cyprus officials i mean you're accredits a flight to moscow to stretch out a three way rescue as the island sees over shuttered banks and a cold shoulder from your royal. a rocket attack on israel mas obama's visit to the region as he meets palestinian leader mahmoud abbas some made hopes of bringing peace closer. to the united nations is a to investigate the alleged deadly chemical attack in aleppo following demands up for a quote from both the syrian government and the opposition who they choose each other all the assaults.

where were you watching us or you live with all do you thank you for being with us i'm to mom with a with the maid has international news. right that the cypriot a finance minister is in moscow as talk such as savor the also banking from bankruptcy and to crunch time the stakes are high the speculation that cypress could offer a natural gas exploration rights to secure russian help time is running all over the island nation as a dwindling cash reserves pressured towards default. picks up the story. the cypriot finance minister is explaining that the country doesn't need a new loan from russia but needs investment in exchange for this investment it's really true for shares and it's very king and the energy sector minister has been in moscow for the last few days of negotiating with russian officials so far he says there. but he stressed that he's not leaving until an agreement is reached in the meantime a delegation of senior european union officials is also in the russian capital

including the head of the european commission amount of borrowers of course are also discussing the crisis in cyprus and earlier russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev i some really strong words to say about the situation but the fear so far the e.u. together with the cyprus parliament have unfortunately acted like a bull in a china shop i think all possible mistakes which could have been made in this situation have been made fun of bustled middle of the prime minister didn't stop there he also compared the european union's officials approach to the crisis to powell soviet authorities downs with the private funds of soviet citizens meaning the expropriation of private property of course all this is happening after cyprus have rejected the bailout plan proposed by brussels and mostly the so-called droid of investors which included taxing private bank accounts of the country is still on the verge of bankruptcy there is unconfirmed speculation that the cypriot problem and is

a looking at an alternative plan to get out get out of the crisis which may even allegedly include getting out of the euro zone altogether with time is running out for the country and its president said that a decision must be made before the end of the day and for more on all this i'm now joined by the editor in chief of the business new york magazine ben eris mr harris thank you very much for joining me and well about this latest speculation it's really unconfirmed reports but theoretically how possible is it for cyprus to actually get out of the euro zone and what consequences meters. can happen i mean being pushed into a corner being told to come up with five point eight billion dollars and they have got it and they hear it must go negotiating with the russians trying to raise the money but then if the russians say no then they simply haven't got the money and then come monday then they run out of money the system goes into melt. how do you get out of that i mean you. remake on europe occasions and you leave the earth. is

very possible scenario so i pressed now says that it's not looking for a loan from russia but earlier the head of the euro group said that if russia gave a loan to cyprus then it would be it would just destabilize the whole situation greater too big of a loan for cyprus to handle so is this a sign that something like that is fair to say or is it a sign that european officials are just simply in opposition to russia trying to get involved in resolving the thing there's a lot of rhetoric flying around over this this whole case it's become highly emotive and people seem to lost their sense of balance when commenting on it and it also seems a bit rich to come from western european to say that you know they haven't sustainable when most of those countries are laboring under one hundred percent g.d.p. . g.d.p. which is under the musketeer also unsustainable i think the issue here is that you know cyprus needs to raise some money but the e.u. is saying on the one hand we're not going to give you more than ten billion dollars

for the seventeen you say you need and on the other hand but you can't go to the russians to raise it either and so it seems to me that they're almost precipitating a crisis it doesn't make any sense. the european central bank has said in the ultimatum for cyprus either strike a bailout deal by monday all be cut off from the emergency funds about would be a devastating day for when banks remain shut to prevent them as a cash withdrawals. has a more on what's happening in the capital. the c.c.p. message is so widespread now across the capital at least when you walk down the street wherever there's a television it's on the news channel and they know that the e.c.b. has that liquidity flow to cyprus will end on monday if there was no e.u. or i.m.f. program in place and that really poses a problem as far as cash flow was concerned we've already gone to some a.t.m. machines are people winding up they're trying to get some cash and some people tell

