big depositors and cyprus take a major hit with the government taking up to sixty percent savings to satisfy e.u. bailout terms while placing the president at the cash limits on cash strapped cypriot. do or die hunger strikers and went on to say they're ready to lose their lives as a protest over conditions at the detention center go into their fifty fourth day. also this week's headlines targeting the world wide web a massive cyber attack claim it is the worst in history threatens to cripple the internet after a route between rival web groups escalates. powerful partners brics countries seek to reshuffle the organization eyeing the creation of a joint development bank said to rival the established global landers.

it is not i am in the russian county watching r t i a marina joshing welcome to the program how saving cyprus from financial collapse is coming with a hefty price tag and not only for high level depositors the long anticipated reopening of banks came with unprecedented restrictions with daily was drawls limited to three hundred euros per day well there's been no timeframe given for the capital controls only promises the measures will be reviewed daily depositors in cyprus as big as bank will lose around sixty percent of their savings over one hundred thousand euros and that's despite earlier signs they take a smaller hit of thirty to forty percent the tough bailout terms have put an end to cyprus as an offshore tax haven even people there into. fear of further money

worries and job losses artists are still your went to meet some of those affected by the crisis. like many in cyprus. this is simply stunned at the speed and man who will finish the banking crisis that his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet no cash a little lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for his sick mother in raveling of cyprus's financial woes couldn't have come at a worse time and i feel shame that i live with the pension of my mom all of your life is coming up so i don't you make a plan for the future of the people in the younger. you care. the economy of your country or in the park system these. corrupt so. you standing with an empty hands.

a sentiment echoed throughout the tiny island nation. scenes like these becoming a daily occurrence another day in nicosia cyprus another protest now this one in particular is a gathering of black appointees of the country's largest lender the bank of cyprus but they are worried that the company is headed for collapse and they may eventually lose their jobs so many cypriots told me that they are well aware that this is just the beginning of a long hard road i believe that. europe is germany's coach because we are small economy they felt the consequences would be minimal what they don't know is that the president has been said and what happened today in cyprus could easily happen tomorrow to italy to front choose to spain we just want to be left alone to pick up the pieces and get on with our lives supper's is part of your peer european union system files and for when cyprus was

paying the money through the european union to have. the other two contras you may embarrass. nobody is that cyprus have a problem or it's because you know economy or suffering as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing up painful measures to execute the years old ira back to the bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be bearing the brunt they need us as mother for example how to monthly pension cut from one thousand one hundred eighty nine euros to just over one thousand a month ago why they cut from people who have special needs they cut from the people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. yes ourselves are to make a c.s.i. press. as anger grew in nicosia this week to political analyst and journalist

patrick allison says that the lenders deliberately chose cyprus as a test bed for this new kind of bailout while also seeking to expel russia's influence there cyprus if you look at the economy as a whole start which is the fly on the backside of an elephant journey going in europe are concerned but what they would like to do it with cyprus there's a geopolitical shape to this crisis this is really i believe what many cypriots spoke to believe is about getting russian money and russian influence out they've also managed to do it in take russian money through this crisis but they want to get russia's influence out of sight groceries for whatever reason and they're willing to sacrifice the cyprus economy do it and i have a lot to do with the oil and gas for sure but does future earnings and there will parlay ownership of that buy by loaning cyprus money so lots of brits believe the bankers in northern europe will be going for their water board the electricity all

the public utilities they're going to basically buy this country for pennies on the dollar to pre-ops are amazing people and that's what i've learned since i've been here they're very patient they're very politically correct in terms of confrontation and very take things in stride and wait and see and i think that the troika knew there so they thought well this is this is about the easiest country in europe if you want to do a test run on grabbing people's savings this is the easiest country to do you know if this happened in spain there would be riots in the streets buildings banks would be burned down it is that we greece well but because because it's cyprus it was a soft target for the troika. the spite of frustration and certainty mounting in cyprus the government and its e.u. partners have been hailing the bailout terms as the best deal available lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review says cyprus has problems reveal that the whole euro zone system is failing i don't think cyprus has been saved and i

