economic survival as the bailout price tag doubles bringing fears of an even greater burden on bank deposits to send setting a dangerous precedent of for europe's other struggling nations. and while cyprus faces severe pressure from international lenders we look at the example of another european country where the public refused to foot the bill for bankers mistakes. also american protesters are voiced their outrage over the mistreatment of prisoners at guantanamo bay and urged the president to follow through on his campaign pledge to close the detention camp. international news analysis and reports of this as a party. eurozone finance ministers have approved

a ten billion euro bailout for cyprus but ruled out raising the figure the mood has been grim at the meeting in dublin as it emerged that the island nation needs around six billion euros more than originally thought to avoid bankruptcy the cypriot government will now have to raise the extra funds without external help and after the recent raid on bank deposits are there now deep concerns over the president that's been set as our teachers are silly reports. it dominated headlines for much of two weeks a year reserved nation on the brink of bankruptcy banks were closed cash rationed and capital controls put in place cyprus of those heavy losses which could rise to up to sixty percent on wealthier depositors in order to clinch a ten billion euro e.u. i.m.f. bailout last month it had however initially planned to would reduce a levy on deposits of less than one hundred thousand euros supposedly protected by state guarantees before backtracking in the face of widespread protests this has

been a meeting away from protesters for the past few days it's just a few meters from parliament which is stressed over here but people's early voices did little to change the inevitable painful outcome for the country the general view being communicated from here in brussels is that a cyprus is unique and the measures imposed on the country as part of that bailout package will not be used as a template for other troubled euro zone nations but not everyone is convinced the president has been set up and unless you've been hiding under a rock if you're in a country like savina for example or any of the other one of those countries that might get into a crisis you don't want repeat a crisis of the going to see what happened to cyprus they're going to pull their money and that cause a vicious circle. new e.u. law is already being drawn up where first shareholders would take a hit if a bank fails and then possibly unprotected investments and deposits case in point

is cyprus officials insist that the pauses below one hundred thousand euros are secret but the cypriot example has already sown seeds of fear i would be trying to single cent i have from europe because the president has been said in the britain was i'm afraid that this will happen in greece afraid not for my future but for my children's future of none i hope it won't happen but with you authorities we have it's absolutely possible and after all that said and done some say what's more problematic is the inevitability of another cyprus debacle if the underlying problem of unsustainable public and trade deficits are not tackled at the core europe and america are bleeding to death and they're not doing anything about it they must go bust so unless they turn around there's no sign they're going to then the dominoes march through for cypriots they now know all too well how hard it is

when it's your dominoes turn to fall just are so your r t brussels. cyprus is taking drastic measures to meet the demands of international lenders another european nation iceland has shown that there is another part of the nordic country face virtual bankruptcy in two thousand and eight after its banking sector spectacularly collapsed but taxpayers made it clear that they weren't going to pick up the tab you got a piece going up looks at how the country has fared nearly five years on. though not a member of the eurozone or the european union for years iceland was considered the most effective from the liberal free market economy in europe that was until its bankruptcy in two thousand and eight foreign debt spiked banks closed down and the national currency plummeted the walled bank european union and the international monetary fund also known as the troika demanded that iceland be up at the time it meant every citizen would have to pay one hundred euros per month for the next

fifteen years to cover the debt of private bankers nationwide protests erupted sounds familiar except unlike in cyprus greece portugal and others these protests made iceland's president reject the troika's demands and the trio went while threatening isolation and sanctions even raising comparisons with cuba which rekick stood its ground at a nationwide referendum and around ninety percent voted not to be the debt in fact they went even further starting criminal investigations into why so much money was old even jailed some of the country's top bankers and while they were added ordinary citizens we wrote the constitution which now obliges the government to keep all work in the public eye unless it's a matter of national security of course nothing more earlier i spoke to a professor of political science and one of the people who took part in the revision of iceland. the european union was insisting the icelandic state the icelandic taxpayers were responsible for the good of private banks in the case

went to an international court now the after court found iceland was in the right i'm stunned was not responsible for this immense and refused the claims of the senate but its roots they hard initially forced about the current relations between iceland and the rest of europe are you guys still friends they claim that i stand basically be flushed down the toilet and would not be able to. in europe but the times calls us i sponsor relationship if you don't side world order my. international investors are coming back to the country. thanks have stabilized cry don't watch the only thing to add here is sure there is lots of information on this story in blogs and social networks but you won't find it in mainstream media why perhaps to avoid giving ideas to anyone else under

