a sinking island cyprus struggles to meet the e.u.'s demands vital for a bailout ahead of monday's deadline that would schools of savers facing the prospect of losing big chunks of money over the same rescuing the country's ailing banks. british police investigate the death of a russian tycoon. who was. losing much of his immense fortune in recent years. and starving to death in protest at indefinite detention as lawyers for hunger striking guantanamo detainees claim their clients lives are on the line at the u.s. military denies a crisis and even wants to expand the facility. and from china with love president uses his first trip abroad to seal massive energy deals with russia

bolster the financial and political counterweight to watch. well over the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me rule research showing welcome to the program. cyprus is stuck between a rock and a hard place just ahead of monday's deadline to raise five point eight billion euros needed to secure an easy out and ultimately avoid a banking collapse and the government has produced a plan that could potentially see scores of people lose up to a fifth of their life savings for the sake of rescuing the banks now the prospect course they can discontent across cyprus this week the crowds are venting their anger out on the streets at this report he's a test. in

a dramatic week of unfolding events cyprus has moved from rejected europe with a resounding no vote on what it saw as an unfair demand for getting a ten billion euro bailout to now bed to go over backwards trying to clinch that money scrambling to put together a package pleasing enough to its creditors the so-called troika now saying yes to imposing a twenty percent levy on deposits above one hundred thousand euros in the bank of cyprus and four percent for big deposits in other backs imposing capital controls creating a so we did a fund and a restructuring it's a given banks and then that week of dramatic political and economic mover and citizens were on an emotional roller coaster panicked cypriots rushed to a.t.m. to try to get their money out of the bank at gas stations and no cash meant no gas agri people took to the streets shocked at what they largely felt was europe particularly germany trying to bring them to their knees but we will stay home how

they would pay us and our kids. we don't accept sweet aside all too familiar in the next door greece but for the first time in the eurozone stripped of be allowed to bear as a red line had been crossed what is going 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 moise of engineers and actually they've done that what we see is that if you are a big member then you will be left alone and you will be below two and you if you are a small member you will be beleaguered iris to further complicate matters the banks of the country will remain closed until next week the european central bank had given an ultimatum if there's no deal with the troika by monday the twenty fifth emergency liquidity funding will be cut off causing another round of panic as

citizens feared the worst. holding on to as much cash as they could most conversations now are about nothing else but the predicament they're countries in and of course it's time you believe what is it more the. more. you're waiting is a possibility but the reasons to be able to. say you believe there are you know what everybody else or company next or company then you go before people see your club and whatever they could they don't think twice about joining the crowd look i'm missing here let's close. with. unification in one field 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 greece but it's not a really felt feel to that

a lot until the past week or so they share similar language or similar culture and other wondering are they going to have to share a similar social tragedy as well. tests or cilia r t nicosia cyprus. the european central bank has warned if the bailout. by monday emergency funding to cyprus will be terminated and the rescue package is essential for the mediterranean state to avoid bankruptcy and the risk of being pushed out of the eurozone let's speculate for a while here or not see all the possible further developments on the worst case scenarios for the debt stricken country here come up the issues for a way to worst case scenario investors could pull their money out of europe's debt burden country is a ultimately fearing the e.u. will force them to tax their bank deposits as well. as savers are likely to cause a run on cyprus banks also feeling their money could be safer in their own hands as well talk about mounting euros skepticism as well i understand at the moment sixty

seven percent of all people in cyprus approve of leaving the eurozone as well so ultimately you got a lot of issues going on here to people rush to the banks and take out their money over the banks probably won't let them do they lose up to a tenth of their savings that could be sucked out of their account in the blink of an eye and all this while germany is insisting that cyprus revamps its banking system and stops being a tax haven well i mean she says that e.u. leaders pushing to raid people's bank deposits is an unprecedented theft by those desperate to keep the euro afloat. cyprus is now the fifth country out of the seventeen that's needed to be bailed out and that is why the germans extracted the terms that they did but i must say even in my diaries predictions in this parliament over the years about the way the e.u. bosses were behaving never did i think that they would in a completely unprecedented manner resort to stealing money from people's bank

account and they know that once one country goes the whole deck of cards will come tumbling down and countries like germany will realize absolutely vast losses possibly as much as one trillion euros so so they are prepared now to do anything literally anything to try to keep the euro afloat and that is why they've now resorted as i say to what can only be described as theft and now they've done it in one country they're quite capable of doing it in italy spain portugal or anywhere else but the message that sends to people who've got savings in banks in those countries certainly if i was them is get your money out don't invest in the euro zone do not invest anywhere in the euro zone you've got to be mad to do so because it's now run by people who don't respect democracy they are propping up a euro zone which in the end is going to collapse in disastrous failure or they are prepared to do anything to do so i think that this decision this german dominated

