tag doubles bringing fears of an even greater burden on bank depositors and setting a dangerous precedent for europe's other struggling nations. i will cyprus faces a via 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 voiced their outrage over the mistreatment of prisoners at guantanamo bay and urged their president to follow through on his campaign pledge to close the detention camp. live at r.t. h.q. it's very good to have you company just after eight pm now moscow time in our top story then there will be no more extra cash for cyprus beyond the ten billion euro international bailout eurozone finance minister said today the mood there has been

grim but their meeting in dublin as it emerged that the island nation needed more than 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 raid on bank deposits recently there are now deep concerns over the president has been set as artie's tests or similar reports. it dominated headlines for much of two weeks a year reserve nation on the brink of bankruptcy the banks were closed cash rationed and capital controls put in place cyprus of blows 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 of minds from protesters for the past few days it's just a few meters from parliament which is just over here but people's angry 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 eurozone nations but not everyone is convinced the president has been set up and unless you've been hard 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 repeat a crisis of the going to see what happened in cyprus and we're going to pull their money and that could 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 deposits below one hundred thousand euros are sacred but a separate example has already sown seeds of fear i would be trying to single cent i have from europe because the president has been sent in the commercial i'm afraid that this will happen in greece afraid not for my future but for my children's future. oh no i hope it won't happen here 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 must fall for cypriots they now know all too well how hard it is when

it's your dominoes turn to fall does our sylvia r.t. brussels or cyprus is taking drastic measures than to meet the demands of international lenders another european nation iceland to show that there is another path the motor country faced virtual bankruptcy back in two thousand and eight after its banking sectors protectively collapse but taxpayers that made it clear they weren't going to pick up the utopias kind of looks at how the country has fit 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 that 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 rewrote 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 now for 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 shouldn't. be icelandic state the icelandic taxpayers were responsible for that of private banks in the end the case went to an international court now the after court found iceland was in the right

einstein was not responsible for this immense and refused to 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. sort of a young mertz sun equal partner in europe but that. falls on us iceland's relationship if you don't burn the outside world normalized. international investors are coming back to the country. thanks have stabilized quite a lot the only thing to add here is sure there is lots of information on this story in blogs and social networks what you want to find it in mainstream media why perhaps to avoid giving ideas to anyone else under pressure. still ahead she denies

tension continues to mount on the korean peninsula the u.s. states would never accept north korea as a nuclear. in just a couple of minutes that we take a look at why washington may be interested in provoking conflict in the region also to the bone and we report on the construction of russia's state of the art space for the country's big plants now relaunching its nuclear program. but next anger over the hunger strike at guantanamo bay detention centers driven activists on to the streets across the u.s. protesting against the mistreatment of detainees and the continued operation of the camp earlier 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 or he's going to porton i 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 for 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 the detainees there say that the u.s. officials mishandled that their korans during 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 eleven 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 authorities 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 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 as 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. a spokesman of the international committee of the red cross simon show no told us it's a deep sense of insecurity about this behind this current crisis. we are currently at the detention center and we're the only organization inside the detention facility we've been visiting went on with since two thousand and two and so in fact we follow very closely the younger strike its effects on the detainees themselves we try to understand what's going on we try to intervene on a confidential basis we don't or a tease but we certainly are in there trying to do to do what we can again the causes of the anger strike dunga strike was be seen as a symptom the causes of their anger strike our uncertainty that that weighs very heavily on each and every detainee a lot of one time one that's the cause of younger strikes that we work primarily through bilateral confidential dialogue and intervening directly in the detention

facilities themselves and then confidentially with the authorities including this level with president obama like we did this week for us the issue is not that of closure of guantanamo the issue is to provide a clear legal framework that regiments the detention of people at guantanamo and that's what we are pressing on to what's at stake is the legality of the detention and billeted to provide clarity for did it any so that they know about their fate. kept track of hunger strike a gun tell them from the start of the protests we've got opinion from high profile politicians lawyers and human rights activists all lined up for you in a special section at r.t. dot com. he became a symbol of the ninety ninety s. he personified the russian mafia in the kremlin. he was a twentieth century arrest buton. in just a few years he rose from junior multi-billionaire and senior politician.

is decline was as rabid as his meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. on a c. international airport in the very heart of moscow.

well again cattle is boosting its financial presence abroad amassing billions of dollars in deed in foreign assets and its economic expansion is not limited to out of countries either with cash from dough and now flowing to europe and the u.s. as well now while qatar says diversifying its economy is the main reason for foreign investments there's a growing feeling that politics is playing a major role in the strategy bell trues been looking at where catalyst 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 khatami foreign minister said last week that they would also consider becoming one of the major suppliers to egypt and sickly as they have the third largest natural gas resin reserves in the world at the bottom ranges 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 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 are 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 however it is not just luxury property they are investing in they have apparently a gifted three hundred million euro a fund to underdeveloped areas all fronts including in the tourist 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 abroad is in fact constanza deliberate move. increased political influence abroad in addition to possibly exporting its own particular conservative brand of islam as its investments increasing year on year it is yet to be seen what power this tiny yet super wealthy emirates will wield in the future. well true there well as always we're eager to know what you think about this story big issue of the day we're covering head to r.t. dot com type our online poll today we're asking what you think all this investment is about purely this sort of more to it you think this is very telling us. is of course the place where you can have your say global cash splash is the title why do

