the sinking islands cyprus struggles to meet the vital for a bailout ahead of monday's deadline with scores of savers facing the prospect of losing chunks of that money for the sake of rescuing that country's ailing banks. u.k. police say there are no signs of any third party involvement in the death of self exiled russian tycoon bodies but as you said you have repented his past longing for a return to his homeland in the last few days. starving to death in protest that indefinite detention as lawyers for hunger strike in guantanamo detainees claim their clients lives on the line the u.s. military denies a crisis and even wants to expand the facility. in

the back of the past seven days leading stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. cyprus is stuck between a rock and a hard place ahead of monday's deadline to raise five point eight billion euros needed to secure an and avoid a banking collapse 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 the prospect cause panic and discontent across cyprus this week with crowds venting their anger on the streets has this report. 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 bending 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 solidarity fund and a restructuring it's a living banks and in that week of dramatic political and economic we new bring citizens who are on an emotional rollercoaster panicked cypriots rushed to a.t.m. to try and get their money out of the bank at gas stations and no cash meant no gas angry people to to the streets shocked at what they largely felt was europe particularly germany trying to bring them to their knees but it was a home how they would pay us and our kids. we don't accept treat a site all too familiar in the next door greece but for the first time in the euro zone string of be allowed to balance 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 models of engineers and actually they don't know what we see is that if you're a big e.u. 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 r us to further complicate matters banks in the country will remain closed until next week and 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. the book. we. want to support but there are reasons to be able to. say you believe it's still there you know what everybody else or

company next or company then you go before people see your club and whenever they could they don't think twice about joining the crowd look to see if you're listening to. people. if you take one for you i think those are. well over the past few days many cypriots have been telling me that they've seen or read about the impact of the economic crisis on the people of neighboring countries but it's not a really felt feel to them 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 and. she's a professor of political economy at the university of nicosia believes there would be done repercussions to the separate nation if it complied with the strict but no

terms. there is a political willingness by the government to reach an agreement for the bailout. with the troika but it seems that they're making it more and more difficult using new demands they fear that exist in case that all demands of the trade got accepted i mean it would be very difficult for these under one of these agreement to be viable in the sense that if we throw the country is going to leave and the huge recession in that we should circle and it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to get out of it this is unprecedented cyprus lost twenty five percent of its g.d.p. almost two years ago when there was the here a couple of the greek dead and there has been no compensation for that if these ideas of being discussed are implemented there will be another here over the cyprus g.d.p.

which will be around forty percent it will be impossible i think to get out of such a mess british police say there's no evidence of any third party involvement in the death of self excelled russian tycoon and vocal kremlin critic but he's put his asking why has it experts went to his home near london where he was found dead but have given it the all clear of course is at the scene. the thames valley police continuing the investigation into the cause of death of course burzynski which still remains unexplained of the c.b.r. and team that the team of offices 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 spanned two miles. that's been reduced just to the lane where his home is now as a huge amount of speculation surrounding the death burst berzinski was

a larger than life character the russian 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 in britain the most recent of which he lost against fellow you've got roman abramovich and when you listen to people here in the courthouse at the time of that it certainly seems that that had a very significant impact on him indeed as he said 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. as of he have come out in speculated about his mental state at the time of his death we've also heard from the russian president's press attash a he said that he months ago a the president received. take a listen now to what that said. some time ago maybe some two months ago

but it's off ski sent a letter to putin to get written himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes and to forgive him for these mistakes and also ask putin for a chance for him to return this letter 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 that this arrival saying he was in constant contact me to a friend and also giving further insight into his mental state at the time. already entered in which he was completely alone in the last six months unfortunately 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 and 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 evaluate 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 has 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. he said if i found my calling research a discuss what mark will be left in history by but he's been in office he with people of all he's the host of crosstalk. boris berezovsky here man who absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's a total in time in russia you stole it let's be clear here is that all he didn't

