head of the u.n. says the syrian regime is still cracking down on the opposition described pledges from damascus to cease military activity within days. self declared coup leaders in mali agreed to step down and hand power to civilians after immense pressure from neighboring countries or in two weeks of literally rule. and critics lash out at the u.s. for trying and sentencing youths as adults describe it as cruel and unjust.

here with r.t. a very warm welcome from today well our top story now the head of the u.n. has severely criticized the syrian government for ongoing violence in the country ban ki moon says next week's cease fire date is no excuse for continued killing in the run up to the deadline fresh shelling is being reported across syria dozens of alleged fatalities in the past twenty four hours alone a mask blames the bloodshed on terrorists on the unarmed like turkey and some of the gulf states u.n. security council wants both sides of the conflict but a complete cease fire in place within five days will face unspecified further measures but some observers think the u.s. backed syrian opposition is too committed to regime change to give up now. if you have a cease fire where the rebels are under that cease fire and say ok we're we're no longer going to engage in violence against this regime then. what was the point of

starting the rebellion in the first place and and so it's very unlikely that the rebels are going to use any of this these are to consolidate their position and continue with their goal the u.s. for example is pressuring the assad regime to relinquish power they're doing it under this are a democracy in freedom well this is just hypocrisy we know that the u.s. loves a dictatorship they just sent one point three billion dollars to the egyptian dictatorship they support the dictatorship in bahrain because of the u.s. military base near what's involved here in syria is a dictatorship that is not pro u.s. and so the u.s. sees this is an opportunity for regime change if we can get rid of this dictator and install a pro u.s. military dictator like in egypt and in other other places around the world in the u.s. will be satisfied but make no mistake about it this is not some glorious cause on the part of the west you in stark and

a pro freedom pro democracy regime this is about empire isn't always this. marlee's a coup leaders have agreed to step down and hand power to civilian rule in return for an end to sanctions imposed by the countries where it neighbors as part of the agreement of a fifteen state west african us will lift the trade and fuel bands of mardi gras aniston to the region to the country split interest because you know an interim president and organize elections within forty days of a stable democracy is the region he was plunged into crisis but she seized on top of the president last month unhappy with the way he was dealing with insurgency taking part in the chaos rebels in the north declared independence for the area according to what is going to list here as me as the rebels have been inspired by the uprising in libya. until. there is an element of al qaida and i think that is an aspect that one. just look at what is happening in the

vacuum the spring the in the arab world in tunisia in egypt and so on plus also the nato attacks that took place in libya that has opened a pandora's box where you lot of our men a lot of soldiers who were working in the gadhafi regime in libya have come back to their own countries the rebels have effectively. got rid of an elected president but at the same time the rebels themselves do not have very clear credentials if you like the elements who are supposedly trying to liberate the people themselves have very big carriers very colorful very dangerous bad ground. but on these stories can be found at any time on our web site r.t. dot com it's a taste of what's online today guilty as charged colonel gadhafi is inferential son saif al islam faces the most serious accusation in libya has managed to back with

it since he's failed to take a license to his camels. and that's why that i mean for that suppressed bill gates raises the lid of controversy by paying to term sewage into drinking water details on the website of. the johns but the price of juicing the flying car just changed seventy nine thousand dollars. website and. there hasn't been anything yet to be. used to get the maximum political impact on. the food source material is what helps feed journalism we. we want to preserve. something.

america's prisons are overflowing but many who are kept behind bars just children thousands of you try those i thoughts in the u.s. every year and somewhat different life sentences in the country's harshest prisons men even find themselves becoming victims of sexual violence and suicide as one reports authorities in western pennsylvania have charged eleven year old jordan brown as an adult so the boys will have line a trial together in adult court but late that his sentence is also the length of it's a life they're not old enough to drive drink or go but in america kids as young as seven years old can be tried as adults when you hold the youth accountable the same manner and fashion in which you hold an adult that's just not right and it's not there michael can't knows what it's like to be a kid locked up in an adult prison you never know what went on my daughter and i do to you so you could be fair and i. was going to happen to me he was locked up for

the first time when he was twelve years old here at oak hill juvenile correctional facility or killed and that wasn't and there was a desire to rehabilitate you desire for punishment you know who is around again in these pain and you. lived there like most kids that serve time as a juvenile in the us he got into trouble again at seventeen he was charged with armed robbery as an adult he says for a kid being in an adult prison is a constant struggle to survive they know where you come off the worst and you don't have any. sort of pull you won't be in reality trying to get a favorite you for as a sexual act you know it is you think that you know if you become someone's. person was spared from sexual abuse but many kids aren't so lucky in fact one in five victims of sexual violence in jails and prisons are under the age of eighteen youth

and all facilities are thirty six times more likely to commit suicide than those in the juvenile system and any given day in america ten thousand children are held in adult jails and prisons most of them have never been convicted of a crime and kids are fair game for solitary confinement camps as for five months he spent twenty three and a half hours per day locked up alone i could have went crazy and. i just i wouldn't i want to say we're not going to do for my own critics slam the practice of putting kids in adult jails as cruel and unusual punishment a day or less capable of understanding the consequences of their behavior their development is incomplete and that's why the supreme court struck down the death penalty for juveniles in two thousand and five but today the united states is the only country that sentences kids to life without parole it was viewed as a substitute to the ultimate penalty there are now twenty five hundred inmates that

