back to 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 some people as the rebels continue to study you in broken pieces that. talk to play it cool leaders in mali agree to step down and hand power to civilians after amounts of pressure from neighboring countries following two weeks of military rule. and critics that lash out you were asked for trying and sentencing you as adults describing it as cruel and unjust.

but from our studios in central moscow you're watching our tutor saturday with me and he said now our top story the head of the u.n. has severely criticized the syrian government for ongoing violence in the country but on ki-moon says next week's cease fire date is no excuse for continued killing in the run up to the deadline which is middle east correspondent paula sleep has the latest. this means is that damascus is in violation of a united nations statement on syria and according to that statement damascus has until april the tenth to withdraw all its troops and tanks from population centers there was then a final day of nine six am april the twelfth by which the opposition has of lay down arms and what we're hearing from the u.n.

security council is that if this is not it here today they will be to quote the u.n. security council so the measures now this is. the strongest statement from the united nations but it is not finding and it is not a resolution damascus at the same time is saying that there has been an increase in violence over the past few days but it puts the blame for their violence so me on the shoulders of the opposition it says what it once is guarantees that as it moves its troops out of the population centers this vacuum that will be created will not be fooled by the rebel fighters it also says that these rebel fighters continue to get support from countries such as qatar saudi arabia and turkey and if this is something that needs to be urgently addressed the opposition has not yet agreed to the conditions before with the united nations they're going for the unconditional departure of the syrian president bashar assad before they say they can be in talk of peace negotiations or peace plan on the table however what we've seen in the last few days is meetings of the so-called friends of syria but what this really

has become is friends of the syrian opposition with the united states and allies pledging more material support to rebel fighters they're also calling on syrian president bashar assad to step down and at the same time they say that they are committed to paying the salaries as well as providing communication equipment to these rebel fighters. but the u.s. backed syrian opposition is too committed to regime change to give up now that's according to. who has the american base future of freedom foundation. if you have a cease fire were 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 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 with their goal the u.s. for example is pressuring the assad regime to relinquish power they're doing it

under this aura of democracy and freedom well this is just hypocrisy we know that the u.s. loves dictatorships they just sit one point three billion dollars to the egyptian dictators you know they support the dictatorship in bahrain because the u.s. military base there was 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 this is not some glorious cause on the part of the west to install a pro freedom pro-democracy regime this is a car as it always lives. mollies killed leaders have agreed to step down and hand power 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 wants well lift trade and feel bad with mali and grant amnesty to the. country's parliament speaker will assume the role of interim president and organize with

actions within forty days one of the most stable democracies in the region in mali with crunch and crisis when the military seize power and topple the president last month i'm happy with the way he was dealing with insurgency taking advantage of chaos rebels in the north declared independence for an area they are called as a lot of political analysts. says the rebels have been inspired by the uprising in libya and could call for a return order. there is an element of al qaeda and i think that is an aspect that one has to 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 a lot of soldiers who were working in the gadhafi regime in libya have come back to

their own countries the rebels have effectively you know got rid of an elected president but at the same time the rebels themselves do not have very clean credentials if you like the elements who are supposedly trying to liberate the people themselves have very precarious very colorful very dangerous background. but more news than stories can be found at any time on our web site r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's online right now guilty as charged colonel gadhafi is influential son safe our slum faces the most serious accusation libya has managed back with evidence his failure to obtain a wife sent for his camels. and overthrow last known philanthropist bill gates raises the little controversy by paying to turn sewage into drinking water details that are tea car. parts be the jambs but at

a price introducing the flying cars for just two hundred seventy nine thousand dollars for a website to find out. america's prisons are overflowing but many were kept behind bars are just children thousands of youths are too. as adults in the u.s. every year and some are given life sentences in the country's harshest doubts many of them find themselves becoming victims of sexual violence and suicide this war reports. both ortiz in western pennsylvania have charged eleven year old jordan brown as an adult the boys will have one trial together in adult court the length of his sentence is also going to be so why 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 icon of all the same manner and passion 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 one of my daughters and i mean to you so you do it before and i. was wow between 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 in that wasn't and there was a desire to rehabilitate you desire for punishment you know having barwise around again energies but paying for. a life spared 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 where he is when you come off the bus and no good you don't have any pain or notice you just. sort of pull you when reality