make one thing you know even a woman in a million people in a manipulator ok he used the system what was happening in russia the political system had collapsed the economy had collapsed belief in authority had collapsed everything it was in collapse so he picked up pieces all the all over the place but he was doing that so yes he didn't generate wealth you store wealth let's be clear about what they can you can you talk about in the end because you know talking off air about the the rule of seven of bankers that came out of houses where the term of dark scame i think was better softly that invented it essentially in one thousand nine hundred six a small number of people in the community enormous wealth but they wanted more and they said to yeltsin we'll get you reelected but you have to give the shares in state institutions bear off lot of eccentric cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he would over a very little had no power and because off he was at the top of the hill so this is

how he generated his wealth ok he didn't earn it but now you talk about a wealthy man you met him and there's yes. arrogant he was full of themself ok but a lot of security around him enormous amount of security he was paranoid for good reason there were attempts on his life and he left because he was worried for his life ok he took his money with him or at least a good part of it is called a self-imposed exile in learned it was what i saw it as sleep it was an escape he left he was he would have been charged with all kinds of criminal offenses all the reservation self-preservation not going to get out of and then revenge ok what about what about one of the you know one of the high profile cases was. been named the polonium poisoning worked for bettors of skin so litvinenko worked with me in what capacity to look for dirt to look for dirt on politicians on college and yes of course that was his job for let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting at . all of which in court are we talking about billions you know massive massive legal disease it was a really huge gamble on the part of betters of what was

a gamble didn't have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove his case the court would not work absolutely why gamble so he would say no i am just coming you know the end is coming i was running out of money you think he was running out of money is broke because a lot of people question how much he was really worth was he worth the three point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a court battles or without a mortgage or maybe others that basically brought it up by step by step broken down and he died alone interesting alone no friends is his wife and had little respect he'd lost his money he'd lost the respect he wasn't able to come home because we heard recently that he had been trying to come back to moscow even penning a little are delusional delusional you think he wanted to come back or not i think he wanted to come back and as for a given his know it was never going to happen. and from the kremlin advisor on xander thinks that the twisted coverage of the story by western media threatens to damage russia's image abroad it was quite surprised to hear that it was publicly

announced in the media or basically reported that as well that special units of scotland yard that are trained to deal with chemical and other material swore someone to his house but the moment it was became clear that that there obviously the media went bizerk think basically it doesn't really help neither the investigation or generally you know the the major of russia because certain people are trying to portray russia some sort of a you know place where conflict heats have become regular and even ordered by the thought of being asked around you know television stations or whether i think it was a a hit political hit and i said it just doesn't work like this because this is a broken man who has no more influence he who is of no danger to to to to a putin those are the russians generally why on earth would they do that at all there will be damage there are some people who will use this to worsen the

relations between britain and russia and unfortunately the only thing we can do is help me personally for example is try to explain properly what is going on. you're watching a weekly hearing on the way this blackout 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 facility that story after the break.

a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads full of dangerous. clear evidence from north to south. the roots of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e t. do you live in moscow this is the weekly the syrian national coalition has

decisively rejected the resignation of its president was the tube announced he was stepping down earlier on sunday just months after he was elected. as the details in his statement was outed said that he was stepping down because some matters have to quote him reached red lines now he hasn't explained exactly what prompted his resignation but he did say that he was designing to be able to work with freedom that cannot be available from official institutions keep in mind that her tip was someone that both russia and the united states look to as a person that they could negotiate with on the future of syria back in february how to met with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov following his claim that the syrian opposition was ready to negotiate with syrian president bashar assad it is important to remember that this was the first time ever that the syrian opposition talked about the possibility of talking to a side although later backtracked by saying that he was willing to talk about the

departure of assad with his vice president and his government but not with the syrian president assad himself now tips resignation does raise questions over the integrity of the syrian national opposition coalition it comes on the heels of twelve opposition members pulling out last week over the election of applying minister the tip has complained that there has been insufficient groundwork to actually be able to form a govern. what we're witnessing also is the start of vision among states not united picture at all and the opposition finding it very difficult to come to some kind of united stance on how to deal with the syrian regime and how tense the stepping down is also seen as a sign of intent of division it is seen as a sign of anxiety and so the question remains what does his resignation mean for efforts to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict. let's not get reaction from dr

