two more in the later charges. the final court verdict in the poor and so you football rina massacre leaves call in the calming age of son breast in tatters as fresh violence and gold cities. a team of u.n. observers are set free by syrian rebels whose initial claim to have taken them hostage as human shields has highlighted radical motives among some of the opposition. and john brennan takes up the top post of the cia despite conversely on capitol hill over his deadly drone program. it is eighty out of the russian capital you watching are joshing welcome to the program and as well as will vote on april the fourteenth to decide who will take

over from the late which obvious commandant endured a long battle with cancer but is said to have died of a heart attack millions went on a pilgrimage to the military academy in caracas to pay their last respects to the late leader is lying in state there's a feeling from artie's ruptly video agency was also there. vice president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so. take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who is the main opposition. who have called the swearing in. hugo chavez personally. the man that he wanted to succeed him and of course hugo chavez the late president has immense popularity and by the way the russian has said that he hopes that. 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 there have been many outside powers who 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 opponent 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 full of an 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 a majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people who are the countries that have relations with them as well as you say and there was no attempt to influence that choice. amongst the crowds you know we've been there quite a knot over the last few days and one of the most popular. is that my daughter the

people are safe when he was sworn in in the national assembly that were very emotional crowds kind of pledging mass support for him and he announced that he has to continue the revolution he was very emotional he was in tears as he took the presidential. said that the sash that he was taking belonged to chavez 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. 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. chavez's death has left a political gap and uncertainty not just in his own country but throughout latin

america now that the united states' loudest critic is out of the picture thoughts are turning to whether washington could now get an upper hand to increase its influence in the region or just get it she can investigate. communities of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of this the venezuelan leader enjoyed tremendous popular support in his country as well as the whole region he won four presidential elections and had ruled venezuela for fourteen years so you see this liberation process not only on the venezuelan people but also of all the latin american peoples must continue. this allowed us to restore faith in latin america region so that a profound transformation in the region can be carried out it will be only guards and the empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the new empire is the word a host of south american leaders used to refer to the united states in washington president obama extended his sympathy to the chavez family and heralded quote

a new chapter in the history of latin america but the u.s. congress was not as restrained in their reaction to the death of the venezuelan leader the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee had this to say his death. to us leftist leaders in south america good riddance to this dictator in the media a slew of pundits embarked on a search for new opportunities that might now be available for the u.s. in venezuela. so what does this mean now for the united states in all that oil in that country venezuela is a place of enormous opportunity it has by survey's perhaps the largest reserves of oil in the world from the u.s. point of view this has enormous potential implications because venezuela moves away from chavez's foreign policy means a venezuela that's less welcoming to iran less friendly to. less friendly to castro's cuba less friendly to leftwing regimes around the hemisphere which is

financed in their campaigns in another aspect but before america jumps at the chance to explore those new opportunities it might be useful to look back at what washington's previous efforts led to what the u.s. now calls leftist populist governments in latin america came to power partly in reaction to decades of the u.s. recklessly meddling in the affairs of the region for years washington had seen many of those countries as its outposts after chavez was elected in one thousand nine hundred nine a host of other leaders in latin america followed his example to varying extents including but not limited to ever morales in bolivia rafael correa in ecuador and daniel ortega in nicaragua charges may not have been as hardened in his views against washington if not for allegations of the tacit support of the bush administration in the coup against him in two thousand and two he met with bill clinton a couple times they got along just fine there was really only with george bush then

when things really were turned sour and especially after the coup attempt within forty eight hours of the start of the coup with the help of the military and vast popular support travis returned to power. but during that short period when he was deposed some in the u.s. hurried to celebrate the new york times for example ran this article venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by would be dictator caracas name provides fifteen percent of american oil imports and with signs of policies could provide more for years after the coup chavez said expressed this anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors yet as to who is the other the devil came here yesterday. and it still smells of sulfur here george w. bush has long left office but suspicion and mistrust remained some argue if during these challenging times for latin america washington continues to deal with the

region using the same old tactics the hostility could be put in washington i'm kind of shaken. this week yet again we've seen just how divided still is violence erupted on saturday after a corrupt court upheld twenty one death sentences given to people blamed for being behind last year's stadium massacre imports a while acquitting others neither side was satisfied by the verdicts and their anger immediately spilled onto the streets three people lost their lives in clashes in cairo as a mob torched and a tad buildings across the capital including police property in port say the word the army took charge of security on friday protests were quick to restart including attempts to blockade ferries crossing the suez canal belcher's following the crisis

for r.t. . both sides gutted security headquarters is a powerful reminder of the past five days of bloody clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in a bid to quell on rest a day ahead of the contentious verdict on last february's football riots the government removed the police and put the city security in the hands of the army activists here say a military takeover will only antagonize the situation and is an example of president mohamed morsi ignoring their demands this is and this is the metal the government has got an army needs the rights of the people and those who have been killed in port so you do is not going to be more secure with the withdrawal of the police it won't help us at all the ports are you'd officers are supposed to be in the street taking care of the country that's what we asked for with the police leaving there will be chaos now the people will have to secure the city themselves tension between protesters and the police has been high since last year's riots and

