the sinking island to pressure mounts on cyprus to produce a bailout plan ahead of monday's e.u. deadline as ripples claimed europe's patience with the debt stricken country is running out. thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a prominent sunni pre-check killed in a suicide attack on a mall school on thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight. and those trends and strengthening the alliance the new chinese president's first overseas trip sees the signing of multi-billion dollar energy deals with russia beijing seeks partnerships to counterbalance you as global influence.

international news analysis and reports and this is r.t. . in a last ditch attempt to rescue cypress from bankruptcy present and. heading to brussels to meet each this as his country struggles to me to the conditions for ten billion euro bailout the super parliament has possum number of bills that covering key elements of the rescue plan but that wasn't enough to satisfy officials. reports pre-budget here knows that time is indeed taking they've had emergency session is related to the movement of trying to pass a bill that would form a part of a package that they vote that they could present to the troika and get an approval for an order to get the ten billion euro bailout right now as i'm speaking it is all still in progress and they've approved part of the package what they did approve our capital pulls out that would give powers to banks to impose restrictions on the amount of money that accessed by account holders to prevent

a bank run that they're very afraid of once banks reopen banks right now are closed until next week until all this gets sorted out so when banks do reopen they just don't want people to suddenly pull out all their money so that's what top of the souls are for the other one that they had also agreed upon is a solidarity funds essentially pooling together assets coming from different sources for about six billion euros that they could again present to the troika hoping to satisfy them to get that ten billion euro bailout another one is also restructuring of the bank all these are just part of the package something else that they haven't actually decided upon and made an announcement on is that back deposit levy if they are indeed going to continue to put to approve that idea of taxing deposit holders possibly uninsured deposits above one hundred thousand euros now if you remember the very reason why panic started in this country was when a bank deposit levy was imposed on all deposit holders including small account

holders and that's what really angered the cypriots said they had gone out to the streets it's really been an emotional overload for them for the past week a ruler. i tell you some of them yes but they have to say the banking crisis has affected us to know we can get the money we've earned who work inside for us we're not jobless who can get cash out of a.t.m. machines. we've invested our money into view condominium cyprus but they could cut a song what are the grounds for that. sort of human being 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 it i would be no development with this and nobody would come to cyprus or this. there was artist reporting from the cause of the clock takes towards the deadline for cyprus e.u. officials are becoming increasingly wary of the super government's reluctance to impose a bank deposit levy chancellor merkel was reportedly outraged by their inability to

come up with a plan b. and as artie's news editor i will quality explains merkel zaha starnes on the as you may derive from the hub designed to boost popularity back at home. this starts at a russia e.u. summit last year when the euro krotz 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 time cypriot tax loopholes however russia did stop at two and a half billion to help trying to keep the island afloat a change in the cypriot government last year delayed any chance of a resolution most notably a russian 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 group's decision to raid a 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 euro zone 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 gain 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 process in berlin. the cross' in cyprus is sending shock waves across the euro zone and another meltdown could be on the horizon in slovenia whose a small economy is also burdened by a heavily indebted banking sector the i.m.f.

says the share of bad debt is increasing among some a state run banks let's take a look at this in twenty eleven the bad dad at three of the country's leading the banks was fifteen point six percent now that figure rose to twenty point five percent last year it adds up to around seven a billion euros of twenty per cent of other countries in g.d.p. that is coming up now twenty percent of the country's g d p analyst. says slovenia may seek a bailout in the second part of this year 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 and the form of the proposed bailout and a potential tax and deposits it really creates increases fears in slovenia of what

an international bailout might entail so 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 shots living out of international markets under that scenario you might have to seek international bailout and i think the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the year when slovenia starts running out of cash. thousands of syrians are paying their last respects to a prominent sunni cleric killed by a suicide bomb in a damascus mosque on thursday shaikh mohammad saeed ramadan our boogy was also a high profile supporter of the embattled president bashar assad syrian journalist abdul aziz he says anyone's room who goes against the rebels is now a target. clergyman or let's say muslim schoolers who are not with the opposition

were targeted or were killed we can remember names for example like mr and others were killed because of having an opinion different done position but everybody believed that what happened is unjustified and cannot be explained we have extremist groups systemic seem to group jihad these who are fighting against the government and the mr before he was killed last friday in his last speech he said that we should fight with our with the syrian army and you should not fight with with this opposition groups so this raises a lot of controversy and controversy and discussion in the syrian society and this lead into this killing and we have mr. permanent sunni. spoiled who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision even muslims should be killed if they are supporting the government to support of the syrian government so this is the context of this killing everybody was angry

