inheriting the revolution a new venezuelan leader will be chosen next month while questions mount over foreign influence in the oil rich nation in the death of its longtime president. bottom clashes engulfed the top of the court's confirmed death sentences for the dissidents in last year's deadly football riot bring on rest and sons of a military rule in the country. tens of thousands gather across japan to show their opposition to use of nuclear energy in the two year anniversary of the fukushima nuclear disaster. the ballet dancer 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 want to. be with me carrie johnston welcome to the program. and venezuela has set a date to pick a successor to the late president hugo chavez who died from a heart attack following a two year battle with cancer on tuesday election will take place on april fourteenth and will determine whether his revolution vision will live on is the feelin for martys ruptly 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 know to believe the man who is the main opposition. who have called the swearing in. hugo

chavez personally appointed. the man but he wanted to succeed him and of course hugo chavez the late president has immense popularity and by the way the russian f.m. has said that he hopes that. continues to deepen the ties between russia and venezuela and he's also said that he hopes that russia will respect the outcome of venezuela and actions and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that bad being many outside powers he would like to see. among many condolences coming from inside and outside venezuela but 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 fall of an election battle mourning the loss of venezuela and its friends including russia we have to look forward and

i hope chavez's heritage will only help to deepen our partnership the majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people. for the country's elections with them as well as you say 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. is that my daughter the people are safe when he was sworn in in the national assembly that was very emotional crowd by doing their 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 and he said that the stash that he was taking belonged to. opposition leader. has officially confirmed he will run for president in the forthcoming elections compete against the man who has hand-picked as a success and durham journalist eric margolis who's been writing extensively on

venezuela says another kind of this can bother the charisma of the lately. he's an anti charisma and it compared to. chavez superabundance of charisma he's a very dull figure as a former bus driver he really doesn't. do the other leaders of the. party so that's not sure and experience tells us that sympathy is a very important factor in elections women leaders guy who woke up realize thing as far as you know in his mother's apartment in new york city. and he's obviously the candidate favored by the u.s. which i think will be putting a lot of effort into trying to get him elected and trying to defeat the socialists in venezuela but again he's not a very popular figure either and he's a governor of a small state and his loyalties are suspect by some as well. the

opposition needs a stronger candidate right now we don't have. the embalmed body of who got chavez will rest on public display in the glass crystal coast it's well lit isn't thousands of others where the mourners gathered to pay their respects to the late commandant till friday while there was grief on the streets of caracas it was a different tone emerging from washington so it is going to change the kind of courts. 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 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 the only guards and the

empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the new 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 carol that 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 hundreds embarked on a search for new opportunities that might now be available for the us 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 venezuela that moves

away from chavez is foreign policy means a venezuela that's worse 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 in 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 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 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 signs of policies could provide more years after the chalice that expressed his anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors yet as to where 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 put in washington i'm going to shut down. another verdict sparking another riot in egypt saturday's court ruling to uphold twenty one death sentences over the portside stadium killings there to a further round of violent clashes the death penalties were for last year's deadly football rights during a match between tyler courtside based clubs another five life terms are also handed down a denouncement sparking an outcry both cities three people died in the ensuing clashes in the capital where hundred yards torched information buildings were thought it

had already been struggling to maintain security in port side and so weak and deadly violence leading up to the verdict the army has taken over security in the city with at least seven people now reported killed while true is following developments for r.t. . ford 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 port so you'd 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 i'm up taking care of the country that's what we asked for with the police leaving there will be chaos now the people will have to secure the city themselves tension between protesters and the police has been high since last year's riots and when the military replace them on the city streets there was initial optimism but that all changed after the court's decision the atmosphere changed on saturday when the verdict confirmed that twenty one people will face the death penalty and a further five hundred seventy. since it says 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 founder of the green eagles ultras saeed's pickle fund says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse than 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 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 true for r t. but it's also monitoring the situation in egypt on twitter you can follow her for

the latest details of what's happening on the ground there. and to see police officials also receive fifteen year sentences not the latest ruling or seven others walk free and if 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. 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 is nothing but

a political fiasco rather than. court proceedings where the people want is a fair trial for our those who are you know 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 very 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 boat so i think it's about the west in custody for planning an attack on his boss which he claims was movado and then expected also coming out focalin dot and head to the polls to vote on whether it's we're going to shoot an interest in argentina viewing it as a municipal place to start bringing in the u.k. later in the program. japan is marking the two year anniversary of one of the darkest days in its history this march twenty level 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 at all times across the protesters gathered across the country against something the prime minister shinzo abbott considering restarting some reactors in the hard way from tremors killed more than fifteen thousand people using the release of radioactive. experts are now in the

task he says john has been backed into a corner over the nuns 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 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 and 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 now the people of the falkland islands are holding a two day referendum whether to remain a british overseas territory u.k. is hoping for international backing in its dispute over the islands with argentina for the majority say yes well as our as opposes the polls saying it has no validity the british m.p. george galloway agrees so you case that 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 well most of them are british and the 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 an echo 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. we have more stories for you on our website today in the u.k. human trafficking is hitting shocking numbers but the government appears to be turning a blind eye to the problem it's already dot com for the full story that. any

natural disaster prevent brokers from going into work in new york city stock trading will continue that some of the ambitious contingency plan of the place in trade is computers more log on to our websites. the bolshoi theater ballet dancer is facing up to twelve years in prison for masterminding an attack on his boss. is in custody along with two others involved in the assault charge with inflicting grievous bodily harm on the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet's feelin was nearly blinded after having acid splashed in his face in moscow in january he's now undergoing extensive treatment in germany now the pretrial hearing earlier this week dmitri junker admitted he did order this old that he didn't intend it to be an acid attack and thought he'd had a number of disagreements with his boss and his girlfriend ballerina she complained

about being rejected for some leading roles ati's entertainment reporter martin andrews told my colleague i'm not sure about the ugliest side of the artistic world . if 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 dancers 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 and the skull and they all want to be at the top of their game and tensions are always high in fraud and this isn't the first time we've had these sort of things happen right now. this is certainly is very severe but there been 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

