the sinking island pressure mounts on. the head of monday's e.u. deadline as europe's patience with the debt stricken country is running out. thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide attack on a packed mosque on thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight others. and strengthening of the alliance of the new chinese president of for is the overseas trip a sees of the signing of multi-billion dollar energy deals with russia. to counterbalance it was global influence.

this is r g with me to obama's a for the latest international news. in a last ditch attempt to rescue sign prison from bankruptcy president honest us yet is heading to brussels to meet officials this as his country struggles to meet the conditions for ten billion euro bailout the sign for a department has costs a number of bills are covering key elements of a rescue plan but that wasn't enough to satisfy officials are she says also your reports reverdy 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 of the vote that they could present to the troika and get an approval for an order to get that ten billion euro bailout right now as i'm speaking is this all still in progress and they've approved part of the package what they did approve or capital pulls out that would give powers to banks to impose restrictions on the amount of money that could be 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 capital controls 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 can 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 or roll. closer i've spoken to 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 we work in cyprus we're not jobless who can't 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. sort of human being we have to get out of the euro but we will stay home how they will pay us and our kids. we don't accept it it will be no development with us and nobody will come to cyprus now this new bank a possibility could possibly be announced but we have to wait for an official announcement that at one point we have to know whether the troika will approve it away the process on sunday. as the clock ticks or was the deadline for nicosia e.u. officials are becoming increasingly wary of super governments 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 call she explains merkel's harsh stance on the issue may derive from a desire to boost her 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 two and a half billion to help trying to keep the island afloat a change in the cypriot government last year to lead any chance of a resolution most notably out of 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 group's 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 until she has finished the political process or may make gains 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 and for lent. the crisis in cyprus is sending shock waves across the euro zone and another meltdown could be on the horizon in a slovenia whose a small economy is also burdened by

a heavily indebted banking sector the i.m.f. says that the share is of bed to debt is increasing among some state run banks let's take a look at this now the baghdad at three of the country's leading bags it was fifteen point six percent in twenty eleven that rose up to twenty point five percent this year it adds up to around seven billion euros or twenty percent of all the countries and nations g.d.p. the now emerging markets analysts as i merely read nonie 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 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 just living is 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 you might have to seek international bailout and i think the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the year when starts running out of cash. thousands of syrians are paying their last respects to a prominent sunni cleric killed by a suicide bomber in a damascus mosque on thursday shaikh mohammad saeed ramadan al boogy was also a high profile supporter of the embattled president bashar assad syrian journalist of lamar's him he says any muslim who goes against the rebels is now

a target. clergyman or let's say most of the schoolers who are not with the opposition were targeted or were killed we can remember the 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 splinter group jihad these who are fighting against the government and the mr bush to before he was killed last friday in his last speech he said that we should fight with the syrian army and we 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. spoiler who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision and even muslims should be killed if they are supporting the government says 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. leda in syria everybody said that he did not make a crime he did not kill anyone he just give it 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 he wants 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 times between some syrian rebel groups and the cia go online to find out how american intelligence is said to be pulling the strings behind the civil war. also while you're there you can learn how the hacker group

anonymous is giving the israelis. servers will solder hard time we've got details on the cyber attack on our to dot com. china's are 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 political change with the new chinese president saying ties in with the rochelle will help bring about a fair world order. been following xi jinping is our first of fishel 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 he also mentioned that russia and

china are there cooperation will provide for a fairer 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 economical organization but it is now moving increasingly towards becoming a major geopolitical 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 a to work on and the moment those things 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 it will all start he said that his trip there is a symbolic significance by happening in march because the lead there hopes that he will see some very good fruits borne forth from the seeds that he has sown during this visit. one warning against foreign interference in of the affairs of other nations of the time is present visit to russia has underscored the stance that a counterweight is needed to america's role in global affairs of william and dol a geo political analyst and the author of the myths lies and oil was a says she is in ping's a trip is a 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 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 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 to the united states that too much power concentrated in too few hands is always a danger to world peace. on the way bled to behind the bars the u.s.

officials continued to downplay 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 a tiny drop authorities squandered a fortune on translations while immigrants the details of that. 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. are welcome is a big picture. mission . cretaceous free storage free. arrangement

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thank you. thank you for staying with us here on r t lawyers for hunger strike in detainees at guantanamo bay claim they're being denied access to their clients the situation is said to be life threatening as more than one hundred captives have reportedly been starving themselves up for a month and a half u.s. officials have done played 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 also going for money to upgrade the facility as artie's ghana judge

again reports. the spokesperson for guantanamo robert do read and responded to our tease inquiry here's what he writes as of friday the twenty second of march twenty thirty and we have twenty six hunger strike is with eight receiving and will 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 on angel freed last time robert durango 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 sauterne is a 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 there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the 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. the man 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 sense 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 giving guantanamo all costs a facelift will not change the human rights violations the 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 armchairs like we have in the british parliament in it 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 and taken 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 ruling muslim brotherhood outside the group's offices across the country some of the most intense fighting to place in the capital cairo leaving scores of people injured police fired tear gas to repel writers outside the brotherhood headquarters there this latest wave of anger at the group erupted last week when its members attack journalists an opposition

activist during the peaceful protests outside the building after matt how ari a spokesperson for egypt's opposition national salvation front says the government's 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 to 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 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 governors 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. right in other news making headlines around the world clashes have been reported in lebannon after the country's president accepted the resignation of his prime minister najib mikati along with his whole government to step down over a dispute with the shia group hezbollah the country has been locked in political stalemate ever since his beloved bloc to the creation of a supervisory body to oversee the next parliamentary election it's feared the moves 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 prominent human rights activists in a bill this is the latest outbreak of popular dissent against the ruling more likely calling for political reform in the oil rich kingdom the protest movement has seen up to eighty people killed and scores of arrested since it erupted in

february of twenty that. france has confirmed a senior al qaida military commander has been killed in fighting in mali. leader was killed as part of a military offensive in the mountainous area in the country's more than last month earlier paris hailed the ongoing campaign against the islamist insurgency saying it had entered its final stage. meanwhile millions of people are showing their commitment to look when and why dimming their lives for one that designated hour the admiral switch off as part of the worldwide fun for nature's earth hour what's a lot of in two thousand and seven in sydney you all today see the most iconic attractions in more than one hundred fifty countries plunged introductory. political correctness may be leaving british taxpayers out of pocket in an attempt to accommodate non english speaking immigrants one london council half

a million pounds on translations that will never be read artie's polyploid go into 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 leaflets about how to lose weight in a choice of punjabi. it's available and courtesy of the u.k. . and this north london bar a hiring day the local town hall wasted almost hall for a million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading leaflets included a school's guidance 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 flavor so got responsibility to learn english. 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 opponent 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 council should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff for legal 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 call. i had a simple situation where no one speaks english as their main language into many british households so if you can only read your local council and bengali arabic or somali you might think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up in greek to you. can see. that's it for me for now coming up want to take it to the next hour is it kevin a win but for now it's breaking the set with host every month ten.

jorge rios an argentinian student and seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so 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 size 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 the 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 but 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 fabulous i'm glad i got so many i mean. i know that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so closely. the. worst superglue thing the

white house says of a. radio guy and four minutes from the. what. we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so a couple of days ago the cia's chief technology officer gus hunt laid out the candid truth when it comes to the agency's insatiable craving for more and more and more information you see the agency just signed a ten year deal with amazon first six hundred million dollars cloud data storage service it's like quite a lot doesn't it well this week good old gus revealed why when he said quote the value of any piece of information is only one.