put on public display with many wondering about washington's plans for the oil rich nation amid its political uncertainty is seeing live pictures of the president's state funeral from correct. me is struggling to end on reston port which has been engulfed in violence for nearly a week ahead of a second verdict for those involved in last year's football rides. and the cool following russian scientists discover a new unidentified bacteria in antarctica glacial lake vostok which could allow them to shed light on life forms from different planets. around the world on screen online international news and one from the new center here in moscow this is. the people of venezuela will be left with

a permanent reminder of their late leader his body it's been announced as will be embalmed and put on public display that's off to world leaders pay their respects at a state funeral ceremony. producer varieties ruptly video agency is that. i'm standing near the military academy where the late president hugo chavez's body is on display in a half open casket and literally hundreds of thousands of people continue our off the how it's a stream and to pay their last respects that is 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 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 are very much united in their collective time and nation to continue the socialist project known as bolivarian ism which chavez initiated where space a not only transformed by lies but also changed many parts of the wilds and the people here say that chavez is very much an immortal kind of figure who will continue to shape venezuela for generations lizzi feelin artsy gattaca such as will become the fourteenth will leader to be embalmed when his body is left for all the world to see the museum of revolution which is still under construction and he said 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 months of lamb 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 and 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. there is 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 disappeared 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 of her own 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 nine hundred seventy four in buenos aires twenty two years in total from death to her final resting place. russia has always been among venezuela's key international allies vladimir putin has paid tribute to the late president saying chavez has become a legendary figure across latin america. on chavez was a brave and very thorough a man who is able to showcase strong character to go through with his plans he genuinely wants to rid the country's poor citizens of their plight and improve their lives but 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 shakers are. these are live pictures from caracas right now here on r.t. where the state funeral procession for business now underway in the venezuelan capital leaders from latin america and beyond attending the ceremony hundreds of thousands of people have lined the route the funeral will be followed by the swearing in of chavez is appointed successor vice president nicolas maduro. while the passing of chairs 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 but he's got a church can take to the. communities of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of charteris. joyed 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. chavis allowed us to restore faith in latin america region so that a profound transformation in the region can be carried out that's 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 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 then. the us 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. patients because a venezuela moves away from chavez's 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 in 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 daniel ortega 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 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 i would 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 senator policies could provide more for years after the coup chavez said expressed this anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors yet as to who is 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 playing in washington i'm going to. fierce clashes have entered their sixth day in port side as army as the army has taken control over the egyptian city protesters have been demanding the release of

the detainees held for the deaths in a soccer massacre reports say that the chief of the country's rock police has been sacked following a week of violence which has claimed at least seven lives but his correspondent bill true has the latest from the conflict plagued city. well today has definitely been a day of mourning and reflection here in this restive city of port sayit 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 secure 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 is at the crux of the issue i saw people today even hugging army officers posing for pictures with them one little boy put 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 all been joyful here today as i said has been a lot of mornings people reflect over the violence of the last five days that the area surrounding the security directorate is strewn with take us kind of says bullets 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 one group of people called for the execution of the president however there has been some fear is that with a 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 the muslims are 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 clashes between the army and the people and in this instance one activist 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. sharif could a season egyptian american journalists from democracy now was told me that the judges in the football disaster case proving to be poor referees and a 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 are getting innocent. 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 really right the streets of port side i'm cairo but really what i think what goes to the heart of it is that there hasn't been much of any plans for a form of the state bureaucracy on how citizens of the state are dealt with. that this is a really really just switched who is 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' actions are trying to assert control over its powers and. hear mosco still to come this hour for you what is hidden under the ice event top

pick a report on the breakthrough find of russian scientists raising hope of discovering life. other planets. also ahead sobering thoughts on the big tanks campaign is in the u.k. calling for an end to the constant rise of warning but in the future of hundreds of pubs at risk more or less after this break. did any of 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 just did it using wacky protest tactics gets media attention and if you are pushing a cause that media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or

why you are in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protest a culture and language like you see people protesting 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 thawing while fighting for your rights doesn't seem to send the right message but that's just my opinion. continues here on r.t. international officials are still negotiating the release of twenty one un peacekeepers abducted by syrian rebels in the going on height report suggested the observers could be freed when. several hours but fighters are apparently sticking to their demands for 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 rebel group has backtracked on earlier claims it took the peacekeepers hostage as human shields militants involved in the kidnapping of suspected of committing war crimes by human rights groups abduction the first time since u.n. troops began patrolling an israeli syrian almost a slide in the golan heights nearly forty years ago meanwhile peacekeepers have left their post on the syrian side of the golan heights on the advice of the un. russian foreign minister said that the leaders of the syrian opposition a finally showing signs of moving towards dialogue with damascus without preconditions speaking to the b.b.c. setting a level of 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. that their leaders discussions

with the gestures from the opposition statements from some of those who support the opposition. for the bill will be prepared to start negotiations with some negotiating team without asking for president assad 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 know where the chance could be materialised. israeli forces appear to find a way to gag the press. group of international reporters including a cameraman. covering a peaceful protest in the west bank. also online what happened to a fifty nine year old cancer stricken. confinement in an american prison even

