well in that tax haven cyprus securing a last ditch ballo with the e.u. but it will inflict a big haircut for high level depositors and close one of the country's largest banks. british police ruling out third party involvement in the death of russian oligarch and kremlin critic boris berezovsky. resignation rejected syria's national coalition pushes its leader to stay in his post amid wider speech fears trouble at the top will derail any chance of talks with the government. you know. i had no idea that. i did not. strike in guantanamo off the radar of the u.s. mainstream press prisoners have been refusing food for forty eight days now risking their health in a desperate protest. one

pm in moscow why matras a good having you with us here on r t our top story is in cyprus where fraud talks went down to the wire but cyprus managing to clinch an eleventh hour belo deal with its creditors to avoid financial ruin there's a price to pay those people with more than one hundred thousand euros in the country's second biggest bank will see a ton a chunk of that taken away in the bank itself broken up ortiz tessera cilia has more from nicosia. deal has. really been a last minute effort here trying to meet monday twenty fifth of matched by the european central bank and putting up liquidity there will be a restructuring of the country's second largest bank here capital

a 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 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. holders a class also from the banks were bad was no after tables the sun some day but because such a bank it imposed a limit of withdrawals that people can take from a.t.m. there was a one hundred year we're 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 we've already seen the staff and family members of loci bible run that is now is effectively going to

be closed they've already been protesting into the streets afraid of losing their jobs. the fact that many people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually sending the people of cyprus memo to the president of the country 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 also a lot of frustration in the fact the. capital goes for a movement of the assets of the access to the money so we know that 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 will last to be welcome in the river open arms. the cyprus rescue package approval eased fears of a banking collapse there and raised hopes that attention can move now toward some kind of recovery for the small island economy but let's see what work the deal may have for the wider part of europe taking a look at

a worst case scenario nervous investors could pull their money out of europe's other debt stricken countries in case their deposits get tapped also savers could cause all run on banks and cyprus feeling their money is safer in their own hands from now on that will hit the cash in the banks need cash that the banks need to hold on to possibly triggering another widescale credit freeze none of this helping the ease public reputation at the moment sixty seven percent of cypriots say they want to leave the e.u. block by actual advisor warren pollack tells us the hardships of small cyprus is 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 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. the rescue package coming at a high cost for cyprus that struggle to keep its tax haven status president even threatened to resign at one point during stormy talks with the troika. more details and analysis on the ballot agreement and how it was squeeze through someone was always going to lose out the e.u. economic and monetary affairs commissioner says there were only ever hard choices for the insolvent island war opinion from all sides of the issues on our t.v.

dot com. british police say there is no evidence to suggest any third party involvement in the death of boris berezovsky the body of the self exiled russian tycoon and vocal kremlin critic was found in his bathroom saturday his death still being treated as unexplained. reports. he made his fortune 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 a cache he said that he months ago the president received a letter from verizon 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 sleep mistakes and also asked putin for a transfer. this. personally the picture i think being built up of mr burns all 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 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 describe not just the psychological impact of losing that court case which quite. a bit of 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. forest presidency was at the top of russia's political life in a turbulent one nine hundred ninety s. awash with money and influence earlier my colleague discussed the tycoons legacy with our teams pedro bell host of our cross talk program. boris berezovsky here a man who absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's or total and time in russia you stole it let's be clear here is that all it he didn't make this no even

a woman if you later manipulate 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 and we think it was in collapse so he picked up pieces of all over the place where he was doing that so yes he didn't generate wealth you store wealth let's be clear about it thank you do you can you tie that 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 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. cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he ruled 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. 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 his hold self-imposed exile in london and it was what i saw it asleep it was an escape he left it with him so he would have been charged with all kinds of criminal offenses all the reservation preservation i better 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 been going to the polonium poisoning work 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 let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting in court we talk about billions you know massive massive legal disease it was a really huge gamble on the part of betters of what was it again going to have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove he came to court would not

make it work 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 one of the three point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a court battle with 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 her little respect he lost his money he gets the respect he wasn't able to come home because we've heard recently that he's been trying to come back to moscow even pending delusional delusional you think he wanted to come back on i think he wanted to come back and as for given this no it was never going to happen there is a bear as ascii became a fierce critic of the kremlin since moving to the u.k. columnist mary degeneracy from the independent newspaper believes some foreign officials in britain could see this as a chance to help improve russia u.k.