were sentenced to die in jail as children this is a peculiar american phenomenon in which we tend to believe that harsher the penalty is the greater the public safety payoff kids should instead be rehabilitated says that's the focus of washington d.c. as newly opened new beginnings now walking into a classroom at new beginnings is much different from walking into a classroom at other given i'll detention facilities that this is considered to be a model facility it's a system based on rewards rather than punishment and experts say that this system is much more effective at rehabilitating you to become productive members of society i don't fortunately places like this and the us are rare here kids are given a second chance but in most prisons throughout the country remain america's forgotten children hope for the future gone i generally in washington liz wahl r.t. . so to come this are a costly hobby. when you when you get this good feeling it's

a. good idea to make some money by plane ever making money by. gambling compulsion is taking over with more people falling victim to an industry to drain you dry. just a few minutes. spain is causing a headache to investors with pressing concerns it may require international banks to help handle its debts the government is implementing a big austerity program at a time when almost a quarter of its workforce is unemployed a recession is on the door once again and the reports from madrid where your forty's are dealing with the crisis is leaving people reaching the end. for a construction which is now in ruins lately old the spanish economy has been building is discontent expensive failure is still strewn across the country the hundred fifty million euro cast elana airports be one of the most catching today it

stands largely on used. and from madrid to barcelona. reminders of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here. because i know you said he said he thought it was a chance he said nobody would be sick out back after the nation then you lost it maybe you can be kicked out because of all these though these new low and we think and later said like us. here is even among the crowds of get out there is an appetite for their seat problems laws away these parts of days and for the tens of thousands of people who gathered here in madrid and across the rest of the country many think that he made the wrong place we don't know what to do so we resourced to for all we whatever is the line at all. without paying attention to the fact that

maybe those of us have different interests don't have our national interests at heart but some don't think government policies to blame mariano is familiar with austerity is just sports ability should be shouldered by the individual. everyone only in probity and having a good car but it was just an illusion. to do with. we live beyond the. spade having to slash twenty seven billion euro from its budget many are outraged that even education and health care will suffer from the cuts at a time when unemployment is higher than ever. we would just see this global swindling means the financial sector in question is whether we've learned a lesson. good lessons from the past and not what the unemployed twenty three percent in spain are looking for they just won't work on a government that can provide it with many believing that cuts to health care

education and job security are a stable foundation and which troop build the country's future degrees. madrid. take a look at some other stories from around the world this hour egypt's former vice president says he intends to run as a candidate next month's presidential election. well that was ousted from office last year he says he will run if he receives the thirty thousand signatures needed some movement credence to pull himself out of the race that changed his mind about the interest of demonstrators to set. up a stunning media is reporting an avalanche has buried up to one hundred fifty soldiers now missing. in the border with india for eight soldiers as the rescue operation is underway such accidents are very common in the area two years ago another in the country's mountainous region claimed thirty people.

there is a new president out loud so hard he is trying to military chiefs who are close to the countries formally. in the placement of the top twenty officials the reshuffle came as al qaeda gunman launched two attacks against government sites suicide missions targeting security forces have intensified since friday took office in february. protests against sandals regime. christian community across the world are celebrating good friday with costs and they don't press services in churches holidays and so before easter sunday is really just a according to the christian faith acknowledges the crucifixion of christ but christians that good friday was wrecked on easter sunday easter also marks the end of lent a forty day period of fasting prayer and. well later in the

program when the private lives become public. begin to find out regardless anyway so that's the way i look at it so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail i have nothing but they're going to find a importance in my e-mail but it's your e-mail and it's your life and they don't have any right to look through i agree with you on that. it's the streets of new york to ask whether a government should be doubts about its citizens on law and they national security . thus far they're really going for gold. side of preparations for the twenty fourteen winter olympics and such.

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russia would be so much brighter if you want a balanced song from balanced impression. from start totty dot com. it's a craze that pushes people to the edge and turns many into addicts and gambling diseases

spreading faster than ever in the u.k. and multibillion dollar industry is doing little to help out is either bennett speaks to those whose lives have been crushed by the compulsion. a kidney the simon drink and drugs will be revealed ronald's a compulsive gambler he started dating when he was fifteen and couldn't stop but fifteen years is addictions left him with nothing or years ago inherent. boredom of male control of my money and got hooked on movement with things in. a month i was the most seen last in one day well with regular and brought friends i was not all rounder that the night would you want to with the last. one gambling and we wanted to celebrate it's a gamble if you lose you want to get your money back it's not what we know losing hope. well can you just walk away once you. know. what's

coming. lost every penny or had ronald pawned his grandfather's war medals and stole from his own family staging pay so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling and told me in seventy two hours i didn't have the money back. you know and the sad thing was that i did not apply a mere name but the sickness in morehead told me but now you can go out and gamble to morrow with that money we no money pile and slip money. and so thought about for didn't know when the money for a number on the money would you think you thought you know it's a five prison terms two divorces and being shunned by his family for ronald to finally manage to walk away he hasn't gambled for three years but for the gambling industry addictions like his mean profit today one in ten seventeen year olds is at risk of developing the same dangerous compulsion a shocking statistic from

a leaked regulators report the industry tried to silence so you have a gambling reg regulator which is relatively feeble which is in bed with the gambling industry which isn't in the slightest degree interested in the prevention of gambling harm and there's the rub britain's one of the few countries in the developed world that actually allows children to gamble and this and places like this don't actually there is film inside but even kids are allowed to play on the arcade machines in there for the jackpot of up to five pounds johns just eighteen and has already been gambling for four years first scratch cards then the lottery now online poker gets it's a win. loss it. comes to live together to. make a grand way to get money from my winnings go straight back in syria. go read the

system from. your money every song. like ronald john turned to crime to pay for his addiction selling drugs and stealing his only income now is unemployment welfare but as soon as he gets it it disappears like money was born. a generation is when you when you get this good feeling yeah a really good idea to make the money back they never making money back. the thing you've got a problem she said. yeah definitely. how serious. is what. john recognizes his problem but countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling it's only ever one winner arthur bennett r.t. london. the online privacy may soon become a thing of the past as governments around the world attempt to closely monitor

internet users artie's resident new yorker hit the streets of manhattan to find out just how much information people willing to share. in the name of national security governments around the globe are trying to pass legislation that allows them to monitor censor and disrupt people online are you ok with that this week let's talk about that for national security reasons i wouldn't object to that bazza but cicada isn't it yeah it should be illegal so you trust them to use that power wisely. i haven't think about it but i think so yes i come from finland you know so that does make a difference. maybe if you're in the u.s. or some other place in my field then yeah exactly security risible privacy also counts so for me it's. going to find out regardless anyway so

that's where i look at it so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail i have nothing but they're going to find it important so my e-mail but it's your e-mail and it's your life and they don't have any way to look true i agree with you on that. but. it's hard to explain i guess you know it's just the nature of a world where you have to. have some type of power you know to be. we just have to try to let the right person that's where you get the chance that's why you have a ballot you know that's where you got to you vote and vote for somebody who you think you can trust part of it i couldn't stand why they're doing it but i also don't want them to get too much into you know our personal business you know yeah it's a tough call it is do you think that's just the way it's going and you know as a society as we move more on line inevitably our line is going to be not so free yes i do believe that video you think about that when you go online that someone

might be watching all the time but more and more hackers and stuff like that so that was my biggest concern you know not the government not the government because they're probably already looking. but they're. now you think it's ok for a government to monitor it but it them the bottom line is before you post anything on line you might want to consider who could be listening. there's a fresh diplomatic fallout between moscow and washington after a u.s. court sentenced russian businessman to twenty five years in prison he was found guilty of conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists and kill americans are thing arrested in a sting operation four years ago it was carried out the drug enforcement administration and should have been busy elsewhere according to our team's ability contributor despite the fact that has nothing to do and has never been implicated in drug trafficking he was set up and they're pretty handed prosecuted under the pressure

from the dea despite the fact that it's not the top priority of the drug enforcement agency under the u. s. occupation the op your. production in afghanistan has skyrocketed forty times since the beginning of the operation in europe are you because the. credit bigger fish to fry instead of hunting down drug lords guinness there they were choosing victor book not as an interaction aloof force from an agency know they were hunting them down as secret police from the cold war era. well we want to know what you think about the case of victimhood welcome to our web site r.t. dot com or participate latest web poll for the most harmful or believe the reason

behind the sentence is that he was competing with us back. in athens a secret russian agent comes up next and there's a time between those who say he was smuggling arms to us enemies and those of you who say it is a bit to know what it would. corn like to cost your bit. as the russian resort city of sochi to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics the whole city is receiving an acre over helping the coming game stand on war solid ground the preparations have already led to a unique archaeological find and this prosecutor is underground searching for. the discovery that would make indiana jones eyes light up the ruins of the ninth century byzantine temple emerging from the ground as a future olympic park takes chief i'm now entering one of the hidden underground tombs. inside the graves of the parishioners monks and priests some of them are believed to have been martyrs for their fate until last year these ancient ruins

were hidden layer of rubbish only when this location was picked as a future olympic venue for the sochi winter games in two thousand and fourteen with every corner carefully surveyed and examples all the wide once again and then surprisingly pristine condition for centuries these plodding stones kept the ceiling from collapsing but of all the match we assume it contained organic materials like egg white to give it extra strength but this is the most prized discovery played with the biblical to stun it the first time anything like it has been found on the russian black sea coast. it's a story of same being your who was thrown into the lion's den but instead of killing him the winds licked his feet this rarity and other findings here will no. on display in sochi precious artifacts which would otherwise never have been found will take their place alongside bilin big athletes who create history themselves in

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