in port saïd following court verdicts for last year's football rights while a state of emergency has been declared and seen eye over theories that are terrorists might take place. hugo chavez is ham pick success and nicolas maduro is sworn in as interim president following the funeral ceremony of the late venezuelan leader. chuck hagel to afghanistan visit is marred by a series of taliban suicide attacks that claims one of them was a direct message to the u.s. defense secretary. and i welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow. and i chaos is erupting in egypt after a court upheld death sentences for twenty one people involved in last year's deadly football riots five more defendants received life sentences for their role in the

stadium violence which claimed over seventy lives portside has already seen a week of clashes leading up to the verdict while protesters have torched a police federation football federation building in cairo artie's belt true as the latest. the scenes are very tense here in port side after this damning verdict people say at the moment thousands gathered at the government headquarters and marched towards the canal syria's canal and it paid to stop the traffic there as a form of protest the canal is obviously extremely important to egypt so this is a major sign to the president that they are not happy the chance in the streets are against president obama nor sees administration saying that they have been abandoned by the country and that it's actually in fact it's almost racism it is being targeted so when the verdict was announced people right held their heads in their hands screaming at the t.v.

screens when they had these friends everybody would be sentenced to death saying that it wasn't fair that cairo was being treated in a way that was better than port sayit imports i.e. it was basically being forgotten meanwhile in the capital there has been a fair amount of violence as well the football federation building has been torched . the culture is the football fans in cairo for their parts are also unhappy with the verdict saying that it wasn't strong enough meanwhile we've now just got reports from sinai that egypt is possibly putting in place a merchant sea status there because of the movement of to harvest so what we're seeing really is a country in turmoil very much on the brink of further violence here in port saeed no sign of it stopping in the future. nicolas maduro has been sworn in as venezuela's acting president following the emotional funeral of late leader hugo chavez with auto had been chavez his vice

president tom was designated personally as his successor at a symbolic swearing in ceremony in front of the late leader's coffin he pledged loyalty to chavez promising to force his words and orders and leaders from around the globe and thirty's. as venezuelans gather to wash out his home friday he died from a massive heart attack on tuesday following a two year battle with cancer his body will be embalmed and be displayed at the museum of the revolution is he feeling for marty's video agency ruptly witnessed chavez his funeral so really. is body will remain in state for an extended seven days because of the sheer amount of people people from the barrios the poorest neighborhoods in the cities in the countryside and across the country who want to see him for the very last time but fifty five heads of state from around the world are attending the ceremony of the funeral of chavez the cuban leader raul castro showed up last night the brazilian neither do my research is here the former

brazilian president lula da silva there's a russian delegation and also the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is here he has said that to various 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 solidarity to countries that are targets of saber rattling economic interventions and threats of military aggression by the united states and other 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 action

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 they're very much determined that maduro must replace chavez with one of the most popular chunks here being with chavez the people are safe live the feel and what's he got access. while the later fan is white as opposition capellas is accusing the do or die who will run for the president saying as candidate of chavez's socialist party of politicizing the funeral latin american expert steve ellis says despite the harsh words the opposition is not likely to win the people's trust the opposition and understands that it will not win elections just on the base of the middle class the opposition has made a difference is an appeal to people and the campaign for the presidential elections in october last year the opposition candidate. in the.

way 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. copy of no matter what the people he said it's pretty much that the social programs that were so popular they were so politically successful. will be abandoned if the opposition return returned to power the key to all this is that what do we not have any trouble with in the upcoming presidential elections is closely associated with chavez you know when she was left venezuela to go to cuba he called venezuelans and his people who are particular to vote for but who are disappointed or in to elect him president if the situation came to that. unconfirmed reports say twenty one un peacekeepers abducted by the syrian rebels in the golan heights

have been released and handed over to the jordanian authorities have been captured by militants since wednesday rescue efforts were hampered by sporadic fighting between syrian troops and rebels despite a fragile temporary ceasefire earlier anti assad fighters set their demands for government troops to withdraw from the area as a precondition for the release of the observers the rebel group has also backtracked on claims that use them as human shields journalist hamad believes radical factions will drag syria into chaos if western states help force regime change. lethal countries would like us to believe their goals this opening of the syrian people we weren't actually known as it goes it will be the start of more horrible chapter in the syrian crisis and this is something that we need to understand the syrian people already understand who is working on the ground for the no command in the what they can control of their actions which is

