so i. vote on taking cash from people's bank accounts to secure what is being called the great bank robbery. the guantanamo prisoners hunger strike is said to be growing with activists increasingly at rage by the sheer international humanitarian organizations. and the iraq invasion ten years on we look at the ongoing fallout from the american led war and the costs to this rise. i welcome good to have your company you're watching. it's a nail biting time for savers in cyprus awaiting

a delayed parliamentary vote on letting the government help itself up to ten percent of their cash to stop the country going bankrupt the unprecedented move to deep in people's pockets and is to secure a vital cash injection from the e.u. and the i.m.f. is our europe correspondent peter overby reports the run on banks in insuring protests only making things worse. well the question nobody was willing to answer here in birdland was anything to do with cyprus in fact neither angle or merkel french president francois hollande or the president of the european commission jose manuel but also were anywhere near coming forward with it and so this it appears to be the the hot potato the financial hot potato that nobody wants to take hold in their hands now what's going on in cyprus is this well if you have money in the bank in cyprus are you going to have to pay to have it actually if and this was certainly something that especially the french president francois hollande

wasn't willing to take any questions on aides close to him we're hearing it said that if you're going to ask the french president anything make sure it's nothing to do with the cypriot economy because he's just not willing to play ball now that seems to be the the message in europe at the moment is that they really don't know how to deal with the situation in cyprus they certainly have no answer at the moment and especially for mrs merkel you have to look at this as well if this does become a precedent that future countries that want to accept the bailout have to accept such a levy on their own people who have money in their bank accounts what does that mean she's been put forward in a still remains personally popular here in germany as the woman that can take germany and the rest of the and the rest of europe out of the crisis if it seems that she's starting to flounder then with an election coming up in october she may well find herself looking over a shoulder well dutch euro and pay twenty mandas believes the controversial tax

won't stop the rot in cyprus and will have ramifications across southern europe. they claim that this is a unique situation to science but of course it isn't unique at all this is a problem that we see all throughout the eurozone and as a matter of fact it's much more fundamental than that it's a fundamental flaw in our banking system a bet the banks can create money out of thin air that aren't backed by anything and that's great bubbles and central banks can go on forever with that and with inflating new currency it's a fundamental flaw in a banking system and this is just a quick fix this is we keep kicking the can down the road it's not a fundamental solution until the solution as it is is implemented we're going to see a lot more of these so-called one off solutions if it can happen in cyprus can happen in greece in the greece's problems are no smaller than an cyprus problem there are there are bigger. if you can happen in greece it can happen in portugal and it can

happen in ritual it can happen in spain and italy and so what is quite likely is that a lot of people are going to moving their money out of southern europe to other places the potential bailout rate on deposits in cyprus is keeping investors nervous both inside and outside the usa. explain to my colleague bill dodd why russia is particularly uneasy about brussels plan. well you know there's a certain stereotype in the west about the russian mafia keeping their money in cyprus offshore accounts well of course to some extent there is some illegal money there but definitely fundamentally it's all about the big businesses because almost just about every big business in russia has an asset an offshore account in cyprus and the biggest concern which is now there and we stopped about by the by the president by the highest officials in the country does not concern the big businesses in the sense that russia has been striving to have the offshore money returns to the country the government believes it's now your country more stable you need to provide healthy environment to keep the money inside the country so

this is not the concern here especially with the government and the president saying that it wants the money to be the biggest concern in the biggest unfairness which president putin talked about here small businesses private who have the money in cyprus and we're talking here at least around forty thousand people who have their money in the offshore accounts there will suffer and this is something of course which is now being seriously condemned by moscow but then of course cyprus is in a very difficult position either it risks losing the bailout funds which of course will keep the country buoyant if it goes ahead with that then of course it loses its foreign investment investment so what does it do the reason feeling that cyprus may be shooting itself in the leg in a sense that it's been living off the offshore money for many years now and russians have already started withdrawing their money from the cyprus accounts they may be soon followed by the japanese the chinese also have loads of money in cyprus

accounts and the world is a big place they're always find another country to have their money there. well like today on our team max kaiser will be here with his unique take on those causing the world's financial storms. in some societies they the woman is forced to marry the man who was abused or ok here similarly people are being forced to invest in the stock market end of people that are abusing them that's a that's a very dysfunctional relationship. the prisoner's hunger strike at guantanamo bay is growing which even u.s. military officials now admit but they still deny that inmates are being mistreated or that some lives are in danger as lawyers claim what's more the lack of response from humanitarian organizations is raising eyebrows is more important explains. as

the guantanamo hunger strike enters its forty second day there's been very little response and no outcry from international organizations the united nations for example has yet to comment or a good knowledge of the get mo hunger strike now r t did reach out to un human rights bodies in geneva and officials have promised to respond to our inquiry with a comment by tuesday afternoon now on the other hand the international committee of the red cross which last visited the island prison the third week of february does have knowledge that a hunger strike is taking place but so far all the organization has done is release a statement saying that the i.c.r.c. believes past and current tensions at guantanamo to be the direct result of the uncertainty feast by detainees now compounding this problem is that it's been very difficult to access any information about get most prisoners due to military censorship after all it was the attorneys for the detainees that first expressed

