overwhelmingly reject an e.u. proposed raid on bank savings with not a single yes vote in parliament and the country needs a plan b. to avoid bankruptcy. president obama is in israel for his first foreign visit after reelection with claims his trip is papering over the cracks in the relationship rather than seeking real progress on key issues such as peace in the middle east and a potential strike on iran. the number of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay nearly double was according to camp officials with these two inmates in hospital. the welcome good to have you company you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. thousands of cypriots are celebrating after the

country's parliament gave a resigned being no vote to the e.u. i.m.f. bailout package the move could have seen the government take up to ten percent of people savings from private bank accounts as a precondition to securing the much needed ten billion euro loan that has been rejected the ailing euro zone member will have to work out another plan to avoid bankruptcy artie's similar reports now from outside the parliament building in the . well there was clearly a certainly a lot of opposition to going into the a vote that the parliament had made opposition coming from the people as well as politicians voicing how will this kind of a position from brussels from the e.u. ministers of the i.m.f. is unfair to make the a citizen is a shoulder bear the brunt and the burden of having to recapitalize the banks who did not at all see agree to this kind of package there were a lot of people who were gathered near the parliament building it rejecting the

troika very angry at the european union it particularly in germany had feeling that they were pushed into a corner and having to accept a condition that was really very tough on them and this is really quite a statement to be made by the cypriot parliament there were thirty six you know those nineteen abstentions and zero yes is a quite a statement indeed to make when other countries that had received bailouts from the european union have had to accept very stringent and draconian. packages as they are to costs a lot of a lot of measures that really were the people were bearing the brunt and so cyprus is sending a very strong no to the troika to the european union and it really is interesting to see how this unfolds but the next step for the parliamentarians here is to present other options to with to be a president to be a republic and they are looking at opposite don't involve the troika there are a lot of indications that especially coming from the leftist parties they really don't want to see any involvement from the e.u. at this point where it will work and if they will come up with it with an amount

that will actually help to solve the financial crisis of cyprus it is really a big question here so the controversial deposit tax has been rejected by side person who has crossed the red line proposing the idea that is the view of knowledge or for r j u k independence party things brussels has sent a strong signal to the people of europe. even in my diaries predictions in this parliament over the years about the way the e.u. bosses were behaving never did i think that they would in a completely unprecedented manner resort to stealing money from people's bank accounts and the message that sends to people who got savings in banks in most countries certainly if i was there is get your money out while you can do not invest anywhere in the euro zone you've got to be mad to do so because it's now run by people who don't respect democracy who don't respect the rule of law who don't respect the basic principles upon which western civilization is supposed to be

based by our propping up a euro zone which in the end is going to collapse in disastrous failure are they are prepared to do anything to do so i think that this decision this german dominated and led decision is the worst decision we've seen so far in this whole eurozone crisis while cyprus may now be facing bankruptcy within weeks it needs about sixteen billion euros to rescue its economy with the so-called troika creditors reluctant to provide the country with the full amount it may now start looking to other wrists other sources and calls for help may reach moscow where cyprus finance minister has arrived to meet his russian counterpart are going off reports. cyprian finance minister is currently in moscow and is set to meet with his russian counterpart on wednesday and all this is happening despite angela merkel's direct calls on the country not to even consult with anyone about his current economic problems except for brussels and the so-called troika of key

investors what we're witnessing here now apparently is that cyprus is turning to russia and it's no wonder why since billions of euros which came from russia are clearly a line on cyprian bank accounts there is speculation that the origin of a part of this money is not really clear but the majority of these funds billions of euros are clean money which were brought there by pretty much all layers of russian businesses from small ones to giant corporations talks about a deal of series asian have been continuing in russia for quite some time and the measures similar to what the european union has proposed would accelerate dhea of sherry's ation which would do significantly hurt the cyprian economy even more which is based on foreign money and it's not only a russian money which is there in cyprus it's also money which came from other countries like china and japan and if

a domino effect begins this could alternately lead to the collapse of the syrian economy. could russia be one of the reasons the he wasn't willing to for cyprus that's the baited in today's cross talk with peyton avast. the germans only agreed to this bailout if the russians depositors which is a lot there's about thirty billion dollars worth of russian money in those banks they don't get away scot free but it's because of deposits overwhelmingly the people who are getting burned by this tax on depositors' are cypriots. and the notion that. russian oligarchs and so on are being bought this is really put about in germany in order to justify the very harsh treatment of cypriot savers.

barack obama is heading to a key ally israel for the first time as u.s. president obama's previous term in office was marked by frosty relations with israel's recently reelected prime minister benjamin netanyahu however expectations of a breakthrough on the most pressing issues appear low even among u.s. officials and many see the much trumpeted visit as a p.r. stunt artie's poor sleep reports. when former american president george bush visited israel his trip was dubbed clear skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white road now it's a bomb has turned. we've called the visit then she could be alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r.

