voids bankruptcy by striking a last minute deal with international lenders but schools of deposit to the country's major banks will not fund themselves short of a huge portion of their life savings. to british police ruled out any involvement in the death of russian tycoon bodies but as the public awaits autopsy results which could shed light on what killed the former billionaire. to join a u.n. investigation into an alleged deadly chemical attack near aleppo in syria following reports from the western media implicating rebel forces top stories.

international news and comment from our studio center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day. cyprus has managed to reach a last minute deal with its creditors on a ten billion euro crucial to prevent the country from bankruptcy and rescue package however it comes at a steep price deposits above one hundred thousand euros and the country's two largest banks will be raided city reports from nicosia. the country will essentially be split into two now. less than one hundred thousand euros in the bank will be transferred to. a country and essentially creating. 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. let's remember that there are still capital controls in place which means. restrictions on the amount of money that citizens can take with 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. but 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 sent a 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. that their government has agreed with. john laughlin the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris believes that the developments in cyprus share their roots with a number of historic revolutions cyprus is yet another of the i would say power and ideologically crazed determination of the european elites to keep the single currency intact against all the art 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 the bullshit 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 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 only my colleague research

a spoke to r.t. news editor i'm quoting about how the problems in cyprus first took root. prime minister medvedev last week used the term expropriation which was a reference to what the bolsheviks did in the past he today has followed up that statement. we've been discussing what's going on and from what i've heard they continue to steal what's already started to figure out what kind of ramifications this situation will have and the consequences it will bring the international monetary system as well as our own interests that's a reference to cyprus is off shore status in the russian economy and well thirty nine other economies at least and as an expression of how he feels about it they're very unhappy with that we had that so we have type of reaction there from the russian. i mean i've if you can take us bank for a bit if you will because it's been what almost a year in the making that cyprus are bailed out how it was 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 it was during that time a couple of delays at the russian. russia 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 which is short seven billion less than. last second a last second supposed gesture of being saved but it's massively short of what they're asking for we understand now that well the country's second largest bank will be closed 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 despite the freeze this is quite a story the euro group froze the retail banking sector of an entire country. people could not of the most get if there was a two hundred euro limit on what they could take out today two years now there's one hundred euro limit if the a.t.m.'s are running at all so despite this freeze on 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. 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's for sure. at the same time we see that a lot of the euro group talking heads or are using the term casino economy that's

right to try legitimize what it is that they're doing in cyprus. they did 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 into that 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 max of desperation the mystery behind the death of bodies but it's off ski could become clearer within hours following an autopsy the body of the tycoon in kremlin opponent was found in his bar for the weekend have been suggestions the former billionaire took his own life but police say he left no suicide note behind authorities have also ruled out any third party involvement but it's made an immense fortune back in the ninety's it's widely believed he took advantage of the chaos gripping post soviet russia coupled with the relations with president yeltsin in a circle the tycoon later moved to london to escape multiple charges of financial

crime doctor. and independent expert on russia feels that but it's also never believed he would lose hold of 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 let's previous financial dealings he water under the bridge and of course president putin said no he stood up to the oligarchs when he was first elected in this was the reason that there's a real commitment with russia a number of mr bures off friend and confidant have come forward and said that it's 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 case which not only with the financial cost that british judge had attention he called him a liar on record i mean this was a broken in defeated man but has also turned his venom on the kremlin when he saw

in the u.k. columnist mary jet ski from the independent newspaper believes that some foreign officials in london could now see the tycoons passing as a chance to improve russian you came in nations. i don't think he particularly was a serious threat to the kremlin. i think that it is ups fancied himself as a threat and maybe he wanted to be more of a threat than actually he was. but the position that he held through the second half of the ninety's in russia obviously made him like any 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 of your life here in moscow would be twenty four hours a day on the way this hour seeing no evil that's why the u.s. mainstream media is turning a blind eye to the developing hunger strike crisis at guantanamo bay that story and all this for you after the break. technology innovation. developments around. the future.

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investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons and a deadly attack in syria that's according to a senior russian diplomat meanwhile rebels have stepped up their accusations against forces loyal to president assad the details now from middle east correspondent for the slip. the syrian opposition says that forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad fired what they are claiming all chemical weapons as 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 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 of compromising of permanent united nations security council members has to be saying to syria the american president barack obama he has constantly in the process 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 allegedly 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 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 hard to 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 been the possible and the long number of resignations within the coalition itself by top opposition figures what we've seen more and more is that the rebels are able to organize themselves i'm able to consolidate the military and political bodies and increasingly it's clear that this no direct link between the fighters on the ground in the coalition that is the in-built of rewards the concern now is that more radical islamist groups might fill this void that is being lifted by the resignations 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. the british prime minister has unveiled a massive immigration crackdown restricting welfare payments 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. and what the numbers of people allowed in to be heavily reduced let's talk more about this with because she joins us now live from london. what is the main message that is trying to get across. well if you're after something for nothing then the you. know that's what david cameron was talking about this afternoon so part of new measures unveiled today is a cap on unemployment benefit for instance so if you're

a migrant and you've been living in the u.k. and you've been out of work for over six months your benefits are going to be cut you're also going to have to prove that you've been seeking work very actively and that you stand a chance of actually finding a job also that your english is good enough it's not just unemployment benefits there's also the national health system that we're going to be looking at david cameron was keen to point out that the u.k. doesn't run a free international health system so they want to introduce a system called risk. migrants that are out of work and are treated on the n.h.s. well that should be billed to their home country and the housing system is also going to be limited in that way so migrants david cameron said today shouldn't expect to get a property as soon as they arrive in fact for at least two years after they arrive they won't be eligible to get onto the waiting lists for social housing and it

