european facts which started the process of the single market. the crux of the tallackson is as follows you know we don't know what you're going to do but we want you to act you can act one way or another if you choose not to have a single market program then the. you have given us no choice but perhaps take our business elsewhere. this was a clear for it the year two represented sixty percent of western europe's industrial output this was blackmail. why did not a single government say anything.