mike's culture the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to conjure report on. the day's news in the week's top stories here on r.t. inheriting the revolution a new venezuelan leader will be chosen next month on questions mantei over foreign influence an oil rich nation in the death of its longtime president hugo chavez. last fall out boy in clashes engulfed egypt the courts confirmed death sentences and announced new penalties for participants in last year's deadly football riots with the growing unrest highlighting concerns over military rule in the country. and a ballet dancer from the bolshoi theater is facing twelve years behind bars for planning an attack which left his boss nearly blinded party goes behind the scenes to examine the dark side of life in the spotlight.

and i welcome you watching our take them to you live from moscow venezuela has set the date to pick the successor to the late president hugo chavez who died from a heart attack following a two year battle with cancer on choose day the election will take place on april the fourteenth and will determine whether his revolutionary vision will live on there's a feeling from artie's video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas. vice president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so. take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who. is the main opposition. who have called the swearing in as. hugo chavez personally appointed. the man but 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 actions and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that bad 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 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. among the crowds you know we've been there quite a lot over the last few days and one of the most popular. is that my daughter the people are safe when he was sworn in in the national assembly that were very emotional 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. well leaders from around the globe and thousands of venezuelan mourners gathered to pay their late their respects to the late commandante on friday but while there was grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington president obama said chavez's death has opened a new chapter for venezuela hoping for better relations with the nation investigative

journalist pepe escobar says the u.s. will struggle to win over the venezuelan population. in fact obama's message was a bit ridiculous you know he said that we're going to stand united with the venezuelan people what kind of people busy mean does he mean that the people who elected and reelected chavez in thirteen out of fourteen democratic elections or does he mean these people who go to new york and miami to trade martinis endemol nice job isn't a job used as evil dangerous communist this is ridiculous the most important thing in my opinion chavez in terms of a political leader he was always that referring to an international revolutionary tradition from out said to me. he was like a nailed fruits of geopolitics of modern geopolitics bigger than now was in fact because of the war and almost all the iraqis that participated and the same is why

this is the morning edition of chavez the even boston or indeed who grow believe especially in the u.s. first of all venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world so the united states and european union they can say all you need this law forcing all you need is love to those ghastly petrol monarchies in the persian gulf but even as well i believe there often is well a decided to use the oil wells the benefit of the lower classes but as well this is something unheard of in the persian gulf. another verdict sparking another riot in egypt saturday's court ruling to uphold twenty one death sentences over the portside stadium killings lead to a further round of violent clashes the death penalties were for last year's deadly football riots during

a match between cairo and portside based clubs another five life terms were also handed down the announcement sparking unrest in both cities three people died in ensuring clashes in the capital with angry crowds torching police and football federation buildings huish crowds also vented their frustration in port side which had already seen protests leading up to the verdict bell trail is following developments for our take. to court 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 got an

army needs or the rights of the people and those who have been killed poured so you'd is not going to be more secure with the real drawl of the police but it won't help us at all the ports are you doctor says 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 military replace them on the city streets there was initial optimism but that all changed after the court's decision the atmosphere changed on saturday when the verdict confirmed that twenty one people will face the death penalty and a further five or serving life sentences residents here. they say that the army will not protect them as the local authorities bowed to pressure from the capital at a funeral for protesters killed during recent clashes and the spicy founder of the green eagles ultras saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force

against local demonstrators treating them worse than their counterparts in cairo 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 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 saïd the military for their part to maintain they are protective peaceful force and that portside protesters have not been singled out they say police are merely responding to the level of violence from those attacking key government buildings meanwhile on the banks of the suez canal protesters burn tires to prevent boats from docking 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 saeed. al is monitoring the situation in egypt on twitter so you can follow her for the latest details on what is happening on the ground meanwhile two senior police officials also received fifteen year sentences in that latest ruling while seven of seven others walk free is that which caused much of the public and cry political activists in a good believes that some interior ministry officials are actually the troublemakers . 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 were scapegoats hence the issue escalates on the streets more because this is nothing but a political fiasco rather than. a real court proceedings where 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 plan those are 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 loyalists to the mubarak's he's not been doing so on the country 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 present that we've got in tease for the political process to resume fairly. syrian rebels have released twenty one un peacekeepers after holding them captive for three days in the golan heights the filipino observers were transported to jordan instead of being handed over to a u.n. team and as artie's paul asli reports the hostage crisis highlights concerns over radical elements in syrian opposition groups who could be benefiting from western and arab state support. 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 fighter 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 jamila which is about ten kilometers north of jordan by a group calling itself the martyrs brigade it is important to point out that this unit was unarmed 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 after 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 guests they also at that stage dropped all preconditions for their 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 steering team hostage and what we see is that these groups are not coordinated and they don't believe onset to a central rebel political and military command in this case clearly the rebel chiefs have not been warned about this hostage taking in advance and they're 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 are also growing fears that weapons being smuggled to the rebels from abroad could be turned against the united nations or anyone else all of this coming as the united states and its allies are beefing up support to the opposition which is demanding that the west stop openly arming

them turkey and the gulf states already allegedly arming the rebels and have been doing so for the past two years of the conflict. well stories ahead for you including the bolshoi theater by soloist in custody for planning an attack on his boss which he claims was more violent than expected also ahead north korea officially ends i normally gresh. up tensions in the region after rejecting a fresh round of u.n. sanctions. and skyrocketing property prices in the early in the driving away from their homes we look at the changing face of the german capital after the break. something extreme cold just a chilling threat. if it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in my body feels really warm. and

