a series of bomb attacks through baghdad and killing dozens and injuring hundreds as a rug struggles to get by going to its feet on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion. making savers a save a bank so sleep through the stench is set up to ten percent of their life savings wiped away. conditions if syria mile island and beyond. and human rights groups turn a blind eye to the growing mass hunger strike among one tunnel bay prisoners i make claims officials are doing everything they can to hush the protests.

international news and analysis as well as reports of from around the world of this is r t you're live with me tom with say. at least a fifty six people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of bombs across the baghdad the attack struck mostly shy neighborhoods of the city officials say there have been at least ten separate incidents including suicide car and roadside explosions in busy areas all within one hour on one of the deadliest attacks struck and near the heavily fortified green zone the seat of many government buildings and embassies no one has officially claimed responsibility but the sunni militants have been stepping up their attacks in the country aiming to destabilize the government their souls come as iraq marks ten years as a coalition led by the u.s. and britain invaded the country with a freedom and democracy mission which is loosely catherine of has more. 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 awe 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 years and over a trillion dollars. nation we need to build is our way but what if the nation they left behind. know we're not. biggest regret the iraqi people who are 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 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 raised my sons and saw them get mahdi's and send them to universities i watched 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 off to the occupation i feel 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 are the lingering divisions of this occupation separated us and to try is a better place the political structure of the tribal one which aggravated the political conflict which i see no good in this kind of regime and. today iraq is

facing a new political crisis there's 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 resolved it can lead to more significant problems including conflict which can lead to i think the breakup of iraq and destabilization region. 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 iraqi 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. british labor m.p. jeremy coburn says of the break up all of iraq could become

a reality in the kaos ten years of occupation have left it in has to be the construction of a political dialogue it has to be the construction of some kind of political consensus in iraq the alternatives are that the country descends into further chaos with suicide attacks and many other things or maybe even the country will break up with a kurdish area in the north has a very high degree of autonomy and of course does have access to a considerable number a considerable amount of oil reserves i'm not in favor of the country breaking up but the end of the day the people of iraq didn't just make that decision i think we have to recognize we created a lot of these problems and we have to provide the support and the aid necessary to get out of those problems but it sensually all wars and in a political dialogue it's important that political dialogue takes place with everybody you

a sense players are probably asking how much small the will have to spend on the rug on top of what's already been poured in not the single over eight hundred billion us dollars continues to rise as well as mounting every second from dealing with returning personnel to the broader social and economic impact of the war and he's a know it takes a closer look at the numbers. the decade 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 mis 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 why not spread fraud led by a former u.s. army officer cost tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks. nectar to government contracts for bottled water twenty two people were criminally convicted would fill tens of millions of dollars in contracts for bottled water but for iraqis they're paying a different cost a government rife with corruption and in finding near daily deadly bombing still blast baghdad streets and a quarter of the country's thirty one million lives in poverty. right taking the bailout model to exist reams of the e.u.

has given side prison ultimatum either for savers to save banks all go bankrupt many secrets now stand to see up to ten percent of the life savings you raised all to secure indebted banks with a bailout from brussels reactions been volatile with protests and people trying to take their cash from the banks more now from a loosely robson a journalist living in a sign press there are several parties which are against this this option that has been proposed by the government it isn't guaranteed at all but the government has said that it is willing to revise the terms of any levies initially they were going to be quite harsh on small depositors but there have been terms proposed about anybody with less than twenty thousand euros in the bank being tax free without any any outcome from this decision the government is toying with the idea of finding the five point eight billion required euros from other sources. government bonds

could be involved also possibly bank pension funds the e.u. has said that cyprus is free to some extent to find the five point eight billion euros where it chooses so has been a lot of anger and there have been people saying that they want to remove that cash from cyprus as soon as they can but really a feeling of expectancy here. the cyprus parliament has now delayed of eighteen are now the bank tax until wednesday amid reports that the measure would say all but belgian m.e.p. dedicated young says that there may be no alternative to pass in the tax because the quizes ingres is mainly to blame for what's happening in cyprus now because the goodison cypriot banks have been exposed to two greece bert's of the european union is already trying to say agrees the ready has had three bailout operations and is still in the middle of it so there's not much greece can do

anymore and the only thing we can do is to try to save cyprus which is already the fifth bailout operation and of course there is also a limit to the patients our taxpayers in germany the netherlands and finland because finally these are the people who have to guarantee their loans to cyprus and their patients now is limited so i think it was. it was good to have a contribution of the savers in cyprus itself because in other countries we have a different sort of problems but remember in spain savers already have contributed those people who had an interest in the spanish bank bankia lost money some people in other banks have lost money and generally european savers are losing money because we have a policy of cheap money low interest rates that means that saving money if you put money in the bank it cost you money. the crisis in cyprus has not only rattled the

