nearly a week ahead of the second verdict for those involved in football riots. the body of venezuela's longtime leader is said to be put on public display with many wondering about washington's plans for the rich nation that made its political uncertainty. and russian scientists discover new art and identified bacteria and glacial lake. to shed light on. different planets top stories. around the world on screen online international news and comment from the new center here in moscow this is. fierce clashes have entered their sixth day in the

egyptian city of port saeed over a group of men facing multiple death challenges in a massacre at a football match last year protesters have been demanding the release of the detainees police have withdrawn from the city handing security to the military at least seven people have been killed in less than a week of. true has the latest for us now. in port side what is happening at the moment. well today has definitely been a day of mourning and reflection here in this restive city of port sides and the clashes raged on through the nights but finished after the dramatic withdrawal of the police force earlier this morning the army came down and secured the security security directorate behind me putting up the tanks and lining around the building this was put met positively by protesters and people outside the building who largely see police brutality as a crux of the issue i saw people today even hugging on the offices posing for

pictures with them one little boy on an army cap as they said they'd come here the military come here to protect the people from the police this is of course after five days of fierce street battles between anti-government protesters and the police over this contentious verdict which is due to take place tomorrow however it has not been a joyful here today and as i said has been a lot of mornings people reflect over the violence of the last five days and the area surrounding security director is strewn with take us kind of says bullet casings and rocks and indication of the level of the bloody violence that has taken place here two funerals were also conducted earlier on this afternoon with people weeping as they went towards the cemetery chanting against the president's and one group of people called for the execution of the president however there has been some fear is that with the military takeover post it will not be calm to very long

speaking to key activists here they say the track record of the military when they were in power during the transitional period after hosni mubarak steps down was not a good one there were many human rights violations and so many protesters killed they say if the verdict doesn't go the way of the residents tomorrow they will see a clashes between the army and the people and in this instance one. activists said to me earlier this afternoon this could see even higher levels of violence however people tonight as i said mourning dead dead and preparing for tomorrow which will see the remaining defendants trite in this book. last february we will have to see overnight say whether anything develops and people's reactions tomorrow to this verdict from you then bill true live in port said thank you very much indeed for joining us. sharif could have been a gyptian american journalist from democracy now says that the judges in the

football disaster case of proving to be poor referees and are playing political games many people expect that whatever the verdict comes down that some party will be angry either people in port side or people in cairo or both if the security officials are seen as getting off with a very light sentence or getting innocent then i think both sides will be very angry and see this lingering sense of injustice that was hanging over egypt for the past two years when really they might the streets of port side i'm cairo but really right thing what goes to the heart of it is that there hasn't been much more any plans for a form of the state bureaucracy on how citizens in the state are dealt with. the women just switched who was at the top from bottom to mohamed morsi and many people are now protesting against the brotherhood on how morsi saying that instead of trying to really reform citizens asians are trying to assert control over its more

recent times. the body of one is what his late president hugo chavez will be embalmed and put on public display off to funeral processions on friday his body is lying in a state of the military academy in caracas with huge crowds nodding up to pay their respects they feel him producer for ortiz roughly video agency is that i'm standing near the military academy where the late president hugo chavez is buddy is on display in a half open casket and literally hundreds of thousands of people continue our off the hour to stream and to pay their last respects to 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 unequal in the world in terms of the divide between rich and poor and the people here today are 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 they're very much united in their collective determination to continue those socialist project then as bolivarian is them which chavez initiated which they say not only transformed our lives but also changed many parts of the world and the people here say that chavez is very much an immortal kind of figure who will continue to shape venezuela for generations lizzie feelin artsy got across more than thirty heads of state from all over the world are expected to attend chavez's state funeral procession among those who have already paid tribute is vladimir putin he said that chavez has become a legendary figure across latin america. on 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 countries poor citizens of their plight and improve their lives but 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 shaker viral so chavez will become the fourteenth world leader to be embalmed when his body is left for all the world to see at the museum of revolution which is still under construction and now he looks back at the tradition of making late prominent leaders a last thing symbol. many controversal figures live on after their deaths through legacy but for a handful that's not enough for those they leave behind lines still form on red square here in moscow at lennon's muslim where the former soviet leader has lived in bomb since the twenty's there are still movements and debates today pushing for the tomb to be dismantled and lenin laid to rest stalin was also involved in

actually laid next to london for eight years but the communist party congress decided to remove his body and bury him outside the kremlin walls there's a clear communist trend here china's mounted dong is still on display in tiananmen square though he did sign a proposal that calls for all leaders to be cremated ten years before his own death he was embalmed though in one nine hundred seventy six min is on display in hanoi vietnam despite his wish to be cremated as well but latin america has had only one major figure involved and she is a pro there's quite a story surrounding her remains the argentinean first lady's body was meant to go on display much like a lenin when her husband was overthrown in a military coup in one nine hundred fifty five and fled the country body disappear well in one nine hundred seventy one it was revealed that the remains were in fact in milan in a crypt under a different name it is body was exhumed and flown to spain where her husband and his third wife kept the remains for

