rest import side following court verdict for last year's football riot while a state of emergency has been declared in sinai over fears that the terror attack might take place. hugo chavez is a big success nicolas maduro is sworn in as interim president following the funeral ceremony of the late venezuelan leader. visit is marred by a series of taliban suicide attacks with claims one of them was a direct message to the u.s. defense secretary. well i welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow. 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 kind over seventy lives portside has already seen a week of clashes leading up to the verdict while protesters have tossed at police and football federation building in cairo artie's bell tree has 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 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's more scenes administration saying that they have been abandoned by the country and that actually in fact it's almost racism that portside 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 heard these twenty were but would be sentenced to death saying that it wasn't fair that cairo was being treated in a way that was better than ports and ports 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 earlier 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 putting in place measures status there because of the development of to have this so what we're seeing really is a country in turmoil very much on the brink of further violence here in port saeed and 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 would euro had been chavez's vice president was designated personally as his successor at a symbolic swearing in ceremony in front of the late leaders coffin he pledged loyalty to chavez promising to force his words and orders from leaders from around the globe and thousands of friends were. gathered to mourn travis on friday he died from a massive heart attack on tuesday following a two month battle two year battle with cancer his body will be embalmed and permanent displayed the museum of the revolution this feeling marty's video agency ruptly witness chavis is funeral seventy seven. his 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 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 cuban

leader raul castro showed up last night the brazilian neither do my rousseff is here the former brazilian president you like this so there's a russian delegation and also the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is here he has said that. 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 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 the people are say lizzie feelin what's he got us well the leader of and as well as opposition henrique a pretty this is accusing the daughter who will run for the presidency as candidate of chavez's socialist party politicizing the funeral latin american expert steve illness says that despite the harsh words the opposition is not likely to win 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. winds of the body you spoke to the poor people and that was the main thrust of his campaign 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 they were so politically successful. will be abandoned if the opposition return returns to power the keil will this is that not do or don't do not have any trouble with the upcoming presidential elections it 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 mature into elected 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 they've 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 rebel group has also backtracked on claims that used in the human shields syrian journalist ahmed believes radical factions will drag syria into chaos if western states help force regime change. countries would like us to believe their goals this opening of the syrian people will actually know. because it will be the start of more horrible chapter in this crisis and this is something that we need to understand the syrian people already understand who is working already ground in the body can control their actions

which is a very alarming sign but it is a really important thing here of more of the opposition coalition. of the order in syria he comes on here and lies to the public just seem to think that. this is not like if it weren't just. hours before his. last if your when you see the kidnapped them and here's what the accuse them of supporting this is a person who supposedly peaceful man i want. you to see if you have people have. the wall and if you're in the countries would like him to be going to the syrian people. u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel is a visit to afghanistan has been marred by a series of suicide attacks taliban suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives near the country's defense ministry killing at least nine people killed is not in the area. fine roads around the building located near

the presidential palace have been closed the local taliban branch said he was intended to send a message to the u.s. defense chief eight children and a police officer were also killed by another suicide attack in the east of the country political analyst. says the taliban is sending a strong message to the u.s. . 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 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 insisted on the air pre conditions that they are not ready to negotiate with the government of afghanistan or with the nato forces out with americans about the future of afghanistan india

will continue to fight against to enter national troops and against afghan government until all the. foreign troops leave their country and this is a new wave of of attacks from the taliban their head kabul in their cities and afghanistan is going towards more violence in the next coming months the people of afghanistan has a strong concern that situation will go well will be wars particularly after. two thousand and fourteen when all the foreign troops leave the country. still ahead for you this hour divide and ride israel into d.c. separate the palestinians in the west bank he and his ations of segregation ati's hopped on a bus to find out more. also ahead then in all that we report on the collision between a russian spacecraft and chinese space junk undiscussed high tawny old case may

trigger big consequences or it sat back. did any of you seen 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 that media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or why you are in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protest a culture and language like you see people protesting there so satisfied with themselves in their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in power then how is it going to cure cost of goods with the

opinion of heartless bureaucrats sitting in some soulless office again media attention is great but if you want to be taken seriously wearing a rainbow wig and thawing while fighting for your rights doesn't seem to send the right message but that's just my opinion. is it was in view of embryos he had good reason to trust no one. his vote he was found on the floor of his huge. natural causes. the mystery of stuff instead of going to see.

