just for the month of january of. three cases. balancing on the brink of a breakdown in cyprus again weighing a levy on larger bank deposits as it struggles to satisfy the e.u. to get a rescue package ahead of monday's deadline. british police investigate the death of russian oligarch boris ferris off found dead in his home after reportedly losing much of his money in recent years. no trial no food the guantanamo hunger strike enters its forty seventh day with lawyers raising concerns they're denied access to their clients prison officials play down the scale of the protests. looking at the week's top news moscow and beijing see a powerful partnership or dream to double oil supplies to china as the country's new president visits russia on his first official overseas in gauge me.

ten am in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news we begin in cyprus where the clock is ticking it only has until monday to gather the money needed to secure a vital bailout in a dramatic u. turn the government decided it will try and dip into people's bank accounts with those deposits more than one hundred thousand euros in the island's biggest bank at risk the controversial move is still to be signed off by parliament and the troika of creditors as are so he reports the mood in cyprus is one of panic and frustration. a week ago d. you a group of the i.m.f. in brussels hammered out a bailout plan for cyprus is failing banking sector tim goodman euros was the offer on one condition cyprus puts up five point eight billion euros how by imposing a one time levy of up to nine point nine percent on all bank deposits it's not the

deal will solve a limit as to why some protesters just outside the parliament simply have politicians going to a resounding no effective say no to the troika down to ten billion euros the i would be content to moscow it's believed that in russia businesses and wealthy individuals account for most of the foreign money invested country but russia said it's would not help cyprus out before it makes a deal. in the end cypriot officials made a u. turn and are now bending over backwards trying to seal that original bailout from want to put together a package pleasing enough to deploy they've agreed an imposing a twenty percent levy on deposits above one hundred thousand euros in the back of cyprus and four percent for big deposits in other banks while also passing bills to impose capital control on banks creating a solidarity fund and restructure its the backs of those produced

a fresh wave of anger spilling over to the streets. all during that week of dramatic political and economic maneuvering citizens were already on an emotional roller coaster panic cypriots rushed to a.t.m. sick trying to get their money out of the bank and some left empty handed as machines run out of cash. recipient stick to the streets shocked at the larsen felt it was really a particularly journey for trying to bring. a strike of the year in by. protesters condemned the so-called troika the european central bank e.u. commission and the i.m.f. for the first time to be results true with the. demands a red line have been practiced what is up hauling about this particular instance is that the european union the euro zone have taken a step forward beyond their previous policy where they always said individuals will not be harmed we will not take money out of the minds of pensioners and actually

they've done that but what we see is that if you are big member then you will be left alone and you will be bailouts and you if you are small member you will be deleted rest to further complicate matters bags of the country will remain closed until next week and the european central bank had given that ultimatum if there is no deal the troika by monday the twenty fifth emergency liquidity funding will be cut off causing another round of panic as citizens feared the worst trying to get hold of whatever cash they could frustration mounts most conversations now are about nothing else but the predicament they're countries in need of quote time. with the borders of my own. more. we're willing to support from you but the real support. to be able to. say you. know do you stay there or do you know what everybody has for company next or cup and now they

go to go before people. it's your club. and whenever they could they don't think twice about joining the crowd it looks to be some field trip with these let those. who believe you if you teach one thing i think those are. all over the past few days maybe cypriots have been telling me that they've seen or read about the impacts of the economic crisis on the people of neighboring countries but it's not a really felt feel to them well not until the past week so they share similar language a similar culture another wondering are they going to have to share a similar social tragedy as well. tess or sylvia r.t. if you see a cyprus. so i presume president treasury chief will be in brussels sunday to meet the euro group in the i.m.f. to see if numbers add up so they can get a final approval for their plan if the deal's not reached the e.c.b. will cut off funds to cyprus banks pushing the small island economy out of the euro

zone cypriot parliament member christos message says negotiating with the troika is the wrong way for the country. it was the mentality of the troika. again and again in every country in which they try this season with these unfit and human. and the problem is the question is when are they going to stall and it seems that they will and so we suggest that we. put on a daily action negotiating we. we cannot accept them to be reliable and it seems that the end may be somewhere really out of taking control. which is something that a lot this is what we the people of typo's at the moment come think of. the behavior of the way he has been in the last nine months and exactly in the last

