the day's news and the week's top stories from r.t. inheriting the revolution a new venezuelan leader is said to be chosen next month questions mount over foreign influence in the oil rich nation after the death of its longtime president hugo chavez. football fallout violent clashes in golf egypt after the courts confirmed death sentences and announced new penalties for participants in last year's deadly football riot and with the growing unrest and concerns too over the military rule in the country we explore that this hour. and a ballet dancer from the bolshoi theater is facing twelve years behind bars for plotting an attack which left his boss nearly blinded party goes behind the scenes to examine the dark side of life in the spotlight.

hello good evening love to have you with us if you just joined us i'm kevin though in this is the weekly live from moscow a round of the big stories of the past seven days and first venezuela has set the date to pick the successor to the late president chavez who died from a heart attack after a two year battle with cancer on tuesday the elections then set to take place on april fourteenth and will determine whether his revolutionary vision will live on the feeling from ruptly video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas this is the latest from. vice 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 personally appointed. 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 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 elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that there have been many outside powers who 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 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 chavez his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people while the countries that have relations with venezuela do the same and there be no attempt to influence their choice. amongst the crowds you know we've been back quite a lot over the last few days and one of the most popular. is that my daughter the people are saying when he was sworn in in the national assembly that was 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 stash that he was taking. belong to. the body of rest on public display no honor glass crystal casket leaders from around the globe and thousands of venezuela mourners gathered to pay their respects to the late commandant on friday but well there was grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington covering that side of it is art is going

to teach you karen. communities 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. 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 the only garson the empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the news empire is the word a host of south american leaders used to refer to the united states in washington president obama extended his sympathy to the chavez family and heralded 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 then. the 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 survey's 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 you know a lot 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 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 crew 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 u.s. 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 could provide more for years after the coup chavez said expressed his anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors. 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 black america washington continues to deal with the region using the same old tactics the hostility could be playing in washington i'm kind of

shaken. so the washington may be hoping the death of its most vocal critic in latin america is going to result in an increase of its influence but investigative journalist probably ask about old as 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 does he mean does he mean that the people who elected and reelected chavez in thirteen out of fourteen democratic elections or does he mean these are 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 referring to an international revolutionary tradition from outside to check he was like a nailed fruits of geopolitics of more than geopolitics bigger than elvis in fact

because of the war almost all directions that participated and the same is why this demoralization of chavez the even faustina and it will grow believe especially in the us first of all venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the war so the united states and european union they can say old you need this wall forcing all you need just love to those ghastly petro monarchies in the persian gulf but even as well as the leader of an israel of decided to use the oil wells the benefit of the lower class is that as well this is something unheard of in the persian gulf. next another verdict sparking another riot in egypt saturday's court ruling to uphold twenty one death sentences over the portside stadium killings led to a further round of violent clashes the best the death penalty's for last year's

deadly football riot steering a match between cairo and port side based clubs another five life terms handed down with the announcement sparking an outcry in both cities three people died in the ensuing clashes in the capital or angry crowd. torched police and football federation buildings and the authorities already been struggling to maintain security in port side two which saw a week of deadly violence leading up to the the army's taken over security know the city that least seven dead beltran's been following the developments for us to. put so i got to the security headquarters is a powerful reminder of the past five days of bloody clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in a bid to quell on rest a day ahead of the contentious verdict on last february's football riots the government removed the police and put the city security in the hands of the army activists here say a military takeover will only antagonize the situation and is an example of president mohamed morsi ignoring their demands this is. the government has gotten

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'd 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 military replace them on the city streets there was an 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 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 needs 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. mcchord 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 their 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 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 ducking saying they will escalate acts of civil disobedience and till there is a fair trial with further violence on the horizon this could be the toughest

challenge yet for morsi and his military about true for r t. for monitoring the situation in egypt on twitter you can follow here for the latest details on what's happening on the ground there. to see a place or offices and officials of also received fifteen year sentences in the latest ruling all seven of those walk free and it's that in the course much of the public outcry that about to be stuck with negative 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 and 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 found those are the true murderers 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 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 n.t.s.b. for the political process to resume fairly. much more ahead including the. custody. boss which he claims was more violent than expected and coming up to full head to the polls to vote on whether to remain a british. public opinion. right after this break. also in another story that's. coming up tens of thousands protesting japan's use of nuclear power as the . fukushima nuclear. issue. to fit all the stories in next.

