venezuelans to choose their a next president as a country continues to warn delay to. the final court verdicts in the ports a football arena massacre and leaves attempts at calming egyptian rest in tatters as fresh violence and golf's key city's. team of u.n. observers is set free by syrian rebels whose initial claim to have taken them hostages human shields has highlighted radical motives among some of the opposition . and john brennan takes up the top post of the cia. on capitol hill over his deadly drone program. and what you are going to live from the russian capital i'm reading josh dave take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news that is wayland's

will vote on april the fourteenth to decide who will take over from the later which august the commandante endured a long battle with cancer but a set 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 who is lying in state as a film from artie's ruptly video agency was also there. president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so elections take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who is the main opposition. who have called the swearing in. hugo chavez personally appointed. 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 f.m. 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 elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that bad being 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 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 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 shove his policies to continue we will respect the choice of the venezuelan people i hope all of the countries that have relations with venezuela do the same and there was no attempt to influence that 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 saying when he was sworn in in the national assembly that were very emotional crowd support for him and he announced that he just 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. for washington now the death of its most vocal critic in latin america could mean a shot at increasing its influence there a professor of an alice an expert on the region says the u.s. would be better to give a low profile during the polls. washington that would be will advise to not get involved in venezuela the least they can say at this point is the better this is a process that we're going to see a very heated election and any intervention on the part of the u.s. even a misstep on obama would be taken as as hostility towards venezuela and would play

into the into the elections in venezuela in this context but after the election of a new president i think that there are good conditions for an effort to reestablish relationships but i think we should understand that it's not just venezuela that had a has had difficulty with washington also ecuador has no ambassador from the u.s. bolivia has no embassador from the u.s. and the wiki leaks reports really indicate how u.s. attempted to maneuver and to play country against country in latin america and it really provide a revealing look about u.s. foreign policy and how little it has changed either from bush or obama. now this week and again we've seen just how divided in egypt still is violence erupted on saturday after a court upheld twenty one death sentences given to people blamed for being behind

last year's stadium massacre in port said while acquitting others neither side was satisfied by the verdict and their anger immediately spilled into the streets three people lost their lives in clashes in cairo as a mob torched an attack buildings across the capital including police property imports where the army to charge of security and friday protests were quick to restart including attempts to blockade ferries crossing the suez canal is following the crisis for our. security had to use is a powerful reminder of the past five days of bloody clashes between protesters and security forces in a beats to rest a day ahead. 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. the government has

forgotten our main needs the rights of the people and those who have been killed portside is not going to be more secure with the withdrawal of the police but it won't help us at all the ports are you do 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 streets there was an initial optimism but that all changed off 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 or seven licenses residents here say that the army will not protect them as the local authorities bow to pressure from the capital that's a funeral for protesters killed during recent clashes and the spicy sound of the green eagles ultras saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force

against local demonstrators treating them worse than the counterparts in cairo he believes the death sentences offer the proof the city is being targeted toward 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 old tribes who 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. 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 military about true for r t. well you say up to date on news from edge of two was bell's twitter feed new details comments and opinions from locals on the crisis over there and other reaction we've been getting political activists ahmed cairo says the violence will rage on until the president deals with its real instigators. 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 or scapegoats hence the issue escalates on the streets more because this is nothing but a political fiasco rather than. a reimport to see to read the people want is a fair trial for other 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 found those are the two murderers 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. measures radical measures in cleansing this state institutions of the lists to the mubarak's he's not being doing so on the contrary 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 presume that we've got for the political

process to resume fairly. twenty one un peacekeepers have been released by their syrian rebel captors after being held for three days the militants had of the observers over to jordan after a u.n. recovery team stopped short of reaching the captives the rebel group initially said they'd taken the peacekeepers hostage as human shields near the israeli border but they layer backtracked after international officials and the central rebel command way then the crisis stoke fear is 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 area and at the same time there was sent to jordan 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 are are similar fundamentalist groups. 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. coming up later here on r t the drama and infighting at the bolshoi being dancer at the historic theater is in custody after admitting to masterminding in a tap which this figure of the company's artistic director after acid was thrown in his face plus. israeli soldiers get tough sometimes too tough with so it's rolling palestinians sparking concern over how much force is really needed to pull down trouble in the west bank war and death soon. the cia welcomed its new chief this week asked president obama's former top counterterrorism adviser to go over the confirmation came after controversy on capitol hill as republicans stole john brennan's candidacy in fiery exchanges is a story as drone program was questioned as lawmakers demanded to know whether americans could be targeted by