you think it's being spent ok forty two percent of you there think it's buying political clout abroad as you can see just over a quarter of you believe the da was trying to silence criticism criticism of its anti democratic practices twenty seven percent this has gone down just a tad by the way since last twenty four percent say it's ready in fall when oil and gas dries up seven percent hedge against international financial risks you think it's all above board nothing to worry about our teeth of com is where you can have your say. focus on careers now north korea's want tokyo that it will be a prime target in case of war if japan maintains its hostile stance or tries to

intercept any of pyongyang to test missiles it says the threat came in response to japan's warning that it would shoot down any north korean missile heading towards its territory meanwhile the u.s. has reiterated it would never accept north korea as a nuclear power the comments came from secretary of state john kerry who's visiting seoul earlier a mistakingly published pentagon intelligence report suggested that pyongyang may be able to deliver a nuclear weapon with a ballistic missile washington's been trying to downplay that assessment no but many experts believe the u.s. 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 superpower and all the time kim jong un has repeatedly said when he said one month ago we don't want war we want to talk and what must be done 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 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 he is 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 interpretation of the nonproliferation treaty. by the web version.

of this one and for flying you hear me correct not as innocent as it may sound either at r.t. dot com we've got the story of one german computer programmer who claims that he can hijack and bring down a plane just by using a smartphone. and how about a six month long pub crawl on a six figure salary for doing it it's actually possible if you land one of six unusual jobs being offered by. a stray we're going to go to cues for those i'm sure . mass rallies have marked the end of election campaigning invent. whaler ahead of sunday's presidential vote hundreds of thousands marched in the capital caracas in support of interim leader nicholas moderate while the opposition rallied in the north of the country to do is the political successor to the lately to get charges of cancer last month then r.t. will hear from american rapper an activist to malta technique the police charges stood up to washington in a way few others did to do. he's not god you know to me he's somebody who is

in a position of power who decided to troll the united states infinitely and very well in fact you know 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 to a vote his assent to decide whether they want the political course of the late president hugo chavez to continue we value to join us on sunday for coverage of the country's presidential election. campaign endgame venezuela chooses a new president a chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible then as well accuse after coming down days self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes ople fourteenth on r.t. . will be used briefly thirteen afghan soldiers have been killed in the pakistani

border after taliban militants attacked an army outpost the group's claimed responsibility saying it has captured the checkpoint afghanistan's preparing to take over security control from u.s. troops when the pullout by the end of twenty fourteen. tens of thousands of chilean students demanding reforms in the country's education system of being demonstrating in santiago to protest to violence gangs of youths clashed with police over one hundred arrests have been made eight officers injured students say the current school system is unfair and is only available to the middle class and the rich. as the world marks fifty two years since the first manned flight in the war but the head of russia's space agency announced it's working on a fundamentally new spacecraft capable of interplanetary flight and there's much more on the space agenda too for russia as it starts construction of the state of the art space port ready to host rocket launches from twenty fifteen parties lexer

as jeff ski brings us up to speed. 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 forests in the russian far east this is the construction site of russia's brand new spaceport the us and the vicious 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. let's hear jet ski this if you want to try russian space history we invite you to check out the gallery on our web site pioneering moments caught on camera comb now when we come back happy martin say the latest show scrutinising tonight global power in the reach of america's media breaking the set on a have. 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 start 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 from a well 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 starts 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. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month so food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd look i don't see any i mean family and such and i know that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so personally i believe it's. worse for the little thing the white house or the. radio guy for minestrone. what clothes are about to produce never seen anything like this i'm still.

welcome to breaking the set i'm your host abby martin you know it seems that on every issue important to americans the problem reaction and solution is always framed by the two dominating political parties in this country the problem is that these two teams democrats and republicans more closely resemble a single party one that stands for and periods and corporate gain yet several political ideologies are gaining traction in the us but i virtually no representation in the political and media stablish print so if you've tuned into the show hoping to hear the dueling perspective of democrats and republicans well you've come to the wrong place because today i'll be hosting a discussion with people who represent the voices of a growing alternative will be talking about libertarianism anarchism and socialism very philosophy is gaining momentum as more people are becoming disillusioned with the status quo to talk about everything from the role of government to an ideal

society i'm joined now by a brilliant panel and breaking the sets first ever alternative voices debate starting with scott crow author of black flags and windmills and founder of the anarchist common ground collective peterson production direct. freedom works an editor of libertarian republic dot com and eugene puryear former vice presidential candidate of the party for socialism and liberation thanks so much all of you for coming on thanks for having us and if you for we start to this epic debate or conversation rather i want to briefly outline your political ideologies in about a minute's time scott when people think of anarchism they think total chaos can you break down that misconception it's a misconception energy is a living a dynamic framework based in. ideas of cooperation where we can all get along to make the world better for each other we call it mutually the ideas of direct action that we don't have to wait on others that we are more than voters we are more can consumers that we there are other paths that we should.