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parroting the revolution new venezuelan leader will be chosen next month while questions mount about foreign influence in the oil rich nation following the death of its longtime president hugo chavez. violent clashes in egypt after the courts confirmed death sentences for. growing unrest and concerns over military rule in the country. and thousands gather across germany to show their opposition to the use of nuclear energy in the two year anniversary of the fukushima nuclear disaster upon us.
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from the bolshoi theater is facing twelve years behind bars for planning an attack which nearly blinded his boss goes behind the scenes to examine the dark side of life in the spotlight. you're watching news review with me welcome to the program. but as we set the date to pick a successor to the late president hu who lost a two year battle with cancer on tuesday with action will take place on april fourteenth and will determine whether his vision will live on is a feeling for marty's abruptly video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas. 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
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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 f.m. said that he hopes that. continues to deepen the ties between russia 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. 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
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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 to my shop as his heritage will only help to deepen our partnership with the majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people while the countries that have relations with them as well as you say and there was no attempt to influence that 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 safe when he was sworn in in the national assembly that was very emotional crowd support for him and he announced that he has 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 and thousands of venezuelan mourners gathered to pay their respects to the late
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commandante on friday but while there was grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington as it is going to change the town reports . 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 says. 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 chavis family and heralded quote a new chapter in the history of latin america but the u.s.
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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 left wing. regimes around the hemisphere which is financed in their campaigns and and other aspects but before america jumps at the
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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 daniel ortega 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 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
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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 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 now provides fifteen percent of american oil imports and with signs of 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
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reaching using the same old tactics the hostility could be playing in washington i'm kind of chicken. bomb body of hugo chavez will rest on public display in the glass crystal casket acting president nicolas maduro said it's for his people who always have been close to heart but he really is enjoying popular support with many hoping he can preserve the chavez legacy and also has a good chance of becoming the next president despite being up against the u.s. backed opposition that's according to political analysts agents. will be official list candidate and his stance of certainly stands a very good chance of reelection especially with the country's emotional state right now but chavez had a huge enemies within winner's circle for a lot of the more important outside of venezuela so unfortunately united states in the first instance of all countries such as israel and other countries in the west in western europe will do all the cash to support the opposite of
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a really strong speech and we could have these problems came in second in the presidential elections and who would definitely have all the financial political media support of the global power structure against mr mothered us the chavis can be. another verdict sparking another riots in egypt saturday's court ruling to uphold twenty one death sentences of the portside stadium killings to a further round of violent clashes there and all too easy for last year's deadly football riots to match between cairo and portside based clubs another five life terms were also handed down to denounce and sparking an outcry in both cities three people died in the ensuing clashes in the capital where i agree crowds torched football federation buildings florentines had already been struggling to maintain security in port side and saw
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a week of deadly violence leading up to the verdict the army has taken over security in the city with at least seven people now reported killed well true is following developments for us in. court so i got to 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 withdrawal of the police but it won't help us at all the ports are you dog misters are supposed to be in the street taking care of the country that's what we asked for with the police leaving
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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 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 also. nice sentences 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 he spicy founder of the green eagles culture is 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 toward side has been persecuted for the last thirty years and president mohamed
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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 très 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 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 puts. but is also monitoring the situation in egypt on twitter you can follow her for the latest details of what's happening on the ground. now to senior police officials
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also receive fifteen year sentences in that latest ruling seven others walked free and it's that's which cause much of the public outcry political activist says some interior ministry officials are the real 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. court proceedings where the people want is
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a fair trial 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.
