country continues to warrant the later which obvious. the final core of verdicts in the poor excited for borini massacre leaves attempts at calming egypt's on rest in tatters as fresh violence and goals cities. and a team of u.n. observers is set free by syrian rebels whose initial claim to have taken them hostage is human shield and i like the radical motives among some of the opposition . it is ten am in the russian capital you what you are t. with me marina joshie today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news now going as well and so we'll vote on april the fourteenth to decide who will take over from the later which obvious the commandant in jordan a long battle with cancer what 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 who's 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 elections take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who is touted as the main opposition m.p. . you have called the swearing in as. 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 the russian f.m. libre 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 elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that there has been many outside powers who would like

to see and. among many condolences coming inside 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 the majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue to respect the choice of the venezuelan people while 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 was very emotional crowd by doing 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. well washington the dance of its most vocal critic in latin america could mean a shot at increasing its influence there faster miguel tinker thousand and spurred on the region says the u.s. will be better off keeping a low profile during a poll 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 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 new and vaster 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. well this week yet again we've seen just how divided still is wilds erupted on saturday after a court upheld twenty one death sentences given to people blamed for being behind last year a steady a massacre imports a while acquitting others neither side was satisfied by the verdicts and their anger immediately spilled into the streets three people lost their lives in clashes in cairo as

a mob torched and tap buildings across the capital including police property in port say where the army to charge of security on friday protests were quick to restart including attempts to blockade ferries crossing the suez canal well true as following the crisis for our team. put so i got to the 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. the government has forgotten our main needs the rights of the people and those who have been killed in the port side 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 fair. the five zero zero seven license it says 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 the recent clashes and the spicy sound of the green eagles culture is put saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse than the counter parts and kyra he believes the death sentences are further 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 port side and instead satisfy the cairo alley old très or 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 or ducking saying they will escalate acts of civil disobedience until there is a fair retrial with further violence on the horizon this could be the toughest challenge yet for morsi and his military true for r t put saeed. stay up to date on news from edge of where the bell's twitter feed new details

comments and opinions from locals on the crisis are there and how the reaction would be getting journalists while iskandar has been telling us that edge its 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 international pressure not to see you know the regime for as a demand democratic force but rather as what it is so it seems the whole verdict is politicized and is just just a way to manage the country's political crisis rather than to bring about justice. twenty one u.n. peacekeepers have been released by their syrian rebel captors after being held for

three days the militants hand of the observers over to jordan after u.n. recovering 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 later backtracked after international officials and the central rebel commander weighed in a crisis stoked fears the radical forces are on the rise among the syrian opposition and while some western governments are reluctant to arm the rebels they are arab allies don't seem to be so unwilling. in the end the hostages were not released to the u.s. that shows that there. was a certain. intention to undermine the united nations unless the brahimi the special envoy of the u.n. and the arab league for syria and at the same time it 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 student rebels. are similar fundamentalist groups. i think it is fair to say that president obama would also not refined either but the problem is how can the united states and europe stop countries like so get it in qatar where the main arms supplier to the rebels whose constituency is that of militants now the cia welcome to its new chief this week as president obama's former top counterterrorism adviser to colver confirmation came after conversely on capitol hill as republicans stalled john brennan's

candidacy in fiery exchanges is that tori is drone program was questioned as lawmakers demanded to know whether americans could be targeted by i-man 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 amanda tapp 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 us and to american citizens i think they left a lot of wiggle room in the way that they they were did the statement and again they are certainly their past history day and pretty liberal and how they choose to define terms it suits their interest and this is saying that you know the law permits the president to carry out attacks basically whenever and wherever he

chooses on anyone but they refuse to release the legal analysis that explains how they interpret the law. well coming up later in the program here in our t. of the drama and infighting at the bolshoi leading downs are at a historic theater is in custody after admitting to masterminding a tap which this figure of the company's artistic director after acid was thrown in his face what's. israeli soldiers get tough sometimes too tough with still and throwing palestinians sparking concern over how much force is really needed to pull down trouble in the west bank warned that soon. as it was deep into the of embryos. you never put his trust in anyone and rightly so. his body was found on the floor of use you. to know.

why did you die of natural causes. the mystery of stones. documentary. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

a top down server at the bolshoi theatre is in custody right now after admitting that he was behind the brutal attack on the company's artistic director sergei filin at his pretrial hearing pavel dmitrichenko claimed he didn't order a filling to have acid thrown in his face so it was dancer and the two men he paid about fifteen hundred dollars to carry out the a sold get up to twelve years in prison for the crime filming was attacked on january the seventeenth in the center of moscow and he was nearly blind it is now and are going extensive treatment in germany were it's hoped his eyesight can be restored to major chunk started as manny 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 and one reportedly involving

the dancers girlfriend about arena the bolshoi and the way elin handed the lead roles at the theatre while artisan attainments reporter mark anders says that and fighting 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 of management who were dancers they were bitter about their faded career it's not an easy world to be in obviously the the rivalries between companies with a mosque and with the mets in 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 well there's 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 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 the three 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. now north korea's reaction to further u.n. sanctions astute insists it will pursue nuclear weapons and away the country also officially scrapped a hotline at

a non-aggression pact with the south this week saying washington and so are responsible for ruining nuclear disarmament talks thursday's un vote type of financial restrictions on the north expanding asset freeze on companies and sanctioning certain individuals north korea quickly threaten us with a preemptive nuclear strike to which washington said is ready rules imposed by the security council following previous nuclear test rocket launches have all failed to deter the county and the co-founder of the national campaign to and the korean war believe sanctions will only take a toll on citizens. 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 feed 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 you it's really ends up hurting people in the country who need it the most and i think we have to get over this and see that sanctions haven't worked hasn't worked in cuba in other places for decades in iraq it didn't really have 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. when troops are set upon by people who are armed only with stones when those there were a tailgater a force become too much it's a problem in the west bank where a heavily armed i.d.f. are often involved in skirmishes with local on armed use our reports.

