russia. the future covered. in the tax haven cyprus securing a last ditch belo with the e.u. but will inflict a big haircut for high level depositors and close one of the country's largest banks. british police rule out third party involvement in the death of russian oligarch and kremlin critic boris berg's also the. resignation of rejected the syrian national coalition pushes its leader to stay in his post a little wider fears the trouble at the top of the real chance of talks with the government once. you. know. i had no idea that. i did not. strike in guantanamo off the radar in the u.s. mainstream media prisoners have been refusing food for forty eight days risking their help in a desperate protest. eleven

am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t we start our program in cyprus where fraud talks have been down to the wire but the country managed to score an eleventh hour bailout deal with creditors to avoid a financial meltdown there is a price to pay though people with more than one hundred thousand euros in the country's second biggest bank will see a chunk taken away the bank itself will also be broken up are these tests are cilia as more from nicosia. the deal has. really been a last minute effort here trying to meet monday twenty fifth of matched by the european central bank and cutting up liquidity there will be a restructuring of the country's second largest bank here papua bank of cyprus

like you know what's going to happen is going to be having to create the concept of the good bad bad bank 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 that. holders a class. lad has now after the sun some day but the essential bank imposed a limit of the drones that people can take from a.t.m.'s there was a one hundred you were a limit so we can see the cash price the problem still is being felt here on the ground the people are still really really frustrated and really anxious 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 afraid of losing their jobs. are frustrated with the fact that many

people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually saving the people of cyprus you know the president of the country had said this is a deal that would be pleasing to the people of cyprus but really be a reality but you see on the ground lost most of us a lot of frustration on the fact the. present capital controls the movement of the assets of the access to the money so 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 the people here room lad to be welcome in the river open arms. the cyprus rescue package approval is eased fears of a banking collapse there and raised hopes attention to move toward some other kind of recovery for the small island economy but see the repercussions of the deal may have for the wider part of europe taking a look at the worst case scenario now nervous investors could pull their money out

of europe other debt stricken countries worry that the e.u. could tap into their bank deposits to savers could well cause are right on the banks in cyprus feeling their money is safe or in their own hands from now on that could deal a blow to the cash the banks need to hold and could trigger another widescale credit freeze none of this will help the public reputation at the moment sixty seven percent of cypriots say they want to leave the block financial advisor warren pollard tells us the hardships of the small cyprus economy are part of a 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 year 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 is 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 the small countries being the test to see whether savings can be stolen on a wider scale. a rescue package coming at a high cost for. president. one point during the stormy talks with the troika. details and analysis on the ballot agreement and how it was through someone who was always going to lose the economic affairs. commissioner said there were only ever hard choices. from all sides.

british police say there's no evidence to suggest a third party's involvement in the death of boris berezovsky the body of the south exiled russian tycoon in a vocal critic of the kremlin was found in his bathroom saturday his death still being treated as unexplained. reports. boris berezovsky made his fortune 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 we've also heard from the russian president's press attash a he said that months ago the president received a letter from verizon scare we can take a listen now to what that said. sometime ago maybe some two months ago but it's sent a letter to putin himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes. to forgive him please mistakes and. this letter did exist pretty dismal 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 rich east in recent years now he's 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 have described not just the

psychological impact of losing that court case which prefer quite humiliation for mr verizon skee but also the financial impact 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. boris berezovsky was at the top of russia's political life in the ninety's awash with money and influence earlier sushi discuss the tariq whose legacy with people of l. host of archy's crosstalk. boris berezovsky here a man who 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 if he didn't make what do you know even a woman in a minute be later 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 to 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 of darks came in i think was because of that invented it essentially that in one thousand nine hundred six a small number of people had accumulated enormous wealth but they wanted more and they said to yeltsin we'll get you reelected which have to give the shares in state institutions barrel slot eccentric cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he ruled over very little had no power and it is ask it 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 yes you know and 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 hold self-imposed exile in learned it was a solicitor sleep it was an escape he left it with him so 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 point he worked for a bit of skin 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 or let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting at. and 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 didn't have one shred of evidence one sheet of paper to prove he can get caught with no paperwork absolutely why gamble so he was a new i am just coming you know the end is 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 these three point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a call back a loser with a 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 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 for a given his know it was never going to happen. became a fierce critic of the kremlin since he moved to the u.k. columnist married a jet ski from the independent newspaper believes some foreign officials in britain could see this as a chance to help improve russia 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 him a key 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 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 are two following the ongoing hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center later we

report on the protest that's entering its forty eighth day lawyers say more than one hundred inmates are refusing food risking their health and not being much said about it in the u.s. mainstream press details still to come. technology innovation. developments around. the future.

