rating the piggyback delays a decision on whether to impose an e.u. and i.m.f. plunder the nation's bank accounts. russia slams the proposal as unfair and dangerous with some experts saying if the tox is brought in moscow may have to rethink its help for ailing europe. state of denial the u.s. military maintains there's no mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay for more than one hundred detainees are reported in starving themselves in a protest of mistreatment. no war or peace we also what washington and its allies have left behind in iraq as more deadly bombings marked the ten year anniversary of the u.s. led invasion.

you are watching live from moscow it is four pm in the russian capital. the parliament in cyprus has delayed until tuesday a decision on whether to allow an oil out which will cost its citizens millions of . everybody will have their cash taxed if it goes through a plan called product over the weekend with people emptying a.t.m. machines fearing that life savings could be plundered correspondent test our city reports on the implications finance ministers as the and the international monetary fund had agreed upon a ten billion euro bailout for the country on the condition that this bank tax bank deposit tax be imposed now this could amount to up to nine point nine percent of those who have more than one hundred thousand euros in the bank good for many people there it's their entire life savings that they have that are they feel are now in trouble and the panic that has been stirred over the weekend people trying

to get money out of the cash machines but electronic transfers have been stopped and the machines have been running out of money and people there are calling this essentially unfair unjust and simply robbery their their savings being taken away from the president of the country however have has been painting this acceptance of the bailout as crucial for the country says that if. this requirement is not passed then the country will might be forced to get out of the euro of the euro zone area and therefore some people feel that the country has really been put in a position where it has no choice but to accept everything that has be handed down by brussels by e.u. leaders by the meetings that they have here as far as the people are concerned again they really see this as as infringement for what is supposed to be there and this is unprecedented in the sense that this is the first time that a requirement for a bailout is actually actually means dipping into the personal savings of citizens

and this is the first time it has happened officials here say that this is not going to be a precedent that is not going to be a trend whatever already there is among the e.u. citizens whether. or not this lying there red light that they thought would never be crossed has actually already been crossed and if we look again at what may be the biggest factor in disrupting the very fabric of the european union is this kind of social dissatisfaction iscar kind of a protest from the people where they are where they are not happy with the kind of decisions that their leaders are making as it directly impacts the very quality of their lives or the aftershocks of the proposition have been felt in other countries inside and outside the eurozone tom barton has the details. on professional and dangerous were the words that putin used through his spokesman about this tax on deposits in cyprus that would be necessary for that ten billion euro e.u. i.m.f.

loan russian banks russian businessmen and exceptionally rich russian individuals hold a disproportionately huge deposits in cyprus given the country's size the exact number of billions is estimated to be above ten but the exact number could be far higher it's very hard to establish it's partly because of that reason that the e.u. wanted a tax to try and distribute the burden equally and to avoid money laundering there are reports in the greek media that the russian state energy giant gazprom proposed its own bailout to cyprus in return for energy exploration rights around the island but it was turned down because cyprus wanted to solution from within the e.u. all of this does raise questions about the future of russian deposits in cyprus about whether this tax will hurt more investors all the banks that hold their

deposits if those deposits are withdrawn it also raises questions over a two point five billion euro loan given by russia to cyprus which may itself not be extended. well global markets on as patrick young says the use of proposition to encroach on personal as well as foreign bank deposits deeply in danger is the banking system of the euro zone and the european union have looked at the altar all cyprus situation and said a huge swathe of deposits here come from people outside the european union and whether they've done it entirely cynically or whether they've done it entirely consciously we can never be absolutely clear but there certainly looks to me to be a lot of politics behind this move essentially the euro zone the european union have said who can we manage to take a haircut from that are actually not our citizens not our voters or not our beleaguered banks who are largely incompetent that also is a terrible precedent to set because ultimately any banking system is reliant upon

foreign deposits and all foreigners whether they're russian corporate russian oligarchs or whoever they are it matters not one iota because the whole point is that from today on people will be aware that there is a precedent for burning investors who want to hold the ural well we're also closely following the tensions inside prison on our website at r.t. dot com that's where we're asking what you think will come out of the controversial deposit levy and out so far this is how your votes coming in you can see it here fifty one percent the majority believes forcing savers to pay for the bank's mistakes will only cause social unrest that's in the blue thirty two percent in the purple expect a chain reaction of bank runs leading to the collapse of the less of you you can see twelve percent blame the floor hiro's own system saying the cash will only offer a short term solution and this hour the minority has faith in the debate a tax to bring stability to the island state r.t.

