live from the r t new century date cyprus spurns an e.u. bailout deal that would have cut into ordinary to positive savings forcing the government to look to moscow for a lifeline against bankruptcy. russian and un human rights officials sound the alarm over the treatment of prisoners at guantanamo bay as u.s. military officials try to downplay the whole move. barack obama arrives in israel for the first time as u.s. president but may struggle to close the growing gap between the country's middle east policies. and iraqi terrorist groups with links to al qaeda claimed responsibility for bombings that killed dozens in baghdad further unsettling the country ten years on from the u.s. led invasion.

however again even eight pm live at the r t new center tonight kevins kevin owens here with you could have your company our top story then as you've just heard seems of relief from celebration greeted the cyprus parliament's rejection of a tax on bank deposits the one off levy linked to an e.u. bailout deal would have saved millions of account holders lose up to a tenth of the savings of being condemned by officials and the public alike but the country now of course finds itself on the brink of bankruptcy and having rejected the terms it may have to turn to russia for assistance can off has more. right now cyprus is in a very difficult position because it's rejected the proposal by the european union and the troika to tax private bank accounts and now frankly there are not many places for cyprus to turn for help and actually one of these places is russia and the site bid finance minister has been in the russian capital the entire day he's

met with his russian counterpart and would be the first the deputy prime minister there is speculation that cyprus is asking russia for a loan so far the finance minister said that you are satisfied with the negotiations but no official offer has been made so far although he himself said he's not leaving moscow until an agreement is reached all of this is happening. while anger and anger a miracle being furious over cyprus talking to moscow about this all together since earlier she strongly advised the country not to even discuss the issue with anybody else but brussels or the troika and actually we know that the president personally told what he would put in about his country's problems decision to reject the proposal although the latest developments are that one of the you financially of the russian president said that the radically of cyprus became

a member of the region economic community then it would tap into the reserve fund that organization tax but well right now cyprus is not a member of the community and another development coming from cyprus itself is that the country has prepared a new plan to tap into it's a social funds like to be retirement fund and others to collect around five billion euros which you would have collected if it be introduced this tax for all the private bank accounts in the country now for more on this i'm joined by the chief economist of renaissance capital. how likely is it that cyprus could didn't use. this reserve fund that the region community economic community has and i guess there are two portal points to be made the first one you already mention for that to happen separate seems like they have to become a member of this community but i think the more interesting point is that this was an r.v. new that was already used with belarus remember

a couple of years ago bill reese was also facing a big develop a very very severe economic problem for problems so a lot of the money that a billet was received was actually from that community but we do not have bills as a member of that community so i guess in that case it was easy so i guess the bottom line is that a similar has been used in the past but all this there are some technical details that need to happen for full force produced to pan out but it's a possibility since and what about as the new coming from cyprus it's up to top it up into social funds how effective do you think that could be well at the end of the day when we do know that there is about seventeen billion dollars the overall package that is needed we do not have the european union and the troika have offered about ten billion dollars so not a seven billion euro zone of a seven billion euro zone needed i think that given the fact that the dad the proposal the original proposal was rejected but as you could probably not obviously did they're looking they're looking for options one of the options is to get

a loan from out from russia either directly from russia or the avenue that we just described or to find some additional internal sources of income. so for now banks throughout cyprus remain shut to prevent panicking and best is rushing to withdraw their savings our correspondent tess or a seller reports next from the capital on the situation facing the people there tonight. as far as what goes on the street at the moment it's rather calm the initial panic really happened over the weekend when that announcement was made from brussels that they will be taxes people were lining up. in front of a.t.m.'s trying to get their money out and yesterday i was talking to some locals who were trying to get some money out of the a.t.m. some had run out of cash and this morning when i actually tried to buy a bottle of 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 closed the u.k. government as we know had already set about one million euros in cash to their troops who are here in cyprus just to keep the cash go away now on

a number of bigger level and economical level if the banks do remain closed this will pose a problem as the 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 the e.u. i did not find this 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 will the impact of what is happening in cyprus are really sending ripples across in europe first of all to the citizens who are now quite afraid of their say because of the fact that the seeds of doubt the soul of the credibility has been damaged that the damage has been done even if the boat did not go through so people are saying if it can happen to cyprus then that red line to be crossed and dipping into people's savings it could happen to other euro zone countries that might be needing bailouts in the future so cyprus now seeking an

