day's news in the week's top stories in our t. savers in cyprus real from the shock of early controversial e.u. bailout which will see large depositors losing up to sixty percent of their cash and saddle the nation with rigid capital controls. rising power as the fifth summit of brics economies pushes ahead with the creation of a joint development bank sent to make waves in the global financial sea. plus putting their lives on the line guantanamo bay detainees who have been on a hunger strike for nearly two months say they're ready to go all the way. hello this is r t is kevin only tonight with

a roundup of the big stories of the last seven days from us and first avoiding bankruptcies come at a steep price for cyprus where the wealthiest savers face losing up to sixty percent of the deposits ordinary residents have also been subjected to unprecedented capital controls daily cash withdrawals are limited to three hundred euros per person per bank no checks can be cashed payment transfers outside cyprus are limited to five thousand euros a month and those travelling abroad won't be able to take more than one thousand euros with them this strictures have been imposed for an indefinite period in this test or a similar found out families are already feeling the pinch now. like many in cyprus need us agree 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 only 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 side down you make a plan for the future the people in the young and the old. suddenly you hear of the quality of your own country in the park system is. 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 though this one in particular is a gathering of that 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. germany strolled

because we're a small economy they felt 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 peer european union system falls and for. paying the money through the european union to help. the other two countries you may embarrass. nobody is that cyprus have a problem or it's because you know economy or suffering as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing a painful measures to execute the eurozone i.m.f. back to the bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be

very deprived need as his mother for example had 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 our team because c.s. cyprus. while nicosia has been rocked by a wave of protests throughout the week with people venting their frustration over the controversial deal chris was thomas said to me this is the so-called bailout packages effectively destroyed the supreme 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 taken in little group they have pretty much destroyed forty percent of the economy and now they will also add on top of that problem that we have another law and you can obviously

understand that the math does not work we're facing a new pirating mean 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 best or people can tip their mind in the banks when now that we have a 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 when done deposits so how are they expected to keep that the poses in the banks and if they will not however the banks supposed to continue . well meantime financial experts are warning that the cypriot belo could pave the way for similar schemes being applied to other debt burden countries yanis varoufakis is an economics professor at the university of athens he believes the deals already undermined the entire financial system of the of the eurozone this is what he had to say. it is not a bad deal that such a by the book still statement isn't it given that cyprus has been told that 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 that they could come up with but every post cyprus is that situation in a saw two week europe has managed to put in jeopardy some very basic principles if they put. it all they threatened the state get out the deposit insurance scheme even though in the end they took this threat back. they brought back into question the integrity of the u. that is one of the possibility of slowing out of it a member state and a very important really sacrifies the european union's single market principle according to which capital controls no no no so it is a good old mess that they have engineered. well the repercussions of the cypriot belo deal have been debated right now at r.t.

dot com that's where asking what you make of the mass seizure of funds from large cypriot deposit is taken part if you have this is what should. we go sixty three this is going up two percent from last say the bailout will become a model for future confiscations just a tad less than a quarter it was already about twenty five percent earlier on you are expecting a stampede of bank runs across the european union nine percent of you convinced the decision could be overturned by public opposition optimistic there were the remaining few tell us the deal will be a one off is just to on popular to repeat elsewhere thanks for making those votes changes they've been doing so all evening it still chance for you to do as well as what you think are t. dot com.

let's spend a few minutes now to get more some there this week lawyers for guantanamo bay detainees say some of their clients are preparing to die now as the mass hunger strike at that facility nears the two month mark but the u.s. military claims only thirty seven captors are refusing all food and continues to deny claims that indeed actually more than one hundred detainees are starving themselves in protest against mistreatment and indefinite detention while human rights groups are mounting their outcry the crisis urging officials to take decisive action now mr international where as far as calling guantanamo an american gulag it says the facilities brought pain in suffering instead of justice the white house insists it's monitoring the situation it remains it says committed to closing guantanamo but the pentagon now wants to well of eight the facility at the same time saying congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely that the leaves the