dot com is where you can tell us what you think. despite mounting media coverage and legal appeals the u.s. military continues to deny a mass hunger strike is underway at guantanamo bay lawyers for more than one hundred detainees say they've been starving themselves for over forty days in protest at the desecration of qur'an by prison guards one grilled bayati a guantanamo spokesman defended the facilities policy kept in a row but duran says get mo is committed so that he and i quote safe legal humane and transparent treatment of detainees here earlier claimed only fourteen captives are refusing all food with some of those being force fed to prevent starvation. the story around the closure of guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since he brahmas to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way in january two thousand and nine when obama was inaugurated he ordered the facility

to be closed within a year and burned to certain into regression methods after the us government admitted torturing some of the detainees but in me the same year the u.s. senate refused to fund the closure until the president provided more detail as to what he would do with the prisoners in mid october appear the situation changed as congress allowed some detainees to be moved to the united states for prosecution but at the end of two thousand and ten congress approved the defense spending bill which prevented u.s.b. straus for guantanamo detainees and in january two thousand and eleven hopes a bomb would keep his campaign promise dimmed further when he signed the defense of the resume bill which ruled out shutting one tunnel b. down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for guantanamo detainees a move seen by many as a complete reversal of its previous policy while in december of two thousand and eleven the president feels to veto the national defense bill believing the way for

prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the prison finally in july last year the pentagon announced its plans to forty million dollars fiberoptic cable from guantanamo bay to the u.s. mainland not exactly a sign of washington is planning to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center earlier we spoke to former guantanamo bay guard brandon nearly who admits he took part in the abuse of detainees the army veteran says the u.s. has only created more terrorists through its actions. facility is a lot better but speak guards have been there over the last few years all the dream inside as far as the internal reaction force team and the way the crown is treated in a stuff like that not much has changed maybe the outside is changed but the inside hasn't changed too much are people forget that these people have been cleared for release by not only the obama administration but also by the bush administration and they're going to be into definitely healthier who was along they don't know

when they're going to see their families again or where they're going to go i think the fact that they don't know what's going to happen it you know is it makes them and this is their only one form of protest they have this to go on richard and the fact is that when whoever open the campaign started open guantanamo knew them would be a hero and that was wrong but it was it was illegal meaning it was a violation of human rights and the fact is it has to be closed the fact is will never bring them into a federal court system because a lot of information they have gotten as mindy to have been have gotten out of the use of torture so they can it's on the missile a federal court system well we dropped the ball we have a system here and we have the opportunity to show the world that arse still and our way of life actually works when we dropped the ball in newnan and we've created more terrorists and enemies around the world than we could ever imagine while stay without a for our in-depth coverage of the alleged mass hunger strike on town of my bay we've got all the details of the mainstream media is missing and there's more opinion and analysis of the story on our website altie dot com. still ahead for you

this hour europe's last dictator on sensitive. policy speaks exclusively to the president of bell ringers who dismisses western criticism saying he's as devoted to democratic values as the next person. plus a tiny indigenous community buses an all meat of bulldozers as we have the story of the bedouins in israel who refused to meet the hundreds despite them having been razed to the ground dozens of times.

