today's news of the week so top stories on our team savers in cyprus or feel of the real from the shock of a highly controversial eve bailout which will see large deposits messing up sixty percent of the cash and struggle the nation with the bridge and capital controls. rising palos the first summit of brics economists pushes ahead with the creation of a joint development bank said to make waves on the global financial scene. that's putting their lives on the line guantanamo bay detainees who have been on a hunger strike when nearly two months say they're ready to go all the way.

it's five pm here in moscow you live with us on our t.v. with me. avoiding bankruptcy has come at a steep price for cyprus while the wealthiest savers are face losing up to sixty percent of their deposits ordinary residents have also been subjected to unprecedented capital controls let's take a look at those restrictions right now not daily cash withdrawals are limited to three hundred per person payments and transfers outside are limited to about five thousand euros as traveling abroad won't be able to take more than a thousand euros per person in the strictures have been in place for an indefinite period and as are to use the test are silly or found out families are already feeling the pinch. like many in cyprus labor 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 yo cash a lean lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for his sick mother 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 for the people in the young and the old. suddenly you hear the very corny of your country are in their 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'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 supper's is part of your peer european union system files and for cyprus was paying the money through the european union to help. the other two contras new members. 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 up painful measures to execute the years old i.m.f. back bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be bearing the brunt need us as mother for example have a monthly pension cut from one thousand one hundred eighty nine year olds to just over one thousand a month ago why they cut from people who have special needs they cut from their people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. does or sylvia r.t. because c.s. cyprus. the capital nicosia has been rocked by a wave of protests throughout the week with people venting their frustration over the controversial deal activists chrysostom the media's us says of the so-called bailout package has effectively destroyed the cypriot economy i don't think that it's correct to speak for

a bailout because this is not the bailout it can be best described as an overnight assassination because with the decisions that have taken a little group they have pretty much destroyed forty percent of the economy. and now they will also add on top of the debt problem that we have another law and you can obviously understand that the matter not what we're facing a new paradigm in the european union this is the first time that it has this has been done but it's like planting a bomb in the structure of the financial system itself therefore i don't see how any any investor or people can teach their money in the banks when now that we have a program twice or even more as bad as it was before then obviously there will be a phrase for a new levy on their back on the present so how are they expected to keep that opposes in the banks and if they will not have the banks supposed to continue. meanwhile financial experts warn that the cypriot bailout could pave the way for similar schemes being applied to other debt burden countries yemen. he's an

economist a professor at the university of athens believes the deal has already undermined the entire financial system of the euro zone. it is not a bad deal that such a pile of books still statement is that given that cyprus has been told that it will 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 they could come up with but having pushed that situation in a short week europe has managed to put in jeopardy some very basic principles. you know they all make the state get out the deposit insurance scheme even though in the end they took this that. they brought back into question the integrity of the euro it was on the possibility of throwing out of it a member state and the very board really suck of ised the european union's market

principle according to which capital controls no no no so it is a good old mess that the engineered. the repercussions of the cypriot bailout deal are being debated right now and are to come right that's where we are asking you know what do you make of the masses seizure of our funds or from large deposits let's take a look at our poll so far the majority at this hour at fifty eight percent to say the bailout will become a model for future seizures now twenty six percent of you think that the oh it will be over two by public opposition because it's just it doesn't make any sense ten percent of you believe that i'll convince a decision could be overturned by public opposition and while the remaining few tells us that the deal will be a one of that's just unpopular to repeat elsewhere in the euro zone well do

constitute a vote and r.t. dot com we want to hear what you think. lawyers for guantanamo bay detainees as they some of their clients are preparing to die as the mass hunger strike at the facility nears of the two month mark but the u.s. military claims only thirty seven captives are refusing all sued and continues to deny claims that more than one hundred detainees are starving themselves in the protests against mistreatment and indefinite detention human rights groups are

