well in the tax haven in cypress securing alachua last ditch bail out with the e.u. but it'll inflict a big haircut for high level depositors and close one of the country's biggest banks. british police who allow third party involvement in the death of russian oligarch and kremlin critic boris berezovsky. resignation rejected the syrian national coalition pushes its leader to stay in the post and made wider fears that trouble at the top will derail chances of talks with the government was . no. i had no idea that. i did not. strike in guantanamo off the radar of the us media prisoners refusing food for forty eight days risking their health in a desperate protest. nine

am in moscow i met très a good having you with us here on r t our top story there were fraught talks that went down to the wire but cyprus has managed to clinch an eleventh hour ballo deal with his creditors to avoid financial ruin there is a price to pay though people with more than one hundred thousand euros in the country's second largest bank will see a chunk of that taken away the bank itself will be broken up our tests are silly as more from nicosia. deal has. really been a last minute effort here trying to meet monday twenty fifth of march deadline. for cutting up liquidity there will be a restructuring of the country's second largest bank here are going to be having to

create the concept of the good bad bad bad so first of all those are the plans that 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. levy but they said that they would put an end of the plaza and deposit holders a class also from the banks were bad was no after the sun some day but the essential bank of imposed a limit of the blows that people can take from a.t.m. there was a one hundred you were a limit so we can see the depth of the cash problem the problem still is being felt here on the ground the 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. the fact that many people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually sending the

people of cyprus you know to the president of the country this is a deal that would be pleasing to the people of cyprus would really be a reality but you see on the ground was lost also a lot of frustration in the fact the banks would be present capital going for a movement of the assets of the access to the money so we more of the people here are just rude about the fact that they don't have cash in hand it's very difficult to access whether their savings are still going to be substantial and so we can expect that people here really last to be welcoming versus a river open arms. the cyprus rescue package approval has eased fears of a banking collapse there and raised hopes that attention can move toward some kind of recovery for the small island economy let's see what repercussions the deal may have for the rest of europe we're looking at a worst case scenario here investors could pull their money out of europe's other debt stricken countries fearing the e.u. will force them to take forced them to tax their bank deposits to savers could well

see a run on the banks and cyprus feeling their money is safer in their own hands and what that would do is deal a blow to the capital that would which capital which hold the banks hold and could trigger another widescale credit freeze these aggravating money troubles could well feel euro skepticism at the moment sixty seven percent of cypriots want to leave the e.u. financial advisor warren pollack tells us that the hardships of the small cyprus economy are part of a much bigger 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 look into the system both 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 unaddressed. relevant in a country that is one point one five billion people but when you start to see unrest let's say in france where they are not as strong financially as it is germany i mean we can stephanie see the small countries being the test to see whether savings can be stolen on a wider scale rescue package coming out a high cost for cyprus which struggled to keep its tax haven status president honest even threatened to resign at one point during stormy talks with the troika. more details an analysis on the ballot agreement and how it was passed. someone was always going to lose out the use economic and monetary affairs commissioner saying there were only ever hard choices for the insolvent nation more opinion from all sides on our website r.t. dot com.

british police saying there is no evidence to suggest any third party involvement in the death of boris berezovsky the body of the russian tycoon and vocal critic of the kremlin was found in his bath on saturday his death still being treated as unexplained reports from outside the police cordon surrounding his estate. 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 now 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 about employee was the only other person in the house at the time the body was discovered another 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 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 and we've also heard

from the russian president's press a cache he said that two months ago the president received a letter from we can take a listen now to what. some time ago maybe some two months ago. his mistakes. to forgive him sleep mistakes. did exist pretty dismal 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 rich east. in years now we've had a number of high profile court cases here in the case the most recent of which is with fellow oligarch roman abramovich and people describe not just the psychological impact of losing that court case it's quite humiliation for mr

various of ski but of also the financial impact is well as he said the picture coming out of the man he certainly had seemed 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. boris berezovsky was at the top of russia's political life in the ninety's awash with money and power earlier henri sushi discuss the titans legacy with artie's petero a bell crossed cross talk host. boris berezovsky here. absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's or told you stay in russia you stole it let's be clear here is that all it he didn't make this no even a woman i mean it pilate 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