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you're watching on t.v. live from moscow the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of iraq has been greeted by a series of bombings which have left at least ten people dead in two thousand and three washington unleashed its shock and or air strikes aiming to rid the country of suspected weapons of mass destruction and to topple saddam hussein a decade later arguments persist over whether anything was achieved artie's ganja khan investigates. that there is no greater cost to war than shatter human lives the u.s. invasion into iraq resulted in the deaths of almost two hundred thousand iraqis according to various estimates the deadly metals released by bombs and bullets continue to kill. in fallujah more than half of all babies who were conceived after the start of the war were born with birth defects the infant mortality rate there is disturbing. on the u.s. side the war took the lives of four thousand four hundred eighty six soldiers when

you talk a country the size of iraq everyone knows someone that was killed. in the states when you're here less than one percent of people participated in the war so at this point most americans have turned that off it's as though it didn't happen ten years of death and destruction and it says though in this country we're done with that we've moved on and it's difficult if not impossible for any veterans and iraqis to move on from ten years of death and destruction the most recent study puts the total cost of the war at two trillion dollars that the u.s. the authors of the reports say the country will continue to pay and over the next four decades that cost could reach six trillion dollars but on top of the human loss and dollars spent there's also been a political price to pay for american credibility and influence went down well runs went up and we're still living with the consequences of this ten years later the

law of unintended consequences are you know polar moment ended when we went into baghdad but we didn't know it from the berlin wall to that time we destroyed the earth like a grand colossus and i have to that it's all been very different colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell at the time of the invasion says you would like his change the way the world sees the us people look at what we do they do not. judge us by our rhetoric our rhetoric is high and lofty and we talk about human rights and human dignity and freedom and democracy and what do we do we mount a war of aggression on iraq kill a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up majorly including the region much of what is happening now is a result of what we did in the right with the world looks at that and they say this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely in the leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the head today and many of those who cheered for the iraq war

because on t.v. shows and then their memoirs struggle to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took yes history will hold them responsible and render some sort of indictment but there is no accountability for people who make grievous errors in high office in the united states were the united states of amnesia as gore would also actually said the tendency to forget and to move on could prove dangerous was new war talk brewing in washington with many of the same people who pushed for the iraq war answer now pushing to drag america into another conflict in the middle east and number of being fighters from the bush administration have come out and said the desire to topple directly government trumped all other considerations at the time of the invasion there was no credible intelligence that saddam had weapons of mass destruction or ties with al qaida and yet the administration wanted to invade at all costs what we see from these policy makers today are just different shades of denial in washington i'm going to check out. policy advisor fugs hudson

says iraq is riven by warring factions making it hard for any kind of peace to be achieved. the problem is that prior to the invasion there really was a difficult situation already the no fly zones in force by the british u.s. and french military and a very difficult sanctions meant that iraq prior to the invasion was already in a very poor state and so it's hard to say it remains in a very difficult situation one interesting point to note though is that a recent gallup survey in iraq said that the people gave the message that basically i thought the place was small secure and now when the u.s. forces were present and great a number of people should know that there are still many u.s. contractors they have so it's not as though there is zero presence the united states and many people still see that as a presence which they want to fight against also iraq already was a very divided nation you have could you have synergy of many different minorities

who are necessarily happy with each other or with the prevailing leadership. for news junkies can always head to our website for lots more stories including iran's launching a new domestically built missile destroyer to guard interests in the caspian sea marking its first heavyweight presence in the oil rich region also. venezuela's acting president nicolas maduro says the cia on the pentagon want to kill his upcoming election rival and pin the blame on him much more on a website called. looking

for its place in the sun and wanting to live as a normal civilized european state now the goals that president alexander lukashenko has for the future of belarus as he told r.t. in an exclusive interview does europe's last dictator freely admits he won't give up power lightly denied speculation is younger son would succeed him as president the president of the former soviet republic has been repeatedly criticized by western states for violating human rights and oppressing the opposition to his hit back saying his democracy is just as good as that found in europe or the us. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus. very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to convince my western partners in order to be a dictator like stalin one has to have the resources of what resources of paramount you need to understand that i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have

as much oil as hugo chavez did. venezuela no no i have as much natural gas as russia number two and so on and so forth do i have so many people as china does one point five billion people know the words in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources economic social military relation and so on but we have none and i am being objective about it i am telling you that we have no claims of global importance and don't see ourselves so we major global problems we don't have the resources to do so what we want to do is find our place in the sun and live as an average civilized european state that's all i want so i ask for dictatorship i say to them you're very lucky to meet europe's last dictator alive in person we remember it is that something you probably won't see again. some of that world

