after court verdicts for the last year's football riots we won a state of emergency was declared. a time. when it was set to vote for its new president in mid april while the country still mourning the death of its longtime leader hugo chavez. and. u.n. peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights have been released and handed over to the jordanian government. news uncomment this is carried on. egypt has been plunged into chaos three people have reportedly been killed in cairo with local media indicating an eight year old child was among the victims there on rest follows a court verdict in the case of last year's football riots which confirmed death

sentences and gave new prison terms. true has the latest now. clashes rage on in downtown cairo between anti-government protesters largely led by football fans and the security forces are the verdict in his contentious point saeed football riot trial there are at least three confirmed dead off the cairo based football fans set fire to the federation building and the police club kyra football fans also known as the archers are last week said they will not stop this level of violence as they are shown happy 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 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 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 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. is a political activist in cairo he says the violent trend will continue until president mohamed morsi that 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 to see that the people want is a fair trial 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 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 the real guarantees for the political process to resume fairly well you can keep track of everything that's happening in egypt on our website or r.t. dot com we have the details of all the events since the violence flared up on the verdicts along with the latest pictures and videos from the same. venezuela's electoral council has set a bill the fourteenth as the date when the country will choose a successor to hugo chavez the late president died of cancer last tuesday leaving the nation in mourning for lucy feeling for marty's video agency ruptly is in

caracas. vice president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and elections take place and some voices in the opposition notably the man who called himself the main opposition. who have called the swearing in. 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 where 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 of him from literally five seconds continue with russian f.m. not broad 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 venezuela and that elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that bad many outside powers he would like to see

and. among many condolences coming from inside and outside venezuela 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 my 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 with a majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people. for the country's elections with them as well as you say and there was no attempt to influence their choice. amongst the crowds you know we've been back 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 that was very emotional crowd 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 said presidential sash and he said that research that he was taking belonged to. 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. 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. opposition has proposed. to be the kind of the forthcoming elections. has accused his opponent. of politicizing the late leader's

funeral in america expert steve ballmer says despite their action and promises the opposition has little chance of winning over 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 an effort to appeal to the poor people and the campaign for the presidential elections in october last year. and candidate. in that he company at least. wins that is the body you 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 if copy of no matter what the people he says pretty much that the social programs that were so popular and were so politically successful. will will be abandoned if the opposition return returns to power the keil will that is is that not do not have any trouble

with the upcoming presidential elections he is closely associated with chavez you know when she was left in his will 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 there are services were captured by militants on wednesday the rescue efforts were hampered by sporadic fighting between syrian troops and rebels despite the fragile temporary truce in the region only a n.t.'s fight is demands for government troops to withdraw from the area as a precondition for the release of the peacekeepers rebel group has denied claims

that use them as human shields and political analyst and historian says that the rebels transfer their captives to jordan and not directly to the u.n. and attempt to undermine the organizations peacekeeping efforts in syria. in the end the hostages were not released to the u.s. and that shows there. was a certain intention undermine the united nations and look the brahimi of the special envoy of the un and the arab league for us syria and at the same time there was sent to jordan to 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 that he wants to help the syrian rebels but not other kind

or similar fundamentalist groups. and i think it is fair to say that president obama would also not prefer that but the problem is how can the united states and europe stop countries like saudi arabia and qatar who are the main arms supplier to the rebels and whose constituency is that of militants. well so they had few this solid divide and ride this royal introduces separate bus routes for palestinians in the west bank he's ations of segregation altie climbed aboard to find out more. also ahead accident in the obit we report on the collision between a russian spacecraft and chinese space junk and discuss tiny objects cannot be called sequences that's off the break.

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more international news for you now u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel visit to afghanistan has been marred by a series of suicide attacks a taliban suicide bomber and a bicycle i should say detonated explosives now the country's defense ministry killing at least nine people. was known to me time. intended to send a message to the u.s. defense street. children in the police office of. the suicide last of the. list it makes. the situation in the country 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 times all security measures have been taken by the afghan and nato forces and the capital secondly i believe that the taliban. are pretty conditions that they are not to ready to negotiate with the government of afghanistan or with the nato forces with americans. continue to fight to enter national troops and afghan government until all that. foreign troops leave that kind this is a new wave of attacks from the taliban. and

half. honest on is going to war it's more violence and the next i mean man's the people of afghanistan has a strong concern that situation will go well will be wars particularly after. two thousand and fourteen when they're all foreign troops leave the country. miniature russian research satellite has been hit by chinese space junk that's been floating around since two thousand and seven was an abundance of space debris in orbit around the earth and even an object to small. can cause considerable damage thomas told my colleague andrew farmer about the threat posed by even tiny objects in space. this 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 structure jack during 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 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 in lots of millions of

