day's news the week's top story smarty inheriting the revolution a new venezuelan leader will be chosen next month while questions mount over foreign influence in the rich nation after the death of its one time president a good chap it's. also football for violent clashes in goal for egypt the courts confirmed death sentences announced new penalties for participants in last year's deadly football right the growing unrest highlighting concerns over military rule in the country. from the bolshoi theater is facing twelve years behind bars for planning an attack which left his boss nearly blinded behind the scenes to examine the dark side of life in the spotlight.

this is the weekly live from moscow it's a round of the big stories of the last seven days and first of all venezuela has set the date to take the successor to the late president hugo chavez who died from a heart attack after a two year battle with cancer and choose state elections now set to take place on april fourteenth and will determine whether his revolutionary vision will live on losing feeling for marty's ruptly video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas this is the latest from. president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so elections take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who is the main opposition. who have called the swearing in. for hugo chavez. the man that he wanted

to succeed him and of course hugo chavez the late president has immense popularity and by the way the russian f.m. has said that he hopes that. continues to deepen the ties between russia and venezuela and he's also said that he hopes that russia will respect the outcome of venezuela and that elections 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 and. he said he was mourning this loss and that he had never been his enemy but his rival i think is a very respectful attitude and i hope in the following election battle mourning the loss of venezuela and its friends including russia we have to look forward and i hope chavez is only help to deepen our partnership with the majority in venezuela

one shop at his policies to continue. 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 that my daughter the people are safe when he was sworn in in the national assembly that were very emotional crowd gauging their support for him and he announced that he just to continue the revolution he was very emotional he was in tears as he took the presidential sash and he said that the sash that he was taking belonged to. the above body of hugo chavez and the rest now on public display in a glass crystal casket leaders from around the globe and thousands of venezuela mourners gathered to pay their respects to the late coming friday but while there was grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington he's going to teach you the story. and.

millions of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of. the venezuelan leader enjoyed tremendous popular support in his country as well as the whole region he won four presidential elections and had ruled venezuela for fourteen years so you see this liberation process not only on the venezuelan people but also of all the latin american peoples must continue. chavis allowed us to restore faith in latin america region so that a profound transformation in the region can be carried out that's the only guards and the empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the news empire is the word a host of south american leaders and used to refer to the united states in washington president obama extended his sympathy to the chavez family and herald it quote a new chapter in the history of latin america but the u.s. congress was not as restrained in their reaction to the death of the venezuelan leader the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee had this to say his death. to us leftist leaders in south america good riddance to this dictator

in the media a slew of pundits embarked on a search for new opportunities that might now be available for the u.s. in venezuela. so what does this mean now for the united states and all that oil in that country venezuela is a place of enormous opportunity it has by surveys perhaps the largest reserves of oil in the world from the u.s. point of view this has enormous potential implications because a venezuela that moves away from chavez is foreign policy means a venezuela that's less welcoming to iran less friendly to russia less friendly to castro's cuba less friendly to leftwing regimes around the hemisphere which is financed in their campaigns and and other aspects but before america jumps at the chance to explore those new opportunities it might be useful to look back at what washington's previous efforts led to. what the u.s. now calls leftist populist governments in latin america came to power partly in

reaction to decades of the us recklessly meddling in the affairs of the region for years washington had seen many of those countries as its outposts after chavez was elected in one thousand nine hundred nine a host of other leaders in latin america followed his example to varying extents including but not limited to ever morales in bolivia rafael correa in ecuador and then a lot there in nicaragua charges may not have been as hardened in his views against washington if not for allegations of the tacit support of the bush administration in the coup against him in two thousand and two he met with bill clinton a couple times and they got along just fine it was really only with george bush then when things really were turned sour and especially after the coup attempt within forty eight hours of the start of the cool with the help of the military and vast popular support chavis returned to power. but during that short period when he

was deposed some in the us hurried to celebrate the new york times for example ran this article venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by would be dictator caracas name provides fifteen percent of american oil imports and with standard policies to provide more for years after the coup chavis it expressed this anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors i did it to one of the other the devil came here yesterday. and it still smells of sulfur here george w. bush has long left office but suspicion and mistrust remain some argue if during these challenging times for latin america washington continues to deal with the region using the same old tactics the hostility could be playing in washington i'm going to. washington maybe hoping the death of its most vocal critic in latin

america is going to result in an increase of its influence but professor i'm a girl tinkers selous is an expert on the region told us the u.s. to be better off keeping a low profile right now during the election campaign. washington that would be we 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 as hostility towards venezuela it 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. next another verdict another riot sparked in egypt saturday's court ruling to uphold twenty one death sentences over the poolside stadium killings and to further round of violent clashes the death penalty's with last year's deadly football riots during a much between cairo import sides based clubs another five life terms are indeed handed down as well with the announcement sparking an outcry in both cities three people died in the ensuing clashes in the capital where angry crowds torched police and football federation buildings and the authorities already been struggling to maintain security in port side which had seen a week of deadly violence leading up to the verdict the army indeed taking over control of security in the city with at least seven killed well troops following all these developments for us for a. gutted security headquarters is

a powerful reminder of the past five days of bloody clashes between anti-government protesters and security. 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 the demands this is in this in the middle the government has forgotten our main needs the rights of the people and those who have been killed portside is not going to be more secure with the withdrawal of the police 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 seven nice sentences residents here 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 on the spicy sound of the green eagles ultras saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse than my counterparts in cairo he believes the death sentences off the proof the city is being targeted towards side has been persecuted for the last thirty years and president mohamed morsi is keeping the status quo created by the last regime the president wants to wrong the people of portside and instead satisfy the cairo old tribes who are widespread