me about their limit of the amount of money they can get from from one withdrawal has lessened some for four hundred for example to about two hundred euros we also went to a gas station and there are signs that they don't know longer except these are cards only cash because i think he said if you don't have any cash that you won't get any gas because they have to hold on to was much cash as they want as far as sentiment goes so there's a a super bowl here that said that ninety one percent of us cypriots have rejected the back the calls of levy imposing decided upon in brussels and sixty seven percent now favor and exit from the euro zone and stronger relations with russia i think many people are just simply trying to find out if there's anybody out there who can help them because they know that the star situation of the financial situation directly impacts their daily lives really some people are telling me that they have to ask their family members just to have a couple of hundred euros to have groceries until the next week so the situation on the ground really i think it's it's kind of spiraling getting getting

a little bit more intense as people realize that they're running out of cash money in their pockets literally and when i asked them look the banks will open next week possibly tuesday and they asked me back well what if it doesn't open i think this question that's having over their heads is really what's worrying. the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has been hosting talks with us president barack obama is on his first ever visit to the west bank palestinians away left is illusion too with the meeting saying obama avoided the most. grave obstacles to peace in the region obama serve has been overshadowed by reports of a gazan rocket attack on israel came after the meeting on wednesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu there a good way ham who's an activist and says obama has always sided with israel and his visit shows nothing's changed the palestinians are expecting very much.

he has come and he has basically told the israelis that he is their ally and he will do everything he can possible to hurt the israeli situation where he has actually said nothing and regards to the palestinians he hasn't mentioned settlement phrases he hasn't. the sixty seven borders he has giving nothing to the palestinians the main obstacle has and always will be the circle and they have continued to build settlements after day after day. governments continuously announce new settlements and the world stands by and obama himself has actually called the freeze of settlements and the israelis just ignore what he says and continue what they're doing what they're doing. he's a policy or has been looking into claims that obama's wednesday meeting with prime minister netanyahu was wasn't very productive either it's already been a handful of demonstrations against the american president here in the west bank and we don't expect anything from obama he met netanyahu yesterday in israel and he

didn't say one word about the palestinians or the palestinian state or this visit is just for supporting israel they're not considering the palestinians at all we don't welcome a bomber in palestine he's a partner in killing us palestinians there are prisoners who are on hunger strike in israeli prisons and he doesn't care about them or about this nation. the united states is standing against any attempts to move the peace process forward the last one was the american veto and they refused to let us be part of the united nations this american government that supports terrorism globally they're killing the syrian nation and the afghan nation and all around the world. there were four rockets that were fired from the northern gaza and town of beit hanoun as israel two landed inside gaza but one landed in the back yard of a residential home in the southern israeli town of stuart now there were no injuries although there was some damage to the back yard this coming on the second

day of the american president barack obama's visit to the region so he obama so far is speaking primarily to the israeli public and he admitted as much last night after he met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he said that his goal is to talk to the israelis he's spoken about the importance of israeli security and he's also committed american financial assistance to israel particularly in terms of military programs beyond two thousand and seventeen when the current contracts expire now there's been very little mention so far of the palestinians of the peace process of the continued israeli settlement expansion and this is in stark contrast to the speech the president gave back in two thousand and nine in cairo when he said that one of his priorities in terms of his foreign policy was was oving the palestinian issue having said that though there is a lot of mistrust between obama and netanyahu there is a lot of areas and disagreement they certainly don't see eye to eye on the issue of

iraq and here we have mr neon who continuing to call for a military strike while obama continues to say that all options are on the table and that there is still time for diplomacy so certainly in this what we see is that despite the p.r. efforts there is no running away from the fact that mr han yahoo still holds firm to israeli commitment even if it means turning his back on his close allies we here in this clip israel can never grow to different persons to others even to the greatest of our friends the palestinian position is that they needs to be a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders there needs to be a halt in construction of settlements and in this respect the anticipation and at least the analysis on the ground is that obama is not going to push the israelis but rather push the palestinians to meet these radio demands. well you can find to all the other latest updates on the protests in palestine and obama's meeting with mahmoud abbas on policy has a twitter page or follow her on policy there on the school and r.t.

