breaking news this hour nancy 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 were no signs of any third party involvement in the death of self exiled russian tycoon various berries also is 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 approaches to see indefinite detention as those for hunger striking grant on a detainees claim their clients lives are on the line the u.s. military denies a crisis and even wants to expunge the facility. the

latest news and the week's top stories this is the weekly here on ars he was me. and let's start with our breaking news this hour a bailout deal for cyprus has finally been reached in brussels with means which means the island will avoid a default according to the head of the eurozone bailout fund cyprus will get the first tranche out of the ten billion euros in early may the euro group has signed off on the rescue plan for the ailing economy which apply is a restructuring of cyprus is the second largest bank and to have a levy on larger deposit holders. cities house. it's really been a last minute effort here trying to meet but monday twenty fifth of march deadline aside by the european central bank and cutting up liquidity there will be

a restructuring of the country's second largest bank here we. know what's going to happen is they're going to be having to create. a bad bank so first of all. so 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 well. above one hundred thousand euros will be taking a last. night after the sun some day but the essential bank impose a limit that people can take from a.t.m.'s there was a one hundred you will remember so we can see the cash. problem still being felt here the ground up people are still really really frustrated and really anxious of what's going to be happening over the senior staff and family members of loci by

the run that is now is effectively going to be closed they've already been protesting into the streets and. drabs. frustrated with the fact many people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually serving the people of cyprus you know the president of the country and so this is a deal that would be pleasing to the people of cyprus really be a reality but we see on the ground a lot of frustration. by the movement of the assets of access to the money so people here are just rude about the fact that they don't have cash in hand it's very difficult to access that. are still going to be substantial and so we can expect the people here really mad to be welcomed with open arms. pollack and market analyst and financial adviser says the financial turmoil 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 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 five million people but when you start to see unrest let's say in france where they are not as strong financially as has germany i mean we can stephanie see the small countries being the test to see whether savings can be stolen on a wider scale. british police say there is no evidence of any third party involvement in the death of self exiled russian tycoon and vocal kremlin critic

varies bruce all ski biohazard experts went to his home near london where he was found dead but have given it the all clear our correspondent so fast also at the scene. police continuing to investigate the unexplained death of boris berezovsky now in a statement they said the post-mortem will be 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 another senior investigating officer hit his side 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 there has been a huge amount all speculation. made his food chain of 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 we've also heard from the russian president's press attash a he said that two months ago the president received a letter from verizon scale we can take a listen now to what that said. true. sometime ago maybe some two months ago. himself saying that he made a lot of mistakes. to forgive him mistakes and. this did exist personally 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 recent years though it has a number of high profile court cases here in the case the most recent of which is with fellow oligarch roman abramovich and people have described not just the psychological impact of losing that court case which brief quite humiliation for mr birdsall ski but of also the financial impact that is well as he said the picture coming out of him 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 own going investigation here into his. there is a very small scale was at the top of russia's political life in the ninety's with money and power and his grasp my colleague discussed what legacy is led by the time

with peter lovell the host of crosstalk on our channel. boris berezovsky here a man who absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's a total in time in russia stalwart let's be clear here is not all he didn't mean what do you believe in a woman. in 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 of 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 houses where the term came in i think was because of the 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 look at you reelected which 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 very little had no power and because ascii was at the top of the pool so this is how he generated his wealth he didn't earn it but now you talk about a wealthy man you met him and there's yes and arrogant useful of him self 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 what i saw a sort of 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 how did limousine upper lip. then think of the polonium poisoning work for a bit as off screen so litvinenko work of a bit better in what capacity to look for dirt to look for dirt on politicians out

of college and yes of course that was his job let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting up at all which in court are we talking about billions you know massive massive legal deceit it was a really huge gamble on the part of betters of what was it again didn't have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove he came to court with no paperwork absolutely why gamble so he was a newbie and just coming into the end was coming he was running out of money you think he was running out of money he's broke because a lot of people question how much he was really worth was he worth of these three point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a court battles or without my mortgage or maybe others that basically by step by step broken down and he died alone interesting alone no friends is his wife and had little respect he lost his money he'd lost the respect he wasn't able to come home because we heard recently that he'd been trying to come back to moscow even pending a little delusional delusion. you think he wanted to come back or not i think he wanted to come back and as forgiveness no it was never going to happen. and i'm

married to cherokee chief editorial writer and columnist a big independent newspaper believes some foreign officials in britain will probably breathe a sigh of relief with one of their phones being removed from russia u.k. relations. 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 me 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 as improper as sort of dancing in the aisles but because of he 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. and on the way outcry from behind bars there's no end in sight for the hunger strike tunnel out of the u.s. government talks of expanding the not horace facility instead of considering the fate of those being held without charge or trial that. also later exiled former pakistani president pervez musharraf has returned power and planning to regain political power despite criminal charges and assassination threats from the taliban. later but now the syrian national coalition has decisively rejected the resignation of its brevity and mas al-khateeb announced he

was stepping down just moments after he was elected the trees police here has said he. 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 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 had to admit 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 had to be elated 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 prime 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 not a united picture at all as the opposition finding it very difficult to come to some kind of united stance on how to deal with the syrian regime and hunted stepping down is also seen as a sign of internal divisions it is seen as a sign of anxiety and so the question is 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 expunge the facility saying it will be open indefinitely as long as he's going there to check can recall. 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 good on. this. not only are the tourney 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 although 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 of arms to the commander.