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 that in one thousand nine hundred six a small number of people had a community enormous wealth but they wanted more and they said to yeltsin we'll get you reelected but you have to give shares in state institutions and bear off lot of eccentric cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he would over 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 and this yes. ome arrogant 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 what i saw it asleep 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 was how did limousine company that it didn't go 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 out of college and yes of course that was his job or 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 deceit it was a really huge gamble on the part of betters often it was a gamble to have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove he can get caught would not work up slightly 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 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 a loser without my mortgage or maybe others that basically by step by step broken down he died alone interesting alone no friends is his wife a headline all 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 penning a letter illusional delusional 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 bears are going to have a fierce critic of the crab and since moving to the u.k. columnist mary jo scheme from the independent newspaper i think some foreign officials in britain could see this as a chance to help improve russian u.k. ties. 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 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 as improper as sort of dancing in the aisles but it is also 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 are you following the ongoing hunger strike at the one time obey detention center later we

report on a protest entering its forty eight day lawyers say more than one hundred inmates are refusing food and risking their health not that much is being said about it in the u.s. mainstream press was. death threats and arrest warrants haven't stopped pakistan's former leader from coming home there's more who are very sorry ending his exile to make an audacious bid for a political comeback. but before we get to that syria's national coalition's refused to accept its leaders resignation. announcement he was quitting just months after being elected to the desire is to leave desire to leave seen as a blow to the diminishing moderate wing of the uprising against the assad regime and the sudden void could be filled by a more radical opposition more from artie's boss lier. 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 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 had to 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 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 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 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. the u.s. is accusing iraq of turning a blind eye to its airspace being used by iranian flights to channel weapons to syria secretary of state john kerry on a surprise visit to baghdad said iranian arms were sustaining syria's government iran insists it's only humanitarian aid marcus papadopoulos from politics first magazine things washington's being selective when it comes to noticing weapons shipments were released i want that. u.s. secretary of state that is ation against iraq it is ironic given that turkey saudi

arabia and qatar who a strategic allies of america have been the ones responsible for the bloodshed in syria through deciples of the syrian minutes and in the film in the film ash weapons and islamist fighters so it's hypocritical for the u.s. secretary of states to make it such a criticism of the syrian national coalition which is backed by the unites by the west and viii islamist regimes also key saudi arabia and qatar it's quite simply a ragtag organization which is made up mostly many different groups and largely occupied by islamist groups so i think it's very dangerous to all western powers especially invest any trust in the syrian national coalition and all the also who has actually flew to these people in certainly the syrian people having voted them in so that they're very they're completely out of touch with the reality on the

ground in syria. strike among prisoners at guantanamo bay into day forty eight but their plight still struggling to get wider attention lawyers say more than one hundred inmates are refusing food and concern about their deteriorating health prison officials continue to downplay the protests and there is little coverage in the u.s. media as artie's marina port i reports. in the world of twenty four hour news no country knows the power of media better than the us hard to believe it's been ten years since the shock and awe campaign that launched the iraq war probably we could have removed saddam hussein in another way that would not have been so damaging to america i mean a man had to go ten years later the killing continues in iraq without also continuing without adding that mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center but that topic remains off the radar of mainstream news and hid it from the american public no i did not notice i had no idea. really according to the center

for constitutional rights one hundred thirty kuantan of our prisoners began a life threatening hunger strike nearly seven weeks ago to protest treatment and conditions at the island prison a prison america's president promised would be closed at the start of twenty ten do you think that that's a topic that should be reported by u.s. media yeah i think so. because they are being kept in prison by the u.s. so it's only fair that they get their views expressed that's what the whole country's built on the freedom of information to do that i mean i just think it's the right thing to do time square is otherwise known as the mecca of media messages millions walk through here on a daily basis flooded with information through new stickers plasma screens and advertisements but as we've learned even the most important stories can be ignored that nobody else is talking about this subject if this were happening in russia if

people had disappeared into a legal black hole in russia and were facing indefinite incarceration without trial without charge without of attorneys would never hear the end of it the western media would be full of it human rights watch on the stands on national they'd be screaming from the. rooftops of westman stuff behind me but because this is an american crime because it's an american crime they're allowed to get away with it because the people who control the so-called mainstream media are fully on side with the agenda of the obama administration top u.s. general down calling for hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the u.s. detention facility when c.n.n. finally turned its focus to get this so-called worldwide leader in news nor to the hunger strike is there anything wrong with trying to improve it fix it spend a few hundred million dollars to get it ready for maybe a new generation of terrorists instead focusing on the money being requested to

update the facility where one hundred sixty six detainees are still languishing you know that more than half of the. kuantan now have been cleared for release. i used the area. you know i didn't i had no idea that. i did not see as more than one hundred prisoners reportedly continued their hunger strike the u.s. military continues to dispute the figures however when our team first broke the story on march twelfth u.s. officials were denying that a strike was even taking place as you recall they started off by saying no one's on a hunger strike just the five or six people who have been on a hunger strike for many years you know then that figure was revised up to fourteen and now we're seeing the figure steadily increasing but to nowhere near the the extent that the that the prison lawyers are talking about and i think you know

hearing about how the lawyers are not being allowed to visit plus this big gulf between what the law is saying and what the administration is saying is indicative of the administration still trying to clamp down on me and they don't want this story out and i think that that means that there is a very big story going on but in the business of broadcast news the u.s. networks have to prioritize which big stories deserve the most attention that's right the canadians are using farting to combat smoking nancy grace first of all i want to express my condolences what happened to your necklace former president bill clinton gets his way actress ashley judd will never be a united states senator. of new york when hollywood liberal and pakistan's former president pervez musharraf is returned to his country after five years in self-imposed exile he was the united states main political ally in the war on terror until stepping down in two thousand and seven made increasing calls for his impeachment which our office said is not a political comeback in the may elections with a pledge to save the country the u.s.

is ready to withdraw from troubled neighboring afghanistan and taliban terror threats are mounting in the region political analyst sultan hali things we sharath is backed by foreign patrons with their own stake in pakistan. the west has. it to its advantage it looks for. the preference is always that military dictator. boxed on is that a military dictatorship is possibly out of the question so the next best thing is to prop somebody who was that trusted man and you can find some evidence on it because saudi arabia has in fact approached mr sharif who was his biggest opponent into keeping silent if you notice mr noble should have just returned from a trip and he has not even being called on it saying that we cannot deny it posting from a zip residing in the is all a norm so probably there is a method in that madness and divest and interest is that they would like to see

their own man in place so that did teddy's the practices and it interests government as well as ensured by post and that may be but raised by shadow taking a quick look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe demonstrators against france's same sex marriage bill had to be dispersed with tear gas after they tried to break through a cordon and onto the shop so you say it's estimated three hundred thousand people turned out against the bill which has already been approved by parliament support for same sex marriage waning in france although most of the anger was that leaders were prioritizing it over jobs and the economy. egypt's president mohamed morsi has warned that he will take on specified action to protect the country this follows friday's violent clashes between opposition and muslim brotherhood supporters near the group's headquarters in cairo two hundred people were injured the latest outbreak of anger started a week ago when muslim brotherhood members attacked journalists and secular activists during a protest. britain's prime minister announced

a massive immigration crackdown that would restrict welfare payments social housing and health care david cameron laid into what he called the something for nothing culture of those arriving in the u.k. and once the numbers of people allowed in to be heavily reduced it's aimed at largely the new e.u. member states like gary and romania which are about to join the agreement that allows free movement and work throughout the block. in libya about two hundred former rebel fighters have besieged the prime minister's office demanding his resignation came the country's political isolation law forbids members of the former regime from political life don was a diplomat durham omar gadhafi has ruled before the nation's eight month long civil war in twenty eleven. today were a wand is a bright example of african prosperity but less than two decades ago it was witness to one of the world's worst ever genocides were up to a million people were killed in today's crosstalk on r t peter lavelle's guess

suspected invisible genocide could still be going on. many people know there were movie say hotel rwanda but today's wonder is different because i mean it's very vibrant and the gross weight is real since two thousand and ten the economy achieved more than seven percent g.d.p. growth rate per year yes the country's going to have a very tough transition but we have to recognize that development pass rwanda has been mapping out in tom's all promoting economic freedom it's not an easy process it's not going to be done overnight but the country has been moving tours for greater economic freedom again it's not an easy process but the country has been demonstrating its willingness to achieve economic development they need it i don't think we can even talk about the economic growth with a clear conscience in their own though because most of the economic growth comes from the absolutely. unbelievable plunder of the neighboring come to see.

us think company invest in governments that is an absolute cover up there talking about the genocide in one thousand nine hundred forty but in fact to genocide in one thousand nine hundred four and that is ongoing genocide in which between six and ten million congolese people died and of course. uganda in unison out of blundering that's the essence of the economic growth. absolutely a known fact in europe in the united states it's an absolute cover to. cross talk with artie's people of ellen fall at nine thirty am g.m.t. look ahead though with the daily lives of migrants in russia working hard to set up their children for a brighter future back home stay with us for that here on r.t. .

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