trying to get a favor out of you for as a sexual act you know if they've been around a little you know and you become someone's. person was spared from sexual abuse many kids aren't so lucky and that's one in five victims of sexual violence in jails and prisons are under the age of eighteen youth and adults a syllabus 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 been crazy. because i was going to say we're not going to do for that moment critics slam the practice of putting kids in adult jails as cruel and unusual punishment but they are 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. the american phenomenon in which we tend to believe the harsher the penalties the greater the public safety pay off kids should instead be rehabilitated says that's the focus out of washington d.c. as newly opens a new beginnings that 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 at rehabilitating you 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 wahl r.t. . still to come later this hour for you a costly hobby. when you when you get this good feeling to say yeah you know when you get the idea to get to meet somebody back again he calls you back. the gambling compulsion is taking over with more people falling victim to an industry many say is out to drain you dry. the first pain is causing a headache for investors with classic concerns that may require international aid to help handle it stats the government is implementing a big austerity program there at a time when almost a quarter of the workforce is unemployed and recession is knocking on the door once

again let's take a cruise now reports from madrid the way the authorities are dealing with the crisis is leaving people raising an anger. for a construction which is now in ruins lately old the spanish economy has been building is this content expensive failures still strewn across the country the hundred fifty million euro castille an airport be one of the most only catching today it stands largely unused. and for madrid. and is of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here everybody because as he said he says before the elections he said nobody could be sick out but i think the nation then you know so maybe he can be helped and become a peace deal with these new real i'm we think and lagos it was not this late here is even among the crowds of god there is an appetite for us there see the problems

lloyd the way these cuts and for the tens of thousands of people who gathered in madrid alone i'm not 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 it is that the line. that alters the case without paying attention to the fact that maybe those of us have different interests who don't have our national interests at heart some game think government policies to blame mariano's familiar with austerity if is a sports ability should be shouldered by the individual. everyone the only improvement and having good cars but it was just an illusion. to have nothing to do with the lives of. many lives beyond their means. having to slash twenty seven billion euro from its budget and 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 the question is whether we've learned our lesson. but lessons from the past are not what the unemployed twenty three percent in spain are looking for they just won't work and a government that can provide it with many believing that cuts the health care education and job security all right stable foundation i wish to reveal the country's future to greece i'll see the dritte. head of virgin records and swearing in ceremony as russia's next president the country's communist party has staged or rally against elections that refuses to accept hundreds of comrades turned up just so their support in central moscow earlier on saturday our correspondent covering what sign was that. the red flags of the communist party as well as they play cards and then as had been flying high here in this case way in moscow with slogans say

a decent life there parliamentary election as well as rochelle because he said this gathering here was a. party members talking to them members say that if you want to be a false reckon with encampment we also want to be a very strong office. issue party the communist party didn't do so well in the recent parliamentary and presidential elections with the heat and the fun of only taking in seventy percent of the country's vote and even declaring that the elections will not play there will not be ditching it and that they will not transparent party now wants to revive think a little bit be looking at the lefties movement to try to shake up the communist party has all its leaders gone up only time will tell them what good leadership and the community with which way it will head to the will have to wait and see the results of the upcoming days what they decide. well time now to take a look at some other stories from around the world pakistani media is reporting an

avalanche was buried more than one hundred soldiers in the disputed kashmir region after a military headquarters was engulfed by a wall of snow rescue operations underway with reports claiming that some bodies have now been recovered 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. if the former vice president says he intends to run as a candidate in next month's presidential election i want to study mom served under hosni mubarak before the leader was ousted from office last year he says he'll run if you received the thirty thousand signatures needed so the man had previously ruled himself out of the race but changed his mind after hundreds of demonstrators urged him to do so. yemen's new president there are blue months or hardly has fired two military chiefs who were close to the country's former leader

so they following the replacement of nearly twenty top officials to reshuffle came as a kind of gunmen launched to attacks against government sites suicide missions targeting security forces have intensified so it's hard it's a conference in february following a year of protests against sunday's regime. of the christian. across the world has celebrated good friday with fast and long prayer services and churches the holiday is observed before easter sunday as a religious day according to the christian faith it marks the crucifixion of christ as believe by christians that christ died on good friday and was resurrected on easter sunday easter also marks the end of learnt a forty day period of fasting prayer and. later in the program when private lives become public. 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 going to have god it's called our seniors the streets of new york to ask whether a government should be allowed to monitor its citizens online while the name of national security. but finding a relic while going for gold we are on earth the archaeological side of preparations for the trying to fourteen winter olympics in sochi. now it's a craze that pushes people to the eyes and turns many into attics the gambling disease is spreading faster than ever in the u.k. and the multibillion dollar industry is doing little to help parties that are bennett spoke to those whose lives have been crushed by compulsory. could be the side was drinking drugs. again ronald's a compulsive gambler he started dating when he was fifteen and couldn't stop but fifty years is addictions left him with nothing years ago in her. life

and. the things that. really impressed me so much was the most she lost and one day when i was regularly and good friends i was not if i were going to do that tomorrow would you want to know. because you see one game we wanted to celebrate is a game or if you lose you want to get your money back it's not looking over losing . can you just walk away once you take on a compulsive gambler and. reports coming. lost every penny or had ronald pawned his grandfather's war medals and stole from his own family staging so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling. for good no the money back. you know and the sad thing was that i did my time there and made but the sickness

annoyed he'd told me but now you can go out and gamble to morrow with that money when the money part of my celebrity. unfortunately the thought of not forbidden are on the money for an about the money it will be thick with up to now it's 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 and this in places like this they don't actually let us film inside but even kids are allowed to play on

the arcade machines in there 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 but it's a win. loss if. you live together to. make way to get monica lewinsky a shave back in syria. go read sister drama every. minute 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 honeymoon. generation is when you when you get this could feel him one will use it again to make the money back they never making money back.

the thing you've got a problem he said. yeah definitely. series. john recognizes his problem but countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling there's only ever one winner either bennett r t london. online privacy may soon become a thing of the past as governments around the world attempt to closely monitor internet users russia's president new yorker 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 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 that's a case of 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 were in the u.s. or or some other place that might feel different yeah exactly security reasonable privacy also counts so for me it's. accepted we're going to find out regardless anyway so that's where we got 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 the world where you have to. have some type of power you know what i mean. we just have to try to elect the right person

that's where you get the chance that's why you have a ballot you know that's where you go out and 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 and yet it's a tough cause to tackle 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 is inevitably on lines going to be not so free yes i do you think about that when you go online that someone might be watching all the time but more and more hackers or something like that so that was my biggest concern you know not the government not the government because they're probably already looking. where they're. you think it's ok for a government to monitor if it is then the bottom line is before you post anything on line you might want to consider who could be left.

as the us and resort city of sochi gears up the host the twenty fourteen winter olympics the whole city is receiving a make over there helping the coming game stand on more solid ground the preparations have already led to a unique archaeological find to his role as he goes underground in sochi for r.t. . the discovery that would make indiana jones eyes light up the ruins of the ninth century byzantine turnbull emerging from the ground as a future olympic park takes shape entering one of the hidden underground tombs. inside the greeks of the parishioners 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 salty winter games in two thousand and fourteen with every corner carefully surveyed and the temple sought a wide once again and then surprisingly pristine condition for centuries these

plodding stones kept the ceiling from collapsing oval to match we assume it contains organic materials like egg white to give it extra strength but this is the most prized discovery played with the biblical tale on it the first time anything like it has been apparent of the russian black sea coast it's a story of st 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 years time there is a lot archie sochi. well just through moments we'll take you behind the scenes of russian movie banking behind bars that's coming up after a short break and every copy of our top stories.

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