in the very heart of moscow. tips off of the to be to the tax man it's claimed a wealthy account holders in cyprus medicine avoid strict capital controls and grab their cash before the planet sixty percent of their money. the american rebel a us army veteran charged with pointing alongside syrian terrorists even as a washington continues to support the uprising the. and on the brink of conflicts the united states or sons fighter jets to be used in more games with south korea while the north of ease up its border missiles after declaring a state of. oh . it's seven pm here in moscow you're live with us on r.t.

for more international news analysis and reports. not everyone in cyprus is having their money held to ransom as claimed wealthy clients were tipped off before the announcement that up to sixty percent of the cash would be tapped millions of euros are believed to have been transferred from the country while the shutters came down for everyone else no such a hit stock fell out of the save this in order to prevent a rung on the banks the goldmans unlimited among other things daily cash withdrawals and money transfers outside cyprus massive amounts of capital have still reportedly found their way out the official investigation into the fine print crash will now be why didn't she look at one hundred thirty companies and individuals who may have jumped ship but it's political economy because then the way is open the often is a says that people's trust in the eurozone has already been undermined. through that we have seen the reports about. capital outflows there would be

a full investigation but in addition to the economy crises already cyprus is 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 of the same time it is true that there have been acts that have made people very suspicious the kids have shadows of the universal in diffuser give the troika and these policies certainly we make good recession into depression it was not a bailout it was a collective punishment you know the amount of money that cyprus required to come out loud and more gradual approach to addressing economic structure problems we did these policies not only discipline 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shown to follow the fact all day you do not quote already you know people outside cyprus out of indicating confidence in the euro and the universe has declined and i don't think that this will be the end of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 artie's interview with former austrian chancellor wolfgang should sell he believes those libraries could have avoided this crisis but failed to take action. to become three zero point one voice europe point two percent of the g.d.p. of the eurozone but the problem was cyprus is eight times newer to an overall we're buying into the balances thing compared to get you to pieces it's times more that this is absolutely unsustainable it ever but if you would within the european union the people where we have to be the mass media the newspapers where all the time complaining that something must be done to the

british would be surprise to a person government not to be swung by the previous government led by a former communist who should have done much earlier the reduction of the size of the financial sector i mean this is unbearable you cannot have such a huge financial sector as a judes banks. and you can see the full interview here on r.t. it is six forty five this evening at g.m.t. . of all u.s. soldier faces life in prison for fighting alongside islamic extremists in syria the f.b.i. has charged eric arena with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction but although the u.s. considers the group thirty four for the al nusra front to be terrorist one should do now continues to beef up its support for the syrian insurgency as artie's gannett you can report. west army veteran eric karun posted the speed on line while

fighting with the rebels in syria they shot a. foolish out of the south eric karun has joined the kind of linked group gentlemen start your only rebel group in syria that the us is that ignited this terrorists while in syria eric actively posted photos and videos of himself holding various weapons bragging about the rebels latest attacks and calling himself a freedom fighter who shows 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 al qaeda affiliated group according to court documents eric told the f.b.i. that quote he hated al qaeda 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 in syria by saying quote the u.s.

plays both sides to end of quote very karun 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 walls of the middle east i spoke with and speck heard a leading expert on terror psychology on why westerners end up in the ranks of terrorists you know some people over here and in canada i was just up in canada talking about are going over to syria to be to join freedom fighters son they really believe that they're fighting for freedom but they get there and it's a chaotic situation. may be looking affective and once you're in a chaotic war torn environment your emotions are on a heightened scared and you may just affiliate with a group that you might not otherwise have affiliated. the official message that

these are freedom fighters and they need to be helped in some way it just confuses them even more about a really good point because. 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 wants to go and how. are we to blame. but then when they get over they're afraid joy in a group that's been designated as a terrorist group it's confucian probably. 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 and the government right now since the start of the arab spring the us media has finally freedom fund featuring stories with the likes of mass an american who first fought with libyan rebels and then switched to syria when i fall in the war in libya in two thousand and eleven and i saw the effects of what we accomplished and i want syrians to have freedom 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 welcomed the efforts of radical groups like on the street while politicians argue about who is a terrorist than who is a freedom fighter or who is a terrorist that can be useful now and dealt with later young westerners like eric may find themselves confused about what they're fighting for in a place like syria in washington i'm going to check out. the lawyers representing guantanamo bay detainees as several of their clients lives on now in danger as the miss hunger strike at the camp needs the two month mark but the u.s. military continues to deny reports that more than one hundred. starving themselves