urgent and grave concern over a life threatening mass hunger strike that reportedly started at guantanamo on february sixth now according to the center for constitutional rights a reported one hundred thirty prisoners on hunger strike in early february to protest the alleged confiscation of personal items such as photos and mail and the alleged sacrilegious handling of their qur'an now lawyers have reported that some of the prisoners are coughing up blood have lost two or more than twenty pounds and have been hospitalized experts medical experts say that by day forty five hunger strike participants can experience potential blindness and partial hearing loss now the center for constitutional rights and behave b.s. council have sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to. help immediately and this massive

hunger strike and to quote take action before another man dies at that prison unquote the director of public affairs for joint task force kuantan m o captain robert duran did release a statement on friday to r.t. denying claims of a mass hunger strike or the mishandling of the koran shortly after mr durant released his statement for autonomy a navy commander announced that flights to the island prison from south florida will be terminated on april fifth now those flights have served as a vital air bridge for attorneys who are seeking to meet with their imprisoned clients critics believe that this is an attempt by the defense department to limit the access that attorneys with their clients reporting from new york. r.t. . and i spoke to the who has represented several guantanamo bay prisoners he

describes detaining people for years without charge is grossly inhumane. there are hundred sixty six people at guantanamo of those there are probably at most twenty guys who are bad guys who were taken in later guys like khalid shaikh muhammad the other people are and most nothing more than half of them eighty six of them may have been cleared at least for three years and some during the bush administration cleared as innocent people and they're still there and they're frustrated i mean i don't care if you're held in the dorchester hotel in london are the best hotel the ritz carlton in moscow and you're confined to that room for eleven years and you can't see your family you can't go out and talk to people you can't read freely you can't get about i don't care that tell how's the condition even if you're fed the best food every day and believe me they're not i mean they are imprisoned

improperly without a chance to get out that's the worst condition. we've got much more on the own going guantanamo hunger strike on our website you can head that's watch an interview with a full month god. gives a firsthand account of the violent showing towards detainees and with analysis of other possible reasons behind the mass protest. israel's political deadlock is seemingly over as the new coalition finally gets to work but as we report later this hour there are more battles for prime minister netanyahu to. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty j. taxi trip through the country. the road full of danger. clear evidence from north to south. of iraqi tragedy.

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callao again now on this very day ten years ago the so-called coalition of the willing headed by the u.s. and britain invaded iraq it triggered a decade long war that was supposed to disarm iraq of weapons of mass destruction and free the nation from tyranny but these were never found and after tens of thousands of lives were lost the consequences are still emerging as we see caffein

of reports. at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. this was the freedom they brought shock and bombs over baghdad what the pentagon billed as a quick war to liberate iraq turned into a prolonged nightmare. ten years of bloodshed war occupation and deadly sectarian strife drained by afghanistan exhausted by iraq for washington the battle is over after a decade of war that's cost us thousands of was it over a trillion dollars. nation we need to build it is our way but what if the nation they left behind. we're not. biggest regret the iraqi people who are the infrastructure is devastated the country is ruined. these

graves are a visual reminder of a decade of human strife almost everyone in this country has lost somebody whom they love no one knows exactly how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion and the estimates range from more than one hundred fifty thousand to over one million for years the u.s. claims not to keep body counts but how do you mohamed has kept count his four sons and only grandchild who were killed in a suicide blast. how am i doing i raise my sons and some of them get mahdi's and send them to universities i watch them die you asked me if it's better or worse now compared to ten years ago i still have my sons ten years ago so i think the answer is old and it's. others have seen their dreams of a brighter future shattered by years of violence. i was top of my class but when

circumstances became very bad after the occupation of hell that something was broken inside of me. my ambition and everything i used to dream of becoming a doctor or an engineer but conditions prevented me from continuing my studies but an education is no guarantee of work less than forty percent of iraqi adults have a job and a quarter of families live below the world bank's poverty line statistics that haven't improved much since the days of crushing u.n. sanctions in the one nine hundred ninety s. elections may have brought democracy to iraq but critics say the government is rife with corruption and infighting. despite the various that's occurred in the time of the former regime it is not comparable to the number of freely is by the politicians and the current government. and more troubling perhaps by the lingering divisions of this occupation separated us and to try to replace the political structure with a tribal one which aggravated the political conflict i see no good in this kind of

regime. today iraq is facing a new political crisis there is tension on the ground between the sunni provinces and the shia led government as well as between baghdad and the kurdish north i think if these issues are not resolve it can lead to more significant problems including conflict which can lead to i think the breakup of iraq and destabilization. and an upsurge in violence is sparking fears of a return to sectarian strife new figures show that death rates have actually risen since the last american soldier left a rocky soil. how long will iraq remain like this every day there are explosions every day there is killing every day there is terrorism. explosion after explosion iraqis have asked themselves that same question for most of the last ten years to see counselor of r t iraq. meanwhile u.s. taxpayers are probably asking how much more they will have to spend on iraq on top

