tipped off had to be the tax man claimed wealthy account holder. managed to avoid strict capital controls and. sixty percent of. the american rebel were u.s. army veterans charged with finding alongside syrian terrorists even as washington continues to support the uprising. and on the brink of conflict the united states will send long to just using war games with salt while the north of beefs up its border missiles after declaring a state. they're

watching r t live from moscow with me say it's good to have your company. not everyone in cyprus is having their money held to ransom its claimed wealthy clients were tipped off before the announcement that up to sixty percent of the catch would be tapped millions of euros ah believed to have been transferred from the country while the shutters came down for everyone else no sunshades dog will also say this in order to prevent a run on the banks the government's limited among other things daily cash withdrawals and money transfer is i'll find my previous message the mounds of capital have still reportedly found their way out though the official investigation into the sun his question though will now be widened to the get one hundred thirty companies and individuals who may have jumped ship but political economy provides andrea that the often is a says people's trust in the eurozone has already been undermined. it is true that we have seen the reports about. copy that allowed flows that would be full

investigation but in addition you could only write he's already cyprus he's having major political crises as well the credibility of the system is a very low level at this point some political parties are trying to take advantage at the same time it is true that have been acts that have made people very suspicious the kids have shadows of the universal and if you listen to the troika and these policies certainly we make a good recession into depression was not the bailout it was a collective punishment you know the amount of money that cyprus required to cut out loud and more gradual approach to addressing economic structure problems we we did these policies not only disapprove financial system has suffered a serious blow but the economy as well and i have no doubt that these we have all shown to follow the fact all day you do not see cold already you know people

outside cyprus out of indicating confidence in the euro and the universe has declined and i don't think that this will be the end of it. later today you can watch archie's interview with former austrian chance while walking sure still he believes the cyprus could have avoided its crisis but failed to take action. the country see a real point in the one voice europe point two percent of the g.d.p. of the eurozone but the problem was his eight times more turnover were by lindsay would be a balances or pain compared to be cheap peace or eight times more of this is absolutely unsustainable it ever but if you would within the european union people where were the mass media newspapers where all the time complaining something must be done so nobody should be surprised government not one but the previous

government led by a former columnist who should have done much earlier the reduction of the size of the financial sector i mean this is you cannot have such a huge financial sector as a jude banks. and you can see the four interview here on our tea at six forty five at this evening. a former u.s. soldier faces life in prison for fighting alongside islamic extremists in syria the f.b.i. has charge erica reno with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction but although the u.s. considers the group that he fought for the front to be terrorists washington continues to beef up its support for the syrians insurgency as you can report. a u.s. army veteran eric karun posted the speed you're online while fighting with the rebels

in syria he shot a day out oh it was just foolish of us out there karoon is drawing the kind of linked group gentlemen start the only rebel groups in syria that the u.s. says there's ignited this terrorist while in syria erik actively posted photos and videos of himself holding various weapons spraying about the rebels latest attacks and calling himself a freedom fighter for sure all of your days are numbered you're going to die no matter what where you go we will find you and kill you upon arrival in the u.s. he was arrested and charged with illegally using a rocket propelled grenade on behalf of the all kind of group according to court documents eric told the f.b.i. that quote he hated it he did not know any al qaeda members and would fight any regime if it impose sharia law in syria end of quote but in an interview with a journalist before he was arrested eric responded to a question about fighting alongside terrorists is syria by saying quote the us

plays both sides to end of quote harry truman had never served overseas during his brief time with the u.s. military before heading for syria he had a quiet job with a mortgage company in phoenix arizona worlds away from the wars of the middle east i spoke with and speckhard a leading expert on terror psychology on why westerners end up in the ranks of terrorists some people over here and in canada i was just up in canada talking to are going over to syria to to be. join freedom fighters son they really believe they're there fighting for freedom but they get there and it's a chaotic situation. may be looking a factor and once you're in a chaotic war torn environment your emotions are. scared and you may just affiliate with a group that you might not otherwise have affiliated with the official message that