our dijon faces of freedom fighters. and. they're ready to clean up in disorder. and bring. salute place. to be treated this way.

hello welcome back now a 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 and the object is small as a ship that he can cause a lot of damage while r.t. shaun thomas told me about the threat posed by even the smallest objects in space. 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 blitz satellite the incident actually happened on january twenty

second but it took up until now to discover exactly what happened and here's why scientists discovered basically that there was a change in st jacques derrida 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 it 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 a lot 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 track

those i mean something as small as a sugar cube i mean how do you try that in outer space what are they doing to solve this problem oh yeah and that's all. 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 an 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 cancer syndrome is basically the critical mass where we've sent too much stuff into 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. as the stuff now elsewhere in the world this hour violence continues in pakistan where it's are ransacking and talking a christian neighborhood in the eastern time of the whole 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 favoring for their safety. nigerian extremists claimed to have murdered seven foreign hostages kidnapped recently in the north of the country according to the group's website the killings were in retaliation to a joint british nigerian military attempt to reclaim the prisoners the seven foreign workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines are all employees of the track oh a lebanese construction group working in the region. and nuclear is spreading across asia in taiwan tens of thousands took to this street to demand that 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 to flood preach the area delaying the removal of melted uranium few. now this appears to be a shadow of apartheid in israel palestinians commuting from the west bank and now being urged to board a special buses they were launched this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers feared their safety was at risk artie's paul asli reports and 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 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 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 were 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 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 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 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 at all i feel like israeli people look at as a second class or not equal to. do with that. 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 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. have you ever wanted to rewind the clock and delete the embarrassing mistakes of your past well the u.s. air force c. you know this feeling is it scrubs drone strikes carried out in afghanistan from

reports and websites more about the mysterious data disappearance on r.t. dot com and another click away for you and new report says eighty percent of new york city high school graduates are unable to read and other basic educational skills while the literacy statistics so shocking when multibillion dollar investments are being pumped into the city's education you can find out on our website. in 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 and a massive archive at the library of congress raising concerns over privacy if issue reason is for research purposes but so far the data has been kept behind closed doors 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 come on your tweets people are worried about privacy pretty sure the 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. . the chinese foreign minister says 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 at the same time the statement comes during a turbulent period for bilateral relations with the u.s. significantly beefing up its military presence in china's backyard hong kong city university professor joseph chang says that american posturing in the region will

only add to rising tensions time that still valueless very good relationship with the united states because it understands that this still needs a lot of time and it needs a peaceful international environment to concentrate on this modern a situation and he will continue to work hard to avoid serious conflicts with the united states but since twentieth ten chinese leaders are increasingly increasingly worried about american dealing with all from and even the territorial dispute in the asia pacific region may meet that do you tie ireland. and the time the dispute of the us your own countries. 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 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 incidents of military conflicts but postering certainly continue to enhance the tension concerning the military concerning the territorial disputes. coming up next we look at the secret systematic way in which transitional corporations are manipulating european politics in the brussels business. world. science technology innovation all the leaders developments from

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people don't understand what the european union is they don't understand how it's governed they don't know who are the people running it but they know that they were chosen by the people and so. when they see the results that less than perfect they say who do we blame and they don't know who to blame because they don't know who these people are. when i started out as a young environmental activist i had no idea that i should end up as a watchdog in the brussels machinery. but i was stunned to discover how fragile the political decision making process is and to realize how easily it

can be manipulated. there's a dark force behind this machinery an entire industry operating in the shadow often in secrecy and very confidential. in this industry is to lobby industry. to get. it. in twenty years now i've been fighting to uncover. who are these people who are pulling the strings of the e.u. decisions. and how do they operate. and how reading to use politically.