who's the next president of the country continues to mourn the late which obvious. the final chord verdicts and the poor it's a massive euro leaves it tamps at calming egypt's unrest in tatters as fresh violence from gulf key cities. and a team of u.n. observers is 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. coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina joshing today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest stories alvan as well as will vote on april the fourteenth to decide who will take over from the later which obvious the commandant ensure the 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 who's lying in state this is from marty'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 m.p. . who 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 that 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 it will persist in the following election battle mourning the loss of venezuela and its friends including russia we have to look forward and i hope chavez's heritage will only help to deepen our partnership the majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue we will respect the choice of the venezuelan people i hope all the countries that have relations with venezuela do the same and there was no attempt to influence their choice. amongst the crowd as you know we've been there quite a knot over the last few days and one of the most popular chaunce is with chavez

and my daughter the people say 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 that by the very end 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 chavez for washington the death of its most vocal critic in latin america could mean a shot at increasing its influence they are about professor miguel tinker selous is an expert on the region says the u.s. will be better off keeping a low profile during the 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 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 that 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 yet again we've seen just how divided it tips still is violence erupted on saturday after a court upheld twenty one death sentences given to people blamed for being behind last year a stadium massacre in ports a while acquitting others neither side was satisfied by the verdict their anger immediately spilled into the streets three people lost their lives in clashes in

cairo as a mob torched and attacked buildings across the capital including police property imports aid where the army took charge of security on friday protests were quick to restart including attempts to blockade ferries of crossing the suez canal bell true is following the crisis or r.t. . so i got to security had cooties is a powerful reminder of the promised five days of bloody clashes between protesters and security forces in a feeds to quell unrest a day ahead of the. his 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 the demands this is. the government has brought in our main needs or 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 and 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 she replaced them on the city's streets there was an initial optimism but the old 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 in fact the five or seven i sentences residents here 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 on the spicy sound of the green eagles ultras saeed's football fan club says that 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 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 please. so 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 true for r t put sign.

of stay up to date on news from edge of where the bell twitter feed new details comments and opinions from locals on the crisis are there in other reaction we've been getting political activist ahmed necking 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 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 fun thirds of 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 of radical measures in cleansing the state institutions of the interests of 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 to get into for the political process. 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 un recovery team stopped short of reaching the captives the rebel group initially said they take in 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 here 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. 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 or 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 saudi arabia and qatar who are the main arms supplier to the rebels and whose constituency is. that of militants. and coming up later in the program here on r.t. the drama and infighting at the bolshoi leading dancer this story theatre is in custody after admitting to masterminding a tap which disfigured the company's artistic director after acid was thrown in his

face plus. israeli soldiers get tough sometimes too though sometimes too tough a stone throwing palestinian sparking concern over how much force is really needed to put down trouble in the west back more on that coming very shortly to stay with us. these children. they're serving a sentence just like their mother. little ones born in prison. now known less paying for the crimes

committed by their parents. to babies on our teeth. to least be told language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on the. team from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see in troy t arabic to find out more visit arabic don't teach don't call. welcome back you're watching r t now a top dancer of the bolshoi theater 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 fillin to have acid thrown in his face so it was dancer and the two man he paid about fifteen hundred dollars to carry a obvious salt could get up to twelve years in prison for the crime philip was attacked in january the seventeenth in the center of moscow and he was nearly blind it is now undergoing extensive treatment in germany where it's hoped his eyesight can be restored to major chunk of stardom as many villains cheering 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 girlfriend about the bolshoi theatre and the way fill in the hand of the lead roles there are his new team reporter martin and recess 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 of management who were dances they were bitter about their faded career it's a it's not an easy world to be in and obviously. the rivalries between companies within 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 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 films a lot of the 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 it they reality is somewhat different. 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 not aggression pact with the south this week saying washington and so are responsible for ruining nuclear disarmament talks thursday's u.n. vote in financial restrictions on the north expanding ass and brings on the companies and sanctioning certain individuals north korea quickly threaten the u.s.

with a preemptive nuclear strike which washington said it's ready rules imposed by the security council following previous nuclear test rocket launches have all failed to deter yanked mardenborough from the korean friendship associations asked trying to be political in japan and as its price gougers it's clear that the united nations in the security council particularly is interested only in maintaining the current balance of what the germany is an interested and independent nations acquiring utility 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 that it would recommend to been pursuing peace ever since the armistice agreement was signed when we can expect is that the united nations will continue to believe north korea which is effectively what's happening all over this ditch really just showing shit they don't like the fact that north korea is asserting itself in world politics and who is north korea playing word games with nobody not practicing and preparing with other countries their phone their own for self defense. joint options 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 is putting you just went down and say 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. the world to treat it with dignity in order to have peace with dignity. now take a look at some other stories from around the world a russian helicopter carrying passengers and cargo disappeared from raiders in the republic of congo connection with the crew was lost ten kilometers from the am i a planned landing spot the aircraft was being used for services for the un mission in the country. crowds have ransacked and torched a christian neighborhood in pakistan's eastern city of lahore the ongoing sectarian unrest first erupted on friday night after a christian man was accused of committing blasphemy a crime punishable by death is a country police to the man into custody an attempt to pacify the mob hundreds of

christian families later fled the area fearing for their safety. the people focused on islands are holding it today a referendum on whether to remain a british overseas territory the u.k.'s hoping for international backing and its dispute over the islands with argentina for the majority say yes harry's opposes the poll saying it has no validity the route over gers dition has rumbled for decades especially since britain repelled an argentine invasion in nine hundred eighty two. when troops are set upon by people who are armed only with stones when does their retaliate or reforest become too much that's a problem in the west bank were heavily armed i.d.f. are often involved it's curvaceous with local on arm use r.t. supposedly your reports. now reman captured on camera the shots that would kill her brother two bullets in his stomach and leg. when i

came people were shouting he got shot with a live bullet i didn't know who got shot they were shouting rushdie 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 the not come down will shoot you i open my camera and i decided that i'm going there even if i die or love will have to smash for now remains brother rushdie 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 part of it he went later to help evacuate the injured out of the images 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 and the soldier said do not worry is 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 the 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 losses soldiers can only use live ammunition when their life is in danger tear gas and rubber bullets are loaned but only for dispersing crowds from a distance and we're not fired directly on protesters but these really center for human rights but salem has found that in total is really for. forces have killed fifty six rock throwing palestinians since two thousand and five six were killed by

rubber coated missile bullets and two by tear gas canisters forty eight were killed on 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 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 that the bitset of a port 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 teargas canisters a day are being shot at these protesters says it's way beyond our imagination it

would harm of 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 risked her brother imprisoned her father and killed her cousin three months after this confrontation beloved uncle rushdie would die a police be on t.v. tonight with what 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 such space collision in history very poor lie about the dangerous debris plus. and the thousands rally in tokyo saying that a world without nuclear power will be a better place to live on for the full story. the cia welcomed its new chief this week asked president obama's former top

counterterrorism adviser to go over the confirmation came after conversely on capitol hill as republicans stall john brennan's candidacy in fiery exchanges is the story is 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 the 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 the town mandate is too vague and lacks transparency the way it's worded it's left room for interpretation it clearly is only limited you know to the us and to american citizens so i think they left a lot of wiggle room in the way that they they worded the statement again you know certainly their past history they've been pretty liberal and how they choose to define terms when it suits their interests and this is saying that. you know the

law permits the president to carry out attacks of basically whenever and wherever he chooses on anyone but they refuse to release the legal analysis that explains how they interpret the law. the u.s. disavow claims this week it was behind family or a drone strikes in pakistan that kill up to nine people found him attacks are a problem because it means people are being killed but no one knows who is to blame this comes as and i'll tell you a pile of 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 thanks to increasing availability of drones will make their misuse even greater. report was made at this point is 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 relatively small in terms of drones so at this point we don't have the

information but what we do know with certainty is that drugs are cure it's a big point 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 u.s. air forces already announced is going to be making drones that are the size of an insect that can assassinate people so these just technology is sheer. and on the way here on our team parenting in prison a look at the lives of young women whose babies span their first years in a harsh penal colony instead of a nursery. did

you see darth vader is stormtroopers trying to make their way into the ukrainian justice ministry as part of a protest or 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 the how is it going to cure 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.

well i wouldn't say that is life it's difficult that is deprived of something. he has everything that he needs he gets medical care and he's given an upbringing he's that well and what's more his mother is with him i haven't robbed him of anything. do you think being here together with children with your son helps you. before is a difficult for you. are you asking if my child helps me or bothers me how can my child bother me he's my life my soul i live only for him. attention residential zone the daily inspection is now due to certain duty are to

risk or to bowl in may so they sent old yard in an orderly manner for examination i repeat proceed to the yard for inspection. say hi sasha hello sweetheart. i'm here to finish filming a story about you as i look sander is now a t.v. star alexander i ready for filming yes yes yes he is ready look how he's sticking his head up convict marina gershon over those almost all the mothers and children in this prison colony she's been allowed to set up a small t.v. studio behind bars because she used to be a journalist before going to jail marina hosted a crime news t.v. program now she mostly makes films about children born behind bars.