a while apparently they kept the corpse in fact in the dining room on a platform and then when one prone came out of exile and returned to argentina he became president for a third time and evade it was finally returned and buried after his death in one thousand nine hundred seventy four in buenos aires twenty two years in total from death to her final resting place. the passing of chavez has left venezuela facing political uncertainty and with many in washington expressing jubilation over the leader's death many wonder if the u.s. will jump at the chance to gain influence in the region what is going to church crime takes a look. communities 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 so you see this liberation process not only on the venezuelan people

but also of all the latin american peoples must continue. this allowed us to restore faith in latin america region so that a profound transformation in the region can be carried out the only garcon of the empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the new peace 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 it 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 laws of the us leftist leaders in south america good riddance to this dictator in the media a slew of hundreds 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 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 lead to. what 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 daniel ortega in nicaragua charges 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 cooled with the help of the military and vast popular support travis returned to power by but during their 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 now provides fifteen percent of american oil imports and with signs of policies could provide more for years after the coup chavez said expressed his anger at the bush administration in

a variety of fiery metaphors yet as to who are the other 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 for latin america washington continues to deal with the region using the same old tactics the hostility could be put in washington i'm kind of shaken. and these are live pictures. correct is right now where the state funeral procession for hugo chavez is now underway in the venezuelan capital leaders from latin america and beyond attending the ceremony hundreds of thousands of people have lined the route in the funeral will be followed by the swearing in of chavez's appointed successor vice president nicolas maduro live pictures there

from correct. still to come here on this what is hidden under the ice all of and. old on the breakthrough find of russian scientists raising hope of discovering life . or other planets. and also ahead sobering thoughts on the big tax campaign in the u.k. of calling for an end to the constant rises warning that putting the future of hundreds of homes at risk and that story after this break. did any of you see darth vader as 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 just did 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 there so satisfied with themselves in 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 wearing a rainbow wig and thought while fighting for your rights doesn't seem to send the right message but that's just my opinion. i. use continues here on r.t. international officials are still negotiating the release of twenty one un peacekeepers abducted by syrian rebels in the golan heights early reports suggested

the observers could be freed within several hours but fighters are apparently sticking to their demands the government troops to withdraw from the area first several peacekeepers said in videos posted online that they were safe even as activists reported clashes and shelling near the israeli border the rebel group has backtracked on earlier claims it took the peacekeepers hostage as human shields militants involved in the kidnapping are suspected of committing war crimes by human rights groups. the first time since u.n. troops began patrolling an israeli syrian army in the golan heights nearly forty years ago. peacekeepers have left their post on the syrian side of the gun and hides on the advice of the un. the russian foreign minister says the leaders of the syrian opposition are finally showing signs of moving towards dialogue with damascus without preconditions speaking to the b.b.c. sergey lavrov reiterated that moscow is committed to a diplomatic solution to the two year conflict but this is not for us to decide who

should lead syria it is for the syrians to decide and that their leaders discussions latest gestures from the opposition. statements from some of those who support their position. that they will be prepared to start negotiations with. without asking for president to step down and i believe unless they sit down and they could and would discuss i'm sure the future of syria including who is going to lead syria and unless they sit down and start talking we would not nor whether this chance would be materialized and. israeli forces appear to have found a way to gag the press gas we reported on how a group of international reporters including a naughty cameraman would disperse while covering a peaceful protest in the west bank. also a lot of fear the moment this is what happened to

a fifty nine year old cancer stricken man after he spent two years in solitary confinement in an american prison without a trial to come to learn how he managed to become a millionaire. those stories online dot com scientists may be on the way to discovering a new form of life the cautious predictions come after they found unidentified bacteria in the waters of antarctica's subglacial lake vostok. has more on the intriguing story. more than three and a half billion years after life first appeared on earth and nature is still springing surprises on those who have spent their lives studying it on thursday russian researchers say they've discovered d.n.a. traces of previously unknown bacteria in the waters of the subglacial lake or stalk the bacteria they think they found does not belong to any existent class it's one of the only living things on earth that's managed to survive in such harsh conditions law temperatures no light enormous pressure and

a high concentration of oxygen with little nutrients plus talk is a unique and isolated body of water which sits beneath almost four kilometers of ice and is the largest of on top because nearly four hundred known subglacial lakes it's named after russia's only station on the frozen continent in february two thousand and twelve russian researchers became the first in the world to reach the lake after more than two decades of drilling through ice they finally managed to read up forty liters of water that had remained untouched for more than twenty million years to avoid contaminating the lake special technology was developed in st petersburg which meant the people of drill automatically as soon as it struck water the discovery of russian scientists could provide an incredible insight into our planet's past. those exploring antarctica have to brave some of the most severe and inhospitable conditions on earth and there are thomas told my colleague the buying would say well that's like having reported for research in the continent.