a manned aircraft on home soil brennan's appointment was eventually allowed to proceed after officials said that drones can not be used to kill u.s. citizens on gauged in combat in america but a former guantanamo bay prosecutor says the young man attacked mandate is too vague and lacks transparency the way it's worded it's left room for interpretation 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 stay you know i mean certainly their past history they. pretty liberal and how they choose to the fine times when it suits their interests and this is. you know the law permits the president to carry out attacks that basically whenever and wherever he chooses on anyone but they refuse to release the legal analysis that explains how they interpret the law . now the u.s. disavowed claims this week it was behind february drone strikes in pakistan that

killed up to nine people phantom attacks are a problem because it means people are being killed but no one knows who's to blame this comes as an alitalia pilot told controllers on tuesday he had spotted a mysterious unmanned aircraft as he was flying towards new york's j.f.k. airport globalization expert mark mason thinks the increasing availability of drones will make their misuse even greater. the report was made its point is the information is not available as to it was a data model airplane was it a surveillance drone it was reported to be relatively small three four five six feet didn't really too small in terms of drones so this point we don't have the information but what we do know with certainty is that drones which are going to be billable not only to governments but to individuals and they will diversify in terms of their mission in the size they're going to be made u.s.

air force has already announced is going to be making drones that are the size of an intercept that can assess people so these technology is here now a top dancer at the bosch i fear is in custody right now after admitting that he was behind the brutal attack on the company's artistic director sergei filin. addie's pretrial hearing potholed meter chant go claimed he didn't order a fillin to have acid thrown in his face the seller was dancer and a to manage pay about fifteen hundred dollars to carry out the assault get up to twelve years in prison for the crime or fill in was attacked on january the seventeenth in the center of moscow he was nearly blind it is now undergoing extensive treatment in germany where it's hoped his eyesight can be restored starred as many villains during his career the latest being the role of ivan the terrible and it's thought he'd had a number of disagreements with his artistic director one reportedly involving the dancers a girlfriend a ballerina the bolshoi and the way fill in hand of the leading roles at the

theater well argy is a team reporter mark d'andrea says that infighting and threats are a sad reality of show business. in the front of the feet 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 there but other kind of scandals what 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 . she was actually said that she was threatened by various people and she 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 claim 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 it's everyday life and it's sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but at the reality is somewhat different. when troops are set upon by people who are armed only with stones when does their retaliate reforest become too much it's a problem in the west bank where i have armed i.d.f. are often involved in skirmishes with the local armed use artie's policy or in our

reports. under the. nariman captured on camera the shots that would kill her brother two bullets in his stomach and leg holes so when i came people were shouting he got shot with a live bullet i didn't know who got shot they were shouting russia do rushdie i didn't know what to do i went down the hill where the soldiers were firing and i started shouting press press the soldiers shouted to not come down will shoot you i opened my camera and i decided that i'm going there even if i die or love will have to smash now women's brother rushdi hadn't even been part of the stone throwing eyewitnesses say the soldiers fired tear gas and live bullets even before the children started throwing rocks at them rushdie wasn't a part of it he went later to help evacuate the injured. i wanted to throw the camera down and hold my brother in my arms but i kept filming my brother's face was

covered in blood my uncle came in the soldier said do not worry it's his leg he's alive from my experience they wanted to help they would have called the ambulance from the closest settlement when they wanted him to bleed i told them you should give him first aid and they said it is not our problem he could die of them. and two days later rushdie died the bullet that killed him was fired from ten meters away he was unarmed if you follow the official rules yeah it will be almost impossible to soldiers to use ammunition in these situations but we've all been there we've all done that when soldiers face palestinians on the field the the orders and missions we are getting are very far away from what the army claims officially the long. so soldiers can only use live ammunition when their life is in clear danger tear gas and rubber bullets are loaned but only for dispersing crowds from a distance and when not fired directly on protesters but these really center for human rights has found that in total israeli forces have killed fifty six rock