alternative source of funding to stave off for the folders discuss where that money might come from joining me is nick parsons he's head of research at the national strategy but make evening to you is this so completely done and dusted nova now with the you would you think some a last minute reprieve will happen. i think it so i think german politics really dictates. that the ten billion offer has to be a final demand so we're looking at a number around seventeen billion euros to recapitalize the entire banking system i don't think credibly the can move beyond ten because it would weaken its negotiating position and ability in any future measures that chooses to take elsewhere you know it still looks the money's going to come from somewhere else cyprus the fifteen point eight doesn't know it's still a third out even if it gets that ten and something was sorted out it's still an out of the woods is it oh it absolutely isn't so although it does look as though

your countrymen over there. one way or another going to be asked to contribute to towards this or indeed forced to contribute i would suggest though that there are perhaps more opportunities let me make sure i don't want to start with you so no use are you saying that russia might be forced to contribute i mean what what's the carrot there. well the they can be forced quite easily simply through the stability levy the stability levy to the extent that deposits over one hundred thousand are going to be taxed at nine point nine percent and we know that we were led to understand that there are some substantial russian deposits there then that would that's where the force comes from volution the voluntary way of doing it is to say that perhaps some group some cypriot assets might now well be available for sale which wouldn't previously have been considered now if we look at the greek

situation an acceleration of privatized program is opening up greece to foreign capital in that very same way cyprus could now be opened up to foreign capital and that could well be opportunities in minerals or oil and gas or exploration sites or indeed other measures which would be attractive to russia perhaps in a way that previously might not have been available so as to reach here as well as problems just to recap as you see it with the information you have tonight which way the wind blowing three options might sort something out with europe you think not it might be sorted out with russia you're not sure about that one and the third option opening up the capital investment which is it going to be if you were to put money on it. say a combination of the second and the third think either way it appears that russia is going to have to pay but far from that being a burden let's look at the fact that russia is the ninth largest economy in the

world it's a two trillion dollar g.d.p. and in fact there are opportunities here for the state which to open up which might previously have not been available so it's not there so really all bad news could be some real strategic opportunities to parsons the national strategy bank thank you for your time we do appreciate it you're welcome. now the man who engineered britain's the stereotype programs are looking to rebrand themselves were talking about that very soon tonight the u.k. chancellor of the exchequer zambelli a new budget which invasions cutting corporate taxes even more while introducing a host of new duties including a levy on alcohol. the next us officials have admitted that the number of guantanamo bay detainees on hunger strike has almost doubled since last week they've also said that at least eight inmates are being force fed but they dismissed lawyers claims of prisoner abuse russia's voiced concern over the hunger strike while the un human rights body is taking a cautious stance on the issue. has got the details. the hunger strike of

guantanamo inmates has been causing concerns and condemnation worldwide from the human rights organizations and activists russia has now joined in in this criticism earlier we spoke to constantin del go for the advise of the russian foreign minister on the human rights issues and he was also very critical of the events at guantanamo prison. many international human rights organizations have acknowledged that the guantanamo bay prisoners are living in a rights vacuum with interrogation methods and confinement conditions are violating major human rights standards and of course will but undermine the us as an international rights watchdog the prison is operational despite its inmates winning almost half of their appeals which were later overruled by higher courts because we have repeatedly drawn the attention of our american colleagues that the very existence of this detention camp marez its human rights defender reputation as the us likes to see itself double standards are obvious here and we hope that

eventually the guantanamo problem will be solved once and for all all artsy also asked for comments from the united nations high commissioner for human rights the organizations there guys it's reply to us by saying that they were looking into the legit mistreatment and the hunger strike itself but so far they cannot confirm it and there are certain fears that the un watchdog simply has no access to the guantanamo inmates the ones on hunger strike and the only information we've managed to garner so far came from the lawyers of the inmates and they they are the ones who have been ringing alarm bells and informing the public and r.t. in particular of everything happening behind bars in the prison there have been no comments coming from u.s. authorities from officials from defense officials which is causing more reasons for condemnation and concern among the human rights activists as i've said most of the information comes from lawyers thanks to them we know that some of the inmates on