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overseeing the prison says the detainees are starving themselves with two near death out of frustration at obama's failure to close down the prison. british veterans of the eighty years a world war two arctic convoys have finally been recognized for their valor but questions the lindo over why they weren't allowed to accept medals of from moscow that's coming up. with. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. we are facing a lot of problems. because no what i think. we do things are for.

other local what's not enough wealth is a law in the local media one a community l.n.g. motion will be used. i don't give it. you get it done for america up artist i was hired to bark i must fight. fight. fight but right. now back to our top story leaders have joined a superdome fishelson mall school as a trying to thresh out of a deal to save the mediterranean nation from bankruptcy let's get some more insight on the problem that's facing fine pris now with economist to harry bean who's

a lecturer at the university of minnesota mr bean that you'll reform a bank of just how desperate is the situation. i think situation is very desperate . looking at the markets things over there seem to be pretty calm but of course behind the scenes people are very very nervous. it's hard to say what is going to happen within the next few hours or the next few days. i don't know how people over there in russia do their business but i just can't imagine russia jumping in here would you buy an insolvent bank or give a loan to an insolvent bank when you know that the minister they open back there or they open up their doors again you will see you will see a big bank run so it's very hard to say and i guess the market is still hoping or the way it's trading at the moment it seems to be the archivist still hoping that

some form or another has a central banks will rescue this whole situation you know we're talking about the drug pushers or the been there to put it whatever you want to call it it's tricky let me ask you this why is that a tricky the fact that russia wants to help with cyprus given that the germans are they've they've got all these ultimatums on the table and the cyber the super bowl say what you come up to those are. the taxes that you want do we have to think about all people what if assuming russia doesn't decide to help outside of prison what's wrong with that i guess i don't understand if somebody doesn't want to help you but you can get help elsewhere why is that a problem. well the problem is don't forget that we are headed for elections in germany we have elections here in the area where have elections stated we have elections in germany as a whole the whole rescue packages that we have gone through in the past have been totally on public with determined how taxpayer and. we're going to have

now with a simple solution to what we've got in the past you just cannot sell it to the german taxpayer i guess that's an issue as well. also you don't you shouldn't forget that those negotiations go she was a cyprus are very complicated every party has to keep up its bargaining power and so we it's like a mystery you know. you have to be on guard you have to bluff and god knows what will happen and us germans we're not saying we shouldn't hold cyprus but the germans told that at the end of the day the money the loans the guarantees whatever you want to call it does not support the people in cyprus it's supporting the banks that supporting the bank owners it's supporting wall street and supporting the people and that's the whole issue here harry being economists and the show at the universe of men's that i wish we had more time with you to pick your brain on the

situation that's happening at the in cyprus i thank you for your time thanks for having me. un chief ban ki moon has pledged to send a group of independent experts to syria to investigate an alleged chemical attack but the government and the opposition have called for such an investigation after trading accusations to who was behind the assault which killed up to thirty one people near the northern city of aleppo. is following developments. reports that chemical weapons have been used in the. area of the aleppo province this is are not clear at the moment people were rushed to hospital after the attack few had visible wounds to their bodies but some of them were clearly suffering from some breathing difficulties now the exams of the assaults were saying that they saw other people falling to the floor dying witnesses have confirmed to r.t. that people have been suffering from effects of what seems to be some sort of guess

. who are good people in the house. you hear. three. where you're. over. now who could be behind this attack both assad's forces and rebels are pointing the finger of blame at each other but the rockets reportedly fell in areas controlled by the government the syrian rebels have long tried to overrun the weapons plant located in the very same area you can see on the map right there aleppo and then also fear that is the place where some of the country's chemical stockpile is said to be stored in fact the syrian government said in december that rebel forces plundered supplied of chlorine gas and some time ago this video was posted online showing animals purportedly being killed with chemicals those behind this footage affiliated themselves with assad's opponents and threaten to do the same with those who support the syrian president yet all of this evidence doesn't

seem to convince president obama deeply skeptical. it was the opposition that used chemical weapons and interesting use of the word skeptical with the stakes being so high one of the biggest concerns for all is this an area where syria's chemical arsenal falls into the hands of extremists fighters among opposition forces as history has shown there are examples when fighters supported by the west have eventually turned their arms against their backers now let's for just a moment imagine that extremists among the rebel fighters could get hold of chemical weapons how bad could the rounded attacks for example of two thousand and five have been if that was the case we've already seen images of a chemical attack on a subway in a huge city in one thousand nine hundred five in tokyo by religious sect now imagine a similar scenario was staged by people who work throughout the conflict in syria initially supported by the west the u.s. general in charge of overseeing guantanamo bay the hunger strike among prisoners

