today's news and a round up of the week's up top stories big depositors in cyprus take a major hit with the government taking up to sixty percent of savings just such as why e.u. bailout terms i'm president of limits on. security. do or die hunger strike as in guantanamo say they're ready to lose their lives as a protest over conditions at the detention center fifty fourth day. also this week the world wide web a massive cyber attack claimed as the worst in history threatens to cripple the internet afterall between a rival web group's escalates. and a powerful partners of bricks of countries and seeks to reshuffle the organization behind the creation of a joint development bank such

a rival as dublin it's. it's the pm here in moscow are you watching our diesel weekly you with me to bomb would say it's good to have you with us. saving us from financial collapse is coming with a half two points tag and not only for high level depositors. using up to sixty percent of their savings over one hundred thousand euros the long anticipated reopening of banks came with president and cash controls let's have a look at those restrictions right now now it says daily cash withdrawals are limited to opt to three hundred euros per person per bag now also no checks at all can be cashed payments and transferred outside of cyprus limited to up to five

thousand euros a month per person while the limit of a thousand euros per person per trip abroad that's what you can withdraw there's no there hasn't been no time frame a given for the capital controls on the promises of the measures would be reviewed daily now it is just as celia went to meet some of those of said to a bible crisis. like many in cyprus leaders agreed this is simply stunned at the speed and manner with which the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet no cash only lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for a sick mother your raveling of cyprus's financial woes could have come at a worse time by finishing that very leave with a pension of my money all of your life is coming upside down you make a plan for the future people in the younger and there will. suddenly you

hear very very corny of your country in the park system is. 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 about the police of the country's largest lender the bank of cyprus but they worry that the company is headed for collapse and they may eventually lose their jobs and 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 told because we're a 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 soon 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 european union system files and for. paying the money through the european union to help. the other two countries you may embarrass the man yeah. no but this process have a problem or it's because you know economy or something else as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing a painful measures to execute the eurozone i.m.f. back to bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be very the grant need this is 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 the simple people who have special needs they cut

from the people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. does or sylvia r.t. because c.s. cyprus. as anger grew in nicosia this week at the cypriot a capital was rocked by a series of protests. thank you. thank you thank you want to say i wanted three thousand students and that's classes and took to the streets in protest against the painful bailout deal all angry bank workers say to their own rally outside the central bank headquarters and fear of losing their jobs thursday's crowds marched through unequal c.-a this time led by the opposition commute is poteen johnny mcgraw the head of the wide awake and news portal says the situation may still turn violent people feel the full effect of the measures. the european stability mechanism was set up

a lot of people self included were talking about almost two years ago that 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 the european continent feel about how this crisis or these crises are being handled it is governed by crisis to the next extreme you know they were polite and said we're going to deck you early on in this crisis four or 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 i mean that is the ultimate outcome if somebody is trying to get access what is theirs you know their money so they can put food on their table and they're being told no you can only take out three and every time or you can transfer around there 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 . despite the frustration and uncertainty mounting inside president of men to amnesty you partners have been they hailing the bailout terms as the best deal of

anable but as economy professor at the university of athens younis of explains the deal has brought up the whole eurozone financial system into question. it is not a bad deal that such a pile of books still statement is that given that cyprus has been told that it would have to deal with a mess of its banking sector on it so as if it were not part of the eurozone this is the best deal that they could come up with but having pushed cyprus in that situation in a salt two week europe has managed to put in jeopardy some very basic principles if they put in you know the end all they threatened the state get on the deposit insurance scheme even though in the end they took this step back then they brought back into question the integrity of the year it was on it and the possibility of slowing out of it a member state and the very board really sacrificed the european union's single

market principle according to which capital controls are no no. it is a good old mess that they have engineered. now the bailout deal has sent the shivers across of the euro zone with many fearing that deposits in other banking sectors are maybe facing a similar fate now on our website we've just started a poll we're asking you about the matter seizure of a from of funds or from of the largest live press banks and of course about what you thought about this a bailout deal out second look at what all the poll you guys are saying already sixty percent of you think that the the majority are expecting at stampede on bank or runs across of the european union while thirty percent of you believe that cyprus bailout will be come a model for future bailout confiscations i want to end things it will be

a one of event that's true unpopular to repeat and none of you believe that the decision could be overturned by the public opposition now we want to know what you think had to argy dot com and cost your vote so we know what you think. right as many as one hundred prisoners at guantanamo bay and now on the hunger strike according to their lawyers well the inmates are saying they are ready to face adepts while official figures say only thirty seven people are starving

