cyprus and the new along with international lenders agreed to a controversial topics on bank deposits which could see some customers lose up to twenty percent of their savings. also this ourselves exiled russian tycoon and outspoken kremlin critic boris berezovsky has died in london aged six to seven with some reports saying he committed suicide. thousands in damascus attends the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide attack on a pub moscow thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight others. international news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me you know

hello and welcome to the program. cyprus an international lenders have managed to strike a long awaited agreement on taksim bond deposits of over one hundred thousand euros held with the country's biggest bond customers who keep large sums of money in other banks will also be forced to sacrifice part of their savings to the country's aging economy. the nation's details for us. what we have now is we agree with forty one percent toxic for the positive above one hundred thousand euros in the bank of cyprus that's the country's biggest lender and four percent on deposits of 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 of cyprus is trying to put together before that sunday need to be 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 a bad controls that will be posed on the console that 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 we 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 ten the building the new rope be allowed to get enough from the four guys 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 be is into the process now 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 we 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 why do they want to as much cash as they could they're worried for the job so even coming out to the streets today we know there have been protests as if people are really feeling frustrated and still even if as the 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 was settled down for them. and. kovar a trade and portfolio manager at are as trading says cyprus serves as an example of how people can get trapped by banks the bank has a liability the bank has an obligation to return the money but if the bank goes bust that money isn't there anymore and that's what happens what's happened in cyprus might happen in many other places people think you think that if you have morning a bank account it belongs to you you're wrong it doesn't look oh says it belongs to the bank the funny thing is that i think people are trusting banks too much but we have to say that cyprus is slightly special case because. there was so so little money in violence and in unsecured bank obligations compared to the prostitutes 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 or bitcoin is to keep trusting everything about. let's move on now south exiled russian tycoon and kremlin critic worries verizon ski has died in london aged six to seven news of his death was first broken in a post on a social media web page apparently by his son in law on a saturday is in london for us. 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 that death is being treated as unexplained now is spoken to the thames valley 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 bathroom 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 then of course a huge amount of state surrounding this boris berezovsky the russian you know larger than life character there's been talk of health problems have been speculated about suicide as he said there is a huge amount of speculation at this time surrounding the death but right now the circumstances of the death the remain unclear spurs also he made his fortune after the breakup of the savy union and then we saw him have self-imposed exile and he sort of side in in britain in two thousand now in the last couple of years he's hudson 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 roman abramovich and of the shock that he had so 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 in all somewhat harder times over the last couple of years with these cool cases now the russian president's press attash a press corps of has said that the president was sent. a letter by boris berezovsky in which he asked to give this and returned home. certainly an interesting twist on that 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've cordoned off the area around his home while that investigation is ongoing no confirmation of the name yet and my colleague kevin i spoke to our correspondent and he said now about the ups and downs of barry's off his relations with the

kremlin and his recent appeal to return to russia. 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 didn't go well in russia rather 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 of preterism ski lots of talk in past years that it had to do with his investments with his money which makes people more interesting because 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. he was ripped apart by the judge was not only 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 piscopo that bitters also he was asking for forgiveness this is interesting and i think this is a late breaking news in the sense it'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 it's a very intricate circle of people and political analysts sergey strong come from russia's commerce sun newspaper says there is also he will go down in russian history as one of the main political figures of the ninety's what he

represents a long gone era in the country. 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 politics was done through such behind the scenes deals on official understanding between all the goddess and probably stations but anyway it seems that it didn't work because we cannot seem to get is also common to russia in recent weeks he was one of the most bright and controversial figures in russian history i think that the name of very small city is a trademark of russian politics off the ninety's and we had official power of president and prime minister and we had unofficial off sami biden here should not have and bankers have a problem in russia who are very ethical that even when presidents get sense and are actually writing things in russia but this time like it has gone forever. and

there are also reports of very good going broke of the multi-million trials on journalists to barry says much of the results of his financial misfortune came because he couldn't make any money in the u.k. things have been going very well for him recently and he has his business is being stolen it's been reports that he's been you know it's of money he's been turning off his houses there were reports that he was trying to sell. and he will. and in a picture in order to raise money isn't going to be much i mean he made all his money in russia that's very operates. i've been interviewing for nearly fifteen years according to my sources in london that he's following crimea very difficult to adapt big business wise to working out of russia british banks when if it was his money that they were in their accounts they would often close it and so him and the whole sort of model of being connected it and pulling the

strings inside the kremlin in order to make money doesn't work in london and therefore he just was just sliding back slowly and more recent he just gave up his office. since he had this court order slaps and froze two hundred million dollars of his money so. you know the suicides because it makes sense in so much as clearly it wasn't going well at last we saw him in and he certainly was very interested in what was russia and i was asking me you know what are the people saying. that. talks about the general. economic boom that was going on in the in those days in two thousand and seven and he said no no no no not the people on the street what are the people in the kremlin saying what are the important people say and so he tried very much to keep in touch keep his hand in but he was totally isolated from doing any business and having any contact with anyone who came in moscow while he