nariman captured on camera the shots that would kill her brother two bullets in his stomach and legs. 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. 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 not come down will shoot you i open my camera and i decided that i'm going there even if i die or love. to smash for now remains brother rushdie hadn't even been part of the stone throwing my witnesses say the soldiers fired tear gas and live bullets even before the children started throwing rocks at them rushdie wasn't part of it he went later to help evacuate the injured out of the images i want to do for all the camera down and hold my brother and my arms but i kept filming my brother's face was covered in blood my uncle came and the soldier said do not worry it's his leg he's alive from my experience if

they wanted to help they would have called the ambulance from the close a settlement when they wanted him to leave i told them we 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 but also 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 we're not fired directly on the protesters but these really center for human rights but c.n.n. has found that in total is really for. horses have killed fifty six rock throwing

palestinians since two thousand and five six were killed by rubber coated missile bullets and two by two gas canisters forty eight were killed on live ammunition are of the variations 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 only violates its own open fire regulations regarding the use of rubber bullets tear gas it's quite of 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 the debate celebre porch 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 riot dispersal means is done in accordance with the rules of engagement we're talking about five six hundred to one thousand tear gas canisters

a day are being shot at these protesters as it's way beyond our imagination to do with clouds of tear gas on a village. palestinian and go and defiance an act of despair in the face of these way the military might rushdie's nice thirteen year old i had to meet faces the soldiers after they risked her brother imprisoned her father and killed her cousin three months after this confrontation with a beloved uncle rushdie would die a police be on t.v. tonight and. well traffic seems to be on the rise in orbit a small russian spacecraft has been struck by remnants of a decommissioned chinese satellite walking the second such space collision in history we'll report a lot about the dangerous debris. was tens of thousands rally in tokyo saying that a world without nuclear power would be a better place to live that's already dot com for the full story.

unsuccessful attempts by european governments to and the financial crisis is causing a growing number of people to start favoring a life outside the problem talk about a panacea even being raised in the richest part of the box biggest financier in germany as taxpayers they are grow weary of funneling money to weaker states but all over has a story. in germany. twenty three years ago the cracks are showing in at least one of its regions. we want an independent state of bavaria this is an extraordinary aim there are twelve million variables if independent we could be the ninth biggest nation in the e.u. with the fifth largest annual economic turnover i'm convinced we have the cultural historical and economic strength to survive the bavaria parties campaign literature certainly doesn't pull any punches when it comes to showing how they believe the rest of germany treats the sun state the group poses little threat to germany's

political big guns it took just over one percent of the vote locally in two thousand and eight but their ideas are spreading increasingly influential circles. to predict when i look at the map of europe and of history i see that boundaries are not made to last forever if they can be moved by free people czechoslovakia made with peaceful transition into two democratic states in two thousand and fourteen scotland will have a referendum and there is work being done in catalonia this movement is happening in europe today. the varia is booming when it comes to business it's home to some of the most recognizable and expensive brands in the world b.m.w. audi humor and siemens of their base of operations here while munich is one of the world's major economic centers all contributing to an annual income. of almost half a trillion euro

a major factor which sticks in the craw of the variance is how about wealth is distributed throughout the federal states this sick of paying for poor berlin it hands over around three billion euros a year to the capital what impact would an independent bavaria have upon the day lives of those living and working there to find out i've come here to the beautiful bavarian countryside to speak to a man very keen on a dependence yossef farm produces bio gas suffered he diversified from dairy you know generates electricity to local homes definitely a case of where there's muck there's money but it's where his tax cash goes that's concerning him more than the smell always talk is getting tickets were completely and represented in germany on our own we would be a good size european state all we are now on the financier's of berlin and others. and fios surf there's more at stake than just money people want to europe's oldest

states. is since reunification there's been too much number of varian influence off so i want my kids to grow up feeling very culturally. no one learns the foreign language in school and we want to change that on. when germany's in each day celebrations get underway in the autumn open ice is might find that here in the largest state they're more keen on parting ways than partying these are all of a party but very. well after the break we examine joseph styles mysterious death and stay with us for that year an arty.

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 i speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of someplace on earth like course to loaf of all 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 am reading off a teleprompter but i put every word there myself which is probably why john kerry is spelled with a q but my question is would kerry and prompter master obama just read anything put in front of them to they even really know the realities of the material they're reading in their speeches and who are deeply versed on some subject then 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. sixty years ago there was only one person who could write down to the kremlin specif tell gate internet cis one one five soviet limousine he had any emperor would envy. this come belongs to joseph stalin driving home from work was no simple the face of the leader stalin used to sit on a special converted sees protected by guns on each side he trusted no one. misses. leaders 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. to you is ready to kill people and he did kill them and if he could do it 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 that it hit a facility known only to top officials. this is the comes of a country house. 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. his story.