themselves as they approach us over conditions at the detention center of the two month mark let's take a look at the ongoing situation has a drawn and 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 a nearly a dozen hunger strikes are now being force fed while two others have been hospitalized prisoners are say they are being denied to drinking water with some complaining of knee of sneezing temperatures at the facility thomas a well knows a lawyer who's represented one ton of the detainees he says that the american public is lost me i'm aware of the rights abuse that goes 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 cleared 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 issues of their people and it's also thrown up its hands and said well congress is stopping us from doing anything my former client. was the allo to and by how condrey are innocent people who are wrongly held 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'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 the white house says it's monitoring the situation while remaining committed to shutting down the president but radical also spokesman a financial analysis the enemy was suffering due to a lack of proper legal structure regulating detainee treatment within the facility . from our observations you read those tensions and and this anguish that detainees are experiencing is clearly related to the lack of a clear legal framework in guantanamo and this is now adding a real impact and as an impact for detainees for some time on their mental health on their emotional for us really the issue beyond just what you know we are seeing right now going on tunnel is this issues that lawyers are talking about the issue of the legal framework that that regiments the detention at guantanamo and this is the issue that the administration must address. and with the hunger strike a bossing of the fifty day ma god he has been working to bring you the full account

of the situation we've been gathering information from u.s. authorities attorneys of the detainees and human rights groups and they tie event as not formal gold in a special timeline which is available for you on our website at c.n.n. dot com. just so i hate before you boarded tensions are the israeli defense force that joins a stun grenades and tear gas on palestinian demonstrators as they mark twenty seven yes this is israel sees a launch tribes of arab territory on land day that's just ahead for you this hour.

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thanks for staying with answer this is our t. cell for exiled russian tycoon no bars of verizon's ski was in line for three hundred million dollars per day shortly before his death as according to a newspaper report coming out of the u.k. just over a week after he was found dead at his home in england let's get more on this now from our jesus our friend who is in london so sara tell us more about this cash bonanza that could have been in store for various off. well these are the leaks email and police documents that is being reported show you that an investment company which controls three all of. these offshore trusts said beginning to liquidate his assets between. thousand and twelve a march two thousand and thirty own family with the aim of providing head with around three hundred million dollars in cash now at the time of course president last saturday it's been widely reported he was under pretty severe financial

pressure not least because of his recent high profile cool case which he lost against fellow oligarch roman abramovich and i certainly it's been said by his friends and family lots of people he was at that call case at the time to not just of put him under financial pressure the psychological pressure as well now if we look at the details of the case they follow that if he revealed even the past week the police at the inquest that was a pinned on wednesday said that the cause of death was consistent with hanging the bars by itself he was found with a ligature around his neck it was also reported that there was some piece of material of a bathroom waylaying there's no evidence at the moment of third party involvement or of foul play but police haven't ruled that out yet and at the moment we're awaiting the results of toxicology reports and it's expected that's going to take

a couple of weeks with all the details coming out about his financial situation certainly on the bare facts of the evidence right now a lot of that seeming to point towards a possible suicide although that version of events something that's being quite heavily disputed by many members of his family and friends so sour with these initial findings by the police that indicated that. committed suicide hanged himself why would a man like burrs off skew with you know to take his own life he is indeed in this case there's so much coming out now why would he take his life. both bears also a hugely controversial and colorful character this death is always going to cause a huge amount of inchy as he said the details coming out at the moment it's quite difficult to speculate because obviously a huge amount of public interest so there is a huge amount of speculation going on as he said the details that have the most there's some sort of intriguing facts to this we had reports of record interview

that he gave live a journalist the day before he died and which he spake in about losing hope in his life there's also the reports from the russian president's press a cache. of skeet sent a letter to the russian president a few months before he died talking of his lowing to retire him and asking for forgiveness and now of course all these bits of information and details that are emerging i still need to be verified and of course a huge number of questions surrounding all of this we've also had reports that. he had been planning to go on a trip to israel just after he died and that the hotel was indeed already but as soon as he said in the bare facts right now what you've got is the police saying there's no evidence at the moment is the policy involvement or foul play signs of a violent struggle with the cause of death consistent with hanging but nothing being completely ruled out was that investigation is ongoing and then of course

you've got the family and friends coming out he say that this wasn't a man that they would have thought would have committed suicide despite the financial pressures so it's very difficult to i think tally up all the evidence right now a former police detective that i spoke to newton voted this case but told me that what you do in these situations is find out how a man lived and you'll find out how he died and certainly the police right now again to be trying to pull together all the separate bits of information again all the verifications to try and get the full picture before we get that final cause of death sara so. pieces to the puzzle and you know it's a story that has made international headlines i'm sure we all looking forward to finding out what i'm told from this hour for three in london five. dropping a virtual nuclear bomb on the internet that's how some security experts labeled a massive cyber attack of this week it's thought to have disrupted web access for millions of users around the world internet collapse and slow down came