everybody said that he should not be killed he is one of the most famous. leader in syria everybody said that he did not make a crime he did not kill anyone he just delivered his his opinion if you are making an average looking for freedom he has the freedom to say whatever he wants that's that's what everybody says that even so someone in his age he's eighty four years old he's not fighting should be should not be killed at all and this is a crime even people a position. people support for the government agreed that this should not be done that way at least. and on our website right now we've got a report revealing the secret time it's between some syrian rebel groups and for the cia go online to find out how american intelligence is said to be pulling the strings behind the civil war. also they are you can learn how the hacker group anonymous is giving these ratings. why servers masada hard time we've got the

details on the cyber attack on r t dot com. china is stepping up its energy security with the help of russia moscow has agreed to increase oil supplies to its eastern neighbor by three times the current level along with other multi-billion dollar deals the two powers also want to do a political change with the new chinese president saying ties with russia will help bring about a fairer world order that irina girlish girls been following her first off the shore overseas trip. some of the major points that the chinese leader has also made of course was about the cooperation between russia and china among other things that the two countries also agree on is the fact that it it is about time to leave the old stereotypes behind he said that we're living in the twenty first century and therefore the cold war era is gone and over with and therefore this theory types and thinking along those lines also has to go and you also mentioned that forced russia and china are there cooperation will provide for

a fee or world order he also mentioned of course the need to not just to move away from syria types but also to move towards the multiple world and the multiple areas the of the world is also one of the founding principles of bricks of course brics essentially was a trade and economic organization but it is now moving increasingly towards becoming a major geo political player and that is going to be one of the main subjects of discussions during an upcoming brick summit in south africa and yet despite of course there are many agreements on the political level of russia and china still have several things that they need to work on at the moment those things that is the gas supplies deal from russia to china which has been in the works for ten years and it does look like during this visit russia and china have made some headway towards finding a solution but the details of the deal are yet to be figured out and it is expected that those details will come up until the end of the year but of course the chinese

leader said that russia and china nevertheless are each other's biggest partner and are this the seeing eye to eye on a lot of issues and cooperation is something that the two countries are going not just to continue but we'll all start he said that his trip there is a symbolic significance by happening in march because the leave their hopes that he will see some very good fruits born forth from the seeds that he has so on during this visit. while warning against foreign interference aimed at the affairs of other nations the chinese president's visit to russia as on the score that the stars of that a counterweight is needed to america's role in global s.a.'s where engdahl a geo political analyst and the author of myths lies and oil wars us says she's in pains chip is meant to show that beijing won't be a puppet that sends a signal to the united states to washington who has been very. bristolian and increasingly militarily hostile to china in the last two years with

the asia pivot so-called what russia has to bring to the table is the central for china and that is energy security over pipeline land routes gas and oil primarily and at a time when the china's african the oil sources are being increasingly put under pressure from africa in sudan and in libya and elsewhere for russia it also is an extremely important orientation to what to president putin calls the new eurasian the direction of the russian economy if russia and china are put it odds against each other and then the game is over and you have no contender to sole superpower germany from washington i think that's a very unhealthy state of the world both for the for china for russia for the rest of the world but also for the united states that too much power concentrated in too few hands is always a danger to world peace. on the way a black gold behind obama and so u.s.

officials continue to dumb play the scale of a mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay while the pentagon now wants to expand the notorious facility. so with the u.k. walking a triple dip recession thai droid authorities a fortune on translations will immigrants the details of that i just i hate. we are prison a lot of problems in the. because no one thought to drink no blood. moldovan no permits when you are. other local what's national but there's a law in the local needs you might want to community l.n.g. motion will be used. you've been gone for

a matter of artist i was surprised by how much fights. fights. the fights are right. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. welcome back to this is our lawyers a full hunger strike in detainees. one time a big claim they've been denied access to their clients there's

a choice in is said to be life threatening as more than one hundred captives have reportedly been starving themselves for a month and a half u.s. officials have downplayed the allegations and the scale of the crisis and while president obama has still not kept his promise to close the detention center the military is now asking for money to upgrade the facility as artie's granite city can reports. the spokesperson for guantanamo robert do read and responded to ortiz 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 eight receiving and will feeds this is an increase from thursday which was twenty five in eight we have two detainees in the detainee hospital for rehydration an observation on mental freed 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 well now rather do 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 guantanamo 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 a 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 as to be there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the