officials claim only thirty seven detainees are refusing all food and their eleven are being force fed inmates launched the hunger strike to draw attention to their prolonged detainment without trial and inhumane treatment including intrusive searches the white house and says that it's committed to shutting down the prison but the military says the congress has decided to keep kuantan i'm open indefinitely earlier my colleague avenue and speak with their lawyers cindy they recently visited our client at the notorious passivity. 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 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 really not be able to meet with them and he wanted me to take that message to them is this pretty good ship 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. 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 michael 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. here at our t. we're bringing you the full story all the hunger. an issue that the mainstream media priss two week now we've got interviews and medicines and up to date reports on our website and. see a draconian comes into force in the u.k. that was some of the country's poorest benefits reduced to what they deemed to be taking up too much space in social housing. and a room on the moon a details of russia's and bush's plans to make a habitable space observe in its shining sets a lot that's in a couple of minutes. old

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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 still flying to gesture south korea to join military exercises lee that's inferior to the north which says it's now in a state of war with all along with the military drills over the border resuming from gang has been angered by the latest round of u.n. sanctions over its nuclear test carried out in february the communist regime has put its missile units on standby and says it's ready to bomb body u.s. bases in the region but south korea has warned it will retaliate quickly if the

north launches the any attack on its territory independent journalist james carville things washington is trying to benefit of financially from the volatile situation but is playing a dangerous game. i think that the most likely scenario here would be some sort of blunder 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 over and i think that obviously works for north korea which could be easily wiped out in a 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 to head to our g dot com so far he is how most of you almost voted to blame the situation on the u.s. claiming it's trying to destabilize the region a sense of you believe it's you know who is trying to build a power base at home. to send to say they expect the tensions. and conflict in just about thirteen percent i'm saying that all of this is just a way of demanding a dot com is where you can tell us what you think. it's

april fool's day but attacks so that's just come into force in the u.k. is no law. the so-called bedroom tax will see social housing tenants have their benefits slashed if they have a spare room neil gibson. says the government is crushing those who are 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 there are 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 this these people can't work they're physically disabled through no fault of their own they survive on benefits of very low benefits and now 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 in 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 in mali of

a national military went by french intervention forces if fighting an islamist insurgency in the country and all rebel fighters have launched a series of attacks on the city of let's now get some reaction from former diplomat mohammad hassan mr mohammad. despite the renewed why lives up front still plans to start withdrawing its troops from mali the month when do you think we'll see a complete pullout. well. because the french are themselves but standing of the situation in mali this is a division of africa again it is a scramble of of africa for the second time mali is the fourth biggest african country the situation in mali was not lifted that millions are to solve their own problem in fact what is funny of this intervention is that the french cover intervening in mali this is they say that it is for defending the civility of mali

since when is that the french imperialist have defended the seventy three of any african country of the only country who have been intervening in africa for the last three four decades by destroying the stability of the nations and creating a problem for these relations in fact the million people they were not allowed in the palin and political forces are not allowed to solve their own problem million million problem the intervention from outside it is because of the position of france and u.k. is declining in the continent the destruction of the colon in marmora gadhafi is government and a lot of two arctics one had been in the army they have came into mali and a lot of weapons have been brought in in the smuggled inside mali in mali the problem between the nose in the cells it is not a new problem it had been since the independence in fact in one thousand six to one there was even an attempt a coup against the progressive government of mali why the international community doesn't allow the millions to solve their own problems but the millionaire now is

the range. of the friends to come it is how the mali uneasily the government of mali who have asked the mali and people didn't ask for intervention the million people they wanted to solve the problem. on the table among the millions this is in fact creating a contradiction in television is that you create a contradiction and finally you try to solve it in order to manage this is a management of crisis ok so what that means. behind there is intervention what were the french do when they meant interval the french are defending their own interest as you know that doesn't come continent is the world's just continent if it is inhabited by the pulpit by poor people we know that it is the trade between africa and china is increasing and also the brics country increasing and you know that it is france's now is declining declining its became the third trading partner in africa and united states to the place to france and became the second as you know that it is even united states have put in its military base is and it's called