week even even even. the separate finance minister was a moscow's weekend search and rescue deal but came home empty handed with russian investors showing no interest moscow says the door remains open man is ready to help the island reach consensus with the e.u. artie's like fair share ski tells my colleague bill died earlier that russia is now looking to bring its offshore cash home. well you know there's a certain stereotype in the west about the russian mafia keeping their money in cyprus offshore accounts well of course to some extent there is some illegal money there but definitely fundamentally it's all about the big businesses because almost just about every big business in russia has an asset an offshore account in cyprus and the biggest concern which is now there and was talked about by the by the president by the highest officials in the country does not concern the big businesses in the sense that russia has been striving to have the offshore money returns to the country the government believes it's now you countries are more

stable you need to provide healthy environment to keep the money inside the country so this is not the concern here especially with the government and the president saying that it wants the money to be returned spoke to the spokesperson of the russian president and hear what he had to say about what they call mr president for . the russian economy. was made during his annual address the russian parliament this year and here still stuck to this idea. have to make environment and russian economy more comfortable for those to invest their money. and to keep the money here on russian soil the biggest concern in the biggest and fairness which president putin talked about here concern small businesses private interpreters who have the money in cyprus and we're talking here at least around forty thousand people who have their money in the

offshore accounts they will suffer and this is something of course which is now being seriously condemned by moscow but then of course cyprus is in a very difficult position either it risks losing the bailout funds which of course will keep the country buoyant if it goes ahead with that then of course it loses its foreign investment investment so what does it do the reason feeling that cyprus may be shooting itself in the leg in the sense that it's been living off the offshore and. for many years now and russians have already started withdrawing the money from the cyprus accounts they may be soon followed by the japanese the chinese also have loads of money in the cyprus accounts and the world is a big place they're always find another country to have their money there british police now looking into the death of self exiled russian tycoon and kremlin critic boris berezovsky chemical and radiological experts now at his home near london where he was found dead saturday they say as a precaution the sixty seven year old is thought to have lost much of his fortune

in recent years from debts resulting from expensive court defeats also reported in britain he was diagnosed with depression more from r.t. sarah for. 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 but. 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 cause 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 of the speculation about suicide and we can actually listen now to some information from a very prominent russian lawyer. for two people who called me saying bruce ascii 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 be resolved but 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 heated amount of speculation at this time surrounding the death but right now the circumstances of the death the remain unclear made his fourteen after the break up of the savior then we saw him have self-imposed exile and he sort of sighed and in britain in two thousand 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 called cases very interesting to listen to there were pulls 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. see the bulletin on somewhat harder times over the last couple of here 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 was to think given this and see. 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 the that 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. more on top of developments following the death of boris berezovsky with updates for you on our t.v.

dot com well when boris berezovsky love russia back in the year two thousand he became one of the kremlin's fiercest critics earlier on our t.v. kevin know what a noose and now i talk about the ups and downs of his relations with moscow in his recent appeal to return back. 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 to britain gave him safe didn't go do what a rush rather it did 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 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 the promoter 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 two. main press men demetrius called that bitters office he was asking for forgiveness this is interesting 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 with a very intricate. circle of people. still ahead on r.t. energizing old allies china's new leader using his first overseas trip to seal energy deals with russia and to call for the two to work towards balancing the

world influence we report after this break stay with us. a clear image of iraq story a. trip through the country. the road full of danger. clear evidence from north to south. of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e t.

thanks for staying with us sixty minutes past the hour now the hunger strike at one time to most cross forty seven days a critical point when serious health repercussions could occur prisoners' lawyers sadly you know arm but are struggling to draw attention to a protests they call unprecedented in scope duration and determination officials insist only a handful of detainees are involved as artie's guy and the cheeky and explains it's getting harder though is to verify all the information. despair among guantanamo detainees is growing as now even their lawyers are being denied direct access to them attorneys say they had

a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the prisoners who's been on strike since the beginning of february lawyers have been informed by saudis that the only flights to the prison the u.s. military flight was cancelled we are. told there are no other options there is no right now we get on. this. not only are the attorney struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now but we journalists or as well this friday captain robert zubrin the spokesman for guantanamo responded to our inquiry he wrote us quote we have twenty six hunger strikers with eight receiving and total feeds meaning they get nutrition through a feeding tube last friday robert to rand wrote us there were fourteen people refusing all food while their defense attorneys had been saying there were many more we cannot independently verify any of this at this point we're just relying on what the officials and detainees lawyers tell us we're certainly in touch with the

attorneys and will continue to press the officials for answers in addition to the inquiries that we made with the defense department we also asked the department of justice for their perspective on what's happening and they basically told us that it's none of their business that the military oversees the facility and referred this back to the department of defense defense attorneys are telling us that these sorties have created conditions which make it nearly impossible for them to do their job and defend their clients so frustrating there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the department of berms to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about these conditions we have heard oh response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they refers back to the part of the. no remains talk to us in the meantime in washington the officials tried to downplay the hunger strike but they seem to have a good idea of why these men resorted to such

