the super finance minister is in russia looking for a plan to cyprus is parliament rejected in the deal which included a raid on bank savings. the more president obama is in israel for his foreign visit after reelection with claims his trip is papering over the cracks in the relationship rather than seeking real progress on key issues like peace in the middle east and a potential strike on iran. the number of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay nearly double according to camp officials with at least two inmates in hospital . i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with may. thousands of cypriots the celebrating

after the country's parliament gave a resoundingly no vote to the 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 euros now that it's been now that has been rejected the ailing year is a member will have to work out another plan to avoid bankruptcy in russia could be ready to lend a helping hand wolf for more on this let's cross live to artie's peace can all of you go out of the window there could be a plan b. and it could involve russia. well absolutely the finance minister has met with his russian counterpart in moscow and right after the meeting he said that he was satisfied with the negotiations but added that north offer was made so far he also stressed that he's going to stay in the russian capital for as long as it takes to an agreement is reached and is now reportedly set to meet with russia's first

deputy prime minister there is speculation that cyprus is asking russia for a lot of that now all of this is happening after the supreme rejected the european union's controversial deal out when earlier the supreme president personally told. about this well clearly showing signs that the country has turned to russia for assistance and moscow has provided a loan to cyprus back in two thousand and eleven it exceeded ten percent of its g.d.p. and was a significant boost to its economy all of this is happening despite i'm going merkel's direct course on cyprus not even consult with anyone about its current economic problems except for brussels and the choice of key investors. ok you go thanks for that that is that you reporting live from moscow so the clock is ticking for cyprus which could run out of money within weeks banks the still closed across the country amid widespread public anxiety over savings for more on what is going

on there let's cross to our teeth and because. you've been there for a few days now what is the mood like in cyprus off the palm rejected be unpopular bailout package. all of the right after the rejection there were there people on the street here protesting before that i made it quickly turned into a celebratory mood they were happy that the parliament had not passed this bill imposing a tax on their deposits as far as what goes on the street at the moment it's rather the initial panic really happened over the weekend when that announcement was made from brussels that they will be tax of people were lining up. try to get the money out and yesterday i was talking to some locals who were trying to get some money off the a.t.m. some had run out of cash and this morning when i actually tried to. water they had given me a handful of change and apologizing that they have run out of five euros and ten euro notes because the banks were close so the banks will remain closed today and

tomorrow and this will pose a problem in terms of cash flow for the locals the u.k. government as we know it already sets about one million euros in cash to their troops who are here in cyprus just to keep the cash go away now on the bigger level of economic a level if the banks do remain closed this will pose a problem an economy does hit a substantially on the banking sector and there's already been doubt on whether the banks will open at all but we also heard from reaction from. minister said well the bloc deeply regretted the both of the bailout offer still sounds provided that the initial requirement is still met all these things that it's not that has not passed the parliament and they're really not happy about that so what's next i'm right in front of the parliament here in cyprus quite quiet but the political parties are meeting with the president trying to put forth their proposals the other options that didn't exist from the very start so right now it's all up to the year on what's going to happen next. and where this is headed next. i think is

a case of watch this space isn't it. reporting live from cyprus. the controversial plans may have been rejected by side. the red line proposing the idea that is the view. a u.k. independence party thinks 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 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. well could russian roubles be one of the reasons the e.u. wasn't willing to fully bail out cyprus that is being debated in cross talk with peter lavelle later today. the germans were greeted this bailout if the russians depositors which is a lot is about thirty billion dollars worth of russian money in those banks they don't get away scot free at least because of deposits overwhelmingly the people who are getting by this tax on depositors are cypriots. and the notion that russian oligarchs and so on are being hurt by this is really put about in germany

in order to justify the very harsh treatment of cypriot savers. we see. barack obama is heading to a key ally israel for the first time as u.s. president obama's previous term in office so frosty relations with israel's recently reelected prime minister benyamin 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 slayer reports when former american president george bush visited israel his trip with clear skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white road now it's a bomb has turned. the visit down 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. issue on the i think the words the rise of islamist forces in countries like egypt where you see from jerusalem nearby not what you see from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter obama 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 an anger frustration and raised as the streets of palestine are

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 you know who on settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another diplomatic failure and some say when 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 the encouragement of the support of the israeli government when it comes to read about men 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 right. that is what will prove differently it comes at a price. the three day trip cost millions of dollars is one point this is what students were promised you know the scene set up. the number of prisoners staging a hunger strike a gun time the money has nearly doubled according to u.s. military officials they also admitted these two inmates were treated in hospital for dehydration but maintained there's no must strike over mistreatment of detainees lawyers claim meanwhile the un human rights body has finally responded to mounting media coverage of the guantanamo crisis. has the details r.t.