think the people in cyprus believe that will do what you have right now is the beginning of the end of the euro system the euro house is burning and there is no reason to have confidence in the banking system don't forget overnight they were shipping in billions of euros from germany into cyprus and then delivering them by truck because people couldn't live so if you don't have confidence in your banking system it's not going to work and the system itself the euro system is a failed experiment i was always opposed to it we should have nation states with their own sovereign system so this now has proven that it doesn't work and the dictatorship from the european commission the european central bank and the i.m.f. to tell the people of cyprus you have to suffer as a result of this in a similar way to guarding greece you're going to see this crisis in europe in spain

in italy right now there is no government all of europe is in the state of collapse but this is just the beginning of what we could see on a global scale right now. well europe is struggling to solve its burgeoning financial troubles and in another part of the world the nations that make up the brakes rupe of countries are seeking ways to strengthen their block. five giant emerging economies are paving the way to join development bank expected to rival western backed financial institutions later i will bring you our report from the brics summit in south africa. now as many as one hundred prisoners at guantanamo bay are now on hunger strike according to their lawyers with the inmates saying they're ready to face death while official figures that only thirty seven people are starving themselves as

they are protest over conditions have a detention center nears the two months mark well and the own going situation has drawn an outcry from human rights groups amnesty international was among its chief critics saying that the facilities operation has brought pain and suffering instead of justice for the nine eleven terror attacks the u.s. military says nearly a dozen hunger strikers are now being force fed while two others have been hospitalized prisoners say they're being denied drinking water with some complaining of near freezing temperatures at the facility will tell us well there is a lawyer who's represented one time imo detainees says the american public is largely out aware of the rights abuses that go on at the prison. if you talk to people in the united states they simply don't know about or in congo they don't know today that eighty six of one hundred fifty six people down there are innocent have been clear have already been cleared many of the others are also women that they don't

know that the people are going to were picked up on a battlefield they were sold for bounties by northern alliance people they don't know these facts anymore because there is no coverage in the united states the white house has said that it's still interested in closing guantanamo but i think it's delegated to you other people that it's all. thrown up and. said well congress is stopping us from doing your me my former colleagues. and. innocent people wrongly you know the president can get in and make sure that those people are released and sent home they don't pose a danger those people who are desperate they want to die if they can't get out of guantanamo the u.s. courts have no with already to order a release of someone who's in guantanamo they're in the hands of the president the president has the authority to do it congress has said he could do it only with difficulty but he has the authority to do it he needs to step up to the plate and

get it done. now the white house is sad it's keeping at close eye on the situation remains committed to shutting down the prison u.s. federal public defender carles warner read parts of a letter he received from going time a detainee on hunger strike to my colleague bill dot i scare myself when i look in the mirror let them kill us as we have nothing to lose we died when obama indefinitely detained us respect us or kill us it's your choice the u.s. must take off its mask and kill us that was his statement as of today i saw him last week i represent more than i have many clients there but i did see him last week and it was it was a shocked to see what i saw he was a man who was down over thirty pounds from less than a month ago he refused all nourishment his cheeks were sunk in he was exhausted

could not stand. it was a scary scary meeting for me and his message is respect or kill this will his wish come true or will he now be prepared to die. well i think that many of the men the ones that are indefinitely detained they have zero hope they have no hope because of the ministration i think many of them are ready to die the question is how and when will they die they have no hope of being released from that place and until being has some hope it's very difficult to live everybody in guantanamo is indefinitely detained nobody is being released cleared for release or not why and overjoyed give me shortly to explain the u.s. must have a justified legal reason for keeping these people locked up yes the reason is very simple and it's at the foot of president obama now you're talking to