a spat between dutch web hosting company the cyber bunker and a major europa baser spam group thanks to our new video agency rep who we earlier managed to talk to spend all of come haste a spokesman for the hackers he says of the scale of the strike is being exaggerated by cloud flare a company that promotes internet security. there's no program. they don't garner some issues it's the woman you're going to refer well where it's basically all of that love. and all the. they try to make it seem like the entire law on the internet exchange of them going into another exchange went down because of that but this is not. just in the traffic they are the result of. the. software that makes them. basically zero zero zero as

a straight line because it gooden's down soft enough. that holdren he's the director of security and research at networks the cyber security company says the border between morally questionable and dried criminal activity is still remains blurred on the internet certainly as to how the internet should be used we do know of course that the majority the internet it's used for you know perfectly reasonable and legal revenue generation and we know there's also a lot of cyber criminals that use it for all of gentlemen purposes this is one of those situations where falls in the middle and as a bit you know you you could say sketchy or dodgy type of activity where they will post things that are perhaps morally questionable and that's where the the debate if you will comes comes into question. while some questions of the morality of how to resume others seem less concerned about the privacy of internet users saudi

arabia and went on a number to what the government of plans to link social media uses to their personal information will twitter stand up for the middle east. have your say and comment at our website on r.t. dot com. and another click away online for you a healthy diet or maybe 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 it online at auctions website to see who's the boss in the g.m.o. free kitchen. the world's the biggest emerging economies have pushed forward with the idea of joining to development bank which could potentially rival the world bank and the international monetary fund the brics nations stop short of the highly tooted financial institutions agreeing to enter

formal talks and as are. going off reported on from their fifth annual summit in south africa the block is growing ever stronger. leaders of all five brics 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 tour and seize 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 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 more states are voicing their desire to join their. rationing according. to the reporting is also met with this egyptian counterpart the ties between the two countries are quite strong both economic and cultural last year europe was visited by around twenty a half million russian tourists despite all the turbulence in the middle east and northern africa issues have also been discussed including of course the conflict in syria. violence has erupted on saturday when thousands of palestinians took part in what was called the land day rally israeli security forces clashed with demonstrators that a west bank a border crossing using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds the annual gathering cum operates an event almost three decades ago when israel announced always see the land for settlements six palestinians were killed then by

police in any event is seen as a flashpoint in arab israeli relations archie spoke with the palestinian legislator mustafa barghouti about how palestine can use un leverage to fight the course. of the occupied to do that is done disputed territory but status of an occupied palestinian state this would mean a lot if we the palestinians if the palestinian official side proceeds with implementing more actions within the e.u. and systems including gold to the international court of justice and demanding punishment actual israel because of its violation of international law also it would require the palestinians ask for the application of all the different 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 affirm what the united nations have approved and we also have the right to ask the united states and all other countries to accept our right

to be a full member in the united nations palestinians want peace and they have done everything they could. they've accepted the terrible compromise of having stood in twenty two percent of the land while they were located almost half of the land by the un resolution yet nothing has happened merely because the israeli government does not want that peace. is want is that the palestinians would submit to their plans for accepting to live in ghettos and come to terms with in a system of apartheid. and now some other world news in brief a roadside bomb has had 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 poll politician my league adnan was it was targeted because he was promoting secular ideas. two thousand afaik albanians

have rallied in the dividers a city of mitrovica in cost of all against ongoing talks with the serbia the mediated negotiations are aimed at deciding words side controls the area some believe the tolls could lead to the city being divided with the northern part of freshly falling into belgrade's hands because of a seeded from serbia in two thousand and eight with most of the e.u. recognizing it as a new state. near nazi demonstrators and fascism faced off in munich on saturday left wing supporters gathered to counter a demonstration by the extreme right against the upcoming trial of the nationalists ocean is underground group branded a terrorist cell by the german government its members have been charged with eight murders and a two thousand and four cologne bombing that targeted a turkish shopping area. after three decades behind bars he's now helping ex convicts to rebuild their lives home for the homeless is next.

plans to create a war medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by the new defense secretary chuck hagel but should they have been put on hold i mean hackers a drone operators do play a real important role in modern militaries and there are already u.s. military medals for things that don't involve people shooting at you the antarctic a service medals given by the department of defense for service between fifteen and thirty consecutive days in antarctica although the cold down there is potentially deadly no penguins are going to storm the base with kalashnikovs the homeland security distinguished service medal has also never been issued to anyone on the battlefield because thankfully for america there haven't been any invading armies in the homeland so is there precedent for a medal like cyber warfare battles i mean yes just there is.