sisted with hanging that's the finding of a post-mortem examination of the self exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky. bello burden in recession a few years mounting in cyprus following the e.u. bailout deal that promises to put the small island economy on the path to recovery . emerging powers leaders of the world's major developing economies look to strengthen the global power of the brics group indorsing plans to create a joint bank and their annual summit in south africa. in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story a post-mortem examination in reveals the death of russian tycoon boris berezovsky

was quote consistent with hanging his body found in the bathroom of his u.k. home saturday examination found nothing to indicate a violent struggle with police saying there is no evidence to suggest any third party involvement or sorry for it was more the thames valley the severity of the late date in the investigation into the death of both birds the gate and they've revealed that the. pathologist who carried out the pace milton examination has found that the cools it death is consistent with hanging. it's said of a violent struggle we know in a previous statement that the police initiate that they said there was no evidence at this point if the party involvement see now what they see bits of the investigation coming together there is still going to be toxicology reports to carry out these are going to take a number of weeks is third before we'll get the results of that and of course the forensic investigation being carried out for these continuing birthparents of skis

and that's expected to last a couple more days yet we've had the details of his life coming out in the media for relatives and friends all of the russians and that's really building up a picture of him and he was a larger than life character but had certainly seen some what would jesus in recent times and certainly seem to fall in on hard times he's had a number of high profile court cases here in the case the most recent of which coming up against a former friend roman abramovich and we know that that had a very serious impact on bush presidency from the reports from people who were around him at the time psychologically and financially to let's say investigation's ongoing we're having all these bits of information that are coming out in the media for friends of former colleagues all of this the various of skin that's really helping to build up this pitch all of the man himself and what he was going through

in the days leading up to his death others believe intriguing twists that it going on here we've heard the russian president's press attash a about the letter than this that bears a ski is said to his sense in which he asked for forgiveness and tooltip his longing to return home to russia now in a separate incident we've heard that just the day before he died mr bursal ski said to have had an informal talk with a russian journalist and. again in which he was detailing his state of mind in his flowing through a ten high of course this is cool thing a huge amount of speculation because he's the controversial character that you have a lot of i don't see questions that this is going to be what the police are doing now trying to tie all they say and to get an accurate picture for will their investigation and they threw out on tuesday we're going to have that little

identification taking place for the past decade moscow's been insisting let in to extradite the former billionaire so we could be tried for money laundering and other offenses but with birds on skis death a massive thorn in u.k. russia relations has been removed according to author and analyst martin mccauley. i think you go down as a band of capitalist. who was more concerned with power than money is political judgment was very very poor because during the year he seemed to be writing very very hard. because of school dooku down as a man who became a dollar millionaire undercover troth he became a billionaire under yeltsin but for him tragically misjudged the situation after president putin came to power and ended up perhaps a relief for the poor man people a very important interest in fact seemed to come down to the relations between two countries regarding an individual west remember that because of call

for the physical overthrow of president believe putin when he was in power. that's pretty serious and he made many accusations. that the recess nation attempts against his life he play mostly blamed russia for that and so on that poisoned relations between moscow and london you could find it always in english press when his name came up. people expected a scandal and what it was you could say now about moscow and what is what is going to blame putin again for something else. now with him gone that's gone as well hopefully we can move forward and if you like some of the poison has been taken out of the relations. find out more about the russian oligarch on our website r t v dot com the rise and fall of boris berezovsky his biography a step by step guide to his life as

a scientist billionaire politician and in his last days a self-imposed exile in the u.k. online for you right now. a last ditch belo deal for cyprus may have eased fears of a financial catastrophe but cypriots are still feeling the pinch it's getting harder for them to withdraw money and the central bank has decided to keep all banks on the island shut till thursday even then capital flows will be temporarily restricted sarkies tests are silly reports from nicosia frustration among cypriots is growing. is that at the heart of the deal that cyprus sealed with its international creditors to get that ten billion euro bailout it meets and what will happen to this back essentially is it will be split into pieces and people with deposits of more than one hundred thousand euros that are uninsured will have to take a huge here haircut a lost whatever money they have here and many cypriots for the past week i've been to motional rollercoaster wondering what is going to happen to their money to their savings i think to this example one day it was here the next day it is it and

