super is a panic over billions in luck savings and lead shot at the government saying goodbye job cuts and harsh treatment from you roy. china's new leader is in moscow on his first official foreign visitor as of two powers the seek a greater joint role in global affairs. syria's main opposition but he stands accused by mags a member of a moving towards radical islam and failing to represent the people this as a number of those killed in a damascus suicide bombing rises to forty nine. and one tunnel bail fishbowls of knowledge the number of hunger strikes at the detention center is growing while human rights groups have put the figure at over one hundred.

you watching r t live from moscow with me to say it's good to have your company with us. riot police have cordoned off the cypriot polman as angry crowds to descend on the legislature for a fifth day running the protesters are urging the government not to bend to e.u. pressure brussels once the super to parliament to push through a highly unpopular tax that could wipe out ten percent of people savings the proposal has already been rejected once but there's growing concern that cyprus will be forced to accept it the country's banks have been paralyzed for almost a week now and syria reports people are bracing themselves for the worst. all of this a panic this negativity started of course on the announcement over the weekend from

brussels that in order to get a ten billion euro bailout package cyprus will have to cough up about five point eight billion of the suggestion was to impose a back to levy tax on back holders deposits now ninety one percent of cypriots according to a poll have been against. back tax and there we've seen protests on the streets of people angry really at the e.u. at the troika and specifically a germany they feel of the country has been cornered into a position where they really have no choice but to take a very hard decision now here's what some of the cypriots feel right now towards europe. this is. everybody says we're going to start going over there we're going to build a series of. these stuff. you should be asia and they didn't have these should usually just for women resume is arguably just

money once the russians hold the site very. well the mood here in nicosia cyprus remains rather negative it seems of the people feel that they're receiving one bad news after another the latest being that the european central bank will only continue to provide liquidity to the country until monday and after that it will only continue to do so. so if there was an i.m.f. program in place now this means that there really is a cash problem on the ground seen cypriots going out to a.t.m.'s early in the morning trying to get as much cash as they could are some have told me that the limit on their cars the amount that they can take for the bank has changed has been rumored they've also been speaking to some shopkeepers they're really having a problem be seen big losses in their business and it's been a headache for them since this started. my business is down over seventy percent in just the last few days. so you really read that.

and one of the direct effects of the financial predicament cyprus is you can already feel on the ground here the size of it put up only cash no visa cards allowed at this gas station we really want to hold on to was much cash as they could as the banks will be closed until next week and really they're not confident that the banks will reopen when the government said it would it's just to be safe because he decides if you don't have cash you won't get. the cash to pay. for our people. something we have to pay in cash so we take on the question now was the political leaders along with the financial sector here trying to figure out a way to maneuver the country out of this predicament that people are simply sitting tight trying to hold on against it was much cash as they can because really for them their main concern is how to get through these next few days when they've already experienced being in limbo for the past week reporting for nicosia cyprus.

does as well and all the developments in the cypriot capital for us and posting regular updates and pictures among the latest from her is that crisis better greece has pledged jones's cyprus to the tune of six hundred million euros now the chancellor angela merkel is now warning side. of the boundaries of the troika's patients that's after one avenue of a rescue a deal with russia all but evaporates because. on a rescue plan after intense negotiations in the russian capital. ships he picks up the story. prime minister medvedev said that russia will be willing to provide any needed assistance to rescue the cypriot economy only when brussels and you can see a find a common language on the ways out of this crisis this came shortly after the cypriot finance minister said that he had not received any help he was willing to get in a moscow and left the russian capital the proposals by the cypriot finance minister

off joint company between cyprus and russia on exploring the natural resources fields on the island did not meet any interest on the russian investment companies and the chance of russia providing an emergency loan to the island was not even considered because cyprus is under a certain limit imposed by the european union of having loans from other countries and by getting this loan from russia it would have violated this limit and certainly violated the internal economic agreements within the european union so that's where the talks between cyprus and russia stalled that's why the finance minister had to leave moscow in some way that indeed the european union is the final straw for the island for cyprus but here things are not also quite easy because brussels still insists that cyprus must impose the much maligned deposit tax something of course which is causing controversy and protests on the island and

