am. cyprus along with international lenders agreed to a controversial tunks on 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 sixty seven with some reports saying hey committed suicide. thousands in damascus the terms of the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide attack on a parked mosque on thursday but also claimed the lives of forty eight others. you saw in russia and around the world this is us he was a nice. under

a very warm welcome to the program cyprus an international lenders have managed 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 launch sums of money and other banks will also be forced to sacrifice part of their savings to the country's aging economy. see there has in ages details for us now. what we have now was an agreement for a one person talks for the posits above one hundred thousand euros in the back of cyprus that's the country's biggest lender and four percent on the process of about two thousand in other banks so this has been an important information piece of information about 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 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 ten the building the new rope be allowed again not from the floor guys so that's the latest for now cyprus still knows that the a clock is ticking it still has it still has to get that approval and if not that's where its future is into the promise people have been feeling if you remember that they have come out into the streets precisely because of this a possible attacks on their deposits and also because of all this uncertainty be 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 fans are still close they're not why doesn't want to as much cash as they could they're worried for their job 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 we really want to know where this is all headed and when everything's we'll settle down for them. and who makes more in a trade and portfolio manager at our of trading so cyprus serves as an example of how people can be 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 and 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 both 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 bonds and in unsecured bank obligations compared to the boss it's 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 thinking ok on it it's like gold or

bitcoin is to keep trusting everything in a bank. willing are now south exiled russian tycoon and kremlin critic barr is very sulky has died in london 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 all his staff earth is in london for us now. is 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. now turned slightly 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 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 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. surrounding this boris berezovsky the. larger than life character there's been talk of health problems of the speculation about suicide and we can actually listen now to some information from a very prominent russian lawyer. actually. the two people who called me resolve ski 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. that he was practically broke an orderly depressed person i know called me and said bruce off he had even asked to borrow five thousand dollars for a ticket he was also serious. as he said there is

a huge amount of speculation at this time surrounding the death right now the circumstances of the death the remain unclear he made his food scene after the break up. then we saw him have self-imposed exile and he sort of sighed and in person in two thousand now in the last couple of years he's had a very high profile court cases a month which is the spectacular falling out he had with fellow russian oligarch roman abramovich 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. that he had so certainly that was a massive blow to. seems both personally but also financially as well of course and it does seem that the fall in on somewhat harder times over the last couple of

years with these court cases now the russian president's press a cache. of has said that the president was sent a letter by boris berezovsky in which he asked her to give notice and return 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've cordoned off the area around his home while that investigation is ongoing no confirmation of the name yet but of course we'll stay with the story and bring you the updates as and when we have. and earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to our correspondent and he said now about the ups and downs of verizon ski 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 was no secret he was an outspoken critic of the kremlin about the system in russia and i think that britain gave him didn't go well the russian 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 peters 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 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 nearly 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. main president dmitry peskov that bitters office 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. 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. and. sergei struck on from russia's corner sun newspaper says there is almost he will go down in russian history as one of the main political figures of the ninety's but he represents a long airing the country really 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 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 to name a very small city is a trade marker for russian politics off ninety's and we had official power of president and prime minister and we had unofficial off sami by the side and bankers have a problem in russia who are very. presidents since. actually arriving planes in russia but this time likely has gone forever. and there are also reports of a design by results to return to moscow to going broke forming multi-million pound trials and journalist about aras explains why the thai couldn't run into financial

difficulties in the u.k. years and you know eventually he made all his money in russia and that's where we operate it. i've been interviewing for nearly fifteen years according to my sources in london that he's going kind of very difficult to adapt since wise to working out i don't pressure british banks with me and 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 to pulling strings inside the kremlin in order to make money doesn't work in london and therefore he says this was just sliding back slowly and he just gave up his office. since he had this this court order slaps and froze two hundred dollars of his money so. you know the suicides because it makes sense in so much as clearly it wasn't going well. this is also

a coming to life from moscow and on the way blank out behind us officials continue to downplay the scale of the must hunger strike have gone time of day while the pentagon now wants to expose the notorious facility. and also liaison mosco and plans for now the doctors to save the planet but all the details of this spectacular in just a couple of minutes to stay with us. they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. strict. their community on the silicon. they clearly distinguish between their own and the alien. and guard their family and think the treasure.

