international in the very heart of. today's news and the week's top stories on our. highly controversial. depositors losing up to sixty percent of their cash and the subtle the nation with a rigid capital controls. rising paulo's the first summit of brics economists pushes ahead with the creation of a joint development bank to make waves on the global financial scene. putting their lives on the line guantanamo bay detainees you have been on a hunger strike. all the way.

here watching our g.'s of the week with me to say it's good to have your company with us let's take a look at we have for you the song. avoiding bankruptcy has come at a steep of price for cyprus while the wealthiest savers fraser losing up to sixty percent of the deposits ordinary residents have also been subjected to unprecedented capital control let's take a look at those restrictions right now on our daily cash withdrawals are limited to up to three hundred euros per person that's the maximum withdrawal while no chag can be cashed payments and transferred outside of cyprus are limited to up to five thousand euros a month and those who are traveling abroad won't be able to make more than a thousand euros with them whether they cash in that are to take it with them abroad they will be able to do that now those restrictions have been imposed when an indefinite period and as our teaser does or so we have found out of families are already feeling the pinch. like many in cyprus later leaders agreed this is

simply stunned at the speed and manner with which the banking crisis in this country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet yo cash only lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for a sick mother in raveling of cyprus's financial woes could have come at a worse time by fishing very very with a pension of my mom all of your life is coming upside down you make a plan for your future people in the younger. you hear very very calling of your country in the park system is. corrupt 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 worry that the company is headed for collapse and they may eventually lose their jobs though 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 choose 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 says plan falls and for. paying the money through the european union to help. the other two contras new members.

nobody is that cyprus have problems 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 i have a back to the 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 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. yes or sylvia r.t. because c.s. cyprus. the capitol has been hit by a wave of protests throughout the week go with people venting their frustration over the controversial measures business consultant jeremy to feel you've says that the e.u.'s approach to solving this crisis has been far from ideal i think the

debate here is obviously much broader than the particular case of cyprus and the political message that's being conveyed behind the behind the base and been going on for the last week or so are clearly underlining. the lack of a lack of vision behind europe's bailout the particular case of cyprus shows a political move where we're we're we're we're trying to. to heal a deep wound with a bandaid obviously cyprus is again in particular case but the overall discussion and the overall worry and fear that is that is underlying here is is for for every european citizen well street journal correspondent matthew delton says the financial shock waves from cyprus up being felt across you weigh. the euro group

president sure own diesel gloom caused a lot of havoc in the markets earlier this week when he suggested that yes in fact the cypriot template would be used to deal with other failing banks or at the euro zone and that's that includes imposing losses on an insured bank depositors this is something that is still quite controversial among other eurozone countries and you had a number of countries such as luxembourg france and others saying wait a second you know we've got to think about this before we go down that road a lot of other people say look you're playing with fire when you when you try to impose this kind of solution in a crisis you're really going to have to guarantee a significant portion of bank liabilities that ludes depositors that includes even some bondholders and that was the approach early on in the crisis with ireland for example where every single bank liability was basically guaranteed at the start so there's a wide gulf between what they've done for ireland and what they did for cyprus and probably the solution will end up being somewhere in between but it's difficult to

say where it will play out. the repercussions of the cypriot bailout deal are being debated right now in our dog car there that's where we're asking you what you make of the masses seizure of funds from the largest cypriots depositors' now let's take a look at what you've said so far on the line now majority of you at fifty eight percent believe that the bailout a will become a model for future seizures this hour less than thirty percent of you dave think that you're expecting a stampede of banga runs across the european union because of this ten percent of you they think that this is overturned it will be overturned by public opposition while six percent of you think that it's a one off event if so unpopular it want to be repeated now we want to know what you think so go to our tea dot com and tell us what you think.

lawyers for one time a bay detainees are say some of their clients are preparing to die as the mess hunger strike at the facility nears of the two month mark but the u.s. military claims only thirty seven captives are refusing all food and continues to deny claims that more than one hundred detainees are starving themselves in protest against mistreatment and indefinite detention of human rights groups mounting the outcry at the crisis urging officials to take

a decisive actions amnesty international went to all no as far as to say instead of justice for the nine eleven attacks one tunnel has brought us torture indefinite detention unfair trials and hunger strikes now the white house insists that it's monitoring the situation and remains committed to closing guantanamo but the pentagon now wants to renovate the facilities saying congress has decided to keep it open in definitely that leaves of the detainees in limbo and desperate to draw international attention to their plight god knows i want to lawyer representing several inmates or you spoke to my colleague bill dawud and read part of a letter from one of his clients. 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 you kill us 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 sunken he was exhausted and could not stand. it was a scary scary meeting for me and his messages respect all kidless 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 surely and explain the us 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 u.n. has condemned to death in detention at guantanamo as part of torture and i cross spokesman simon schama says the captives on a defenseless judge of the legal vacuum into which they found themselves. from our observations you read those tensions and and this anguish that detainees are experience are used 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 tournaments 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. yet r g we're committed to bringing you the full story of the hunger strike going ton i'm a baby and the issue that the mainstream media. you know we've got a comprehensive timeline of events complete with codes of form officials attorneys and detainees right there on the timeline and you can find all of that at r.t. dot com. there's a push towards a d.-day for drones flying in american skies in a few minutes on t.v. how local governments are finding federal initiatives on men to fly patrols over the land but they too late we'll find out plus. revelations in britain that broke russian tycoon boris berezovsky was juice for a massive cash payout before his death last weekend learn where the money was going

