struggles to meet the. vital for a head up tomorrow's deadline with. facing the prospect of losing chunks of that money for the sake of rescuing the country's ailing banks. u.k. police say there are no signs of any third party involvement in the death of russian tycoon. who said to have repented his. return to his home in the last few days. the syrian national coalition chief announces his resignation raising the dramatic division. and stopping to protest indefinite detention as hunger strike in guantanamo detainees claim. u.s. military denies a crisis and even wants to expand the vicinity of the. seven

days leading stories and the latest developments this is the week. cyprus is stuck between a rock and a hard place ahead of monday's deadline to raise the five point eight billion euros needed to secure. 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 caused panic discontent across cyprus this week with crowds venting their anger on the streets. reports. 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 did 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 banks imposing capital controls creating a solidarity fund and restructuring its alien banks and in that week of dramatic political and economic maneuvering citizens were on an emotional roller coaster 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 i agree people took 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 sweet aside all too familiar in the next door greece but for the first time in the euro

zone string of be allowed to bounce 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 on to the minds of engineers and actually they don't know what we see is that if you're a big member then you will be left alone and you will be below and you if you are 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. with some possibility but the reasons to be able to. say you believe it you know what everybody else or company or company now then you're going to go before people see your club and whenever they could they don't think twice about joining the crowd it looks like mr stewart would be getting close. to. you if you could it's one thing i think those are. well over the past few days many cypriots have been telling me that be 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 well not until the past week so they share similar language of civil culture another wondering are they going to have to share a similar social tragedy as well. just are still here r.t.

if you see a cyprus. well as we speak a previously delayed key meeting of eurozone finance ministers to decide on a crucial for cyprus is set to begin more for more let's not talk with this he's a political analyst well the supreme president has tweeted very recently saying that negotiations continue the government is doing its utmost for the country do you agree that they are in fact doing everything they can well of course i wouldn't because this is exactly the same government that we're talking about that had accepted only a few days ago the straw that was dictated by the euro group who are negotiating only only for it to be rejected by the separate parliament so why would anyone believe them to start so what's it got to do then he's got to raise five point eight billion euros how's he going to get out of this mess what's its decision it has to take. i really can't really see a way of getting out of this mess by this point to be honest or at least in the medium or even the short and i don't think there's any sustainable way way out as

you may have read already as you may already know the world bank has already warned . risk for a contagion of us it would quite is another thing that's so us they're escaping it's becoming more and more a very strong possibility and almost as. if they don't reach an agreement is there a chance that they could just go bankrupt and have to leave the euro would that be the answer simply dropping the euro and raising its own currency and original want to get of course i mean people there will be one of the least painful ways out of the looting but at the moment they say they're putting out all the stops to prevent business trying to get his money out of the country the archbishop is reportedly planning to hold talks with foreign investors to convince them to stay now just how destructive would it be that outflow of capital if these measures are implemented. you know i think the really interesting thing at the moment is that it doesn't really matter where that where these actually where the measures are implemented or not and whether that's a big if you know twenty twenty five percent which is pretty much the subject of

a discussion of the new group meeting tonight the really important thing is that banking system has been breached already and a bank run by now being seen as you know it will no matter what happens tonight at the moment even people can't in cyprus itself can even get much money out something like one hundred euros being restricted a day just how much longer will the separate stand for this you're going to see more anger perhaps violence now i mean i think bill the really interesting and surprising thing is that they haven't been much anger visible and i'm going to violence already. you know a few more days ago and you know once people actually want it sinks in the realization of what this limitation means in code getting money out of thing we're going to see some of it was seemed indeed and of course we're also getting room is the president if he's forced into a corner he's threatening to resign so we're seeing a political impact now political collapse in the country not exactly helpful at this time is it no absolutely not and won't be the consequences of that. the. i mean it depends on who we're talking about here because if we're talking

about you know the political elite in cyprus they are they seem to be doing it at the moment the domestic elite or the secret people of course a collage of the current political machine but we're going to be very helpful i'm. just looking at a few tweets earlier and some analysts are saying this actually despite being a very small economy and cyprus but what could happen tonight could actually be the end of the eurozone as we know is that just a big saturating or not i don't really think it's exaggerated you know because i think the really crazy thing playing by the dominant kind of logics things that happen which is. you know the system of trust has been there when there's even a plan even though most people savings are going to be this is you know the cornerstone of which in a couple of system is based you know that once once you have money in the bank that that trust the media has trusted you and your money back and even if is the most efficient service agreements are going to be. kind of you know good. you know

all hell is going to break loose and it's very interesting here thought thank you very much for joining us live here naughty and on as broad as political analyst thank you thank you. british police say there's no evidence of any third party involvement in the death of self exiled russian tycoon and vocal kremlin critic police but as i had experts went to his home near london where he was found dead but have given the all clear our correspondent sara firth 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 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. that's being rigged just to the lane where his home is now

is a huge amount of speculation surrounding the ski 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 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 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 of boris berezovsky 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 attach a he said that he months ago a the president received a letter from various us k. we can take a listen now to what that said. some time ago maybe some two months ago but it's too little to prove himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes and to forgive him fleece mistakes and also ask him for a transfer. this letter did exist pretty dismal the man he's wanted by british police on suspicion of the murder of alexander litvinenko. very high profile cases that continue to this day you can about there is a ski describing the t. as this arrivals saying he was in constant contact to me to friends 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 birds are skewed was not thinking much of friendship himself he was keeping ties only with the men he needed

with 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 taking state of mind at the time that he died of course that police investigation to establish the cause of his death right now. let's get reaction to the death of his oscar from mary jessica's she's chief editorial writer and columnist at the independent newspaper joining us there in

