today's news in a 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 depositors losing up to sixty percent of their cash and saddle the nation with rigid capital controls. also rising powers the first 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 guantanamo bay detainees have been on a hunger strike for nearly two months now say they're ready to go all the way. hello this is r t kevin i wanted tonight with a round of the big new stories from us from the past seven days and first as we

just heard avoiding bankruptcies come at a steep price for cyprus while the wealthiest savers face losing up to sixty percent of their deposits ordinary residents of also been subjected to unprecedented capital controls daily cash withdrawals are limited to three hundred euros per person per bank no checks could be cashed payments and transfers outside cyprus a limited to five thousand euros a month and those traveling abroad won't be able to take more than a thousand euros with the restrictions of an imposed two for an indefinite period and is tested a similar found out families are already feeling the pinch. like many in cyprus later need this as greta says simply stunned at the speed and manner with which the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet no cash only lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for a sick mother 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 for the people in the young and the old. suddenly you hear of the economy of your country or 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 of nicosia cyprus another protest though this one in particular is a gathering of the police of the country's largest lender the bank of cyprus but they worry that the company is headed for collapse of eventually lose their jobs and many cypriots told me that they are well aware that this is just the beginning of a long hard road i believe that. europe is germany's coach

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 she is part of your peer european union system files and for. paying the money through the european union to help. the other two countries you may embarrass i. know but there is. a problem or it's because you know economy or something else as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing a painful measures to execute the eurozone i.m.f. back to bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be

bearing the brunt need this 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 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. nicosia cyprus. and. a wave of protests throughout the week with people venting their frustration over the controversial deal show mcgruff who runs the wide awake news website believes deep public anger in cyprus could escalate into violence. the european stability mechanism was set up a lot of people myself included were talking about it almost two years ago that it is global it is financial governance over europe i don't think they care what the citizens of europe the five and i mean people of european continent feel about how this crisis or these crises are being handled it is governed by crisis to the

extent extreme you know they were polite and said we're going to get you early on in this crisis for five years ago now they're making a very bold statement they're not asking any more they're just going to take it if someone's trying to rob you then it would make sense that it could certainly lead to violence i mean that is the ultimate outcome if somebody is trying to get access what is theirs you know their money so they can put food on their table and they're being told no you can only take out three in a time where you can't transfer around the to your friends or family around the world if you go on vacation you know take three thousand dollars i could certainly see in tempers flare well we'll be covering it if it happens meantime financial experts warn that the cypriot the way for similar scheme is being applied to other debt countries you invite over the editor in chief of trends magazine he says the tough capital controls now in place are setting a dangerous president. we've walked away from the bail out scenario to the bail in scenario and go in there you go first of all to the shareholders of the banks and

then the insured deposit all this and it's first tried out and i know here in cyprus you also have installed now capital control mechanisms which are indeed totally new in this situation they are contradictory to the very principles of monetary union and when they last only for a few weeks well we'll have to wait and see what happened then if there last longer and really the chances are much larger that there will have to be kept intact over a much longer period then a few weeks then the ballgame changes then we have a new situation and we will have just to wait how markets how bond all those i'll deposit all those are we investors react to the fact that one country becomes an isolated country within the euro zone in fact creating two separate euros.

while the repercussions of the cypriot belo deal is being debated right now r.t. dot com that's where we are asking you what you make of this mass seizure of firms from large cypriot depositors taking part if you have let's take a look where the majority of you. you've pretty much been between sixty sixty three percent say the bailout will become quote a model for future confiscations this is just less than a quarter of you expect the stampede on bank runs now across the european you you think it's going to spill nine percent convinced the decision could be overturned by public opposition optimistic one percent of you while the remaining few again optimistic may be telling us the deal will be one off because it's just been too unpopular that's been hovering a red about five percent all night so plenty of time to have your say w w w r t dot com is the place to do it.

take some time out about getting in the way lawyers from guantanamo bay detainees say some of their clients are preparing to die as the mass hunger strike of the facility is the two month mark now but the u.s. military claims only thirty seven captives are refusing all food and continues to deny claims that indeed it's actually more than one hundred detainees starving themselves to death in protest against mistreatment and indefinite detention well human rights groups are mounting their outcry at the crisis urging officials to take decisive action this is what i must internationals go to say well as far as calling guantanamo an american gulag it says the facility has brought pain and suffering instead of justice that's now mostly quote the white house is insisting

that it's monitoring the situation it remains committed to closing guantanamo but the pentagon now the twist here wants to renovate the facility saying congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely that that leaves the detainees in limbo and desperate to draw international attention to their plight just a little earlier it's not to talk to a lawyer cindy put newco she's recently visited her hunger strike inclined in guantanamo bay let's hear what she had to say to me then. i met with him from tuesday through thursday every day and when i first met with him on tuesday i was extremely 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 one of you is a hearing i was told where there's maybe

a high 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 counsel 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 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 really not be able to meet with them and he wanted me to take that message to them 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 of the hunger strike is maybe going to back off is the government going to do anything what's going to. well you know the from you know my meetings with mike with my client last week and his conversations with other strike 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 are 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. it was cindy palooka one of the lawyers there one of those at the time he's talking a bit earlier on. coming up on the program a little bit later israeli troops getting in trouble for showing off the military maneuver saying look at this fantasy this from the i.d.f. fighters isn't going to. pleasure it is the jailing soldiers for the dancing videos but it's a general move that could backfire more about that in a bit the. revelations in britain that broke russian tycoon boris berezovsky was jus for a massive cash payout before his death last weekend when that money was coming from with us just a few minutes from now. the

international airport in the very heart of moscow.

self exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky was in line for a three hundred million dollar payday shortly before his death as according to a british newspaper report just over a week after his found dead in his mansion in england the details now from r.t. sara first. 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 taber two thousand and twelve and march two thousand and thirteen own family with the aim of providing him 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 court 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 not just of him and financial pressure but psychological pressure as well and the police at the inquest that was a friend on wednesday said that the cause of death was consistent with hanging the parts 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 live a journalist the day before he died and which he spake in 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 i think tally up all the evidence right now sort

of slow if you use a shady power broker alongside the russian government or the ninety's brzezinski fled multiple fraud charges by moving to london from where he still tried to pull political strings talk to dharma go live the president explode in russia never believed he'd lose hold of. i don't think that there's much doubt that you know barry's ascii thought was somebody that he could control but he would you know let's previous financial dealings he water under the bridge and of course president putin said no he stood up to the oligarchs when it was first elected him this was the reason that. russia a number of mr very softly friend and confidant have come forward and said that it's very depressed and had lost meaning over the past couple of days we do have to remember that he had just lost an extremely high profile legal case which not only with the financial cost that british judge had attention we called him a liar on record i mean this was a broken in defeated man more than

a lot of course r.t. dot com one of the chinese economy running rampant the boom has taken its toll on the nation's waterways we tell you about that online tonight taking a lot of water a report suggesting in fact the real number of rivers in china is less than a cough what paging estimates go to count on the way online to check it out it's interesting breed plus to the u.k.'s planned bedroom tax big story the u.k. now why are hard pressed brits won't take the latest as well for squeeze lying down tales from. the leaders of the world's biggest emerging economies the so-called brics have agreed to enter formal talks about creating a joint development bank which could potentially rival the world bank and the international monetary fund piskun offspring following the blocks fifth annual summit in south africa. i believe years of all five bricks member states were very optimistic in terms of the future of the organization the 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 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 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 as 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 on these issues have also been discussed including of course the conflict in syria and it times reporter pepe escobar told us he believes the emergence of a new global lender will become a serious game changer on the global economic scene this alternatives to the world bank and the i.m.f. some socially essential this is the big deal and of the bricks and woods system and if you think it should be supported by their next rick's list mexico indonesia south korea turkey and the next mists as well this is you know that stick don't make plates of geopolitics and joy comics are changing it's not atlanticist anymore it's the merchants of reemergence finally of the south miss being spread by

western guard media that china is the new colonialists the power in africa scoop letelier ridiculous. next a smalling afghan president hamid karzai is in catarrh hoping to start peace talks with the taliban groups opening a political office in the capital doha but has so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet washington's pushing both sides though to the negotiating table with the looming handover deadline at the end of twenty four tape i spoke to security analyst impact the path he thinks wrangles that in america and the afghan government make any success of peace talks though a tall order informal contacts have been taking place in doha for the last couple of years but then those informal talks did break down for two reasons accuse the americans of 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 mainly 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. 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. israeli soldiers clash with palestinian demonstrators on saturday at a rally marking an event known as the land day protestors at the west bank border crossing all rocks at troops we 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 rest is now remember it's a major flashpoint in arab israeli relations are to talk to palestinian legislator stuff about gucci who believes his people can use the united nations as a lever to fight cause taters of the occupied that it is don't as the disputed territory but status of palestinian state this would mean a lot if we the palestinians if the palestinian officials proceeds with implementing more actions within the e.u. and systems including going 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 diva 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 of 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 the palestinians 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 look at ago almost half of the land by the you have a solution yet nothing has happened mainly because there 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. disputed land isn't the only problem facing israeli authorities the country's military is cracking down on misbehaving soldiers as you're about to find that a group of servicemen posted a series of dance videos on the web that quickly went viral but some fear the idea of stance could backfire and limit the government's ability to use social media as

a p.r. tool in future is out his policy with a story offensive and damaging or better find 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. which the mesh 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 will jerk off to next in a military prison. while after posting these pictures on his facebook profile this infantry fighter was brought to book for peace of power and misuse of army weaponry . these soldiers turned a 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

craig under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which is that in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f. soldier would would would before 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 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 that it stinks in the. gear 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. are ventured of just there are just kids that miss through the receiver of power because just for them to just run 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 i.d.f. social media guru boasted his unit had beaten the enemy suffered drug claimed foreign media asked more questions about the idea of twitter activity than about the army's bombings in gaza. but with ordinary soldiers start using the same platforms all that positive public diplomacy threatens to be undermined one click at a time. all this fear r t tel aviv. coming up tonight there's a push towards d.-day for drones flying in american skies in a few minutes on our to your local governments are fighting the initiative to allow unmanned flying patrols over the land of the free but they too late trying find out so also as well after more warmings killed nineteen people in iraq on friday we asked why sectarian tensions are surging in a country desperately trying to get its security in shape.

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