i'm in sochi to know your city in europe i'm the host of the twenty four g. in the winter the biggest. sun sea. thank you. so much. thank you the. dog days of. the fridays it. makes common. sense sunday it's so true. welcome back thousands of syrians up late are paying rather their respect to a prominent sunni cleric killed by a suicide bomber at

a damascus mosque on thursday traded mohammed saeed ramadan r.b.t. i was also a high profile supporter of the embattled president bashar al assad or in journalist abdullah 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 remember the names for example like mr and others were killed because of having an opinion different position but everybody believes that what happened is unjustified and cannot be explained we have extremist groups ischemic seem to group jihad these who are fighting against the government and the mr booty 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. permanent sunni.

scolded 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 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 an average looking for freedom he has the freedom to say whatever he wants that's that's what he 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 opposition or people support for the government agreed that this should not be done that way at least. and say when political action is done in my case says the ramifications of the killing could turn the tide ok two year

conflict 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 sunni syrians kristie a wide shot of them all morning but it's a great design a figure who was a leading scholar in the misleading and in the arab 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 his academic achievement was a mouthpiece a kind of symbol of moderates really kind of he was innocent he was a mouthpiece of moderation he had many enemies most of them shake in saudi arabia and qatar and there was a major motive for killing him which was the fact that you was against these other for cation and of this crisis that he rejected with terrorism which is attacking damascus and aleppo on a daily basis so we could argue that this is a very plain fact it was condemned by the united nations it was condemned by vacuum

as a terrorist atrocity even as we look around in many numerous areas. and on our website right now where you go to report for a veiling this time between seaward rebel groups and the cia so i go online to find out how american intelligence is said to be pulling the strings behind this civil war. and also there you can learn how the haka group anonymous is giving these really spy service from a sudden hard time dot com has the details on their cyber time. lawyers for hunger strike and 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 eighteen mase have reportedly been starving themselves for a month and a half of 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 walls forty nine million dollars to upgrade the facility and live ten and colonel barry when god and attorney advocates for gun tunnel prisoners says the inmates are being denied justice and dog caged 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 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 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 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 stepping up it's an interesting curious he would help of russia has agreed to increase oil supplies to beijing by three times the current level along with other

multi-billion dollar deals the two powers also long term political change with the new chinese president saying ties with russia will help bring about a foul world order. going to screw has been filming and 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 declined 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 their 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 of 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 increasing towards becoming a major geo political 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 rushing trying to still have several things that they need to work on at 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 we'll all start he said that his trip there is

a symbolic significance be happening in march because the leader 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 in the wallet in a conversational english speaking immigrants one london council blew a hole for a million pounds and translations that will never be read boyko went 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 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 wholesome million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading leaflets included a school's guide and french somalians hard cash 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 this street. we need to get the messages across however people from different backgrounds with english is a second language slave will show great responsibility to learn english is the minister for local government eric pickles says that the u.k.'s immigrants need to improve their english while local governments could do with brushing up on them according to putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save

money for persons 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 in most accounts we should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff for legal stuff especially when budgets are really big translations across all public bodies cost the u.k. government a hundred and forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister and the. 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 news letter in bengali arabic or somali you might think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up greek to you. artsy london. it's in the venues that has united millions around the world also so moscow turned the lights off the in

the kremlin for the very first time and earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to medina coltrane about about the fascination of. taki love you 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 on the minute 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 a. completely it 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 of course the. draw it actually is 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 campaign. right after the break a look at the lives of a community which turned its back on society's some trees and.

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 sort of via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt to segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to kemel flushed 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. with believe us when all supposed to be public people we'd rather not be filmed or shot on television we're supposed to live a quiet life and keep distant from worldly masses that's what we need if we're to

keep our traditions. not to be disturbed too much. to shave. in the world we. will get it. this. is. a. this is a small community of orthodox traditionalists returned to russia just over a year ago their ancestors emigrated to let in america in the one nine hundred forty s. coming back to their homeland has been their cherished dream ever since.