is nothing more than clever spin there are policy differences. on the palestinian issue on the if you do towards the rise of islamist forces in. what do you see from your new worries not what you see from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter. obama came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other does not. this is likely to be the scene for the next three days while a bomb is in town anger frustration and raised in the streets of palestine also full of posters protesting the president's visit to many of them his face has been blacked out. critics warn that if obama doesn't confront the two now who are settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another

diplomatic failure and some say i mean you will of violence in the middle east we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have returned to places where we have the jewish people have always wished to live there and we live there with their encouragement of the support of the israeli government when it comes to running here to a bomb and netanyahu are at loggerheads a bomber is against an israeli military strike despite relations between the u.s. and iran being themselves quite strained franking iran. in spite of american explicit objections would certainly. hamper israel's relations with the united states might. even break them all together so for all its hype a bomb is visit for many is less of a compliment and more of an attempt by washington to reaffirm its military alliance in pursuit of its economic interests the interests of the united states its not its

in their searches of the middle east and not in its people and who ever think that it is the united states had changed that is what will prove differently prove it comes at a price literally the three day trip. millions of dollars is a high price for this it with so little promises if they are seen to help it. the number of prisoners staging a hunger strike at guantanamo bay has nearly doubled according to u.s. military officials they also admitted least two inmates were treated in hospital for dehydration but maintains no mass strike over mistreatment as detainees lawyers claim me maher the u.n. human rights body has finally responded to mounting media coverage of the guantanamo crisis report as the details. received a long statement from the office of the un's high commissioner for human rights navi pillay now directly related to the guantanamo hunger strike that statement said that quote while aware of some of the allegations of mistreatment of inmates

said to have provoked the hunger strike which includes undue interference with inmates personal effects we are still trying to confirm the details unquote of the statement went on to say that the human rights commissioner has repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed get mail and has she's also expressed concern over the obstacles the national defense authorization act has created for losing the island prison and for trying prisoners that are there even the united nations has not been able to have enough access at guantanamo to see what is taking place with this hunger strike that prisoners at guantanamo bay one on hunger strike on february sixth in protest of the alleged confiscation of their personal items and religious handling of their qur'an at that time the u.s. military was saying that only a handful of prisoners were on hunger strike that we do know that medical experts

have told us and so have attorneys that once this hunger strike enters its forty fifth day hunger strike participants risk losing their eyesight and losing their hearing there's been reports according to attorneys of hunger strike participants losing up to thirty pounds if not more coughing up blood losing consciousness being hospitalized so the attorneys for these states detainees are sounding the alarm as they've even the center for constitutional rights even sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. paul reporting for us from new york well i want to you also spoke with . jason de rohan to member of the defense team for some of the detainees he's in guantanamo who are in guantanamo know here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in. when i first walked the grim meeting room people

to go and i met with my client my half inclined i was shocked to see the change in the parents. and the overall concern and the description and he gave people a whole lot about the conditions of confinement because the u.s. government would have everything back about and i can only talk about the meeting i can tell you that the american forward with other defense attorneys never even. told me any story about how what happened with the cross or what happened with this also because it is fairly personal it's not really. iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years after the u.s. led invasion we look at high stability in the car proving to be. on the government in syria playing the blame game after a chemical attack that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens. of a foreign intervention but a more. technology

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streets of canada. for a shelter on the day. a wave of deadly violence and assassinations have. the u.s. led invasion of iraq at least sixty five people were killed in a series of blasts in baghdad on tuesday which became the deadliest day in iraq. from the capital a decade after a western coalition stepped in to bring freedom and democracy stability they still are leading the nation. iraq in the immediate moment is dealing with the numerous political problems there's tension on the ground between the sunni populations in

the shia led government there's conflict over oil deals frustration with the political system accusations of corruption and strife and of course the daily insurgency the attacks that of course have gone down significantly since the height of the war that still continue as evidenced by the blast in baghdad and so i think many iraqis that you speak to will say you know what yes we're free that saddam hussein is gone but at what cost is it worth it to have these daily attacks this violence one man that we spoke to in the city of kirkuk just today said yes i'm free to go out of my house today the question is whether i will return alive and i think that says quite a lot about the situation in iraq faces today nearly forty percent of all iraq the adults at the moment don't have a job a quarter of the families live below the world bank's poverty line these statistics that aren't much better than what we saw under the crippling u.n. sanctions of the one nine hundred ninety s. for iraq the future really remains uncertain at the moment well motos military