. she was actually said that she was threatened by various people and she she actually went over to canada in fear of her life in fear of that it would escalate beast and she was between the theatrical ballet world would escalate into violence and obviously as we see with the result. that happened in january it happens and this may reduce it down to a level of a cliche but we have this blockbuster movie black swan that play out that's absolutely what 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 it's sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it they reality is somewhat different. president obama's top counterterrorism advisor to the reigns as a new cia chief at this week is not the best efforts of some republicans and he

demanded more information about whether or not john brennan's drone policy was targeting of american citizens on home soil a former guantanamo bay prosecutor says the unmanned attack mandate has been made deliberately do you think it's a good move the way to the government. the way it's worded it's left room for interpretation it clearly is only limited to the u.s. and to american citizens i think they let a lot of wiggle room in the way that they were at the statement and again they're certainly their past history day and pretty liberal and how they choose to define terms when it suits their interests and this is saying that you know the law permits the president to carry out attacks basically whenever and wherever he chooses on anyone but they refuse to release the legal analysis that explains how they interpret the law. well some other international news in brief for you now greek tradition a time of thought to leave several international hostages being held in nigeria

have been killed or kidnapped mother and son of the extremist group in the north of the country last month the workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines were legibly killed retaliation for a joint british nigerian military attempt to rescue the prisoners william hague of the british foreign minister has condemned the killings as cold blooded murder. on the suspects and i gang rape of a female student on a new delhi passes find themselves in prison i'm saying and five others are accused of raping a twenty three year old girl who is traveling home with a male friend died of injuries and sparking outrage across india just as called for death sentences for all the suspects urged the government to combat violence against women. afghan president hamid karzai has accused the us of colluding with the taliban as washington held secret talks in qatar and while u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has denied any negotiations with

a group of taliban officials suspended discussions of a year ago quoting american statements shaky and the rhetoric the afghan government has been pushing for the taliban to return to the negotiating table and attempt to pacify mounting tensions before the u.s. led troops pulled out in twenty fourteen on saturday two suicide bombs went off for the new american defense secretary rather than kabul government officials. these fourteen people have been killed and thirty eight injured after a passenger bus veered off a fork for that highway in southern peru the accident occurred at dawn as the bus was traveling from the beach resort city come on to the regional capital keeper police say the bus driver peter lost control of the vehicle causing it to plunge off a cliff falling two hundred meters. the protesters in azerbaijan have been caught in an onslaught of rubber bullets and water cannons fought by police as they

marched against the practice of using only protest is one of many spot where a sudden death of a soldier on general principle is crucial announced a heart attack was the question we were gradually over your investigation for other soldiers since been arrested. the great british pint is struggling to survive and is in danger of running dry due to rising taxes duty on beer is going up by two percent above inflation every year forcing brits to pay up to ten times more than some europeans what campaigners say freezing the tax would save thousands of jobs and help preserve beloved boozers nazi sarah firth reports on why there are fears that calls for last orders could soon be permanent. something is brewing in britain with the need budget around the corner beer is set to rise again a third of the cost of a pint already goes to the taxman campaigners have said enough is enough and are

calling for a freeze for drinkers hang around ten times as much as drinkers in germany so. just be right to hold up. hold on the increase. pumps over time old tradition in person but fully understand their appeal we have to go three hundred miles from london here to hesketh new market a village in the heart of england's countryside and steeped in history ten years ago when the only problem is but it is the sale the people who live to a rather than risk seeing it fall into the hands of a big chain and if you need character decide it's this something a little bit different matters into their own hands. together and pull the pub turning it into a co-operative believed to be the first of its kind in the u.k. the pub wasn't about money but it does turn a profit but even here the g.t.

hikes are felt every time. it's another. round the corner and the microbes that supplies the pub is all. that is doing well in the u.k. small approved pay half the taxes the major companies has kidney markets been lucky a mixture of good business sense and strong community spirit has been the brewery and the pub have avoided the slide caused by the big g.t. escalator across the u.k. they and many others have to say lucky big businesses can afford to pick up the tab . small independent of that stuff in the last four years at least six thousand pups that closed resulting in tens of thousands job losses in the area while section is the only woman to sleep doing well at the moment for the city going against the

trend not falling sales will go gradually on here increases as we can realize i guess many times the prices for service will tend to be a proper pogues. growth in their school was a big strain serving something just to log in a certain individual basis in an environment where you can reach up to somebody who will torture. and beyond profits it's the risk of losing a point this institution is pretty things that just say bring your crossing so what this is like is a community it brings people together people. it's more of a difference between social networking and meeting something real life there is no substitute for this kind of conviviality the old crowd might be unique in britain these days talking back to a time of community that many of us have now the gulf but it's a reminder to be a voice some traditions a best present sarah aleksey has kidney market in cumbria. well

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