euro zone sending the euro spiralling to yellow lows but the repercussions could be felt for the up failed earlier explained to my colleague bill dodd wife of russia do you is nervous about the. 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 differently 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 you countries are more stable you need to provide a 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 returned to russia only we spoke to the spokesperson of the russian president and he is not what he had to say about i don't recall mr president for sure is a show of russian economy. was made during his annual address the russian parliament this year and here's still stock to this idea that we really have to make environment and russian economy more comfortable for those that got to invest their money. and to keep the money here on russian soil the biggest concern in the biggest and fairness which president putin talked about here concern small businesses private interpreters 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 they will suffer and this is something of course which is now being seriously condemned by moscow but then of course cyprus is 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 the 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 the cyprus accounts and you know the world is a big place they're always find another country to have their money there. we will have more on the cyprus bailout to tag later in the program also a new coalition government for israel off to weeks of intense negotiations but experts think that the hollywood could be shot lived as these calls up was suasion wayne and his ambitious new political bedfellows look for the limelight to this story and many more after the break.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. the hunger strike at guantanamo bay continues to gain momentum as human rights groups are criticized for ignoring the plight of the prison is forty two days on as new detainees joined the protests u.s. officials maintain that inmates have never been mistreated an attorney who has represented several one ton of obaid prisoners though says many of them remain behind bars even though they were kids long ago. there are one hundred sixty six people at guantanamo of those who are probably at most twenty guys who are bad guys who were taken in later guys like khalid shaikh mohammad the other people are and

most nothing more than half of them eighty six of the 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 or 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's a lousy 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 so the only ones sounding the alarm over the hunger strike into one of the world's most clinch of the shell prisons. reports on the lack of all social reaction to the protests. 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 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 doesn't 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 a reported one hundred thirty prisoners went 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. potential blindness and partial hearing loss for autonomy navy commander announced that flights to be 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 have with their clients reporting from new york marina r.t.

. we've been tracking the guantanamo hunger strike and so if you won the big picture log on to our t.v. dot com also while you're there when campaigners actually take action a rights group will seek in the new york police department to court over claims its controversial stop and see risk of policy and the targets minorities get the details online. and they are continuing government has accused the u.k.'s vegas bank of money laundering and other dodgy dealings running into the tens of millions of dollars it's also on our web page. it took six weeks of a drawn out negotiations but israel's a new coalition government has now been formed and sworn in prime minister benjamin netanyahu now in his third term in office has turned to both a sense of party and a far right political grouping to take the reins but as policy explains the all

could of compromise has seen lead to cracks in the new government. 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 netanyahu is new partners are not the ones he wanted form a media personality i-l. appeared and representative of these way to set a movement naftali bennett their everything he's not young contemporary and popular . he's panicked netanyahu realizes they are the next generation is like in a national geographic film where the young lions push the old line aside they get the females and the future is 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. driven by the fact that he has some kind of 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 but someone is. about to pull a trick on him he's very well prepared as he used to sit around a table with partners who might eventually signal his downfall would. come netanyahu ran a 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 influential magazine ran with the headline that his calm could israel but nine months later it's not so clear whether israel having finally conquered netanyahu in the final at the great communicator might not be able to communicate so great after all. reality television. now some other international news in brief the syria stage a news agency is reporting that opposition forces have used chemical weapons in the northern province of a mobile killing twenty six people according to the syrian observatory for human droid sixteen of the victims were soldiers rebel forces have given no response to the accusations so far made all syria's main exiled opposition block has elected a prime minister to administer areas of seized by the rebels the new leader who's a syria born american citizen has already been criticized as

a desperate rebel groups fighting in syria. pope francis has officially taken his place as head of the couple of church in any no ration miles attended by two hundred thousand people in st peter's square he pledged to defend the weekend to the poor walk in the humility here soldier to inject into his purpose since his election by philip a week ago earlier you greeted people as he told the square in an open topped. an investigation into the death of a russian lawyer sergei magnitsky has been drugged miscues a death in custody it died in custody in two thousand and nine investigators found no evidence crime was committed. as been following the story there have been no trespassing in in terms of the confinement or criminal confinement or criminal investigation against us again magnitsky that he was essentially jailed lawfully he

was not beaten while in confinement and therefore they've also established that he has actually died from natural causes that is from heart failure and several other complications all of which are from several really severe diseases that he was suffering from and thus they have essentially ruled out any foul play which was the main point of contention between you can say the russian authorities and the family friends and several arrived groups all of whom were saying that you were. wasn't fact beaten while he was in jail and that that was the main reason why he died in november two thousand and nine in fact they have managed to raise enough controversy surrounding the case even for some of the foreign officials to interfere or to rather voice their opinion on the matter for example the u.s. congress has come out with the so-called magnitsky act which is essentially a less a list of russian officials all of whom according to the united states have been

somehow involved in the case of and therefore they're now banned from entering the united states as well as all of their u.s. assets have been frozen so this is sort of a russian case which has managed to breach the guy the ocean wide gap and now has caused quite a lot of controversy both in russia and abroad. right after the break a look at the lives of a community which turned its back on the century. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to it there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding

segregation no for 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 it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt. 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.

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