hunger strike. have already been losing consciousness and coughing blood and there are certain fears that in two days on the forty fifth day of the hunger strike they might start having problems with eyesight and even more serious health problems because their condition is deteriorating the only comment we've received from the us officials from the guantanamo officials in particular was that the number of inmates going on hunger strike has doubled over the last ten days and now amounts to twenty four people but that's been the rest of the information has been concealed and this is certainly causing concerns especially given the fact that the u.s. has been a strong advocate of human rights worldwide but when it comes to a legit violations of human rights on its own territory both some people the officials are keeping one everyone in the dark on the situation of course we are following all the developments in this bizarre story and we'll be getting more information from the lawyers which will of course we'll be forming our viewers as we get it absolutely like seriously there now barack obama's arrived in israel in

his first ever visit to the country as u.s. president at home a bomb has been repeatedly criticized of course by pro israeli lobby lobbyist for distancing himself from tel aviv and some believe there's little chance of the ice thaw in either between the two governments any time soon let's talk about this with political analyst and lives in an aries live in jerusalem hi there which way do you think he's going to go i mean either israel or palestine seem happy with the way the u.s. is handling things where is obama going to lean. well in fact i don't think that those parties is happy with the way that obama is behaving or dealing with the middle east crisis and he spent the first four years of his office first almost doing nothing and apart from just looking from a distance and i think it was his visit that is he is are being is already alive today and is now as we speak is meeting with israeli prime minister binyamin at the now but if i said for years obama is back to the middle east to listen and see or to explore what the two parties have to say but that's that's

a disaster because he had means that he might spend the rest of the four years trying to understand what he had today or what he will be hearing tomorrow and then nothing is going to be is going to happen and the americans for this administration's have so far for so many years adopted the approach of conflict management but not conflict resolution and as long as the americans failed to do it proactive or take out a take a proactive role in bringing the two sides together and defining the terms of reference for negotiations i think that there isn't that big role for the american administration to play on that or do you kind of answered my next question is this going to. split apart the peace process. but it's the way that at least as far as palestinians looking at this visit and my been talking to quite a number of palestinians and there is a i level of frustration of disappointment because president obama at least until

this moment has decided not to visit for instance the way they gave us a lot of fog the legendary leader of the palestinians as they see him at least they won't be the kind of financial anthems of the palestinians and the american anthem is played when the president arrives touches the ground in normal life and that is that means that the visit by president obama to the middle east is more of a state visit to israel and some kind of a sightseeing to the palestinian authority and that is not what the palestinians are expecting from an american president they immediately remind everybody else about the trip that bill clinton first did the first trip to by president bill clinton to the region back in one thousand nine hundred eight when he visited gaza and deem it without a father that don that was a real presidential visit by the u.s. right a couple of years after they also crosses the sun but that was something really highly appreciated by the kind of scene is if you ask but

a scene is on the sea today what do you think of the obama visit there would just tell you we don't even know why he's coming because he's only he's holding the state visitors and he's only visiting them a lot without any stage celebration ceremony and then going to bethlehem that is an indication that he's not going to do anything tangible to sort of the out of his way to conflict and that might be even the start of the end of the two state solution thank you so much for your time said depression we can head to a break and scenario they put around less thanks very much all the way and i'll take it live from moscow from the government and rebel fighters over the latest violence and syria vote more just ahead with me kevin i would hope you stay with us . well for the. money it's technology innovation called the least i'm elements from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see

a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images you're world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all today.

group name the islamic state of iraq says it was behind a series of attacks in baghdad on choose day that killed sixty five people are mostly shiite areas of the city it was sadly the deadliest violence to hit iraq this year it came on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of the country the grim legacy of the iraq invasion could be seen in the city of fallujah most were it to cause also bore the brunt of that massive assault back in two thousand and four the ammunition used there is believed to have contained depleted uranium and white phosphorus and the effects are still being felt a little but this doctor because of a busby author of a number of studies in the matter how big is the problem there dr personally. the problem logically that the rates of illness the terms of cancer congenital malformation are the worst that i have ever seen in any study that's ever been published. in this sort of. the rates of leukemia for

