international and in the very heart of moscow. there is news and week's top stories from r.t. savers in cyprus real from the shock of a highly controversial e.u. bailout which will see large deposit is losing up to sixty percent of their cash and saddle the other nation with rigid capital controls. rising powers the fifth summit of brics economies pushes ahead with the creation of a joint development bank set to make waves on the global financial sea. and putting their lives on the line quantum of bay detainees who've been on hunger strike now for nearly two months say they're ready to go all the way. good evening this is r t it's kevin owen here with a roundup of the big news stories from us from the last seven days and first

avoiding bankruptcy has come at a steep price for cyprus as we've been reporting while the wealthiest savers face losing up to six percent of their deposits ordinary residents have also been subject to the courts as well to unprecedented capital controls daily cash withdrawals are limited to three hundred euros per person per bank no checks could be cashed either payments and transfers outside cyprus are limited to five thousand euros a month and those travelling abroad won't be able to take more than a thousand euros with them either well those restrictions have been imposed for any definite period in these artes tests or is still are found for us families are already feeling the pinch. like many in cyprus need us 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 a lean 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 by finishing the daily 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 all this in. the economy of your country or in the park system these. 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 is germany stalled 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 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 european union system files and for. paying the money through the european union to help. out there who contras you may remember such as a man you know. nobody is cyprus 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 eurozone 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 the people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. r t make a c.s.i. press look have a legacy is be rocked by a wave of protests throughout the week with people venting their frustration over the controversial deal i do this crosses thomas said to me this says the so-called bailout package the face of a destroyed the cypriot economy i don't think that it's correct to speak for the bailout because this is not the bailout it can be best described as an overnight assassination because with the decisions that are taking the 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 long and you can obviously understand that the math does not work we're facing a new part of the i mean in the european union this is the first time that he 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 best or people can teach their mind in the banks when now that we have a debt problem twice or even more as bad as it was before then obviously there will be a phrase for a new levy on their back and ban deposits so how are they expected to keep that the poses in the banks and if they will not however the bank supposed to continue. meanwhile financial experts are warning the cypriot bailout could pave the way for similar schemes being applied to weather debt burden countries yanis varoufakis is an economics professor at the university of athens he told us he believes the deal's already undermined the entire financial system of the eurozone. it is not a bad deal that such a pile of books still statement is that given that cyprus has been told it would

have to deal with the 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 cypresses that situation in a short week europe has managed to put in jeopardy some very basic principles if they put it in you know there is all the threat of the state get out the deposit insurance scheme even though in the end they took this step back. they brought back into question the integrity of the you is one of the possibility of slowing out of it a member state and a very important really sacrificed the european union's single market principle according to which capital controls are unknown or so it is a good old mess that they have engineered.

the repercussions of the cypriot belo deal or being debated right now of course r.t. dot com that's where we're asking you what you make of this mass seizure of cypriot funds thanks for voting if you have done r.t. dot com as always on all big stories that there is a place to do it all right this is what you say the majority of you a lot more on a vote last night i can tell you sixty percent now is saying it will become a worldwide model for future bailouts and that of course is the worry we heard one of the one of the people talking on that report just then she said that was a worry twenty five percent of your quarter think it will trigger bank runs across the e.u. ten percent you think will be overturned by public opposition what's happening where we're sure about that though a five percent you think will be a one off event two unpopular to repeat what everyone keeping their fingers crossed of course r.t. dot com is the place of course to have your say. next

tonight lawyers for granting them obey detainees say some of their clients are preparing to die as the mass hunger strike at the facility nears 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 actually starving themselves in protest against mistreatment and indefinite detention human rights groups are mounting their outcry at the crisis urging officials to take decisive action and just international went as far as calling guantanamo an american gulag and says the facilities brought pain and suffering instead of justice the white house insists that it's monitoring the situation and remains committed to closing guantanamo but the pentagon now wants to renovate the facility saying congress has decided to keep

it open indefinitely that then leaves the detainees in limbo and desperate to draw attention international attention to their plight while lawyers advocated for guantanamo prisoners told us that the mainstream media is helping cover up the scale of the crisis. 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 other 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 is 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 is in guantanamo they are 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 u.n. is condemning to have the detention of guantanamo as a full metol chip red cross spokesman simon show no says the captives a defenseless because of the legal vacuum that i found themselves in. 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 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 to animal 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. here are to cause we're committed to bringing you the full story of the hunger strike could go in tandem obey an issue that the mainstream media seemingly prefers to ignore we've got a comprehensive timeline of events complete with quotes from officials attorneys and detainees as you'll know if you've been watching us visit our web sites although if you r.t. dot com. israeli troops are getting in trouble for showing off her military maneuvers as we'll find out shortly this fancy footwork from the i.d.f. fired this isn't going well with the top brass there jailing soldiers for the dancing videos of the generals moves seem to be backfiring also to revelations in britain the broken russian tycoon boris berezovsky was due for

a massive cash payout just before his death last week. where the money was going to come from in just a few. international