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or much more ahead including the story of the bolshoi theatre ballet soloist in custody planning an attack on his boss he claims was moved violently expected also . head to the polls to vote on whether to remain a british group territory to argentina viewing it as a meaningless publicity stunt from the opinion of a u.k. m.p. it's in a private. bus atomic altima tens of thousands of protesting japan's use of nuclear power in the two year anniversary of the fukushima nuclear disaster after the break we examine why the country is reluctant to choose a different energy source. the
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i. welcome back here with r.t. now 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's continued use of nuclear power has been a cause of discontent among many in japan well tens of thousands of protesters gather the cross the country to march against you on sunday for the prime minister is about they're considering activating something that is a deadly tidal wave and tremors killed more than fifteen thousand people watching the release of radioactive material nuclear security experts matthew accounts he says that has been backed into a corner due to over reliance on energy imports. the 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
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japan at this very moment is in 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 the cost of energy in tucker alone rose by about eight point five percent and the figures that have been created recently by the it's a tutor of the 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. now
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the people of the falkland islands are holding a two day referendum whether to remain a british overseas territory u.k.'s hoping for international backing in its dispute over the audience with argentina should the majority say yes one is are as pows is the polls saying it has no validity of 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 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 while 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
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of its former imperial past just simply refuses to do it and that's unacceptable i didn't danger's 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 that now we have more stories for you on our website and the u.k. human trafficking is he talking numbers the government appears to be turning a blind eye to the problem and to r.t. dot com for the full story that. last surely natural disaster prevent brokers from getting into work in new york city stock trading will continue its under the ambitious contingency plan of replacing traders computers more details head to our
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web sites. now both short theater ballet dancers facing up to twelve years in prison for masterminding an attack on his boss puddle demitra chain career is in custody along with two others involved in this old charge with inflicting grievous bodily harm on the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet showing film in the was nearly blinded to having acid splashed on his face in moscow in january he's now undergoing extensive treatment in germany without the pretrial hearing earlier this week the church anchor claimed he did order the assault well he didn't intend it to be an acid attack salty it had a number of disagreements with his boss but his girlfriend ballerina complained about being rejected for some leading roles artie's entertainment reporter martin andrews told my colleague not treasure about the ugliest side of the artistic world . in the front if you see a beautiful production but really the drama backstage is i think it's everyday life
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in a production house and that's what it is it's a factory from from the problems with the understudies from the problems because thing from the problems of of of management who were dancers they were bitter about their faded career it's not an easy world to be in and 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 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 beast and shins between the theatrical ballet world would escalate into violence and obviously as we see with the result. that happened in january it happens and
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this may reduce it down to a level of a cliche but we have this blockbuster movie black swan that clown that's absolutely what it's like with the black swan films a lot of the 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 they reality is somewhat different. but all of our international headlines for you now in brief greek british and italian authorities believe that seven international hostages being held in nigeria have been killed or kidnapped by the un sorry 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 for joint british nigerian military attempt to rescue the prisoners william hague the british foreign minister has condemned the deaths as cold blooded murder.
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can president hamid karzai has accused the u.s. of colluding with the taliban as washington held secret talks in qatar while u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has denied any negotiations with you but taliban officials to strengthen discussions were going all year ago calling american statements shaky under the rhetoric the afghan government has been pushing for the taliban to return to the negotiating table an attempt to pacify a mounting tensions before the u.s. that troop pullout into the fourteen on saturday two suicide bombs went off as the new american defense secretary arrived in kabul to meet government officials. 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 reports the hostage crisis highlights concerns over radical elements in the syrian opposition groups who could be benefiting from western and
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arab states 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 fighting 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 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
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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 gets 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 securing 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 had not been warned about this hostage taking in advance and they only intervened after the hostages were taken it is an unprecedented incident it is the first time that u.n. workers have been taken hostage inside syria it is also stoking fears that foreign
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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 all beefing up support to the opposition which is demanding that the west stop openly arming them tookey in the gulf states already allegedly arming the rebels and have been doing so for the past two years of the conflict for us there reporting that well coming up after the break parenting in prison me takes a look at the lives of young women whose babies and their first years you know institution rather than the nursery stay with us for that.
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the month before the oscars and what annoys you with their predictions and the most 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 awards show what part does the asker's 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 them and 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 it 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
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a world where only the bottom line cal take 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 and it's very bad for visual effects and video game artists but that's just my opinion. well i wouldn't say that is life it's difficult that is deprived of something he has everything that he needs he gets medical care and he's given an upbringing he stayed well and what's more his mother is with him i haven't robbed him of anything .
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