and cayle softer court verdicts for last year's football riots the capital has been the serious epicenter of what's going on there while the state of emergency was declared in sinai over terror attacks fears will bring up to speed on other top stories this morning over chavez's handpicked successor to do it was sworn in as interim president but he wondering about venezuela's future direction after the death of the country's leader the last forty new. and free pass to him peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights region have been released and handed over to the jordanian government we examine the effect that radical opposition factions are having on the western backed rebel continued. hello good morning to you just joined a set schedule no in here this morning just after midnight now in moscow our top

story in r.t. this morning egypt's been plunged into chaos as we've been reporting three people reportedly been killed in cairo with some reports indicating an eight year old child was among the victims the unrest follows a court verdict in the case of last year's football riots which confirmed death sentences and gave a new prison terms true as the latest. clashes raged on in downtown cairo between anti-government protesters largely led by football fans and the security forces are the verdict in this contentious point saeed's football riot trial at least three confirmed dead after kyrie based football fans set fire to a football federation building and the police club kyra football fans also known as there are a lot to they will not stop this level of violence as they are actually unhappy with this verdict which saw twenty one points i had residents facing the death penalty and find at least five others getting life sentences here in points i.e.

the scenes have been calm however people what happens when the verdict was released and saying the country has abandoned them and the president mohamed morsi is actually bowing to pressure from the capital we have yet to see what the situation will be in the coming days but here people say they were imposed i.e. they say that they will continue a general strike which is happening right now in addition she trying to prevent traffic on the series canal and stopping government buildings from opening in cairo of course the ultras have said bad they will continue fighting the police they will continue the protest until they get what they want really right now we have great to see is what will happen across the country with continued clashes continued strikes. troop so another round of deadly protests them following a controversial verdict really gypsying a spate of fatal clashes this year i spoke to. a political activist in cairo he told me that the violent trends 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 really is is nothing but a political fiasco rather than. court proceedings where the people want is a fair trial for our those who are you know implicated and 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 plans those are the two murders 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 radical measures in cleansing the state institutions of the loyalists to the mubarak's he's not being 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 the real guarantees for the political process to resume fairly or just ramadi and keep track of everything that's happening in egypt on our website r.t. dot com waskow details of what's been happening since the violence flared up following the verdict along with the latest pictures and videos from the scenes on our website.

but as well as his still morning at slate lead it will go chavez and it's to hold presidential elections within less than thirty days as mandated in the country's constitution but some say caracas will not be able to walk denies the vote in such a short time the date of the election could be announced later on saturday however lizzi feeling for marty's video agency ruptly is in caracas for us. but waiting now for the electoral commission to announce the dates 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 in. the main opposition to pick up the who have called the swearing in. for dylan 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 that is why you know we're in the fourth day now which is what 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. love rob has said that he hopes that his 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 coming from inside and outside venezuela that there was a very good statement coming from chavez's last election and. he said he was mourning this loss 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 and i hope chavez's heritage will only help to deepen our partnership the majority in venezuela want to show this his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people. for the country the election is right. and that we know. joyce. amongst the crowds 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. and yesterday when he was sworn in in the national assembly there were very emotional crowds kind of pledging this support for him and he announced that he has to continue the revolution he was very emotional he was in tears as he said presidential sash and you say that he was taking belonged to chavez. the same time he also again made reference to the fact.

that time has suffered from was very suspicious. of course when i was first diagnosed as having having cancer he accused or he said actually that it was not a coincidence referring 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. if you live in caracas for us when we told the leader of venezuela's opposition and. politicising was his funeral that american expert steve told us despite the harsh words of the opposition isn't likely thinks to win the people's trust. the opposition understands that it will not we know elections just on the basis of the middle class the opposition has made an effort to repeal to the four people and the campaign through the presidential election he said arco was last here. in canada. which is really

a company always. wins it isn't somebody you want 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 the middle but openly said it's pretty much that we need social programs that were so popular there was so political success. will be a big if the opposition return return to power the key to all this is what do we not have any trouble with in the upcoming presidential election 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 her to support mature into elected president if the situation came to that.

the twenty one un peacekeepers abducted by syrian rebels in the golan heights had been released and handed over to the jordanian authorities the observers were captured by militants on wednesday rescue efforts were hampered by sporadic fighting between syrian troops of the rebels despite a fragile temporary ceasefire earlier and he said fighters had set their demands for government troops to withdraw from the area as a precondition for the release of those peacekeepers and the rebel groups also backtracked to claims he used them as human shields us talk about this with pathways of political analyst and store and he's joining us live on the line deepak hi there what was the motive behind the rebels' acts of taking these hostages do you think. well in these situations it's difficult to exactly know what the motive was but. the motive can be can be guessed at by considering how would the rebels who took these

un troops hostage could benefit and i think there are two three things to remember and that is that if there were fewer or no more u.n. troops then the rebels would indulge in violence with impunity. and what it is going to take to jeopardize the un peacekeeping mission there soley to do that in the golan heights here well it certainly looks like that because in the end the hostages were not released to the u.s. and that shows that there is. there was a certain. intentionally to undermine the united nations i'm lucky that brahimi the special envoy of the u.n. and the arab league for boston area and of the same time they were sent to jordan jordan is a country news has done in the last twenty four hours that jordan is

a country where the united states britain and one of the other countries are training syrian rebels and deepak internally we're hearing yet again tonight in the last few hours the syrian opposition saying as far as they're concerned conditions have not yet been met to talk to the government so still no dialogue there. well it looks like there is a certain degree of backtracking on the part of the syrian rebels because at the last meeting in germany the leader of the syrian rebels. suggested that he was prepared to talk. to the syrian leadership but since then there have been a number of setbacks and this is the latest do you think the west will be as resolute or supporting the rebels after this has happened i think the

west wants. the current syrian government to collapse or to do political reasons there's a bigger reason apart from wanting to kill or to bring about the collapse of the syrian government do for they can manage it and that is to undermine the radian. government and also all more importantly the russian interests in syria and in the middle east. i guess is also brought to the forefront this hostage taking scenario it's also brought to the forefront doesn't it that potentially the western backers of the syrian rebels could be arming terrorist extremists. well the british foreign minister william hague keeps repeating from time to time that he wants to help the syrian rebels but not other kind or similar fundamentalist groups.

i think it is fair to say that president obama would also not refer that but the problem is how can the united states and europe especially britain which is at the forefront of help to the syrian rebels how can this stop countries like saudi arabia and qatar where the main arms suppliers to the rebels and whose constituency. that of militants and the things we thought political analysts in the store and as your time. still ahead this hour divide and ride israel introduces some bus routes for palestinians in the west bank sparking a segregation. of the buses to fire the mall we'll bring in a report also coming up to accident it all but reports of a collision between

a russian and chinese space junk undiscussed. could trigger a big squid says the bride. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it. and realize everything. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big show. more news today violence is once again flared up. to me these are the images the

world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. again u.s. defense separate chuck hagel visit to afghanistan has been marred by a series of suicide attacks a taliban suicide bomber on a bike detonated explosives near the country's defense ministry has killed at least nine people in the area the time roads around the building located near the presidential palace were closed the local taliban branch said the attack though was intended to send a message to the u.s.

defense chief boyle meantime eight children and a police officer were also killed by another suicide attack in the east. kimmie says most feel the situation the country is going to get. first the taliban will want to send 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 of times despite of all security measures have been taken by the afghan and nato forces and the capital secondly i believe that the taliban and says that on the air pretty conditions that they are not to ready to negotiate with the government of afghanistan or with the nato forces also with americans about the future of afghanistan india will continue to fight against to enter national troops and against afghan government until all that. foreign troops leave the

country if this is a new wave of of attacks from the taliban. there are other cities and afghanistan is going towards more violence and the next coming months the people of afghanistan has a strong concert that's jewish and will go well will be wars particularly after. two thousand and fourteen when all the foreign troops leave the country. a russian microsatellites been hit by chinese space junk going to be floating around out there since two thousand and seven it was an abundance of space debris up there even an object as small as a sugar cube can cause a lot of damage one of the more is r.t. sean thomas. 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 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 a should you 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 an instance where these things pass kind of close to each other then they change. you know 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. thomas will but then on terra firma more

headlines making news this morning violence is continuing pakistan rose ran south towards a christian neighborhood in eastern town of all the rest are up to the friday night after the christian man there was accused of committing black blasphemy that's a crime punishable by death in the country police took the man into custody in an attempt to pacify the mob hundreds of christian families then fled the area overnight fearing for their safety. by journey extremist claims of murder seven foreign hostages kidnapped recently in the north of the country according to the group's website the killings retaliate 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 a company called said track oh it's a lebanese construction group working in the region. and the nuclear anger spreading across asia in taiwan tens of thousands took to the streets to demand that plans for a nuclear plant with billions of dollars be scrapped meanwhile in japan thousands more are protesting for an end to nuclear power there just days before what is now

the second anniversary of the fukushima disaster on friday tepco the company cleansing the irradiated site announced that it now needs an extra four years just to flood proof the area delaying the removal of melted you radium fuel. there appears to be a shadow of apartheid in israel palestinians commuting from the west bank to board special buses that were launched this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers said they feared for their own safety artie's paulus leah reports that 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 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 the most of 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'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 seven ages very hard to live with this you can call it

a racist action or whatever but see it makes it even more impossible for both sides to understand one another. we're supposed to be working in a civilized country but they're separate not bad i feel like israeli people look at us. a glance alan not equal to. it with me to look good so should i feel very bad it is not acceptable to 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'm going to wanted to rewind the clock maybe delete the embarrassing mistakes of your person we've all been there while the u.s. air force seems to know what that feels like to know it's scrubbing drone strikes

carried out in afghanistan reports on websites why you can read up more about the mysterious data disappearance on our website also at r.t. dot com as well just a click away russia's chechen republic as revealed it's funny the construction of a mosque which it claims to be the second largest in israel is going to be named after the father of the public's present leader ramzan kadyrov we did again it tito khan some of the many many stories there were. great programs ahead for now it's a midnight twenty five moscow time just a couple of minutes abby martin say wait in the wings take an in-depth look at that women struggle a great man and also the food of the late breaking the set is our next program.

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. station of someplace on earth like course to lobola 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's 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 even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches if you were 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.

to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and. i mean. i know that i was really messed up. in we're all very so closely the. worst year for the food. white house or for the. radio guy and four minutes from a click. away what we're about to do is you never seen anything like this until. you get. what's going on guys i'm adding money and this is breaking the set with 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. here is 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 realized 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 two thousand and ten scientists determined that airport scanners are just as likely to kill you 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 ineffective agencies have their priorities out of whack you see it's perceived danger of our safety uniforms above workers' wages and their rules above our rights so let's go breaks up. a little bit more of you've never seen anything like that.