a desperate move and yet they have no solution to offer they had great optimism that guantanamo would be closed they were devastated when the president did you know backed off at least their perception of closing the facility that has caused them to become frustrated and they want to get this i think turn the heat up get it back in the media but it was not on the status of the detainees that general john kelly who's command oversees guantanamo came to discuss in congress he was there asking for money to renovate the prison the upgrade of the camp is estimated to cost taxpayers almost two hundred million dollars as washington schedules renovations at guantanamo the international community continues to call on president obama to comply with his own promises and to shut down the infamous prison we have no right to hold people indefinitely without charges without a trial and without people having access to a justice system that's against every principle of law which exists in the world the un commissioner for human rights responded to our request for comment and said

they have quote repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed guantanamo bay four years ago president obama ordered to stop tortured guantanamo but the u.s. says indefinite detention itself is a form of torture british resident shakur aamer was cleared for release six years ago yet he's still being held captive here's what he writes please talk to me in the old way here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks half of the men now in guantanamo have been cleared for release many others never formally accused of a crime three months ago the state department closed the office in charge of closing the prison there's a growing sense among the detainees there that the only way out of guantanamo for them is in a coffin in washington i'm going to check out. nearly all one hundred sixty six prisoners and give me. have been held there since the prison was set up eleven years ago about half of them have been found and not guilty but remain behind bars because of u.s. transfer restrictions others are still awaiting trial counter-terror visor laura

pitter from human rights watch is watching this to put an end to the indefinite detention they're going to have to respond at some point and they need to either you know try and prosecute the katie's who do actually have credible evidence against or release them this point only sixteen he's actually facing a formal charges half of the people there the administration has said they have no interest in prosecuting they need q you know act on this they cannot continue to detain people indefinitely without trial for years now bombing administration the u.s. government is clearly in violation of international law and its obligations under international law journalists don't have access even to un special rapporteur tour does not have access we don't have access it greatly limits our ability to speak with them and to understand what's happening especially regarding their detention

conditions and it only undermines the united states has credibility when they're calling for it here and human rights norms in other countries human rights groups around the world have a long campaign to get guantanamo closed but the international condemnation hasn't resonated on capitol hill despite president obama's pledge to shut down the prison four years ago r.t.c. or his canals takes a look. the story around the closure of guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since he promised to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way thirst in january two thousand and nine when obama was inaugurated he ordered the prison to be shut down within a year and banned some of the interrogation methods after the u.s. government admitted torturing some of the detainees was calls another exactly since in may the same year the u.s. senate refused to fund the closure of the jail until the president provided more details as to what to do with the detainees then in mid october would appear the situation that changed when the congress approved allowed to some of the detainees

to be moved to the u.s. for prosecution but then it all you turned again at the end of two thousand and ten when the same congress approved the defense spending bill which prevented us trials for guantanamo detainees in january two thousand and eleven despite his campaign promise to close that obama signed the defense of the reason plan which ruled out shutting guantanamo bay down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for more detainee's a move seen by many as a complete reversal of his former policies in december two thousand and eleven the president feel to veto the national defense bill paving the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the camp and finally in july last year the pentagon voiced its plans to leave forty million dollar fiber optic cable from the u.s.

mainland to guantanamo not exactly a sign of washington aspiring to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center. more analysis and opinion on what's going on in kuantan m o n r t dot com also a foot away behind the scenes between the cia and syrian rebels a report about claims about the role u.s. intelligence is playing in the country's civil war plus. the flurry on the front line how ukraine's military has been mobilized to keep the capital moving after a surprise invasion of snow. china stepping up its energy security with russian help moscow agreed this week to step up oil supplies to beijing along with other multibillion dollar deals countries' leaders also pledge to work toward a more fair world order they say. go follow xi jinping the 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 the stereotypes and thinking along those lines also has to go and you also mentioned that russia and china are their 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 bricks essentially was a trade in economic organization but it is now moving increasingly 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 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 are really 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. a taxi trip from the north of iraq to the south we follow a filmmaker's dangerous journey through a war torn country stay with us. there

was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation no for via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines 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 at 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 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.

visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was nightmare. children with two heads tumors malformations missing limbs and macao been unbearable literally they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. some. of them. get away and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. i deeply affected i leave the city with its newborn monsters. we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris.