today's news and a round up of the week's top stories big depositors in cyprus take a major hit with the government taking up to sixty percent of savings to satisfy e.u. bailout terms placing unprecedented limits on cash strapped cypriots. do or die hunger strikers in guantanamo say they're ready to lose their lives as protest over conditions of the detention center go into their fifty fourth day. also this week targeting a world wide web a massive cyber attack claimed as the worst in history threatens to cripple the internet after a rally between rival web groups escalates. and powerful partners breaks countries seek to reshuffle the organization eyeing the creation of a joint development bank set to rival established global landers.

you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program how saving seibert from financial collapse is coming whether hefty price tag and not only for high level depositors they'd all face losing up to sixty percent of their savings over one hundred thousand euros the long anticipated opening of banks came with unprecedented cash controls well it's out take a look at those restrictions. so they only cash withdrawals are limited to three hundred euros per person per bank also no tax at all can be cashed out payments and transfers outside cyprus are limited to five thousand euros

a month per person and those traveling abroad can take more than one thousand euro with them and there has been no time frame given for the capital controls only promises the measures would be reviewed daily says there are still you know wanted to meet some of those affected by the crisis. like many in cyprus later need this as this is simply stunned at the speed of the man who will finish the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet you know 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 a pension of my money all of your life is coming up so i don't you make a plan for the future so that people in the younger until. you hear of. the economy of your country are in boxes then these.

so. you're 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 though this one in particular is a gathering about the police of the country's largest lender the bank of cyprus but they're 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. germany strolled because we are small economy they felt that 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 june to spain

we just want to be left alone to pick up the pieces and get on with our lives to cyprus is part of your peer european union system files and for. 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 a painful measures to execute the here so i am back to the bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be very deprived need as his mother for example have a 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

or sylvia our team you can see a cyclist. cause anger grew a nigga see of this week a super a capitals rocked by series of protests. on tuesday around three thousand students left classes and took to the streets in protest against the painful bailout deal but angry bank workers staged their own rally outside the central bank waters and fear of losing their jobs thursday saw more crowds march through nicosia the style led by the opposition communist party charlie mcgrath head of the wide awake news portal says the situation may still turn violent as people feel the full effect of the measures. the european stability mechanism was set up a lot of people was often thought of we're talking about almost two years ago it is global it is financial governance over europe i don't think they care what the

citizens of europe the five hundred million people of european continent feel about how this crisis or these crises are being and it is governed by crisis to the extent extreme you know they were polite and said we're going to dig you early on in this crisis for five years ago and now they're making a very bold statement they're not asking any more they're just going to take it if someone's trying to rob you then it would make sense that it could certainly lead to by woods i think that is the ultimate outcome if somebody is trying to get access what is theirs you know their money so they could put food on their table and they're being told no you can only take out three hundred time or you can transfer around the to your friends or family around the world if you go take a shit you know take three thousand dollars i could certainly see an tempers flare . well despite her straight and uncertainty mounting in cyprus but government and its partners have been hailing the bailout terms as the best deal available but as

economy perhaps serve at the university of athens yanis varoufakis explains the deal has brought the whole we are resilin financial system into question. it is not a bad deal that such a but of books statement is that given that cyprus has been told it would have to deal with a mess of its banking sector on it so as if you could would knock out of the eurozone this is the best that they could come up with but everything cyprus is that situation in assault a weak europe has managed we can jump of these some very basic principles if they look at. you know the old with a threat to the state get out the deposit insurance scheme even though they took place that. they brought back into question the integrity of the year it was on the possibility of stalling out of it a member state and be very bold to say they sacrificed the european union's market principle according to which capital controls the other no no so it is

a good old. engineered. while europe is struggling to solve its burgeoning financial troubles and another part of the world of nations that make up the breaks group countries are seeking ways to strengthen their bloc five giant and emerging economies are paving the way to a joint of album bank expected to rival western backed financial institutions well a irani year in r t we're bringing you our reports from the bric summit and south africa. well as many as one hundred prisoners added one time a bay are now on hunger strike according to their lawyers with inmates saying they're ready to face death while official figures say only thirty seven people are

starving themselves as the year protests over conditions at a detention center nears the two month mark. and the ongoing 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 well yes 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 thomas woolner is a lawyer who has represented guantanamo detainees says that the american public as largely unaware 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 guantanamo they don't know today that eighty six of the hundred sixty six people down there are

innocent have been clear have already been cleared many of the others are also innocent they don't know that the people at guantanamo weren't 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 the other people and it's also thrown up and it said well congress is stopping us from doing any of my former client. was the allo to and by how condrey are innocent people who are wrongly 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 are desperate they want to die if they can't get out of guantanamo the u.s. courts have no authority to order a release of someone who is 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 says it's monitoring the situation while remaining committed to shutting down the prison but red cross spokesman simon score no says inmates are suffering due to a lack of proper legal structure regulating treatment within the facility from our observations and tensions and and this anguish that these are experiences used clearly related to the lack of a clear legal framework in guantanamo and this is now a real impact and as an impact for the p.d.'s for some time on their mental health on their emotional for us would be the issue beyond just what you know we are seeing right now going on tom is this issues that lawyers are talking about the issue of the legal framework that regiments the detention of guantanamo and this is the issue that the administration must address now that hunger strike passing the

fifty day mark r.t. has been working to bring you the four counts of the situation there we've been gathering information from u.s. authorities attorneys of the detainees and human rights groups and the entire event is now chronicle to a special timeline which is available for you on our website r t v dot com. now just data for you border tangents the israeli the fans for us turn stun grenades and tear gas on palestinian demonstrators as the mark twenty seven years since israel sees a large tracts of arab territory on land day that's just out for you this hour here on our team.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. i'm dropping a virtual nuclear bomb on the internet that's how some security experts labeled a massive cyber attack this week it's thought to have disrupted web access for millions of users around the world the internet collapse and slowed. sound came after a spat between dutch web hosting company the site of banker and a major you were based spam fighting group thanks to our new video agency ruptly we earlier managed to talk to come food is a spokesman for the hackers and he says the scale of the strike is being exaggerated by cloud player a company that promotes internet security. the whole internet. they're going to some issues that will mean that the. president although.

they tried to make it seem like the woman in them of the exchange of them going into another exchange went down because of that this is not the case though. they are the result of a small window. that makes. a basically zero zero zero as a straight line because it's good it's gone soft enough that didn't hold and here is the director of security research at arbor networks cyber security company says the border between morally questionable and outright criminal activities still remains blurred on the internet certainly as to how the internet should be used we do know of course that the majority in it and it's used for you know perfectly reasonable and legal revenue generation and you know there's also a lot of center criminals that use it for all gentlemen purposes this is one of those situations where it kind of falls in the middle and is a bit you know you could say sketchy or dodgy take me back to you 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 the morality of hacktivism others seem less concerned about the privacy of internet users saudi arabia 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 we will have your say and leave a comment at our website r.t. dot com. and another slick way in line for you healthy diet may be further away for some americans now that the giant of g.m. crops has been handed an advantage over people who think modified food is ruining their wellbeing check into our website to see who's the boss in the g.m.o. food kitchen. now the world's biggest emerging economies have pushed forward with the heir idea of a joint development bank which could potentially rival the world bank and they have

a national monetary fund the brics nations stop short of establishing the highly touted financial institute agreeing to answer formal talks as are going off reported from their fifth annual summit in south africa the blog is growing ever stronger. i believe years of all five bricks member states were very optimistic in terms of the future of the organization the 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 which we should know 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 be less dependent on the western financial institutions especially in light of the 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 the. going to rationing including egypt and russia's president vladimir putin has also met with his the counterpart the ties between the two countries are quite strong both economic and cultural last year egypt was visited by around two and a half million russian tourists despite all the turbulence in the middle east and in northern africa these issues have also been discussed including of course the conflict in syria. violence erupted on saturday when thousands of palestinians to part in what was called the land day rally israeli security forces clashed with demonstrators 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 fees land for settlements six palestinians were killed then by police and event seen as a flashpoint in arab israeli relations are just spoke with palestinian legislator and stop a burglary about how palestine can use un leverage to fight their cause. of the occupied to do that is the disputed territory but status of palestinian state this would mean a lot of the palestinians if the palestinian side proceeds with implementing more actions within the systems including going to the international court of justice and demanding a punishment acts on israel because of its violation of international law also it would require the palestinians ask for the application of conventions regarding the occupied palestinian state and also to proceed with membership in various other