was. you know watching all see and on the way block out behind bars you'll suffer shows continued to downplay the scale of it must hunger strike have gone time of day while the pentagon now wants to expound to notorious for some it's a. small scale unplugs for an hour of darkness to save the planet but go the details on this spectacular us our interest a couple of minutes for you to stay with us. wealthy british study. time to. market. why no one should really happening to the global economy

with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports on our. trail see live from moscow good to have you with us thousands of syrians are paying their last respects to a prominent sunni cleric killed by a suicide bomb in

a damascus small school thursday shaikh mohammad saeed a reminder he was also a high profile supporter of the in bottles president bashar al assad so when john this was seen a says any muslim scholar who goes against the rebels is now a target. clergyman or let's say going to school those who are not with the opposition were targeted or were killed we can't remember the names for example but 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 splinter 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 kind of. the permanent assume the. spoiler who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision and even muslims could should be killed if they are supporting the government to support 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 delivered 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 he writes 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 see when political action is danny mark a says the ramifications of the killing could turn the tide of the two year conflict 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 without sunni syrians kristie a wide shot of them and mourning but it's a great design i figured it was a leading scholar in the mystery and our world so what is thought this is actually comes in the notion of the battle between extremism and moderation you could argue that it was renowned for its academic achievement was a mouthpiece a kind of symbol of what hurts really going to be in islam he was a mouthpiece of moderation you 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. against the islamic for cation and of this crisis that he rejected with terrorism much of which is attack in damascus and aleppo today so we could argue that this is a very plain fact it was condemned by the united nations it was condemned by by.

terrorist atrocities even as we look around and in many numerous areas. and on our website for you right now we've got a report revealing big secret ties between seaward rebel groups and the cia so do go online to find out how american intelligence is said to be pulling the strings behind the civil war. and also that you can learn how they have a group anonymous is giving the israeli spy service mossad a hard time dot com has the details of their cyber attack. lawyers for hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay claim they're being behind a denied access to their clients this is ration is said to be life threatening as more than one hundred inmates have reportedly been starving themselves for a month and a half now u.s. officials have downplayed the allegations and the scale of the crisis saying that only twenty six detainees are refusing food and while president obama has still not

kept his promise to close the center the military now also forty nine million dollars to upgrade the facility and lift tenant barry guard an attorney who advocates for gun tunnel prisoners says the inmates are being denied justice and dark age like animals are definitely. 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 could be again 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 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 are off to a 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 of 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 and their security with the help of russia mosco has agreed to increase oil supplies to beijing by three times the current level along with other

multibillion dollar deals the two powers also won't ship but it could change with a new chinese president saying ties with russia will how bring about if that world she's going to has been phoning pains first official 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 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 you also mentioned that course russia and china are there cooperation will provide for a clearer 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 increasingly towards becoming a major geopolitical player and that is going to be one of the main subjects of discussions during the 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 basically 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 borne forth from the seeds that he has sown during this visit. political correctness may be leaving british taxpayers lighter in the wallet in an attempt to accommodate an english speaking immigrants one london council blue hole for a million pounds on translations that will never be read point boyko want to find out how locals feel about their hard earned money they 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 new thoughts about how to lose weight in the choice of punjab. it's available and

courtesy of the u.k. . and this north london bar of hiring day the local town hall wasted almost wholesome million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading leaflets included a school's garden french somalians her 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 street. 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 mom according to putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save

money for persons on 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 to extent of wasting your council should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff and leave your stuff especially when budgets are really being cut translations across all public bodies cos the u.k. government one hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister calls i mean. sensible situation where no one speaks english as their main language in too many british households so if you can only read your local council newsletter in bengali arabic or somali you might think about signing up to some english lessons otherwise it could all end up greek to you. artsy london. united millions around the world us our also so most go turn the lights off in the

kremlin for the very first time and the lights are now back on in the russian capital and earlier my colleague kevin and spoke to me about be fascinating 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 among them i knew 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 you can see clearly just how much our planet needs care and protection 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. completely. depends on us on how we treat it support the earth and we'll be watching up here how the earth finally gets its hour of rest well it is

a symbolic movement 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 and. 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's just very quickly growing to 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 contains. and coming up shortly a monster is on bail for the teens on the walls financial power plays and something to break.

jorge rios an argentinian student at seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so that 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 but 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 sized 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 this 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 met 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 but that's just my opinion.

max kaiser this is the kaiser report what he got for me today sweeney by max kaiser well i have command and control confiscation and crystal. the first headline is actually this is a newsletter sent to people in a housing association in manchester is from eastland homes can you really afford sky cigarettes bingo drinks and other nonessentials they live in an open air prison these are states and the government if they're not wanting to supply the prisoners with what little comfort they have in cigarettes and methamphetamine and bath salts of inhalation then they'd be should consider closing these prisons.