well is to choose their next president of the country continues to more until later good charges. are filed for verdicts in the ports a huge football arena massive or leave the champs a calming rest in tatters as fresh violence and golf's key cities. have a team of u.n. observers a 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. is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie venezuelans will vote on april the fourteenth to decide who will take over from the later which obvious commandante jordi a long battle with cancer about ascent 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 roughly video agency was also there. vice president nicolas maduro was 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 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 that 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 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 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. for washington the death of its most vocal critic in the lead in america could mean a shot at increasing its influence there but professor miguel tinker of salads and experts on the region says the u.s. will be better off keeping 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 ambassador 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 egyptians to liz file interrupted on saturday after court upheld twenty one death sentences given to people blamed for being behind last year's stadium massacre in ports a while acquitting. neither side was satisfied by the verdict and their anger immediately spilled into the street three people lost their lives in clashes in cairo as a mob torched and attacked buildings across the capital and that includes property

imports say where the army charges were on friday protests were quick to restart including attempts to blockade ferries crossing the suez canal truce following the crisis for. security had called to use is a powerful reminder of the past five days of bloody clashes between protesters and security forces in bits to quell unrest a day ahead of the. tench 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 in this in the middle the government has got an army 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 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 she replaced them on the city's 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 ice instances 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 spicey founder of the green eagles ultras put saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse in their counterparts in cairo he believes the death sentence is off the proof the city is being targeted toward site

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 port syeed the military for their part to maintain they are protective peaceful force and that put side 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. skill eight acts of civil disobedience and two 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 puts. say up to date on news from edge it with bells twitter feed new details comments

and opinions from locals on the crimes are there and other reaction when getting questions over why egyptian current troubles are gang 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 democratic force but rather as what it is so it seems like the whole verdict is politicized and it's just just a way to manage the country's political crisis rather than to bring about justice. out twenty one un peacekeepers have been released by their syrian rebel captors

after being held for three days militants handed the observers over to jordan after you a recovery team stopped short of reaching the captives are these middle east correspondent policy or reports. the peacekeepers crossed into jordan on saturday afternoon after having been captured back on wednesday the rebels themselves moved the hostages off to a u.n. team inside syria was prevented from doing so because of heavy fire slicer in the area now the un secretary general ban ki moon has welcomed their release but he has said that all sides in the conflict must respect the united nations impartiality what we do know is that the peacekeepers were held in the village of john miller which is about ten kilometers north of jordan by a group calling itself the martyrs brigade it is important to point out that those who want to learn the laws on armed they were initially taken hostage as human shields and that is according to the initial statement that was made by the rebel faction that captured them the rebels demanded that syrian government forces pull

back from a nearby village and clearly stated that they were holding the u.n. team to ensure that the rebels wouldn't be shelled by government forces it was only off to the united nations international officials the heads of the syrian opposition as well as the free syrian army condemned the hostage taking that the rebel faction backtracked on that statements and said that the peacekeepers were so-called gifts they also at that stage dropped all preconditions for they release what this does do is that it highlights the fact that the opposition is becoming increasingly radicalized the armed rebel force consists of numerous groups like the ones that took the security team hostage and what we see is that these groups are not coordinated and they don't only answer to a central rebel political and military command in this case clearly the rebel chiefs had not been warned about this hostage taking in advance and they only intervened after the hostages were taken it is an unprecedented incident it is the

first time that u.n. workers have been taken hostage inside syria it is also stoking fears that foreign countries which are supporting the rebels are in fact supporting people. could turn against them as we saw in this case and there were also growing fears that weapons being smuggled to the rebels from aboard could be turned against the united nations or anyone else all of this coming as the united states and its allies all beefing up support to the opposition which is demanding that the waste stall open the army been to key in the gulf states already an edge of the arming the rebels and has been doing so for the past two years of the conflict watching our team coming up later in the program the drama and infighting the bolshoi. leading down at the store theatre is in custody after admitting to masterminding in a town which disfigured the company's artistic director after acid was thrown and his face plus. what having a home becomes a luxury soaring prices are forcing berliners out of their houses take

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welcome back you're watching our teen our top dancer the bolshoi 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 pollard major chunk of claim he didn't order filling to have acid thrown in his face to sell his dancer and the two man he paid about fifteen hundred dollars to carry obvious sold could get up to

