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center here in moscow this is. the people of venezuela will be left with a permanent reminder of. his body it's been announced hugo chavez will be embalmed and put on public display that's off to world leaders pay their respects at a state funeral ceremony this. video is that. i'm standing near the military academy where the late president hugo chavez's body is on display in a half open cosset and literally hundreds of thousands of people continue our off the hour to stream him to pay their last respects chose not to meet 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 that very much united in their collective determination to continue the socialist project then as bolivarian is them which chavez initiated which they say not only transformed by lies but also changed many pas 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 lizzi feelin gattaca 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 what is in the snowy now looks back at the tradition of making late prominent leaders the last thing simple. 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. 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 a body disappeared while in one nine hundred seventy one it was revealed that the

remains were in fact in milan in a crypt under a different name if it is a body it was exude 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 if 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 russia has always been among but his word is key international to be putin has paid tribute to the late president saying that chavez has become a legendary figure across latin america. on 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 poor citizens of

their plight and improve their lives became the symbol of independence throughout latin america while he was still alive he joined the legendary ranks of simon bolivar fidel castro and shakers are and these are live pictures now from corrections here on the state funeral procession for chavez is now under way in the venezuelan capital leaders from latin america and beyond attending the ceremony hundreds of thousands of people have learned the route the funeral will be followed by the swearing in of travis's appointed successor vice president nicolas maduro. on this i'm now joined by c.g.i. the fernandez she's an associate professor of sociology at queens college and has written extensively about the late who go chavis now snap elections they're sure to take place in about a month from now does chavez's successor nicolas maduro have what it takes to win is that a foregone conclusion i think it is a pretty foregone conclusion i don't think that the opposition will be able to

muster up the ability to especially in the wake of so much. support and sympathy for the late president and given the fact that he said that model was he designated member as his successor i think that there will be a tremendous amount of support so i don't think i think that it is a foregone conclusion what i think is going to be more tricky is the long term situation and talking over the long term situation could the opposition offer a viable alternative of a united to develop. i don't think that they are right now and i think that they've probably even lost a bit of sympathy given some of the celebration people have seen you know going on around the city of caracas and identifying that with the opposition so i don't think right now they are in a position but i think that with a very charismatic figure of chavez out of the political scene they could have a chance now to sort of regroup and get themselves back into some kind of viable

alternative if and of course it sounds if you will get in are you still concerned about the long term in terms of the economics of the country legacies chavez in terms that maybe have been critical about him leaving a crumbling infrastructure economy that is in dire straits at the moment. i think that there will have a very difficult task ahead of him and yes there is things that will need to be figured out with the economy yes there is a growing crime rate that he will also have to have to make people feel secure especially with the loss of a president who many saw as a sort of patriotic call fatherly protective figure with the loss of that figure and the vacuum that exists in the country right now i think that my girl has a very big task ahead of him to make people feel safe and to make them feel like he is going to be in control of the economy he's going to be in control of problems like crime and that he's going to be able to continue the social welfare mission

programs that was started under a child is. looking at venezuela know that chavez is gone of course he was offering major supporter of the nations in the region such as cuba nicaragua how is his death likely to affect relations with those countries and indeed their economies because he obviously provided a lot of economic aid and cheap fuel. yes and and i think for the time being nicholas my little chavez's designated successor is a very strong supporter of cuba and so i don't think that in the short term we're going to see any change to that policy i think it would have been different say in the october elections have the opposition been voted into office or in the next elections or the one coming up in a month all the next the ones after this if the opposition comes into power i think that would signal a huge change but the change of leadership from chavez to my boodle i don't think signals a big change in that kind of foreign policy see

a lot of representatives. correct has mixed international reaction washington. well in some quarters expressed joy over the death of chavis labeling in the what is the u.s. policy likely to be in the region one of its main critics has gone. i'm not sure if it will be largely different i think. that definitely one of the things that the u.s. tried to promote free trade agreements across the region and met with a huge obstacle in the figure of president chavez now that chavez is off the scene will that have more success with that my sense is no because i think that there still exists within the population within the people among social movements of very strong opposition to that kind of policy but i think that the u.s. perceives a possible opening and may put more resources or more attention to trying to to work with leaders and to put forth its agenda associate professor of sociology at