news in brief this hour dozens of people have been detained in the egyptian capital their self the fierce clashes broke out in front of the muslim brotherhood headquarters hundreds were protesting against assaults on journalists with police firing tear gas in an effort to disperse the angry mob egypt's been engulfed by violence ever since the two thousand and eleven revolution and the ousting of its long standing president hosni mubarak. has been a suicide attack on a court complex in the northwestern pakistani city of peshawar two suicide bombers attempted an attack on the combat compound on the shot however the second managed to detonate his explosives at least three people were killed and many more injured no group has claimed responsibility is on the edge of pakistan's a volatile tribal region. in somalia's capital a car bomb her portal in targeting senior government officials has left at least ten civilians

dead the vehicle exploded as it passed by the presidential palace sparking fires in nearby to rooms in a minivan market issues security has been tight ever since the two thousand and eleven military offensive ousted islamist rebels from the city however bombings are still common. the new israeli government will be sworn in later following weeks of horsetrading prime minister benjamin netanyahu his likud alliance teamed up with three other parties to form a cabinet then yahoo was forced to turn his back on traditional orthodox allies and they now find themselves in opposition for the first time a decade where there is already some speculation that the coalition is delicate at best one group with a vested interest in the direction of the new government or the inhabitants of a rural bedouin village these homes have been bulldozed forty seven times by the or thora teased or slayer looks at the david and goliath struggle there's not much here but what there is within now was destroyed.

part of an israeli plan to rid the negev desert of its speed when residents. had if they even demolished if a thousand times i will rebuild them as long as i'm alive i will keep struggling i will not give up. well living in fear over time whenever somebody calls us and says they're bulldozers in the main street we take all our stuff outside the tent and take it to the cemetery and now they're threatening to demolish the cemetery. the iraqi village has become the focal point of tel aviv's plans it started with the first demolition more than three years ago and since then most families have relocated to neighboring towns but women we're not afraid we're waiting for them to come again. a steadfast few who live near the threaten symmetry wait to rebuild

their homes after the bulldozers leave there is a lighter side to the story residents here have asked the guinness book of world records to enter them as the village that has been demolished the most times in history forty seven and counting. nearly half of the big one population of the negative around ninety thousand people live in forty five villages and recognized by the israeli government they don't appear on any map and have no official signs marking their existence when they're not being torn down they're being torn apart through the government's refusal to provide sewage systems roads electricity water schools or hospitals but television says it's ready to change that if the bedouins move to recognize villages it promises to provide them with basic services and compensation. they are living on lions that belong to the state israel is a country of law and institutions when you claim land belongs to you should be able to prove it through legal papers the better ones don't have these papers so it's

very hard to accept claimants. but shaikh saya alto he disagrees he says his ancestors are buried in a cemetery where graves stayed back at least one hundred years. but we have paper strongly in one thousand and five we paid taxes for this land from the year one thousand twenty one until nine hundred forty seven but we have papers are british. nineteen twenty nine and we even have papers from the year of nine hundred seventy three signed by israel itself all these papers prove that the land belongs to us. these weighty government is expected soon to possible that will see more than twenty and make it nice to build when villages destroyed and some fifty thousand bedouins displaced about two thirds of the land is threatened with confiscation the government trying to organize their vigilance against their will that the bed was pretty fair to live in are going to go to the villages to brazil a bit of living and to brazil of their own culture it's only

a matter of time before the village gets demolished for the forty eighth time and the people living here hope for more than just the guinness book of world records will take note quality r.t. i will keep village in the negev desert. well up next here on say peter lavelle and his guests and gauging some heated debates on what could be on the agenda barack obama's upcoming visit to israel that's next stay with us. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but now america funding

segregation elsewhere via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between. passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines israeli human rights group but selim said the attempt at bus segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just

my opinion. been living this way since the seventeenth century. during coups and strict. their communities on.

the clearly distinguish between their. and the alien. and guard their family in thing. go. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle u.s. president barack obama is about to visit the state of israel the first time during his time in office the so-called peace process we're told is not on the agenda so what is the real purpose of the visit around syria to cope with what i call the great unraveling in the arab muslim.