when the minute you place them on the city's streets there was an initial optimism but that all changed after the court's decision the atmosphere changed on saturday when the verdict confirmed that twenty one people will face the death penalty and a further five will serve nice sentences residents here. they say that the army will not protect them as the local authorities bowed to pressure from the capital that's a funeral for protesters killed during recent clashes and he spicy founder of the green eagles culture is saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse make counterparts in cairo he believes the death sentences are further proof the city is being targeted towards side has been persecuted for the last thirty years and president mohamed morsi is keeping the status quo created by the last regime the president wants to wrong the people of portside and instead satisfy the cairo the old tribes are widespread

across the country now there is a risk of everyone being racist towards portside aid the military for their part to maintain they are protective peaceful force and that portside protesters have not been singled out they say police are merely responding to the level of violence from those attacking key government buildings meanwhile on the banks of the suez canal protesters burn tires to prevent boats from ducking saying they will escalate acts of civil disobedience until there is a fair trial with further violence on the horizon this could be the toughest challenge yet for morsi and his ministry about true for r t. i'll stay up to date on the news from. twitter feed new details comments and opinions from locals on the crisis or is there another reaction we've been getting journalist was as been telling us that egypt's current troubles are getting little attention abroad. the western countries have largely ignored what the

regime has been doing which is cracking down on a lot of freedoms and you know returning to mubarak era style of ruling and i think what what will happen now is it will come to the forefront and i think there will be a lot of a. international pressure not to see you know the regime for as a democratic force but rather as what it is so it seems the whole verdict is politicized and is just a way to manage the country's political crisis rather than to bring about justice. twenty one un peacekeepers have been released by their syrian rebel captors after being held for three days the militants handed the observers over to jordan after a un recovery team stopped short of reaching the captives the rebel group initially said they'd taken the peacekeepers hostage as human shields any of these really

border but the later backtracked after international officials and the central rebel command weighed in the crisis stow fears that radical forces are on the rise among the syrian opposition and while some western governments are reluctant to arm the rebels their arab allies don't seem to be so unwilling. in the end the hostages were not released to the u.s. and that shows that there is a was a certain intention to undermine the united nations and luck that brahimi the special envoy of the un and the arab league for us syria and at the same time there was sent to jordan jordan is a country where the united states and 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 mark

are similar fundamentalist groups. and 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 stop countries like so the arab and qatar who are the main arms supplier to the rebels and whose constituency is that of militants and while western states step up their support for the rebellion the militants continue to demand their rack arms supplies as an isa now without planes. this shift is on the heels of secretary of state john kerry announcing last week that the u.s. would finally provide direct aid to the syrian opposition and help push forward the two year fight to topple president assad the the just here though non lethal aid

opposition groups despite mounting united are already getting plenty of cash arms and training from friends in the region especially gulf states like saudi arabia qatar well not only were the rebels disappointed the u.s. isn't being more generous with their weapons they're having a bit of a laugh online check out this video that has emerged on facebook of fighters on the ground trying to survive on so-called non-lethal weapons take a closer look at those a chair even what looks like some kind of sanitizing hand gel was seen later in the video you can hear what sounds like actual intent shelling at some point with the only defense these silly makeshift weapons surely many of civilians on the ground won't find this funny especially with the international community finally realizing the fact that sending more arms especially lethal arms could worsen an already dire situation most recently germany's foreign minister warning against sending arms to

militants in syria saying that such a measure would broaden the conflict in the country and throughout the region. on the way here in r.t. the drone debate on the home front america's it for us amanda tap program sparse conversely on capitol hill during the appointment of the cia's new chief. also a meeting dancer of moscow's bolshoi theatre is in custody after admitting to masterminding an attack which disfigured the company's artistic director after acid was thrown in his face. these children are in. there serving

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breaking news a little tonnage of angles couldn't stories. you hear. to try altie spanish find out more visit eye to eye on t.v. dot com. the for. the. welcome back you're watching r.t. . the cia welcomed its new chief this week as president obama's former top counterterrorism adviser took over the confirmation came after controversy on capitol hill as republican stalled john brennan's candidacy in fiery exchanges is

a tory as drone program was questioned as lawmakers demanded to know whether americans could be targeted by on manned aircraft on home soil brennan's appointment was eventually allowed to proceed after officials said that drones cannot be used to kill u.s. citizens not engaged in combat in america but a former guantanamo bay prosecutor says the young man a tap mandate is too vague and lacks transparency the way it's worded it's left room for interpretation and it clearly is only limited to the u.s. and to american citizens so i think they left a lot of wiggle room in the way that they were to this day you know sort of their past history of a. pretty liberal and how they choose to define terms when it suits their interests and this is. you know the law permits the president to carry out attacks basically whenever and wherever each chooses on anyone but they refuse to release the legal analysis that explains how they interpret the law. now the why is this about claims