a federal defender what that means is that i come from the far left i am a liberal i believe in president obama and i voted for him twice but this is a broken promise one that he has chosen to abide by and not abide by excuse me he looks at the republicans in congress he says it's their fault well as of today there's not one person in the ministration i can contact to redress these problems there's nobody in the entire obama administration i could call and say let's stop the hunger strike these are men they're not animals that are people that we have grown to know and respect and i don't want to see any of them die i don't want to see them die over this or any other protest they should get process there at the end of their rope if and it's not if it's when people die if the strike is not ended then sure there's going to be more attention but let me tell you as

a human being i do not want to see my clients die and the fact that they're in this condition is one of the most heart wrenching things that i've had to experience as a lawyer. well with the hunger strike passing the fifty day mark r.t. has been working to bring you the full count of the situation and we've been gathering information from us the words attorneys of the detainees and human rights groups and the entire event is now chronicled in a special timeline which is available for you on our website r.t.e. dot com well just to have for you here now on that work border tensions the israeli defense forces turns a lot of ammo and tear gas on palestinian demonstrators as they mark twenty seven years since israel sees a large tracts of arab territory on a land day reports coming your way after the short break.

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economy in these kinds of reports on. the back working hard to get me to live from the russian capital now dropping a virtual nuclear bomb on the internet that's how some security experts labeled a massive cyber attack this week that's thought to have disrupted access for millions of web users around the world at an eco apps and slowdown came after a spat between dutch web hosting company at a summer bunker and a major european you were based spam fighting group thanks to our new video agency ruptly we earlier managed talked to. a spokesman for the hackers and he says the scale of the strike is being exaggerated by cloud fair a company that promotes internet security. the whole internet is no program the only thing that they don't converse on issues is the woman in that exchange. cell

by the way all of that runs a blog where stuff would not handle the attack or. spam. they try to make it seem like the entire momentum of the exchange of the home going into another exchange went down because of that but this is not like a division in the traffic they are the result of gondor overflow and then the. graphics software that makes the rovs basically coded as a zero or a straight line because it's groupings downforce enough that holdren has a director of security research at our bergen our cyber security company says the border between morally questionable and outright criminal activity still remains blurred on the internet certainly as to how the internet should be used we do know of course that the majority didn't manage used for you know perfectly reasonable and legal revenue generation and then we know there's also a lot of several criminals that use it for old gentleman purposes this is one of

those situations where the folds in the middle and is a bit you know you could say sketchy or dodgy type of activity where they will post things that are perhaps morally questionable and that's where the debate if you will comes comes into question. while some question and debate the morality of hacktivism others seem less concerned about the privacy of internet users saudi arabia now wants to and twitter anonymity with government plans to link social media users to their personal information will twitter stand out for their middle east tweeters have your say and leave a comment on our website r.t. dot com. and the other way online for you a healthy diet may be further away for some americans now as a recent bill's been party partly written by a billion dollar corporation that could benefit directly from the new legislation check into our website to see who's the boss in the gmo food kitchen.

the world's biggest emerging economies have pushed forward with a joint development bank which could potentially rival the world bank and the international monetary fund the brics nations stop short of establishing the highly touted financial institute agreeing to an hour formal talks and energy the group is going off reported from their fifth annual summit in south africa the blog is growing ever stronger. the beleaguered of all five bricks member states were very optimistic in terms of the future of the organization they all stressed that it is potential is still far from being used to the fore and actually one of the latest initiatives to change that is the creation of the so-called business council to get the business of the five states to get directly engaged in more joint ventures in various fears also earlier china and brazil decided to use their national currencies in at least well in nearly

a half of the payments between them only the trade turn or between the two states stands at around seventy five billion euros dollars and the general idea is for all other members of the brics to do the same to protect their economies from things like currency wars or the possible negative consequences of the change of the dollar of war the us also the five leaders of the world alternately able to agree on this week of a joint development bank possibly with a starter capital of around fifty billion us dollars but it's a massive project and it's going to take time to work out all the details but in general for the past two decades these five economies have been the most rapidly developing ones in the world currently it's estimated that their growth is around seven times faster than that of the g seven economies it's also thought that by the year twenty twenty combined the brics states will make up around twenty percent of the global g.d.p. so it's no wonder why they want to protect their economies why they want to trade

