a there are a last respects to the late charismatic leader at a state funeral. egypt's military takes over security from the police and courts as the turbulent city braces to see if a twenty one death sentences over the deadly stadium ride and twenty eleven will be of help. now look into how life began russian scientists find identifiable tyria and one of antarctica's subglacial lakes which may have been isolated for millions of years. this is r.t. coming to live from the russian capital with me marina josh. of the chavez's delegate a successor duro has taken the reins of power in venezuela until a presidential election is held next month thousands gathered for chavez

a state funeral at the military academy in caracas failon from artie'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 when fifty five heads of state from around the world are attending this ceremony to honor the cuban leader raul castro showed up last night the brazilian neither do my research is here by the former brazilian president to lead to so but 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 judge very close allies and really that relationship was an example of how to use the power of this country

which is not to be based on its own very large oil reserves to extend solidarity to countries 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 world 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 the people say lizzie feelin what's he got us. now the opposition in venezuela has boycott of the swearing in ceremony for

a nicolas maduro calling it a fraud but let america aspart steve ballmer says they still have they still fall short of gaining the people's trust the opposition and understands that it will not we know lecture is just on the base of the middle class yeah position has made it difficult to appeal to people and the campaign for the presidential elections in october last year the opposition candidate. in the company. wade into the body 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 it was so politically successful. will be abandoned if the opposition return returns to

power the key to all this is that there will not have any trouble with the upcoming presidential elections he is closely associated with chavez you know when she was with venezuela to go to cuba he called venezuelans and his people in particular to vote for him to support her in to elect him president if the situation came to that now there will be no burial for the child as he's involved body has to go on permanent public display and he's now he looks at the tradition of turning late leaders into a 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 mao zedong 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 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 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 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 thousand 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 mob of anti-government protesters in egypt supports say the police are letting the 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 football stadium massacre the latest violence flared after twenty one locals were initially sentenced to death for involvement in a deadly riot in two thousand and eleven well 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 on the offices posing for pictures with them one or two 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 days of fierce street battles between anti-government protesters and the police over this contentious verdict which is due to take place today and as i said said there 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 weakening 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 the 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 housing market 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 a clashes between the army and the people and in this instance one activist said to me this could see even higher levels of violence. keep across what's happening in port stayed with our correspondent who is there you know first to get the news from being battled city by following her on twitter at belcher. now the u.n. says it's prepared to pick up detained group of twenty one peacekeepers from the

syrian rebels later on saturday a two hour a ceasefire has reportedly been brokered between the militants and syrian government forces in the area to allow the observers to be evacuated a u.n. official says 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. team list 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 our peacekeepers are caught in the crossfire very concerned for them and we are doing everything we can to make sure that they are able to continue working and. conducting their

mandate in a peaceful manner to move some of the peacekeepers from a post eight of them out of eighty eight in the area of separation into another area just to make sure that they could be secure. that the rebel group holding the peacekeepers has backtracked on earlier times that took them hostage as human shields a change of rather it came after a central rebel to male stepien plusher down syrian journalist ali mohamed believes radical factions will draw country into chaos if the west succeeds in helping regime change in syria. major countries would like us to believe that as a goal as this opening of the syrian people we weren't actually you know as it goes it really just horrible job the syrian crisis and this is something that we need to understand the syrian people all of you. who work in the local my ongoing nobody can come forward actions which is a very alarming sign but we really were thinking here more of the opposition

coalition and things of the order and demographics you know he comes on here and lies the problem just so you just thinks of. this is not like it's nothing just. before going to his. post if you want you will see. it now and. here's what the accuse them of supporting their side this is the person who supposedly decent man i wanted to plant love until stoop to sniff and see if people have lied to the world and if illegal countries would like him to be the going to present it with the syrian people. up to a billion twitter posts are stored at the u.s. library of congress have three day should be a treasure trove for researchers now that they can get their hands on it though explain why in just a few minutes. did

you see 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 understand that using wacky protest tactics gets media attention and if you are pushing a cause the media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or why you're in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protest a culture and language like you see people protesting they're so satisfied with themselves and their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in power then the 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 we're a rainbow wig and thawing while fighting for your rights doesn't seem to send the

right message but that's just my opinion. on the back here whether tina 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 have found in antarctica after digging deep into the subglacial lake vostok are just moria finished militants who was they have discovered. 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 lakes will 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 low 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 drill automatically as soon as it struck water the discovery of russian scientists could provide an incredible insight into our planet's past now there is a shadow of apartheid in israel palestinians commuting from the west bank are now