marcus but what i want to see is editor of politics first magazine marcus what do these latest developments tell us about the state of the syrian opposition just how stable is this coalition. well before i answer that question i think it's important to clarify for russia today's audience exactly who the syrian opposition is in reality there are two opposition movements there is the foreign based opposition movement the syrian national coalition which is backed by the unites by the west and by the islamist regimes of turkey saudi arabia and qatar and then there's the domestic syrian opposition which is comprised of about twelve political parties who want political reform political changes and they want to do so with the syrian government's no completely opposed to foreign intervention in syria and they're completely opposed to taking our arms against the syrian government i think is very much alton's forward and says in the western realize that when western media and

western politicians say the syrian opposition is actually to syrian opposition but in order to question what is it say to their. resignation we simply shows how divided house regularly noted the syrian national coalition is and that's no surprise given that it's quite simply a ragtag organization which is made up of started many different groups and largely occupied by islamist groups so i think it's very dangerous for western powers to actually invest any trust in the syrian national coalition and on the wall so who has actually voted these people in certainly the syrian people. syrian people haven't voted them in so they are completely out of touch with the reality on the ground in syria so that's what you're saying that this that this coalition which is in exile this this year foreign based opposition really doesn't have much influence or sway over these rebel factions fighting in syria is that what you're saying well

that in the sixty four thousand dollar question for the last year just how much influence do they actually do they actually exert over the different militant groups in syria it's very very difficult to tell. i'm probably argue that the islamist factions of the us and say probably. or have a lot more. in syria so you could just let me to you talk about the the those groups who are linked to al qaeda for example that the radicals are absolutely al qaida the al nusra front and also up its music groups i think given that the uprising in syria it's largely islamist based and given that the u.s. in c. and the f.s.a. it's largely. i think it's only natural to assure you that if any section of the s.n.c. has influence over the militant fighters in syria it's going to be the islamist faction. and what is their agenda then what do they want to say. whoa they've made

it very very clear they've been very candid and of course what they said has constituted an inconvenient truth for western politicians western journalists they've made it very clear they want an islamist system installed in syria they want to completely destroy syria's current section clearest society replace it with islamist system based on sharia law and of course future they look to they look to the islamist regimes of saudi arabia qatar and turkey in all their chief practice and its forces in search of weapons cache and logistics just one brief final question the u.s. state secretary he's told that iraq is to see the rain in planes on route to syria if they are suspected of being loaded with weapons is there any proof actually that terrans is arming damascus just briefly but well if i want to get that.

that is ation against iraq it's very difficult to tell you know there's lots of different things happening in battle there's lots of different dimensions but i would say that as i said earlier it is ironic given that turkey saudi arabia and qatar who are strategic allies of america have been the ones responsible for the bloodshed in syria through their support for the syrian military in the full over between from local cash reckons and islamist fighters so it's hypocritical for the u.s. secretary of state to make it such a criticism when his own strategic ally has a supply in the militants in syria and they are the ones who have lost all their hands and who should be in the international criminal court live from london dr marcus but with governance editor of politics first magazine thanks very much in the fields and he. skin and bones fainting and even coughing up blood that's how lawyers for the hunger strike in guantanamo detainees describe some of their clients who 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 if he's got a church can report. 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. why. 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 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 to a feeding tube last friday robert to rand wrote us there were fourteen people refusing all food while their defense attorney said 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 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 refer 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 to brands to the commander.

asking them. to talk to us about these conditions we have heard no response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they refers back to the department of defense 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 touch me in the old way here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks half of the man 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 out. this has been the weekly on the way the the reality. on the ground in iraq after the u.s. led invasion as a special report i'll be back with more news we often up. 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 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. 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.

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