queens college fund is joining us in new york thank you very much for talking we appreciate your thoughts on this. yet. fierce clashes have entered their sixth day in port sayed with the army taking control over the egyptian city protesters have been demanding the release of detainees held over multiple deaths at a football riot last year when more reports say the chief of the country's rock police has been sacked following a week of violence which has claimed at least seven lives or to correspond 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 side 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 as a crux of the issue i saw people today even hugging the offices 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 been joyful here today and as i said has been a lot of mornings people reflect over the violence of the last five days 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 people called for the execution of the president however there has been some fears 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 the house of our steps down i was not a good one there were many human rights violations and so many protesters killed they saved 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. thanks as i said mourning dead dead and preparing for tomorrow which will see the remaining defendant strike in this book or my. last february we will have to see overnights whether anything develops and people's reactions tomorrow to this verdict. less

than the days left until the next round of verdicts to be passed and shareef could a season of gyptian american journalists from democracy now was told me that it makes little difference what verdict is passed over the deadly football riots all the rest will only get worse many people expect that whatever the verdict comes down that some party will be angry either people imports aide or people in cairo or both if the security officials are seen as getting off with a very light sentence or if you're 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 when really a good night on the streets of port say i'm cairo but really right thing what goes on part 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 really just switched who is at the top from bottom to mohamed morsi and

many people are now protesting against the brotherhood on mama morsi saying that instead of trying to really reform citizens or should try to assert control over its powers and. still to come this hour what is hidden under the ice in antarctica we report on the breakthrough find a russian that's raising hope of discovering life on laws or other planets shortly after this break. 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 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 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 in r.t.

international officials are still negotiating the release of twenty one un peacekeepers abducted by syrian rebels in the golan heights earlier reports suggested the observers could be free within several hours 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 you. actually supported clashes and shelling near the israeli border the rebel group has backtracked on earlier claims it took the peacekeepers hostage as human shields the militants involved in the kidnapping of suspected of committing war crimes by human rights groups adoption marked the first time since u.n. troops began patrolling an israeli line in the golan heights nearly forty years ago meanwhile eight peacekeepers have left their post on the syrian side of the golan heights on the advice of the un. well the russian foreign minister says that the leaders of the syrian opposition finally showing signs of moving towards dialogue with damascus without preconditions speaking to the b.b.c.

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 and i'm glad that the latest discussions of latest gestures from the opposition statements from some of those who support their position. the baby will be prepared to start negotiations with some negotiating team without asking for president assad to step down and they 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 could be materialized. or for more in syria we can now talk to danny makki he's activist and co-founder of the syrian youth in britain the foreign minister sergey lavrov he's also said that russia is

not in the regime change game assad is still in power and yet western countries are still playing that game why. there's many reasons why western countries would still be playing that game syria is a state which has not really had great relations with the west because of its political stances toward certain. issues so russia clearly supports a political solution in syria they reject changing the regime by force or a western administered formula of regime change which happened in libya so russia rejected libya's scenario and iraq scenario of divide and conquer which is patrolled by western countries so it's very important he'd see that so get over of our discussion your report promotes a political solution and understands that the syrian opposition leaders need to really negotiate with this hearing government in order to find a political solution to the ongoing crisis in syria so some of the western countries through the funding and arming the rebels and opposition fighters have essentially act as

a bloc block any political solution which could happen in the future as they have essentially allied themselves with the armed opposition and they're seeking regime change in a non direct inadvertent way as opposed to a direct libya style intervention and you're there in london and the u.k. has just confirmed that it will be supplying more support to the syrian opposition yet british m.p.'s there in london saying this could actually turn into a rocky start military intervention you've been talking about libya do you see similarities that something like that could happen there in syria as what we saw in iraq. iraq is probably the more similar scenario to syria than libya as there's no real desire for room military intervention in syria the real manifestation of double standards is truly shown in this era crisis where you have william hague who stated that there is a great threat of terrorism threat of jihad these coming back from syria having an ideology of killing which is going back to britain there is britain british

