we crossed to michael amoa he is an expert on africa at the london school of economics ok anthony if i could go to you first how would you describe the situation in rwanda because there's a lot of positive news coming out but there's a lot of political news that isn't so positive so give me the balance. that's true what rwanda is going through is kind of interesting transition as we have seen that has been making a lot of positive progress in terms of economic development over the past twenty years so this is a combination of both good governance and less than forty in aid but more importantly the gyro the one people they want to achieve a better future that's why they've been implementing a lot of good policies in terms of moving forward the countries ok michael in london how would you assess the situation in the country. i mean i think i can say that you know g.d.p. for example has been increased for the past three years at least it was about seven point two percent in two thousand and ten went up to eight point six percent in two thousand and eleven and seven point seven percent i

i mean even the western media even the police of london of else warning after the election. about the danger for the people who are crossing. now this is about this on opposition but what about eight to ten million people or six to ten million people depending on the balance in congo. it's absolutely unbelievable that we can sit here and even discuss the issue of the economical grows. ever think it's congo is being plundered while children been men of man a killed today to destroy. that was that you had not been going to board do years ago let the u.n. track down the activities that will soon be soon to be border reports one after another and list of must meet is just refusing one of the really one of the reasons that's one of the things why we're doing this program anthony would you like to reply to anything we just heard yeah i think that's why i guess i only have misspoken petered out it was andre's point of what i was saying it was one sided yes i mean those political situation and security situation it's kind of listen it's a developing situation we have to look into re

artsy london. it's in the venues that has united millions around the world also so moscow turned the lights off the in the kremlin for the very first time and earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to medina coltrane about about the fascination of. taki love you and for so many here in russia and i'm sure worldwide it was a very inspiring and a very uniting moment not only for those on the ground but in space as well as russian cosman out on the minute he supported that movement and he actually filmed a video but he did that in space and i guess we can now listen to a bit of it you can see clearly just how much our planet needs care and protection when i first came on board the international space station i was amazed by the beauty of the earth it's the most important thing we've got it's a. completely it depends on us on how we treat it support the earth and we'll be watching up here how the earth finally gets its hour of rest well it is a symbolic movement really it was made to attract more attent

our correspondent in london there tonight. the major storm sweeping across the u.s., more than a dozen states will be hit just as the work week agains. ginger is standing by tonight in what is being called the fat what is being called the fat diet in every sense of the >>> california republicans picked a new leader tonight during the spring convention? sacramento. delegates elected jim grilchy and charmed him with repairing the image and recruiting more candidates. >>> former nba player, dennis rodman, sat down for an interview with abc news this morning. he talk about his trip to north korea where he met with and was entertained by kim jong-un. >> really great leaders. >> in the country, i saw a country. i saw people respect him and his family. that's what i mean about that. >> aren't they forced to? >> well, i'd say no. i think -- tell you something. this is a different view. i sat with him for two days, and one thing he asked me to give obama something to say and do one thing. he want obama too do one thing. call him. >> am

morgan's london whale they outsource to the city of london because their regulatory environment is correct yeah yeah london is basically kind of like the cayman islands except without such nice weather. that's the way you know it is viewed as a supine jurisdiction and in terms of in terms of regulation and you know i've been there there's a great book called treasure island by this guy nick saxon who writes for the f.t. and he does a great history of that and you know yeah i don't think it's a coincidence that you know the the london whale c.i.a.o. stuff was going on in london you know a i.g.f. he was in london so it's viewed as something of a regulatory haven it sounds like a financial porn film starring mary jo white called supine regulation. that. comment or else move on so who's going forward what can we i'm really interested is big coin we only have a minute or so left a lot of people myself included i have become the defacto face of bitcoin around the world i didn't create it but i'm now the face of bitcoin but nevertheless he said modestly. through what is the potential for a bit co

electricity it's a new a liberal it's a beautiful capitalist model very much in washington and in london and it's absolutely. irresponsible to say that there is any social equality i mean the plunder that the forming can go to distributing among the population the same can be said about uganda and other you know go who are in this project and you know they're also very complex story simple genocide let's talk only about genocide of ninety ninety four zero four zero zero hutu skilling tutsis there was also preceding issue of. attacking rwanda and shooting probably down the airplane but did on that and boom the end presidents something that i have testimonies from the united nations investigative sume crown prosecutors who got sidelined by the united nations and. forced to resign when they found out that the bulk of them is full of the. responsible for shooting down the airplane and then it was you know anthony. and the on board anthony you know it's seems like we in the in the media you want to have a good story about rwanda because of the genocide i mean is this because of guilt in the w

morgan trader bruno extolled the so-called london whale in an eight point six billion dollar lawsuit against the bank remember j.p. morgan was lehman's a clearing bank and so as the special privilege of seeing what was going in and out of lehman brothers lehman argues that they had an unnecessary collateral call that caused them to go down right in the top brass says we don't have any accountability at arm's length we don't know what's going on we never saw the i don't know i was out of a dinner i want to know what they're doing just give me a bonus i don't know what's going to give them a tribute but it would give me money you give me my money. anyone in the sky they walk away and then checking to see if their wallets from stone remind everybody about what this case is about september lehman brothers collapse september fifteenth two thousand and eight and lehman and its unsecured creditors today accuse j.p. morgan of using its access to lehman to extract eight point six billion of collateral in the four business days ahead of the chapter eleven filing they argued that it still had a