department to bear arms to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about the detainees condition and we have 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 it the u.s. south and. command and that's the command that oversees guantanamo has just requested 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 since washington decided to keep it open indefinitely the military said the potential taxpayer 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 indefinitely british m.p. george galloway says a given guantanamo calls a costly facelift will not change the human rights violations. a prison camp where

you are held without charge without drywall indefinitely where your lawyer has no right to see you where you have no rights of any kind can never be made more comfortable even if you put thick carpet big armed just like we have in the british parliament in it will never be comfortable it remains an outrage but the significance of the investment is this they wouldn't be spending tens of millions of new dollars on guantanamo if they didn't intend to keep it as a legal black hole where our so-called illegal combatants are incarcerated people by the way seized and kidnapped from around the world on dick and drugged and manacled in many cases this is the stuff of fiction but unfortunately it's fact in two thousand and thirteen in obama's america. egypt has been shaken by fierce clashes between opponents and supporters of the really muslim brotherhood outside

the group's offices across the country some of the most intense fighting took place in the capital kyra even schools of people injured police fired tear gas to repel writers outside the brotherhood's headquarters they this latest wave of anger at the group erupted last week when its members attacked a journalist and opposition activists adjourning a peaceful protest outside the building matter how ari a spokesperson for egypt's opposition the national salvation front says the government is on the brink of completely losing control over the country in the midst of a brother a government and morsi government is with standing its position of giving a deaf ear to any claims of reform and any claims of of opposition to the very harmful policies in egypt. the record of morsi is a failure of managing the problems of the government failure of managing the problems of egypt it's

a total failure of this government the total failure of this regime and it just has been stalling they're losing control over parts of egypt a lot of cities a lot of governance in egypt are now rising up against the muslim brotherhood and against the government did not recognize the government as a lawful government that would. oversee the manage the day to day of government work political correctness maybe leaving british taxpayers out of pocket in an attempt to accommodate none in you speaking immigrants one london council blue half a million pounds on translations that will never be read artie's but he was going to find out how locals feel 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

pitch and feeding instructions and or do or a leaflet about how to lose weight in the choice of punjabi. available and courtesy of the u.k. . and this north london bar a tiring day the local town hall wasted almost wholesome million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading leaflets included a schools guide and french some audience 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 their streets. we need to get messages across however people from different backgrounds with english is a second language label so go responsibility. which is 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

putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save money for persons upon the me 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 the extent of wasting your most accounts we should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff for media stuff especially when budgets are really big cut translations across all public bodies cost the u.k. government one hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister calls and then called principal situation where no one speaks english is their main language in too many british households so if you can only read your local council newsletter in bengali arabic. i think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all

end up greek to you. r.t. london. but other news making headlines around the world the lebanese president has formally accepted the resignation of his prime minister najib mikati along with his whole government to step down over a dispute with his beloved country has been locked in political stalemate ever since the shia group blog to the creation of a supervisory body to oversee the next parliamentary election it's here the move could further destabilize lebanon which is finding it increasingly difficult to prevent the syrian civil war from spilling over the border. mass protests have shaken the capital of bahrain where thousands of demonstrators are demanding the release of the prominent human rights activist no bill ritter this is a bit later is our break of popular dissent against the ruling want to keep calling for political reform in the oil rich kingdom the protest movement has seen up to eighty people killed and scores arrested since you do ruptured in retreat twenty levon. ukraine could soon introduce tougher restrictions on foreign

adoptions so this of follows the case of andrew bartlett a teen who was shot in the head two years ago by his adoptive american father while being taught how to use a gun although the number of children being adopted by families within the country is rising there's an illegal trade through which children are being sent abroad or cheese alexy or share ski records this. 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 they see the positive dynamics and the number of or france 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 returns to ukraine after mistreatment and

even molestation but officials insist the situation has changed. enough that was last year we had eighty six children coming in and eighty nine left our foster homes 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 most are adopted by ukrainians can give 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 fight 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 own woodsman sees this as a massive step backwards that by signing up the country will be encouraging the child trade business rather than destroying it. 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 we once defeated only this time it will be legalized. for the convention had been blocked by parliament five times over the past two decades but this time it's ratification seems imminent with ukrainians economic struggles possibly leading to more abandoned kids in the coming years and russia's recent ban on adoptions for u.s.

citizens were 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 next we continue our inside look at the lives of rebel fighters in the oil rich and stay with us teen. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to research gate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation no sort of via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language

leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines it's really human rights groups but so i'm said the attempt to put segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion.