breaking news on our see the bailout deal is sealed the euro group has approved the rescue plan for cyprus which will see bank restructuring and some large deposit holders facing a significant levy. also this hour u.k. police say there are no signs of any third party involvement in the death of self exiled russian tycoon berries berries also he was said to have repented his past while longing for a return to his homeland. the syrian national coalition chief announces his resignation raising the alarm over dramatic divisions within the anti assad forces . starving to death and brush as at an indefinite detention as lawyers for hunger striking guntown of the detainees claim their clients lines are on the line the u.s. military denies the crisis and even wants to expand the facility.

this is the weekly on r c a live from moscow my name is you and let's start with our breaking news this hour. a bailout deal for cyprus has finally been reached in brussels which means that the island will avoid a default the euro group has signed off on the rescue plan for the ailing economy and let's now get the details from these tests are c.b.s. tests are very nice to see you so it looks like the laws each deal has finally been struck or does it apply. we're. really going to last minute. trying to meet a twenty fifth of march deadline to start. cutting our liquidity right now and leave us details we have. will be

a restructuring of the country's largest bank you are. going to happen is going to be having a. bad bank so first of all. the one hundred thousand euros will be protected and a move to transfer to the bank of cyprus that is the largest lender of the country right. above one hundred thousand euros taking a last load will be quite a substantial last obo you have to root for that actual percentage. right now. because of the orders a class. has. a share of the spline now remember only an effort to get ten billion euro bailout from of the e.u. so in fact we are going to be getting it to avoid bankruptcy. really are fed up for

the past a week now. on sunday but the essential bank employs a limit with loads of people can take from a.t.m.'s there was a one hundred you were a limit so we can see the cash. problem still here the ground up people are still really really frustrated and really anxious of what's going to be happening next and also have to mention the. assistance of funding. been getting from the european central bank be transferred to the bank of cyprus so they. observing basically that's the link essentially meaning that back to our key will be shutting down and this will really be bad news for a lot of people who are working for that back and of course as you say we've seen massive public discontent ahead of the talks how will the people take the recent

news. well first of all even taking a badly since of this news broke on it and we can already have a tis a paper taking this news very well we've already seen the staff and family members of loci bible one that is now is effectively going to be closed they've already been protesting into the streets and for the bill to be losing their jobs or so this our first reaction with the fact the bill many people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually serving the people of cyprus memo to the president of the country and so this is a deal that would be easier to the people of cyprus really be a reality but we see on the ground also a lot of frustration. and capital going for the movement of the assets on the access to the money so that people here are just worried about what they don't have cash in hand it's very difficult to. go to be substantial and so we

can expect the people here room lad to be recommended we'll survive with open arms all right also he's still there with the latest from nicosia cyprus thank you very much indeed. and warren pollack market analyst and financial advisor says the financial turmoil in cyprus is part of a broader crisis. we're talking now about cyprus which has one point one five million people but in reality this is a global problem which has not been addressed since two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and previous to that with the issuance of huge amounts of debt and into the system both in europe and in the united states and when that dead goes bad the only recourse which exists is to tap the remaining collateral in the system which is the saving sooner or later if you keep on sort of stealing savings you're going to have popular unrest it's something which is relevant in

a country that has one point one five million people but when you start to see unrest let's say in france where they are not as strong financially as well as germany i mean we can stephanie see these small countries being the test to see whether savings can be stolen on a wider scale. that things are now british police say there's no evidence of any third party involvement in the death of self exiled russian tycoon and vocal krugman critic baris brzezinski has attacks that went to his home near london where he was found dead but have given it they all correspondents will set the scene for us. police continuing to investigate the unexplained death of boris berezovsky now in a statement they said the post-mortem movie carried out there had been a two mile police cordon. after the c.v.r. and the investigators trained in handling radioactive material had given the scene

the all clear the police have described taking a statement from the employee he found mr birdsall ski's body after forcing a pin in the bathroom door having become concerned for his welfare now that employee was the only other person in the house at the time the body was discovered other senior investigating officer hit his side that they are keeping an open mind in the early stages of the investigation and that it would be wrong to speculate at this stage but of course that has been a huge amount all speculation. made his food chain after the breakup of the soviet union a hugely controversial character now we've heard in an interview that with a party given by mr brzezinski his latest friday the day before he died in a conversation with a journalist he talks of his longing to return home to russia and we've also heard from the russian president's press attash

a he said that months ago the president received a letter from verizon scan we can take a listen now to what that said. some time ago maybe some two months ago. a lot of mistakes. forgive him mistakes. did exist certainly the picture i think being built up of mr berger ski in his final years quite aside quite a lonely picture he was a larger than life characters that seem somewhat reduced in. in years now he's had a number of high profile court cases here in the case the most recent of which is with fellow all the guard roman abramovich and people of the squad not just the psychological impact of losing that court case it's quite humiliation for mr verizon ski but have also the financial impact of that as well.

and he certainly had seem to express in his final days a longing to return home and of course that hasn't happened and he is now the subject of the ongoing investigation here into his death and of course various brzezinski was at the top of russia's political life in the ninety's with money and power at his grasp my colleague was discussed legacies led by the tycoon with peter love l the host of crosstalk on our channel. boris berezovsky here man who will absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's a turbulent time in russia you stole it let's be clear here is knowledge he didn't make what do you know even a woman in a minit pilate a manipulator ok he used the system what was happening in russia the political system in collapse 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

where he was 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 this is where the term came in i think was better software 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 me shares in state institutions and bear off lot of eccentric cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he ruled over a very little had no power and because ascii was at the top of the pool so this is how he generated his wealth ok he didn't earn it but now you talk about the wealthy man you met and this yes and arrogant well he was full of themself ok but a lot of security around him an 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 learning it was a solution to sleep it was an escape he left it 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 which had a limousine company that it been for the polonium poisoning worked for a bit as off screen so litvinenko worked with. in what capacity to look for dirt to look for dirt on politicians on college and yes of course that was his job let's let's bring it up to date. the meeting of all of which in court are we talking about billions you know massive massive legal deceit it was a really huge gamble on the part of better software or was it gambling to have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove he can get caught with no paperwork absolutely why gamble so he would say he knew i am just coming you know the end is coming he 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 these three

point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a call back also with up a mortgage or maybe others that basically by step by step broken down he died alone interesting alone no friends is his wife and had little respected lost his money had lost the respect he wasn't able to come home because we had heard recently that he had been trying to come back to moscow even pending illusional delusional you think he wanted to come back or not i think he wanted to come back and as for given his know it was never going to happen and married to trask a chief editorial writer and columnist said the independent newspaper believes some foreign officials in britain will probably breathe a sigh of relief with one of the thorns being removed from russia u.k. or nation. 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 through the second

half of the ninety's in russia obviously made him like the figure of that period 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 i think elsewhere behind the scenes in places like foreign office in the corridors of government they'll be you know i won't say they'll be doing something that's improper or sort of dancing in the aisles but it is obviously 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. under on the way out cry from behind bars there's an hour and inside of the hunger strike . at the u.s.

government talks of expanding the notorious facility instead of considering the fate of those being held without charge or trial that. and also later exiled former pakistani president pervez musharraf has returned home planning to regain political power despite criminal charges under sedation threats from the taliban. the syrian national coalition has decisively rejected the resignation of its president early admires al-khateeb announced he was stepping down just months after he was elected on his policy i have the details. 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 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

hunted 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 how to 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 the 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 eighteen 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 the tips 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 for efforts to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict. 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've been starving themselves since february some attorneys claim that 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 well she's going to check on our 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 saudis that the only flight to the prison the u.s. military flight was cancelled we have asked for. 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 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 the 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 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 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 to the department to bear arms to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about these conditions oh response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they refers back to the partner. 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 turned it 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 you 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 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 them. now they'd rather continues its march to the land of the free gov website why the us authorities think they don't need a warrant to touch a g.p.s. device to pass our car sacrificing americans' privacy to detect citizens every move . and also russia becomes the second most language on the

