economic survival as the bailout price tag doubles bringing fears of an even greater burden on bank deposits is then such a dangerous precedent for europe's on the struggling nations. and all 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 a voice their outrage over the mistreatment of prisoners at guantanamo bay and i urge their president to follow through on his campaign pledge to close the detention camp. oh that six pm here in moscow wherever you are watching welcome to r.t.

will be no more extra cash for cyprus beyond ten billion euro international bailout eurozone finance ministers have said the mood has been grim met a 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 rage on bank deposits there are now deep concerns over the president and that's been the set as archie's tesla's so your reports. it dominated headlines for much of two weeks a year is a nation on the brink of bankruptcy the banks were closed cash ration and capital controls put in place cyprus of blues heavy losses which could rise to up to sixty percent on wealthier depositors in order to clinch attend a 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 of minds from protesters for the past few days it's just a few meters from parliament which is just over here but the bulls and the 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 are 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 repeat a crisis the going to see what happened to cyprus and going to pool their money and that cause a vicious circle in fact a 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 posits below one hundred thousand euros are sacred but a separate example has already assumed scenes of fear i would literally single cent i have from europe because the president has been sent here to limit the good works in his i'm afraid that this will happen in greece afraid not for my future but for my children's. no. but with you we have it's absolutely cost 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 by so lest they turn around no sign they're going to then the dominoes mushroom for

cypriots now know all too well how hard it is when it's your dominoes turn to swallow just our sylvia our team brussels. while cyprus is taking drastic measures to meet the demands of international lenders another european nation iceland has shown that there is another path of the nordic countries 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 the skin of looks at how the country has fed 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 banks 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 and often 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

taxpayers were responsible for the good of private banks in the end the case went to an international court the after court found iceland was in the right i'm not responsible for this immense and refused the claims of the sun to put its roots very hard initially forced about the current relations between iceland and the rest of europe are you guys still friends they claim but basically be flushed down the toilet and would not be able to. europe but the times calls us i sponsor relationship if you don't start world order my. international investors are coming back to the country. thanks have stabilised 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. states it would never accept north korea as a nuclear power in just a couple of minutes we'll take a look at why washington may be interested in provoking conflict in the region. plaza to the moon and bagwell we reported the construction of russia's state of the spaceport and the country's big plans on the launching its lunar program. and go over the hunger strike at guantanamo bay detention center has driven activists on to the streets across the u.s. protesting against the mistreatment of detainees and the continued operation of a camp early and open letter by twenty five human rights organizations was

delivered to president obama urging him to keep his campaign promise and close the prison on his morning aboard my own was at the demonstration in new york for us. 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 as they're calling on the obama didn't administration to immediately address the ongoing hunger strike that began in early february at the island 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

they detainees there say that the u.s. officials mishandled at their core and stirring up a cell search and that's 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's 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 forty'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 that with holding of bottled water to drink and being fed. 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 is wrong and the people don't support it is a good thing i don't think. 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 sandy point new lawyer for one of the one ton of the bay detainees as you tried to reach out to the u.s. defense ministry but was told the government was already doing enough to keep the prisoner alive. it's interesting we built a letter to the secretary of people. regarding hunger strike at our concert and more hear about it and we got a response from the. secretary of legal quits and repeated to us

that the. u.s. is going to. mean. to me. and seems that what we need is words. and. international reading. yours that. this could be a turning point for us is the man. you either to go to runs or it's the model when you 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 is. and this write them alive. kept track of the hunger strike at guantanamo from the start of the protests we have opinion from high profile politicians lawyers and human rights activists all lined up for you in a special section at our dot com i lots more ahead for you in just

a moment. he became a symbol of the nine hundred ninety s. he personified the russian mafia in the kremlin. he was a twentieth century arrest. in just a few years he rose from junior was a multibillionaire and senior politician. is declining was as rapid as his meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. better.

