venezuela's interim president as world leaders pay their last respects to the late charismatic leader at a state funeral. egyptian military takes over security from the police and courts so yes the turbulence in the braces to see if the twenty first twenty one death sentences over the deadly stadium ride in twenty eleven will be upheld. now look into how wide began russian scientists find and identify a bacteria. glacial lakes which may have been isolated for millions of years. you're watching live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program. mrs delegated successor nicolas maduro has taken the reins of power in venezuela until

a presidential election is held next month thousands gathered for a job as a state funeral at a military academy in caracas there's a feeling from our 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 went 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 research is here the former brazilian president elect or 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 add well very close allies

and really that relationship was an example of how chavez used the power of this country which is not to be based on a 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 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 here being with chavez that people say they feel in forty got access. the opposition in

venezuela has boycott of the swearing in ceremony for an exhaustive kolya fraud but led america expert steve ellner says he still falls short of gaining the people's trust the opposition and understands that it will not we know what actions just on the base of the middle class the opposition has made this are to appeal to poor people and the campaign for the presidential elections in october last year the opposition candidate. in the company always. wins of the nobody 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. will be abandoned if the opposition return returns

to power the key to all this is that though 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 the door to support her in to elect him president if the situation came to that well there will be no burial for the child as his a body is to go on permanent public display and he's now he looks at the tradition of turning late leaders 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. there is quite a story surrounding her remains the argentinean first lady's body was meant to go on display much like a lenin when her husband was overthrown in a military coup in one nine hundred fifty five and fled the country body disappeared 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 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 peron 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. after failing to quell the angry bob of anti-government protesters in egypt sports say the police are letting the army sort things out the military is now in charge of security just as the city expects a file court verdict on last year's football stadium massacre latest violence flared after twenty one locals were initially sentenced to death for involvement in the deadly riot in two thousand and eleven beltre 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 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 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 were 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 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 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. across what's happening in ports a was our correspondent who's there in the first together news from the embattled city by following her on twitter at bell true.

the u.n. says it's prepared to pick up her detained group of twenty one peacekeepers this year and rebels later on saturday at two hours ceasefire has reportedly been brokered between the militants and syrian government forces in the area to allow the observers to be evacuated and you want to vishal says there are now it's taking precautions to make sure that no more of the staff are caught of the conflict the united nations has been in contact with the syrian authorities to secure the release of the peacekeepers the arrangements were made with all the authorities involved for their release. 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 our peace keepers 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. the rebel group holding the peacekeepers has backtracked on earlier claims took them hostage just human shields the change of rhetoric came after the central rebel command stepped in pressure and down syrian journalist ali mahalo believes radical factions will drag the country into chaos if the west succeeds in helping regime change in syria. need to come through would like us to believe that as a goal as this opening of the syrian people we employ and actually know as it goes through this horrible chapter in the syrian crisis and 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 the things of the order and demographics here you know he comes on here and he lies to the public just saying to their faces and say yes this is not like it's nothing more than just putting for hours before going to his. post if you want you to have seeing the kidnapped them and here's what the accuse them of supporting this is the person who supposedly said he said man i wanted. you to see a difference you know people have. the world and you know if any of the countries would like him to be the going to present to the syrian people. up to a billion twitter posts are stored at the u.s. library of congress and every day it should be a treasure trove for research or if not they can get their hands on it though explain why in just a few minutes also secret base had

a vast lines in other words bus services only full time to students coming in and out of the way spend. driving divisions israeli officials claim their new bus policy will make job trips easier by passengers say it's blatant racism more and that very soon here in our state. did you see darth vader it is 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 understand 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'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 thought while fighting for your rights doesn't seem to send the right message but that's just my opinion. welcome back you're watching r t no hidden far below ground there to be traces of life in our planet's most harsh environment at least that's what russian scientists believe they found in antarctica after digging deep into the subway szell lake vostok. now look into what they've discovered. more than three and health billion

years after life first appeared on earth and the trees still spring in 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 last 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 wiese drew as soon as it struck water the discovery of russian scientists could provide an incredible insight into our planet's past and certainly of those working in the harsh conditions of antarctica deserve major could ask for that's what they're at his bill dodd discussed earlier with our correspondent sean thomas 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 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 this 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 us is yes sometimes i just think this is a just get excited about exactly this is the most extreme part of the planet and the 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 vostok 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 you have to 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 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. and now it's news just and. kyra court has upheld the death sentence verdict to twenty one locals for their involvement in the deadly riot at a full bowl match in a twenty eleven all bring you more details on this story as soon as we get them. and now it's time to look at some other stories from around the world a sour taliban suicide bomber has struck near the afghan the fans ministry building in kabul at least nine people are reported dead police say the attacker was riding a bicycle and detonated his device near the main entrance of the building and

another suicide blast eight children are sought to have been killed in the country's east deadly attacks coincided with the first visit to afghanistan by the new u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel america's priming local security forces to take over after its troops are withdrawn. ratings agency fitch has downgraded italy's credit score by a notch to triple b. plus it's have the move is a result of the country's political uncertainty following the recent election as well as its rising debt vote produced no clear winner and no stable government is expected in the coming weeks. meanwhile in the heart of italy the vatican's papal conclave will start the formal selection process to fill the vacant position on tuesday is the first dawn in six hundred years the cardinals have been convened to replace a pope who hasn't died but two have been excused from the vote one for health

reasons and the second half of the scottish catholic church who resigned after admitting inappropriate sexual conduct for its trees. now there is a shadow of apartheid in israel palestinians commuting from the west bank are now urged to board special buses they were launched this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers feared safety was at risk as well as the racist overtones policy reports now 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 secret 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 emotional 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 it is very hard to live with this you can call it

a racist action or whatever but it makes it even more impossible for both sides to understand one another. we're supposed to be working in a civilized country but they're separate not bad i feel like 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. eagle systems for israelis and 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 the chinese foreign minister says beijing is committed to cooperating with the u.s. in the asia pacific region body and she stressed that washington needs to respect china's interests and concerns hong kong city university professor joseph chang

says that while regional tensions on the rise all sides will try to avoid open conflict. time that's still valueless very good relationship with the united states because he understands that it is still needs a lot of time he needs a peaceful international environment to concentrate on this modernization and he will continue to work to avoid serious conflicts with the united states but since the twenty eighth ten chinese leaders are. increasingly worried about american who are all from and even the territorial dispute in the asia pacific region may need to do you tie island and and the time the dispute of the countries in china is concerned that he returned to asia strategy on the part of the obama administration coincides very well with the hedging strategy on the part of these

asian countries i think 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 incidents of military conflicts but. certainly continue to enhance tension concerning the military concerning the territorial disputes that twitter is one of the fastest ways to share your thoughts on line and could prove 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 and it's still inaccessible as wall 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 to eat. 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 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 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. pretty sure the n.s.a. and homeland security is already through a lot of this 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. . well this cover how intense lobbying has become part and parcel of you we have politics a couple minutes here on r.t. .

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i'd talk with other individuals and then i'd come back with more questions and sometimes tease out the answers and sometimes they didn't and finally i believe it was on my seventh meeting with keith when i said to keith you know i can write up out there so i can have all these different interviews but i really want to see the pieces of paper said to me well you know i have a bunch of cardboard boxes in the basement of the we haven't opened them they're from the earlier days we just we just put this material in the boxes and of course and you know in the back of my mind i was very excited thinking this is it. came across or tell x. . it was from visit decker see your philips. december ninety five he wrote to the heads of state.