these are freedom fighters and they need to help you in some way it just confuses them even more than it's really about some really good point because you know we are calling this a fight for freedom we are speaking about it on the media that it's freedom fighting so when someone feels strongly about it and wants to go and how. are we to blame them. but then when they get over they're afraid joy in the group that's been designated as a terrorist group it's confucian probably and we need to get straight on that we need to decide exactly what we're going to do about syria i think that we have a very confused response ourselves as a government right now since the start of the arab spring the u.s. media has finally dream freedom fighter featuring stories with the likes of mass event don't ask an american who first fought with libyan rebels and then switched to syria i fought in the war in libya in two thousand and eleven and i saw the effects of what we accomplished and i want syrian stafford as well in recent months

the obama administration has tried to publicly distance itself from radical islamists fighting among the syrian rebels by saying washington supports the more moderate forces among the opposition. but on the ground in syria in the middle of a bloody civil war that line is blurred many of those in the syrian opposition who washington supports welcome the efforts of radical groups like on the street while politicians argue about who is a terrorist then who is a freedom fighter go or who is a terrorist that can be useful now and dealt with later. young westerners like erik or me find themselves confused about what they're fighting for in a place like syria in washington i'm going to check out. lawyers representing guantanamo bay detainees and say several of the clients are live their lives are now in danger as them as hunger strike at the camp means two month a mock part of the u.s. military continues to deny reports that more than one hundred captives are starving

themselves officials claim only thirty seven detainees are refusing all of the embedded eleven on the force that inmates and launched their hunger strike to draw attention to their prolonged detainment without trial and inhumane treatment including intrusive searches the white house insists that it's committed to shutting down of the prison but the military says congress has decided to keep guantanamo open indefinitely early on my colleague have and i went and spoke with lawyer who recently visited a pint at the notorious facility. 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 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 see him he may be a a nice. lation 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 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 strikers might begin to back off is the government going to do anything what's going to mix 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 paired 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 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 is 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. hit it out he would bring you the full story of the guantanamo hunger strike and the issue that the mainstream media prefer to ignore we've got interviews analysis and up to date reports on the web site and out to. show until now i'd see a draconian well fake codd comes into force in the u.k. that will feel some of the country's foreign big benefits refuse to be deemed to be taking up too much space in social housing. and a room on the moon that details all russia's plans to make that happen the whole space of the tree on its findings that's in a couple of minutes. dangerous

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching r t the military standoff on the korean peninsula is intensifying the united states has sent several f. twenty two seals fighter jets to south korea to join a military exercise this lame that's infuriated the north which says it's now in a state of war with all along with the military drills over the border the regime

in pyongyang has been angered by the latest round of you when sank just over its nuclear test carried out in february the communist regime has put its missile units on standby and says it's ready. body u.s. bases in the region but south korea has warned it whole retaliate quickly if the north launches any attack on his territory independent journalist james covered things that washington is trying to benefit financially from the volatile situation but is playing a dangerous game i think that the most likely scenario here would be some sort of the wonder or misinterpretation on one side or the other because everything is on the knife edge as as i've said before i think that really the all of the players here have a vested interest in keeping the tension up but not allowing it to spill you anywhere and i think that obviously works for north korea which could be easily wiped out in a military confrontation but it also works for south korea and america and all of

the allies here in this region that are that also serve to benefit from this and we've seen this directly for example with the announcement of more missile defense on the western coast of the united states that there are now going to be fourteen new ground based interceptors deployed at fort greely alaska at a cost u.s. taxpayers a one billion dollars by two thousand and seventeen so this is this is doing a fantastic business for the defense contractors who serve to to to feed into this tension and play off of it so i don't i think that honestly there isn't a lot of plans for preemptive strikes at this moment i think it's more a question of if this will accidentally spill over into something more. and if you want to tell us what you think behind the korean standoff had to be dot com now they almost. did the situation on the us claiming it's trying to stabilize the region so if you believe it's a woman who is trying to be at home it's like if you expect that the tensions to