a very alarming sign but there's a really important thing here of more of the opposition coalition and things of that order and democratic syria he comes on here and lies to the public just seem to defeat that and says this is not like it's nothing we're just opening for hours before his. post if your new york seeing the kidnapped them and gives what the accuse them of supporting this is a person who supposedly he's a man i want. to see if the syrian people have lived in the world and in the countries would like him to be the result of that the syrian people. u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel visit to afghanistan has been marred by a series of suicide attacks a taliban suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives near the country's defense ministry killing at least nine people paper was not in the area at the time roads around the building located

near the presidential palace have also been closed to the local taliban branch said the attack was intended to send a message to the u.s. defense chief while eight children and a police officer were also killed by another suicide attack in the east of the country let's get more on this from our political analysts have people thank you very much for joining us firstly i mean the caliber taliban claim this was a message sent to chuck hagel exactly what kind of message is this. first the taliban will want to send a player message today united states into. defense secretary and that they are able to launch this kind of attacks even in the in the capital kabul in particular times disappoint off all security measures have been taken by the afghan and nato forces in. the capital secondly i believe that the taliban. are pretty conditions that the order not to ready to leave it with the government

of afghanistan or with the nato forces out with americans about the. future of afghanistan india will continue to fight against the international troops and against afghan government until all that. foreign troops leave the country a third message from the taliban i think they want to send it to send it to you through this. fact that. this is a new wave of of attacks from the taliban their head kabul in their their cities and afghanistan is going towards more violence in the next campaign mounts particularly after. the withdrawal of all foreign troops. from afghanistan once again the taliban should be a couple village for fighting against their afghan government against the enter

national drops in afghanistan particularly targeting serious targets in the capital kabul. bombers recently page to ensure that chaos doesn't come back to afghanistan after the u.s. forces deal with draw i mean did chaos ever leave. yes exactly this kind of flat tax of course currently year. confidence of the people of afghanistan. peace and stability in our country particularly after the withdrawal of all foreign tour. from afghanistan and the people of afghanistan has a strong doubt about the cup ability of afghan forces. security forces to take control of the country and the end of the common man amounts of course the afghan security forces well take full control of security fears over the over the country and

because of this the people of afghanistan have a strong about the ability because of this the people of afghanistan has a strong concern that situation will go well will be wars particularly after. two thousand and fourteen when they're all foreign troops leave the country. at the moment the u.s. seems to be somewhat tiny trying to negotiate with the taliban but it's also targeting insurgents so what exactly is their tactic right now. i think the taliban once again. through this said that claire a message to the major said center to international community and to the government of afghanistan they are not ready to participate in any negotiation with the government of afghanistan and they will not participate and peace process which has been conducted by the government of afghanistan and they will continue fight the government of afghanistan and the international troops until they leave leave the

country because the taliban. have been saying that we are not ready for negotiation and we will continue to fight against the foreign troops and the government of afghanistan has. any peace process. in the country involving the taliban in their militant groups because of this i think that the coming months well be more deadly and more bloody in afghanistan because the taliban the taliban did in. and evidence that they are ready for talks with the government of afghanistan ok thank you for your thoughts we will have to leave it there mr hakimi that is political analyst to be a key talking to us from google. still ahead for you this ad divide and ride israel in fiji says it separate bus lines by palestinians in the west bank sparking accusations of segregation he has on a bus to find out will. also ahead you know but we report on the collision between

a russian spacecraft and chinese ice young undiscussed objects may trigger they get the consequences of that coming after the break. john kerry made his first major verbal gaffe as secretary of state by mixing the nonexistent country of courage to stand in one of his speeches of course it is funny when politicians misspeak george bush was pretty good at that but i can say that we all make mistakes when we speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of some place on earth like course to loaf of all or walla walla washington the thing is that he didn't just misspeak his speech was written correctly and if you look at his eyes as he said it he wasn't really looking at notes or something he was reading it off of

