and r.t. tonight the cleanup continues in a central u.s. suburb that's been swamped with oil after a ruptured pipe line same tons of crude flooding down the streets. also tipped off to be the tax man it's claimed wealthy account holders in cyprus managed to avoid strict capital controls and grab their cash before planned the swipe sixty percent of their money came into force. on the brink of conflict the united states sends fighter jets to be used military drills with south korea while the north beefs up its border missed cells after declaring a state of war. hello there kevin owen here tonight at r.t. in moscow it's just after nine pm we're going to get to that oil spill story in

just a bit catching up with our correspondents who are bring us up to date on what's happening but first cyprus is where we're focusing in on there not everyone is having their money held to ransom it appears it's claimed wealthy clients were tipped off before the announcement that up to sixty percent of their cash would be tapped millions of euros are believed to be transferred than from the country while the shutters came down for everyone else no such head start for the savers in order to prevent a run on the banks the government's unlimited among other things daily cash withdrawals and money transfers outside cyprus massive amounts of capital of still reportedly found their way out though the official investigation into the cyprus crash will now be widened to look at one hundred thirty companies and individuals who may have jumped ship but political economy professor undress thier panel says people's trust in the euro zone's already. is true we have seen the reports about. the loud flows that would be fully investigate. but in addition to the

economy grows he's already cyprus he's having a major political crisis as well the credibility of the system is a very low level of these points some political parties are trying to take advantage at the same time it is true the there have been acts of that have made people very suspicious the kids have shut out of the eurozone and if you listen to the troika and these policies certainly we make a good recession into a depression was not a bailout it was a collective punishment deal the amount of money that cyprus required to come out loud a more gradual approach to addressing the economy structural problems we did what we the 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 also followed the effect on the eurozone as a quote already you know people outside cyprus indicating confidence

in the euro and the universe has declined and i don't think that this will be the end of it. and i'll let you know the next hour we told a former austrian china's the wolfgang schussel he tells us that cyprus could have avoided this crisis but it failed to take the problem action. tiny country zero point one the worse year of point two percent of the g.d.p. of the eurozone but the problem was his eat times more turnover were buying into it would be a balances of pain compared to be cheap piece of times more of this is absolutely unsustainable it ever but if you would within the european union the people where we're the the mass media newspapers we are all the time complaining that something must be done should be surprised government not one but 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 you cannot have such a huge financial sectors a jewel beings. if not school already today's a lot of interesting stuff from out the full interview coming up the next hour on this channel r.t. moscow right in the state of arkansas right now a massive cleanup is taking place to tackle thousands of barrels of crude oil that have been cascading literally through a residential neighborhood it's after an exxon mobil pipeline sprung a leak last friday so that's concerning environmentalists and those evacuated from their homes of course is getting up there we've got a future counties in washington. how big of a mess is it when oil is awful the best of times it's a real mess to clean up bad for the environment what's the scale of what's happening here. well kevin the energy giant exxon is of course up in

arms trying to control the damage and they're not saying how much oil exactly spilled onto the streets of this neighborhood in arkansas but the company said they had so far picked up around twelve thousand barrels of oil and water and images of its streets flooded with oils there are very disturbing twenty two homes were evacuated but as bad as the leak was environmentalist say the aftermath of the aftermath could have been much worse there is a lake nearby and the crude luckily didn't get there the pipeline was carrying canadian have been crude to the south of the u.s. to the country's gulf coast refineries and this latest incident that has raised opposition among the environmentalist's to this new project the keystone x.l. pipeline which will carry eight hundred thousand barrels of crude print day just to compare the pipe that leaked in arkansas carries sixty six thousand barrels per day and it's not just environmentalist but the residents of the states that will be

involved there very very worried so the consequences so for leak could be devastating this keystone pipeline that is meant to carry is also meant to carry canadian heavy crude to u.s. refineries in the south and of course the companies involved are trying to defend it they say it will drive down fuel costs in the u.s. but people know from experience how devastating consequences of such as leaks are and how hard it is to clean up and this is certainly not the first incident just to give you a few examples in july two thousand and ten the most. pipeline ruptured spewed more than. twenty thousand barrels of canadian tar sands crude oil into the michigan waterway and on wednesday a train carrying canadian crude derailed in minnesota spilling fifteen thousand gallons of oil so people this makes people very very worried here. god if

