the bailout battle cyprus struggles to meet e.u. demands for a rescue package ahead of monday's deadline with some harsh warnings that europe's patience is running out. violence flaring in egypt protesters break into the muslim brotherhood building in cairo. with riot police outside. like in the deal moscow and beijing agreed to double all supplies to china as president she visits russia on its first official overseas in gage's deal as one of several key green on energy and try. and desperate act of defiance in guantanamo a mass hunger strike is entering its the sixth day the pentagon asking for almost fifteen million dollars to renovate the tory's prison camp.

international news and comment watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me and. now the clock is ticking for debt stricken cyprus to meet conditions for a ten billion euro e.u. bailout the country's parliament has approved several key bills restructuring its banks but is yet to decide on the most contentious measure the levy on bank deposits the deadlines much the deadlines monday when the european central bank says it will cut off funds to cypriot banks. is following the torturous debates in the country's parliament and the mood on the street. now the cypriot parliament has passed a series of bills which review part of a package that they will present to the troika to get approval in order to get the ten billion euro bailout they needed to save their country from bankruptcy their

banks essentially now one of these bills pass is one on capital controls that could be imposed on bags essentially means restricting the access of some people or to their accounts and also restricting the flow of money in and out of cypriot bank accounts of the other bill passes creating that solidarity fund which essentially means pooling state assets together to create this fund to contribute to the amount of money they need to present in order to get that bailout again and another bill that was approved was restructuring banks other people started protesting on the streets when it was announced that one of the conditions is imposing a tax on bank deposits of cypriot bank account holders and the people were certainly not happy with this this would eat into their savings they were worried that they will lose that amount of money now this is still a question and the parliamentarians here are still going to be debating on our how much that will be how a percentage that will be on which kind of back accounts of cypriot bank holders that will be as well so it's still a big question and this is an answer to that people are certainly going to be waiting for you've been out into the street speaking to the people on how they

actually feel about the decisions that their leaders have been making so we're here with a meeting void of protesters for the past two days here in cyprus ever since the announcement over the last weekend that the weather will be giving the ten billion euros a bailout like conditions that they were willing to accept and it's really been a combination of very fast the derating of bad news for cypriots and also some slow moving developments of finding solutions to the problems that they're facing now there's really a cash problem in the country the banks are going to going to be close until next week many people have already gone out to the street tried to get some money from the a.t.m. the people gathered here it's really an interesting mix of there are some people worried for the possibility of losing their jobs there's even some foreigners who have called cyprus home were worried about their savings holdings. to some of them and here's what they had to say the banking crisis has affected us to know we can get the money with her and we work in cyprus where not jobless but we can get cash out of a.t.m. machines. we've invested our money into the economy of cyprus but they could cut us

off what are the grounds for that. we have to get out of the euro but we will stay home how they would pay us and our kids. we don't accept each other that would be no development with us and nobody would come to the side of the story that's not part of it as such to see the leaders from here we are those guys over there beyond the carriages the people of come out to the streets really want to get their voices heard by the leaders who make their way to parliament to those meetings and come up with solutions for the country and this is going to be a common sight now in many troubled you so nations people coming out to the streets in the past few days many like spoke it said that the one question on their minds is how is this going to go on leave we want to know when will that solution might be found reportedly to see a cyprus contest are silly. or german chancellor angela merkel appears furious with

plan b. as by nicosia it rejected the levy on bank deposits in parliament she complained of a lack of communication with cypresses leaders and warned they are playing with fire under his team a candidate for the very in parliament believes merkel's harsh rhetoric is because she's feeding domestically. 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 that the people of cyprus have to. carry birds your however for me this cannot be a loose solution you cannot solve this situation by adding debt like the term billion now the european union willing to pay as a no one has

a guarantee whatever about this will be no sustainable solution it will be good it will impose austerity to the people of cyprus they did it for greece and now they change gears because because of the upcoming elections the german voters will not go on with a government policy like this while the cypriot finance minister has been in moscow in search of a resting deal but returned home empty handed is russian investors showed no interest however moscow says the door remains open and is prepared to assist in reaching consensus between nicosia and the e.u. and is r t s news editor i've across he explains some believe the hardline stance stems from german chancellor merkel's desire to gain all she can politically from the situation. this starts at a russian e.u. summit last year when the euro krauts told russia that cyprus would be their problem to solve cyprus had been racked by the greek economic collapse the russians