shows they're frustrated with the government's failure to close the facility however the detainees lawyers are say it is over abuse and the desecration of the koran the number of participants acknowledged by the pentagon has now risen to twenty five but attorneys maintain it's more than one hundred dollars and brings us the latest. what we see here is a small protest in front of the white house one tom all has been out of the media spotlight for a while now you don't see much coverage on major u.s. news channels even with the hunger strike going on there right now so these people are trying to draw attention to the detainees more than fifty lawyers representing the president sent a letter to defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help in that letter they said the participants health had deteriorated alarmingly and some had lost more than twenty or thirty pounds that is nine to fourteen kilograms medical experts say by day forty five participants can experience potential blindness and potential loss of hearing so what prompted these people to resort to such

a desperate move i was a consultant on if you were the case. those men would tell their attorney basically i don't want to talk with your what's the point of talking with you i don't want to know the date i'm going to get out of here but there are no gay people all. being completely oh as many of the detainees have come to believe in this what they say we've heard this from their lawyers that the only way out of guantanamo for them is in a coffin in january a state department shut down the office that was working to close guantanamo more than half of those detainees are sitting there with papers from the u.s. government clearing them for release and yet with no hope that they're ever going to be free again the officials are certainly trying to downplay the hunger strike but they're pressed for answers and they sure know what's going on and what caused the strike in the first place marine corps general john kelly and it's his command that oversees kuantan most he was testifying in congress this wednesday he said the prisoners had launched the hunger strike because they're frustrated take

a listen they had great optimism that guantanamo would be closed they were devastated when the president did you know backed off at least their perception of closing the facility that has caused them to become frustrated and they want to get this i think turned you don't get it back in the media. on our part will continue to press officials for answers as the strike continues and involves more people in washington i'm going to check on. a select group of u.k. world war two veterans have been awarded by prime minister david cameron for their service during the convoys the convoys aboard supplies into the soviet union in the fight against nazi germany last year london was criticized for rejecting moscow's offer to grant to the british veterans a special award and as part of bhojpuri paul's feelings of whether judah tends to with sadness and anger. a quarter of a million men took part in the arctic convoys over seventy years ago sadly today

just a handful of those brave men still survive after decades of campaigning the case convoy veterans are downing street to pick up their new limited medals but launch projects will be worth it it's been a long. bridge between a wonderful day long time coming but. one will be a sadness his own. ship might cross the back. and forth. during the war ninety two year old vic bashford served in the royal air force as an electrical engineer he was part of a secret operation that traveled on board the first optic convoy to russia back in one thousand nine hundred forty one. mr druce you start a second front to grow back. into we're in the frog to relieve the pressure on the russians mr churchill said we will thorough new some airplanes and we'll soon

you're going to fly them well so near the moon to the buying time and. i will treat you and we will show you some more appliance so that's how we came to to be in the in russia during world war two british ships transported around four million tons of supplies food and munitions for the soviet union more than three thousand sailors didn't survive the journey west subzero temperatures and german air raids were a fact of life on earth. on the rigging on the royals on the dirt and you got this crash. of the. frogs and of course you got the die after die after there so you can be a bit frightening last year the british government came under fire for blocking veterans from receiving a special commemorative award from the russian government that medal was to be awarded as

a symbol of gratitude for all that british veterans did to help the soviet union during the darkest days of the war and we now know we went through. yet despite the opposition of m.p.'s the foreign office blocked the move saying the fight against nazi germany happened too long ago for the men to be recognised effectively leaving some veterans to die without recognition for their service and the thanks state as i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful that the we would not become a doom's and the austro humans are those that wouldn't be american. not only been a warrior it motivates that one of us he would normally do the russians he was with us. this arctic star is. a little bit of a soft. if you're. not with the pride that

i would. the russians. for those who braved the arctic waters and served their country all those years ago it's a day of celebration shaking hands with the prime minister followed by a reception on the h.m.s. belfast with their arctic stars in tow but for many it's a celebration that's left a bitter aftertaste for the owner that's come too late for those who could still wear it. r.t. london coming up the documentary baghdad to texas. jorge rios an argentinian student at seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so that they get

to take part in a u.s. state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week what was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgeon i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joint to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table

why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable foreigners to work for two dollars an hour cheaper it is corporate greed and their absolute disrespect for americans that allows this to happen just pay the extra two dollars and have americans work for you to cheap corporate pigs but that's just my opinion. on the road to basra this morning.