also apart from all other regulations analysts are saying that the bailout loan itself would not completely rescue the cypriot economy because it's much more money will be needed to rescue this situation and you can see it will have to find the money elsewhere and certainly this remains a big question where it could find the money apart from that certainly there's a certain political wrangling happening between brussels and you could see it with the head of the cypriot parliament saying that they will vote on the turn it's of good blood. without considering the limitations and regulations over the european union and at the same angle america has stressed that i quote cyprus must behave accordingly with the european union regulations and must not test the boundaries of the troika patients and of quote so definitely this is a rollercoaster ride and as it stands cyprus may be plunging into

a default unless any kind of common language and compromise is found any time soon the cypriot government is here to prison the e.u. and i.m.f. with a new planned up to plan not be a bailout but under is a bit care is a candidate for the bavarian pall of and says the upcoming germany elections are forcing berlin to get tough on cyprus now we are in a complicated situation and why the european union is so harsh i cannot explain for chancellor merkel it's the elections upcoming in september. that's why she demands the people of so i just have to. carry birds your however for me this cannot be a loose solution you cannot solve this situation by adding debt like the ten billion now the european union. to great as a no one has

a guarantee whatever about this will be no sustainable solution will put it bloomed most austerity to the people of cyprus they did it for them and now they change years because because of the upcoming elections boaters will not go on with the government policy like this. catching the chinese winded russia's economic sails that's one of the russia's president vladimir putin says he's aiming to do is currently signing corporation agreements with the new chinese leader after landmark talks in moscow using ping picked up by russia for his for a trip abroad since the taking office earlier this month our correspondent at least an hour has more. let's not forget that vladimir putin picked china as his first stop in this term as president now the favor is being returned changing pings first

visit abroad here to russia certainly not a coincidence and least that's not the way it's being seen but as a sign a symbol even a message perhaps to other leaders to other nations that this partnership is a strong one and it's only growing at the forefront economic cooperation and a joint interest to break the washington consensus around the world and transform the global stage into a multi-polar one. pushing two powers together a common goal to shift global balance is forging a tie between russia and china that could soon be unbreakable a new chinese leader his first stop moscow something surely washington must notice but is brushing off no they don't take it seriously at their own peril russia and china fellow brics major trade partners and team players at the u.n. security council are there too often stand up against intervention and to gresham

mosco and beijing a scene really impacts of nature back to tax and they don't want the instability that washington seeks in the middle east beijing and moscow want to do business china is booming and russia is right next door the potential for gas deals and pipelines are vast as soon as the two can agree on a price russia also sees china as a way to diversify its economy like helping tap untouched water sources in the east and investing in the west now they could join forces on cooperation militarily but it's the inevitable life in brazil two of the the type of us that asia pacific pivot that is it is threatening china on one side and the nato increasing military encircled in the russian on the other side the more the us. pushes its agenda in certain parts of the world the closer they push russia and china together that opens the door for growth and enormous economic ramifications the nations that make

up the brics group may be divergent but experts now see they are much more than an acronym coined by a guy at goldman sachs and the brics are developing fast they agree on all of the fundamentals that if they want a multi-polar world and they want to have more say on what happens in a geo politically for what they need to do is put their money where their mouth is that's the sort answer according to the lead singer of putin the main goal now is to move from a dialogue based format that focuses on smaller issues more relative to them to a full scale strategic cooperation mechanism that focuses on solving key global issues together in order for them to do that they need to push forward with their plans of a brics development bank that could counter institutions like the i.m.f. professor joseph chang a political analyst at hong kong city university believes the economic alliance between russia and china could serve as the foundation for expanding the global

role of a brick screwup the prick's countries to look to their staff effective mechanisms to get their act together i think there is a lot of complementarity among the brics you commonly used with china's capital with. huge surprise of natural resources and so on and of course again there is a very strong common interest in the sense that all five members like to see a larger role in do you term national community. trade between russia and china has been growing steadily in recent to get as an r.t.s. katie pilgrim has more details on the numbers and the types of deals being struck. just to give you an idea as to how much money can be made traders for cost to exceed one hundred billion dollars in it twenty fifteen off the already growing

over ten percent last year and now by twenty twenty we could be looking at two hundred billion dollars trade. a lot of it is energy so we are talking about oil as well with eagle sets in the head of ross nash so the world's biggest or producer now us set to meet the new leader of china he's going to be discussing an increase of exports to china which could equate to one million barrels a day by twenty eight tain and it's not just energy deals going on though we've also got delivery of arms contracts as well being discussed so really it's straight to business i'm obey in ways a joint a hunger strike over alleged abuse and military authorities reluctantly a the scope of the protest that's more coming after this break.

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technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back you're watching r.t. officials at the one tunnel bay detention center in cuba have a knowledge more detainees are joining the hunger strike over alleged mistreatment of human rights group representing several inmates has reported the number is now over one hundred the pentagon though claims that the figure is a much more low up the protests in there for now for on the forty five day which according to doctors marks a critical point when the body is deprived of food at least one former u.k.

resident is being kept there without charge artie's playboy club takes up the story r.t. turned to the u.k. foreign office for that position and we can have a listen to the statement that we were saved back right now the u.k. has long held that indefinite detention without review a fair trial is unacceptable and we welcome president obama's continuing commitment to closing the detention facility at guantanamo bay and to maintain the lawful sustainable and principled regime for the handling of detainees there. so quite an anodyne tax thread that sounds like it could be in some serious need of updating actually it refers to us president obama's continuing commitment to closing down the prison now the closure of guantanamo bay was actually one of us president obama's main campaign promises back in the two thousand and eight presidential

election it's something he's spoken about a lot it's a promise he's made repeatedly yet. later and nothing has happened in fact the only shutting down that's taken place recently is the closure of the government office that's charged with transferring the detainees and closing down the prison so just to recap in case that sounds in any way peculiar they've closed down the office that's meant to close down guantanamo bay and the british foreign office supports this continuing commitment to shutting down the facility shakir i am a has been. at guantanamo bay for over eleven years now and quite astonishingly this is a man who's never been charged with any wrongdoing he's never been put on trial he's been cleared for release twice yet he's still there the british government's efforts to negotiate his release have been few they've been feeble and most

importantly they've been completely and utterly fruitless so the red cross human rights watch amnesty international they've all expressed frustration that they haven't been allowed to visit detainees they condemn what's been taking place at the facility for over a decade now but at the same time over here in the u.k. there's been little more than a peep from the mainstream media both about shakar amma and about guantanamo bay in general with this little awareness of the situation shachar amma's future is very much uncertain. for expert opinion on the story i'm joined by an m.e.p. from the u.k.'s green party jean. must lambert why is the u.k. so reluctant to push for the release of shaker the british resident held in guantanamo without charge or for no other a decade. well it's very unclear why they're so reluctant we've been

told that they have been putting pressure on we were told this back in two thousand and eleven and yet zero report was very accurately saying here are two governments both of which believe this man could be released and yet we haven't seen it there are a couple of barriers we think one is that there's now a law in the united states which basically says that anybody who is released from guantanamo must basically commit to not committing a crime in the future which i think many of us would think is a totally unrealistic commitment for any human being to make and there's also a theory that. the if he's back in the u.k. then chances are he will actually be talking about not only his experiences in guantanamo but what also happened to him earlier in bagram in terms potentially of allegations of torture and therefore there's this desire to sort of keep that very quiet and not bring that into the open but whatever it is there's