i love it. >> london has changed, as every city has. you certainly will not have any of those bankers wearing bowler hats and numberless. more to the point, london out is tremendously diverse. paris is becoming in admitting that it is more a diversity, and there's a little line for me quite hidden away the says i'm very much a parisian or i'm interested in parisian women, but not quite sure that i ever met a parisian woman. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that my education, i have been looking at old movies that i love. we speak about the reputation of the parisian, which was supposed to dress very well. i think that, you know, in france, the eccentricity -- for me, eccentricity is very chic and it is what i love. it is so much about the good taste, which paralyzed. it is still a city where everybody meets profession, sure, but it is sad that you did not seek only may be in the young people, but you do not see when people are in the rain, let's say, in society, like having the joy to address. like you have to be like the col

washington we have willard sanchez he's a research fellow at the council on hemispheric affairs and in london we crossed to richard got he is a former latin american correspondent and editor for the guardian or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it richard if i go to you first the recent referendum overwhelmingly passed so we should recognize self-determination of those people living on those islands yes or no. self-determination doesn't apply to a smooth group of people living on an island miles away from the mainland of britain. ok that was very clear it looks jump in. but i tell you it certainly does it doesn't matter if it's one single person they have the right of self-determination is clearly outlined in the u.n. charter this is a very fundamental rights and they have exercise this right and the world should listen ok you guys are being real quick here alex. it. could be short for the past few years the argentine gorgon has accused the u.k. of a policy of twenty first century calling at least some into ireland's at

in london the british conservative m.p. brooks newmark told me earlier that the prospect of bankers leaving london is much worse than public outrage at their excessive pay packets. we're well aware of the toxicity of this issue and we're well aware of the insensitivity of many bankers some of the big banks in terms of the way they have rewarded themselves given these times of out starting but there is a practical problem which is that the people who are in banks and banks themselves are very mobile so they can go anywhere in the world they don't need to be in london or paris or frankfurt or even zurich for that matter they can go anywhere and do their business because most business is done online or on a telephone or can be done abroad city of london is a hugely important center for us in terms of our expertise it contributes a huge amount to the exchequer and if we damage that by trying to penalise those who actually you know do do a good job within their banking institutions we're going to drive that business away i do no

so big solid russian tycoon an outspoken kremlin critic boris berezovsky has died in london aged sixty seven some reports saying he committed suicide. and thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a prominent sunni pre-check killed in a suicide attack on a packed mosque on thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight others. for the morning of just joined us kevin owen here at r.t. this morning tired after midnight now here in moscow and our top story than cyprus and international lenders have managed in the last few hours to strike a long awaited agreement on taxing bank deposits of over one hundred thousand euros held with the country's biggest bank customers who keep large sums of money in other banks will also be forced to sacrifice part of their savings or not so much to the country sending economy. has got the latest details. what we have now is an agreement for twenty percent cuts for the positive above one hundred thousand euros in the back of cyprus that's the country's biggest lender and four percent on the positive about two thousand in other banks so this has been

in london so yeah it is just the u.s. copying this a racket course it's a racket but the problem is that there have been built up around the procedure in the procedures that existed with this kind of investigative brouhaha we've built up over the last the last few years but i'm sure there are there are detectives of scotland all of who would love to get their teeth into h.s.b.c. i mean i'm absolutely convinced of it the problem is that procedurally. assumes they showed any sign of interest in investigating a crime investigated by the way because part of our money the one ring law says that we can investigate crimes in this country even though they were committed to brewer and we can investigate them as if they were committed in this country so that isn't a problem but is there a bigger risk around and that they're sending a mixed message to the population so last year for example there were these riots and in london buildings were torched and there was finger pointing at the poor people all who don't respect britain and h

live from london. thank you. what with the afghan presidential election approaching next year the taliban says it's seriously considering entering politics former official in the militia said the group could launch a political party but that doesn't necessarily mean an end to the insurgency of course one of the original goals of the u.s. led war in afghanistan was to remove the taliban from power so let's have a look at what this has cost both countries well since the launch of the military operation in two thousand and one more than two thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed total coalition losses have topped three thousand lives the number of americans injured in the line of duty exceeds seventeen thousand and the death toll among afghan civilians is staggering more than thirty thousand lives lost in the war and from the human factor to financial burden of the war but as far as america's concerned the price tag of the decade long effort is a massive seven hundred billion dollars now if the taliban return to po