you can thanks for the update work or course across it with your help we'll find out how those residents getting on i'm sure in the coming hours and thank you. lawyers representing guantanamo bay detainees say several of their clients lives now in danger as the mass hunger strike at the cabin is the two month mark but 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 food in the 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 insists it's committed to shutting down the prison but the military says congress has decided not to keep guantanamo indefinitely earlier spoke with seventy new cosies a lawyer who recently visited a client that tortures facility. i met with him for 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 whether it is media hype when we're talking about some of these guys being close to death this is what you've actually seen with your own eyes 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 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 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 the sent 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 get my lawyers cindy put newco speak to me but out there on the mountain media coverage of the hunger strikes hoping attract more public attention to the developing crisis hundreds of protested at the u.s. embassy in yemen over the plight of yemeni detainees at guantanamo let's get some details about this from auntie's we're going to bring up one of the demonstrators dividing being a good. well basically the demanding that they are compatriots be released from from the from gets mo and

actually so they could see some sort of justice be fallen upon their souls upon their fate of course they have stays a strike in front of the u.s. embassy as you have said more than two hundred people have shown up there calling for for the majority of those who are where actually confined and get mobile jordi of those inmates are actually from yemen and most of them have been there for more than a decade ever since the invasion of ganesan by the united states even the yemeni government itself has actually issued a request to the u.s. government asking it to send the yemeni prisoners to sanaa the capital of yemen so they could at least be tried or hill there or they are here or in for possibly hearing to be held there as well but that request has been heard or at least it hasn't been hasn't received any response from washington so the people when we have it of course are outraged that their compatriots who as you have as we have

mentioned how some of them have been cleared of all charges are being held in prison and they're starving themselves just to prove their point and these are not the only protests that we have seen across the region you may say there's also been numerous protests in kuwait on sunday now there are two kuwaiti nationals being held it gets mo. they're both they both of them have participated in the hunger strikes and given all before and both of them have been forced to bed and again lawyers for them as well are saying that their situation is just as dire as all of that of the other detainees who are dissipating in the hunger strike and it is clear that they actually are prepared to die before their requests are being met so we're looking at the old we're looking at a situation which is spiraling out of hand to people in the countries from which the inmates are they're starting to support the people and they are literally outraged at the way that their compatriots are being treated. really good reporting

from tel aviv studios that it's not thank you very much. shorter than i'll take to come a draconian welfare cut comes into force in the united kingdom that will see some of the country's poorest of the benefits reduced if they deem to be taking up too much space in social housing is not going down at all well with them will report and room on the moon details such as i'm pushing funds to make a habitable space observatory on earth shining side light just a couple of the stories i got lined up for very shortly tonight.

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hello again north korea's parliament approved plans to expand the country's nuclear weapons program the regime has been ramping up its rhetoric since the united states sent stealth fighter jets to south korea to joint military exercises there that infuriated the north and says it's now then in a state of war with seoul along with the military drills over the border the regime in pyongyang has been angered by the latest round of u.n. sanctions over its nuclear test that was carried out in february the commerce states put its missile units on standby and says it's ready to bombard u.s. bases in the region but south korea's want it will retaliate quickly if the north launches any attack on his territory dependent journalist jim colbert thinks the u.s. defense contract is hoping to benefit financially from the situation but the washington is played there for a dangerous game. i think that the most likely scenario here would be some sort of 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 your leader 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. james co

but there that's the worry isn't it if if it could be an accident just one small thing that may spark it off to a big story tonight developing a lot of chatter online on our web site r.t. dot com we've got a vote going there what you think about it as always here we go then it say what we've got here right you think it's part of a u.s. plan to destabilize china and east asia that was forty eight percent last year that's gone up a tad according to you fifty a twenty percent believe it's down to kim jong il a new things trying to build a power base of the slightly less than eighteen percent think it's brinksmanship stoking armed conflict thirty percent way of demand the west today i can see a reasoning there maybe it would have been the first time what it it's really going to be interesting to see where this goes r.t. dot com is the place to have your say tonight on this story can make that change.