freely and how they wish between themselves and deal less dependent on the western financial institutions especially in light of the latest problems with the western economic model in general and what we witnessed here at this summit in south africa is that brics as an organization is transforming from a forum for dialogue to a full scale mechanism for strategic cooperation and so more states are voicing their desire to join in their. going to rationing including egypt and russia's president vladimir putin has also met with his egyptian counterpart the ties between the two countries are quite strong both economic and cultural as last year or egypt was visited by around two and a half million russian tourists despite all the turbulence in the middle east and in northern africa on these issues have also been discussed including of course the conflict in syria well many experts believe a joint bank would help the five breaks nations scant higher returns for their citizens a few times a roving reporter pepe escobar says

a new global lander will bring big changes to the world economy this alternatives to the world bank and the i.m.f. some sort of the essential this is the big deal and of the bricks and woods system and that you think it should be supported by their next rick's list mexico indonesia south korea turkey and the next mists as well this is you know that stick don't make plates of geopolitics and jew economy they are changing it's not atlanticist anymore it's the merchants of reemergence finally of the south miss being spread by western guard media that china is the new colonial power in ask is completely ridiculous. i'll take

a look at some other stories from around the world at least one child has been killed after a nato helicopter opened fire on insurgents in southeastern afghanistan according to initial reports the helicopter was backing a group of local security forces nato later declared that a helicopter may not have been supporting ground forces but on a separate mission against insurgents in the region this comes despite president karzai his recent demand that airstrikes on afghan villages be forbidden. two days of clashes have rocked the chilean capital of santiago police and left wing youths collided marking the day of the young combat and fifty four people were arrested during the violence in which seven police officers were injured rallies are held every year to commemorate the deaths of two brothers during a nine hundred eighty five protest against the pinochet regime. two thousand ethnic albanians have rallied in the divided city of mitrovica in kosovo against ongoing talks with serbia that humiliated negotiations are aimed at

deciding which side controls the area some believe the talks could lead to the city being divided with the northern part of officially falling into belgrade's hands possible seat of from serbia in two thousand and eight with most of the e.u. recognizing it as a new state. the u.s. france britain and the european commission have congratulated khania is newly like the president a spider pending trial at the hague for post-election crimes against humanity as supreme court ruling on saturday confirming the legality of. selection sparked violence in any as main cities which continued until late in the evening up to seven people have been one dead by gunshots according to reports. now on friday iraq was rocked by a wave of sectarian violence with at least nineteen people killed after suicide

attacks on mosques around the country local politicians have also been finding themselves the target of bomb attacks one regional election candidate escapes an attempt on his life after a bomb found in his home was defused five other candidates have been killed in assassinations bombings and raids this month all believed to be carried out by al qaida cells as late as outbreak of violence has caused government to postpone april's local elections in two provinces former and i five agent says nothing has been done to revitalize the rock infrastructure wrecked by the us invasion. we've now seen a massive destabilization of the old structures and no real meaningful new structures put in place so it's not just the politicians who are under threat but for segments of other areas of society to things like proper hospitals schools even just water and sewage and things like that have been decimated and not rebuilt appropriately it's great that people are stepping forward and they want to represent their

constituencies but if you can't guarantee that democracy will be democratically elected you can't guarantee that people are not afraid to go and vote you can't guarantee there won't be oppression and violence around that process and you can't guarantee as well that the people who are then elected have real powers to represent their constituents then it's not a real democracy is just yet another oligarchy it's another dictatorship imposed on the hapless people. well there is a band of violence as thousands of palestinians took part in what was cold the land day rally israeli security forces clashed with them strangers at a west bank border crossing using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd the annual gathering commemorates an event almost three decades ago when israel announced it would seize land for settlements and ensuing protests six palestinians were killed by police in an event seen as a flashpoint in arab israeli relations. and in a couple of minutes

a look at the lives of migrants in russia working towards a better future for their children back home say this. almost 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. download the official application to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch ati any time anyway.