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western media implicating rebel forces. from a studio center here in moscow this is 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 the rescue package however comes at a steep price deposits above one hundred thousand euros and the country's two largest banks will be rated. reports now from nicosia. the country.

to. country and. back. more than one hundred thousand uninsured. 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. so they will take the taking of. jobs lost. hundreds of. protesting here. 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. 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 small a 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. their government has agreed with. you're laughlin the director of studies at the institute of democracy incorporation in paris believes that the developments in cyprus share their roots with a number of historic revolutions cyprus is yet another pick 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 that i'm not given to exaggeration that europe today is in a situation comparable to that of the french revolution all the loss of a 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 or what hung up 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 to search 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 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 my colleague spoke to r.t. news editor i've across the about the depth and the ramifications of the cyprus problem . 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 in cyprus 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 of the russian economy and well thirty

nine other economies at least and yes an expression of how he feels about a very very unhappy with so we have so we have type of reaction then 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 did 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 i'm sure in 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 seven which is short seven billion less than. last second

a last second supposed gesture of being saved here 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 couldn't go to the market 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 the euro group have really managed to a debacle they've got a lot of egg on their face that that's for sure. at the same time we see that

a lot of the euro group talking heads are are using the term casino economy that's right to try legitimize what it is that they're doing in cyprus. big to the point to work making that the easy be vetted cyprus for euro zone membership in two thousand and eight right 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 massive desperation well to get more analysis on the separate issue as well as the latest updates head to our website r.t. dot com and online all the time. the mystery behind the death of britney spears all ski could become clearer within hours following an autopsy the body of the tycoon in kremlin opponent was found in his bath at the weekend it had been suggestions the former billionaire took his own life but police say he left no suicide note behind authorities also ruled out any

third party involvement but as asking 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 cozy relations with president yeltsin in a circle tycoon later moved to london to escape multiple charges of financial crime . down an independent expert on russia feels it but it's 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 but he would you know let previous financial dealings be 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 . we quit russia a number of mr various austin's friend and confidant have come forward and said that. 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 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 is also could turn these venom on the kremlin when he's sort of exxon in the u.k. calling this medi jet ski from the independent newspaper believes that some foreign officials in london could now see the tycoon's polishing as a chance to improve russia u.k. were nations. 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 like the figure of that period the figure of berezovsky his position when he died this weekend and the contrast between that and his position of power and influence in the late ninety's

illustrates in some ways how russia has changed and how much russia has changed in those five ten years i think elsewhere behind the scenes in places like foreign office in the corridors of government they'll be you know i won't say they'll be doing something as improper as sort of dancing in the aisles but it is 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 or to live here in moscow on the way this hour seeing no evil we investigate what the u.s. mainstream media is turning a blind eye to the developing hunger strike crisis one ton of mowbray. pretty good stuff all immigrants or middle stagnating economy with sweeping restrictions on welfare payments health care and social housing or analysis of this

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continues here in russia and china must be part of the un investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in the aleppo 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 all these middle east correspondent. the syrian opposition says that forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad fired what they are claiming all chemical weapons at rebel surrounding an all me base in the town of address on the outskirts of the syrian capital of

damascus now the reports we have all that to rebel fighters who were killed and some twenty two people were wounded it comes in mind of accusations last week in which both sides accuse the other obvious intent of the weapons in and then this story this explosion near the city of aleppo which killed some twenty six people and wounded dozens of that incident was swiftly mabel 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 process put the issue of chemical weaponry 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 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 and then launching the 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 that 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 boards 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 concern what is happening inside syria. and don't forget to log on to our website at home where we've got beef latest news and analysis including the surprise obstacles on our wife was unable to fork out for a special spa unit against cyber attacks. also online u.k.

vets saying british writers are too fat for the. beasts of stories right now. as the u.s. military continues to deny mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay the information blackout has been fortified by the mainstream media among lawyers 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 story. 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 you know really according to the center for constitutional rights one hundred thirty kuantan of zero 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. we'd 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. ruth 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 nor to the

hunger strike is there anything wrong with trying to improve it fix it spend a few hundred million dollars to get it ready for maybe a new generation of terrorists instead focusing on the money being requested to update the facility where one hundred sixty six detainees are still languishing you know that more than half of the team at guantanamo have been cleared for release i used the area. now i didn't i had no idea that. i did not. 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 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 pry. our ties 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. artsy new york. the british prime minister has unveiled a massive immigration crackdown restricting welfare payments social housing and

access to the health service david cameron cold on ending what he dubbed the something from nothing culture of those arriving in the u.k. and what's the numbers of people allowed in to be heavily reduced reports now from london. parts of new measures unveiled today is a cap on unemployment benefit for instance so if you're a migrant and we've been living in the u.k. and you're out of work for over six months your benefits are going to be caught you're also going to have to prove that you've been worse 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 reciprocal billing whereby 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 are right in fact priests here years after they arrive they won't be eligible to get onto the waiting lists for social housing now to talk about all these new measures i'm joined by kerry dingle from the charity world writes kerry. to 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 benefits and not do anything and so the seeing them as they really are

creative. or very aspirational in fact public health surveys and do love to jobs that this government has also used to make the point to a lot of british people that they're somehow lazy. michael it's a prepared to do these jobs that they're not prepared to do it is definitely a panic about areas 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 attract all these you know benefit frauds when in fact i don't know having people even want to come to britain 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 who really are not responsible for any of the shortages be it housing horse 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 to preserve the moment but with a new team with more from just over half an hour from now in the mean time we have a short break and then weekly sports program with partridge stay with us r.t. in moscow. oh since the new pope was chosen the calls for reform are analysts everyone wants the new pope to allow this and to allow that but the problem is that the catholic church is a religion not a product and people don't like the way a pepsi bottle looks while the company will have to in theory change it to meet public demand but the pope claims to represent the will of the creator of the universe the pope supposedly holds and protects an ancient and eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even

though they pretend like the adult religions do change over time but how can you expect the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in the charred walls of the damned for certain sins just now say well i guess those sins are ok if you are catholic and you want your religion to change constantly then why do you believe in it why bother having principles and rules in the first place supposedly given to you by the almighty if you're just going to change them whenever you feel like it i don't get this but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to the r t sports show with me kate partridge with a busy week of sporting action from russia and around the world and here are the top stories. it's no joke russia's world cup qualifying northern ireland is postponed after two attempts to kick off work halted by heavy snow but fabio capello's men stay top of group. plus the european court to scout seal a place in the playoffs but he has two games left to book their birth after an eventful round for the russian teams in the europa league. and the daddy of all fences a limping bronze medalist nicholai cover the off comes back from paternity leave to win individual gold at the star studded moscow say that. but first let's kick off with football as the russian national team flew out to belfast last week to play

northern ireland in the fifth game of their world cup qualifying campaign but heavy snow meant that two attempts to get the match underway were lost to the elements which are bound porfiry documents a weekend of frustration for both men and their fans there was much expectation as russia took to the training field ahead of their world cup qualifier with northern ireland they were top of the group with one hundred percent record and haven't conceded a goal and their four games so far the trip to belfast was going to be one of the toughest of the campaign however head coach fabio capello was more worried about the wind and not the cause of the features of the rain is a very good motivator the reason that the pitch. would be lower however the wind was and the only thing capello should have been worried about heavy snow which had been falling constantly for almost twenty four hours in the northern.