burden this is a live video from nicosia where school students are protesting outside the country's parliament in the wake of the e.u. belo deal. consistent with hanging the findings of a post-mortem examination into the death of self exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky. emerging powers leaders of the world's major developing economies look to strengthen the global influence of the brics a group endorsing plans to create a joint bank at their annual summit in south africa. one pm in moscow as a good having you with us here on r t our top story this hour in the cyprus people

who remain anxiously waiting for the banks to reopen tuesday but the doors remain closed and all the banks on the island will stay shut till thursday and even then capital flows will be temporarily restricted the last deal may be hailed as a relief by the government and the e.u. but certainly no comfort her for people struggling to withdraw their cash as artie's tessera cilia reports from the capital. at the heart of the seal with its international creditors to get that ten billion euro bailout it needs 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 and lost whatever money they have here the minister has for the past week or been going to motional rollercoaster wondering what is going to happen to their money to their savings i think look at 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 to their savings and 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. say. the bank of cyprus according to the deal will function as the good back it will take all deposits of less than one hundred thousand euros from like it will however also. euros in loans which like you receive from the european central bank as emergency funding assistance a detail that angers dimitris. they want to push.

and while this implore you worries about the health of this bank other supports worry about one to hope and if at all we have no cash we are just a truth behind the. him machines waiting to get some tabs for how you know and while this new exhibit pool deal me is still used often banking meltdown for many sixty minutes feeling towards the us is one of frustration it's better to go back to the power of the time we get today you know he at it what it does us but i think it was then that led to before we get pounds he said quietly from eight till january two thousand and eight when we had to make euro the only other site upside down so slowly so you were about to these kind of situation so now we have

such. a situation to have to wait but. today because it's going to take so long and for now cypriots are forced to wait for the banks reopen for cash to start flowing for jobs and life savings to secure. does so sylvia are to nicosia cyprus the president of cyprus is defending the controversial rescue package saying it's painful but in the best interest of cypriots meanwhile the troika held the plan saying it places the country on a sustainable road to recovery but the deposit levy is raised fears that the same thing could be done in other struggling banks across the continent here's what the head of the euro group said if there's a risk in a bank the first question should be ok what's the bank going to do about that and this prompted fears across the euro zone as the cyprus deal has now created a new template for resolving future banking problems as professor of international

finance arizona raman explained to my colleague bill dodd earlier the bailout how is it only scared small savers it may trigger big investors to start pulling their money out of other e.u. banks. it's good we tied him on to the greek social economic debacle that we are seeing the supreme it is 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 is put the fear of god into small sievers 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 they invest as

a 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. when either of us are artie's max kaiser has his you need take on the cypriot fiscal crisis saying chaos and uncertainty are beginning to dominate cyprus banks are going to open today no they aren't yes they are no they're not are they haircut on the depositors 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 euro now it's the troika back to the plant now does a back up plan yes it does no it doesn't welcome to the new world order it's called yes now maybe and maybe you'd have gold silver and bitcoin taking you out of this mess or else your wealth is going to be well yes no or maybe in a way. stacey exactly max you know there's one thing that's never uncertain about

all of these plans they have and that is that yes none of them will work that's a good bottom line analysis yes they all don't work. there are mounting fears cyprus is sliding into deeper recession unemployment with possible effects in other ailing european economies on our website r t dot com more asking now now that the bailout deal is done what do you think is next the majority nearly forty percent say it'll be a total collapse in the trust of banks aggravating the fiscal crisis almost thirty percent predict other countries are in line for similar bailout deals about a fifth say the bet awards on widespread protests and a minority about ten percent think cyprus will eventually be forced to exit the euro zone head over to r.t. dot com tell us what you think. as one bloc struggles financially and others looking to go from strength to

strength south africa preparing to host a summit of the world's emerging economic giants later on we'll bring you more background and analysis on the developing brics group. but first a post-mortem examination reveals the death of russian self exiled tycoon boris berezovsky was consistent with hanging his body found in the bathroom of his u.k. home saturday examination found nothing to indicate a violent struggle which british police saying there is no evidence to suggest any third party involvement or t. sorry for of has details. the office pathologist he carried out the post-mortem examination has found that the kools of death is consistent with hanging now there were no signs it 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 of the party involvement there is still going to be toxicology reports to carry out the of course the forensic investigation being carried out

