following court verdict for last year's football riot while a state of emergency has been declared in sinai over fears that a terror attack might take place will bring it to speed with the latest this hour also chavez's time picked successor nicholas would do it was sworn in as interim president following the funeral ceremony of the late venezuelan leader. and three of last year and peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights region to be released and handed over to the jordanian government. for a good evening shoot my name is kevin oh it's ten pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. live in our top story egypt's been plunged into chaos to protest has reportedly been killed in the capital and the unrest following a court verdict in the case of last year's football riots death penalties have been

confirmed for twenty one people will five others receive life sentences protesters torched police and football federation buildings in cairo while the violence rages on import side of his belt troops got the latest. the scenes are very tense here in port side after this damning verdict that 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 most easy administration saying that they have been abandoned by the country and that it's actually in fact it's almost racism that porn site is being targeted so when the verdict was announced people wrapped their heads in their hands screaming at the t.v. screens when they had these twenty people would be sentenced to death saying that

it wasn't fast that cairo was being treated in a way that was better than put signs and points 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 putting in place measures status there because of a different movement of jihad this is what we're seeing really is a country in turmoil very much on the brink of further violence here in port sayit and no sign of it stopping in the future. true though so another round of deadly protests and following a controversial verdict with egypt seeing a spate of fatal clashes this year was a political activist in cairo he told me that the violent trend said to continue to until president mohamed morsi deals with the real instigators of the trouble. the

results are definitely not satisfactory not just for the football fans the ultras but for the entire nation seventy eight young people got killed and yet two of the ministry of interior officials are the ones on trial president morsi had a couple of months ago appointed a fact finding committee that implicates fifty six other members of the ministry of interior this report was not taken into consideration at court and only two of those officials were scapegoats hence the issue escalates on the streets more because this is nothing but a political fiasco rather than. court proceedings where the people want is a fair trial for our those who are. implicated not those who actually killed the people with their own hands but those who were behind them supporting them

financing them and giving them the plan those are the true murderers because they continue to be on the streets there in key. places such as the ministry of interior the national security and some of them are in the intelligence community the president needs to take very severe measures of radical measures in cleansing the state institutions of the loyalists to the mubarak's he's not been doing so on the country he's promoted some of them he's trying to co-opt them and it's not working and it's only blowing in his face and he needs to present that we've got in t's for the political process to resume fairly i don't keep track of everything that's happening in egypt on our website or to go call those called details about what's been happening since the violence flared up following the verdict along with the latest pictures and videos from the same. it is way to his still morning it's late leader good chavis and will hold

presidential elections in less than a month calling to reports the electoral council is due to meet on saturday to pick the date there's a feeling for marty's agency ruptly is in caracas for. waiting now for the electoral commission to announce the date of elections there have been some reports that the elections will take place on april fourteenth we're still waiting for that to be. of course yesterday the vice president nicolas maduro was sworn in as the president and so elections take place in approximately thirty days some voices in the opposition notably the man who is that is the main opposition to them and he got the he would have called the swearing in. for hugo chavez personally appointed. as the man that he wanted to succeed him and of course hugo chavez the late president has immense popularity and by the way no where in the fourth day now which is why he has lain in state and the queues of hundreds and thousands of

people just to catch a glimpse glimpse of him for literally five seconds continue with russian f.m. labrat has said that he hopes that heritage continues to deepen the ties between russia and venezuela and he's also said that he hopes that russia will respect the outcome of the venezuela and elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that there have been many outside powers who would like to see. a revolution inside venezuela. among many condolences comes inside and outside venezuela there was a very good statement coming from chavez's last election which. he said he was mourning this and that he had never been his enemy but his rival i think is a very respectful attitude and i hope in the following election battle mourning the loss of venezuela and its friends including russia we have to look forward chavez's only help to deepen our partnership the majority in venezuela want to show this to

continue. but the choice of the venezuelan people. for the country's elections. they say and then we know. to influence their choice. amongst the crowd as you know we've been there quite a lot over the last few days and one of the most popular chance is with chavez and my daughter the people are safe and yesterday when he was sworn in in the national assembly there were very emotional crowds kind of pledging their support for him and he announced that he pages to continue to follow very and revolution he was very emotional he was in tears as he took the presidential sash and he said that the sash that he was taking belonged to charges now at the same time he also again made reference to the fact that the cancer that time has suffered from was very suspicious and that of course when. was first diagnosed as having having cancer he accused or he said actually that it was not a coincidence or