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 in depth 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 sacrilegious handling of their qur'an at that time the u.s. military was saying that only a handful of prisoners were on hunger strike but we do know that medical experts have told us and so have attorneys that once this hunger strike enters its forty fifty day hunger strike participants risk. but 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 at the center for constitutional rights even sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel say how for us and this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal simmering a point i reporting from new york for us well also you also spoke on the phone so

you captain jason de writes a member of the defense team to some of the detainees he's england and here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners find themselves in but i first want to grimmy repeat weeks ago i met with my car and my afghan car i was shocked. to hear more. concerning the description of. people who are out about the. government. can only talk about. i can tell you the american other defense attorney never. told me any story about how what happened. with the social q's. still ahead for you this hour iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years off a big u.s. led invasion we look at how stability in the country's proving to be divisive and.

government syria playing the blame game for a chemical attack that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens. of a foreign intervention more off this quick break. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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back. was welcome back a group linked to al qaeda says they are behind the so-called bloody tuesday attacks in baghdad when sixty five people died in a series of blasts across the city the day which marked the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion became the deadliest in iraq so far this year a decade after a western coalition stepped in to bring freedom and democracy stability is still eluding the nation as artie's unity catherine of explains from iraq. almost everyone that we've met here in iraq is deeply scarred and traumatized by war in one way or another whether was lost as under the saddam era or the massive violence and bloodshed that's been unleashed by the u.s. war and subsequent occupation not to mention the sectarian and ethnic lines that

that war has opened blood shed is unfortunately the new norm for most of the parts of iraq here where we're standing right now is actually the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is probably the only area on the wrong that has seen life improved since the war in large part due to profits from the oil that's been found in this region but less than an hour away in the city of kirkuk where we went a completely different picture checkpoint after checkpoint blast wall surrounding the city it was quite dangerous for us to move around without a military escort and most of the residents complained of potentials of security attacks almost at any moment so this is something that's really been reflected across the country and it's quite symbolic of course that on the anniversary of the ten year invasion iraq close that painful chapter much the same way that it began with bombs across baghdad but as for whether the people feel better off or not it really depends on fortunately on their experience their. ethnic affiliations their

religion and what they've suffered during the past ten years. the situation in the country is better than the food we do have a problem there is violence there are lots of explosions everything is ok except the bombing it's not. the way things are today we suffer. groups of fracturing this democracy. we would feel free to go out and return safely. but there's no guarantee that i'll come home so as you heard there the one thing that does seem to unite iraqis today is fear fear of when the next explosion or attack may come. well the u.s. led military campaign in iraq was supposed to overthrow the regime of saddam hussein and protect the world from his alleged weapons of mass destruction saddam was toppled or though w m d's were never found artie's that in a collusion i takes a look at whether the means justified the end. 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 posing 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've already seen that we had a very repressive regime but what's come in place of saddam's baath his dream could hardly be called a better safer life indicative insurgency terror attacks roadside bombs and seemingly endless six terror in 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 always they didn't allow any freedoms and now depending on where you are in iraq there is at least

a 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 london 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 good 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 than there let's. go with 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 regret whatsoever. peace activists can stone billie's 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 it's 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 the 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 well later this hour on tape takes to the streets of iraq setting out on a three week road trip in. the headlines don't miss our special report and here's a a quick thyestes of what's to come. clear image of iraq to face a. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road. near evidence from north to south. the reach of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. i got a taxi on our t.v. . syria's government and rebels are accusing each other of launching a chemical attack near the northern city of aleppo that killed twenty five people

and wounded dozens opposition activists earliest said government troops were among the dead news of the attack led to a prompt international response britain and the us reiterated that warnings that the use of chemical weapons could lead to an intervention russia has expressed concerns that rebels might have got hold of w m d's author and historian gerald horn says the horrors of syria cannot be looked at in isolation or. if it turns out that the rebels committed this act we should not be surprised after all they've become master of car bombings not least we should also recall that this is the anniversary of the disastrous us invasion of iraq and as we speak bombs are going off in baghdad punctuating this disastrous invasion we should connect the two events just as the al-qaeda in iraq and their allies or detonating bombs in baghdad

across the border in syria front which is connected to al qaeda in iraq is engaged in car bombings and perhaps chemical. france and the u.k. or wintering powers as a result of that weakness france in the u.k. or heavily dependent upon capital from the gulf arabs the saudis and the pitot reason not least and so it seems to me that when they talk about trying to arm the rebels in syria they're basically dancing to the tune played by the saudis and the qataris a quick look at other international news in brief and i. u.s. lawmakers have decided to drop a ban on assault weapons from proposed gun control legislation officials say the measure lacks support but it's believed the ban 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. al-qaeda is north african branch say they have killed a french hostage in mali reports claim for the dole was killed in response to france's intervention in the country the french foreign ministry says it's trying to verify the report of the dome and another frenchman we see in mali nov twenty eighth. coming up after the break we take a look at the everyday life. violence.

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on the road to bass for this morning the u.s. army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twenty ninth years of occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. every guy got in about it i do have a little bit memories of the iraqis anger towards the departing innovators who once dreamed of being liberators their departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. cease.

april twenty twelve and i'm back in iraq in soho on the border with turkey.