breaking news here on r.t. this morning cyprus in the e.u. along with international lenders agreed to a controversial tax on bank deposits which could see some customers lose up to twenty percent of this savings. so big solid russian tycoon an outspoken kremlin critic boris berezovsky has died in london aged sixty seven some reports saying he committed suicide. and thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a prominent sunni pre-check killed in a suicide attack on a packed mosque on thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight others. for the morning of just joined us kevin owen here at r.t. this morning tired after midnight now here in moscow and our top story than cyprus

and international lenders have managed in the last few hours to strike a long awaited agreement on taxing bank deposits of over one hundred thousand euros held with the country's biggest bank customers who keep large sums of money in other banks will also be forced to sacrifice part of their savings or not so much to the country sending economy. has got the latest details. what we have now is an agreement for twenty percent cuts for the positive above one hundred thousand euros in the back of cyprus that's the country's biggest lender and four percent on the positive about two thousand in other banks so this has been an important information piece of information that people here have been waiting for and this is a good part of that package the cyprus is trying to put together before that sunday meeting in brussels where they will decide the entirety of it to deploy them hoping to get approval of what they have so far aside from that levy that they have is the bad controls that will be imposed on controlling the amount of money flowing in and out of of that the country the country's banks as well as the amount of money

people can access and also be have that data on they want to pull together a certain amount of money that they have to put up with order to get the tender billion euro be allowed again not be exploited so that's the latest for now cyprus still knows that the clock is ticking it still has it still has to get that approval and if not that's where it's feature is hinge upon how people have been feeling if you remember that they had come out into the streets precisely because of this a possible attacks on their deposits and also because of all this uncertainty believe they are not sure if they're going to still have a substantial amount of savings they don't know when they will have access to their cash remember the banks are still closed they're not trying to hold on to as much cash as they could they're worried for their jobs so they've been coming out to the streets today we know there have been protests as if people are really feeling frustrated and still even if as a details come trickling through with the latest updates they're not completely satisfied they really want to know where this is all headed and when everything will be settled down for them to. lie from free. trade report for their manager

out of trading for next morning so now that this deal appears to be struck what's next do you think. well i don't think the deal is closed yet we will see what happens on monday the first thing that i'd like to know is when the banks are going to reopen and the second thing i'd like to know is whether the deposit guarantee of a single person euros which is law in the whole of the you is going to respected fully and after that to see what comes next interesting point you made there actually i mean this bank should be open in a couple of days because many people now if this goes through do face losing a fifth of their life savings will banks be able to restore people's trust after a setback like this no doubt it works well the funny thing is that i think people who trust banks too much some people think that the money that in the past it's belongs to them it doesn't belong to the bank the bank has

a liability the bank has an obligation to return the money but if the bankers bust that money isn't there anymore and that's what happens here and what's happened in cyprus and might happen in many other places it's assumed or is that people think you think that if you have money in a bank account it belongs to you you're wrong it doesn't the local says it belongs to the bank so the wake up call isn't it now the opinion of course is used to rescuing banks before but not until now at the expense of all the account holders who are now terrified of course by the prospect that other countries potentially after this follow this practice in future as well as it said the president you think. well some people have been saying that this was coming for a long time however we have to say that cyprus is slightly special case because. there was so so little money in bonds and in unsecured bank obligations compared to the process so it is much harder to harder for this to happen in other european countries but it's not out of the question people should really start we can

overturn it it's like gold all bitcoin had to keep trusting everything in a bank. we've seen and historically protests turned violent countries like spain like greece before you think it's going to kick off in cyprus this week definitely people don't like the money even if it's not really their money being taken away and and specially this the carlito the whole located a bank accounts is what really really drives people to desperation get them out on the street fillets want to go on the line there's another line that's coming as well voicing concern that maybe slovenia could follow in the footsteps of cyprus too is it is that a worry as you see it as well. i don't think she would be near us near close enough to cyprus in that regard because there is quite a bit of it's living in bonds buying bonds which could go first before the post it's but there are were about other european countries specially those that had

really large financial sectors like well some i don't want to name names but the ones that have already been bailed out specially though the ones in the group we would think all of. your thoughts trader portfolio managers are of trading felix murdoch over there on the line with us thanks thanks. for the other big story tonight in the last few hours has been revealed the russian tycoon in kremlin critic boris berezovsky has died in london earlier on age sixty seven news of his death was first broken in a post on a social media web page apparently by his son in law let's go live now to our service she's in london for us so the details been coming in the last two three hours and they what more do we know at the moment we know solicitors spoken any more details come through. well as he said news of the death first broken by boris berezovsky son in law on a social networking site now it's thought he died at his home in ascot and but this morning. police haven't confirmed the name yet but they have said that they've