a firing essentially to the united states the fact that the united states has made no bones about the fact that they would like to see an end to the bolivarian revolution in venezuela. as you feel in reporting live for us from the leader of iran as well as opposition meantime and privileges accusing we do of politicizing chavez's funeral lots of america. told us despite the harsh words so the opposition's not likely to win the people's trust. the opposition understands that it will not we know actions just on the basis of the middle class we are positioned 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. went to the body and 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 says pretty much. need social programs that were so popular there were so politically successful. will be a big if the opposition return returns to power the key to all this is there but do not have any trouble with the upcoming presidential elections he is closely associated with chavez you know when she was left venezuela to go to cuba he called venezuelans and his people were particular to vote for but who were disappointed or in to elect him president if the situation came to that. the twenty one un peacekeepers abducted by syrian rebels in the golan heights have been released and handed over to the jordanian authorities or captured by militants

on wednesday rescue efforts were hampered by sporadic fighting between syrian troops and rebels despite a fragile temporary ceasefire earlier on to satisfy to set the demands for troops to neutral from the area as a precondition for the release of the peacekeepers the rebel groups also backtracked on claims that using as human shields the syrian activist danny makki believes radical factions will drag syria into further chaos as western states boost funding to the opposition the syrian opposition leaders need to really negotiate with the syrian government and. or to find a political solution to the ongoing crisis in syria so some of the western countries through the funding and arming the rebels and opposition fighters have essentially act as a bloc block any political solution which could happen in the future where you have william hague who stated that there is a great threat of terrorism threat of jihad is coming back from syria having an ideology of killing which is going back to britain there is britain british jihadist the first british jihad he was killed two days ago so there are the rules threat from islamic terrorism coming from syria and he says that we must stop syria

from becoming a bed or a kind of hobby of terrorism at the same time he claims he wants to arm the syrian opposition he was to give them non-lethal aid so it's a policy of hypocrisy which is filled with a lack of understanding of what is happening within the arab world and within syria so some of the western countries through the funding and arming the rebels and opposition fighters have essentially blocked any political solution which could happen in the future as they have essentially allied themselves with the armed opposition and they're seeking regime change in a non direct inadvertent way as opposed to a direct libya style intervention. so have you this hour now t. divide and ride israel produces separate bus routes for palestinians in the west bank accusations of segregation hopes on one of those buses but. also had to accident it all but reporting on the collision between a russian spacecraft and chinese space junk can discuss how tiny little objects could trigger a big consequences there's a couple stories then right after this break.

did any of you seen darth vader and 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 just did it 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. again u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel is with it to afghanistan's been a series of suicide attacks taliban suicide bomb on a bicycle detonated explosives near the country's defense ministry has killed at least nine people egle wasn't in the area that. roads around the building located near the presidential palace have been closed the local taliban said the attack was intended to send a message to the u.s. defense chief while a children and a police officer were also killed by another suicide attack in the east of the country little analyst have been back to me says locals fear the situation the country's only going to get worse. first the taliban will want to send a 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 of times disappoint off all security measures have been taken by the afghan and nato forces in the capital secondly i believe that the taliban says that on the air pre conditions that they or not to ready to negotiate with the government of afghanistan or with the nato forces out with americans about their future of afghanistan india will continue to fight against the enter nation of troops and against afghan government until all that. foreign troops leave can three if this is a new wave of of attacks from the taliban will in their cities and afghanistan is going towards more violence and the next coming months the people of afghanistan has a strong concern that's jewish and will go well will be wars particularly after.

two thousand and fourteen when all the foreign troops leave the country russian microsatellites been hit by chinese space junk that have been floating around since two thousand and seven an abundance of space debris up there even an object a small sugar cube can cause a lot of damage apparently thomas told my colleague and farmer about the threat posed by even tiny 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 blit 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

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 in 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 a shitty key i mean how do you try that in anticipation what are they doing to solve this problem oh yeah 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 an instance where these things pass kind of close to each other then they change the trajectory of the course of the satellite but then there's also something called cancer syndrome is basically. 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 on thomas reporting there for us violence has continued in pakistan where crowds ransacked and torched a christian neighborhood in the eastern town or the unrest or up to last night after a christian man was accused of committing blasphemy a crime punishable by death in the country police took the man into custody in an attempt to pass of other more hundreds of christian families fled the area

overnight fearing for their safety. and more will use a brief nigerian extremist claim 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 for workers from the u.k. greece it's in the lebanon and the philippines are all employees of set trucco it's a lebanese construction group working in the region. and the nuclear and is spreading across asia in taiwan tens of thousands took to the streets to demand that plans for a nuclear plant there was billions of dollars be scrapped meantime in japan thousands more are protesting for an end to nuclear power days before the second anniversary of the fukushima disaster yes they tepco the company cleansing the radiated site announced that it needs an extra four years just to flood proof the area delaying the removal of melted uranium fuel. that appears to be a shadow of apartheid in israel palestinians commuting from the west bank and now

being urged to board special buses that were launched this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers said they feared for their safety. reports now the know how the roots of the racist overtones go even deeper to. on the first of december one nine hundred fifty five a black woman by the name of rosa parks made history by refusing to give up her seat in the so-called colored six in of a crowded bus in montgomery alabama that incident became a formative event in the u.s. civil rights movement and again this week israelis and palestinians are remembering that incident as the transport ministry introduces segregated bus lines in other words bus services only for kind of stimulus coming in and out of the west bank the move has created emotive reaction both for and against it both inside and outside of israel 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 a party that this smacks of racism and it echoes of the segregation policies back in the united states decades ago the palestinian passengers on this 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 sidemen age it's 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 policy work israeli people look at as a second class hell and not equal to. the little bit with their social issues i

feel very bad it is not acceptable at all but in the end of the strong side decides what happens 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. i guess we've all been there if you ever wanted to rewind the clock maybe deletes membranous of mistakes of your past well it seems the us air force no spring to be the. scrubbing drone strikes carried out in afghanistan reports on web sites more about the mysterious data disappearance than at r.t. dot com just click click away there up russia's chechen republic is funding the construction of a mosque which she claims will be the second largest in israel it will be named after the father of the republic presently that ramzan kadyrov with more about that as well if you fancy it r.t.

column. in the seven years since its inception twitter has become 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 to the united states has been stored in a massive archive at the library of congress raising concerns there for over privacy indeed the official reason is for research purposes but so far the date has been kept behind closed doors is r.t.l. as well. 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 to 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 cope 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. . abby martin is busy tonight on the way she's looking at with women struggle again coyote with men also the future of the obvious and she laughs in a politics of revealing the agenda of mainstream media ignore as well breaking the sets of. these children. they're serving a sentence just like their mother.

little ones born in prison. now must be for the crimes committed by their parents. kill babies on our teeth. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck. i mean . i guess i just feel really messed up. for so mostly the. worst. about six of.

radio guy for a minute. what. we're about to give you that we're seeing anything like this i'm telling. you. what's going on guys i'm adding money in the break in this set well if you flown at all since nine eleven and you probably know that the airport experience is essentially hell on earth first it was our shoes then it was the liquids helly behave in band snow globes after twelve years of harassment and dehumanizing screening methods all to protect us from the big bad terrorists guess what now we're being told that we can start bringing a knife on the plane that's right started april twenty fifth of this year will be allowed to carry the knives you see here in addition to clubs and bats i guess they

just realize that with these items banned were no safer than we were before don't even get me started on the radioactive naked body scanners that presented us with more danger than safety in two thousand and ten scientists determined that airport scanners are just as likely to kill you via cancer as a terrorist blowing up your plane. but perhaps it's even more absurd than this is another recent t.s.a. announcement that has come out in the wake of the sequestration despite concerns that imminent budget cuts will result in the furloughs firm loys agency officials just signed on a contract for fifty million dollars worth of new uniforms yep fifty million dollars as billions in federal cuts threaten to affect thousands of employee jobs so what's the moral of the story here well it's no new tale the t.s.a. is a completely useless agency with an eighty million dollar annual budget created to protect us from a menu factored threat along with the department of homeland security both of these

bloated in effect. the agencies have their priorities out of whack you see it's perceived danger about our safety new uniforms above workers' wages and their rules about our rights so let's go break so. they look like it when i. never seen anything like it. today is international women's day being celebrated by millions of people worldwide to commemorate the progress to human rights as well as to reflect on the obstacles that women still face in many aspects of contemporary society while this is an international holiday it's us routes began over one hundred years ago on march eighth eight hundred fifty seven clothing workers in new york held a demonstration against unreasonable working conditions and unfair wages.