public display after a state funeral procession wrapped up in caracas his death has left many wondering about washington's plans for the oil rich nation and its political and. egyptian army is struggling to end on rest and port saïd which has been engulfed in violence for nearly a week ahead of a second verdict for those involved in last year's football riots. and a cool find russian scientists discover new unidentified bacteria and subglacial. which could allow them to shed light on life forms from different planets the top stories this hour. around the world on screen online international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow this is. the people of venezuela will be left with

a permanent reminder that his body it's been announced hugo chavez will be embalmed and put on public display that's off to world leaders paid their respects at a state funeral ceremony this. 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 with him as he knew our offer to our lives a stream and to pay their last respects shows now the media here is obviously very summed up 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 the collective to time and nation to continue those socialist project their nose bolivarian ism which chavez initiated which they say not only transform their 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 shake venezuela for generations lizzie feelin gattaca so chavez will become the fourteenth world leader to be involved when his body is left for all the world to see the museum of revolution which is still under construction and he said no he looks back at the tradition of making late prominent leaders the 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 miles of land 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 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 even as a 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 then when one peron 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. the scenario that russia's always been among but his word is key international allies that it putin has paid tribute to the late president chavez has become a legendary figure across latin america. one hundred three 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 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 shake of our. face clashes have entered their seventh day in port saïd with the army taking control over the egyptian city protesters have been demanding the release of detainees held over multiple deaths at a football run last year meanwhile reports say the chief of the country's police has been sacked following a week of violence which has claimed at least seven lives on his course 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 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 and 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 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. before here today 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 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 hosni mubarak stepped 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 are as i said mourning their dads and preparing for tomorrow which will see the remaining defendants tried in this book or massacre that occurred last

february we will have to see overnight so whether anything develops and people's reactions tomorrow to this verdict. less than a days left until the next run a verdict has to be passed but sharif could have seen the gyptian american journalist from democracy now has told me that he believes whatever the outcome it will make little difference to the rest. 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 getting innocent. 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 in the streets of port say that in cairo but really i think what goes on part of it is that there hasn't been much of any power for the former and the state bureaucracy on how the 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 how much morsi saying that instead of trying to really reform citizens' actions trying to assert control over its maoists and. but bell to our top story and those developments in venezuela and what the future holds for the country following the death of hugo chavez well joining me now is steve elmer he's a visiting professor not an american and caribbean studies at duke university steve nicolas maduro he is the hand-picked successor what is he got to do now to continue with the popularity of the people and continue with chavez's policies it's going to be a hard act to follow isn't it yeah it's years i'm sure but will it certainly will i

think. dog is comes from the labor sector he was a trade union leader. in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's and he is he headed the presidential commission that drafted the new labor legislation so he's known for being a reformist and i think that's going to help him and i think that will. assure that he will contain a certain to be a popularity but i think the key to all this is that he is closely associated with china as you know one child was left. to go to cuba to land a lot of stuff is less public announcement but he called on venezuelans and his people who are particular to to vote for who are disappointed or into elected president you know if this situation came to that so i think that with that sense of legitimacy i think that he will not have any trouble with the upcoming but will

he face strong opposition in the future you say he's a reformist but is that what the opposition would be offering what sort of policies and indeed is the opposition really united enough to offer some sort of challenge. the opposition you know i think it's very difficult to imagine that the opposition. in these upcoming elections. the opposition is united. but. so there are different currents within the opposition the leadership of the opposition leadership party or in this in control. supports your liberal policies that go back to the. on the other hand there are other organizations like . democratic and actually goes back to the forty's and used to be the largest party

. that has a. position. so there are divisions there within the opposition when the opposition appeal to because clearly there are a lot of discontent people there's been an erosion of the middle class obviously chavez had huge popularity among poor people but will the opposition appeal to an adamant of support that we haven't seen obviously for chavez in the future all that support is for the opposition. well that has been the opposition strategy since the year defeats in the with a general strike with the attempted overthrow of jobbers since about it's two thousand and six the opposition has made it if are to yield to the poor people and the campaign for the presidential elections in october of last year the opposition candidate. in the company. wade into the body and spoke to the board people and that was the main thrust of his campaign so the

opposition and understands that it will not we know elections just on the basis of the last. there is a great amount of distrust among the people if copy of no matter what he says pretty much that the social programs that were so popular it was so politically successful for john's will will be abandoned if the opposition return returns to power let's get away from domestic issues now let's look at the the foreign policy implications now america and venezuela what do you hold now for the future of relations between the two do you think that's going to be a pick shift in policy from washington. i think i can imagine that there may be a small shift in policy and i can imagine the best case and hear you for us then as well relations that there may be slight improvements we've got to very very

specific issues but i think you know the rhetoric. of the movement is anti-imperialist. and so it's hard to believe that there will be a reconciliation i think that the best they could happen would be a few concessions on the part of the united states and the first step would be reestablishing normal diplomatic relations because even though there's a u.s. embassy down here in tibet as well and that is what has a number of washington. investors have been cool so a good first step would be to. accept. ambassadors on both sides. you know slight improvement after that but i couldn't see any kind of reconciliation because the ideological differences between the two people interesting to see a full steam thank you very much and still all the visiting professor in latin

american and caribbean studies at university live altie thank you for your time. sir. well still to come this. what is hidden under the ice of antarctica when we report on the breakthrough find of russian scientists raising has been discovering life or other planets that's after the break stay with us. 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 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 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. is continues here in l a t the un says that measures have been taken to release twenty one peacekeepers that are being held captive by syrian rebels that is the latest information we're getting an early report suggested the observers could be free within several hours but it is apparently sticking to their demands for

government troops to withdraw from the area several peacekeepers said in videos posted online that they were so. safe even as activists reported clashes and shelling near the israeli border the rebel group has it backtracked on earlier claims it took the peacekeepers hostage as human shields the militants involved in the kidnapping are suspected of committing crimes by human rights groups while the abduction marked the first time since u.n. troops began patrolling in israeli syrian army just nine in the golan heights nearly forty years ago. peacekeepers have left their post on the syrian side of the gun and heights on the advice of the un. well the russian foreign minister he's recently said that the leaders of the syrian opposition to 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 it 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 the latest gestures from the opposition. statements from some of those who support that position. the baby 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 whether this chance could be materialised. well for more on syria we'll now talk to ali mohammed he's editor in chief of the syria tribune on line magazine well the french president francois learned he's reiterated that russia must convince president assad to go something of course that

moscow has again rejected but what impact to these ongoing divisions within the international community now having on the future of syria. will be impacted many here you know the suffering of the syrian people if you will in violence even higher and arabs are making each side more stubborn and willing to give them through dialogue we have to be here on one thing it's not because we're all going divisions it's the girls leave their country is being a star and the wishing to impose their will on the syrian people something to show that he was and would want very. imposing their will on the syrian people clearly now by promising more aid to the rebels the u.s. a promise more aid along with its western allies do you think with this military aspect that could actually be the thing that brings a sad eventually. no i don't think so and actually i don't think anybody things so

and that's on the ground show of them the syrian army is united strong and the earth formally ready to defend the cd in. every country in this people against these. was done back to normal but that is one thing here and need the countries would like us to believe there is a set goals this opening of the syrian people will and why and actually know as it goes it will be this horrible chapter in the syrian crisis and this is something that we need to understand and the syrian people already understand what do you make of what's happening at the moment with those hostages taken by syrian rebels they already denied this amounted to kidnapping but i mean how do you see this situation where they are in effect. countries well the philippines is one country involved in particular but upset in countries that clearly all supporting the rebels. well first this is true is that the you know who is working on the ground

for the no command and nobody can control their actions which is a very alarming sign but there's a really important thing here of more of the company of the opposition coalition. the person who's supposed to be religious secular and you know as you can see in damascus and things a little more than an democratic syria he comes. on the air and lies to the public just so into their faces and says this is not like it's nothing while just twenty four hours before that his own. post if you're when you're seeing that the infected left them and gives what they accuse them of supporting their side while they are as you are to them from countries that support the rebels one of the support anything else so this is these kinds of lines that the public is very i'm going to leave this is a person who is supposedly the simple man i'm going to miami. this you know people have lived. in the world and you know i mean the countries would like him to leave the ship going through. the syrian people is that

a sign that the syrian national coalition and the free syrian army actually don't have control over elements of the rebels and we're actually seeing extremists. in some ways hijacking the whole mission of the syrian national coalition and the opposition but absolutely we have seen this one million times they have absolutely no control of their homes on the ground just these one example. was a little bit interesting interview walked over to earlier he said there celebes and grab the girls are only like one of. the early producing or even as he referred to them while his. the person who is busy being supported from the u.s. now says there was nothing wrong at the end of the musician based on u.s. standards is always going to fall through the lines and is the most important part in the revolutionary group so if they really believe that enough. of the troops on the ground they also have all of this if they did leave for that matter. i mean

mohamad editor in chief of syria tribune online magazine thanks very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us live here on r.t. thank you very much. russian 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 sub glacial lake vostok is more of an ocean and 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 vostok 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 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 and talk to get have to brave some of the most of it inhospitable conditions on earth under us to talk to sean thomas he is exactly what that's like having reported for our 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 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 look into 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 sometimes i just 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 high limit who is the chief of the station where i was working he was actually on the expedition that brought the equipment to the last of 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 it is when you get up in the morning and go out and work and it's just. i was there in the summer and it was still incredibly 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 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. israeli forces appear to have found a way to get the press to gas reporter not common how a group of international reporters including cameraman were dispersed while

covering a peaceful protest in the west bank. also a lie for you this is what happened to a fifty nine year old cancer stricken man after he spent two years in solitary confinement in the american prison and even without a trial at all to dot com to learn how he managed to become a millionaire. time now for more news from around the world and first to the vatican where a new pope is set to be elected it's been announced the papal conclave will stop in the selection process required to fill a tuesday this is the first time in six hundred years the conclaves been convened to replace a pope didn't die to cardinals have been excused from the vote for health reasons and the second a scotsman who resigned after admitting to inappropriate sexual conduct towards priests. two thousand spanish striker's have stormed madrid's blotters airport where more jobs are said this is the tenth day or strikes against the spanish

barrier which announced plans to layoff twenty percent of its staff thousands of planes are expected to be grounded over the coming days leading passengers stranded and unions continue to negotiate the total number of redundancies. so that brings up to date for the moment coming up after the break it's the latest edition of the truth seeker daniel bushell takes a closer look at the trend of laws being introduced to stop independent voices i'll be back with a news team and often are. his

poem was the envy of ambrose. 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 want to see. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else 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. with me i have to be an arab member of the israeli parliament.