piper's and the along with international lenders agreed to a controversial tongue tax on bank deposits which could see some customers lose up to twenty percent of their savings. exiled russian tycoon and outspoken critic boris berezovsky our died in london aged sixty seven with some reports say he committed suicide. than damascus at times the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide. more than a state that also claimed the lives of forty eight others. international news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me thanks for

joining us. for us to cyprus on 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 large sums of money in other banks will also be forced to sacrifice part of their savings to the country's ailing economy. the latest details. what we have now is we agree with forty one percent tox who are the positive above one hundred thousand euros in the bag 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 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 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 we have that data kwan 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 from the floor got 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 it's be is into the promised 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 banks are still closed they're not tried 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 of 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. a trader and portfolio manager at the are have trading because cyprus says as an example of how people can get trouble by bonds. 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 process 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 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 thinking ok on it it's like gold

or bitcoin is to keep trusting everything in a bank. now south exiled russian tycoon and kremlin critic worries there is also he 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 son in law i should say south africa is in london for us. use 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. 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 id 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 russian tycoon you know 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. 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 broken 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 heat amount of speculation at this time surrounding the death right now the circumstances of the death the remain unclear he made his fortune after the break up of the savior 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 russian oligarch roman abramovich back all 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. that he had so certainly that was a massive blow. it 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 attash a test of has said that the president was sent a letter by boris berezovsky in which he asked 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 of the story and bring you the updates as and when we have. and my colleague kevin other than spoke to our correspondent and he said now in the ups and downs of various relations with the president 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 a 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 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 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 bidders

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 ask 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. and political analyst sergei struck khan from sun newspaper sounds very will go down in russian history as one of the main political figures of the ninety's but he represents a long area in the country probably a 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 years in the ninety's when just politics was done through such behind the scenes deals on official understanding between all the goddess and politicians but anyway it seems that it didn't work because we cannot see in it is also common to russia in the in recent weeks he was one of the most bright and controversial figures in russian history i think that's the name of beauty is a trademark of for russian politics off ninety's and we had official power of president and prime minister and we had an official power off sami by the side and bankers have a problem in russia who are very articulate in winning presidents since euro and actually arriving planes in russia but this time likely has gone forever. and also there are reports of the design there is also to return to moscow after going broke following multi-million pound trials and journalist hours explains why the time

couldn't run into financial difficulties in the u.k. . i mean he made all his money and that's where we operate but i've been interviewing. fully fifteen years according to my sources in london that he's going crimea very difficult to speak since wise to work in. russia british banks would make but it was his money that in their accounts they would often close it and so the whole smuggler being connected pulling the strings inside the kremlin in order to make money doesn't work. and therefore he says this was just sliding back slowly and he just gave up his office. since he had this court order. 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 but you're watching i'll see live from moscow and all the way on the way this hour

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you're watching artie is great to have you with us welcome back thousands of syrians are paying their last respects to a prominent sunni cleric killed by

a suicide bomber in a damascus mosque or thursday trade mohammed aside ramadan arbiter she was also a high profile supporter all the in but of president bashar al assad and syrian 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 done position but everybody believed that what happened is unjustified and cannot be explained we have extremist groups ischemic 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 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.

spoilage 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 supporting 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 given his his opinion if you are making in their brains 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. fighting words 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 sewer and political acts or his attorney says they 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. kristie and a wide shot of them all morning and it's a great design it 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 could argue that it was renowned for its academic achievement was a mouthpiece a kind of symbol of moderates really kind of business and 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 that you was against these other for cation and of this crisis that he rejected with terrorism which is attacking damascus and aleppo in a database so we could argue that this is a very plain fact it was condemned by the united nations and it was condemned by

ki-moon as a terrorist atrocity even as a walk around in many numerous areas. and right now on our website we've got every port revealing the sick with ties between say were in rebel groups and the cia so do go online to find out how american intelligence is said to be pulling the strings behind a civil war. so there you can learn how the haka group anonymous is giving the israeli spy inside this mossad a hard time of harm has the details of their side about time. lords for hunger striking 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 inmates have reportedly been starving themselves for a month and a holes now u.s. officials have downplays 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 ministry now also for. nine million dollars to upgrade the facility and an attendant barrier when gallant and attorney here advocates program turning the prisoners as the inmates have been denied justice and on occasion 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 the sixth or seventh around that time frame and had 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 is stepping up its energy security with the help of russia moscow has agreed to increase oil supplies to beijing by three times the current level along with

other multi-billion dollar deals the powers also want to have political change with the new chinese president saying ties with russia will help bring about a fair world order. has been following xi jinping is first official overseas trip. some of the major points that the chinese leader has also made of course was about the cooperation between russia and china among other things that the two countries also agree on is the fact that it 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 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 an upcoming brick summit in south africa and yet despite of course there are many agreements on the political level russia and china 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 our business 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 bears

a symbolic significance by happening in march because the lead there hopes that he will see some very good fruits borne forth from the seeds that he has so on during this visit. political correctness may be leaving british taxpayers a light in the wallet in attempts to accommodate non english speaking immigrants one london council blue half a million pounds on translations that will never be read or he's going to work i want to find out how locals feel about their hard earned money being lost in translation. for those who live in the u.k. and don't speak english the british government's been understanding for the past several years that's because local councils translates information about that services into 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 punjab. it's available and courtesy of the u.k.

taxpayer 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 her 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 it's not right when i see people homeless on the streets. we need to get messages across however people from different backgrounds with english is a second language they will show 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 pickles 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 true extent of wasting your council should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff from media stuff especially when budgets are really being cut translations across all public bodies cross the u.k. government a hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister and the. and simple 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 for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up greek to you. artsy london. it's an event that has united millions around the world also so moscow turned the lights

off in the kremlin for the very first time and i am iconic kevin our own spoke to medina culture never about the fascination that. 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 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. from the north of iraq to the country's foreign firm from a toxic before a filmmaker dangerous journey around the country because of the breaking news.

jorge rios an argentinean 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 joints 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 a mirror. it's work for you get cheap corporate pigs that's just my opinion. mission free accreditation free. for charges free. range

means free. free. free. and free broadcast quality video for your media projects free video dog harty dot com. on the road to basra this morning the u.s. army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twentieth after nine years of occupation the last american troops a fine of leaving the country. every guard got in about it i doubt it ma'am i observe the iraqis anger towards the departing innovators who once dreamed of being liberators the departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches.