the leaders pay their last respects to the late charismatic leader at a state funeral. egyptian military takes over a security from the police and courts a thirty one city braces to see if the twenty one death sentences over the deadly stadium riot in two thousand and eleven will be of help. to walk and to how life began russian scientists find identified bacteria and while of antarctica is subglacial lakes which may have been isolated for millions of years. it is not i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie well let me first bring you some news we're getting from afghanistan of this points

where a powerful explosion has occurred near the country's to fans ministry in the capital kabul it happened as a new u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel is visiting the country he was not of the vicinity of the explosion will bring you more details from the get a stand as we're getting and to other news here on araa to hugo chavez's delegate a successor nicolas maduro has taken the reins of power in venezuela until a presidential election is held next month thousands gathered for chavis a state funeral at a military academy in caracas this is a felon from marty's video agency ruptly was also there. its body will remain in state for an extended seven days because of the shit amount of people people from the barrios the poorest neighborhoods in the cities the countryside and across the country who want to see him for the very last time today is the first official day for the ceremony of the funeral of chavez west fifty five heads of state from

around the world are attending the ceremony the cuban leader raul castro showed up last night the brazilian neither do my rousseff is here the former brazilian president lula da silva as a russian delegation and also the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is here he has said that to vez is a martyr who lost his life serving the venezuelan people and preserving human and revolutionary values now of course chavez and i didn't judd were very close allies and really that relationship was an example of how chavez used the power of this country which is largely based on its very large oil reserves to extend. trees that are targets of saber rattling economic interventions and threats of military aggression by the united states and i the western powers now there's also very much a sense of anger amongst many people here at suggestions by some senior western political figures and media figures that somehow chavez's death is a cause to celebrate that somehow it's

a good thing for the venezuelan people and for the wilds of course the grief very much continues amongst the people here in caracas who have come to see him that actions held in approximately thirty days time now of course the outcome of that election is very much unknown but at least amongst the people here that very much determined that maduro must replace chavez with one of the most popular chunks have being with chavez that people say they feel and what's he got back us now the opposition in venezuela has boycott of the swearing in ceremony for nicolas maduro calling it a fraud that led american expert steve owner says they a still fall short of gaining the people's trust. the opposition and understands that it will not we know elections just on the base of the middle class the opposition has made it difficult to appeal to the poor people and the campaign for the presidential elections in october last year the opposition candidate. in the

company. wade into the bottle you spoke to the poor people and that was the main thrust of his campaign there is a great amount of distrust among the poor people if copy of no matter what the people he says pretty much that the social programs that were so popular and were so politically successful the child. will be abandoned if the opposition return returns to power the key to all this is that do not have any trouble with the upcoming presidential elections he is closely associated with chavez you know when she was left venezuela to go to cuba he called on venezuelans and his people in particular to vote for him to support mature into elected president if the situation came to that well there will be no burial for this is

a bond body is to go on a permanent public display and he's now it looks sad the tradition of turning lately tourists into lasting symbols. 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 eva peron 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 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 a gym 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 prone 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 nine hundred seventy four in buenos aires twenty two years in total from death to her final resting place. well after failing to quell the angry

bob of anti-government protesters in egypt supports the police or a lasting army sort things out the military is now in charge of security just as the city expects a final court verdict on last year's full stadium massacre the latest violence flared after twenty one locals were initially sentenced dass for involvement in a deadly riot in two thousand and eleven true reports. the clashes raged on through the nights but finished after the dramatic withdrawal of the police force the army came down and secured the security and security directorate behind me putting up the tanks and lining around the building this was meant positively by protesters and people outside the building you largely see police brutality is at the crux of the issue and i saw people today even hugging army offices posing for pictures with them wanted to boycott 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 days of

fierce street battles between anti-government protesters and the police over this contentious verdict which is due to take place today as i said has been a lot of mornings people reflect over the violence of the last days of the area surrounding security directorate is strewn with take us kind of says a bullet casings and rocks and indication of the level of the bloody violence that has taken place here two funerals are also conducted with people a week paying as they went towards the cemetery a chanting against the president and one group even called for the execution of the president however there has been some fear is that with a military takeover 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 mubarak 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 they will see clashes

between the army and the people and in this instance one activist said to be this could see even higher levels of violence. across what's happening in ports aid with our correspondent who's there will be the first to gather news from the embattled city by following her on twitter at bell true. well up to a billion twitter posts are stored in the u.s. library of congress every day be a treasure trove for researchers not that they get their hands on it though they explain why in just a few minutes stay with us. and driving divisions palestinian only buses are a launched in officials claim it's to make trips easier to segregate of passengers say it's late and races we have more.