mounting the outcry at the crisis urging officials to take decisive action amnesty international went on this fall to say instead of justice for the nine eleven attacks one time the mo has brought torture and indefinite detention unfair trials and hunger strikes the white house insists that it's monitoring the situation and remains committed to closing guantanamo but of the pentagon now wants to renovate of the facility saying congress says decided to keep it open indefinitely that leaves of the detainees in limbo and desperate to draw international attention to their plight carlos awana a lawyer representing several inmates earlier spray to my colleague bill dodd and read part of a letter from one of his clients listen to this. 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 us must take off its mask and kill us i have many clients there but i did see him last week and 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 sunken he was exhausted and could not stand. it was a scary scary meeting for me and his messages respect all kilis will his wish come true or will he now be prepared to die but i think that many of the men in 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 had some hope it's very difficult to live everybody in

guantanamo is indefinitely detained nobody is being released cleared for release or not why nor joy give me shortly to explain the u.s. must have a justified legal reason for keeping these people locked up. yes the reason 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 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 the un has condemned indefinite detention at guantanamo as a form of taunt some red cross spokesman simon schama says the captain is defenseless to the legal vacuum in which they found themselves. from our observations we reduce tensions and and this anguish that knees are experiencing is clearly related to the lack of a clear legal framework in guantanamo and this is now 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 in guantanamo is this issues that lawyers are talking about the issue of the legal framework that that regiments the detention of guantanamo and this is the issue that the administration must address here at r.t. we committed to bringing you the full story of the hunger strike the guantanamo bay an issue that the mainstream media prefers to ignore we've got a comprehensive timeline of events complete with codes of from officials that tourney's and the detainees on our website at our t dot com. right coming up a border clash in the the holy land israeli troops fired stun grenades and tear gas at palestinian protesters blocking almost fourteen israel seized arab territories. and the revelations in britain the broke russian tycoon a boy is

a better result steve was due for a massive pass before his death last week learn how much money was coming to him in just a few minutes. when their own country can't offer them a living even loving mothers sometimes have to leave their children behind. i do like to work just a bit longer. it's a dream of millions of migrants that their children might choose their motherland. oh my room is. really i want my children to win over moscow. russia has become this stepmother land. migrants working hard to find a way home. the

international airport in the very heart of moscow. thanks for staying with us you're watching our team sells the exiled a russian tycoon a bar a spurs office knew was in line for a three hundred million dollars payday shortly before his death that's according to a british newspaper report just a week after he was found dead at his mansion in england the details now from south africa. these are the leaked email and police documents it is being reported show

me that an investment company which controls three all of. these offshore trusts said c b going 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 the why do you report it he was under pretty severe financial pressure not least because of his recent high profile cool case which he lost against fellow oligarch graeme in a primate it and says only it's been said by his friends and family lots of people he was at that call case at the time to not just to put him and financial pressure but psychological pressure as well and the police at the inquest that was a fair and a wednesday said that the cause of death was consistent with hanging the bars prayers of he was found with a ligature around his neck there's no evidence at the moment of third party

involvement or of foul play as he said the details that have emerged as some sort of intriguing facts to this we had reports of record interview that he give with the journalist the day before he died in which he spake it about losing hope in his life in then of course he 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 i think tally up all the evidence right now. china's economy is running rampant and the boom is taking its toll on the nation's waterways as we tell you online i reports the real number of rivers and it's less than half of what beijing estimates we've got come on our website. the u.k. plans a bedroom tax so wow why hodder president want to let us all blind out the

details on. the leaders of the world's biggest emerging economies the so-called brics have agreed to enter full on creating a joint development bank which could potentially rival the world bank and the international monetary fund argues you got these kind of has been following this at the blogs fifth annual summit in south africa. the 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 currencies in the least while 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 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 in their. it is rationing according in gippsland 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 just 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 these issues have also been discussed including of course the conflict in syria. is at times reporter pepe escobar believes the emergence of a new global lender would become a serious game change on the global economic scene this alternatives to the world bank and the i.m.f.