didn't take kindly to that said it's a euro zone problem and it's not like russians are the only ones availing of cypriot tax loopholes however russia did stop two and a half billion to help try and keep the island afloat a change in the cypriot government last year delayed any chance of a resolution most notably out russia e.u. summit last december but it crucially brought the timing of any deal into the german election cycle and this is why merkel is playing hardball merkel's in search of votes she's under pressure at home and explains the euro group's decision to back a raid on privately held deposits in cyprus germany's taking a very very hard line on this issue merkel's uncompromising stance backed euro groups decision to raid privately held super deposits weekend. and sent the cypriots to moscow looking for help. the russians look at the cyprus approach and say no we're not going to get involved for two reasons one it's a eurozone problem but secondly merkel is going to drive this into the ground she's

taking a hard line on the cypriot issue and nobody is going to touch cyprus or until she has finished the political process or may get into the political capital necessary from this situation to let cyprus off the hook it's going to be a very very long weekend in the halls of brussels and berlin while the escalating crisis in cyprus is sending shivers all across the euro zone emerging markets analyst a millionaire nonito dotty savain you could be next in line looking for an easy bailout. the cypriot crisis will have broad based impacts across the eurozone and across the wider region but one country that stands out in particular is slovenia slovenia has been standing out as a potential candidate for seeking international bailout for much of the past year and now that we have had the crisis in cyprus form of the proposed bailout and the potential tax and deposits it really creates increases fears in slovenia of what an

international bailout might entail slovenia's definitely want to want to bear in mind going forward as long as it's not shut from international markets and i don't think it is they will be fine and they won't have to seek international bailout the condition which would trigger slovenia having to seek international bailout is if the current political turmoil in slovenia carries on and effectively keeps living in the shut out of international markets under that scenario slovenia might have to seek international bailout and i think the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the when slovenia starts running out of cash and for more expert analysis and opinions on the deadlock you can head to our web site at r.t. dot com find out why some believe the levee plan was a nonstarter and how deposits as large and small would have to cough up anyway no matter what the stimulus also online. merkel could put these are some of the slogans chanted by protesters taking to the streets nicosia in fury over the

bailout plan. raged anti-government protesters have broken into the muslim brotherhood headquarters in the capital after thousands encircled the offices and clashed with riot police outside the health ministry says ninety six people have been injured in the latest outbreak of violence which erupted on friday artie's belt true has the details. chaotic caches continued into friday nights in the surrounding areas of the mission brotherhood headquarters which is right behind me here in the mccutcheon district in cairo police are fending off protesters from the main gates that is the most headquarters using excessive amounts of take us protesters responded with a moment of cocktails and rocks meanwhile a few hundred meters away protest is engaged with street battles in street battles with supporters of the mission brotherhood you turned up a few hours before and attacked those demonstrators fleeing the police come fire

started friday morning when anti-government protesters decided to march on the headquarters that is a mystery protest against a president who hails from of the muslim brotherhood and also protesting against what was a legit tactic by the missed him by a next attack by mr bobbitt members last week on journalists were seen injuries coming off the front line with people with severe head injuries in addition to people fainting and vomiting from tear gas and i also saw civilians holding hand made weapons shotguns wasn't able to ascertain which side they were on but there were a lot of gunfire in these battles between the rival civilian protest groups and basically is what it's showing is a divided egypt as these a civilian protest and continue to clash it doesn't seem to be any hope of dialogue between oppositional forces and the president protesters here say that there's been no change in the last two years in egypt the president ahmed morsi is ignoring their main demands and instead they have a constitution that has been written by an islamist dominated constituent assembly

the brotherhood for their part say the demonstrators of violence and head to the headquarters and therefore they've been responding in a way of defense what is really showing is that there's very little hope of a unified egypt on the horizon. coming up shortly not even close to closing the u.s. turns a blind eye to the guantanamo bay hunger strike the pentagon requesting forty nine million dollars to renovate instead of feeling promises to close it. and wasted money has tongues wagging in the u.k. as it emerges that a london borough half a million pounds on translations for immigrants and even live there. russia and china appear to be forging ever closer ties with the two states agreeing major energy and trade deals this is the chinese leader visits moscow his first trip abroad since taking office g. chimping called the accord a breakthrough with russia's rough sniffed now the world's largest oil producer set

to double supplies to china and after more than a decade of talks russia has also agreed to supply china with natural gas artie's in the scenary has got the details. a slew of deals were signed the most prominent probably being one between ross now which recently bought out t. in k. b.p. to be your number one oil company in the world and moving exxon mobil out of its pot they find a cooperation deal with russia with china's top energy company this of course is a tremendous step and will have enormous economic ramifications the main want a project between russia and china to deliver gases it's very simple china needs gas and russia wants to be that number one provider and russia china thirteen we came one step closer to this now besides energy cooperation another thing they do share which really brings them together is their view of the world they share a lot of points on their stances on many pressing global issues and they are all for pushing the brics to help shift the world into to be