you know the big news story is recross tonight in mali the national military backed by french intervention forces is fighting an islamist resurgence of the country's north rebel fighters have launched a series of attacks in the city to book two forty three open deploy mohammed hasn't told us that france is now locked in a power struggle for influence in africa the french are defending their own interest as you know that does work and continent is the world's just going to mint 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 as the brics country increasing i knew you know that it is france is now is declared declining it became the third trading partner not enough flicka and you know in the state are the place to france

and became the second as you know that it is even united states have put in its military base and it's sort of called me in egypt you know that seventy five percent of the french a little city is used to the nuclear and most of the roma tiriel says coming from new jersey the main purpose is that it is france france italy positional position there and she thinks of that it is she will be dislocated from do so the just continent and it is in fact is in a scramble. bodies of thirteen civilians mostly women and children have been discovered in syria's western province of homes be aware that you might find some of these pictures coming up upsetting syrian state media has blamed the violence on rebel forces saying the victims have been robbed but that's not been independently verified matter who comes two weeks after alleged fatal chemical attack in the city of aleppo which is yet to be investigated by the u.n. . change attack now it's april fool's day just about

a couple of hours ago here in moscow anyway but attacks that's just come into force in the u.k. is no laughing matter the so-called bedroom tax will see social housing tenants have their benefits slashed if they have a spare room you know gibson who's a counsellor in sheffield in the u.k. a city that includes some of the more deprived areas of the country told us the government's crushing the people most in need two million households across the u.k. are going to be directly affected by these taxes they're the poorest people in this country and 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 at 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 unsure field 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 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 in these in the week that they're giving one hundred hours about a pound back to millionaires they're changing the national health service they're imposing taxes on the poorest people in the country it's going to have a devastating effect to most people in this country. in germany it looks like people are getting tired of having cash to help others only this time it's not about foreign bailouts it's over helping fellow germans two decades since reunification divisions remain when it comes to the prosperous west helping the one struggling east as people all of a found out for. 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 it was it's time to finish this up we need this money more than them now. as it should know that this is good enough is enough i know many of these that are doing very well connected and it's stand this test was scrapped. commos it's been twenty years too long now working people live in worse conditions so we can't continue to pay for the east we gave him a future now this must stop stop it. 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 euro 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 today there are cities that need aid so. my generation can't be expected to pay for decisions made by the previous generation of its own. voters look now in the east it looks much better and i just go and have a look at how bad it is around here but with thoughts like a pigsty as the east 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 pact really is peter all other r.t. the region germany. online here's a puzzler for you from us what's the point of a defense system that can't defend properly will read faces in israel that is from others that make the fabled i don't live in stalled can't fully protect civilians war not online it's cost a lot too and what next for wiki leaks going to be quiet lately isn't it the countdown is on city scuppering the whistle blowing sites next moves we consider what they may be in that game of chess dot com. if you're bored of the bahamas or maybe tired of the tropics lucky you and you all of a destination could soon be on the horizon the mood. takes us on

a virtual trip. almost half a century since neil armstrong's giant step 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 institute for machinery announce the launch or rather relaunch of the lunar program according to the ambitious plan a russian space ship will fly to and circle the moon by twenty thirty but this promises to be only the beginning and here is where it gets very interesting the next step as they search it claims will be the construction of an observatory on the moon experts believe earth's bersin all space rock is simply the perfect spot from which to research space so if this idea proves to be a success expect a laboratory there to their observatory and the lab may soon be followed by a helium mining shafts and if the moon really holds ice as scientists believe this could produce both the water and oxygen which would make the earth's satellite

inhabitable by humans hotels with rooftop swimming pools 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 from a song but a real human holiday option. that i know i would because suppose tori's k. partridges it read it all up for you enjoy. the. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. mission of free

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hello welcome to the r t sports show with me k. contrary there is a taste of what's coming up. on the rise defending champions and meet the terror extreme ildiko second in the russian crimean a. while finding their form capello making eight games on the basin in charge of russia offering a one one draw with brazil. and all russian course tests can be thrown madrid to play top of their group but could face neighbors huge change in the euro league playoffs. but let's kick off with the russian premier league and the test currently unassailable at the top the focus is on the chasing pack as defending champions an eight one three military act to go second with

a games to go because of time but our reports. terek were banned from playing at home for one game and so hosted zainudin biggest than the visitors took advantage in the lead up to eight minutes actually with sort of finding himself alone in the books to open from a corner xander kid rock of swiftly produced his second penalty miss of the season but only our center back bruno alvis showed his offensive skills to make it to neil . and consent in the down of soon to be touring stoppage time to see what channels polities man up to second. meanwhile inform crossland our crew is to their fourth win in five games with the four new home moving of new speeding's misfiring on three brazilian wonder some back the head trick opening up to thirty four minutes finishing off a need to move on gino we listened for a period to miss.