the global financial headlines tune in to the report. this is our moscow time top story tonight self exiled russian tycoon an outspoken kremlin critic. has reportedly died tonight in london age sixty seven some reports saying he committed suicide. also the sinking island pressure mounts on cyprus to produce a bailout plan ahead of monday's e.u. deadline is reports claim europe's patience for the debt stricken country is running out. and thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide attack on a mosque on thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight others.

by their very good have you with us is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight so the big news this hour the russian tycoon and kremlin critic boris berezovsky has reportedly died in london news of his death was first broken in a post on a social media web site apparently by his son in law as sarah first she's in london for a series of the details only been coming through literally in the last sixty minutes or so what more do we know at the moment. well confirmation the moment coming for a former. ski lawyer he said he received a phone call from london it's also thought his son in law the information about the death on facebook the police here haven't confirmed that yet but it looks like. died today at his home in sorry no circumstances and details of the circumstances of the death remain unknown at this time some reports saying that it's thought he died in the past. of the moment as he said no information from the police on

exactly what happened but of course lots of questions being raised and lots of speculation about exactly what happened course a very very high profile court most recently the he lost he seems to struggle to slow business years it was not really the case because surely he was a man still of substantial means. absolutely yes with friend turned former president vladimir putin he chose self-imposed exile we've gone to the side and here in britain he's had a number of high profile court cases here now interestingly president putin's press it has say to meet the press called this has said a letter was sent by burzynski to president putin asking for forgiveness and asking him if he could return home now we know as he said these court cases some of which were ongoing certainly damaged his assets i think you had two hundred million pounds in assets frozen in a court case it is a lover he had a very high profile court case which he lost against roman abramovich so certainly

he's having financial difficulties and as we said though this point lots of speculation about how that might have played in his death whether or not it was a suicide he's had a number of assassination attempts on his life in the past so of course that lots of questions being raised about this death at the moment but as you say confirmation at this time coming from his lawyer and from relatives of course birds of ski or road surface brings up to speed there is what you know is so those details coming in sick and snow in the last sixty minutes or so we'll follow it up as well. next tonight last ditch attempt to rescue his country from bankruptcy the supreme president heading to brussels to meet a youth issues now this is his country struggles to meet the conditions for that ten billion euro bailout the cypriot parliament passed a number of bills covering key elements of a rescue plan but it wasn't enough to satisfy officials to source it a report first. reverdy here knows that time is indeed ticking they've had

emergency session is related to the me tried 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 can 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 top of the souls are for the other one that they had also agreed upon is a solidarity funds essentially pulling 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 of 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 deposits 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 rollercoaster i've spoken to some of them because what they've had to say the banking crisis has affected us to know we can get the money we've earned we work in cyprus where not jobless who 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 will hear us and our kids. and we don't accept it that will be no development with us and nobody will come to the side with us now this new bank deposit levy good possibly be announced but we have to wait for an official announcement that at one point you think we have to know whether to try to will approve it i went to brussels on sunday. the crisis in cyprus a city shock waves in across the eurozone and another meltdown too could be on the horizon this time in slovenia to small economies also burdened by a heavily indebted banking sector the i.m.f. most saying that the share of bad debt seen creasing there among some of the state run banks hands on the screen showing the bad debt of three of the country's leading banks was fifteen point six percent of the total loans back in twenty eleven but that figure rose to twenty point five percent last year adds up to around seven billion euros or twenty percent of that nation's g.d.p.

emerging markets analyst a merely renaud reeses slovenia may seek a bailout that 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 seizing 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 shots living out of international markets under that scenario slovenia might

have to seek international bailout and i think this the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the when slovenia starts running out of cash. to the syrians of burma last respects to a problem so the cleric killed by a suicide bomber damascus mosque on thursday shaikh mohammed saeed ramadan obuchi was also a high profile supporter of the embattled president bashar al assad syrian journalist of dollar was really says any muslim scholar who goes against the rebels is no target. clergyman or let's say most of the schoolers who are not with the opposition were targeted or were killed we can remember a few names for example like mr ahmed saadat and others were killed because of having an opinion different done position but everybody believes 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 would be before he was killed last friday in his last speech he said that we should fight

