inheriting the revolution the new leader will be chosen next month questions mount over foreign influence in the oil rich nation the death of its longtime president hugo chavez. clashes in egypt tops the confirmed death sentences for participants in last year's deadly football riots growing unrest highlighting concerns of a military rule in the country. tens of thousands gather cross japan to show their opposition to the use of nuclear energy in the two year anniversary of the fukushima nuclear disaster. and the ballet dancer from the bolshoi theater is facing twelve years behind bars for planning an attack which his boss goes beyond the scenes to examine the dark side of life in the spotlight.

watching the weekly live from moscow a roundup of the big stories of the last seven days on kerry. but his waiter has set the date to pick the successor to the late president who who lost a two year battle with cancer on tuesday election will take place on april fourteenth will determine whether his resolution vision will live on. from artie's ruptly video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas. president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so elections take place some voices in the opposition to believe the man who. is the main opposition m.p.

. who have called the swearing in. 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 that 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 bad many outside powers he would like to see and. among many condolences coming from inside 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 my hope in the following election battle mourning the

loss of venezuela and its friends including russia we have to look forward. only helped to deepen our partnership with the majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people. or the countries that have relations with them as well 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 and i thought other 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 president and he said that the stash that he was taking belonged to. well embalm the body of hugo chavez will rest on public display in a glass crystal cost it well leaders in the thousands of venezuelan mourners gathered to pay their respects to the late commandant and on friday while there was

grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington was artie's going to town of course. 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. this 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 child his 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 u.s. leftist leaders in south america good riddance to this dictator in the media a slew of hundreds 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 venezuela did moves away from chavez's 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 look in nicaragua chavez 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 cool with the help of the military and vast popular support chavis returned to power by during that short period when he was the post 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 senator policies could provide more for years after the coup chavez said expressed his anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors yet as to who is 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 black america washington continues to deal with the reaching using the same old tactics the hostility could be playing in washington

i'm kind of. washington maybe hoping the death of its most vocal critic in latin america will result in an increase of its influence but professor. is an expert on the region since the us we'd better off keeping a low profile should be 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 we're going to see a very heated election and any intervention on the part of the us 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. 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 tryna match between cairo and courtside based clubs another five life terms are also handed down with announcement sparking an outcry in both cities three people died in the ensuing clashes in the capital angry crowds torched football federation buildings and storage is had already been struggling to

maintain security in port side which saw a week of deadly violence leading up to the verdict the army has taken over security in a city with at least seven people now reported killed well true is on developments for r.t. . 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 just forgotten 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 drawl of the police but it won't help us at all the ports are you dog was theirs are supposed to be in the street and the 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 the tension between protesters and the police has been high since last year's riots and when the military replaced 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 panel. and a further five or seven ice instances residents here say that the army will not protect them as the local authorities bowed to pressure from the capital that's a funeral for protesters killed during the recent clashes and the spicy sound of the green eagles culture is put saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse my counterparts in cairo he believes the death sentences are further proof the city is being targeted towards a side has been persecuted for the last thirty years and president mohamed morsi is

keeping the status quo created by the last regime of the president wants to wrong the people of portside and instead satisfy the cairo old tribes or widespread across the country now there is a risk of everyone being racist towards portside the military for their part to maintain they are protected 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 boucherie for r t. well that is also monitoring the situation in egypt on twitter can follow her for the latest details of what's happening on the ground. to senior

police officials also receive fifty year sentences in that latest ruling seven others walk free and it's that which caused much of the public outcry for political activists when he says 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 our 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 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 the real guarantees for the political process to resume fairly.

well much more ahead including the story of the boss saw it fit to have bought a soloist in custody for planning an attack on his boss which he claims was bought and expected. also coming up on in the head to the polls to vote on whether to remain a british troops have a treaty with argentina viewing it as a meaningless probably this is the start of going to be a pain in the u.k. and later in the program. an atomic aftermath of tens of thousands are protesting japan's new civil nuclear power and two year anniversary of the fukushima nuclear disaster and after the break we examine why the country is reluctant to choose a different energy source. as power was the envy of ambrose. never put his trust in anyone and

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. welcome back you're with. japan is marking the two year anniversary of one of the darkest days in its history it was march twenty seventh when an earthquake and tsunami triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster the country has continued use of nuclear power has been a cause of discontent among many in japan for tens of thousands of protesters gallop across the country against nuclear power on sunday because the prime minister shinzo had been considering reactivating some reactors a deadly tidal wave and tremors killed more than fifteen thousand people with a new lease of radioactive materials you do security experts matthew mccaskey says that japan has been backed into a corner due to over reliance on energy imports. be 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 a very bad position when it comes to its economy and its dependency on fossil fuels from overseas there is us many as much as about eighty percent of it that is imported energy being imported into dependency on oil from overseas is certainly a very very dangerous game. we can just have a look at what happened last year during summer two thousand and twelve power breakage is in talk the amount of cotton ball 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. estimate that as much as around four hundred twenty thousand jobs could be cut if japan was to phase out