internationally and in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching our team qatar is basing its financial presence abroad on messing billions of dollars in foreign asses and its economic expansion is not limited to countries with cash from doha flowing to euro band the u.s. as well while qatar says diversifying its economy is the main reason for foreign investment so there's a growing feeling that politics is playing a major role in the strategic belt she has been looking at the way qatar as 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 gyptian 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 qatari foreign minister said last week they would also consider becoming one of the major suppliers to egypt that sickly as they have the third largest natural gas present reserves in the world as the battle wages in syria the guitar a 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 aunts 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 us france singapore malaysia iraq just to name a few in dition 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 so it is not just luxury property they are investing in they have apparently a gifted three hundred million year a fund to underdeveloped areas all fronts including the notorious suburbs which house key french muslim communities this guitar 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 of broads is in fact concent deliberate move. increased political influence abroad in decision 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 that qatar is trying to divert attention away from its like of democracy and human rights at home by claiming to support them abroad. what qatar is doing is it's using its vast wealth actually to pursue a political agenda and this is the boring state because in the middle east. played a leading role in trying to undermine and bring down regimes in the region. it claimed to be a great supporter of the arab spring a bit of democracy with israel disconnected because qatar itself is only a democracy people criticise syria and say well you have the same coming to us we have the same hoody family guitar for over a hundred fifty years and what qatar is trying to pursue is a political 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 there. but as always we're eager to know what you think on the issue head to our tea dot com to take part in a online poll now today was skiing what you make of qatar investing so much abroad let's take a look at what you've been saying so far on that law and right now so it looks like forty three percent of you says that qatar is buying political clout abroad twenty seven percent of you say it's rating for when it go or oil and gas. drives up while twenty six percent of you says it's to distract from it's a democracy shortfall and only did four percent think that is a hedge against international financial risk if you want to see those numbers change and you want to hear what you have to say to go to archie dot com the cost

to vote. for. north korea has one tokyo that it will be a prime target in case of war if japan maintains its hostile stronghold tries to intercept any opinions test missiles the threat came in response to japan's warning that they would shoot down any north korean missile being it towards its territory meanwhile the u.s. has a regenerated it would never accept move we as a nuclear power the comments came from secretary of state john kerry his view to visiting sold mistakingly published pentagon intelligence reports suggested in

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 the u. 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 i mean 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 clear danger therefore we have to all and 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 companies even in britain will be benefiting greatly by all this news talk of a perceived north korean threat because everyone can upgrade their. let alone said upgrading nuclear weapons of mass destruction in violation of any type of protection of the nonproliferation treaty. on line for you an hour before flying that's on as innocent as it may sound at our chief dot com we've got this 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 it's actually possible if you land one of six unusual jobs being offered by tourism australia land more and out.

mass rallies have month the end of election campaigning in venezuela ahead of sunday's presidential vote hundreds of thousands marched in the capital caracas in support of the interim leader nicolas maduro while the opposition rallied in the north of the country is the political successor to the late leader thomas who died of cancer last month today on our team will hear from american rapper and activist a little take you believe that john this is stood up to washington in a way few others did three. 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 and 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 way

voters are said to decide whether they want to the political course of the late president chavez to continue john howard t.v. on sunday for coverage of the country's presidential election. campaigns game venezuela chooses the president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible that is where the juice after commandante self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes fourteenth one or two. now to some other world news in brief at least thirteen afghan soldiers have been killed near the pakistani border of the taliban militants attacked an army outpost the group has the claimed responsibility saying it has 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 chilean students demanding reforms in the country's education system have been demonstrated in santiago the protests turned violent gangs of youths clashing with police over one hundred arrests have been made in eight offices injured students say the current school system is unfair and is only available to the middle class and the rich. as the world marks of fifty two years as a since the for its manned flight into orbit the head of russia's space agency has announced it's working on a fundamentally new space crop capable of interplanetary flight and there is much more on the space agenda for russia as it starts construction of a state of the art spaceport ready to host rocket launches from twenty fifteen artie's unless you are a chef scheme reports. 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 but 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 course will draw 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 soviet union lost its race to conquer the moon russia is 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. and so if you wanted to track russia's space

history check out the gallery on our website pioneering moments caught on camera and r.t. dot com. i tried to do we visited to a community in the rushes year old that was stunted by a massive meteor impact this year. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa are starting 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 us 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 and schools cetera some pretty bad grades 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 allowed politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion.

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