they're wondering is the same thing going to happen to their jobs or their savings to everything else they think they have precisely what did you choose and tonio a manager for the country's biggest bank the bank of cyprus has been thinking all through this rollercoaster week for the first time in my life for thirty years. and then last week. i was. just too. many more. to stop by. the bank of cyprus according to the deal will function as the good bank and will take all deposits of less than one hundred thousand euros from like it will however also absorb the debt. in loans which like you receive from the

european central bank as emergency funding assistance a detail that angers them. is like they want to push. and while this employee worries about the health of the bank other cypriots worry about when their banks will reopen if at all we have no cash we are just a truth behind the. tim machines waiting to get some tags for hello and while this year a group of pull. off a complete banking meltdown for many cypriots the feeling towards europe is one of frustration but it's about the power of the time we get today you know he had it with the disaster but i think he was the. best bet to before we get pounds he said my exit from. january two thousand and eight when we enter you are the only

other side upside down so slowly so you have to these kind of situation so now we have such. a situation you have to wait but. today because it's going to take so long and for now cypriots are forced to wait for banks reopen for cash to start flowing for jobs and life savings to be secure again. does so sylvia r.t. nicosia cyprus the president of cyprus is defending the controversial rescue package admitting it's painful but in the best interest of the country meanwhile the troika held the plan saying it places the country on a sustainable path to recovery but the deposit levy has raised fears the same thing could be done in other struggling banks across the continent here's what the head of the euro group is saying quote if there's a risk in a bank our first question should be ok what's the bank going to do about that is

prompted fears across the euro zone as the cyprus deal is now created a new template for resolving future banking problems as professor of international finance charizard raman explained to my colleague bill daughter earlier the bailout hasn't only scared small savers but may trigger big investors to start pulling their money out of other e.u. banks. it's going to tie him onto the greek social economic debacle that we are seeing. going to go into a deep recession and this is going to be another decade lost for this country clearly the europeans and the i.m.f. they have broken one of the most basic tenants of financial crisis management and that is safeguarding the small saver what they have done has put the fear of god into small savers about their own local banks and that's the beginning of the end for any financial market and specially for foreign investors coming into those markets no one's going to be putting money into local southern banks anymore. and

indeed even those economies spain france which really fragile at the moment but big economies i mean if if the investors are sort of pulling money out of those countries that is significant in that there is a huge probability that it might actually start to happen because we have opened pandora's box right now and we can shut the lid on this now the cyprus tax levy is a major blow to russian depositors who are thought to have around twenty billion euros in corporate and private accounts in cyprus banks despite this president putin support of the rescue package ordering to restructure an existing two point five billion russian loan but it was accompanied by some sharp criticism from russia's prime minister my colleague spoke with r.t. news editor ivor crotty 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 the bolsheviks did in the past he today has followed up that statement with with a statement saying basically the stealing of what has already been stolen continues

and that's a that's a reference to cyprus is off shore status of the russian economy and well thirty nine other economies at least 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. the eurozone wanted to forced 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 for the country's second largest bank will be closer thousand jobs will go either what do you know about the capital but from what i understand it's flying out of cyprus frankfurter allgemeine zeitung reported despite the freeze this is quite a story the euro group froze the retail banking sector of an entire country despite this freeze on capital controls we complied the group capital flight from cyprus doubled the regular traffic about two hundred million euro a day doubles the euro group talking heads or are using the term casino economy

that's right try to legitimize what it is that they're doing in cyprus. they get the point to work making the e.c. be vetted cyprus for eurozone membership in two thousand and eight and gave it a go ahead into that thousand 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 in the next hour max kaiser gives his unique twist on the cyprus financial crisis saying chaos and uncertainty are beginning to dominate. ciphers are going to open today and then they are yes they are no they're not are they they haircut on the deposits is ten percent now it's fifteen percent now it's forty percent no it's zero percent or maybe it's one hundred percent cyprus is leaving the no it's not leaving the troika back to the plant now does a backup plan yes it does no it doesn't welcome to the new world order it's called