spill over into you and all conflict and a minority had only thirteen then to think all this is just pyongyang's way of demanding a. way you can. if they build schools day at a tech the deaths just coming to force in the u.k. is no laughing matter so cold bedroom tax social housing tenants have their benefits less if they have a spare room neil gibson from the sheffield council says the government is crushing

most in need of help two million households across the u.k. are going to be directly affected by these taxes they're the poorest people in this country this government this tory government is attacking the poorest people on the people who can't afford to pay and they're not people are not working they're up to most of these people affected are people who are working but in very low paid jobs and they need these benefits to help them survive and get by where i am in sheffield we have hundreds of disabled people who are going to be directly affected by the seas people can't work they're physically disabled through no fault of their own they survive on benefits of very low benefits and not they're expected to have to pay for an extra room in their house that they need for their carers to stay in or they need to because they've got children that don't live with them or for whatever reason they're the people most affected seventy five percent of the people affected by this are working people i think is the most devastating thing this

government has ever done anything the week that they're giving one hundred hours about a pound back to millionaires changing the national health service or imposing taxes on the poorest people in the country is going to have a devastating effect to most people in this country. some of the world news in brief for this hour in mali the national military backed by french intervention forces is fighting an islamist resurgence in the country's north rather the rebel fighters have a series of attacks on the city of. despite the renewed violence france still plans to start withdrawing its change for mali later this month meanwhile paris has stepped up security measures at home carrying reprisal attacks from extremists. a powerful blast heard a government compound in the iraqi city of tikrit killing at least nine people and wounding many more most of the casualties among the police insurgents are stopped a fuel tanker just outside

a police administration building and blew it up causing heavy damage in the area terror attacks are frequently in iraq where sunni militants have been fighting to undermine the shia led government in germany when it looks like people are getting tired of handing out cash to help others only this time it's not about foreign bailouts is over helping fellow germans two decades since reunification divisions remain when it came to the prosperous west helping the once a struggling east as peter oliver found out over the past twenty years states in the east of germany have received billions of euro in taxpayer money to help with development have to redo the k. should now those paying the taxes here in the western part of germany say they're sick of paying too much for too long and. it's time to finish this up we need this money more than. we do you know this is good enough is enough i know many of these

that are doing very well connected and it's time this test was scrapped. come of the it's been twenty years too long now working people living in worse conditions can't continue to pay for the east we gave him a future now this must stop. formally the region was home to germany's now pretty much defunct coal mining industry now the main cities in the us area face mounting debts as they struggle to live up to their commitments as part of the solidarity pact which sends money to the east in a statement given to r.t. the lord mayor don't mint says the practice of taking loans to pay their way could have dire consequences those cities that have high debts will soon be unable to borrow in order to remain part of the solidarity pact either that or conditions imposed will be so severe as to propel them faster towards bankruptcy the solidarity pact will remain in force until twenty nineteen by which time the west

will have contributed hundreds of billions of euros with the major cities in the region sinking further into the red those in the west of germany are suggesting that it's time for the east to help them out here right now we should be at the front of the line when it comes to financial help from the state now that offer like this money needs to be spent in the best interest of the german people gifted today there are cities that need a need. for an os my generation can't be expected to pay for decisions made by the previous generation of its own. voters look now in these two groups much better and i just go and have a look at how bad it is around the it will be thought it's like a pig style whereas the honestly has been lately and you don't have to go far to see the effect city debt is having on daily life here in the west local councils can't even afford to keep public swimming pools open while the continued use of taxpayer cash in the east is testing just how solid the germans feel the solidarity

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the movie about international and war in the very heart of moscow. hello welcome to the r t sports show with me kate partridge and here's a taste of what's coming up. on the raw is defending champions and he could be tax free neal to go second in the russian premier league. while finding that form fabio capello may keep a games on beating in charge of russia off a one one draw with brazil. and all russian course has gone before while madrid to play top of their group but could face neighbors him in the euro league playoffs. but let's kick off with the russian premier league advertize

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