and led decision is the worst decision we've seen so far in this whole eurozone crisis. live from moscow this is r.t. and this news just in now the head of the syrian national coalition has announced his resignation more he was elected in november with a tough task of bringing unity to the country's scattered opposition and creating an interim government again a suspected move comes on the heels of the syrian opposition electing a prime minister on tuesday and more details on this developing story just in. later in the program here on r t. but for now british police authority looking into the death of the self exiled russian tycoon and vocal kremlin critic boris berezovsky a biohazard expose went to his home near london where he was found dead but they've now given it the all clear sign across want to surf earth now has the latest from

the scene. the thames valley police continuing the investigation into the cause of death of course burzynski which still remains unexplained of the latest update to that investigation is that the c.b.r. and the team of officers trained in handling radioactive material he had been at the scene joining the investigation they've now given the all clear say they've left the investigation and the cordon the can see behind me here that had span two miles around. just to the lane where his fame is now as if he's a man suspect he'll ation surrounding the death first person ski with a larger than life character the russians had made his fourteen after the break up of the save the union we know that in recent years he had been struggling psychologically and financially he had a number of high profile cases. the most recent of which he lost against fellow

you've got roman abramovich. when you listen to people here in the courthouse at the time is that it certainly seems that that had a very significant impact on him indeed as we say it's not just psychologically but financially as well and it does look like he was struggling with that and a lot of relatives a lot of friends. have come out and speculated about his mental state at the time of his death and we've also heard from the russian president's press a cache he said that he months ago the president received a letter from we can take a listen now to what. some time ago maybe some two months ago but it's too little too putin himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes and to forgive him fleece mistakes and. this led to did exist pretty dismal the man he's wanted by british police. on

suspicion of the murder of alexander litvinenko the very high profile case that continues to stay you can about there is a ski describing the sea as this arrivals saying he was in constant contact to me to a friend and also giving further insight into his mental state at the time. of what he had never done which he was completely alone in the last six months unfortunately burrs off he was not thinking much of friendship himself he was keeping ties only with the men he needed and when he took everything he could from those men he parted with them that is why his friends have done the same thing to him we were bitter rivals but we were constantly in dialogue through our movie true friends i know for sure that he was in a deep depression and he started to revaluate many things he was missing russia living in london and he always asked people coming to visit him from moscow to bring him local food whiteboard inskeep read during the meeting with

a journalist as late as friday boris berezovsky had spoken about his longing to return home to russia and talks about losing meaning to his life perhaps like further insights into the russian tycoon state of mind at the time that he died of course that police investigation to establish the cause of his death right now. i'm sorry for porting right after we are across developments following the death of boris berezovsky constant updates for you online of course of our c dot com political analyst from russia is our commerce a newspaper sort of a stroke and believe the tycoon was unable to change is nineteen nineties mindset. 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 year it's in the ninety's when just politics was done through science behind the

scenes deals on official understanding between on a goddess and probably additions we had official problem of president and prime minister and we had an official power off site and bankers have russia who are ready to take a lead in winning president's words yet since europe and actually iranian friends in russia and this time likely has gone forever but anyway it seems that it didn't work because we cannot seem to get is also coming to russia. in recent weeks. thanks for joining us here on odds he still to come for you in the program and out of the lock out behind bars u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of a mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay well the pentagon now wants to expand the notorious priscilla to those details coming your way in just a second. 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 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 israeli human rights group but selim said the attempt to bus segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know

when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the u.s. is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. a pleasure to have you with us for rory suchet today here in moscow skin and bones fainting and even coughing up blood that's how a lawyer is for the hunger striking guantanamo bay detainees describe some of their clients have now been starving themselves since early february some attorneys claim they are no longer given access to the captives while the u.s. military continues to downplay the scale of the hunger strike and despite the

crisis the pentagon now wants to expand the facility saying it will be open indefinitely. as the story. 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. there are no other options there is no get on it. and this is why it's. not only are the attorney struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now but we journalists are as well this friday captain robins you ran 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 their 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 as 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 to brands to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about. her

response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they were. part of the. norma's talked 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 u.n. 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 shocker armor 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 one tunnel for

them is in a coffin in washington i'm going to check on that. after using the pledge to close guantanamo to help him become president more than four years ago iraq obama has dropped the goal from the top of his agenda he's a good person often overcomes the failures to bring the dark story of the company to an end. 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 through 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 us 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 to appear the situation that changed when the congress approved the 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 relation 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 want on a monday to nice a move seen my many as a complete reversal of his former policies in december two thousand and eleven the president feel to veto the national defense bill moving 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 lay a forty million dollar fiberoptic cable from the u.s.