a more multipolar one. pushing two powers together a common goal to shift global balance is forging a time 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 were there too often stand up against intervention and to gresham mosco and beijing are seen 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 new. terribly but it's the inevitable life in brazil of the type of us that even pacific. is threatening china on one side and the media 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 this again is something that russia and china strongly share a belief that brics need to move move forward that they really need to move from being a dialogue based group to

a group that sees action there's no doubt that it plays a big role but i think both china and russia would agree and have agreed with it's not playing a big enough role the problem here is that it's not quite putting its money where its mouth is and what needs to happen for brics to be able to propose solutions for widespread global issues like syria to create the brics development bank which they are planning on on a moving further on in south africa next week for what they need to do is get that on the ground and running so that they can provide a counterbalance to financial institutions like the i.m.f. and with russia and china becoming cornerstone brics economies professor joseph chang a political analyst at hong kong city university believes the alliance between the two could serve as a foundation for expanding the group's global sway. the brics countries natural to their staff effective mechanisms to get their act together i think there is

a lot of complimentarity among the brics you commies with china's capital research with. huge surprise of natural resources and so on and of course that being gay is a very strong common interest in the sense that all five members like to see a larger role you do you turn national community well in about an hour's time we will be showing a live speech by president xi jinping here in moscow that is at six am and take. the guantanamo bay hunger strike has gone beyond the critical forty five day mark when doctors say the body is deprived of nutrition officials at the detention center in cuba have acknowledged more detainees are joining the protest over alleged mistreatment this comes amid at pentagon requests for forty nine million

dollars to build a new prison building and carry out renovations despite a four year old promise to shut it down again each again as this report. the spokesperson for guantanamo robert zubrin responded to our tease inquiry here's what he writes as of friday the twenty second of march twenty third seed we have twenty six hunger strike is with a receiving end to all feeds this is an increase from thursday which was twenty five and eight we have two detainees in the detainee hospital for rehydration an observation or mental feet last time robert during got back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys had been saying there were many more on the rubber due and says there are twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers and here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients in one prominent attorney say they had

a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds that's almost fourteen telegrams since the strike began at the beginning of february that visit was approved by the military but the lawyers say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so tourney's are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now and not just the attorneys but we journalists those well i spoke with a lawyer who was denied access to her client in guantanamo this week she told me there is a sense among defense attorneys that they are being deliberately ignored by the authorities so there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the. department to berms to the commander. asking them to. talk to us about the detainees condition and we heard no response so there is a sense of helplessness among the attorneys as well

a few months ago the state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison and on top of aid the u.s. south and. amend and that's the command that oversees guantanamo has just with quested forty nine million dollars to build a new prison building at guantanamo bay for quote unquote special detainees on top of other renovations it says are necessary sense washington decided to keep it open indefinitely the military said the national tax me a bill for upgrading the deteriorating facilities would be almost one hundred ninety six million dollars and all of this effectively means that the detainees are stuck in this legal limbo up indefinitely only worthington an investigative journalist and filmmaker says the public has the power to push president obama towards fulfilling his promise to close the camp until last week when there was sufficient pressure from the media the us administration was claiming that nothing was happening at all this big gulf between what the lawyers are saying and what the

administration is saying is indicative of the administration still trying to clamp down on it they don't want this story out and i think that that means that there is a very big story going on and that what we must do is keep hammering away at the administration to tell the truth about what so many and to respond in a way that is appropriate so by making sure that the guard force is going to animals behaving with respect towards the prisoners but most of all by releasing the prisoners who have been cleared for release. for the president to revisit his failed promise to close the prison and for his second term in office is over to fulfill that promise. just ahead for you orphans in ukraine unwanted by native parents and treated as commodities by strangers the country is working to improve legislation on the adoption of children by foreigners as more and more orphans fall victim to the greed of grown ups.