if you go back to the original research they were working on climate change in fact they were going back through layers of the glacier and trying to get core samples to find out what was happening in the earth way back millions of years ago and kind of isolate different temperature changes in the earth for global warming and what have you but then they discovered that the ice itself changed in it was not glacier ice anymore that they were coming in front of but actually smooth lake ice which means hey there's water there's a lake down there and then they said wait if there's water then possibly there's a chance for life that has not seen the light of day in millions and millions of years which is what drove them to go forward with this i mean it when you think about scientists say you always think like a man you know lights internet or something like that but i mean you know in the harsh conditions it must have taken a lot of time not only for you being there but also for the scientists to get used to these house because this is how do they do how do you deal with there certainly

it takes two weeks to a climatized actually to lagos of itself now i did not go to the actual station so like i didn't go through that process but it's severe stream but the work that you do is very important to finding this new bacteria even though we're still trying to find out exactly what it is it can give us a look into where we came from how we've evolved it can take us into the future in fact it can give scientists an idea of how bacteria might survive on other planets like mars for example in extreme conditions people are fascinated by both what the scientists are going to find but also in life they entertain yourself i mean you know so all way from everything that is so used to what do you do certainly well as concentration it's. in a very unique location it's kind of the doorway to the rest of the continent so there's a chinese base a chilean base the russian base the americans the brits everybody in the. all there and everybody works with each other to make sure that they all survive because you don't have the formalities of international treaties you're all working there under

cooperation so it's. there was one time where we actually had to go and we had to get food so that our base could survive but they needed russian oil so that they could survive so working together to make it all happen. time now for more news from around the world starting with the us where osama bin laden's son in law and former spokesman has been pleaded not guilty in a new york court to conspiracy charges so the man was arrested in jordan on his way to kuwait last week he reappeared in the u.s. today prior to his terror trial court hearing american officials are unwilling to release details as to the circumstances of his capture is the most senior member of al qaeda to face a civilian court on terror charges. two thousand spanish striker's have stormed madrid as airport where more jobs are settling x. this is the tenth day of strikes against the spanish airline iberia which announced plans to layoff twenty percent of its staff thousands of planes are expected to be grounded over the coming days leaving passengers stranded as iberia and unions

continue to negotiate the total number of redundancies. also no world of unexpected i affliction as london silvio berlusconi in hospital forcing him to cancel all public appearances his lawyers say it could delay his court case later this month where he's accused of exchanging money for sex with an underage prostitute it's italian premier made headlines just yesterday after being sentenced to a year in prison for illegal wiretapping. your career has officially ended a non aggression pact with neighboring south korea in an angry response to the latest round of u.n. sanctions pyongyang has shut down its borders and scrapped a hotline to seoul ramping up tensions in the region north korea earlier in the preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. accusing washington of instigating war the us has said it's fully capable of defending itself from a potential north korean strike but added that hearing such harsh rhetoric from pyongyang has become commonplace. the great british pint is

struggling to survive in danger of running dry due to rising taxes the duty on beer is going up by two percent above inflation every year. forcing brits to pay up to ten times more than some europeans do campaigners say freezing the tax would save thousands of jobs and help preserve a beloved boozers artie's refer found out about fears among many pubs that a very permanent last orders might be called. something is brewing in britain with a need budget around the corner beer is set to rise again a third of the cost of the point where he goes to the tax man campaign is have said enough is enough and are calling for a freeze. hang around ten times as much as drinkers in germany so we'll just be right to hold our. hold on the increase of.

pups over time oh 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 problem is but it is the sale the people who live to a rather than risk seeing it fall into the hands of a big chain and if you need character cite it's this something a little bit different 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. the pub wasn't about money but it does turn a profit but even here the big d.t. hikes are felt every time. it's another. round the corner and the microbes that supplies the pub

is also a co-operative that is doing well in the u.k. small abreu pay half the taxes the major companies there's kidney market's been lucky a mixture of good business sense and strong community spirit and the brewery and the pub have avoided the slide caused by the big g.t. escalator across the u.k. they and many others have to say lucky big businesses can afford to pick up the tab it's small into. tens of pubs that suffered in the last four years nearly six thousand pups that closed is old thing is tens of thousands of job losses are in the area while section is the only woman to sleep doing well at the moment for the city going against the trend not falling sales or gradual you know here increase in size as we. get many times the prices the service will tend to be a proper pope's. role you know school was

a big screen serving so to me just to log in a certain individual because in an environment where you can which are some of the world's largest. and beyond profits it's the risk of losing a put each institution is pretty things that just say bring your crossing so what this is mark is a community it brings people together people. it's more of a difference between social networking and meeting something real life there is no substitute for this kind of conviviality the old crowd might be unique in britain these days talking back to a time of community that many of us have now the gulf but it's a reminder to be a voice some traditions a best present sarah aleksey has kidney market in cumbria. so that brings up today for the moment here. with the news team with more for you in just a one off enough now in the meantime putin about and he's got to debate the legacy of the late venezuelan leader that is in crosstalk.

oh and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle. maniacal dictator cordially popular and democratic leader of the people what is his legacy did he leave venezuela and his people better off why did washington demonize him so and will the chavez revolution outlive its found here.