campaign in iraq was supposed to overthrow the regime of saddam hussein the world from his alleged weapons of mass destruction saddam was toppled below w m d's were never found. whether the means could justify the end in the iraqi war. what for the thinking then and what do they think now those are the questions that many people want to ask those in power who made the decision to invade iraq ten years ago r.t. did just that pose in several uncomfortable questions to those who voted to invade the country a decade ago warning their replies may leave you surprised no i don't regret voting in that way because i think the people of iraq have been freed of course you'll regret any number of people who died but the big question is what were the was the intent of saddam hussein against his own people we had already seen that we had a very repressive regime but what's come in place of saddam's baath history team

could hardly be called a better safer life indicative insurgency terror attacks roadside bombs and seemingly endless six tarion violence the effect of the invasion on the iraqi population has been devastating let's look at these numbers over here we're looking at almost five thousand coalition deaths about hundred thirty four thousand of iraq he does but of course those numbers are varying greatly depending on the source and finally you're looking at more than two million displaced people of course not to mention the latest report by the watson institute for international studies at brown university which reckons the war has to date cost the u.s. more than two trillion dollars some american military officials remain undaunted by the numbers and believe what they did ten years ago actually was a good thing i think it was very necessary for us to do something to help the middle east which degree of freedom but it hadn't had before now

a lot of people are going to argue that the iraq invasion did not provide the types of freedom that we had originally envisioned but what what the they're dealing with a regime that didn't allow any freedoms and now depending on where you are in iraq there is at least some. once of some freedom unfortunately no map of those places has been provided the latest gallup poll conducted on the eve of the tenth anniversary showed fifty three percent of americans consider the invasion of iraq a mistake the view is shared by at least one man who was among those who ten years ago believed a military operation against saddam hussein was necessary artie's bureau longdon met with lord prescott who in two thousand and three was tony blair's defeat the prime minister it always used to be denied that it was regime change talking about not only was a review but it's now what motivates the russian i think it regard to iraq you see

the people not talking about intervening but they don't want boots on the ground with that they just want. to kill more civilians. so i want the lesson to be learned and we shouldn't repeat it again these countries must develop in all ways as for those iraqis who fought in the war well for them the war is anything but over as they now have to rebuild a country led to the brink of collapse by foreign invaders in the name of ultimate good while those who instigated the carnage seem to show no regrets whatsoever peace activists can study released washington's ambitions in iraq went beyond just helping the iraqi people. the anglo-american invasion of iraq turned iraq into a disaster area it partition the country into three parts it d. nationalize the oil it destroyed the infrastructure it was responsible for the

deaths of over a million the have people and the turning into refugees of at least two million in the rockies it was never about a genocidal dictator that's part of the same weapons of mass destruction script that the united states and britain and other western countries are still playing today against syria iran north korea it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction it wasn't about connections to terrorism it was about seizing the oil resources of iraq and that's what is the main issue here and later this hour r.t. takes the streets of iraq setting out on a three week road trip exploring the country behind the headlines like miss a special report. clear image of iraq after a. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road. from north to south.

the reach of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e r t. syria's government and rebels are accusing each other of using chemical weapons an attack that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens in the northern city of aleppo both sides claim a rocket was fired loaded with chemical agents well let's now talk to zach humala and the strategy based activists for the free syrian army most amount of thanks for joining us you have recently returned from syria haven't you what are you hearing about this latest attack did it involve potential weapons do you know. what the white house is first of all thank you very much for having me. and which regime of kind is a prefix congressman crimes anyone who claims chemical weapons rather than accept its territory to the peruvian army how did it all happened but with that all the

bodies. were not getting the system sucks. so much to be gotten. out of anything except a lot of terrorists as if you smoke. well there are reports that. in this attack and does that surprise you. i told because the accusation is way why would he use such weapons against his own painful. much explore in just a moment as was said using these weapons and then the other for the rebels are usually written by the very very we the free syrian army the. trial. has to take. such a strong are ok all right mr mann i do apologize we having a great deal of trouble hearing you right we are on scott you are in australia but

we'll see if we can do our best to get you back at some other point that the matter is trailing by thank goodness for the free syrian army. now look at some other news making headlines around the globe u.s. lawmakers have decided to drop a ban on assault weapons from proposed gun control legislation officials say measure the measure that support but it's believed the band could later be voted on as a separate bill though polls show most americans back an assault weapons ban influential pro-gun lobby groups such as the national rifle association have pressed lawmakers to oppose such a move. it is north african branch say they've killed a french hostage in mali reports claimed the dome was killed in response to france's intervention in the country the french foreign ministry says it's trying to verify the report with dawn and another french men were seized in mali in november twenty seventh. now after

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visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was nightmare. children with two heads tumors malformations missing limbs and macao been on bearable little they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. all of them. get it and the grandmother of my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. i deeply affected i leave the city with its newborn monsters.

we had for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms are blind by the us the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. opera. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once to the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein.