cyprus of boyd's bankruptcy by striking a last minute bailout deal with international lenders. depositors at two of the country's major banks will find themselves short of a huge chunk of their lives a. british police rule out any third party involvement in the death of russian tycoon boris berezovsky and the public awaits autopsy results which could shed light on what killed the form of believe. it was his exploits to join a u.n. probe into an alleged deadly chemical attack near aleppo in syria following reports in the western media implicating rebel forces.

a pleasure to have you with us here today. live in moscow with your news from all around the world. cyprus has managed to reach a last minute deal with its creditors on a ten billion euro bailout crucial to prevent the country from bankruptcy the rescue package however comes at a steep price deposits about one hundred thousand euros in the country's two largest banks will be raided with about thirty percent tax. reports from nicosia. the. country will essentially be split into two now. one hundred thousand euros in the bank will be transferred to. more than one hundred thousand euros of uninsured. those that are not covered under

guarantee. would be taking a huge very significant loss and this will really hurt those with of course their life savings or those with the small to medium sized enterprises with money in the bank so they will take the taking a big loss and. result in jobs lost. hundreds of. protesting here. the biggest lender is not out of the well let's remember that there are still capital controls in place which means. that citizens can take the amount of money they can move around and this is really creating a credit crunch a cash crunch everybody trying to hold on to those. just in case. right now they can only take about one hundred euros and the reaction here is.

still very disappointed. that as the. feeling of the people here is that a red line has been crossed remember the suggestion that they will be dipping into . even a small deposit holders this is really bad message to people. in whatever the government or detroit. i have cash i have a job i have savings and these questions for them are not as. their governor. it has agreed with the white cap and i think that's our silly reporting there and i don laughlin the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris believes that the developments in cyprus actually share their roots with a number of historical revolutions cyprus is yet another bit of the i would say power and ideologically crazed determination of the european

elites to keep the single currency intact against all the odds i genuinely think and i'm not given to exaggeration that europe today is in a situation comparable to that of the french revolution all of the old shit revolution i mean by that that an entire class of people are going to be expropriated and treated as if they were criminals it is just as in the two revolutions i mentioned arris to crass as a class one hundred from the lampposts because it was decreed that their property had been criminally obtained this is a very very bad precedent because it means that deposits which are private property are no longer safe in europe in backs although the propaganda is absolutely deafening particularly in the german media about how all the money is held by russians and how all these russians are criminals and therefore deserve to have their money taken away there will ultimately be some other people cypriots and other nationals who also have bank accounts with more than one hundred thousand

euros and if that money is exposed created stolen as it is going to be then the effect on cyprus's banking system will be absolutely catastrophic and that only here on r.t.i. i spoke to our one of our news editors that of across about how the problems in cyprus actually first took root. it was nine months ago that cyprus asked for a bailout they asked for seventeen billion euro which is about one hundred percent of g.d.p. . there was a general election so i'm sure in that time a couple of delays at the russian. russian refused to get involved the eurozone wanted to wanted to. foist the cyprus problem on to russia russia said it was eurozone problem anyhow what happened eventually was that we came down to the wire as usual as is the case with pretty much every euro group decision it becomes more of a debacle than a. decision at all five am this morning they come up with ten billion in. bailout which is seven which is short seven billion less than than what was her

last second a last second supposed gesture of being saved here but it's massively short of what they're asking for and we understand now that well the country's second largest bank will be close or thousand jobs will go either what do you know about the capital but from what i understand it's flying out of cyprus right yeah yeah there's been reports this morning frankfurter allgemeine zeitung reported that despite the freeze this is quite a story the bureau group froze the retail banking sector of an entire country people could not the there was a two hundred euro limit on what they could take out of a.t.m.'s now there's one hundred euro limit if the a.t.m.'s are running at all so despite this freeze on and capital controls being applied to the other by your group the reports are this morning that capital flight from cyprus doubled the regular traffic about two hundred million euro a day doubles in the in the week there seizing the money other money is flying out of cyprus i'm sure max keiser of the kaiser report will come to call this some form of financial terrorism but perhaps he would be right in calling it something like

that well yeah i think you know the euro group have really managed a debacle they've got a lot of egg on their face that that's for sure. at the same time we see that many a lot of the euro group talking heads are are using the term casino week on. that's right try to legitimize what it is that they're doing in cyprus. big the point to work making the e.c. be vetted cyprus for euro zone membership in two thousand and eight and gave it a go ahead in two thousand and eleven they perform a stress test on the bank of cyprus and like a bank and said things were ok to turn around now and say that there's been a form of casino capitalism been going on there i think it's marks of desperation. i live from moscow this is artsy but the mystery behind the death of boris berezovsky could become clear within hours this of course following an autopsy of the body of the self excel tycoon an kremlin opponent was found in his bath over

the weekend and there have been suggestions the form a billionaire took his own life but police say he left no suicide note behind or thoughts of also ruled out any third party involvement but his office he made an immense fortune back in the one nine hundred ninety s. it's widely believed he took advantage of the chaos a gripping post soviet russia a couple though with cozy relations with president yeltsin's in. the tycoon later moved to london to escape multiple charges of financial crime dr mcdowell an independent expert on russia feels that bears also never believed he would end up losing his grip on power. i don't think that there's much doubt that you know barry's all ski thought was somebody that he could control that he would you know. previous financial dealings he water under the bridge and of course president putin said no he stood up to the oligarchs we was first elected in this was the reason that. we quit russia a number of very soft friend and confidant have come forward and said. very

depressed and had lost meaning over the past couple of days we do have to remember that he had just lost an extremely high profile people pace which not only did the financial cost that british judge had attention he called him a liar on record i mean this was a broken in defeated man. and his venom on the kremlin when he saw the exxon in the u.k. columnist married to jeff ski from the independent newspaper and she believes that some foreign officials in london canal see the tycoons posturing as actually a chance to try to improve 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 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 it is obviously was a very awkward figure he was a big obstacle to diplomacy with russia and i think his death will be seen as i hope anyway as maybe removing an obstacle to better relations with russia. it's ten minutes past the hour moscow time still to come here on the program that of see no evil or investigate what the mainstream media is turning a blind eye to the developing a hunger strike crisis at guantanamo bay prison. technology

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thanks for joining us here on odds here not long now for the data but for the meantime russia and china must be part of the u.n. investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in a. syria that's according to a senior russian diplomat i mean while rebels have stepped up their accusations against forces loyal to president assad let's clear it up now go to details from odds he's paul asla. the syrian opposition says that forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad fired what they are claiming a chemical weapons at rebels surrounding an army base in the town of address on the outskirts of the syrian capital of damascus now the reports we have all that two rebel fighters were killed and some twenty two people were wounded it comes in light of accusations last week in which both sides accuse the other of using chemical weapons in any mysterious explosion near the city of aleppo which killed

some twenty six people and wounded dozens not of that incident was swiftly labeled by western intelligence agencies as a chemical incident perpetrated by forces loyal to the syrian president assad the syrian regime osce the united nations to launch an investigation the russian ministry has said that if there are reasons to believe that chemical weapons in fact were used an international group comprising of permanent united nations security council members has to be saying to syria the american president barack obama he has constantly in the past put the issue of chemical weapons on the table saying that a red line needs to be do go on and when he was here in the region recently he was quick to make harsh statements towards the syrian president over a legend uses of chemical weapons once we establish the facts i have made clear that the use of chemical weapons is a game changer i am deeply skeptical. any claim that in fact it was

the opposition that used chemical weapons we now have information to the contrary regarding the incident last week in the lead israel's leading daily newspaper ha'aretz whites that it was definitely not a chemical attack carried out by the syrian president assad what we're seeing more is that the syrian opposition is deeply divided the leader of the opposition was hot tips resignation comes just months after his election now his decision to leave is being seen as a blow to the diminishing moderate wing of the uprising against the syrian president bashar assad there have in the past been an alarming number of resignations within the coalition itself by top opposition figures is what we've seen more and more is that the rebels are able to organize themselves and i'm able to consolidate the military and political bodies and increasingly it's clear that there's no direct link between the fighters on the ground in the coalition that is the in-built of rule which is the concern now is that more radical islamist groups

might pull this void that is being lifted by the resignation of the leadership and at the same time it looks increasingly like no one is particularly interested in sitting down and having dialogue with the syrian president bashar assad also the u.k. and france recently suggested that a weapons in bargo on syria has to be lifted to the rebels as we see now the initiative hasn't been given any kind of green light so growing concerned what is happening inside syria. and the reporting that around in the meantime the human journalist and political commentator in damascus he believes the uncertainty over syria is bolstered by the many conflicting interests involved all across the opposition. mr 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 position of the revolutionary forces which most of us thought he was heading was obviously