a teleprompter right now i am reading off a teleprompter but i put every word there myself which is probably why john kerry is spelled with a q but my question is would kerry and prompter mr obama just read anything put in front of them to the even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches if you're deeply versed on some subject that you should need to read word for word from a teleprompter to give a speech just try writing some notes and speaking with your brain and maybe your heart like in the good old days but that's just my opinion. but i welcome back there appears to be a shadow of apartheid in israel. unions commuting from the west bank and now being urged to board special buses they were launched this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers feed their safety was at risk artie's paula slayer reports on how the roots of the racist overtones go even 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 the most of 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 segregation 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 says 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 or not equal to the. little bit with that. 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. 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 elsewhere in the world this hour violence continues in pakistan where clouds are ransacking and torching a christian neighborhood in eastern town of lahore the unrest erupted last night after a christian man was accused of committing blasphemy a crime punishable by death in the country the police took the man into custody in the attempt to pacify the mob hundreds of christian families fled the area overnight fearing for their safety. and the nuclear anger is spreading across asia in thailand tens of thousands took to the streets to demand their plans for a nuclear plant with billions of dollars be scrapped meanwhile in japan hundreds are protesting for an end to nuclear power days before the second anniversary of

the fukushima disaster yesterday tepco the company cleansing the irradiated site announced that it needs an extra four years just a flood proof area delaying the removal of melted uranium fuel. now russian microsatellite has been hit by chinese space junk which had been floating around since two thousand and seven there is an abundance of space debris there and even an object as small as a sugar cube can cause a lot of damage well r.t. shaun thomas told me about the threat posed by even tiny objects. this is a sugar cube and it doesn't seem like it's very much but if it hits you at seventeen thousand miles an hour you can imagine it can do significant damage now in terms of this specific incident this is a collision between a piece of space junk from a chinese satellite which was destroyed back in two thousand and seven it collided with a small russian bullet satellite the incident actually happened on january twenty

second but it took up until now to discuss. exactly what happened and here's why scientists discovered basically that there was a change in st jacques a change in the orbit and even the spin of the satellite and at that point they had to work backwards kind of reverse engineering to find out what happened what they decided is that at the point where they had this change there was a near miss with this piece of space junk so they decided well this is the size that could have caused such a change in trajectory and so they have to determine that there was indeed a collision now space junk doesn't seem like it kind of sounds comical but really if you think about it there's more than five hundred thousand objects being tracked by nasa and other agencies in space right now and that's twenty thousand of those the size of a softball or larger if you think about that those things hitting at seventeen thousand miles an hour significant damage to satellites and lots of millions of dollars if you will because satellites are a commodity so lives lots to be concerned about and must be very hard to try to

mean something as small as the should we keep trying that in anticipation what are they doing to solve this problem oh yeah and that's only the stuff that can be tracked there's a countless number of things that are smaller than one centimeter that can't even be tracked i mean we've been shooting things into space for more than fifty years now so there's different telescopes and laser imaging systems that are in the process of tracking different objects and what happens is when they determine that there is a near miss or there's going to be instance where these things pass kind of close to each other then they change the trajectory of the course of the satellite there's also something called better syndrome is basically the critical mass where we've spent too much stuff in a space it's created so much junk that we can't send something into space without hitting something and there are some people who believe that we've maybe already hit that critical mass so that the more stuff we put up the more expensive it becomes the more dangerous it becomes as well. interesting stuff now have you ever wanted to rewind the clock and delete be embarrassing mistakes of your past while the u.s. air force c. you know this feeling is it scrubbed drone strikes carried out in afghanistan for

reports and web sites war about the mysterious data disappearance on r.t. dot com and another click away for you in the report says eighty percent of new york city high school graduates are unable to read and that other basic educational skills why are there literacy to this estate so shocking when multi-billion dollar investments are pumped into the city's education find out more on our website. the seven years since its inception twitter has become an integral part of twenty first century life reflecting everything from people's routine habits to revolutionary political messages and for the last two years every single tweet sent in the u.s. has been stored in a massive archive at the library of congress raising concerns over privacy while the official reason is for research purposes but so far the data has been kept behind closed doors in this war explains.

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 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 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 are to. well you are watching out and on the way i'm dialing titled web of lobbying me on the foul play that is blighting your inane democracy. for some people extreme cold just a chilling threat to life or imminent death it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in the rates in my body feels

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would talk about different things and he would give me some ideas and i'd go and 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 about this i can have all these different interviews but i really want to see the pieces of paper he 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 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 just before the signing of the single european fact but started the process of the single market. the crux of the tallackson is as follows you know we don't know what you're going to do but we want you to act you can act one way or another if you choose not to have a single market program then you have given us no choice but perhaps take our business elsewhere. the if. this was a clear fred the year to re percentage sixty percent of western europe's industrial output this was blackmailing. why did not a single government say anything about the deck or taylor hicks.