court verdicts from last year's football riots monist state of emergency was declared in sinai over terror attack. venezuela is set to vote for its new president in mid april well the country still mourning the death of its longtime leader. last un peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights have been released to the jordanian government. well news and much more twenty four hours a day you're watching. egypt has been plunged into chaos three people have reportedly been killed in cairo the local media indicating an eight year old child was among the victims you don't arrest follows a court verdict in

a case of last year's football riots which confirmed death sentences and gave out new prison terms true has the latest. clashes raged on in downtown cairo between anti-government protesters largely led by football fans and the security forces after the verdict in his contentious put saeed's football riot trial there are 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 we said 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 a life sentences here imposed i.e. the scenes have been calm however people whatevers when the verdict was released as 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 to hear people say they were imposed i.e. they say that they will continue general strike which is happening right now in addition she trying to prevent traffic on the suez 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 so another round of deadly protests following the controversial verdict with egypt seeing a spate of fatal crashes this year. but he's a political activist in cairo he says the violent trend will continue until president one hundred mostly 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. a real court proceedings read 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 two murders because they continue to be on the streets 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 and you can keep track of everything that's happening in egypt on our web site r.t. dot com we have all the details on what's been happening since the balance flared up around the verdict along with the latest pictures and videos from the scene. venezuela's electoral council has set april fourteenth as the date when the country will choose hugo chavez's successor the late president passed away last tuesday of what is said to be a heart attack and even a nation in mourning is

a feeling for marty's video agency ruptly is in caracas. vice president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so elections take place and some voices in the opposition notably the man who is the main opposition m.p. . he would have called the swearing in. hugo chavez personally appointed. the man but 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 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 that family has said that he hopes that heritage continues to deepen the ties between russia. and he's also said that he hopes that russia will respect the outcome of venezuela and that elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again

referring to the fact that bad being many outside powers who would like to see and . 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 shop with his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people. or the country's elections with them do the same and there was no attempt to influence their choice. 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 are safe and yesterday when he was sworn in and the

nationalists. believe there were very emotional crowds kind of pledging their support for him and he announced that he is to continue the 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 charge is now at the same time he also again made reference to the fact that the cancer that 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 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. as well as opposition wreak a carefree this is accusing me of politicizing chavez's funeral that's what america

expert steve ballmer says despite the harsh words position 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 an effort to appeal to the four people and the campaign for the presidential election he said mark over the last year. and candidate. that he can help heal a. wage that isn't somebody exposed 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 the middle but the people he says pretty much that need social programs that were so popular they were so politically successful. will will be abated if the opposition return returned to power the keil of it is is that not do or not have any trouble

with the upcoming presidential elections he is closely associated with china as you know which i was left venezuela to go to cuba he called venezuelans and his people in particular to vote for me to work to support mature into elected president if the situation came to that. twenty one u.n. peacekeepers abducted by syrian rebels in the golan heights have been released and handed over to the jordanian authorities the observers were captured by militants on wednesday the rescue efforts were hampered by sporadic fighting between syrian troops and rebels despite a fragile temporary ceasefire earlier n.t.'s arthritis demands for government troops to withdraw from the area as a precondition for the release of the peacekeepers rebel group has denied claims he used them as human shields or deepak to kathy political analyst and historian

rebels transfer the captives to jordan and not directly to the u.s. attempts to undermine the organizations is keeping efforts in syria. in the end the hostages were not released to the u. well that shows there. was a certain. intention undermine the united nations and luck that brahimi the special envoy of the un and the arab league for syria and at the same time they were sent to jordan and jordan is a country where the united states britain and one of the other countries are training syrian rebels the british foreign minister william hague keeps repeating from time to time. he wants to help the syrian rebels but not other kind or similar fundamentalist groups. i mean i don't think

it is fair to say that president obama would also not refine other but the problem is how can the united states and europe stop countries like saudi arabia and qatar who are the main arms suppliers to the rebels whose constituency is that of militants. well so they had fewer this hour divide in right israel introduces separate streets behind a stint in the west bank accusations of segregation i'll take on the board to find out more. also ahead excellence in obit a report on the collision between a russian spacecraft and chinese space don't discuss any objects that have big consequences so if the break.