a real frustration from those of his campaigning for his release and of course for his family it's desperate he has a child that was born after he was a detained child that he has not yet even see and this is totally hooked up to the u.k. foreign office said it supports the commitment to close guantanamo do you think they've taken any steps or to speed up their process. we haven't really seen any steps to speed up that process one of the things that many of us have been saying is that. pressure could be put on other governments friendly governments within the european union maybe elsewhere in the world to actually take some of those guantanamo detainees who have been cleared for release it's approximately seventy people who have been cleared and yet no solution has been found for them some countries the u.k. is one have already taken some of their own residence but nobody is are seems to be

offering any additional help at the moment so the united states is basically left with no solution as to where these people can go and as your report says as well they appear to actually have given up really trying to find a real solution for these people which is horrendous and a real blot on the human rights record i think of the united states president barack obama when he first stepped into the scene as president he said that his fear for is a major you know work it's a close up of guantanamo but now the u.s. military has asked for forty nine million dollars to construct a new prison building at the facility how does this all add up well i don't think it does add up i think the bomber when he president obama when he came in thought i think that it was going to be fairly easy to actually close guantanamo he hadn't recognized reckoned on the opposition from its own congress and senate that refused

to allow inmates to actually be moved to the u.s. mainland you know for those that needed to be held needed to face trial and so he's faced barriers internally on this the idea of investing in a new facility there. part of you says well if they're keeping people at least keep them in more humane conditions but actually the real solution is to get this place closed for those for whom they think there are realistic charges put them on trial have an open a public trial for those that have been cleared for release police can the international community work here to actually find a solution and that's not a solution which involves returning people to countries they don't want to go back to because they feel themselves at risk you know this is a handful of people sixty people we really close as in the world are seriously jean lebed to the u.k. green party m.e.p. live from london thank you. at least forty nine people including

a senior muslim cleric have been killed in a suicide bombing in central damascus president bashar al assad has vowed to avenge his friend's death by ridding syria of extremists more than eighty others were injured in the explosion which authorities suspect targeted the cleric muhammad are a sunni muslim all beauty was an important pillar of support for president bashar assad who is part of a smaller a wider sect it's the first suicide attack to hit a mosque since the syrian uprising began reported abdulemam azimi has the details. the most shocking news and most details that after the bomb they discovered another bomb which is the daughter of the most. happily the happy news that it wasn't exploded. they managed to or dissolve it's inside the mosque of mystery which is one of the most important school in syria and one of the most important one in the islamic would he is the one who was targeted mainly because he was he was

considered a supporter of. the syrian government and he made some strong speeches every friday trying to convince people to join the army and fight for their country and he was he was under a lot of threats around the time of the and said rest in syria but he insisted on his and his position and did not change into becoming one of this one of the people who are. evolution and with the added rest. ok we're receiving breaking news or this all while that reports all the protesters that have stormed the muslim brotherhood headquarters in the egyptian capital of cairo we are still gathering that information from our correspondent bill true who give us more in the next hour meanwhile cracks up hearing in the n.t. the syrian national coalition after the election of

a new prime minister in rebel held areas top members of the body initially resigned from the umbrella opposition group after a u.s. citizen son he was for today and. who has been involved in the n.t. says radicals now dominate the coalition. the coalition went too far forming and monochrome government which we can characterize as extremists the reason behind this is the mechanisms that we used in the selection of a head of government were wrong and undemocratic this coalition wasn't elected it was appointed and radicals make up the majority does not match the reality of syrian society if this coalition was the result of free and fair elections then we would have accepted the results of the vote one should not deprive syrian minorities of the right to participate in political life as one should not to bribe the syrian liberal political groups of their rights at this stage of rebuilding our homeland the coalition should not be about revolutionary power it should be about

a legitimate government of the german government should represent the opinions and interests of the whole syrian nation our position is balanced and we say that what we are seeing now is wrong. i'll be back with more international news in around thirty minutes time but i headed to abby martin of the breaking the sad. jorge rios an argentinean 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 but was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgery i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real sick. plain 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 swelled 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 that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less and less. i mean . that is really not so. very so personally. it's. worse cheaper to. buy the house of a. radio guy and four minutes from a click. away what we're about to do is you never seen anything like this i'm cold .