asking them. to talk to us about this condition and her own response we have been told by the department of justice that they will not talk to us they were. part of the. no women's talk to us in the mean time 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 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 him. big brother continues its march through the land of the free find out on a website why you're so he's saying they don't need a warrant to touch a g.p.s. device or personal car sacrificing americans privacy to protect citizens everywhere . and russia becomes the second most used language on the net pushing german down one place and being surprised only by the website lingua franca english and of called the reasons behind the russian language is growth on a. former pakistani president pervez musharraf has returned to his country after four years of self-imposed exile that's despite its hard about recently threatening to target him with snipers and so side bomb is

plains to plans to meet his parting ways try new elections hoping to regain political influence but he faces a series of criminal charges and although there are some issues have granted him protective bail and freed him from immediate arrest but it's cool analyst sultan and harley believes musharraf is backed by foreign patrons with their own vested interests and pakistan. as tough as. it looks for the operation. their preference is always a military dictator but the situation now in pakistan is that a military dictatorship is possibly out of the question so the next best thing is to prop somebody who was there a trusted man and you can find some evidence of it because saudi arabia has in fact approached mr nawaz sharif who was his biggest on and keeping silent if you notice mr noble 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 brees or norm so probably there is a method in the madness and the vested interest is that they would like to see their own man in place so that their. practices and it interests are governed as well as ensured by one person and that. maybe but rose was shot. now for energy deals to jerk politics on friday china's new leader xi jinping made moscow his first official stop abroad and the multi-million dollar deal struck beijing will now have more russian oil pumped into its pipes but apart from economic interdependence they china russia ties are seen as an attempt to counter u.s. led dominance in global affairs always and he said now has thirty tails. 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 you 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 most going to beijing of a scene we impact of nature back to tax 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 to tension for gas deals and pipelines are vast russia also sees china as a way to diversify its economy by helping tap untouched water sources in the east and investing in the way military cooperation is also on the table that is the

inevitable i think result of the type of us that asia pacific pivot that it is threatening china on one side and the nato increasing military encirclement 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 never seem to have those geopolitical 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. some international news stories in brief now in paris arrive please five

c.f.l. for testers trying to disperse the crowd marching against the country's same sex marriage bill officers started to use force as anti-gay demonstrators push their way on to the shrub's elisei according to police there were three hundred thousand protesters but activists claim a much larger number a large majority of the lower house of france's parliament approved the much disputed bill last month and now the draft law is awaiting this on its vote next month. in libya about two hundred former rebel fighters have besieged prime minister elisa downes office demanding his resignation they claim that according to the country's political isolation law road members of the former regime can participate in political life as a dunn was a diplomat during his rule before the nation's eight month long civil war in twenty eleven. also the head of the central african republic france are busies one has been forced to flee to the democratic republic of congo after rebel forces seized

control of the capital bangui. france meanwhile claims its soldiers a have secured the city's airport and called for an emergency meeting of the us security council to discuss further action the rebel alliance began its offensive in december and has taken control of about a dozen towns. in the target of us or europe since american soldiers of a invaded iraq was marked this week with more bombings across the country which killed over sixty people and al-qaeda linked groups are eight holes behind that which happened in mostly shiite areas of the capital baghdad and other cities analyst phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies in washington says the current iraqi government put in place by the americans is completely incapable of getting things in order. i think we know exactly what the situation would have been if there had not been this illegal and illegitimate preventive war waged against iraq. we do know that the saddam hussein regime had been supported by the united

states and somewhat by britain the us had been backing the regime of saddam hussein militarily with the seed stock for via logical weapons with other kinds of military support as well as financial and political support throughout the years of iraq's war with iran so then that somehow this was a longstanding challenge that had to be dealt with and war was the only way simply lies in the face of what real relationships were the legacy of that war what the u.s. leaves behind raises horrific realities for the people of iraq what we're seeing now the sectarian violence is a very direct result of the sectarian basis of the of the government that the u.s. has problems when it occupied iraq starting in two thousand and three the aid is being distributed through a corrupt government being kept in power by the united states despite the fact that

those billions of dollars and military forces to the regime of the maliki in power that regime barely could speak to anyone in washington they're far more allied with iran these days but the u.s. is still sending money and money is being wasted by a literally government. coming out what take a look at the daily lives of migrants in russia working towards the truth that children will be able to return home well funded in a good position that's after the break. world. science technology innovation all that is developments from

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