yes no maybe and maybe you'd have a gold silver and big client taking out of this mess or else or well there's going to be well yes no or maybe the way stacey exactly max you know there's one thing that's never uncertain about all of these plans they have and that is they yes none of them will work that's a good bottom line analysis yes they all don't work. there are mounting fears cyprus could slide into deep recession and unemployment with possible repercussions for other elling euro economies on our website r.t. dot com more are asking now that the bailout deal is sealed what's next the majority forty percent say that there will be a total collapse in the trust of banks aggravating the financial crisis almost thirty percent predict other countries are in line for a similar bailout deal a little less twenty three percent say the bell will that will result in widespread protests and

a minority twelve percent think cyprus will eventually exit the eurozone go on r.t. dot com and click your vote. as one bloc struggles financially another looking as to other is looking to go from strength to strength south africa writing to host the summit of the world's emerging economic players later on we'll bring you more background analysis on the developing brics group plus. take a look at why i.d.f. troops are getting prison sentences for online antics as inappropriate conduct in the ranks threatens israel's online publicity campaign. for the. science technology innovation called the list of elements from around

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world's biggest merging economies gathering in south africa looking to reshape their brics organization leaders from russia brazil india and china in the end the host nation are at the summit with egypt's president mohamed morsi said to attend hoping to join the bloc in the future looks airshows europe for its expectations for strengthening the group are high. since its inception in two thousand and nine many have been wondering what brix is all about a symbol of growing global multiple lera tea or a counterweight to the e.u. and nato the leaders of the member states have been cautiously downplaying its role saying this alliance is purely economic and exists mostly on verbal agreements officially it's not even a legally bound international organization the greeks leaders are only now contemplating setting up headquarters in one of the capitals but just look at every brics country separately russia the world's largest exporter china the world's second largest economy and the source of

a cheap labor force india cheap intellectual resources brazil with its enormously powerful agricultural sector and the republic of south africa the continent's leader in natural resources but the country's economic stats together the numbers are nothing short of impressive last year the brics countries average four percent g.d.p. growth whilst the g seven countries came up with only zero point seven percent and their collective gross national product already exceeds twenty seven percent of the global output and this economic might of the group of five could diversify into a joint brics development bank this idea appeared during last year's summit in new delhi and there are certain indications this year's meeting in durban could pave the way to its creation should this prove to be the case the world may see a new powerful financial institution we are now on the verge of a formal decision. it would be a substantial in terms of capital and the capital as substantial new international institutions these development bank is probably one of the major deliverables

having brics more and more prominent in the area of economy international finance development of infrastructure the common standpoint among the brics states and major international issues could also be a huge factor in global geopolitics the war in syria is just one of the examples. the group of five has been insisting on a peaceful solution to the conflict and with the moscow and beijing firmly standing within the u.n. security council against any military intervention no one the experts say bashar assad recently asked the group of five to help bring the conflict to an end many experts believe that despite brics being an informal group it's geopolitical weight is already very high as for political rule of bricks it's quick huge actually is a major international institution which preserved the whole human kind of solving

economic problems for example this is g. twenty. i think at this point the decisions of g. twenty have pre-determined it but the position of brics so brics has yet to become an officially established organization but the russian president already said cooperation within this bloc will be more school store foreign priority this year and considering that at least five countries including mexico indonesia and egypt are willing to join the world may soon see a powerful alliance of developing economies which experts say even in its current configuration may become the world's wealthiest union of states in thirty years. u.s. officials are kuantan him obey every knowledge more prisoners are joining the hunger strike over alleged mistreatment three captives are in the hospital ten detainees being force fed defense attorneys say the majority of one hundred sixty six detainees are refusing food accusing officials of trying to downplay the actual