bonuses in europe sees britain routed and mounting a last defense of the lavish executive pay outs and london's last great industry thanks in protesters in the line of fire as israeli security forces are accused of resorting to live bullets as a method of crowd control. one in the afternoon moscow time my mattress are bringing you our breaking news coverage here on r t venezuela's longstanding leader hugo chavez died after losing a battle with cancer the last almost two years the charismatic leader suffered a number of health complications after returning from his latest round of treatment in cuba seven days of mourning have started in a country where millions are grieving words of condolence have come in from around the world including from traditionally friendly latin american states plus russia and the u.s. but among the sadness is also anger of venezuela's vice president nicolas maduro who broke the news and assume interim power accuse the country's quote historical enemies of having a hand in the death chavez himself held a hard line and to u.s. stance during fourteen years in power his la

tina kraus has more from london's king edward's hospital. good morning, tina. >> reporter: good morning. well, the queen is not one to make a fuss but she is here in the hospital this morning in london, and as the monarch grows old eric palace officials are careful, especially careful not to take any chances with her health. british police are on gord outside the london hospital where queen elizabeth spent the night with a stomach infection. palace officials say the 86-year-old monarch was admitted sunday afternoon with symptoms of gastroenteritis. she spent most of the weekend resting after she game illinois and canceled a meeting in wales. they canceled it hours before she was taken to the hospital for the first day in nearly a decade. >> the queen has no time for illness, she absolutely resists it. the fact that she was taken to hospital that really suggests it's something really important. she's the last one to go in for minor ailments. >> reporter: the palace spokesman said the queen was admitted for precaution and is otherwise in good

london is a big city.not really that well known for its farming, but people are doing exactly that because they are growing weed in the heart of london. police have come up with a way to stop it. and a charity called crime stoppers has a cool method. it looks like a lottery ticket. you can actually scratch and sniff. i'm going to do that right now. oh, it smells kind of familiar, but not quite. >> no, because that's the growing stage and not the smoking stage or the burning stage. of course there are other signs to look for. just not the smell such as a lone person living in a house, never goes out, windows blackened out, high heat, condensation on the windows, et cetera. >> what about the people growing it? is it mainly organized crime or what? >> that's what we're interested. organized criminal groups and organized crime. we're not interested in somebody growing a pot plant on their window. this is about taking over houses completely for the purpose of farming cannabis. we don't want to know who you are,

has been harboring him for years how do you see this playing out as the relationship between london and moscow. or well most cool so what got used to that there were two hundred most wanted criminals who are now hiding in london and berezovsky of course was one of them and he was wanted not only by the russian court but also by the courts in switzerland to brazil in spain he was internationally known criminal unfortunately london also is known for providing political. refugio for a status for people like very softly. i don't think that. the death of the results he would influence the relationship between moscow and. actually all the damage which could be due to the relationship has already been done in cases like lead which of course be resolved he has very much to do these. various was extremely radioactive. all right to state my deputy if you just love it nic on off i thank you very much indeed for coming on r.t. today a pleasure to have your time. well coming away after a short break here and i certainly hope you can stay with us on this sunday. they've been living this way since the

the metropolitan police only serve london therefore i cannot take your request forward you can. interpol which point this gentleman response and says thank you thank you for responding but the british bank h.s.b.c. is managing controlled from the headquarters locator eight canada square canary wharf in london docklands borough of tower hamlets so what's going on here it does sound as if it's a major buck passing opportunity that was but the block passed the buck no that definitely is a buck passing of k. because the thing about the citizen is concerned because the bank his british bank h.s.b.c. is engaged in laundering mexican drug money cartel money this is irrefutable it's an alleged crime they admit to it and they're causing thousands and thousands of people being had it and burned alive in mexico cell he's concerned should the british people they concern yes i think british people should be concerned of course they should it's absolutely scandalous this bank and the point about it being headquarters here in kind of square is absolutely spot on and the mexican bank by the way

than fifteen percent because of all the contingent part of the economy or alliance on the city of london it's actually closer to seventy five percent of the g.d.p. of britain is tied to fraudulent banking tricks and crime so now that this is going into receivership now that the world's credit is collapsing britain won't go the way of cyprus so you have a lot of these islands are going into bankruptcy whether it's ireland cyprus i sort of course they stood up to the bankers so they're going to they're going to survive but britain is an island nation about to sink as they point out in this case with nicholas levine he was running a ponzi scheme a ponzi scheme pays returns to investors from other investors' money or their own until rather than legitimate profits no legitimate profits cut to. the ponzi economy that i said this man is like into the ponzi economy he appeared mises the economy of the u.k. here is what george osborne in his budget while we were in new york he tried to sneak it in he thought we wouldn't notice this but we're here to cover it budget twenty thirteen george osborne

story tonight self exiled russian tycoon an outspoken kremlin critic boris berezovsky has died in london age sixty seven with some reports saying he committed suicide. and thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide attack on a park mosque on thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight others. kevin at r.t. tonight busy news night first and straight to the news that cyprus and international lenders that we hear have struck a deal now to impose a twenty percent tax on deposits of over one hundred thousand euros held with a bank of cyprus customers who keep large sums of money in other banks will be forced to part with only four percent of the save exists get the latest details smarties tests or a seller either test the details only literally coming in the last couple of minutes that's the gist of it does that mean this is all sorted now or not. we still need to wait for even more details but that indeed is the latest and this is the long awaited legal way the for that percentage we've been waiting on a constitutional whether it will b