pressure. still ahead for you as tension continues to mount on the korean peninsula the u.s. dave it would never accept north korea as a nuclear problem just a couple of minutes we take a look at why washington may be interested in provoking conflict in the region. to the moon and bag-o. we report on the construction of russia's state of the spaceport and the country the bigger plans are relaunching its lunar program. anger over the hunger strike at guantanamo bay detention center that has just been activist on the streets across the u.s. protesting against the mistreatment of detainees and the continued operation of the camp area an open letter by twenty five human rights organizations was delivered to president obama urging him to keep his campaign promise and close the prison arches

marina but may i was at the demonstration in new york. times square is considered one of the best places in the us to advertise a product or message or our brands and that is why civil rights attorneys human rights groups and many activists and protesters are out in the streets of times square right now to raise awareness about the hunger strike taking place at the guantanamo bay detention center and it is clearly garnering a lot of attention to what those are saying that have been turning out on the streets they're calling on the obama to administration to immediately address the ongoing hunger strike that began in early february at the island's prison according to attorneys representing the detainees there they say more than a hundred men are participating in this hunger strike they say it began when when the detainees there say that the u.s. officials mishandled that their korans during

a cell search and not say what sparked this ongoing hunger strike according to a u.s. u.s. military officials they say only forty one men have been on a hunger strike and at least alleged that are being force fed they say nobody is lives are in danger but that is not what lawyers are telling our take a listen i saw men who have dramatically lost weight the people that i met with had lost over thirty and forty pounds what they told me is about men who are too weak to come out of the prison they told me of men who are skeletal that's the word they used who are near death who are so weak they can't move they told me about pressure tactics right now within the camp by the you know thirty's to try to break the strike things like withholding the delivery of clean drinking water these are people who have been refusing food for over sixty days they need water to survive or they will die and they talked about tactics like the withholding of bottled

water to drink and being. forced to drink from the sinks in their cells which are attached to trial it's now this new york rally is part of a nationwide day of action to close guantanamo and end indefinite detention protests are also taking place in over twenty six cities including chicago l.a. and washington d.c. i think that anything to show mamma or the government that this is wrong and that people don't support it is a good thing i don't think is a legitimate. vehicle for for for trying these people i mean because they're not being tried is a problem last week organizations including the center for constitutional rights amnesty international and the united nations called on washington to immediately shut down the guantanamo detention center the u.n. secu minorites chief released a statement saying that america's failure to close the controversial prison and

release detainees is a violation of international law currently there are one hundred sixty six prisoners being held at the island prison and at least eighty six have been cleared for release reporting from new york marina r.t. . we spoke to cindy palooka a lawyer for one of the kuantan a bay detainees she tried to reach out to the u.s. defense ministry but was told the government was already doing enough to keep the prisoners alive. it's interesting we wrote a letter to the secretary people. regarding hunger strike and are concerned as more you hear about this and we got a response from. secretary of people which indicated to us that the. u.s. is going to do the main thing. and it seems that what we

need is words some words. and then. the international red. hears. this could be a turning point and he has forced he's a man. you either to make other arrangements. then see you at this point provide them the respect the process of respect their religion and respect the correct answer to talk to them about what it is that it's going to take to end this right i'm alive. she's kept track of the hunger strike and one ton of mail from the start of the protest we have opinion from high profile politicians lawyers and human rights activists all lined up for you in a special section at our t.v. dot com lots more ahead for you in just a minute. campaigning

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. you're watching our team is basing its financial presence abroad amassing billions of dollars in foreign assets and its economic expansion is not limited to arab countries with cash from doha flowing to europe and the u.s. as well while the to itself sit to science as does part of me diversifying its economy as the main reason for foreign investment there's a growing feeling that politics is playing a major role in the strategy has been looking at where qatar is money is going. as egypt's president mohamed morsi is struggling to mend the egyptian economy it's on i can't tell one of the richest countries in the world has said that it will buy three billion dollars worth of education government bonds much needed help at

a critical time egypt is also suffering from a natural gas shortage at the moment causing blackouts across the capital the khatami foreign minister said last week they would also consider becoming one of the major suppliers to egypt but sickly as they have the third largest natural gas resin results in the world as the battle rages in syria the qatari government is also saying they will support the rebels they have given one hundred million dollars to the notch then the syrian national coalition is saying they want the rebels to be armed however they extend that and their interests outside of egypt and the arab world building a global empire they have reportedly been invested in many countries including the u.k. the u.s. france singapore malaysia iraq just to name a few indication qatar has been diversifying its areas of interest investing in many sectors including the media fashion petrochemicals and india and indeed