police continuing. 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 over the russians and that's really building up a picture of a man he was a larger than life character but had seemed to fall in on hard times he's had a number of high profile court cases in the case the most recent of which coming up against a former friend a minute proud of it and we know that that had a very serious impact on boys presidency from the reports from people who were around him at the time but psychologically and financially tea leaves intriguing twists beginning on here we've heard from 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 tools of 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 again in which he was a detail in his state of mind and his longing to return high of course this is causing a heated months of speculation because he's the controversial character that you have a lot of i don't see questions here this is going to be what the police are doing now trying to tie a wall they say and to get an accurate picture for will their investigation and later on on cheese day we're going to have that for will identification taking place. for the past decade moscow has been insisting a lot in extradite the four billionaires so we can be tried for money laundering and other offenses but with various off these death a massive thorn in u.k. russian 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 million undercover troth he became a billionaire. 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 national interest in fact seemed to come down to the relations between the two countries regarding an individual west remember that the results 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 an english press with his name came up. people expected a scandal and what it was he could say no 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. more about the late russian oligarch on our website r t dot com the rise and fall of boris berezovsky his biography a step by step guide his life is a billionaire politician and his last days in self-imposed exile. and just around the corner here on r.t. israeli soldiers and social media we take a look at why i.d.f. troops are going behind bars for online antics is inappropriate conduct in the ranks threatens israel's online campaign this after a short break. when

you have no way to live. when you don't have a family. you can always count on. this man is respected by criminals and also as he's a like. scumbags anonymous people like he used to be. for the homeless. on our city.

i. the world's bigger merging economies gathering in south africa looking to reshape their brics organization leaders of brazil russia china india and the host nation are at the summit with is here with egypt's president mohamed morsi said to attend hoping to join the bloc in the future as artie's alexia shows he reports for expectations for strengthening the group are high since its inception in two thousand and nine many have been wondering what brics is all about a symbol of growing global multiple larry t. 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 who 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. on the verge of a formal decision. it would be a substantial in terms of capital and capital a substantial. international youth development bank. is probably one of the major deliverables having brics more and more prominent in the area of economy international finance the 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 wonder 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 quite q.j. actually is the major international institution which preserved the whole human kind of. solving economic problems for example the g twenty. i think at this point the decisions of g. twenty have pre-determined position brics so brics has yet to become an officially established organization but the russian president already said cooperation within this bloc will be more stop foreign priority this year and considering that at least five countries including mexico indonesia in 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 at guantanamo have acknowledged more prisoners have joined 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 the officials of trying to downplay the actual figures are he's gotten and she takes a look. despair among guantanamo detainees grows 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 her 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 a few months ago 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. on our website we have the latest updates on our top stories from around

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stream. if you're away from. your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for staying with us the idea. here from troops israeli soldiers online dance videos and controversial content of quickly gone viral there are fears though that the videos may be undermining the government's attempts to use social media as a p.r. tool. takes a look. offensive and damaging or better fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a style posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit should don't wish to merge just as the government uses social

media for explaining for complaining for propaganda or for spinning it also has to deal 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 courage under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which is that 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 the. gear 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 miss through the misuse of power because just for them to just run is not shooting the kid is 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 idea of 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 i.d.f. social media guru boasted his unit had beaten the enemy so her 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. to steer our t.v. tel aviv. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe leader of the syrian opposition claims the movement has rebel fighters in the ranks of the government in order to secure chemical weapons and ensure they don't fall into the hands of extremists there's a day after the f.s.a. again blamed assad troops using chemical weapons the warring sides started trading toxic accusations a week ago after a rocket attack killed twenty six people near aleppo where the larger investigation into the alleged chemical was solved. egypt said prosecutors ordered the arrest of five leading political activists following clashes in front of the muslim brotherhood headquarters last friday activists are to be questioned over inciting violence during the protest were nearly two hundred people were injured this after president morsi warned he would employ any measure necessary to quote protect the

nation. u.s. secretary of state john kerry invited the taliban to reopen peace talks monday during a surprise visit to kabul just weeks ago afghan president hamid karzai suggested the u.s. and taliban were colluding in secret talks terrorism still rife in the country as the u.s. prepares to withdraw a suicide bomb attack on police headquarters in the east of the country killed five people earlier tuesday morning. kaiser report coming up next stay with us here on r.t. . also 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 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 a 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.

max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report cyprus banks are going to open today and they are yes they are no they're not are they they haircut on the deposits is ten percent no it's fifteen percent now it's forty percent now is there a percent or maybe it's one hundred percent cyprus is leaving the euro no it's not leaving here the troika backs the plan no 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 coin taking out of this mess or else or well there's going to

be well yes no or maybe no way stacey exactly max you know there's one thing there's never uncertain about all of these plans they have and that is that you yes none of them will work that's a good bottom line analysis yes they all don't work. so you know while panic goes was determined who is gonna go see the head of the central bank of cyprus be static because nothing's going to work that's how they go about it goes on amazon it goes nothing go to work around here it's all bad it was it he's the head of the central bank of cyprus they have a central bank done there in cyprus where they've got a bunch of squirrels of the hamster cage and that's the reserve well while he was helping decide what to do with cyprus you know bernanke he of course was keeping rates as they are and promising to continue with a quantitative easing.