dollars if you will because satellites are a commodity so there's lots to be concerned about and must be very hard to track those i mean something as small as a shitty key 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 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. amazing stuff that our federal judge has been shot dead in russia's north caucasus republic

of dagestan where a job offer was attacked in his house in the town of its vast and unknown gunman shot the judge several times on the doorstep of his home killing him on the spot it's alleged that the murder is connected to jobs professional activity the case is now under investigation and the earlier this year dr stone supreme court justice was also shot dead days. now some other international news making headlines this hour sectarian violence has continued pakistan where crowds of uncertain torched of christian neighborhood eastern city of the whole rest of friday night after a christian that was accused of committing blasphemy a crime punishable by death in the country police took the man into custody and attempt to classify them all sorts of christian families fled the area overnight fearing for their safety. and extremists claim to have murdered seven foreign hostages kidnapped recently in the north of the country

according to the group the killings for the joint to produce nigerian military attempt to rescue the prisoners seven foreign workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines roy employees of the truck and the bodies construction group working in the region. more than ten thousand protesters have marched in greece is second largest city of the civility against development and goldmine demonstrators caribana showing their disdain for the schools money market violent crackdown on activists social security the city's residents claim the project threatens the region's tourism industry and environmental stability. former south african president nelson mandela has been admitted to hospital for further check up officials say there's no reason for any alarm on the health of the ninety four year old has been a cause of concern for many years and then have spent eighteen days in hospital in

december was treated for a drug infection underwent gholston surgery the former president has rarely been seen public since his retirement two thousand and four. well there appears to be a shadow of apartheid in the israel palestinian side commuting from the west bank are now being urged to board special buses introduced this week by the transport ministry after some jewish settlers feared their safety was at risk. their reports now on how the roots of the racist overtones go even deeper. on the first of december one nine hundred fifty five a black woman by the name of rosa parks made history by refusing to give up her seat in the so-called colored six in of a crowded bus in montgomery alabama that incident became a formative event in the u.s. civil rights movement and again this week israelis and palestinians are remembering that incident as the transport ministry introduces segregated bus lines in other words bus services only for kind of stimulus coming in and out of the west bank the

move has created 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 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 do work in a civilized country but they're separate policy work israeli people look at as a second class or 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 we have to deal with this reality but the segregation here runs much deeper than just separate bus services we're talking about different. systems for israelis and palestinians we're talking about different allocation of resources and preferential treatment to name just a few. on the way from qalqilya. well we have more stories for you on law in today or days before the second anniversary of the fukushima disaster tens of thousands of rather than tokyo saying that a world without nuclear power would be a better place to live had to r.t. dot com for the full story. the gun control debate rages on in the u.s.

officials at one of the menchu school deemed tory soldiers out of life even if they're just decorations on birthday cupcakes that story on our website. reflecting everything from people's routine habits to revolutionary political messages twitter has become an integral part of hundreds of billions of people's lives over the last two years every single tweet sent in the u.s. has been stored in a massive archive of congress isn't concerns over privacy or official reason is for a search purposes but so far the data has been kept behind closed doors is wall reports. 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 the 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 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 people worried about privacy pretty sure the n.s.a.

and homeland security is already threw up of that stuff so perhaps the take away as think before you tweet because it's going to be stored right here at the library of congress and washington liz wall r.t. . well coming up after the break created examine it was a stunt mysterious death stay with us. did any of you see darth vader as 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're 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 care 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. sixty years ago there was only one person who could write

a delta of the kremlin specify. it or nominate cis one one five soviet limousine he had any umbrella would envy. this come belongs to joseph stalin driving home from work was no symbol the first of the leader. stalin used to sit on a special converted seat protected by guards on each side he trusted no one. the soviet leader strictly instructed the driver which way to go in the car would often turn abruptly from the white when he was on to moscow's side streets weaving along and confusing. the new is ready to kill people and he did kill them and if he could do it the felt they could also act this way and that scared him to death. stalin's limousine eventually reached a narrow and strictly guarded highway. many years ago nobody was allowed here local

residents had no clue but it had a facility known only to top officials. this is the comfort of a country house stalin's personal residence even though sixty years have passed since the death of the soviet leader his remains top secret filming has only been allowed here on rare occasions stalin spent his last twenty years and consider right up to his death. historians still puzzled over his mysterious demise did he die a natural death always someone else involved. he's upstairs with our family whole or it's not appropriate to talk about one's pride like that and i knew i was bright so yes i raised so on and so forth look at events at least to the first base.