thanks for staying with us quarter past the hour the syrian national coalition has refused to accept its leaders resignation. he was quitting after just months or just months after being elected 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 war from our middle east correspondent also here in his

statement was said that he was stepping down because some matters have to quote him . he hasn't explained exactly what prompted his resignation but he did say that he was assigning to be able to work with them that cannot be available from official institutions keep in mind it was someone that both russia and the united states and look to as a person that they could negotiate with on the future of syria back in favor you had to mate with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov following his claim that the syrian opposition was waiting to negotiate with syrian president. it is important to remember that this was the first time ever that the syrian opposition talked about the possibility of talking to a side although later backtracked by saying that he was willing to talk about the departure of assad with his vice president and his government but not with the syrian president assad himself now 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 applying minister hunted 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 and 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 remains what does his resignation mean for efforts to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict a lot you bremer journalist and commentator of damascus says the diverse demands from western sponsors is further dividing the syrian coalition. he was the person who first proposed the notion of

a dialogue with the syrian government and he was attacked by please let's say it was ill received by most of the other opposition factions the coalition of opposition the revolutionary forces which he was heading was oversleep facing some serious trouble regarding its internal unity it could gather as many people who have different points of view it has the liberals it tells the people from the left side it has the islamic fundamentalists and that is a muslim brotherhood so it gathered many voices and those voices only came together because the united states of america thought that the opposition should be united now but in fact they can't be united because they have all these different ideologies and all different ways of approaching the syrian crisis the opposition has many sponsors and every sponsor is claiming his territory some of the opposition figures act accordingly to what their foreign sponsors who want them to do they're saying we are the opposition we represent the syrian people and anyone who says otherwise i was another approach to the issue should not be labeled as

opposition and this is a serious problem and i think it's one of the key factors behind the departure of the think about the syrian situation is that everyone is doing whatever they want and the opposition body abroad they can't control the rebel forces inside and even at the fact that the the free army has said it doesn't acknowledge mr he told the government it's a great indication so i think there's a big gap between the people fighting inside and the opposition forces operating from the outside. strike among the prisoners at guantanamo bay and what's forty eight day but their plight still struggling to get wider attention their lawyers say more than one hundred inmates are now refusing food and are concerned about their deteriorating health prison officials continue to downplay the protests and there is little coverage in the u.s. media or he's very important i reports. in the world of twenty four hours. 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 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 to the mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center but that topic remains off the radar of mainstream news and hidden 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 no 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 tat 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 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 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 ignored 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 t.v.

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 and 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 means 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 u.s. networks have to prioritize which big stories deserve the most attention that's right the canadians are using farming 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 liberals. take a look at some international headlines this hour demonstrators against france's same sex marriage bill had to be dispersed with tear gas after they attempted to break through a cordon and onto the shah 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 directed at leaders for prioritizing above the jobs and the economy. britain's prime minister announces a massive immigration crackdown that would restrict welfare payments social housing and health care david cameron ripping 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 reduced it's largely aimed at new

e.u. members states like belgariad romania that are about to join the agreement that allows free movement and work throughout the bloc. in libya about two hundred former rebel fighters b.c.g. the office of prime minister ali's adad demanding his resignation they claim the country's political isolation law forbids members of the former regime from engaging in political life sudan was a diplomat during moammar gadhafi as rule before the nation's eight month long civil war in two thousand and eleven. pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has 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 i mean increasing calls for his impeachment which are set his sights on a political comeback in the may elections the pledge to quote save the country however the us is ready to withdraw from troubled neighbor pakistan and taliban terror threats are mounting political analyst sultan hali thinks we share of his

back by foreign patrons with their own stake in pakistan. the west has. to its advantage it looks for. the preference is always that 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 trusted man and you can find some evidence on it because saudi arabia has in fact it approached mr nawaz 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 quote being quote on it versus saying that we cannot deny it posting from his it up residing in trees all norm so probably there is a method in that madness and the best and interest is that they would like to see their own man in place so that did teddies their practices and did interest in government as well as ensured by men that may be but raised by shot off. they are

a want is a bright example of african prosperity but less than two decades ago was witness to one of the world's worst ever genocides work to a million lives were lost in today's crosstalk on r t p o l's guess in a suspect and invisible genocide is still going on. many people know their movie say hotel rwanda but today's one dies different because i mean it's very vibrant and the gross rate is real since two thousand and ten and the economy it's even more than seven percent g.d.p. growth rate per year yes the country's going to be very tough transition but we have to recognize that development pass rwanda has been mapping out in tom's zero 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 needed i don't think we can even talk about the

economic growth we have clear conscious in their own though because most of the economic growth comes from the absolutely. unbelievable plunder of the neighboring come to see only half of 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. the essence of the economic growth. absolutely a known fact in europe in the united states it's an absolute coverup. coming up at nine thirty am g.m.t. still ahead though a look at the daily lives of migrants in russia or working toward the dream their children will be able to return home and in

a good position to come after the break. wealthy british style sun. times. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report.

when their own country can't offer them a living even loving mothers sometimes have to leave their children behind. i don't like to wonder just a bit longer. if the dream of millions of migrants that then children might choose their motherland. is. i want my children to win over moscow. russia has become this stepmother land meets migrants working hard to find a way home. some account is the oldest city in central.