to come from in just a few minutes. the

international at the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching r.t. self exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky was in line for a three hundred million dollar payday shortly before his death that's according to a british newspaper reporters over a week after he was found dead at his mansion in england the details now from south africa. these are the leaks 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 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 graeme in a primate it 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 to put him and financial pressure but psychological pressure as well and the police at the inquest that was a fit and a wednesday said that the cause of death was consistent with hanging the bars by itself he was found with a ligature around his neck there's no evidence at the moment of third party involvement or of foul play but police haven't ruled that out yet as he said the

details that have emerged as some sort of intriguing facts to this we had reports of record interview that he gave 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 said 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. china's economies are running rampant and the v.m. is taking its toll on the nation's waterways as we tell you own life a report suggests the real number of rivers in china is less than half of what beijing estimates we've got the come on alex i. love the u.k. it's one the bedroom tax why hard pressed brits want to take the latest global squeeze lying down details dot com. the

leaders of the world's biggest emerging economies are the so-called briggs have agreed to enter formal talks on creating a joint development bank which could potentially rival the world bank and the international monetary fund artes you got a piece going up has been following this at the blogs with at all 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 at least well in nearly a half of the payments between them only the trade turner 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 the n.c. 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 so more states are voicing their desire to join in their. rationing according as president vladimir putin has also met with his egyptian counterpart three times between the two countries are quite strong economic quarter of last year it was visited by around two and a half million russian tourists despite all the turbulence in the middle east and northern africa these issues are also being discussed including of course the conflict in syria. right let's take a look at more of today's world news and first to the volatile northwest of pakistan where a roadside has hit the convoy of a secularist a fact

a politician that had then was either the blast killed two of his supporters and injured many others including was in the group was heading to a regional election where he when the attack happened taliban militants who had warned people from attending the rallies of secular parties have admitted being behind the. afghan president hamid karzai is in qatar hoping to start peace talks with the taliban ahead of america's planned troop withdrawal in twenty fourteen islamic fundamentalist movements been fighting us led nato forces since two thousand and one but it's now opening an office in the gulf state the groups are so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as and quote american puppet and quote but washington needs both sides to start negotiating soon with just about twenty months left for it hands over control to local security in. the world the internet traffic had a digital jam this week all because of

a spat between two computer firms in europe millions of web users were reportedly affected when a dutch website hosting company took offense at being accused of sending too much junk mail so it bombarded a german anti spam firms a service with data calls in the slowdown actually managed to get hold of a spokesman for the hackers who told us the strikes been exaggerated. oh the whole internet is a little program the only thing they're going to garner from issue is the woman you're going to. sell basically all of that. they try to make it seem like the woman in that exchange of a woman going into another exchange went down because of that this is not. perfect they are the result of a flaw and the. software that makes them groff are basically zero zero zero as

a straight line because it's good and it's going to toss them off. so obviously curity research expert didn't hold and says the episode shows there's a thin line between crime and misbehavior online certainly as to how the internet should be used we do know of course that the majority didn't and it's used for you know perfectly reasonable and legal revenue generation and we know there's also a lot of sand or 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 a 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 having gained enough toria causing collateral damage of a season washington's on men drone feed is now eyeing the home front there was experts predict tens of thousands of on a crop to could be patrolling american skies by the end of the decade but the

aerial intrusions we've seen some fierce resistance on the ground and see if you can report. create a 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. if 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 at first not the rise 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 acknowledge that could shield people from surveillance drones over the phone to develop or did not offer any details but said this for not disabling their cameras or anything like that we are not doing anything physically to the drones we are simply not allowing their cameras look at areas. also in the battle for privacy

a designer in new york came up with a name to sebelius clothing line was a garment that's designed to be firmly reflective. which means that he bounces off 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 but i actually show you exactly what happened if you are watching it live there is actually enough resolution to be able to see people waving their arms or walking around with because they where as a number of states try to restrict the use of drones at a federal level there's

a great push to expand their use the federal aviation administration projects that in seven years there will be thirty thousand u.a.b. is 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. right up next to we had to bust a lawn though with technology update to take a look at the latest gadgets on awful at the mobile world congress that's it for me coming up will be heaven i went to take you through the next hour. 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 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 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.

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