structures i think we need to do that we need to proceed and we need to the from what the united nations has approved and we also have that i have to ask the united states and all other countries to accept our right to be a full name but in the united nations palestinians want peace and they've done everything they could to achieve peace they've accepted compromise of having twenty two percent of the land while they were look at the gold most half of the land by the other solution yet nothing has happened many because the israeli government does not want that. the palestinians would submit to their plans of accepting to live in ghettos and within a system of apartheid and segregation. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a roadside bomb has hit a politician's convoy as he was campaigning in northwest pakistan the blast reportedly masterminded by taliban militants killed two people and injured eight

it's believed that the politician in mali was ear was targeted because it was promoting secular ideas. it sounds and ethnic albanians have rallied in the divided city of major rita in caso against ongoing talks with serbia the e.u. me to negotiations are aimed at deciding which side controls the area some believe the talks could lead to the city being divided with a northern part officially falling into belgrade hands kossovo seceded from serbia in two thousand and eight when most of the e.u. recognizing it as a new state. neo nazi demonstrators and fascists faced off in munich on saturday left wing supporters gathered to counter an extreme roy demonstration protesting against the upcoming trial of the nationalist socialism ground group brand of the terrorist cell by the german government and groups members have been charged with eight murders and

a two thousand and four alone bombing targeting turkish shopping area. on friday iraq was rocked by a wave of sectarian violence with at least nineteen people killed after a suicide attacks on mosques around the country local politicians have also been finding themselves the target of bomb attacks one regional actually candidate escapes and attempt on his life after a bomb found in these 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 this latest outbreak of violence has caused the government to postpone april's local elections in two provinces former am i five agent. as nothing has been done to revitalize iraqi infrastructure wrecked by the us invasion. we've now seen a massive destabilization of the old star witches 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 hospitals schools even just warfare 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 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 it seems the sky is the limit for us law enforcement with aerial surveillance drones set to be used to massaquoi where the projected increase in their numbers planned over the next seventy years but capitol hill has met some firm resistance the plan says few people want to be watched twenty four seventh's are just going to to can has more on the resistance against the federal project.

created one point this documentary on u.s. public television touts the technological capabilities of drones and their new super sensors this image was taken seventeen thousand five hundred feet above quantico virginia and covers fifteen square miles if we wanted to know what is going on in any spot along the seam i'd say near this building at this intersection we can generate a moving image that shows what's going on in the area the state of virginia was the first to stand up against this kind of surveillance in early february the state legislature passed a two year moratorium on the use of drones but the bill is yet to be signed by the state's governor who is known to be very supportive of the spy aircraft. in charlottesville virginia police have never used drones but the city council has nonetheless restricted their use just in case these this technology is already being heavily marketed to local law enforcement agencies and other groups and

there's even one county in virginia that already purchased two drones for surveillance and so we know it's coming and we just we want to get out ahead of it at least twenty seven states are now considering legislation to outline how drones can be used by law enforcement or to ground them all together but there are those who believe the lawmakers are first and not the eyes of the spy planes so they're taking the matter into their own hands a company in oregon says it has developed and will soon start selling to knowledge that could shield people from surveillance drones over the phone to develop it did not offer any details but said this or not this able in their cameras or anything like that we are not doing anything physically to the drones we are simply not allowing their cameras that area. also in the battle for privacy a designer in new york came up with an antisocial and clothing line and this is

a garment that's designed to be firmly reflective. which means that he bounces off it and he does what's he was for thermal imaging particular this technology is used a lot on drones and you refuse but it's doubtful that this designers gear however creative could compete with the cutting edge spiked acknowledging now being developed for government use a million terabytes of video a day which is the equivalent of five thousand hours of high definition footage so you can go back and say i would like to see what happened in this particular location three days two hours four minutes ago and if what i actually show you exactly what happened if you were watching it there's actually enough resolution to be able to see people waving their arms or walking around with clothes they wear as a number of states try to restrict the use of drones at a federal level there is a great push to expend their use the federal aviation administration projects that

in seven years there will be thirty thousand you avi's flying over the u.s. there's absolutely no way of knowing if we are being filmed at the moment so we might as well wave to big brother up there in washington i'm going to check out. why it is a couple of minutes to look at the lines of migrants in russia working towards a better future for their children back home stay with us. all 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 poll. 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 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. wealthy british style it's sometimes right for.