all its nuclear energy. the people of the falkland islands are holding a two day referendum on whether to remain a british overseas territory u.k.'s hoping for international backing in its dispute over the islands with argentina should the majority say yes but when a star is opposes the polls saying it has move an entity british m.p. george galloway agrees saying the u.k.'s claims are rooted in its colonial past these are settlers the majority of them were not born on the falklands they have been said 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 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. george galloway there well we have more stories few on our website in the u.k. human trafficking is hitting shocking numbers but the government appears to be turning a blind eye to the problem head to r.t. dot com for the full story there. should any natural disaster prevent broca's from getting into work in new york city stock trading will continue to be ambitious

contingency replacing traders with computers with details head to our website. or both scheuer feared ballet dancer is facing up to twelve years in prison for masterminding an attack on his boss' demitra chain career is in custody along with two others involved in this old charge with inflicting grievous bodily harm we artistic director of the bolshoi ballet surrogate fillin was nearly blinded after having acid splashed on his face in moscow in january he's now undergoing extensive treatment in germany and the pretrial hearing earlier this week for me to change claimed he did order this sold that he didn't intend it to be an acid attack is thought he'd had a number of disagreements with his boss was girlfriend ballerina complained about being rejected for some leading roles what is entertainment reporter martin andrews

told my colleague not treasure about the ugliest side of the artistic world. in the front seat 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 and obviously the rivalries between companies with 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 there but other kind of scandals well there is this it's called drama for a reason if a year ago stravinsky's rite of spring was postponed and in fact one of the dances that. she was actually said that she was threatened by various people and she she actually went over to canada in fear of her life in fear of that it would escalate

these tensions between the theatrical ballet world would escalate into violence and obviously as we see with the result. that happened in january it happens and this may reduce it down to a level of a cliche but we have this blockbuster movie black swan that claim that's absolutely what it's like 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 everyday life and sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it they reality is somewhat different. some other international news in brief now. greek british and italian authorities believe that seven international hostages being held in nigeria have been killed they were kidnapped by the extremist group in the north of the country last month workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines were visually killed in retaliation for

a joint british nigerian military attempt to rescue the prisoners william hague the british foreign minister has condemned the deaths as cold blooded murder. justice in azerbaijan has been caught in an onslaught of rubber bullets and go to trial inspired by police as they marched against the practice of hazing in the army a protest is one of many spot rather sudden death of a soldier and general accounts going to initially announced a heart attack as they also will be opening an investigation other soldiers have since been arrested. verses from it karzai has accused the us of colluding with the taliban as washington held secret talks in qatar meanwhile u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has denied any negotiations with the group the taliban officially suspended discussions over a year ago calling american statements tricky and rhetoric the afghan government has been pushing for the taliban to return to the negotiating table an attempt to

pacify mounting tensions before u.s. troops pulled out in twenty fourteen on saturday two suicide bombs went off as the new american defense secretary right in kabul to meet government officials. at least fourteen people have been killed and thirty eight injured after a passenger bus veered off a shrouded highway in southern peru the accident occurred at dawn as the bus was traveling from the beach resort city come on a regional capital. police say the bus driver appeared to have lost control of the vehicle causing it to plunge off the cliff falling two hundred meters. north korea. has demanded an apology from its neighbor in the south off the souls threat to vanish north korea from earth and seclude nations says it considers the statement an open declaration of war this follows prong yang's official nullifying of all non-aggression pact and the scrapping of a hotline to seoul under 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 congress sponsored by threatening the us with a preemptive nuclear strike which washington said it was ready and could prevent such an attack rules imposed by the security council on a previous nuclear tests and rocket launches failed to curb north korea martin drolet on the korean friendship association says washington's bullying tactics the chances of disarming dialogue. clear that the united nations security council particularly is interested only in maintaining the current balance of the germany isn't interested in independent nations acquiring you've already defined themselves even in the face of the lack of any kind of peace treaty which is of the fault of the united states government. through 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 all of those which really just shown 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 not practicing or sharing other countries they're on their own for self-defense and that's off joy like to join actions 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 this far out it's only reasonable since the d.p. r. k. asking the world to treat it with dignity in order to have peace with dignity. well coming up after the break or examine it joseph stalin is mysterious death stay with us have.

the month before the oscars and what annoys you with their predictions and the month after everyone complains about the results but it is a big talked about much as the few hundred people who gathered to protest the glamour filled award show but why protest they are askers you ask. well although the film life of pi won the oscar for best visual effects effects to you that made the movie look so amazing were the men hughes has filed for bankruptcy quickly after the film's release you know that seems like a bit of a discrepancy i mean the group that made the best visual effects in the world in two thousand and thirteen is flat broke how can that be this reminds me of how the lead creators of call of duty modern warfare two were let go directly after the release of the game which to date is the eighth highest grossing video game of all time this was done supposedly to dodge paying them the royalties that they you know

earned through hard work the problem is that we live in a world where only the bottom line count making as much profit as you possibly can damn the consequences it's just good business practice they say well it might be profitable but it's bad for society as very bad for visual effects and video game artists but that's just my opinion. sixty years ago there was only one person who could write down to the kremlin spend . it on with sis one one five soviet limousine he had any umbrella would envy. this come belongs to joseph stalin driving home from work was no simple the first of the leader stalin you.