detainees in limbo and desperate to draw international attention to their plight let's go live to cindy porno chose she's a lawyer for a court client who's taking part in the hunger strike there thanks ever so much for being with us we do appreciate your time cindy thank you for joining us now what did you last speak to your client what state is he at the moment tonight. thank you for having me kevin i was with him last week i met with him from tuesday through thursday every day and when i first met with him on tuesday i was extremely. i was shocked to see that he had lost about forty pounds from the last time that i saw him and he was in a terribly weak state he was bending over from stomach pains he also said that he had not eaten since february sixth so he was one of the initial hunger strikers and he was in a terribly bad state when i saw you so you can confirm when our viewers are hearing

i was told where there's maybe a heart when we're talking about some of these guys being close to death this is what you've actually seen with your own. i've seen it with my own eyes and i heard him tell me he's supposed to have another meeting with his military council in the following week and he told me to let them know that he may not be in a state to meet with them he may be by the time they come to see him he may be in isolation or he may be under medical watch or he may be being force fed by that time and may not be able to meet with them and he wanted me to take that message to them simply why this discrepancy still between what some of our sources are telling us is up to one hundred hunger strikers and what the authorities are saying is less than forty what about discrepancies still. you know when i first got there the media was only reporting last monday when i first got to guantanamo the government actually was only reporting about thirty one hunger strikers by the time i left

kuantan in milan friday they were actually reporting a number of up to thirty seven when i spoke with my client directly who is housed in camp six where the majority of the men are he said pretty much every single of the about one hundred twenty one hundred thirty men in camp six were hunger striking with the exception of the more older and. more israel more weak people individuals who would not be able to hunger strike and i think that the discrepancies are just due to what the department of defense classifies as a hunger strike and when they begin to count you know the missed meals that can now qualify someone to be a hunger striker and it's semantics it's the numbers on you know when does the government decide they want to start counting someone as a striker and when i mean is this brinkmanship how long is it going to tell you how long do you estimate it's going to take before maybe someone dies who's going to blink first or the hunger strike is maybe going to back off is the government going

to do anything what's going to happen next. well you know the from you know my meetings with mike with my client last week and his conversations with other straight you know other detainees and prisoners who are also on strike they are prepared to stand up for the principles of not having their religious practices disrespected not having the qur'an desecrated and now it's become an even bigger message that they want to deliver which is that they have been now detained since you know two thousand too many of them mike i and for eleven years now since two thousand and two some of them are cleared for release have been declared in a sense by the united states however the u.s. refuses to transfer them and the congress refuses to provide funds for that the obama administration has closed the office that it had set up in the state department to study the closure of guantanamo and carry that out and it hasn't

happened and so this has gone beyond the desecration of the qur'an the disrespect of their religion and they're now also protesting the worsening conditions as these prison officials are essentially retaliating against them and trying to end the strike by making conditions harsher and the detainees have been enduring all of this and plan to continue to do so from cindy crucially you know we have we're talking one about fifteen seconds i'm so sore we're talking about it who is listening who else is listening one holding the sound of a listening i'm hoping that your viewers are listening i'm hoping that the world is listening. other many human rights groups are starting to become active and i was i was meeting with my client i let him know that at least now we've heard from the secretary the press secretary for the obama administration who said that obama the president obama is actually listening now as well and closely monitoring the situation and so we're hoping we're hopeful that this hunger strike will end soon

and that the u.s. at dorothy's will see that request of the detainees are very simple voicing to put on the line from los angeles thank you so much for talking to prefer that we thank you so much. coming up israeli troops are getting in trouble for showing off her military maneuvers as you're about to say some fancy footwork like this from the i.d.f. finest isn't going to down to work with the top brass there jailing soldiers now for these dancing videos but it's the general's moves that could backfire or that soon and the revelations in britain the broke forests better results the russian tycoon was due for a massive cash payout just before his death last weekend where that money was going to come from with us next. wealthy british style.