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 kind of. the permanent sin the. spoiler who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision and even muslim schools should be killed if they are supporting the government says the sitting 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 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 to say 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. a syrian political act was done to makea told me the revocations of the killing could turn the tide of the two year conflict now against the rebels . we have entered a new phase where the free syrian army is losing support after this atrocity which really left many million syrians in mourning with sunni sunni syrians chrystia and i know why is she with them all morning with these great design i think it was a leading scholar in the mystery and in the arab world so what is thought this is actually comes in the notion of the battle between extremism and moderation you can argue that the who is renowned for its academic achievement was a mouthpiece a kind of symbol of what her. kind of vision is and he was a mouthpiece of moderation and he had many enemies most of them shakes in saudi arabia and qatar and there was a major motive for killing him which was the fact that you has it against these

unfair cation and of this crisis that he rejected the terrorism within which is attack in damascus and aleppo in a database so we could argue that this is a very plain fact that it was condemned by the united nations and it was condemned by ki-moon as a terrorist atrocity even as worker and in many numerous areas. he's been to me earlier on the saltines national live from moscow coming up but u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of a mass hunger strike a while the pentagon now wants to expand the notorious facility. plus to moscow and bugs for our darkness to save the planet we've got the details of the spectacular earth hour that's just out and in fact couple of. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and

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lawyers for hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay claim they've been denied access to their clients the situation said to be life threatening now is more than one hundred captors. have reportedly been starving themselves for a month and a half meantime u.s. officials have done played the allegations on the scale of the crisis and while president obama is still not kept his promise to close the detention center the military is now asking for money to upgrade the facility got it she can wraps it all up. 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 strikers 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 mental feed last time

robert durango back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although the defense attorney said 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 kilogram 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 journalist as well i spoke with a lawyer who was denied access to a client in guantanamo this week she told me there is

a so-so monk defense attorneys that they're being deliberately ignored by the authorities so assuming 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. oh 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 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 go to a counselor spoke to lieutenant colonel barry ween god he's a u.s. military attorney who have tickets for guantanamo detainees he says the captives have been denied justice for the caged like indefinitely. the last time that i saw my clients was between twenty the twenty fifth of february and the eighth of march i visited with them multiple times i was shocked at the condition that they're in in fact we were the first people that broke the story that the hunger strike had began february of the sixth or seventh around that time frame and it continued on my client at that time had lost twenty six pounds and at this point it's an official that he has lost almost forty forty pounds one third of his body weight from one hundred forty seven pounds the administration down in guantanamo bay initially denied the report that the hunger strike was occurring they then said it was seven then fourteen then twenty one and then they said that it wasn't the largest hunger strike in history then they came out and said it's twenty four twenty five and today twenty six so the story is getting more and more accurate as

we go but we're running out of time after eleven and a half years these men that live in animal cages in america's offshore prison in guantanamo bay they ask for justice they've been there eleven and a half years ninety percent of them have no charges i can tell you having looked at my clients cases they will never get a trial based upon the evidence that's against them so if their home countries are not willing to intervene to do something i don't see it coming from washington washington seems to take the position that we don't have the time to deal with these hundred sixty six condemned men and our offshore prison this is not about soccer fields or food or anything else this is about justice and freedom this is a bigger concept this is what the united states stands for not more servings of food and not more soccer fields to play on this is a matter of getting these men home or giving them trials and that's the answer china is stepping up its energy security with the help of russia moscow's agreed to increase oil supplies to its east and they've about three times the current level along with the multi-billion dollar deals the two powers also want to also want to

political change with the new chinese president saying ties with russia will help bring about a third world old but he's really going to be following changing things first official which frees he's for it. 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 course russia and china are there cooperation will provide for a fee or world order you 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 increasing 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 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 be 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. while warning against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations the chinese president's visit to russia underscored the stance that a counterweight needed to america's role in global affairs if only when dell's unchained political analyst and the author of myths lies and oil wars he says she didn't thinks trip is meant to show that beijing won't be a puppet so it 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 essential for china and that is energy security over pipeline land routes nason foyle primarily and at a time when the china's. sources are being increasingly put under pressure from

africa in sudan and libya and elsewhere for russia it also means that your stream really important to earning your orientation to what president putin calls the new eurasian with the direction of the russian economy if russia and china put it hard to give 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. we have some world news headlines first of clashes have been reported in lebanon after the country's president accepted the resignation of his prime minister najib mikati along with his whole government over a dispute with a shia group has the country's been locked in political stalemate ever since has blocked the creation of a supervisory body to oversee the next parliamentary election now it's fear the move to further destabilize lebanon which is finding it increasingly difficult to

prevent the syrian civil war from spilling over the border. mass protests are taking the capital of bahrain with demonstrators are demanding the release of problems human rights activist now build a job it's the latest outbreak of popular dissent against the ruling monarchy calling for political reform in the rich kingdom the protest movement seen up to eighty people killed and scores arrested since erupting. now like spark or if you're in the russian capital just over an hour ago been watching though the city was plunged into darkness while you may well ask well it's for an event joined together millions around the world is called. here to tell us more about more about it is our own and within a culture have all been tracking this for the past two hours now it's kind of come and gone in about. russia it is well actually russia turned off the lights in moscow for the first time in the kremlin for the first time to take part in this in

this really global campaign earth hour and it's been i guess thirty five minutes right now as the lights are back on iran kremlin the red square and it was really a spectacular view and for so many here in russia and i'm sure worldwide it was a very inspiring and a very uniting moment not only for those on the ground but in space as well as russian cosman out and i wonder when you know he supported that movement and he actually filmed a video but he did that in space and i guess we can now listen to a bit of it. space we can see clearly just how much our planet needs care and protection died when i first came on board the international space station i was amazed by the beauty of the earth it's the most important thing we've got it's our home we depend on it completely and it depends on us on how we treat it support the earth hour and we'll be watching up here how the earth finally gets its hour of rest. well it was really

a very touching speech and he also by the way i want to also promised to take several pictures from space as the earth hour moves and travels from one continent to another and i'm sure it's going to be so interesting of those of you in a website a bit later. is it a publicist is actually do any good ok it raises awareness but what five minutes off. well actually it's a bit of both here so from on the on the on the one hand it is well it is a symbolic movement it is really it was made to attract more attention towards the problem of the climate change to raise people's awareness of you know carbon pollution and other environmental needs but from the other hand you know so many people thousands of people actually participate as invalid and they all turned off their lights and some of the electronic devices that they were using so at the end they did save some energy which is a good point here you know

a bit of both. of you think. why it's right actually it started as a very local events in sydney in australia back in two thousand and seven with just a somewhere around two million people only in australia taking part in that but then it just very quickly grew into massive global events and just for the record back in two thousand and twelve i guess more than one hundred fifty countries took part in that can paint so it is really right now very global events. protective pictures are just really all the signals like. just go. or programs continue coming up the power is back on in washington d.c. i can tell you that taking all the mainstream media should switch in order to break a couple of minutes from.

there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate 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 for 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 group but selim said the attempt to segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to kemah flush 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. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous. i mean. i guess i'm. really not so. serious. worse for the food. but i'm sick of the. mess.

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 in 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 agencies and see shabelle craving for more and more and more information you see the agency just signed a ten year deal with amazon the first six hundred million dollars cloud data storage service so 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 known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time since you can't connect dots you don't have the drives us into a mode oh we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it for ever wait

wait wait how long. the way good. there. oh my god forever well cia here's just another show to add to the never ending data file you surely have on me so let's break that so. it looks like the floor of the observer see i mean like. obama just wrapped up his first presidential trip to israel and palestine during his three day visit he spent ninety nine percent of his time in israel meeting with officials making symbolic gestures and touring the country and yet in palestine he spent nearly hours briefly meeting with the palestinian authority and visit in a church what he felt to see in the short time he was there was hundreds of policy .