twelve years in prison for the crime philip was attacked on january the seventeenth in the center of moscow he was nearly blind it is now undergoing extensive treatment in germany were it's hoped his eyesight can be restored to major chunk of started as many villains during his career the latest being the role of ivan the terrible and it's thought he had had a number of disagreements with his artistic director one reportedly involving the dancers girlfriend a ballerina at the bolshoi and the way still in hand at the leading roles at the theater artisan attainments reporter martin andrews says that infighting and threats are a sad reality of show business. in the front of the theater 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 there are bitter about the faded korea it's it's not an easy world to be in 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 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 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 black swan that cloud that's absolutely what is live 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 every day life and sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it they reality is somewhat different. now the cia welcomed its new chief this week asked president obama's former top counterterrorism advisor took over the confirmation came after carter verse and capitol hill as republicans stole john brennan's candidacy in fiery exchanges is notorious 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 without 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 attacked mandate is too vague and lacks transparency in 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 this statement again you know sort of their past history they've been pretty liberal and how they choose to define time when it suits their interests and this is saying that. 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 north korea's reaction to further u.n. sanctions as you insist it will pursue nuclear weapons and the way the country also officially scrapped a hard line and a non-aggression pact with the south this week saying washington and so are responsible for ruining nuclear disarmament talks thursday's u.n. vote tightened financial restrictions on the north expanding asset freeze on 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 tests and rocket launches have all failed to deter yeah martens role from the korean friendships o.c.a. sions s. trying to be political in the pan and has its price. it's clear that the united nations and the security council particularly is interested only in maintaining the current balance of world 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 and that of the north koreans who've been pursuing peace ever since the armistice agreement was signed well we can expect is that the united nations will continue to fully 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 that's the only 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 i reckon john is putting him his foot down and saying that's not going to be able to continue without some kind of response that's only reasonable since the d.p. r. k. asking the world to treat it with dignity in order to have peace with dignity now it's a german capital by more and more germans are moving out of their land as their income can't keep pace with housing costs i'll respond to it all over looks at this forcing it out of their homes. poor both sexy. lin's men 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 makes. 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 but sexy however times are changing the new a measuring 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 lin 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. thanks people see an apartment in berlin as a good way to preserve the value of their savings but what about the claims that the real estate boom is stealing and sold. 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 the multiculturalism that makes berlin what it is this new housing developments are

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. berlin. channel printed annual national people's congress in beijing this week are sharing in a new generation of communist party leaders among the aims of the continued and still unparalleled economic growth as well as a major boost to military spending which i asked for professor steve from nottingham university says washington's push towards asia is partly to blame for beijing's focus on defense the new chinese president xi jinping is a much more self-confident confident assertive and nationalistic person out there called we're likely to see a china much more assertive in the next ten years in terms of what is described as

the american pivot back to asia the chinese see these as a major change in american policy that is directed against china as an investor then act and therefore the chinese are trying to. undermine american rebalancing and it is also the reasons for the double digit increase in china he's military spending. 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 a report online about a dangerous degree. plus tens of thousands rally in tokyo saying that a world without nuclear power would be a better place to live. the traditional british find could soon become in the last five years the tax on every beer served has gone

up so much pubs are going out of business and scores are for three ports from one community that's found an unconventional way to keep their only bar up and running . something is brewing in britain within the budget around the corner beer is set to rise again a third of the cost of a pint already goes to the tax man campaigners have said enough is enough and are calling for a freeze for six drinkers hanging around chen challenge as much as drinkers in germany so will you just be right to hold. a hold on the book increase the charge yessica and keep down the cost for pubs every time zero tradition in person but fully understand their appeal we have to go three hundred miles from london here to hesketh new market a village in the heart of england's countryside and steeped in history ten years

ago when the only problem is but it is put up for sale the people who live to a rather than risk seeing it fall into the hands of a big chain and if you meet character the side it's this something a little bit different and take matters into their own hands. together and pull the pub turning it into a co-operative believed to be the first of its kind in the u.k. the pub wasn't about money but it does turn a profit but even here the big d.t. hikes are felt every time. the reason it's another. makes it to the right around the corner and the microbrewery that supplies the pub is also a co-operative that is doing well in the u.k. smaller brews pay half the taxes the major companies best kidney markets being lucky a mixture of good business sense and strong community spirit has been the brewery

and the pub have avoided the slide caused by the big g.t. escalator across the u.k. they and many others haven't been say lucky well big businesses can afford to pick up the tax tab it's small. independent pubs that suffered in the last four years nearly six thousand pups have closed is opening in tens of thousands of job losses in the very last section was the only woman to sleep during most of them are actually going against the trend not falling sales will be gradual you know here increase in sales with. many times the prices the service will tend to be a proper. role for their school was a big strain serving something to still love you know it's an individual basis in an environment like that which are some of the world's largest. and beyond profits it's the risk of losing a petition institution this pretty things that she's savoring thoughts crossing so

what this is mark is a community it brings people together. it's more of a difference between social networking and meeting something real life there is no substitute for this kind of triviality the old crowd might be unique in britain these days harking back to a time of community that many of us have now the gulf in but it's a reminder to be a voice some traditions a best preserved surf ality has kidney market in cumbria. well next on our team we take you to brussels to delve into the rarely exposed ugly side of european politics stay tuned.

did any of you see darth vader and storm troopers trying to make their way into the ukrainian justice ministry as part of a protest well probably a lot of you saw this fun viral video but how many people remember what exactly they wanted and what their protest demands were all about probably not that many trust me i just did it using wacky protest tactics gets media attention and if you are pushing a cause that media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or why you're in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protest a culture and language like you see people protesting they're so satisfied with themselves and 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.

people don't understand what the european union is they don't understand how it's governed they don't know who the people who are running it but they know that they were chosen by the people and so. when they see the results are less than perfect they say who do we blame and they don't know who to blame because they don't know who these people are.