london mary police have ruled out any part involvement here does that pretty much confirmed reports that he did take his own life. well either that or he died of natural causes there were also some unconfirmed reports that he may have had a heart attack so it's not entirely clear yet but it does seem to rule out any sort of assassination or criminal activity if it was suicide what would have driven him to take such a desperate measure to think. well i think your previous report really. was probably correct in that especially after the lawsuit this summer which he lost to roman abramovich. he was suffering great money worries i think there's a question about whether he actually brought the lawsuit against. roman abramovich because he needed money and he anticipated that he'd win all because his money

worries were caused by the fact that he lost and he was liable for such huge amounts both of damages and legal costs i think that was certainly that put him in a position that he wasn't accustomed to being in which was potentially short of money and the other question is whether simply he missed russia too much that his friends and associates in britain and london had some of them or gone home some day that his own position of power and influence such as it was was considerably less than it had been when he first arrived and say even two three years ago so i think on both scores on money school and psychologically in terms of what he saw as his purpose in life and also maybe just deep down the very russian thing of being nostalgic and missing russia. prompted him by all reports of him writing to putin and asking forgiveness and longing to return home do you think there's a clearly an element of truth in that that he was desperate enough to come back.

well i mean you can understand that from the kremlin's point of view there's a big propaganda point to be made here but i don't really see why they should have invented this indeed what it seems to me the question that is in my mind is why if the letter arrived two months ago it's taken until now now that it is of has died for the kremlin to say this this letter existed i mean if it had been made public two months ago it would have been a huge propaganda coup for putin and the kremlin so it suggests to me that it was genuine and b. that maybe they were considering what still considering what to do about it where you've covered russia you know the country inside out few tears of being shot really over the death of this man many say here in russia on a golf course that popular many see that his demise as something that he should have seen coming as it were if even if it was suicide but what about the reaction

that in britain where of course he spent a lot of time there from the media point of view how was he seeing there. well i think there's two two reactions there's the very conspiratorial reaction that says this is sort of the most amazing turn of events that it's the sort of the sort of and that fitted his conspiratorial life even if it was entirely natural causes and there is no criminal aspect to it at all. but i think elsewhere behind the scenes in places like foreign office in the corridors of government there will be you know i won't say there will be doing something as improper as sort of dancing in the aisles but berezovsky was a very awkward figure he was a big obstacle to diplomacy with russia and i think his death will be seen as i hope anyway as maybe removing an obstacle to better relations with russia but just briefly he was a key figure was in russia's recent history indeed he helped putin into power did

he then become a serious threat to the kremlin what sort of legacy will leave behind. well i don't think he particularly was a serious threat to the kremlin. i think that. fancied himself as a threat and maybe he wanted to be more of a threat than actually he was. but the position that he held in the second half of the ninety's in russia obviously made him a key figure of that period and he knew all sorts of things which made him continuing powerful but i think the difference between the late ninety's in some ways the figure of berezovsky his position when he died this weekend and the contrast between that and his position of power and influence in the late ninety's illustrates in some ways how russia has changed and how much russia has changed in those five ten years really really interesting to talk to thank you very much for joining us live here mary just chief authority from congress at the

independent newspaper in london thank you. well if you live here in moscow this is the weekly on the way of the blackout behind bars u.s. officials continue to downplay the scott of a mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay while the pentagon now wants to expand the notorious facility that after the break stay with us. they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. strict. their communities on the ceiling. they clearly distinguish between their own and the alien. and guard their family and for the treasure.

i mean so to know your city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourteen winter the picket. signs. thank you. so much. thank you the. dog days of. days it. makes. it so true. this is the weekly live here in moscow syrian national coalition has decisively rejected the resignation of its president. he announced he was stepping down earlier today just months after he was elected well he fell asleep has the details

in his statement was out how to say 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 to it 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 hearted 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 assad 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 a point minister a tip has complained that there has been insufficient groundwork to actually be able to form a government what we witnessing also is stark division amongst a 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 with. stepping down is also seen as a sign of internal divisions it is seen as a sign of anxiety and so the question remains what does his resignation mean if the to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict. dr marcus puppet i want to see is editor of politics first magazine i spoke to middle early he says the so-called opposition in exile is not only dramatically divided but completely the tach from the syrian people 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 it's quite simply a ragtag organization which is made up of so 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 all the more so who has actually voted these people in certainly the syrian people. certainly the syrian people haven't voted them in so they're very completely out of touch with the reality on the ground in syria. skin and bones fainting and even coughing up blood that's how lawyers for the hunger strike in going to the detainees describe some of their clients who've been starving themselves since early february some attorneys claim that they are no longer given access to the captives well 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. reports. 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 authorities that the only flight to the prison the u.s. military flight was cancelled we are. told there are. 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 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 although 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 the lawyers tell us we're certainly in touch with the attorneys and we 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 us back to the department of defense defense attorneys are telling us that the authorities have created conditions which make it nearly impossible for them to do their job and defend their. science so frustrating there is nothing that we can do we want some one else to be. to get the part wanted to bear arms to the commander. asked who. to talk to us about

can this once we have heard no response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they referred back to the department of defense no one is talking to us in the meantime in washington the officials try 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. commission of a 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 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 out. well and to bring you up to date for the moment this is being the weekly four here in ulti coming up a look at the life of a religious russian community which turned its back on society sentry's ago a special report but with one he's healthy enough to know. jorge rios an argentinian 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 what 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 joint 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 americans work for you. you cheap corporate pigs but that's just my opinion. with believe us we're not supposed to be public people we'd rather not be filmed or shown on television we're supposed to live a quiet life and keep distant from worldly matters that's what we need if we're to keep our traditions. not to be disturbed too much.