the head of the u.n. says the syrian regime is still cracking down on the opposition despite pledges from damascus to cease military action within days. but the regime claims that terrorist activity has risen sharply as the rebels continue to fund a u.n. brokered peace plan. self declared coup leaders in mali agreed to step down and hand power to civilians after immense pressure from neighboring countries following two weeks of military rule. and critics lash out at the u.s. for trying and sentencing you as adults describing it as cruel and unjust.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. the head of the un has severely criticized the syrian government for ongoing violence in the country banking room says next week's cease fire it is no excuse for continued killing not the deadline that's not the very latest from artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer called. greed to the terms of the peace plan and why isn't it matching words with action. well the basis criticism comes from the un chief banky moon who is complaining that damascus is not complying with the peace plan that was earlier put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi i'm not in essence this means that the mascot is in violation of

a united nations security council statement on syria and according to that statement damascus has until april the tenth to get move on its troops and tanks from residential areas there was then a final deadline of six am april twelfth by which the opposition has to lay down arms and by which a total cease fire needs to be in effect now according to the united nations security council if this does not happen they will be to quote the u.n. security council third at measures and this is the strongest statement so far from the united nations what it does suggest though is that it is not binding and it does not have any kind of resolution of course but still it is a very serious statement for the u.n. security council to make damascus on the other hand says it has begun withdrawing its troops it says that there has been an increase in violence over the past few days that it puts the blame for that with the rebels and says that the rebels are being funded by countries such as saudi arabia qatar and turkey and that this needs

to be looked at the syrian government is also offering some kind of guarantees that the vacuum that is needed when it withdraws its truth is not pulled by these rebel fighters. paula what about the syrian opposition women are they taking steps to implement the peace plan. well so far there's been no confirmation from the syrian opposition that indeed they will agree to the conditions put forward by the united nations he spent thursday before would buy coffee or not and they all gunning for the unconditional departure of the syrian president bashar assad before they can be any kind of talks of permanent peace what we saw recently was the so-called friends of syria which really has become the friends of the syrian opposition and here we've had countries nuclear age support and increasing support for the syrian opposition they are calling for the syrian president bashar assad to step down they've also pledged more material support with countries like the united states

and its allies saying that they will give more financial support there will be an increase in salaries and want at the same time lawn bowls not only to the syrian government to listen to the international community the syrian regime has spoken to the u.n. chief banki moon and has pulled so-called terrorist at it's is on the increase and has been on the increase in the last few days in a once the u.n. and international attention to be focused on those on the basis of blaine's on the opposition fighters. they also use paula say a lot from sort of i think you're updating us on that but it's hard situation. but the u.s. backed syrian opposition is to commit it to regime change to give up now that's according to jacob weisberg that's the american based future freedom foundation. if you have a cease fire where the rebels are under that cease fire and say ok we're we're in 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 so it's very likely that the rebels are going to use any kind of a cease fire to consolidate their position and continue forward with their goal the u.s. great 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 dictatorships 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 there what's involved here in syria is a dictatorship that is not pro u.s. and so the u.s. sees this as an opportunity for regime change if we can get rid of this dictator and install a pro u.s. military dictator like in egypt or 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 in

the part of the west you in stark and a pro freedom pro democracy regime this is about empire isn't always this. a coup leaders have agreed to step down and hand to civilian rule in return for an end to sanctions imposed by the country's worried neighbors as part of the agreements the fifteen state west african bloc and course will lift trade and fuel burns with molly and grant amnesty through an engine to the country's parliamentary speaker will assume the role of an interim president and organizer lections within forty days the most stable democracies in the region probably was plunged into crisis when the military seized power and toppled the president last month unhappy with the way he was to do the insurgency taking profits of the last rebels to create independence from the area as a work political analyst. since the rebels have been present in libya could scupper return to all that. there is an element of. and i think that is an aspect that

one has to look at what is happening in the vacuum post the spring. 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 a lot of 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 if you like the elements who are supposedly trying to liberate the people themselves have very precarious very colorful very dangerous background. more news and stories can be found at any time on our website at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's going right not guilty as charged colonel gadhafi is inferential

son saif al islam this is the most serious accusation would be managed to back and his failure to obtain a license for his camels. it's rather. than just bill gates is that legal controversy by paying to turn sewage into drinking water details on a website called. the germs the price of introducing the flying car just two hundred seventy nine thousand dollars got our web site to find out. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact on. the food the source material is what helps keep journalism.

