magnitsky list naming russian officials banned from entering america for alleged human rights abuses moscow says it amounts to interference in his domestic affairs and promises a similar response. steep an oversight for his economic survival as the bailout price tag doubles bringing fears of an even greater burden on bank depositors and setting a dangerous precedent for europe's other struggling nations. and while cyprus faces a bit of pressure from international lenders we look at the example of another european country where the public refused to foot the bill for bankers mistakes. plus american protesters voiced their outrage over the mistreatment of prisoners at guantanamo bay and urged their president of follow through on his campaign pledge to close the detention camp.

just after eleven pm here in moscow or even choose kevin zero in here tonight at r.t. and say the top story the u.s. has released a list of russian officials banned from entering a matter of america because of alleged human rights violations this was released earlier on moscow has already warned the measure would have a negative impact on ties and promises to come up with a similar response it's a main story tonight we bring you live comment on that from washington d.c. and our correspondent there in just a couple of minutes time meantime let's continue and take a look at the eurozone and cyprus eurozone finance ministers have said that with no extra cash for cyprus beyond a ten billion euro international bailout the mood been grim then at the ministers 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 there are now deep concerns too over the president has been set as artie's tests are of similar reports.

hopefully that report will be coming up in just a second oh indeed we're going to go back to our top story sure the ski report will bring a test his report in just a moment thanks for bearing with us ok. i gather you're with me now in washington d.c. hi there girl you know good to get to you know at last the list has been released the names have been announced what do we know about that tonight we know there are going to be ramifications about it from moscow but who is on this list what do we know. well kevin the black list includes eighteen names those are russian officials suspected of being responsible for the prison death of the lawyer sergei magnitsky in two thousand and nine the list includes judges seem best gaiters directly involved in the most need to get case the most need skilled law itself casts a much wider net requiring us to decern financial sanctions against all russian officials deemed to have been involved in human rights violations the wording of

the legislation is quite vague though for example the bills provision that names put on the list of people to be sanctioned can be based on quote unquote data and information provided by n.g.o.s and perhaps by other interested groups or people rather than through due legal process and this potentially undermines the basic principles of presumption of innocence and due process russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev has made a similar point he noted that the u.s. government already has the full authority to deny he said to anyone they want without having the special law in place so russia sees it as a message a message that will most certainly prompt a similar response from moscow russian lawmakers have already passed legislation targeting american officials the into to have been involved in human rights violations but they haven't published any lists yet critics of the magnitsky law even here in the u.s. have pointed out the perhaps before punishing russian officials for alleged violations the u.s. could look into human rights abuses committed by americans in guantanamo iraq afghanistan anyway moscow does not see the tit for tat moves as

a positive development a bit about sergei magnitsky himself he accused the number of russian officials of corruption but was himself accused of tax evasion and died in a moscow jail four years ago he's colleagues and family said he died because he was regularly beaten and refused medical care president putin called his death in prison a tragedy but russia sees this kind of punitive legislation as interference in their internal affairs going to be washington d.c. thank you for bringing your subsidiary to. russia let's talk again the but the eurozone finance ministers and cyprus let's go to that report now from tessa reseller. 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 quench 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 that was really protesters for the past few days it's just a few meters from parliament which is just over here but people's empty 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 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 the going to see what happened in cyprus and are going to pull 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 sown seeds of fear i would be trying to single cent i have from europe because the president has been sent here to the good works and i'm afraid that this will happen in greece afraid not for my future but for my children's future of. no 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 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. but we're also process taking drastic measures to meet the demands of international lenders another european nation iceland has shown that there is another path the nordic countries face virtual bankruptcy back 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 it can offer looks at how the country's now 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 but 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 of 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 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 private banks in the case went to an international court the after court found iceland was in the right einstein was not responsible for this immense and refused the claims of 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 son equal in europe but that part's falls are sized once relationship if you don't burn the outside world normalized. international

investors are coming back to the count three. thanks i 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 but you want to find it in mainstream media why perhaps to avoid giving ideas to anyone else under pressure. you know has can offer still ahead for you as attention continues to mount on the korean peninsula the u.s. states you would never accept north korea as a nuclear power 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 what's behind cattle ballooning foreign investments we explore which countries are benefiting from the gulf monarchies billions and ask of us just about diversifying the economy or not. anger over the hunger strike a growing town of a 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 it is going to port now i was at the demonstration in new york for us. times square is considered one of the best places in the u.s. to advertise a product of mass age for our brands and that is why civil rights attorneys. oops 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 to 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 detainee's their say that u.s. officials mishandled at their core and stirring up a cell search and not see 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 team 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 author where he is 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 forced to drink from the sinks in their cells which are attached to it it's now this new york rally is part of a nationwide day of action to close guantanamo and. and 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've kept track of the hunger strike could go on tell the world from the very start of the protests we've got opinion from high profile politicians lawyers and human rights activists want of a special section on a website called. campaign and game venezuela chooses a new president chavez choice runs against

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international airport in the very heart of moscow. hello again qatar is boosting its financial presence abroad amassing billions of dollars in foreign assets and its economic expansion is not limited to arab countries either with cash from flowing to europe and the u.s. as well now well carter 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 qatar's 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 results in the world as the battle rages 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 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 and dition qatar has been diversifying its areas of interest and 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 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 meticulous 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. increased political influence abroad in addition to possibly exporting its own particular conservative brand of islam as its investments increase year on year it is yet to be seen what power this tiny yet super wealthy emirates will wield in the future. held true there reporting for us well as always we're eager to hear what you think about the big stories of the day

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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 that threat heavy 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 was visiting seoul earlier mistakenly published pentagon intelligence reports suggested pyongyang may be able to deliver a nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile washington's been trying to downplay that assessment but many experts believe nonetheless the u.s. might be benefiting from keeping the situation right on the 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 is rather than

governments like the british one of course. 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 company and i got to say that he is even in britain will be benefiting greatly by all this news talk of a perceived north korean threat because everyone can upgrade there or is that alone . upgrading nuclear weapons of mass destruction in violation of any type of protection of the nonproliferation treaty. online and out si dot com we present

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activist immortal technique who believes chavez stood up to washington in a way few others. 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. 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 the political course of the late president chavez to continue join r.t. on sunday if you can for coverage of the country's presidential election. campaign endgame venezuela chooses a new president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible then as well it use after calming down days self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes ople fourteenth.

as the world marks fifty two years since the first manned flight into war but the head of russia's space agency's announced it's working now on a fundamentally new spacecraft capable of interplanetary flight and has much more on the space agenda too for russia as it starts construction of a state of the art space port ready to host rocket launches from twenty fifteen and his legacy ofc reports. this now 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 of the baikonur cosmodrome which

certainly belongs to kazakhstan and the geographic location of the draw me is much more convenient. 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 is 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 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 is

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. thirty to see whether russia's lunar program can be successful but we know for sure that these space ships will be launched from here from the russian far east. so if you want to try to rush a space history check out the gallery on our website pioneer moments caught on camera there at home coming up as u.s. secretary of state john kerry waits to see if his israel palestine peace initiative crosstalk debates literally healed anything at all.

with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the u.s. they 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 org the u.s. needs about three point six trillion dollars of infrastructure spending by two thousand and 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 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 allowed politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine that's just my opinion. download the official publication yourself choose your language stream quality and

enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. please. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle but john kerry expresses shuttling through the middle east in search of peace once again a u.s. administration claims to be a fair broker to resolve the israel palestine conflict after forty four years of occupation and colonization of palestinian land what can we expect if anything from the obama administration is it time to reckon with.