launched an investigation into the death of a sixty seven year old man and that death is being treated as unexplained now is spoken to ten slightly police and they told me that they usually have to wait for the formal i.d. before they can confirm the name but that confirmation is expected at some point later on today and i also asked about the speculation around the body having been found in the bar scene that a lot of people are reporting that they didn't confirm or deny it but they did tell me that that information didn't come from them of course a huge amount of state surrounding this boris berezovsky the russian tycoon you know larger than life character there's been talk of health problems have been speculated about suicide and we can actually listen now to some information from a very prominent russian lawyer. two people

called me saying he had died one told me it was a suicide and the second person said he might have died of a heart attack i previously heard from people close to me that he was practically broke and utterly depressed a person i know called me and said he had even asked to borrow five thousand dollars for a ticket he was seriously you know. as he said there is a huge amount of speculation at this time surrounding that right now the circumstances of the death they remain unclear. controversial indeed colorful character but it is also easy to struggled in his late business years could this be a contributing factor if it indeed committed suicide have been some high profile court cases one just finished not so long ago and some ongoing. absolutely yes boris berezovsky made his food scene after the break up of the safety union then we saw him have self-imposed exile and he sort of side and in person in two

thousand now in the last couple of years he's house and a very high profile court cases a month which is the spectacular falling out he had with fellow russian oligarch roman abramovich now that call cases very interesting to listen to the reports from people who were there in the courthouse when boris berezovsky was told that he had lost that case against him in a brother that the shock that he had certainly that was a massive blow to boris berezovsky it seems both personally but also financially as well of course and it does seem that the fall and on somewhat harder times over the last couple of years with these cool cases now the russian president's press attash a. school of has said that the president was sent a letter by boris berezovsky in which he asked her to give notice and she returned home so that's certainly an interesting twist on that but as we said it's been

a tough few years and it does seem that there have been a lot of financial problems but of course this is all speculation what we do know right now is that the thames valley police have launched that investigation they cordoned off the area around his home while that investigation is ongoing no confirmation of the name yet but of course we'll stay the story and bring you the updates as and when we have absolutely sort of brings up what you know the risk of more of the ups and downs of relations with the kremlin and its recent. appeal to return to moscow and talk to a correspondent listen now either and this is broken last couple of rows of news a controversial colorful character who's very very close to yeltsin as well what led to the fall at the top of the russian government you could say basically it came out but he was in. of the numerous scandals that would say he's a convicted criminal here in russia to put it simply not so much a controversial figure in the sense of of scandal surrounding him but controversal

because it's flat out he does not get along with the kremlin sarah touched on this a little bit it was no secret he was an outspoken critic of the kremlin about the system in russia and i think the british gave him safe but didn't want to rush rather to it didn't it and it hampered british russian relationship so it went straight to the top it's very unclear to russia to this day why the u.k. so protective bitters of ski lots of talk in past years that it had to do with his investments with his money which makes it even more interesting because like we're hearing from sarah in london and from other reports that this it's it's swaying that this is most likely had something to do with his debts with owing lots of money high profile court cases the most recent one of course with the promoter he was ripped apart by the judge was and it wasn't his character he was indeed and this is been going on for some time so it's been it's been happening slowly this letter two months ago according to the two. main press men dmitri biscoe that

bitters also he was asking for forgiveness this is interesting and i think this is a late breaking news in the sense that's happening in the middle of the night i think tomorrow we might hear sunday very different stories as well and reactions to this to this letter asking for forgiveness for these convicted crimes money laundering he's also involved with some shady people at least as a scene in russia in london akhmed zakayev also in exile connected at least in russia convicted of being involved in terror acts he's a former chechen militants so it's a very intricate circle of people at the moment the police are the cause of his death unexplained i guess no doubt as you say in the coming days the coming days will be a lot of speculation about that as well. but at the moment it looks like a guess maybe natural causes but that is not confirmed at the moment and has actually been confirmed his lawyers said it of the police actually confirmed the

details been coming through sketchley over the last couple of hours i think it's pretty much confirmed that he is in fact dead and that he was found dead in his house in the u.k. there have been reports that it could perhaps be suicide but like i said there's going to be so many different theories as to what this was so we can function this thanks for coming in there let's talk now to political analysts strucken for russia's account of. this rocket hi there we got the connection to you hope you can hear me it's kevin owen here live on r.t. what do you know about the circumstances of his death has there been any reaction from his relatives what what more can you tell us from from your paper. well as clean stand now we were nor were the little or were they was just that they had a statement we which was made by a break here's the relatives who acknowledge that mr berezovsky died today in london and in the morning. as i understand he was far and he's dead now but

still a mystery looms or over his death and probably will get some more news in the days to come the word suicide is being bandied around already it is early days none of those confirmed if it was suicide what could have driven him to such a desperate do you think. or well as i understand the word suicide was was pronounced by mr butters all skis lawyers. and ski but if you go to the rabbi and you if you call people who and you are mr berezovsky press on the only as they strongly that deny the notion of suicide that they emphasize that he was not the type of person who would have just. ever actually tried to do that because because as you understand this does i was personally carriage and. mr but is also seemed to be a person who. had a gift for life and who who even in