of the hundreds of billions of dollars that have already been poured in the figure of over eight hundred billion dollars continues to rise by the second as costs mount from dealing with returning personnel to the broader social and the economic impact of the war takes a closer look at the numbers. a long war in iraq may be officially over but american taxpayers are still paying for the cost of the invasion let's talk numbers the u.s. has spent more than sixty billion dollars in reconstruction in iraq so far that works out to about fifteen million dollars per day overall cost and other aid adds up to seven hundred and sixty seven billion dollars since the american led invasion and that's according to the congressional budget office but national priorities project a u.s. research group they estimate the real cost at over eight hundred billion dollars and they add that some funds are still being spent on ongoing projects and that

number continues to rise every second now a major problem it seems is that all this cash the u.s. is coughing up isn't falling into the right hands or projects iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki says funding could have brought a great change in iraq but there was misspending of money i want to give you some examples of this missed spending if you can call it that there are too many to name but here are some that i think really stand out in iraq's diyala province the u.s. began building a prison in two thousand and four but abandon the project after three years to flee a surge in violence now have complete facility cost american taxpayers forty million dollars but since in rubble and there are no plans to ever finish or use it according to the justice ministry also sub contractors overcharge the u.s. government thousands of dollars for supplies take a look at this control switch the u.s. pays nine hundred dollars for that when it's actually valued at just seven dollars

eighty dollars for a section of a pipe that is actually valued at just a buck fifty and when you're talking hundreds of billions of dollars nine hundred bucks of course sounds like small change but obviously it's adding up here's another one widespread fraud led by a former u.s. army officer cost cans of millions of dollars in kickbacks connect. it to government contracts for bottled water twenty two people were criminally convicted but still tens of millions of dollars in contracts for bottled water but for iraqis they're paying a different cost a government rife with corruption infighting near daily deadly bombing still blast baghdad streets and a quarter of the country's thirty one million lives in poverty. and peace activist believes the scars left on iraqis as well as coalition troops will take years to hail i see you know america as the bull in a china shop you know the we entered iraq we invaded iraq. everything

after we drew from iraq they're still broken glass and violence that best use of violence you know that still exists it still happens is the that's what happens when you destroy civil society in another country in the domestic side of things that iraq war is not over for better you know with the with a record number of suicides with the better and homelessness you know better on unemployment we're talking about the recession i mean is this legacy of war is still with us if you wish that we're still feeling the effects of it. turning to you some other international news in brief. syria's opposition national coalition has elected a prime minister to administer areas seized by the rebels the new premier gas and he won nearly eighty percent of the votes at

a meeting in to damascus but when he lived in the u.s. for several years until recently but it's unclear whether the disparate rebel groups fighting in syria would recognize the new prime minister. texas prosecutors will not press charges against the american parents of an adopted three year old russian boy who died in january a coroner's report ruled maxing maxime means death was an accident and that bruises on his body were self-inflicted moscow is holding its own investigation into a case which has strained relations between the two countries in december president putin signed legislation banning the adoption of russian children by americans. that have been anti american protests in bethlehem just days before barack obama visits the west bank posters have been defaced in diplomatic vandalized as palestinians vent their anger over what they see as powerful american bias towards israel the u.s. leader will be making his first trip to israel and the palestinian territories to

try and smooth over washington strained relations with both sides. well israel's new government has now been formed and sworn in it took weeks of strenuous negotiations that saw two political newcomers assume roles as prime minister netanyahu is main coalition partners but the compromise could mean his troubles are far from over over. explains he might have perfected the role of israel's great communicator but as prime minister benjamin netanyahu enters his third term of office like his audience his powers of persuasion are shrinking. you need to watch the body language of how this coalition was forged it changed from aggressive to disappointed and after the disappointment the anger will come we'll see that in the open. what's already being seen in the open is that new tone yahoo's new partners are not the ones he wanted form a media personality out yet appeared and representative of these radio to movement

enough to be bennett their everything he's not young contemporary and popular. he's panicked netanyahu realizes they are the next generation it's like a national geographic film where the young lions push the old line aside they get the females and the future's theirs. but bibi as he's called is nothing if not supremely confident over the past dozen years he's earned a doctorate in defeat and how it may be avoided he's a pro at welding together the broken parts so they can hold on for a little bit longer he is. driven by the fact that. paranoid when you're paranoid. makes you minimize the volume of mistakes that you might do and i think that when he always thinks that there's a product that someone is. about to pull

a trick on him he's very well prepared as he is to sit around a table with partners who might eventually signal his downfall with. netanyahu rather confused campaign and a confused negotiation although he is very smart very experienced it didn't show the goals were constantly changing there was no planning so he needs to sit now and get his house in order. it wasn't that long ago that time magazine crowned him king bibi the influential magazine ran with the headline that he's come could israel but nine months later it's not so clear whether israel hasn't finally conquered netanyahu in the final act the great communicator might not be able to communicate so great after all point to reality television. it's just coming up to help us now and here in moscow and after the break we take a look at the lives of a community which turned its back on society centuries got.

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