across the country now there is a risk of everyone being racist towards portside aid the military for their part to maintain they are protective peaceful force and that point. 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 ducking saying they were 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 portside. also monitoring the situation in egypt continually on twitter you can keep up to date with see what's going on the ground of course by following up there and we turn to senior police officials received fifteen year sentences in the latest ruling while seven others walk free and it's that indeed the cause of much of the public outcry political activists are told me 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 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 fan service 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 lowest 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 n.t.s.b. for the political process to resume fairly. twenty two forty moscow time more stories ahead fuse me kevin owen including a bolshoi theatre ballet soloist in custody tonight for plotting an attack on his boss which he claims was more violent than expected we follow that up also to

foreclosed on his head to the polls to vote on whether to remain a british ruled territory with argentina view that was meaningless in a published at least we've got opinion of a u.k. m.p. and his right after this break. these children. they're serving a search. just like their mother. little ones born in prison. now almost for the crimes committed by their parents. kill babies on our teeth.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images from world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. well again this is artane of people for condolence holding a two day referendum on whether to remain a british overseas territory the u.k. is hoping for international backing in its dispute with the islands with argentina should the majority say yes one is areas that opposes the polls saying it's got no validity british m.p. george galloway agrees saying the u.k.

claims are rooted in its colonial past and are outdated. these are settlers the majority of them were not born on the falklands they have been sent there by the british to establish a colonial claim and the days of that belong in the eighteenth and maybe even mid nineteenth centuries not in the twenty first so i'm afraid the sovereignty does not lie with the people of the falkland islands because most of them are british and british cannot dictate what happens tens of thousands of kilometers away in the south atlantic those days are long gone but britain beating its chest in the echo of its former imperial past just simply refuses to do it and that's unacceptable i didn't dangers our interests in latin america which is one of the few parts of the globe that is economically thrusting ahead and we are prejudicing fatally our

interests and our reputation in latin america by continuing to attempt to hold on to this appendage of british colonial rule. bolshoi theater ballet dancers 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 will inflict inflicting grievous bodily harm the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet sergei filin was nearly blinded after having acid splashed his face in moscow in january he's now undergoing extensive treatment in germany at the pretrial hearing earlier this week pavel dmitrichenko claimed that he did order the a soldier though he says he didn't intend it to be an acid attack it sorted out a number of disagreements with his boss while his girlfriend a ballerina complained about being rejected for some leading roles artie's entertainment reporter martin and bruce told my colleague treasure in the week about the ugliest side of the artistic world. in the front of the fifth 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 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 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 or 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'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 but we have this blockbuster movie black swan that cloud that's absolutely what is live with the black swan film nothing portman it 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 they reality is somewhat different. so it seems dramas above us to on a collision course in space so a small russian spacecraft made a big bang of it was struck by the revenues of decommissioned chinese satellite marking the second such space collision in history we brought you that story in the week and we're reporting on the cosmic garbage odyssey online as well just going live also online to stonehenge is history may not be carved in stone. new theory

makes the revolutionary suggestion that maybe the prehistoric monument was originally a graveyard in a venue for mass celebrations that in its day unified the role of prehistoric britain interesting read that one on our website tonight. 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 now as artie's paula slayer reports the hostage crisis highlights the concerns of a 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 fighters 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 those who were insolent 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 gifts 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 security team hostage and what we see is that these groups are not coordinated and they don't really onset 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 the 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 him 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 they from enough 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. this is our team making headlines right now great british an italian authorities all believe seven international hostages being held in nigeria have been killed they were kidnapped by the sorrow extremist group in the north of the country last month the workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines were allegedly killed in retaliation to a joint british nigerian military attempt to rescue the prisoners william hague the british foreign minister has condemned the deaths as cold blooded murder. testers in azerbaijan have been caught in an onslaught of rubber bullets and water cannons fired by police as they marched against deadly hazing in the army the protests is one of many sparked by the sudden death of a soldier back in january the defense minister initially announced a heart attack as a cause of death before then eventually open an investigation for the soldiers have since been arrested. the afghan president hamid karzai has accused the us of

colluding with the taliban in secret talks in katter up the group officially suspended discussions over a year ago calling american statements shaky erratic the afghan government's been pushing for the taliban to return to the negotiating table in an attempt to try to pacify mounting tensions before u.s. nato troops pull out in twenty fourteen on saturday two suicide bombs went off as the new american defense secretary rived in kabul to meet government officials. crowds gathered across japan to march against atomic power on sunday the eve of the tsunami disaster is second anniversary tens of thousands turned out that 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 caused the meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant releasing radioactive materials. the u.s.

rubbished claims this last week that it was behind february drone strikes in pakistan that killed up to nine people the. comes as no alitalia pilot though reported on choose day that he spotted quote 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 drones is going to make the misuse even greater. the report was made to its planes 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 point we don't have the information but what we do know with certainty is that drones are curates recording to be available not only to governments but to individuals and they will diversify in terms of their midst and know its 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 an intercept that can assassinate people so these this technology is sheer. on the one hour parenting in prison a look at the lives of young women whose baby spend the first years in a hospital colony instead of a nursery so next program to help. 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 when we 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 mr obama just read anything put in front of them so they even really know the realities of the tiriel their reading and their speeches and who are deeply versed on some subject and 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.

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