financial institutions however the real push off for the super wealthy but tiny emirates appears to be front surprisingly they have a favored real estate in the french riviera as well as paris buying up several casinos now it is not just luxury property but they are investing in they have apparently a gifted three hundred million euro fund to underdeveloped areas of fronts including in the tourist suburbs which house key french muslim communities this guitar a officials say is all part of a global strategy to ensure that investment revenues exceed that of oil and gas by twenty thirty the tickler as their reserves are looking to run out in the next hundred years however many fear this aggressive expansion of its economic presence abroad is in fact concent deliberate move. increase political influence abroad in addition to possibly exporting its own particular conservative brand of islam as its investments are increasing year on year it is yet to be seen what power this

tiny yet super wealthy emirates will wield in the future. british journalist neil clark believes cut ties trying to divert attention away from its lack of democracy and human rights at home by claiming to support them abroad and what qatar is doing is using its vast wealth actually to pursue a political agenda and this is the warring state because in the middle east. played a leading role in trying to undermine and bring down regimes in the region. which claim to be a great supporter of the arab spring a lot of democracy with israel disconnected because qatar itself is only a democracy people criticise syria and say well you have the same ruling family to yours we have the same hoody family guitar for one hundred fifty years and what qatar is trying to pursue is a critical agenda which is pushed pushing a sort of form of islam around the region its own sort of agenda and this is the worrying thing because there's no democratic mandate for this and i think we see

this quite clearly in syria where qatar has been one of the most prominent countries in offering support to the rebels and the islamist groups that. as always a way to get to know what do you think on the issue you had to r.t. joe com to take part in our online poll today we're asking why do you think is investing all of the billions in other countries aboard let's take a look at what you said so far online why forty six percent of you believe that this is to buy political clout abroad full cutoff while twenty five percent of you say that is traction for ma democracy is shot falls and twenty four percent of you say it's rating for women it's all well and again as it dries up and only they find percent believe that they hedge against international financial risk and now if you want those numbers to change and have you'll say go to our tea dot com and cast your vote.

north korea has warned japan that tokyo will be its number one target in case a war if the nation island maintains its hostile stance on tries to intercept any opinions test missiles three came in response to japan statement that it would shoot down any north korean missile heading towards its territory meanwhile the u.s. has reiterated it would never have said north korea has a nuclear power other comments came from secretary of state john kerry he's visiting full earlier mistakingly publish a pentagon intelligence report suggested pyongyang may be able to deliver a nuclear weapon with a ballistic missile washington has been trying to downplay the assessment but many experts believe that he was might be benefiting from keeping the situation on

a knife edge there is another game being played because the united states is ramping up its military facilities in southeast asia obviously for seeing that china will become a super power and all the time kim jong un has repeatedly said and he said one month ago we don't want war we want to talk and what must be done now is rather than governments like the british one of course and the united states saying north korea represents a very clear danger therefore we have to have a more united states left the nonproliferation treaty britain isn't a bang by the spirit of the nonproliferation treaty of which it's a signatory and what we need urgently is president obama to make this call but as in so many other foreign policy issues president obama is wavering looks weak about it and what they want to do is force their presence in that region and president obama beat heavily by the arms companies and i got to say. even britain will be

benefiting greatly by all this news talk of a perceived north korean threat because everyone can upgrade there or that alone. upgrading nuclear weapons of mass destruction in violation of any type of protection. the nonproliferation treaty. online for you and apple for flying that's all there is the innocent as it may sound at our tea dot com we've got the story of one german hacker who claims he can hijack and bring down a plane just by using a smartphone and how about a six month long pub crawl and a six figure salary for doing it is actually possible if you lend to one of the six unusual jobs being offered by tourism australia and war and our teacher. mass rallies have marked the end of election campaigning in venezuela ahead of sunday's a presidential vote hundreds of thousands of marched in the capital caracas in