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again live from moscow this is r.t. japan is said to mark one of the darkest days in its history on monday the two year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster the country's continued use of atomic power has been cause for discontent among many in japan since my c mccaskey is a nuclear security expert and visiting research fellow at the university of london i'm very pleased to say he's on the line now good evening to you wiser prime minister shinzo are on the face of it keen to restart reactors again so much public pressure. hello good evening first of all this is not necessarily

a very surprising development looking at it from the international perspective. since r r b comes from the liberal democratic party that for many years has had a very close relationship with nuclear energy but also one has to remember that japan at this very moment is in a very bad position when it comes to its economy its dependency on fossil fuels from all the scenes there is as many as much as about eighty percent of it that is imported energy being imported into japan it's arguably the world's largest importer of. the second largest importer of coal and third largest importer of oil so this is definitely from an energy security perspective a very uncomfortable position i know it's understandable and of course my view it's a billion dollar business as well isn't there i mean how much say do the people behind these plants or how much swayed to the people behind these plants over the

government. yes as i mentioned already the relationship between the liberal democratic party and. nuclear energy. companies is a long standing we have about sixty years history of that relationship and sixty years . of atomic energy use in japan but at the same time we have to remember that. dependency on oil from overseas is certainly a very very dangerous game and we can just have a look at what happened last year during summer twenty twelth power breakages in tokyo the amount of cotton while the cost of energy in tucker alone rose by about eight point five percent and the figures that have been created recently by the institute of energy economics of japan estimate that as much as around four hundred

twenty thousand jobs could be cut if japan was to phase out all its nuclear energy what about the other big messy the contamination fukushima residents threatening to sue they're saying that not enough is being done why hasn't more been done in two years to clean up the area even today now we're hearing that the fukushima power plant itself is going to take another four years to make flood proof before they can even start to remove the contamination is going on longer than people thought isn't it. yes nuclear energy is not a risk proof obviously whatever energy we use these days there are risks associated with it and nuclear energy is certainly one of them but at the same time we have to remember that the so far there have been no deaths that are such as in effect a direct effect of the fukushima daiichi disaster it's estimated at about zero to one hundred beds could be expected. in terms of the exposure that was

created but if we look at the history of nuclear energy worldwide we're talking about sixty seventy years of nuclear energy and so far we've only had a we've only had three yeah but you say only the problem is when it goes wrong it goes badly wrong that's the issue isn't it had just before you go go will. on the line matthew tepco was coming in for some heavy criticism at the time the way it handled it it was slow to handle it it didn't come out enough information it's interesting isn't it that japanese atomic corporations still enjoy liability protection when it comes to stuff like a meltdown that the worst disaster you can think of i guess that protection still continues to this day doesn't it so it begs the question are they may be as concerned as they should be a but ultimately protect the public against something like a meltdown. yes as i mentioned there are risks yes there can be deaths associated to it but even if we look at for instance charitable disaster there were only about eighty direct refs and yes the estimated number of people that died in effect of

the exposure varies between five thousand to ten thousand but if we look just across the sea into china and further down to india the amount of people that are dying from respiratory diseases due to fossil fuel burning in those countries and then the number about burning as massive these these amounts of deaths i would say still are much more problematic than the nuclear energy so far but take a point on the line nuclear security expert matthew mccaskey on the line there from london. thank you. now another big news story today the people the falkland islands are 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 of them say yes what is are is though opposes the pole says it's got no validity put in george galloway agrees with that saying the u.k.

claims are rooted in its colonial past and wrote dated. 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 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 core 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 of all show bally theater series facing up to twelve years in prison for masterminding the attack on his boss pavel dmitrichenko is in custody along with two others involved in the assault charge with inflicting grievous bodily harm the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet sergei filin was nearly blinded after having acid specially his face he remarks come in january he's now undergoing extensive treatment in germany at the pretrial hearing earlier this week pavel to be to chunk of claimed he did order the assault although he says he didn't intend it to be an acid attack it's thought he had a number of disagreements with his boss while his girlfriend a ballerina there complained about being rejected for some leading roles artie's entertainment reporter martin andrews told my colleague my treasure in the week 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 companies with a mosque and with the mets in the skull and they all want to be at the top of their game and tensions are always high and fraud and this is the first time we've had these sort of things happen right well this is certainly a very severe but there been other kind of scandals this is this it's called drama for a reason to fight 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 play out that's absolutely what it's like with the black swan film that's the 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 it's everyday life and sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it they reality is somewhat different. it seems so eleven twenty six pm moscow making headlines right now on r.t. the great british an italian authorities all believe seven international city is being held in nigeria have been killed they were kidnapped by the end sorrow extremist group in the north of the country last month the workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines religiously killed in retaliation to a joint british nigerian military term to rescue the prisoners william hague the

british foreign minister has condemned the deaths as cold blooded murder. protesters in azerbaijan been caught in an onslaught of rubber bullets and water cannons fired by police as they marched against deadly hazing in the army the protesters one of many sparked by the sudden death of a soldier in january the defense ministry initially announced that as a heart attack as the cause of death before then eventually changing all opening an investigation for other soldiers have since been arrested. shortly we'll take you to brussels have a look at the a political dark side there of the e.u. economy it's all go this is our team moscow.

did any of you seen darth vader and storm troopers 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 understand that 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 are 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 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.

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