jihadist the first british jihad he was killed two days ago so there are the rules threat from islamic terrorism coming from syria and he says that we must stop syria from becoming a bed or a kind of hard of terrorism at the same time he claims he wants to arm the syrian opposition he was to give them money through a he would provide armored vehicles to provide humanitarian assistance to the syrian opposition so it's a policy of hypocrisy which is fueled with a lack of understanding of what is happening within the arab world and within syria well has not just let me also we have really had our lack of understanding now being displayed by the fact we've seen those hostages taken by syrian rebels there near to the border of israel who are supposedly what being part of the syrian national coalition part of the opposition. of course when you the issue of moderate rebels is essentially a facade the majority of rebel forces in syria islamic and the west know this so in order to kind of to get out of the concept of that we're funding the opposition in

syria they're using the term moderate opposition but the fact that they kidnapped up to twenty peacekeeping forces in the joe night show that these groups have no relation to democracy that they do not comprehend the idea of peace but they want to create a problem between the united nations and between syria but they want to create more tensions between syria and israel and these groups are essentially backed by the west politically non-lethal aid is getting to them on a daily basis and the fact that they kidnapped these forces who are from the u.n. to have no relation with the fighting and the fact that they claim they would be used as prisoners of hostages showed the real level of barbarism the level of. the level of not understanding by the syrian rebels they're not liberal forces the majority of them are extremists and they pose a significant problem to all of the united nations peacekeeping forces in the area as they used to kind of get out of struggles with the syrian army which was conducting military operation in the region the only thank you for your thoughts danny makki the activist and co-founder of the syrian youth there in britain

russian scientists may be on the way to discovering a new form of life the cautious predictions come after they found an identified bacteria in the water event because sub glacial lake vostok. has more now on this 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 starting it on thursday russian researchers say they've discovered d.n.a. traces of previously unknown bacteria in the waters of the subglacial a cross-talk 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 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 real automatically we drew as soon as it struck water the discovery of russian scientists could provide an incredible insight into our planet's past lives exploring and told to go have to brave some of the most of the hospital inhospitable conditions on earth and earlier a sport or two sean thomas who knows exactly what that is like having reported brought to you on research in the continent. 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 a 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 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 what he has i'm talking about you think this is just get excited about exactly 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 victim

a highly bitch who is 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 how cold is it when you get up in the morning you have to go out and look and it's just. i was there in the summer and it was still incredibly hundred freezing to get out there 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 hoffa the ice planet because very limited no vegetation only aquatic life it is so different so extremely from anything else that you'll see anywhere else on earth and then animals that are not afraid of you very interesting just completely surreal to be a part of that. sean thomas there israeli forces appear to have found a way to gag the press tear gas we report on r.t. dot com and how a group of international reporters including an arty cameraman were dispersed while

covering a peaceful protest in the west bank. also online for you 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 even without a trial and what he dot com to learn how we manage then to become a millionaire. north korea has officially ended an aggression pact with neighboring south korea and an angry response to the latest round of u.n. sanctions pyongyang has shut down its borders and scrap the whole line to seoul ramping up tensions in the region with korea early a threat to preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. accusing washington of instigating war u.s. is 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. from around the world first to the vatican where new pope is said to be elected it's been a people conclave. in process required to fill the vacant positions on choose day

this is the first time in six hundred years the conclave been convened to replace a pope who didn't die to cardinals have been excused from the vote one for health reasons and the second a scotsman who resigned after admitting to inappropriate sexual conduct to priests . strikers of store madrid's but more jobs are set for the axe is the tense there 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 even passengers stranded as iberia and millions continue to negotiate the total number. one expected i affliction has landed silvio berlusconi in hospital forcing him to cancel all public appearances his annoyance it could delay his court case later this month where he's accused of exchanging money for sex with an underage prostitute and expelled him premier made the headlines just yesterday after being sentenced to a year in prison for illegal wiretapping. brings up the economy but with

a news team with morphine about half an hour from now in the meantime after this break of t.v. interviews an arab member of the israeli parliament about the power struggle in the region stay with us for that if you can. this was the envy of ambrose he had good reason to trust no one. his body was found on the floor of this huge empty house. but did he die of natural causes. the mystery of stalin's death penalty. choose your language. make it with zero if you're going to stay still some. choose the consensus get to. choose the opinions that invigorating.

choose the stories that in your life choose access to. what we have to make to be an arab member of the israeli parliament and also the leader of the arab movement for change dr thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. what is your reading of the recent elections is weighty seem to have voted more same to and not as.