wasn't just the prime minister who was talking about this today we've also had nick clegg last week talking about migrants who come from so-called high risk countries now and he's suggesting that we make all those potential rivals pay a one thousand pound deposit before they come to the u.k. which would be reimbursed once they leave now to talk about all these new measures i'm joined by kerry dingle from the charity world rights kerry. so begin with all of these measures fat in your opinion absolutely not i mean i don't think you could talk about immigration policy without having complete freedom of movement or open borders and what we have is very far from the case and basically it sets up the idea that migrants people who want to come and live in the u.k. are all just hungry man who are going to consume our resources our health service and take benefit and not do anything instead of seeing them as they really are

creative beings who are very aspirational in fact the health service and do a lot of jobs that this government has also used to make the point to a lot of british people that they're somehow lazy because migrants are prepared to do these jobs they're not prepared to do so migrants are getting in the neck all the way around and being used as an absolute go away seeing a bit of a system whereby we've got first and second class citizens now because a lot of this talk is in relation to remain in some bug areas. that are due to arrive next year i think it's a panic i think we are seeing first and second class citizenship but we've already got that britain we know treats overseas students as a cash cow to prop up the university it also locks them up for being people who lock people up for being born on the wrong block of land so we already have second class citizenship it's definitely a panic about barbarians for example which is a very very small country and very few will probably come i think there is

something in this idea that you know britain is supposedly going to track to all these you know benefit frauds when in fact i don't know having people even want to come to britain lastly jobs lots of tough talk on immigration why you think all the political parties are talking about immigration right now i think all the political parties are absolutely bereft of ideas for solving the problems at the level of the real economy and the turn to a very very easy scapegoat which is migrants really are not responsible for any of the shortages be it housing or crappy health care that we all experience in britain and i think turning the tables on them and forcing politicians to have a serious discussion with us about the real problems is where we need to head kerry gengel from well great thank you very much say as you've just heard of course it's also a political situation domestically a lot of analysts are saying that for david cameron all this tough talk on immigration is just a political posturing in order to try and soak up votes that would otherwise be

going to other political parties such as the u.k. independence party who are much tougher on immigration and who have very skeptical about the e.u. . in london talking to kerry dingle from the world wide charity thank you. as the u.s. military continues to deny a mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay the information blackout is being fortified by the mainstream media and warlords for more than one hundred captives sound the alarm over the failing health of their clients most americans are simply left in the dark about the stories artie's more important explains. 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 end the 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 do not 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 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 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. 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. with drops 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 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 detainee at guantanamo have been cleared for release i use the areas. you know i didn't i had no idea that. 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 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 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. artsy new york liberal in south africa is making

final arrangements for a summit of the world's fastest developing economies known as the brics group which is due to start on tuesday tomorrow the heads of government of brazil russia india china and the host nation convene for a fifth time with the group being held as potential game changer for the international arena well to further discuss the upcoming meeting i'm now joined live by dr charlie he's on the line now from new delhi now this summit is significant in the fact that it concludes the first cycle hosted by all the members so what does this group actually achieved over that time. it has grown in maturity and political maturity i would say that from the early days when it was seen as an upstart that was still getting its act together and resolving and ironing out some differences we have come a long way in five years the fact of the summit center continuing to be held all of

the life some of the critics who said that this was just a marriage of convenience or just a short piece i don't for a photo op and nothing more what we're seeing now is that their agenda is quite advanced especially the economic economic integration among latin america and africa is being spearheaded by little of the breaks and greece has become i would say the microcosm of the my people are of old order and it's not the military for me now the new chinese leader xi jinping has strengthened relations with russia on his first official visit abroad that was to moscow very recently well let's have any significance on the group. definitely russia and china are i would say the central pillars of brits if you remember this you know they want the old units of the concept and they have many of us brought along so to africa india and brazil to play a larger role and also russia and china are much more global in their overall approach towards the world order and trying to transform the world order the other

three are i would say a little more state of school east although they do want to move towards modi polarity to russia and china the fact of the new leadership in both countries he's emphasizing how these tools can become a kind of a steering mechanism within the five member group of bricks and in many ways sent the agenda it's undeniable and media we welcome the fact that the russian is there because that also helps us who are community concerns and what china's somewhat being the only dominant player russia and china begin to it makes a fabulous combination because these tools societies are emerging in a free and innovate leading the pack them terms of the political agenda of this organization and just to explain you will talk about impact on the world order but surely this is an economic group of countries based on the economic development and future are you saying we're going to cross into the political line and could have quite an influence on the on the world agenda as it were politically and

diplomatically just briefly brics represents forty three percent of the world's population the worst this is a huge chunk and they need political change people are expecting to not only the big member countries but peoples of the rest of the global south are expecting change and it cannot happen so we don't have political agenda we can syria and we can egypt meet in africa we need to create my people are the multiple entities of political project the economic vehicles i see them as a means for achieving a political golden endpoint which is to create a more just and equitable world or imagine egypt that it's expressed interest in joining the block is that realistic or not just tell me briefly. well i won't even try to join right now the size of the study stakes in the current state of the gibson economy not just a fight but eventually it will expand because there are more emerging economies and the more the better because there is how good you might get what i already threw multi-lateralism ok dr kelly thank you very much indeed professor and dean of school of international affairs thank you thoughts.