political correctness may be leaving british taxpayers out of pocket in an attempt to accommodate non english speaking immigrants one london can so blue half a million pounds on translations that when they're read artie's polyploid has taken to the streets to see what locals have to say about their hard earned money being lost in translation. for those who live in the u.k. and don't speak english the british government's been understanding for the past several years that's because local councils translate information about that services into up to as many as seventy different languages so whether it's your pension feeding instructions an or do or a new thoughts about how to lose weight in the choice of punjab. it's available and courtesy of the u.k. taxpayer and this north london bar of hiring day the local town hall wasted almost wholesome million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading

leaflets included a school's guidance french somalians her cash as well as a gay lesbian bisexual and transgender services directory and friends they meet reflects what they're doing and before they commit mass amounts of money terrible waste that is not right when i see people homeless on the street. we need to get messages across however people from different backgrounds with english is a second language they've got responsibility. as well the minister for local government eric pickles says that the u.k.'s immigrants need to improve their english while local governments could do with brushing up on them according to pickles putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save money for abortions worsening economy as well as help to improve the english of immigrants and help to integrate them into british society we need to start getting

immigrants to work for the u.k. as opposed to the u.k. spending a lot of money on immigrants we should try and help them but not true extent of wasting your council should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff from media stuff especially when budgets are really being cut translations across all public bodies cos the u.k. government one hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister. i mean call principle situation when no one speaks english as their main language in too many british households so if you can read your local council newsletter in bengali arabic or somali you might think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up greek to you polly boy artsy london a quick look now at other news making headlines around the world tensions are running high in the syrian capital mourners prepare to bury a muslim preacher killed in a suicide bomb attack in a mosque last day forty nine people died in the attack including the staunch

supporter of president bashar al assad shaikh bootie the syrian president hit out at the perpetrators promising to cleanse the country of extremists. the lebanese prime minister and his whole government have resigned following a dispute with the shiite group hezbollah the country has been in political deadlock ever since hezbollah brought the creation of a supervisory body for parliamentary elections coming up in june the move could destabilize lebanon which is finding it increasingly difficult to stop the syrian conflict from spilling over its border with. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has apologized to turkey for any errors that may have occurred during the military operation on a boat carrying aid to gaza in twenty ten nine. were killed in the incident netanyahu also promised to compensate the victims' families and underline the importance of cooperation between the two states during a phone call to the turkish pm frosty relations with or during president obama's

visit to the middle east aimed at easing tensions between israel and its neighbors . ukraine looks set to tighten restrictions on foreign adoptions and is considering banning the practice altogether it follows the case of thirteen year old andrew butler who was shot in the head by his adoptive american father while being taught how to use a gun although the number of children being adopted by ukrainian families is on the rise is still an illegal trade which sees children sent abroad. reports now on the attempted clampdown on those who capitalized on orphans grief. these children differ in age and background but they are united by the same plight unwanted by their parents because of money problems or serious illness they live in one of ukraine's many orphanages authorities say see the positive dynamics in a number of or friends in ukraine is diminishing every year but still more than twenty six thousand children all across the country are waiting to be adopted less

than a decade ago kids like these would most likely have been adopted by a foreigner in some cases the children returned to ukraine after mistreatment and even molestation but officials insist the situation has changed post them hubble's and he denounced the post last year we had eighty six children coming in and eighty nine left our foster home mostly due to adoption but the positive trend is that even seriously sick children are now being adopted by ukrainians unlike decades before only fifteen to twenty percent of our children are adopted by foreigners and most are adopted by ukrainian and. he of is proud of its strong legislation to turn the numbers around now it's about to add a whole layer more a controversial nine hundred ninety three hague intercontinental pact on foreign adoptions. the main priority of this convention is to find the trade in children there are certain individuals in ukraine who illegally act as

intermediaries and for a certain fee help foreigners adopt our children the convention will stand in the south and will provide that only accredited agencies can act as intermediaries in interstate adoption. but ukraine's former man sees this as a massive step backwards that by signing up the country will be encouraging the child trade business rather than destroying it and i've been to mass the restaurant chain in the one nine hundred ninety s. we had an astonishing number of child trade cases largely due to activities of illegal intermediaries which this child trade has been a very profitable business that's why we stamped it out and even imposed a temporary moratorium on foreign adoptions if we ratify this convention now we will open floodgates for the very same activity which once defeated only this time it will be legalized. for the convention had been blocked by parliament five times

over the past two decades with this time it's ratification seems imminent with ukrainians economy struggles possibly leading to more abandoned kids in the coming years and russia's recent ban on adoptions for u.s. citizens over fears ukraine will be the number one target for those wanting to parent a child from eastern europe and to those ready to cash in on the process. of ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. coming up after the break we continue our in-depth look at the every day life of rebel fighters in the oil rich niger delta you're watching. a clear image of the right after a razor.