this week it was behind february drone strikes in pakistan that killed up to nine people this comes as america's attorney general said he doesn't exclude the possibility of using drones to his to hit terror targets within the u.s. meanwhile an al italia pilot told controllers on tuesday he had spotted a drone as he was flying towards new york's j.f.k. airport globalization expert mark mason things advancing technology and increasing availability of drones will make their misuse even greater. the report was made at this point the information's not available as to it was it a model airplane was it a surveillance drone it was reported to be relatively small three four five six feet didn't really to be small in terms of drones so this point we don't have the information but what we do know with certainty is that drones are here it's a big going to be billable not only to governments but to individuals and they will

diversify in terms of their cheapness and size are going to be made the u.s. air force has already announced it is going to be making drones that are the size of an insect like an assassin and people so these technology is here. now north korea's reaction to further u.n. sanctions is to insist it will pursue nuclear weapons and away the country also officially scrapped a hotline at a non-aggression pact with the south this week say washington and so are responsible for ruining nuclear disarmament talks thursday's u.n. vote tightens financial restrictions on the north have forced a crackdown on the country's nuclear and ballistic missile cargo transfers north korea quickly threatened the u.s. with a preemptive nuclear strike to which washington said it's ready rules imposed by the security council following previous nuclear tests and rocket launches have all failed to deter the founder of

a national campaign to and the korean war believes sanctions will only take a toll on ordinary people. they said they're going to limit money that by eight go toward nuclear technology well that means limiting cash when it means limiting cash for a country that can't eat itself because it doesn't have enough arable land to you to do so you're talking about taking food out of people's mouths so we have to examine why we use sanctions as something that is in essence a weapon of war and it cannot be used in this way because we're going to be taking money out of a country that needs the money to feed itself so in the end thank sions really ends up hurting people in a country who need the most and i think we have to get over this and see that sanctions haven't worked hasn't worked in cuba and other places for decades in iraq it didn't because we had to go into a war that didn't stop saddam hussein these sanctions have generally ended up

killing people on the ground and really we need to get a lot more creative than that. while top dancer of the ball show i see her is in custody right now after admitting that he was behind the brutal attack on the company's artistic director sergei filin and he's. trial hearing pilot major chunk claimed he didn't order a fillin to have acid thrown in his face so as dancer and the two man he paid about fifteen hundred dollars to carry out the assault to get up to twelve years in prison for the crime well failing to was attacked on january the seventeenth in the center of moscow he was nearly blinded he is now undergoing extensive treatment in germany where it's hoped he's eyesight can be restored to mr chen costarred as many villains during his career the latest being the role of ivan the terrible well it's thought he had had a number of disagreements with his artistic director one reportedly involving the dancers a girlfriend a ballerina at the bolshoi and the way fill in hand of the leading roles at the

theater are visitors aimed reporter martin and various says that and fighting and threats are a sad reality of show business. in the front of the fifth you see a beautiful production but really the drama backstage is i think it's everyday life in a production house and that's what it is it's a factory from from the problems with the understudies from the problems because thing from the problems of of management who were dances they were bitter about their faded career it's not an easy world to be in obviously the rivalries between the companies with the moscow and with the mets and the skull and they all want to be at the top of their game and tensions are always high and fraud and this is the first time we've had these sort of things happen right well this is certainly a very severe but there been other kind of scandals well this is this it's called drama for a reason if a year ago stravinsky's rite of spring was postponed and in fact one of the dances that. she was actually said that she was threatened by various people and she's she

actually went over to canada in fear of her life in fear of that it would escalate these tensions between the theatrical ballet world would escalate into violence and obviously as we see with the result. that happened in january it happens and this may reduce it down to a level of a cliche but we have this blockbuster movie black swan that cloud that's absolutely what it's like with the black swan film nothing portman really highlights the you know the extremities and the tensions and especially with the with the management with the hiring in the firing its everyday life and sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it they reality is somewhat different. well how do you find a comic hangover i have will bring you the story of some communities in britain which are battling to keep alive age old traditions but at risk by the country's strict tax policies plus when having a home becomes

a luxury soaring prizes are forcing berliners out of their houses would take a look out what's behind a real estate boom in just a couple of minutes. they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. rituals are strict. their communities are isolated. they clearly distinguish between their own and the alien. and guard their family in things and the treasure.

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welcome back you're watching live from moscow now it's the german capital but more and more germans are moving out of berlin as they are and come can't keep pace with housing costs our correspondent peter all over a looks at his forcing them out of their homes who are both sexy but so. lovingly described his city. now somebody feel this way of life is coming under threat. really if you keep hearing kreuzberg we've seen big changes over the past ten years more and more apartment buildings have been built in areas where people traditionally used to rent what we're seeing is people being forced from

their homes. real estate prices in berlin have shot up by thirty two percent since two thousand and seven well ahead of the german average this is resulted in some tenants being a victim as their rented flat says sold from underneath them prompting anger and demonstrations from those who see the city's identity being sold to the highest bidder isn't. our problem here is that berlin is turning into a city split between the haves and have nots rising prices of forced people who have lived here for years to move out and those who have come makes. this year has seen an increase in the amount of protests against the gentrification of lin as well as growing resentment towards other germans and foreigners moving into the city for the most part the public image of this still poor but sexy however times are changing the new a major.