support of interim leader nicolas maduro while the opposition relit in the north of the country but it is the political successor to the lately don't good chambres who died of cancer last month today on our t.v. we'll hear from an american rapper an activist immortal technique who believes chavez has stood up to washington in a way few others date. he's not god you know to me he's somebody who was in a position of power who decided to troll the united states infinitely and very well in fact. really made his case in front of. the rest of the world and said a lot of things that they probably thought but didn't want to ruin their relationship with their foster daddy here to be able to say. the stakes are high in venezuela where voters are said to decide whether they want to the political cause of the late president hugo chavez to continue to join our on sunday for coverage of the

country's presidential election. campaigns gain venezuela chooses president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible that is where the choose after coming down to sell started socialism or free market model venezuela votes fourteenth on r.t. . now to some other world news in brief a piece of thirteen afghan soldiers have been killed in the of the pakistani border after the taliban militants attacked an army are posed the group has claimed responsibility saying it has a captured the checkpoint afghanistan is preparing to take over security control from u.s. troops when they pull out by the end of twenty fourteen. tens of thousands of children students demanding reforms in the country's education system have been demonstrated in santiago the protests turned violent as gangs of youths a clash with police over one hundred arrests have been made and eight offices

engined sued in favor of the current a school system is unfair and is only available to the middle class and the rich. the number of people that have died from bird flu in china has climbed to ten with thirty eight now infected some of the cities across the country have banned any sales of poultry until the crisis has been brought under control the previous deadly outbreak happened almost five years ago fear of the deadly virus becoming a pandemic back then and immediate panic and huge financial loss for the country's hit. as the world was fifty two years a since the first demand of flight into orbit to the head of russia's space agency has announced it's working on a fundamentally new spacecraft capable of interplanetary flight and there's much more on the space agenda for russia as it starts a construction of a state of the art spaceport ready to hose rocket launches from twenty fifteen

r.t.l. next year's rescue reports. this snow only looks like a pit dug in the middle of nowhere but in just two years time this will become one of russia's top priority facilities tucked away deep in the tiger forest in the russian far east this is the construction site of russia's brand new spaceport the us torch need an ambitious project worth ten billion dollars it will become the main and the sole launching pad of all russia's manned space ships starting from the year twenty eighteen but the first test launches are expected to start in just two years time and will replace in many ways the baikonur cosmodrome which certainly belongs to kazakhstan and the geographic location of the draw me is much more convenient than baikonur it's understood that when a space ships to take off some parts disconnect from the vessels and fall into the ground in this case they will not be falling into the ground or more likely be falling into the ocean of course there will be some disadvantages when the

cosmodrome is finished it's completed for instance the transportation off of rockets from the more school region to the far east will take twice as longer than it was to the baikonur in many ways even the construction even the idea of building this cosmodrome in the russian far east is already a major breakthrough for the russian space industry but probably the most crucial significance of this brand new cosmodrome is that it will take an integral part in russia's lunar program almost half a century since the soviet union lost its race to conquer the moon russia's really willing to relaunch the lunar program we understand that by the year twenty thirty a manned space ship will fly to the moon circle its orbit and possibly even choose a site for building an observatory on the lunar surface which may soon be followed by other facilities like helium five mining shafts and even possibly possibly hotels so definitely an interesting spin to that story but of course we have to

wait until the year twenty thirty to see whether russia's lunar program can be successful but they would know for sure that the the space ships will be launched from here from the russian far east. so if you want to trade russia's space history check out the gallery on our website pioneering moment caught on camera at our t.v. dot com. but i'm glad we visited a community in russia's here although there was stunned by a massive michio impact. you're watching our team. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa start to realize that they are moving towards what the atlantic calls the infrastructure cliff in short

america's infrastructure starting to get a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the u.s. needs about three point six trillion dollars of infrastructure spending by twenty twenty to turn things around the site sponsored by the american society of civil engineers gave all aspects of american infrastructure like bridges and drinking water in schools cetera some pretty bad great except for solid waste removal for some reason in their opinion everything in the us is going to crap except for america's ability to throw solid crap away i'm not trying to sit here and scare you there is nothing to fear this is a big challenge but it is a very possible one to accomplish according to cost of war dot org the last ten years of war of cost about three point one trillion dollars just cutting wars in half by fifty percent could put a huge dent in the infrastructure spending and what about all those billions in bailout that were spent you see the money is there it just gets wasted if the money stops getting thrown away and start getting spent a well planned infrastructure then the infrastructure will start paying for itself

rock'n infrastructure creates wealth so don't fear the infrastructure cliff just stop wasting money or a lot of politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion. download the official. to your cell phone. which stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from. your mobile device you can see any time anyway.