example in under thirty four year olds are thirty times the expected rate based on egypt that's the three thousand eight hundred percent success these unheard of levels of illness but what we're seeing no the true might find interesting is that there is this this is spilling out into the gulf war veterans and we're seeing increases in congenital malformation in american gulf war one veterans and in my own country in the u.k. i've been dealing with a number of cancer cases in young people in young soldiers who are now in their forty's doesn't look is really getting worse in england really briefly doctor you know city second if you can't explain what depleted uranium what weapons are why would you use them as opposed to a conventional warhead. well depleted uranium weapons are normally used against tanks but they seem to develop the new new weapon which contains ukrainian which is a thermobaric weapon which which is very useful for knocking down buildings but we don't know exactly what this weapon is all so the more powerful basically than

a conventional weapon. oh yes yes of course because of good that the actual mass of the uranium is very much greater than the mass of the air so the shock wave that comes off the explosion from one of these weapons contains a lot of particles of uranium which are very heavy and of course they can just wipe out anything and the part that's why it's so deadly the a worry is as we're seeing now apparently the aftereffects of this also affecting servicemen of course official studies though in these affective areas i say official studies concluded that levels of radiation posed no health worries how can that be how does that tell you that you're saying. the problem is there are no facial studies in these areas all there are are studies desktop studies that say that the radiation levels are likely to occur are not high enough on the basis of the current risk model to cause these effects and this is a bit like predicting something that's going to happen while sitting in an office rather than going and seeing what really happens and looking out of the window and

it's quite extraordinary there's been no real studies on the ground except the one that we did the one why the ones that we did well of course it's because they don't want the fish really concede that there is a problem otherwise it would be horrifying to them but they're going to have to do this because it now our own troops on american troops are suffering and their children are suffering dr christopher personally such a big advisor to the low level radiation campaign thanks ever so much free time the program. bridges twenty thirty budget has kept true to the spirit of austerity hiking g.t.s. across the board but also way including a reduction in corporate taxes unveiled by the architect of britain's a sturdy program george osborne it included measures to support those most hard hit by the cuts he tells now than from artie's sarah. chance that was forced to admit that economically we are worse off and yet he said that we're going to be staying on track with our economic plan there's no money around yet we see a lot of tax cuts announced now there's

a whole raft of measures this is always going to see it budgets they take in more as a whole rather than on these individual measures but we can talk he has he said a lot of ties in that's good nice to see. you by councils as penny of the pine thinks this is easy escalator that stuff in the fair tax is something missing campaigned for very hard but and it is a big but for any of the positive news that within that budget announcement there was that we still missing ingredient and that's great and that's what it really comes down to here we see over the years growth has backed me to continue to stagnate and that's really start. to repeat the economy and it seems today again for all the announcements once again that is lacking the budget announcing plan incited with the latest unemployment figures they've gone up living costs have increased as we were listening to chocolate live about twenty thirty budget fight

with some of the phrase has this from some trade unions and his announcements were met so loud that people gathered that they really haven't found a message this government the resonates with british people so for in syria the main opposition coalition is calling for an internationally led investigation into whether chemical weapons were used in the tongue of the northern city of aleppo the rebels and the government blamed each other for these so twenty five people died there including sixteen government troops journalists in damascus but it's got the details for us tonight. that fact occurred in an area called which is in the north of aleppo in an area that was under the control of the government it contained one of the military station it's called the police sent a police training center and this police training center has been and from the opposition for the last three weeks or more and they were very to control it hard because of the difficulty of the hard fighting from the government they could not

control it and now after that attack government claims that opposition who fired. pain in the morning with chemical guises and this chemical guys is led into the killing of three people on the one of the seventy people including some of the doctors were trying to. to heal these people and in this in close by hospitals the government to claim that the opposition was was responsible for it and very and the opposition said at the same time that the government is responsible for the exchange of claims between two of their condition between two parties. well to go to touch with a priest in the town just outside aleppo where that attack took place he told us by phone he can confirm chemical weapons were indeed used. it back who is going to cripple in the hospital and belong to the church i.

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only one year for rape contrast this story with the case of the internet hackers simply known as we who was just sentenced to three and a half years in jail for exposing an unsecured database with an eight hundred secure servers the charges against we've are based on the computer fraud and abuse act the same law that prosecutors used against online activist aaron swartz i could have landed him a life sentence in prison might be missing something here what kind of message are we sending to our youth when computer doctors and internet activists are facing life in prison yet rapists can walk free after year look this is just one example of how warped the justice system is in this country and that's why i'm breaking the set goals. little.