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download. location so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television while it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. all the bag you're watching are going to live from moscow now the u.n. says it's prepared to pick up a detained group of twenty one peacekeepers from the syrian rebels later on saturday at two hours cease fire has reportedly been brokered between the militants and syrian government forces in the area to allow the observers to be evacuated u.n. officials as they are as they are now taking precautions to make sure that no more

of their staff are caught in the conflict the united nations has been in contact with the syrian authorities to secure the release of the peacekeepers arrangements were made with all the authorities involved for their release and. team with dispatched to their location but due to the late hour and the darkness they felt that it was not secure enough and so they were not able to reach it but efforts will be made again to do that but the fighting in syria are peacekeepers are caught in the crossfire very concerned for them and that we are doing everything we can to make sure that they are able to continue working and. conducting their mandate in a peaceful manner moved some of the peacekeepers from a post eight of them out of eighty in the area of separation into another area just to make sure that they could be secure. as a rebel group holding the peacekeepers has backtracked at an earlier claims the

took some hostages as human shields a change of rhetoric came after the central rebel command stepped in and pressured them syrian journalist allen muhammad believes radical factions will drag the country into chaos the west succeeds in helping regime change in syria. nato countries would like us to believe that as it goes this opening of the syrian people we employ and actually know as it goes into this horrible chapter in the syrian crisis that this is something that we need to understand and the syrian people already understand who is working on the ground or the no command and nobody can control their actions which is a very alarming sign but there's a really important thing here more because of the opposition coalition and things of the order and demographics here you know he comes on here and he lies to the public just seem to deface that and say this is not like it's nothing we're just putting forward before going to his own. them

and here's what they accuse them of supporting that this is the person who supposedly if he's the man i'm going to. use to see if it's you know people have. the world and you know in the countries would like to be the going to present to the syrian people. to the syrian opposition are finally showing signs of moving towards dialogue with damascus without preconditions sergey lavrov told the b.b.c. that moscow remains 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 they say and i'm glad that the latest discussions the latest gestures from the opposition statements from some of those who support their position. that they 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 would be materialized and. now take a look at some other stories from around the world am returning to afghanistan where there's been a powerful explosion near the fans ministry in the capital kabul police say there are many casualties after an apparent suicide bomber on a bicycle hit the main entrance of the building well that happened as a new u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel was visiting the country he was not in the vicinity of the explosion and was quickly moved to floor down after the blast we'll bring you more details as we gather here on our team to stay with us. i mean time ratings agency fitch has downgraded italy's credit score by a notch to triple b.

plus it's had to move as a result of the country's political uncertainty following the recent election as well as its rising debt february's vote produced no believer winner and no stable government is expected in the coming weeks. meanwhile in the heart of it all with the vatican's papal conclave will start the formal selection process to fill the vacant position on tuesday it's the first time in six hundred years the cardinals have been convened to replace a pope hasn't died but two have been excused from the vote one for health reasons second scottish church resigned after admitting inappropriate sexual conduct towards priests. in greece riot police have clashed with protesters in the northwestern city of very serious activists claiming officers fired tear gas into a school building affecting some of the children police say any health problems related to protesters burning tires in the makeshift barricades demonstrations

began when security forces started search operations for suspects of an arson a tab at controversial gold mines. hidden far below ground there could be traces of life in our planet's most harsh environment at least that's what russian scientists believe they found it on target after digging deep into the subglacial lake vostok or summary international look into what they have discovered. more than three and health 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 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 drill automatically as soon as it struck water the discovery of russian scientists could provide an incredible insight into our planet's past and certainly those working in the harsh conditions of antarctica deserve a major kudos and that's what r.t. is bildad discussed earlier with our correspondent sean thomas who knows from experience exactly what it's like. 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 well says yes sometimes i just think this is yeah 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. 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 incredibly 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 extreme 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. now twitter is one of the fastest ways to share your thoughts on

why an ad could prove a huge resource for future generations to study all the sides agreed for the massive archive of micro blogs to be stored at the u.s. library of congress for research purposes but two years on and it's still and accessible as well as walls and finding out. it's part of the social media landscape that has revolutionized the way we communicate. twitter allows users to broadcast their thoughts one hundred forty characters at a time. from the very first tweet to declaring historic presidential victories to the downright dumb all of it has been stored at the library of congress what the popularity of smart phones and i pads users can tweet pretty much anywhere at any time and the library of congress is taking note of the way people are communicating and expressing themselves along with journals and other publications social media

is being stored as a part of history it began in two thousand and ten when twitter agreed to hand over to the library every tweet since the social media site launched and the tweets keep being stored with an estimated half a billion tweets per day it's a massive undertaking basically taking the body of information about the culture of this country and putting it into some kind of storage well we're talking about one hundred fifty. well now that the library has collected this massive archive it's not clear what they're going to do with it how do you search that how do you how do you how do you catalog that and split it into searchable pieces of content and they haven't been able to figure that out yet. the libraries blog says quote although the library has been building and stabilizing the archive and has not yet offered researchers access we have nevertheless to received approximately four hundred inquiries from researchers all over the world so far the library tells us the goal

is for researchers to have access to the database not the general public and we asked are there any limits to what information the library can distribute the library tells us they've set a few no tweets newer than six months old will be handed over to researchers and the tweets can. be used for commercial purposes and researchers can make a big chunk of tweets available for downloading on their website still questions remain if you delete a tweet does the library still store it and how easily can law enforcement obtain your tweets people are worried about privacy i'm pretty sure the n.s.a. and homeland security has already threw up the so perhaps the takeaway is think before you tweet because it's going to be stored right here at the library of congress and washington liz wall r.t. and journalism and post arab spring libya feels the force of uncontrolled armed militias in tripoli doesn't go on the t.v. station through its office windows and kidnapped its staff as we report online also

there and you had a for the operators of a disastrous for a nuclear power plant involving hundreds of towns of ground water leaking into the damaged reactor building every day. now there is a shadow of apartheid and israel palestinians commuting from the west bank are now urged to board special buses they were a lot this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers fear their safety was at risk as well as the racist overtones policy reports on how the roots of the problem go deeper. on the first of december one nine hundred fifty five a black woman by the name of rosa parks made history by refusing to give up her seat in the so-called colored six in of a crowded bus in montgomery alabama that incident became a formative event in the u.s. civil rights movement and again this week israelis and palestinians are remembering

that incident as the transport ministry introduces segregated bus lines in other words bus services only for kind of stimulus coming in and out of the west bank the move has created emotive reaction both for and against it both inside and outside of israel these ready transport ministry justifies it by saying that the move is an attempt to alleviate the distress of palestinian passengers having to travel for long hours in and out of israel but the truth is that behind the scenes there was a lot of noise being made by israeli settlers who refused to travel with palestinian passengers they say because they're afraid now newspaper editorials have had a field day with criticisms that israel is acting in line with a party that this smacks of racism and it echoes of the segregation policies back in the united states decades ago the palestinian passengers on this vast sayed leaves a bad taste in their mouths but the irony is that it cuts the travel time as they no longer have to travel through the settlements the ticket is

a lot cheaper and the whole travel journey is a lot less stressful seven age it's very hard to live with this you can call it a recession action or whatever but as it makes it even more impossible for both sides to understand one another. we're supposed to do work in a civilized country but they're separate policy work israeli people look at as a second class are not equal to. the little bit with their social issues i feel very bad it is not acceptable at all but in the end of the strong side decides what happens we have to deal with this reality but the segregation here runs much deeper than just separate bus services we're talking different about. legal systems for israelis and palestinians we're talking about different allocation of resources and preferential treatment to name just a few policy r.t. on the way from qalqilya. now on the way away on veil the tangled band of lobbying p.r. and foul play that's why the european democracy stay with us for that. to

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