net pushing germany down one place and being surprised only by the web's frank english because of the reasons behind the russian language is growth on the t.v. . and our former pakistani president pervez musharraf has returned to his country after four years of self-imposed exile that's despite the taliban recently threatening to target him with snipers and suicide bombers plans to leave his parting ways and hoping to regain political influence but he faces a series of criminal charges that they are forces have granted him protective bail and freed him from immediate arrest political analyst sultan and harley believes musharraf is banned by foreign patrons without own vested interest in pakistan. the west has. to its advantage it looks for one written the operation. their preference is always a military dictator but the. start is that military dictatorship is possibly out of

the question so the next best thing is to prop somebody who was their trusted man and you can find some evidence on it because saudi arabia has in fact approached mr nawaz sharif who was his biggest off and into keeping silent if you notice mr murtha never should have just returned from a trip and he has not even being called on it versus saying that we cannot deny a person from a zip up residing in breeze or norm so probably there is a method in the rest and interest is that they would like to see their own man in place so that their teddies their practices and good interests are governed as well as ensured by boston and that maybe by rays will shut off. now from energy to do the job politics on friday china's new leader xi jinping made moscow his fast official stop abroad and the multi-billion dollar deals trog beijing will now have more russian oil pumped into its pipes but apart from economic interdependence the

china russia ties are seen as an attempt to counter a u.s. led dominance in global affairs she's an isa now has the details. the gem of russia china ties energy cooperation has been polished and is shining bright after a three day visit by china's xi jinping to moscow a package of deals were sealed including between rosneft and china's top energy company just a day after the russian oil giant pushed exxon mobil out of the world's number one spot the powers are set to soar with a common competitor washington who is brushing off the full potential of this partnership know they don't take it seriously at their own peril russia and china fellow brics major trade partners and team players at the u.n. security council are the two often stand up against intervention and aggression. beijing a single we impact of nato backed attacks and they don't want the

instability that washington seeks in the middle east beijing and moscow want to do business china is booming and russia is right next door the potential for gas deals and pipelines are vast russia also sees china as a way to diversify its economy like helping tap untouched water sources in the east and investing in the west military cooperation is also on the table but is the inevitable i think result of the type of us. asian pacific pivot that is is threatening china on one side and the nato increasing military encircled and of russia on the other side the more the u.s. pushes its agenda in certain parts of the world the closer they push russia and china together that opens the door for growth and enormous economic ramifications the nations that make up the brics group may be divergent but experts now see they are much more than an acronym coined by our guy goldman sachs they all agree on the

fundamentals we want a multiple of world we want to have more say on neighbors to have political and when the world's biggest country finally joins head on with potentially the world's largest economy it could send shock waves straight to the heart of today's global order and this visit might be the start and he's now a r.t. moscow. more international news stories in brief this hour in paris arrived at least five she had asked for testers trying to despise the cry of not showing gays the country's same sex marriage bill officers started to use force as anti-gay demonstrators push their way onto the seans elisei according to police there were three hundred thousand protesters but acts of its claim a much larger number a large majority of the law house of france's parliament approved the much disputed bill last month and now the draft law is awaiting the senate's about next month's. in libor about two hundred former rebel fighters have besieged prime minister ali's

a downs office demanding his resignation they claim that according to the country's political isolation law no matters will be no members of the former regime can participate in political life elisa dunn was a diplomat during non they could dump his role before the nation's eight month long civil war in twenty eleven. head of the central african republic francois busy as has been forced to flee to the democratic republic of congo after rebel forces seized control of the capital fronts meanwhile claims that soldiers have secured this airport and called one emergency meeting on the un security council to discuss further action the rebel alliance began its offensive in december and has taken control of about a dozen towns. and that you prefer the psammead morsi has warned that he will take unspecified measures to protect the nation this comes after violent clashes on friday between opposition and muslim brotherhood supporters near the group's headquarters in cairo according to the ministry of health about two hundred people

were injured during this square during this conversation as the rest began a week ago when muslim brotherhood members attacks journalists and secular accidents during the protest. you're up to date and coming up after the break we continue our journey from the north end of iraq to the country's far south and a toxic following a filmmaker's dangerous trip across the water on countries day. world . technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

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