mainland to guantanamo not exactly a sign washington responding to wrap up its operations in the controversial center . well if you had a website. also online. and. it's. expected to move towards. geo politics this friday china's new leader. made moscow his first official stop or brought in a multi-billion dollar deal struck. oil pumped into its pipes but apart from economic interdependence the china russia ties is seen as an attempt to counter

a u.s. led. this is. first trip as president. away from china and where does he choose he chooses to come to russia and this is considered an important strategic move a symbolic move showing how insync these two countries really are and they used to be not so instinct not so lockstep but politically if you look in form a very powerful bloc on the u.n. security council there have the same ideas about syria libya iran even north korea and then in terms of trade it china is now russia's number one trading partner that used to be germany but just to give you an idea how much that is in two thousand and twelve eighty eight billion dollars of trade between these two countries alone so it's very important for russia and china to be working together and in this trip they've decided to promote cross border infrastructure and many significant deals

are made and moving away from politics towards economics energy was a big focus of the trip right certainly in fact ross nafta is set to triple their exports to china over a certain amount of time now that time hasn't been determined yet but they want to start exporting forty five to fifty million tons of oil per year to china and russia has a huge energy giants china as a huge energy consumer not just oil but gas as well a memorandum went out about a gas deal that doesn't have any real specifics but just creates a partnership between russia and china when it turns to gas exportation as well you know both russia and china are members of the so-called brics group of countries including also brazil india and south africa. is this this new partnership going to be significant you have this mano polar leadership right now in the world that everyone looks the united states as like the default go to country the most powerful country supposedly the brics basically was created as a an economic or

a trade relationship between these developing economies but now it's become an actual a political. forum as well and these countries standing up and providing their voices to other countries around the world to help be a problem solvers if you will so that there's this. less of a focus on the singular pole leadership and more multiple poles developing around the world as well so china and russia working together in fact she jinping said that closer ties with russia will make a safer world and that's what something that he said in his trip. and i while he was here in the russian capital the chinese leader also warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations if william and download geo political analyst and author of myths lies and oil wars he says things trip is meant to show that beijing will not be a puppet is it sends a signal to the united states to washington who has been very.

bristolian and increasingly militarily hostile to chime in the last few years with the egypt of its so-called what russia has to bring to the table is essential for china and that is energy security over by plane land routes gas and oil primarily and at a time when china's african oil sources are being increasingly put under pressure from africa in so dion and libya and elsewhere for russia it also. important to orientation to what president putin calls the new eurasian with the direction of the russian economy if russia and china put it hard to give each other then the game is over and you have no contender to sole superpower germany from washington i think that's a very unhealthy state of the world both for the for china for russia for the rest of the world but also for the united states that too much power concentrated in too few hands is always a danger to world peace. this is artsy and egyptian society is torn further apart

as were reporting just a few minutes here on the program the battle rivalry in the country's politics spills onto the streets leaving people in the hospital and the post revolution still. takes a trip to israel to rekindle relations something america at its greatest friend at last be dodging the palestinian problem despite previous elections more on that and other news here on our teachers that. when their own country turned to offer them a living even loving mothers sometimes have to leave their children behind. i don't like to wonder just depends longa. is the dream of millions of migrants the children might choose their motherland.

i want my children to win over moscow. russia has become this stepmother land. migrants working hard to find a way home. wealthy british style. is no time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our t.v. .

thanks for joining us here on arts here i'm real research live in moscow the u.s. president barack obama was in israel this week it was his first visit abroad since reelection and the american leader used his fine or a true skills to smooth things over with the country's leadership and. the thorny palestinian issue and this report out swats he's pulled a slip across this region the winds of change bring both promise and peril so i see this visit as an opportunity but an opportunity for who to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our nations to restate america's unwavering commitment to israel's security and to speak directly to the people of israel nothing about the palestinians the stalled peace process or any pressure on television to stop settlement expansion the four years ago the message sounded very different i've come here to cairo to see.