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a new. mission to teach creation and why you should care about. this is why you should care. welcome back more world news. u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel visit to afghanistan has been mobbed 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 were able was not in the area at the time it was about braun said the attack 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 it's called analysts it. is the situation in the country only get worse.

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 and says that on the air pretty conditions that they or not to ready to negotiate with the government of afghanistan are with the nato forces also with americans. cuter off afghanistan india will continue to fight against the international troops and against the afghan government until all the. foreign troops leave that can truly if this is a new wave of of attacks from the taliban. 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 microsatellite has been hit by chinese space junk which i've been floating around since two thousand and seven there's an abundance of space debris out there and the even the object as small as a sugar cube can cause quite a lot of damage sean thomas told my colleague andrew fowler about the threat posed by even tiny objects in space. this is a 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 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 side 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 there's a lot 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 track 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 this 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. than a federal judge has been shot dead in russia's north caucasus republic of dagestan where job off was attacked and then his house in the town of bash an unknown gunman

shot the judge several times on the doorstep of his and killing him on the spot it's alleged that the murder is connected to job loss of professional activity the case is now under investigation but only this year dagestan supreme court justice was also shot dead near his home. some other international news making headlines this hour so erin violence has continued on the web browser grandson watched a christian neighborhood eastern city of lahore the rest to friday a christian man is accused of committing blasphemy a crime punishable by death in the country police took the man into custody in the temple of classify them all underage of christian families fled the area that night in a sense to. nigeria extremists claim to have murdered seven foreign hostages kidnapped recently in the north of the country according to

the group's website the killings follow the joint british nigerian military attempt to rescue the prisoners and seven foreign workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines are all employees of the troika and have a nice construction group working in the region. more than ten thousand protesters have marched in greece is second largest city of its enormity and tense the development of a nearby gold mine demonstrators carried banners showing their disdain for the street money that cracked down on up to this since if you do so much security the city's residents claim that the mining project is the region's use of sweet environmental stability. more south african president nelson mandela has been admitted to hospital for a check up we should say there is no reason for any alarm for the health of the ninety four has been the cause of concern for many years and then i spent eighteen days in hospital in december when he was treated for lung infection underwent

greystone surgery former president has already been seen at work since his retirement in two thousand for. now there appears to be a shadow of apartheid in israel palestinian screeching from the west bank and now being to board special buses that were introduced this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers for their safety was risk. their reports on how the roots of the racist overtones and 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 palestinians 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'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 policies back in the united states decades ago the palestinian passengers on this bus said leaves a bad taste in their mouths but the irony is that it cuts they travel time as they no longer have to travel through the settlements the ticket is a lot cheaper and the whole travel journey is a lot less stressful seven it is very hard to live with this you can call it

a racist action or whatever but it makes it even more impossible for both sides to understand one another. we're supposed to be working in a civilized country but they're separate policy work israeli people look at as a second class are not equal to. the little bit with. 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. 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. we have more stories for you on our website days before the second anniversary of the fukushima disaster tens of thousands of around it in tokyo saying that a world without nuclear power would be a better place to live at r.t. dot com for the full story. the gun control debate rages on in the

u.s. school officials at one elementary school to twenty soldiers out of anger just decorations on the cupcakes on that story at all to dot com. 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 revolutionary political messages the last two years every single tweet sent in the u.s. has been stored in a massive archive at the library of congress using concerns of a privacy or official reason is for research purposes so far the data has been kept behind closed doors is well spent. 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 big body of information about cultures 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 code 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 sent 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 people are worried about privacy i'm pretty sure the n.s.a. and homeland security has 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 wahl r.t. . well coming up after the break we'll take a closer look at the next of don't be yard. in the silence of the baltics that is. 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 and we speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of some place on earth like course to lowball 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'm 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 master obama just read anything put in front of them so they even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches and who are deeply versed on some subject that you should need to read word for word from the 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.

people don't understand what the european union is they don't understand how it's going through and they don't know who the people who are running it. but they know that they would 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. when it comes. to. twenty years now i've been fighting to uncover. board these people who are pulling the strings of the decisions. and how do they operate. and how reading to the news political and.