a bad shape because the last days were actually he was in a bad shape he was able to understand that life is a precious gift and if he would been sorry let me understand this you say it was never about the shape of his last night wesley dot so you say it was a bad shape in his last few days you talking health wise all financially. are well when i say bad shape i mean not only those how did x. through we would chew you they were reports that he suffered heart attacks and in recent weeks but in addition to that he was actually on the brink brink of bankruptcy as you know and for such a person who wants one one of the most a rich person in russia to find himself in a warm water probably that was actually something which made him mentally sick and probably this was one of the reason why his health a group rated the recent weeks

a fierce critic of president putin and his day what do you make of this news that's come out the last couple of housing to the chinese has called. putin spokes person and a bear is also chaos the kremlin for forgiveness no less than two months ago he wanted to return back to russia what you make of that. well i've seen that can you is but i'm a little confused over that because my question needs to why i missed the bit is also he didn't make it probably why didn't he you just go for a press conference and give in to you and say that while i acknowledge that i have made mistakes if so i should let exists then probably that would have been proud of what i have done not only for getting here that i made though i mean that us. would have done that before getting his answer if the answer was i will not be did what his face rubbed in it i mean i don't know. that there are more questions than answers but i contract that such let

a did exist and probably missed the bit is also he wanted to try to make a deal with putin thinking that he can do it in the way how it was done in the time of yes in the ninety's when just prolific it was done through such behind the scenes deals on official understanding between on the goddess and probably stations but anyway it seems that it didn't work because we cannot seem to get is also coming to russia he even in the recent weeks sergey final ten seconds of final thought if you can sum up how will a boris berezovsky be remembered in russian history. well he was one of the most bright and controversial figures in russian history i think that to the name of goodies all ski is a trademark refreshment politics off ninety's and we had official probably president and prime minister and we had an official off sami by the. bankers have a problem in russia who are ready to take

a lead in when president is british to get since europe and actually iranian friends in russia but this time like going to has gone forever. thank you for your thoughts that talking about self excelled russian tycoon uncredited critic boris berezovsky has died in london aged sixty seven thank you. all the way and block behind us officials to downplay the scale of mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay well the pentagon now wants to expand to the tories to say that he will bring it they don't know.

we are facing a little problem. because no one thought to drink no good school. mates when you feel. what's not enough something is the law in the local needs you want a community l.n.g. motion will be used. i don't give it. you've just done for a matter of artist i must fight back i must fight. i'll fight. all right. the syrians are paying the last respects to a prominent sunni cleric killed by

a suicide bomber in a damascus mosque on thursday shaikh mohammad saeed ramadan oh but he was on a was also a high profile that supporter rather of embattled president bashar al assad. says any muslim scholar who goes against the rebels is now at target. clergymen or let's say muslim 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 ischemic seem to be hard 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 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 kind of. the permanent sin the. spoilage who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision and even muslim school should be killed if they are supporting the government it says in 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 and that praise 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 of position or people support for the government agreed that this should not be done that way at least. killing of lawyers for hunger striking to tony's a growing tide of a claim they're being denied access to their clients

a situation said to be life threatening as more than one hundred inmates of a portly been starving themselves for a month and a half u.s. officials have downplayed the allegations of the scale of the crosses saying only twenty six detainees are refusing food while president obama still not kept his promise to close the center of the tree no one's forty nine million dollars to upgrade the facility it's very when ward an attorney who advocates for guantanamo prisoners told me the inmates are being denied justice in a cage like animals 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 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 tipping over its energy security with the help of russia moscow has agreed to increase all supplies to beijing but three times the current level along with other multibillion dollar deals to the two powers also one geopolitical change with the new chinese president saying ties with russia would help bring about a third world order as they put it. first official overseas trip that. 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 the stereotypes and thinking along those lines also has to go and he also mentioned that russia and china are their cooperation will provide for a fear over 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 bricks essentially was a trade and economical 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 rushing 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 vis 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 leader hopes that he will see some very good fruits borne forth from the seeds that he has so on during this visit. a ridiculous comporting have for us just up to twenty six minutes past midnight coming up very soon we had to washington studio next will be martin takes on the mainstream media in the latest edition of breaking the set i'll see you get into that if. 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 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 groups but selim said the attempt was 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 u.s. 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. 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 is ok. i'm trying hard look at the big picture. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and lucky. i mean. i know that i'm. really not so. very slow to sleep.

worse cheaper to live. by that sort of a. radio guy and for a minute. what's cool about it because you never see the. thing 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 agency's insatiable 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 what he said quote the value of any piece of reform a.