facing some serious trouble regarding its internal unity gathers many people who have different points of view it has the liberals or tells the people from the left side it has as lot of fundamentalists and as 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 own them to do they're saying we are the opposition represent the syrian people and anyone who says otherwise i one has another of course or 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 sort of hotly departure and to 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 become a big knowledge mr he told the government it's a great indication so i think there's a big gap between the people fighting inside and opposition forces operating from the outside. well don't forget to log on to our website. we've got the latest news . for example surprised the calls find out why it was unable to fork out for a special spy unit against the issue of cyber attacks. also online for you with. the. british ride. out for the horses. so. to speak the language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's we'll hear. fourteen from the world talks

to vo ip interviews intriguing story for you here. in troy. for a visit. we're coming to you live from moscow works now are just turning twenty minutes past the hour as the u.s. military continues to deny mass hunger strike a prison and the information blackout being fortified by the mainstream media lawyers for more than a hundred captives with the failing health of their clients most americans are simply left in the dark about the story. interested. in the world of twenty four hour news no country knows the power of media better than the u.s. hard to believe it's been ten years since the shock and awe campaign that launched the iraq war i believe 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 any 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 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 tack 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 is 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 and without access of attorneys 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 rooftops 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 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 job. instead focusing on the money. the facility where one hundred sixty six detainees are still languishing you know that more than half of the. have been cleared for release are you serious. no i didn't i had no idea that while i did. as more than one hundred prisoners reportedly continue 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 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 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 lawyers are 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 aired 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. artsy new york hollywood liberal once america's top

known nato ally in the war on terror former pakistani president pervez musharaff has returned to the conflict zone after four years of self-imposed exile is aiming to surge back into the political scene by leading his party in the upcoming elections in may and was shot off returns despite a criminal charges against him at home and death threats from the taliban at the move comes as the u.s. and its allies are winding down their presence in neighboring afghanistan in the face of for surge and militant activity. thank you. for some of the world news now starting with three hundred thousand people in the capital rallied against a draft law allowing same sex couples to marry and adopt children police. and demonstrators trying to break down barricades the bill will be voted on next month but protesters are angry at leaders for prioritizing the issue of jobs.

and the british prime minister has unveiled a massive immigration crackdown strict welfare payment social housing and access to the health service david cameron called on ending what he dubbed the something for nothing culture of those arriving in the u.k. the numbers of people allowed in to be heavily read used by the measures are aimed at possible newcomers from romania and bulgaria will. travel and work lifted. from the u.s. secretary of state is in afghanistan on an unannounced visit to the country's president hamid karzai and certainly some other officials twenty four hour trip is expected to involve discussion of a range of issues including the upcoming elections and reconciliation talks with insurgent groups the u.s. is currently preparing to hand over full security responsibility to the local

authorities. for it in about half an hour's time my colleague bill dog is here but for now coming your way in just a moment almost a decade after the rwandan genocide cross-talk looks into the country's turnaround this is. wealthy british style.

markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle almost twenty years after the genocide some claim that the wanted 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 some say is given because of a guilty conscience. to discuss the situation in rwanda i'm joined by three baltic in nairobi he is a novelist filmmaker and an investigative journalist in washington we have anthony kim he is a senior policy analyst at the center for. international trade and economics and in london we cross to michael amoa he is an expert on africa at the london school of economics ok anthony if i could go to you first how would you describe the situation in rwanda because there's a lot of positive news coming out but there's a lot of political news that isn't so positive so give me the balance. that's true

what rwanda is going through is kind of interesting transition as we have seen has been making a lot of positive progress in terms of economic development over the past twenty years so this is a combination of both good governance and less than forty in aid but more importantly is the desire of the one people they want to achieve a better future that's why they've been implementing a lot of good policies in terms of moving forward the countries ok michael in london how would you assess the situation in the country. i mean i think i can say that you know g.d.p. for example has been increase here for the past three years at least it was about seven point two percent in two thousand and ten went up to eight point six percent in two thousand and eleven and seven point seven percent in two thousand and twelve so the g.d.p. figures does show that the countries where all the of course the public debt has also been too high for example public debt in.