raiding the piggy bank is a decision on whether to impose an i.m.f. plan to plunder the nation's bank accounts. the proposal is. dangerous but some experts say if the tax is brought in may have to rethink its help for ailing europe. plus state of denial the u.s. military maintains there is no mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay and more than one hundred detainees are reportedly starving themselves in protest at mistreatment . what washington and its allies have left behind in iraq as more deadly bombings strike the nation ahead of the ten year anniversary of the u.s. led invasion.

international using come in live from a studio center here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day the parliament in cyprus has delayed until tuesday a decision on whether to allow and which will cost its citizens millions of their hard earned euros every bank customer will have their cash taxed if it goes through the plan caused panic over the weekend with people emptying a.t.m. machines fearing that life savings could be plundered. reports on the implications . the e.u. 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 a 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 back and 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 them the president of the country however have 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 an infringement of 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 that 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 to whatever already there is doubt among the e.u. citizens to whether or not this line that red line that they thought would never be cross 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 this 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. to sicily reporting there will leave the room he's a london based author of a fate worse than death believes the public in cyprus could react very severely to the current plans in some ways you could say that this is actually but on one level

a prototype for how a country will timidly have to leave the eurozone entirely have to be done very quickly almost overnight with a certain sort of grab at the doors of the banks trying to make sure that the bank machines are basically switched off and then seeing the public in disarray that the following day and a huge crisis in parliament so whatever happens in terms of the the taxing and back accounts i think we're going to see this model of of how. democracies and how the the economy has to deal with a certain euro zone crisis repeated in one scale in one form or another and quite possibly on a larger scale but let's hope not. the aftershocks of the proposition have been felt in other countries inside and outside the eurozone all these top button has the details. unfair and professional and dangerous with 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 a 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 analysts petrie young says that even proposition to encroach on personal as well as foreign bank deposits risks the whole banking system. the eurozone and the european union have looked at the overall 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 corporates 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. are also closely following the tensions in cyprus on our website at r.t. dot com that's where we're asking you what you think will come out of the controversial deposit levy and so far here's how your votes have come in as you can see on their on screen there the majority believes that forcing savers to pay for the bank's mistakes will only cause social unrest thirty seven percent say they could be a chain reaction of bank runs leading to the collapse of the e.u.

less of you blame the flawed euro zone system saying that the cash will only go for a short term solution and the only minority three percent there we can see in green has faith in the debate it takes to bring stability to the line in state when r.t. dot com is where you can tell us what you think is online all the time because to hear from me. well we'll put these sort of tax proposal under the microscope in business update that's a little later with katie to tell us more katie yeah well i've just been monitoring the markets bellows you know and i can tell you is an absolute sea of red plenty of scullers amounts because the risk aversion is really taking it's really taking its toll on the markets trading floors panicking at the moment and that's because contagion that's the word of the day people concerned that the likes of a sleep in spain are really going to feel the pressure i can tell you the ibex in spain the cac in france the c. in london and right now wall street is really hello meting on those concerns also

imagine that it's being felt here in russia and that's because a lot of companies resigned in cyprus who got financials really displaying their displeasure we got spare bank down four percent the biggest lender here second biggest lender down five percent so as i say a lot of tensions are particularly the overriding feeling that the eurozone will actually intensify the concerns there so it's not a good day for the markets and certainly nothing that anyone was expecting is unprecedented and the concern is that it will follow suit and that the trend will catch on but i can tell you i'm coming up in about an hour and a half of the business but it's a full analysis and also the russia cypriot relationship and how that's going to be played throughout so i'm coming up as a business but i said about an hour and a half bill dorman that as you thanks very much indeed the turkish people being there. or despite mounting media coverage and legal appeals the u.s. military continues to deny

a mass hunger strike is underway guantanamo bay lawyers for more than one hundred detainees say they've been starving themselves for over forty days in protest of the this aggression of the koran by prison guards when grilled by our two guantanamo spokesman defended the facilities policy. captain derogate duran says that the camp is committed to the safe legal humane and transparent treatment of detainees and the earlier claimed only fourteen captives are refusing all food with some of those being force fed to prevent starvation. he was held at guantanamo for five years and released without charge dismiss that description and said a bomber is continuing with bush era war crimes. then maybe it's the bad things that happen there's a beginning is there's a systematic torture where everyone goes through where they are a. stripped out of their clothes for example and they're sometimes sexually abused physically abused like myself and others we were physically beaten up until as you

can see my right eye has been the sight in my right eye has been lost i tried to gods both in my eyes we never even were told what. a lead allegations against we were questioned for hundreds of times and we were interrogated many many times and then released without any conviction we were never convicted we never had the chance to see the evidence against us the generals have set up. around. cheney and all the other officials the lawyers who legalized torture and they justified the methods of torture and they spoken publicly and defending this kind of torture i think of course we hold all these people responsible now obama and the all the other officials that taking over there that the people there were serious crimes have committed inside them time and people don't realise their people were killed inside of them more than nine people were killed the people that

i know inmates were sexually abused they were people who have lost arms and lost limbs in amputated like of the desire some people were paralyzed throughout their lives and people lost their eyes these are serious crimes these are serious war crimes or crimes against captive people and these people have to come to justice if we let these people at large what will happen is that more across these like this would take place and they are examples of criminals committing crimes and just not paying back for their crimes. well despite pledging to shut down guantanamo during his first presidential campaign in two thousand and eight barack obama has now dropped the issue from the top of his agenda but this is drawing little are in the us where the mainstream media prefers to keep it out of the headlines and the war on terror is still marketed as reason enough to keep the camera running. recaps the failed attempts to bring guantanamo to an end. the story around the closure of

guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since he promised to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way thirst in january two thousand and nine when obama was inaugurated ordered the prison to be shut down within a year and banned some of the interrogation methods after the us government admitted torturing some of the detainees was calls another exactly since in may the same year the u.s. senate refused to fund the closure of the jail until the president provided more details as to what to do with the detainees then in mid october to appear the situation that changed when the congress approved. allowed to some of the detainees to be moved to the u.s. for prosecution but then it all you turned again at the end of two thousand and ten when the same congress approved a defense spending bill which prevented us trials for guantanamo detainees in january two thousand and eleven despite his campaign promise to close that obama

signed the defense of the relation plan which ruled out shutting guantanamo bay down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for want on a monday to nice and we've seen by many as a complete reversal of his former policies in december two thousand and eleven the president feel to veto the national defense bill being the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the camp and finally in july last year the pentagon voiced its plans to leave a forty million dollar fiberoptic cable from the u.s. mainland to guantanamo not exactly a sign washington aspiring to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center. and there's more opinion and analysis of the story on our website t.v. dot com and still ahead few this europe's last dictator of the sunset.

said i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in valerie's . party speaks exclusively to the president about the roots or dismisses western criticism saying he's as devoted to democratic values as the next person this and much more after the break. i. choose your language. we can we know if they feel some of. the consensus.

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on sunday in the south in two thousand and three washington a least it's shocking or airstrikes aiming to rid the country of suspected weapons of mass destruction and topple saddam hussein a decade later arguments persist over what anything was achieved he's got a check on investigates. there's no greater cost to the war then shattered 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's as 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 for 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 arounds went up and we're still living with the consequences of this ten years later so 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 then after 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 want 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 then 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 real. what we did in the right the world looks at them and they say this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely inept leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the hedge among today many of those who cheer for the iraq war because on t.v. shows and then their memoirs the 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 in 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 an answer now pushing to drag america into another conflict in the middle east a number of insiders 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 policymakers today are just different shades of denial in washington i'm kind of. the expert on post-war iraq. says those who believe iraq is recovering a seriously misguided. the only thing we hear is that you know iraqis are killing

themselves well nothing of the other strewed there is a budget of about four point seven billion dollars that the pentagon stands on propaganda it's not me who says it's the foundation that's from harvard university who are watching this closely they produce stories they produce fictitious stories about a blossoming democracies in iraq and so on while nothing of the streets it's held people who are there lost their relatives who are without a job who whose wife's are being taken because they cannot find husbands women who are routinely raped in prisons i mean it's it's hell it's a big open air prison for the past ten years is the biggest humanitarian manmade disaster of post world war two it's not me who says that it's good that has a few on h.c.r.

the red cross who said that eight million people are in need of urgent humanitarian help we don't know when to think about it. looking for its place in the sun and wanting to live as a normal civilized european state they are the goals president alexander lukashenko has for the future to roost says he told r.t. in an exclusive interview dubbed as europe's last dictator elevation freely admitted he won't give up power lightly but tonight speculation his youngest son would succeed him as president the leader of the former soviet republic has been repeatedly criticized by western states for violating human rights and oppressing the opposition but look at his back saying his democracy is no different from that found in europe or the us. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in bellary so that. 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 starlin one has to have the resources the resources of paramount's you need to understand that i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have as much oil as hugo chavez did in venezuela no no i have as much natural gas as russia. and so on and so forth do i have so many people as china does take one point five billion people would know that words in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources to our economic social military manipulation and so on 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 solving 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. and that interview is here on r.t. throughout the day so you can catch it later in afghanistan opposition parties of open negotiations with the taliban the move they say is motivated by the government's lack of progress in the green peace with the militant group taliban officials are insisted they're open for dialogue with the opposition especially with nato is fast approaching withdrawal next year. syrian jets reportedly attacked two rebel sites in lebanon there was some damage but so far there are no reports of casualties this followed a warning from damascus that it would strike militant sites on its neighbors territory if it did not prevent rebels from crossing the border meanwhile inside syria reports are emerging that rebel fighters a shelling damascus international airport. in somalia's capital a car bomb

reportedly targeting senior government officials left at least ten civilians that vehicle exploded as it passed by the presidential palace in nearby t. rooms and in many of the additional security has been tight ever since a two thousand and eleven military offensive ousted is miss rebels from the city however bombings are still called. the new government has been sworn in in israel for the roots of trading prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he could alliance teamed up with three other parties to form a cabinet where there's already some speculation that the coalition is delicate it best when yahoo was forced to turn his back on traditional ultra orthodox allies and they now find themselves in opposition for the first time in a decade. so that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more funa bout i thirty five minutes from now in the meantime. portrayed with the sports highlights of the past week after this break.

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first man should be a new stadium. california dreaming maria sharapova rushes caroline wozniacki to claim her first title of the year the indian wells open and returns to number two in the world. under two hundred says count moscow pick up their third straight win in the top sixteen have expensive old photos of the race inched closer to the early quarterfinals. look sad for their first premier league title in seven years has been moved to seven points clear of the top of the table following a one nail victory against well all the action from week twenty one here's constantine but top of. the be the. league leaders to scott had a narrow one nil win over across on the car at the luzhniki stadium russian midfielder allen's argo of getting the only goal of the game up to seventeen minutes which was the twenty second year olds for for the season and says dustin

with the back increasing their cushion at the top of the table to seven points from one g. the be the blues heating side lost in the last seconds of their europa league tie with newcastle on thursday but it looked as they would get back to winning ways in the first game in their new stadium against willis a either however said he couldn't and could gave the team from some are a shock leave just after they are more but they expand slowly assembled on team managed to restore parity ten minutes from time last year with the restoring from close range be the be the zany to europa league conditions also came to an abrupt told last week however they kept their hopes of gaining a champions league place to live with a one nil the three against the brazilian called get the winner to record the story was seen by boat.