figures are he's got in she has more. despair among guantanamo detainees grows as now even their lawyers are denied direct access to them attorneys say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds since the strike began at the beginning of february that is it was approved by the military but the attorneys say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so tourney's are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now as u.s. officials obviously try to downplay the hunger strike more criticism is coming in from the international community with heard criticism from the u.n. commissioner for human rights very strong words from amnesty international they call guantanamo an american gulag this is what the head of their security with human rights campaign said quote instead of justice for the nine eleven attacks one tunnel has brought us torture indefinite detention unfair trials and hunger strikes

so i made a very broad international criticism of what the u.s. officials do basically nothing if you months ago a state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison which effectively means that the detainees are stuck there in this legal limbo indefinitely their attorneys fear that we're going to see more suicides human rights organizations say there were hundreds of suicide attempts at the prison at least seven suicides have been reported so far including a detainee named. he had spent eleven years in guantanamo he was cleared for release by both bush and obama administrations he took his own life in september last year. we bring you the latest updates and top stories and news from around the world including this apocalyptic animal death tolls in china after sixteen thousand infected rotting carcasses find out what else is mysteriously been fished out of chinese waters. the u.k. prime minister david cameron announcing a massive crackdown on immigration as the british economy continues to falter this

and more a clue. the way our team died. the i.d.f. is cracking down on inappropriate behavior from its troops israel soldiers online dance videos and controversial content of quickly on viral there's fears the videos may be undermining the government's attempts to use social media as a p.r. tool or his policy or investigates offensive and damaging or a bit of fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a stone posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit should don't wish the murders just as the government uses social media for explaining for complaining for propaganda or for spinning it also has to do with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this soldier got two weeks in a military prison. while after posting these pictures on his facebook profile this

infantry fighter was brought to book for abuse of power and misuse of army weaponry . these soldiers turned a patrol in hebron into a dance move. it angered the i.d.f. but others felt they did a far better job of showing the human side of the army than any spin doctor ever could under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which if in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f. soldier would would would be for really potentially at least exposure to criminal liability could actually find yourself in jail but it's not always fun and games neither is it so clear cut the i.d.f. told r.t. that a sniper who posted this image was dealt with appropriately it's the problem of free speech i don't see how you can control it i don't think that the dancing is abusing power i do think that putting your sniper a more in innocent person is an abuse of power and i think this is that it stinks

in that the army should do gil you gave was an officer with the paratroopers unit he says he'd brief his soldiers regularly about what they could and could not post online but many were careless or childishly unaware of the impact one clip could have you have to remember that soldiers are. kids. eventually they're just they're just kids that misuse the misuse of power just for them just for fun is not shooting the kid not trying to kill the kid the irony is that the i.d.f. itself put so much emphasis on social networks using them extensively to promote its actions. the i.d.f. has taken its war to twitter facebook instagram and even tumblr turning its social media tool box into the most globally visible arm of the israeli defense force it

started during the israeli gaza war at the end of two thousand and eight but the idea of social media department flexed its online muscles during the flotilla incident a year and a half later distributing regular video taken from an israeli assault craft and tweeting in sixteen languages after the most recent israel gaza war last november the erstwhile embarrassed idea of social media guru boasted his unit had beaten the enemy suffered drug claimed foreign media asked more questions about the idea of twitter activity than about the army's bombings in gaza but when ordinary soldiers start using the same platforms all that positive public diplomacy threatens to be undermined one click at a time. or our t.v. television. next idea martin and breaking the set stay with us.

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 an eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even though they pretend like 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. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous. i mean. i guess i was really not. they're all very. worst for to live a long life out of a. radio guy. what.

have you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you what's going on everyone this is abby martin and this is breaking the set so last week congress passed section seventy three five of the continuing resolution the spending bill otherwise known as the farmer assurance provision which is truly misleading because this bill has nothing to do with protecting the farmers in fact this dangerous piece of legislation is the result of countless lobbying efforts that give the biotech giant monsanto an easy way to escape any sort of scientific or regulatory oversight the law would do away with judicial review of g.m.o. foods you know our rights as consumers would be thrown out the window and a new era and stood g.m.o. crops i could endanger our high.