urged to board special buses and they were launched this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers feared their safety was at risk as well as the racist overtones obviously your 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 secure gated 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 the israeli 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 apostate that this smacks of racism and it echoes of the policies back in the united states decades ago the palestinian passengers on this bus saved leaves a bad taste in their mouths but the irony is that it cuts they 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 ages very hard to live with this you can call it a racist action or whatever but see it makes it even more impossible for both sides to understand one another. we're supposed to do work in a civilized country separate not without a few work israeli people look at as a second class are not equal today. with. i feel very bad it is

not acceptable at all but in the end of the strong side decides what happens when we have to deal with this reality but the segregation here runs much deeper than just separate bus services we're talking about different. systems face radiation palestinians we're talking about different allocation of resources and preferential treatment to name just a few points to be on t.v. on the way from qalqilya now take a look at some other stories from around the world a taliban suicide bomber has struck near the afghan the fans' ministry building in kabul at least eight people are poor dead police say the attacker was riding a bicycle and detonated his device near the main entrance of a building half of the new u.s. japan secretary chuck hagel visits the country although he was not in the vicinity of the explosion america's in the process of withdrawing its troops from afghanistan with local security forces taking over instead. ratings agency

fitch has downgraded italy's credit score by a notch to triple b. and said the move is a result of the country's political uncertainty following the recent election as well as its rising debt barrier is a vote produced no clear winner and no stable government is expected in the coming weeks. how the chinese foreign minister has beijing is committed to cooperating with the u.s. in the asia pacific region but yang jiechi stressed that washington needs to respect china's interests and concerns us now get some reaction analysis from hong kong city university professor joseph. thanks very much for joining us here on our team now as we know foreign ministers always choose their are diplomatic words carefully now did they reflect their reality of chinese u.s. relations this time. well china still valueless very good

relationship with the united states because it understands that this still needs a lot of time and he needs a peaceful international environment to concentrate on this modernization and and he will continue to work hard to avoid serious conflicts with the united states but since the twenty eighth ten chinese leaders are increasingly increasingly worried about american who are all from and even the territorial disputes in the asia pacific region name need that do you tie island is filled with japan and the time the dispute of the countries in china is concerned that he returned to asia strategy on the part of the power obama administration coincides very well with the hedging strategy on the part of these asian countries. well indeed as you just painted to us the picture is very complicated there in the region so again as this bad drop of the u.s.

is significantly beefing up its military presence in china's backyard beige eans the other hand increasing its defense spending so what ramifications could this arms race have in your opinion. well it's going to be a limit to this phrase because this escalation of tensions in the region . coincides with a state of military development on the part of china you certainly see more more than the weapons coming out on stream including aircraft carriers need fourth generation and so on and at the same time this will. be well generate a kind of mini raise in the region as. countries like. the philippines are also strengthening the military build up at the same time

there will be a spill over into sandstad region no economic integration will be affected and the china. our sin press free approach may well be too much progress while the united states and japan. have recently been promoting this transpacific partnership you cannot be integration program. well as we can see i mean there is some geo political tension there in the region on the one hand but on the other china is the largest holder of u.s. debt so how interdependent are the two countries really and can they afford mutual conflict. yes you are right the. entirety pendens and economic company mentality seem to be on hold and they do not seem to have been affected by the less than satisfactory political

parties in the previous decade for example so no japanese economic parties have been progress seeing extremely well despite tremendous troubles and political ties dealing the koizumi administration of japan so i think wow there will be a lot of postering there will be considerable escalation of tension but all countries concerned do not want a military conflict and they will carefully to avoid incidence of military conflicts but. certainly we'll continue to enhance tension concerning the military concerning the territorial disputes. closer to home china has condemned north korea's recent nuclear test despite having long n.p.r. young stop ally so how do you expect relations between the two to unfold in the future very briefly. china's disappoint to china

certainly doesn't want to see the failure of the six party talks and the continuation of these. nuclear weapons and missiles program on the part of north korea china certainly wants to see some useful constructive negotiations. all right joseph chang thanks very much for your analysis that was professor joseph chang live for cause. now the twitter is one of the fastest ways to share your thoughts online and cooper of a huge resource for future generations to study science 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 is still inaccessible as walls been 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 well the popularity of smartphones 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 this body of information about cultures 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 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 if people are worried about privacy i'm pretty sure the n.s.a. and homeland security has already threw up of that stuff so perhaps the take away as think before you tweet because it's going to be stored right here at the library of congress and washington liz wall r.t. . well i just a couple minutes will be breaking the sat with abby martin stay with us. for something evil extreme cold isn't a chilling threat to life for women of the if it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in the outdoor eats in my body feels really warm now this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to

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