throwing palestinians since two thousand and five six were killed by rubber coated missile bullets and two gas canisters forty eight were killed by live ammunition arabs a very sions show a wide and systemic culture of the misuse of crowd control weapons by the israeli security forces in the west bank this means that the army violates its own open fire regulations regarding the use of rubber bullets tear gas it's quite a well known practice and the army denies that it exists but you know russian reply requests for an interview the i.d.f. say that the bestseller porter presents a biased narrative relying primarily on incidents that are too old or still under investigation by the military police the i.d.f. went on to say that the i.d.f. does everything in its power to ensure that the use of white dispersal means is done in accordance with the rules of engagement we're talking about five six

hundred one thousand teargas canisters a day are being shot at these protesters as it's way beyond our imagination there would be about clouds of tear gas on a village below palestinian anger and defiance an act of despair in the face of his radio military might rushdie's nice thirteen year old i had to meet faces the soldiers after they arrested her brother imprisoned her father and killed her cousin three months after this confrontation her beloved uncle rushdie would die police fear r t tel aviv. traffic seems to be on the rise in orbit a small russian spacecraft has been struck by remnants of a decommissioned chinese satellite marking the second of such. collision of history or we report a line about the dangerous debris. plus tens of thousands rally in tokyo saying that a war without nuclear power would be a better place to live had to r.t. dot com or the full story. north korea's reaction

to further u.n. sanctions is to insist it will pursue nuclear weapons and the way the country also officially scrapped a hard line ended non-aggression pact with the south this week saying washington and so law responsible for ruining nuclear disarmament talks thursday's un votes in financial restrictions on the north and forced a crackdown on the country's nuclear and ballistic missile cargo transfers north korea quickly threatened the us 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 gag martin drove from the korean friendship association says trying to be politically independent has its price. it's clear that the united nations and the security council particularly is interested only. the world of germany and

isn't interested in independent nations acquiring the ability to defend themselves even in the face of the lack of any kind of peace treaty which is of the fault of the united states government of the north koreans have been pursuing peace ever since the armistice agreement was signed while we can expect is that the united nations will continue to bully north korea which is effectively what's happening to all of those that really just shown shit they don't like the fact that north korea is asserting itself in world politics and who is north korea playing war games with nobody not practicing and preparing with other countries their phone their own for self-defense and that's off its own option of its own option they have so for the united states to think that they can continue to provoke the d.p. r. k. without any kind of consequence obviously american journalist putting in his foot down and saying that's not going to be able to continue without some kind of response that's only reasonable it's the d.p. r. k. asking the world to treat it with dignity in order to have peace with dignity. as

a german capital but more and more germans are moving out of their land as their income can keep pace with housing costs our correspondent there oliver looks at who's forcing them out of their homes. who are both sexy that so. lovingly described his city. now some berliners feel this way of life is coming under threat it isn't here if you keep your inquiries work 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 don't mix. this year has seen an increase in the amount of protests against the gentrification of lynn 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 sexy however times are changing the new emerging face of perlin is certainly stylish however it's also becoming increasingly an affordable due to the demand from people wanting to live in a desirable location economically viable and politically secure the lane is becoming the place of choice for southern europeans to invest in during turbulent times in their own countries. can't turn sales and rents property to italians.

one of the main reasons our customers are buying here is that there is no trust in their talent economy or the. banks people see an apartment in berlin as a good way to preserve the value of their savings. was about the claims that the real estate boom is stealing the in sold. out this is progress berlin is developing sure it presents some challenges but this is just the same as when the wall came down and people moved into new areas if anything this creates them all to cause and that makes for a what it is the best new housing developments being built all around the city to try and accommodate demand however with rental prices having risen by ninety percent in the last decade it does seem that the writing is on the wall for the dream of an affordable life in the german capital peter all of a. belin. well next year on our t.v.

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