in the very heart of moscow. that russian tycoon boris berezovsky was in line for a three hundred million dollars payday shortly before his death that's according to a british newspaper report just over a week after he was found dead in his mansion in england the details now from r.t. sara first. 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 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 said simply 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 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 to say that this wasn't a man that they would have pulled 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 economy is running rampant and the boom has taken its toll on the nation's waterways as we tell you online tonight a report suggesting the real number of rivers now in china is less than half of what beijing estimates they're running out of water we've got the count on our website plus the u.k. plan bedroom tax where hard pressed brits won't take the latest welfare squeeze lying down details from us on our website. but he does the world's biggest emerging economies the so-called brics have agreed to

enter formal talks on creating a joint development bank that could potentially rival the world bank and the international monetary fund are to can offspring following that the blocks 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 at 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 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 egyptian 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 northern africa these issues have also been discussed including of course the conflict in syria. the global chief economist it raises capital told us the brics blocks emerging international strains because the current world financial set up is about a day. the architecture. of finance was set up in the minds you want to use to reflect the reality then which is obviously american power you can use our own and europe in general so there are changes happening to the i.m.f.

and to the world bank but still we know that the head of these organizations is an american it is a european even though they've been a strong challenge i think the brics are saying they can't be bothered to wait any longer for the i.m.f. world bank to change more dramatic you think of the start making changes on their own. news making headlines right now this sunday afternoon first the volatile northwest of pakistan where a roadside bombs hit the calm convoy of a secularist backed politician adnan was here the blast killed two of his supporters and injured many others including was there the group was heading to a regional election rally when the attack happened taliban militants who warned people from attending the rallies of secular parties have admitted being behind the bush. afghan president 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 u.s. led nato forces know since two thousand and one but is now opening an office in the gulf state the group so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet but washington needs both sides to start negotiating soon with just about twenty months left of course before it happens over control to local security. the fierce fighting in chile capital crowds of hooded men turned up at protests commemorating two brothers killed by police during an anti regime demo almost three decades ago gunshots were heard as riot police were deployed to calm the unrest in santiago there were dozens of arrests as protesters held molotov cocktails at security forces raised barricades and cut power lines. israeli soldiers clashed with palestinian demonstrators on saturday at a rally marking an event known as the land day protestors at the west bank border crossing whole rocks at troops who retaliated with tear gas and stun grenades the annual gathering commemorates an event almost four decades ago when israel announced plans to seize new land for settlements six palestinians were killed by

police and the unrest is now remembered as a major flashpoint in arab israeli relations are to talk to a palestinian legislator mustapha barghouti who believes his people can use the united nations is leverage to fight. status of the occupied territories. disputed territory but status of 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 acts on 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 hour 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 nations palestinians want peace and they've done everything they could to achieve peace they've accepted a terrible compromise of having twenty two percent of the land while they were located almost half of the land by the un resolution yet nothing has happened mainly because the israeli government does not want that peace wall the 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. and disputed land isn't the only problem facing 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 that quickly went viral but some fear the i.d.f. stance could backfire and limit the government's ability now to use social media as a p.r. to others policy is got the story offensive and damaging or

a bit of fun 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 universe don't wish the marriage 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 all just 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 if occurred under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which is in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f.

soldier would would would be for really potentially at least exposure 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 a more in innocent person is an abuse of power and i think this is the think that the army should do gil you gave was an officer with the paratroopers unit he says he prefers 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 for 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 flexed its online muscles during the political 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 suffered rottweiler 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. policy r t tel aviv. the world's internet traffic is a little germ this low as we go because of a spat between two computer of was in europe millions of web users were reportedly a photo when a dutch website hosting company took offense of being accused of sending too much junk mail so in response the bombarded of german anti spam firms servers with data causing this big slowdown are not supposed to get ahold of a spokesman for the hackers who told us the strikes been exaggerated. the whole internet is a little broken the only thing that they're going to come to some issues is the woman in that exchange with her where it's all basically all of that.

they try to make it seem like the entire woman intimate exchange of a woman going into another exchange went down because of that this is not the case goes into the graphic they are the result of a flaw and then. that makes them grow off of basically zero zero zero as a straight line because it grew in the ground soft enough. cybersecurity research on hold and told to stay upset 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 in it and it's used for you know perfectly reasonable and legal revenue generation and we know there's also a lot of sanger 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 those things that are perhaps morally

questionable and that's where the the debate if you will comes comes into question . this push towards d.-day for drones flying in american skies in a few minutes on this channel how local governments of fighting federal initiatives to allow a man flying over the land of the phrase but are they too late to find out plus a softer more bombings killed nineteen people in iraq and friday we asked why sectarian tensions as a country desperately trying to get its security in shape well ahead. plans to create a medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by 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 medals i mean yes just there is but when you think about it giving someone a medal for using a mouse to blow up blips on a monitor really seems to devalue the medals of the guys who are brave enough to storm the beaches on d.-day or slog through disease and sneak field swaps in vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the of their medals let's just let the cybersecurity one go but that's just my opinion.