without a trial. he managed to become. scientists may be on the way to discovering a new form of life cautious predictions come after they found an identified bacteria in the waters of sub glacial lake vostok. has more on the intriguing study. more than three and a half billion years after life first appeared on earth 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 high concentration of oxygen with little nutrients 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 we drew as soon as it struck water the discovery of russian scientists could provide an incredible insight into our planet's past. well those exploring antarctica have to brave some of the most severe and inhospitable conditions on earth and all of the sean thomas he knows and i have reported for ati all in research in this icy continent you didn't actually spend time in this specific research station we're talking

about but you spent a lot of time in in the area now tell us but before we talk about your experience why is it that the russians were so keen to research this was very interesting this all started back in the one nine hundred seventy s. as a project to research global warming what they were doing was they were drilling through the glacier to take core samples and go back layer by layer to find out small changes in the earth's atmosphere during years going back millions and millions of years then as they were drilling they found way the ice is changed this is no longer glacial ice this is frozen water this is lake ice so they've discovered. the everyone else said ok we've done our job russians are like wait what's down there and so they were the ones who continued to drill to go down for the to see if there was water down there in this thermal heatedly and this is a massive lake give us an idea in context of how big it is well i call the largest lake in the world which is in russia which is in russia it is thought that lake vostok is bigger so it is considered to be thought to be possibly the largest freshwater reservoir in the world and what are the conditions like working in an

environment like that well this is the most extreme part of the planet in fact itself is considered the cold pole if you will in fact the coldest temperature ever recorded is minus eighty nine degrees centigrade that was back in one thousand nine hundred three in fact. that she was the chief of the station where i was working he was actually on the expedition that brought equipment to the base in that specific year and was there for that recorded temperature so these people are working in credibly extreme temperatures incredibly extreme situations just to get the science done just how difficult is it just how cold is it when you get up in the morning you know go out and work and it's just. i was. there in the summer and it was still incredibly freezing to get out there one thing i forgot to mention about the actual science side of this thing though bill which is important is this bacteria that they found living in such extreme circumstances in extreme cold glacial ice it can

give us a look back into our past as to maybe possibly where we even came from because it's so many million years old and also looking to the future possibly to mars and how life can thrive in such extremes are going to have this really is relevant to well says yes sometimes i just think this is just getting started about exactly exactly but living there back to that i'm sorry i backtracked issue out on you but you know you wake up in the morning it really is like being on a different planet if you've seen star wars it's like being on hoff the ice planet because very limited no vegetation only aquatic life penguin it's ok it's a barren boring beautiful it's beautiful and it's only very in what way because you just think it's just no no it's right you can't help but have a sense of transcendence that you're part of something bigger while you're there because it is so different so extreme from anything else that you'll see anywhere else on earth and then animals are not afraid of you they come up and they play and they talk to you and really i'm going to ask you about you know obviously you were working with a team of humans may do naturally make friends with the local wildlife and there is

a pleasure to see you mention penguins. seals fish there's lots of you know krill i know that sounds weird but whales as well so every once in a while you'll see a whale just kind of do a little flip out there's a very interesting just completely surreal to be a part of that any part of the world we know so little about so thank you very much indeed. the great british pint is struggling to survive in danger of running dry due to rising taxes the usual 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 beloved abuses r.t. surfer 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 a point where he goes to the tax man campaign is have said enough is enough and are calling for a freeze. around ten times as much as drinkers and drumming so. just be right to hold up. hold on the increase. pumps over 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 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 the side it's the something a little bit different matters into their own hands. together and bought the pub turning it into a co-operative believed to be the first of its kind in the ek the pub wasn't about

money but it does turn a profit but even here the big g.t. hikes are felt every time. it's another. round the corner and the microbrewery that supplies the pub is also a co-operative that is doing well in the u.k. small abreu pay hard the tax at 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 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. that stuff in the last four years thirty six thousand pubs that closed this whole thing is tens of thousands of job losses 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 we do a gradual you know here increase in sales we. are used many times the prices the service will tend to be a proper focus. for all you know school was a big strain serving something to still love in a certain individual basis in an environment within which the somebody could work so hard. and beyond profit it's the risk of losing a petition institution this pretty things that just say bring flukes pricing so for this work it's a community it brings people together. it's more of a difference between social networking and meeting somebody in 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 the gulf but it's a reminder to be

a voice some traditions best preserved sarah. has kidney market in cumbria. about with the news team with more for you in just over half an hour from now in the meantime coming away the tangled net of low being pay are in foul play behind european politics that's after the. news that secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care only on the dot com.

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 harkin welcome to the big picture. people don't touch the european union is they don't understand how it's governed

they don't know who the people who are running it but they know that they were chosen by the people and so. when they see the results less than perfect they say who do we blame and they don't know who to blame because they don't know who these people are. when i started out as a young environmental activist i had no idea that i should end up as a watchdog in the brussels machinery. but i was stunned to discover how fragile the political decision making process is and to realize how easily it can be manipulated. there's a dark force behind this machinery and.