relations i don't think he particularly was a serious threat to the kremlin. i think that it is up to fancied himself as a threat 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 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. r t following the ongoing hunger strike out the guantanamo bay prison later we report on the protest entering its forty eighth day with lawyers saying more than one hundred inmates are refusing food risking their health and not about much about it being said in the u.s. mainstream media details still to come. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. so you think you understand it and then you.

are welcome to the big picture. thanks for staying with us quarter past the hour now the syrian national coalition has refused to accept its leaders resignation. he was quitting only 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 more radical opposition middle east correspondent. in his statement was 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 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 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 among state 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 effort to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict. journalist and political commentator

damascus is the diverse demands from western sponsors for dividing the syrian coalition. he was the person who first proposed the notion of a dialogue with the syrian government and he was attacked body please let's say it was ill received by most of the other opposition factions the coalition of position of the revolutionary forces which he was heading was oversleep facing some serious trouble regarding its internal unity gathers many people who have different points of view it has the liberals it tells the people from the left side it has islamic fundamentalism 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 this territory some of the

opposition figures act accordingly to what their foreign sponsors who want them to do they're saying we are told position represent the syrian people and anyone who says otherwise i was another reporter the issue should not be labeled as for this and this is a serious problem and i think it's one of the key factors behind the partial to think about the syrian situation is that everyone is doing what they were 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 prisoners at guantanamo bay is into day forty eight but their plight still struggling to gather wider attention lawyers say more than one hundred inmates are now refusing food or concern about their deteriorating health prison officials downplay the protest and there's little coverage of it in

the u.s. media as artie's marina portnoy reports. as you should be 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. from the american public no i do not know to you know 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 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 news seekers 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 access of authorities would never hear the end of it the western media would be full of it human rights watch on this day

international they'd be screaming from the. both dogs of westminster 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 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 question 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. as more than one hundred prisoners reportedly continued their hunger strike the u.s. military continues to dispute the figures however when r.t. 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 justifiable 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 means they don't want this story 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 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 hollywood liberal and is taking a 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 police cordon and on to the shelves so he say it's estimated that three hundred thousand people turned out against the bill that's already been approved by parliament support for same sex marriage waning in france though most of the anger was directed to leaders for prioritizing and over jobs in the economy. britain's prime minister announces a massive immigration crackdown that could restrict water payments social housing and health care. david cameron tore 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 largely aimed at new members states like gary and romania to the e.u. which are about to join the agreement allowing free movement and work throughout the bloc. in libya about two hundred former rebel fighters besieged the office of prime minister ali's a day and calling for his resignation they claim the country's political isolation law forbids members of the former regime from participating in political life and saddam was a diplomat during moammar gadhafi his 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 of self-imposed exile he was the united states main political ally in the war on terror until he stepped down in two thousand and seven made increasing calls for his impeachment which are of set his sights on a political comeback for may elections with a pledge to save the country that the us is waiting to withdraw from troubles in

neighboring afghanistan and taliban terror threats are mounting in the region political analysts sult on how many things which are off his back by foreign patrons with their own stake in his country's. best 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 that 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 being called on it versus saying that we cannot deny it posting from is it out there residing in trees all in all so probably there is a method in that madness and the vested interest is that they would like to see their own man in place so that their teddies their practices and bit interests in

government as well as ensured by men that may be but raise my shadow. today were wanda's or 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 lives were lost in today's edition of cross talk peter lavelle's guest suspect the invisible and invisible genocide is still going on. many people know that they were movie save hotel rwanda but today's wonder is different because i mean it's very vibrant and the gross weight is we'll since two thousand and ten the economy achieving more than seven percent g.d.p. growth rate per year yes the country is 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 to 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 the. congo on behalf of the 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 in uganda in unison a blunder in congo that's the essence of the economic growth. absolutely a known fact in europe in the united states it's an absolute cover up. stay with us here on r t cross talks coming up in a couple of minutes. wealthy

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle almost twenty years after the genocide some claim that is not only on the mend now but also could be considered a development model for other african countries to follow what accounts for rwanda's turnaround is it due to good governance or is it because of western foreign aid aid.