some still say essentially this is the big deal and of the bretton woods system is that you should be supported by their next rick's list mexico indonesia south korea turkey and the next nests as well this is you know that the stick don't take place of geopolitics or jewett comics they are changing it's not atlanticist anymore it's the merchants of really merchants finally of the south miss being spread by western guard media that china is the new colonialists power in after school politically ridiculous. let's take a look at more of today's world news now and first to the volatile north west of pakistan where roadside bomb has had the convoy of a secularist the back politician i've known a was the last to kill the two of his supporters and his many others including one

of the of the group was heading to a regional election rally when the attack happened taliban militants who had warned people from attending the rallies of secular parties have admitted to being behind the ambush. there's been fierce fighting in chile's capital qualls of a hooded men turned up at protests commom rating two brothers killed by police during an anti regime jam almost three decades ago gunshots were heard as a riot police away deployed to calm the address in san diego they where dozens of arrests as protests as hurled molotov cocktails at security forces raise barricades and cut power lines. israeli soldiers clash with palestinian demonstrators on saturday at a rally marking an invention known as land day protesters at a west bank border crossing hurled a rock said troops who retaliated with tear gas and stun grenades the annual

gathering come on raising event almost four decades ago when israel israel announced plans to seize a new land for settlement six palestinians were killed back then by police and the empress is now remembered as a major flashpoint in arab israeli relations archie talks about a scene in legislator mustafa barghouti who believes that his people the united nations as a leverage to fight the course. of the occupied territories is don't as the disputed territory but a 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 a punishment actual israel because of its violation of international law also it would require the palestinians ask for the application of all video 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 they are from what the united nations has 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. but the studios want peace and they've done everything they could to achieve peace they've accepted the terrible compromise of having twenty two percent of the land while they were located almost half of the land by the u.n. resolution yet nothing has happened mainly because the israeli government does not want that peace wall that israelis want is that the palestinians would submit to their plans of accepting to live in ghettos and within a system of apartheid and segregation well disputed land isn't the only problem facing the israeli authorities the country's military is cracking down on misbehaving soldiers a group of servicemen posted a series of dance videos on the web but that quickly went viral some fear the idea

of stance could backfire and limit the government's ability to use social media as a p.l.t. all artes policy investigates offensive and damaging find a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a stone posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit 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 do with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this whole jerk 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 their 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 it occurred under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which if in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f. soldier would would would be for really potentially at least expose you 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. in a certain person is an abuse of power and i think this is that it's think that the army should do gil you gave was an officer with the paratroopers unit he says he'd brief his soldiers regularly about what they could and could not post online but

many were careless or childishly unaware of the impact one clip could have you have to remember that soldiers are. kids. eventually they're just they're just kids that misuse the misuse of power just for them just fun is not shooting the kid not trying to kill the kid the irony is that the i.d.f. itself put so much emphasis on social networks using them extensively to promote its actions. the i.d.f. has taken its war to twitter facebook instagram and even tumblr turning its social media tool box into the most globally visible arm of the israeli defense force it started during the israeli gaza war at the end of two thousand and eight but the idea of social media department for. next it's online muscles during the flotilla incident a year and a half later distributing regular video taken from an israeli assault craft and

tweeting in sixteen languages after the most recent israel gaza war last november the erstwhile embarrassed idea of social media guru boasted his unit had beaten the enemy some 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. the r.t.e. television. next we take a look at the lives of central athens young and old who are going a long hours in russia to support their families back home.

oh since the new pope was chosen the calls for reform are analysts everyone wants the new pope to allow this and to allow that but the problem is that the catholic church is a religion not a product and people don't like the way a pepsi bottle looks while the company will have to in theory change it to meet public demand but the pope claims to represent the will of the creator of the universe the pope supposedly holds and protects an ancient and eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even though they pretend like adult religions do change over time but how can you expect the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in the charge 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.