market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r g. international airport in the very heart of moscow.

logan self next old russian tycoon boris berezovsky was in line for a three hundred million dollar pay day shortly before his death that's according to british newspaper reports just over a week after he was found dead in his mansion in england the details now the. 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 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 under 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. 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 the most there's some sort of intriguing facts to this we had a report of a record interview that he did live a journalist the day before he died in which he spake it about losing hope in his life and 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 to i think tally up all the evidence right now.

sarah first reporting the check in a couple stories online r.t. dot com our web site china's economy running rampant in the boom is taking its toll partly on the nation's waterways is a big need for water but there's are an awful big report suggesting the real number of rivers in china is less than half what paging system a thing we got to count on our website also to the u.k. bedroom tax so being sort of about the u.k. at the moment while hard pressed brits take relate as well for squeeze lying down he said r.t. dot com. leaders of the world's biggest emerging economies the so-called brics of agreed to enter formal talks on creating a joint development bank which could potentially rival the world bank and the international monetary fund r.t.g. corpus cannot be following that the block fifth annual summit that was in south africa. 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 currency wars or the possible negative consequences of the change of the dollar of war the u.s. also the five leaders of the world alternately able to agree on this we know of a joint development bank possibly with a starter capital of around fifty billion u.s. 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 their. 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. afghan president hamid karzai is in catarrh hoping to start peace talks with the taliban the group's opening a political office in the capital for refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet washington's pushing both sides to the negotiating table with a looming handover deadline of the end of twenty fourteen of course but security analyst partly told me things wrangles do american afghan government make any success at peace talks a tall order. informal contacts have been taking place in your heart for the last couple of years but then those informal talks did break down for two

reasons accuse the americans are being shaky and vague. they wanted an exchange of prisoners president obama didn't want to have anything to do with any exchange of prisoners because of merely congressional pressure but also outside the congress from his opponents and secondly president karzai himself suspect that he was being sidelined because the americans were in direct touch. mr he is with. under president of the americans have openly accused president karzai of being incompetent and corrupt so there's no love lost between president karzai and the americans and president karzai doesn't want to be undermined by external forces sometimes what song line can cross the line this way the military is cracking down on soldiers who show off after some posted dance videos on the web

which quickly went viral but you saw the i.d.f. stance could backfire now and limit the government's ability to use social media as a p.r. still is a sliver the story. offensive and damaging or better fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a style posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit should 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 deal with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this soldier 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 ever courage 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 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. innocent person is an abuse of power and i think this is that it's thinks in the. deal 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 could have you have to remember that soldiers are. kids. adventure they're just they're just kids that missive the receiver of power just for them just for fun is not shooting the kid is 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 futile 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 pretends to be undermined one place at a time. for the sphere r.t. to tel aviv. or next where barcelona with our latest technology update for the latest gadgets on offer the mobile world congress so after the break enjoy.

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 the adult religions do change over time but how can you expect the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in a charred walls of the damned for certain sins just now say well i guess those sins are ok if you are catholic and you want your religion to change constantly then why do you believe in it why bother having principles and rules in the first place supposedly given to you by the almighty if you're just going to change them whenever you feel like it i don't get this but that's just my opinion.

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hello and welcome to technology much as christopher columbus served the queen and king of spain by pushing the boundaries of the known world we have come to barcelona to serve you well the team and i may not have discovered uncharted lands we have found a handful of innovations that stretch the limits of mobile technology it's that time of year again when the whole community descends on the catalonian capital while the annual gathering has been happening for more than a quarter century organizers build this mobile world congress as bigger and better than ever having moved into a newer and more spacious center is a one stop shop for just about everything in personal size tech with one exception all the industry's big players who are there hoping to investors and gadget guru so like so apple staying away as it traditionally does samsung was able to bask in the knowledge that it was far and away the biggest fish in the pond with an eye on keeping its share of the android based the no one.