mean nujood you know that seventy five percent of the french a little city is used to the nuclear and most of the raw materials is coming from new jersey the main purpose is that it is france will supply the position whole position there. she thinks that it is she will be dislocated from just a continent and it is in fact is in a scramble after ok there's a real continental i know does it africa is a rich continent in so many ways but it doesn't seem to have control over it in a day dealings hands asking for foreigners to come in and. out of government. you don't control you cannot control your own national resources and was by having a puppet government have been put in by external forces there is no national discussion in mali and there was no possibility was allowed for the mali and so to discuss as far as the problem between the north in the cells that had existed the

mali is the for the biggest country in africa it has an immense wells and the french when they want to do that is to dominate the area and to put their own position here in the coming for the coming decades the brics countries brazil and once a day india and china trade is increasing china is the fastest africa is the fastest growing continent and now is more than five point six percent. in a year after year and the myth of the midget. it is dirty it is with china and the looters who just wanted to move to the worlds of africa as usual as they did it in the past punishing the overthrown the government of libya illegally by not obama but of the month and putting into a miserable situation this is the same imperialist in television for discoverable of africa it has nothing to do with the right of self-determination of libya over. i wish i wish we had so i wish we had more time with you to continue with this composition but i hope we will get you to come on the show once again thank you so

much for your insight and your views on this subject mr mohammad had some ethiopian diplomat speaking to us like. in germany it looks like people are getting tired of handing out cash to help others only this time it's not about foreign bailout it's over helping fellow germans two decades since reunification divisions remain when it comes to prosperous the west helping the one struggling east speed all of us 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 after unification but 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 was let's time to finish this up we need this money more than them now. as it should know that if it's good enough is enough i know many of these that are doing very well

connected and often it's time this task of us grab a few this has been twenty years too long now working people living in worse conditions so we 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 of dortmund 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. right now we should be at the front in july and when it comes to financial help from the state in our little flock this money needs to be spent in the best interest of the german people gifted today there are cities that we paid so long. my generation can't be expected to pay for decisions made by the previous generation of its own. voters look now. so much better not just go and have a look at how bad it is around here bob it's like a pig's on this one is young likely and often though 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 feel the solidarity pact really is peter all over r.t.

the region germany. would like to fly to the man well save change because that game i'd have you could do that. almost half a century since neil armstrong's giant steps ended the race between the u.s. and u.s.s.r. to put a man on the moon earth's only natural satellite is once again in the spotlight while america has directed its attention to mars russia's central research. announced the launch of the relaunch of the lunar program according to the ambitious plan a russian space ship will fly to and. but this promises to be only the beginning and here is where it gets very interesting the next step. will be the construction over an observatory on the moon experts believe earth space rock is simply the perfect spot from which to research space so if this idea to be a success i expect a laboratory there to. the lab may soon be followed by

a helium mining shafts and if the moon really holds ice as scientists believe this could produce the water and oxygen which would make the earth's satellite inhabitable by humans. grocery stores and a hospital all this could be possible this would not be easy of course expect some competition from the u.s. and china but in five six decades flying to the moon and back would not be just a line in the song. right. you know in the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every continent and religious strife and oppression every culture has some skeletons in their closet and in recent u.s.

history the scandalous prison at guantanamo bay as making patriotic americans scurrying around a decade or so rather than slamming the door shut and get mo i hate that term condemning it as one of the greatest mistakes in american history and gloriously declaring on t.v. channels and newspapers the country wide that it shall never be repeated again the pentagon instead wants to blow another forty nine million dollars expanding it even if you are one of the types of things that american gulags are supercool and awesome do you realize it takes over one million dollars per year per prisoner to keep the place open are you sure you don't want that money to go towards something else like your children's education the thing that burns me up about this the most is that obama promised if elected to close guantanamo bay and as commander in chief of the armed forces he could do this whatever he wanted no amount of filibustering by the republicans could stop him obama you promised hundreds of millions of people to do something very simple start the paperwork to my.