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do we speak your language was anybody worn out of the. programs in documentaries and spanish what matters to you. the alternative angle is stories. here. troy. find out more visit eye. color welcome back now a bolshoi theatre ballet dancer is facing up to twelve years in prison for masterminding an attack on his boss pavel dmitrichenko is in custody along with two others involved in the assault charge when inflicting grievous bodily harm the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet sergei filin was nearly blinded after

having acid splashed in his face in moscow in january he's now undergoing extensive treatment in germany at the pretrial hearing earlier this week pavel dmitrichenko claimed although he did order the assault he didn't intend it to be an acid attack on the soloist dancer allegedly paid about fifteen hundred dollars to carried out his thought he'd had a number of disagreements with his boss the dancers girlfriend a ballerina at the bolshoi complained about being rejected for leading roles at the theatre artie's entertainment reporter martin andrews told my colleague matt trader about the ugliest side of the artistic world. 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 in the skull and they all want to be at the top of their game and tensions are always high in 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 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 beast and she was 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 play out that's absolutely what is live with the black swan film not important it 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 sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it there reality is somewhat different. north korea has demanded an apology from its neighbor in the after so was threat to vanish north korea from earth the secluded nations says it considers the statement an open declaration of war this follows pyongyang's official nullifying of a norm on aggression pacts and scrapping a hotline to seoul in an angry response to the latest round of un sanctions imposed this week the tit for tat exchange started on thursday when the u.n. adopted a resolution tightening financial restrictions on north korea pyongyang responded by threatening the u.s. with a preemptive nuclear strike to which washington said it's ready and could prevent such an attack rules imposed by the security council following previous nuclear tests and rocket launches have all failed to pyongyang martin doul from the careen

friendship association says that washington's golden boy tactics limit the chances of disarmament dialogue was. clear that the united nations and the security council particular is interested only in maintaining the current balance of world germany and isn't interested in independent nations acquiring you brought it on themselves even in the face of the lack of any kind of peace treaty which is of the fault of the united states government notably north koreans who've been pursuing peace ever since the armistice agreement was signed all 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 sure they don't like the fact that north korea is asserting itself in world politics and who is not really playing word games with nobody they're not practicing preparing with other countries therefore on their own for self-defense and that's off that's on auction it's an 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 his foot down and saying that's not going to be able to continue without some kind of reach far out 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. course in space a small russian spacecraft made a big bang struck by remnants i think commission chinese. marking the second such space collision in history the report on the cosmic garbage odyssey on our website also on line for the. history may not be carved in stone theory makes the ventilation suggestion that the prehistoric monument was originally a graveyard and a venue for mass celebrations to unify the great story britain discover more on our .

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that i welcome back president obama's top counterterrorism adviser has taken the reins is the new cia chief this way despite the best efforts of some republicans many demanded more information about whether or not john brennan drone policy and targeting of american citizens on home soil a former guantanamo bay prosecutor says the unmanned attack mandate has been made to deliberately vague to give it more leeway to the government. 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 to this statement and again answered by their past history they and pretty liberal and how they choose to define time for 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. meanwhile the us to savannah claims this week it was behind february trying 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 him he's to blame this comes as an alitalia pilot told controllers on cheese day he had spotted a mysterious unmanned craft as he was flying towards new york's j.f.k. airport globalization expert mark mason thinks the increasing availability of trains will make the 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 really to be small in terms of drones so this morning we don't have the information but what we do know with certainty is that drugs that you're going to

be billable not only to governments but to individuals and they will diversify in terms of their innocent size are going to be made u.s. air force has already announced it's going to be making drones that are the size of insects that can assassinate people so these this technology is here. turning to some of today's world news now the afghan president hamid karzai has accused the u.s. of polluting with the taliban in secret talks in cata the group officially suspended discussions over a year ago calling american statements shaky and erratic the afghan government has been pushing for the taliban to return to the negotiating table in an attempt to pacify mounting tensions before u.s. nato troops pull out in two thousand and fourteen on saturday two suicide bombs went off as the new american defense secretary arrived in kabul to meet government officials. falkland islanders have until tomorrow to cast their votes in an

historic referendum over the island sovereignty they are to choose whether to remain a british territory or not diplomatic tensions have been rife between britain and argentina who claim ownership over the islands for more than three decades recent exploration activities have revealed the territories may be hiding large unexploited of fossil fuels. and these crowds in japan a marching against atomic power on the eve of this tsunami disaster second anniversary tens of thousands turned out more than one hundred fifty nationwide events demanding that japan turns its back on nuclear power a deadly tidal wave and tremors which struck japan in twenty eleven killed over fifteen thousand people and brought the fukushima power plant to a devastating. since the unification of germany berlijn has been changing rapidly but the way it's developing now is worrying many of its residents rental

prices are soaring forcing many locals to move out sections of the berlin wall are being removed to make way for property development on prime real estate artie's peter oliver took to the streets of berlin to track the trend. who are both sexy. lin's men lovingly described his city. now some berliners feel this way of life is coming under threat there isn't here in italy if you keep hearing from his group 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 of the and victor it 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 of this and. 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. what is 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 a major in 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 your.