we want to preserve. something. america's prisons are overflowing but many who are kept behind bars are just children thousands of youths are tried as adults in the u.s. every year and some are given life sentences in the country's harshest prisons many then find themselves becoming victims of sexual violence and suicide as war reports . authorities in western pennsylvania have charged the eleven year old jordan brown as an adult the boys will have a line at trial together in adult court a link but his sentence is also the length of his wife they're not old enough to drive drink or vote 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 passion in which you hold an adult. it's just not right and it's not fair michael can't knows what it's like to be a kid locked up in an adult prison you never know what one of my daughters and i do

to you so you do be fair unlike. me he was locked up for the first time when he was twelve years old here at oak hill juvenile correctional facility ok it was not wasn't and neither was it designed so rehabilitation with disaster punishment you know having barwise around again and just but paying for. a life that like most kids that serve time as a juvenile in the u.s. 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 wow days we come off the bus and know dad you don't know did she want you to. sort of pull you when being reality trying to get a favor out of you far as a sexual act you know it is you you victim model you know and 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 on 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. just i was going to say we're not going to do whatever 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 penalties the greater the public safety payoff kids should instead be rehabilitated says that's the focus on washington d.c. as nearly opens a new beginnings now walking into a classroom at new beginnings is much different from walking into a classroom at other juvenile 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 i rehabilitating view to become productive members of society but unfortunately places like this and the u.s. 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 at an early age in washington liz wall

r.t. . still to come later this hour a costly hobby. when you when you get it's good feeling that you want. to get to meet somebody but they never make it. gambling compulsion is taking over more people falling victim to the industry any ses out to train you drive what that is just a few minutes. spain is causing a headache to investors who are pressing concerns it may require international aid to help handle its debts the government is implementing a big austerity program there at a time when almost a quarter of the workforce is unemployed and recession is going to do once again agrees reports from madrid the way the authorities are dealing with the crisis is leaving people raging in anger. for a construction which is now in ruins lately oldest spanish economy has been building is discontent expensive failure still lies strewn across the country the

hundred fifty million euro castile an airport be one of the most i catch ing today it stands largely unused. and from madrid to barcelona more stark reminders of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here everybody because as he said i am he says before the elections he said nobody will be sick out but at the daily show and then you know i said maybe they can get me kicked out because of all these go against neil and we think we have a labor simply because. here is even among the crowds of doubt there is an after time force there are six programs laws where these parts of days and for the tens of thousands of people are gathered here in madrid alone and across the rest of the country many think that he made the wrong place we don't know what to do so we resorts to following whatever is that the line that all of us think they are

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's familiar with austerity if is a sports ability should be shouldered by the individual. everyone enjoys owning property and having good cars but it was just an illusion this prosperity had nothing to do with lives. when they lived beyond their means who is spade hanging to slash twenty seven billion euros from his 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 receive this global swindling means the financial sector i question is whether we've learned our lesson . but lessons from the cost are not what the unemployed twenty three percent in

staying a looking for they just won't work and a government that can provide it with many believing that because the health care education and job security onerous. they should i wish to build the country's future do you agree. with dritte. restaurants take a look at some other stories from around the world egypt's vice president says he intends to run as a candidate in next month's presidential election. on the horizon that probably will be the setting run seems to fit in principle as needed so women had previously ruled himself out of this change his mind interested in trying to do so. pakistani media is reporting that an avalanche has buried more than one hundred soldiers in the disputed kashmir region after a military headquarters was engulfed. the rescue operation is now underway such

accidents are fairly common in the area two years ago another avalanche in the country's mountainous region claimed the lives of thirty eight people. hearings new president driver mansour hadi has fired two military chiefs who will close the country's formally rally on the sunday following the replacement twenty top officials reshuffle came as a government watched two attacks against government starts a suicide missions targeting security forces have intensified since i v took office in february for doing a year of protests against the regime. and the christian community across the world celebrating good friday with us and a long prayer service is a holiday is observed before easter sunday is a religious day going to the christian faith that marks the crucifixion of christ it's believed by christians that christ died on good friday and was wrecked on easter sunday easter also marks the end meant a forty day period of costing prayer and it's. well later in the program

when private lives become public. begin to bring our ergo there's a new. so let's look at it so you don't mind i'm not going 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 i agree with you on that party hits the streets of new york to ask whether a government should be allowed to monitor its citizens. all in the name of national security. finding a relic while going for gold. logical side of preparations for the twenty fourteen winter olympics and such. it's a craze that pushes people to the edge and turns many i think it's a gambling diseases reading ever in the u.k. multi-billion dollar industry is doing to help. those whose lives have been crushed

by compulsion. it could be the drink and drugs. ronald's a compulsive gambler he started dating when he was fifteen and couldn't stop for fifteen years is addictions left him with nothing or years ago. it was the most the last and one day we were with regular. how different. from what would you want to with. one of the. if you look you want to get your money back it's not what we know losing. can you just walk away once you. know what it called. reports 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. i didn't know the money but you know and the sad thing was i did my time there and then but the sickness of morehead told me but now you can go out and i am going to morrow with that money with no money upon them and so the money. and for the torah but for didn't run the money for a number on the money or would you think. it took 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 rate 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 in this in places like this they would actually let us film inside but even kids are allowed to play on the arcade machines in there with a 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 but gives it a win. loss of. nearly all together to. make a grand way to get money by winning stationery back in syria. go read system from every. child 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 will work. a generation is when you when you get this could feel him he's like yeah you won when you gave him money back they never making money back. kind of a scam. the thing you got a problem he said yeah. yeah definitely. how serious. this would ever get my. john recognizes his problem countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling it's only ever one winner on the bennett. london. online privacy may soon become a thing of the past as governments around the world attempt to closely monitor internet users. hit the streets of manhattan to find out just how much information

people are willing to share. in the name of national security governments around the globe are trying to pass legislation that allows them to monitor the answer 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 but that's ok 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. you know that does make you do. maybe if you're in the u.s. go or some other place that might go yeah exactly secure there is a privacy also counts so. we're going to find out regardless anyway so let's look at it so you don't mind i'm looking

through your e-mail. going to find important in my e-mail but it's your e-mail and it's your my bin they don't have any right to look through i agree with you on that . but. it's. hard to explain i guess. you have to. have some type of power you know to me. we just have to try to let the right person that's why you have a ballot you know that's where you go to vote for somebody you can trust part of it i could say and why they're doing it but i also don't want them to get too much into you know our personal business. card. 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 mind can it be not so free yes i do you think about that when you go on line that someone might be watching all the time but more and more hackers and stuff like that so it's not because you're not

the government. whether or not you think it's ok for a government to monitor its citizens the bottom line is before you post anything on line you might want to consider who could be listening. there's fresh diplomatic fallout between moscow and washington after u.s. court sentenced russian business me to twenty five years in prison he was found guilty of conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists and kill americans being arrested during a sting operation four years ago it was carried out by the drug enforcement administration which should have been busy elsewhere. despite the fact that has nothing to do and has never been implicated in drug trafficking he was set out and air crew handed prosecuted on to pressure

from the dea despite the fact that it's not the top priority of the drug enforcement agency under the u s r q patient up here on russia's production in afghanistan has skyrocketed forty times since the beginning of the operation enduring appeal because the da had a bigger fish to fry instead of hunting down drug lords in afghanistan they were choosing victor bush not as interation aloof force from an agency know they were hunting them down as a secret police from the cold war era but we want to know what you think about the case of activity log on to our website r.t. dot com and participate in our latest web poll let's have that today yes this hour almost half of you believe the reason behind this sentence is that these competing u.s. backed. option that is

a secret russian agent comes in second amendment and is a time between people who think he was smuggling arms to u.s. enemies and then sustainability is a victim of hollywood mythology. constantly. now is the resort city of sochi gears up to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics they hope to have since receiving a make over a month helping at becoming game stand on more solid ground preparations already that unique archaeological find but it's underground such an operatic. a discovery that would make indiana jones eyes light up the ruins of a ninth century byzantine temple emerging from the ground as a future olympic park takes shape i am now entering one of the hidden underground tombs. inside would agree to subdue new parishioners monks and priests some of them are believed to have been models for their faith until last year these ancient

ruins were hidden layer of rubbish only when this location was picked as a future olympic venue put us all to winter games in two thousand and fourteen was every corner carefully surveyed and the temple saw the light once again and then surprisingly pristine condition for centuries these plodding stones kept the ceiling from collapsing but of all the map shapes we assume of container gannett materials like egg white to give it extra strength but this is the most prized discovery a point with the biblical tale etched on it the first time anything like it has been found on the russian black sea coast. it's a story of saying being your who was thrown into the lion's den but instead of killing him the lions leave his feet this rarity and other findings here will now go on display in sochi precious artifacts which would otherwise never have been found will take their place alongside the olympic athletes who create history themselves two years time then a sports r

t sochi. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories shocker stated up to. me is that easy.