hundreds of syrians stage a rally in damascus in support of president asad probably sharp criticism from the u.n. head of the world party says the syrian regime is still cracking down on the opposition despite pledges to cease fire. but the regime claims that terrorist activity has risen sharply as the rebels continue to shine you had brokered peace plan. and some of the cooder is in mali agreed to step down ahem power to civilians out tremendous pressure of neighboring countries probably true weeks of military rule. critics lash out of the you asked for trying and sentencing used as adults describing it as

cruel and unjust. it's three pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live from new sanaa way with your top story this saturday in the syrian capital hundreds turned out to show their support for president asad and his ongoing reforms a new constitution has already been answered in with parliamentary elections due to take place next month but the rally follows sark criticism of the syrian government from the un bunky moon blames the mascot's for the ongoing violence in the country he says there is no excuse for continued killing ahead of next week's ceasefire deadline set by the you learn argues moody's correspondent paul slayer has more. 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 pop. relations center's there was then a final day of nine six am april the twelfth by which the opposition has to lay down arms and what we're hearing from the u.n. security council is that if this is not here today they will be to quote the u.n. scooter council sort of the measures now this is the strongest statement from the united nations but it is not binding and it is not a resolution the masses 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 is guarantees that as it moves its troops out of the population centers this vacuum that will be created will not be thought of 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 that this is something that needs to be urgently addressed the opposition have not yet agreed

to the conditions put forward by the united nations they're going for the unconditional departure of the syrian president bashar assad before they say they can be any 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. heroes back syrian opposition is to committed to regime change to give up now that's according to trick of corn berger who has the american grace future of freedom foundation. if you have a ceasefire were the rebels honor that ceasefire 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. for example is pressuring the assad regime to relinquish power they're doing it under this aura of democracy and freedom 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 near 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 this is not some glorious cause on the part of the west you in stark and a pro freedom pro democracy regime this is an empire as it always is. all these coup the leaders have agreed to set down and have power to civilian rule in return

for an end to sanctions imposed by the countries where it neighbors as part of the agreement the fifteen state last african block who was leave trade left trade i should say and fuel bans with molly and grant amnesty to the ruling but countries parliamentary speaker will assume the role of the interim president and organize elections within forty days of the most stable democracies in the region mali was plunged into crisis when the military seize power and top of the president last month i'm happy with the way it was telling with certainty taking advantage of the chaos tarik rebels in the north declare independence for an area they are called as a wife publisher milton all their money says the rebels were spurred on by the uprising in libya and could scupper return order. for people to try to return. this rebellion is not charged with a war of that nature war in libya it's completely preposterous because we know that

it's because of because of the qaddafi regime after the nato integration that the rebels were able to well equip themselves with the most sophisticated weaponry and for the first time literally defeat the army or mali and that's exactly what's happening now the question is there are other insurance in other regions of the world that are also equally well equipped we might just be seeing the beginning of the aftermath of the collapse of the libyan government. but more news and stories can be found at any time on our web site r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's online for you today guilty as charged colonel gadhafi is influential son safe faces the most serious accusation libya has managed to back with evidence his failure to obtain a license for camels. all the time they are known for around proposed bill gates raises the lid of controversy by paying to turn sewage into drinking water details

of r.t. dot com. and be could downs but at a price introducing the flying car for just two hundred seventy nine thousand dollars i go to our web site to find out more. america's prisons are overflowing but many who were kept behind bars are just children thousands of you so tried as adults in the u.s. every year and some are given life sentences in the country's harshest jails many then find themselves becoming victims of sexual violence and suicide this is what reports. authorities in western pennsylvania have charged the revenue year old jordan brown as an adult the boys will have a line a trial together in adult court the length of his sentence is also the length of

this 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 fair michael can't knows what it's like to be a kid locked up in an adult prison you never know when you're my daughter and i do need you so you can 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 right ok well juvenile correctional facility ok it was and that wasn't and neither was the design and so rehabilitation was designed for punishment you know having barwise around the gay images but paying for. a lifestyle 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 we come off the worst and no get.

away from home so they pull you when you're in reality trying to get a favorite you far as a sexual act you know and you if. you know it you become someone's. person he 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 dull 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. just i wouldn't i want to stay with nothing to do for critics slam the practice of putting kids in adult jails as cruel and unusual punishment of 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 for the ultimate penalty there are now twenty five hundred inmates that were sentenced to die in jail as children this is a peculiarly american phenomenon in which we tend to believe that harsher the penalties the greater the public safety pay off kids should instead be rehabilitated says that's the focus of washington d.c. as nearly opens 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 at rehabilitating youths 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 artsy. still to come later this hour a costly how me. when you when you get this good feeling you say yeah one thing i do get to make my money back they never make you money back began my compulsion taking over with more people falling victim to an industry many say is out to drain you dry. that's coming up a first strain is causing a headache to investors with pastor 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 knocking on the door once

again as jacob graves now reports from madrid the way the authorities are dealing with the crisis leaving people raging and anger. for a construction boom which is now in ruins lately oldest spanish economy has been building is discontent expensive failure still strewn across the country the hundred fifty million euro cast in an airport be one of the most catching today it stands launch early on used. and from madrid to barcelona. of excessive spending triggering public anger we have here a body because of how you said i am he says before the elections he said nobody would be sick out that capitalization then you're not fit everybody can you can be he can become all these though with these new real i mean we think we have a late us why does not this late here is that even among the crowds have gathered

there is an appetite for their seat programs laws away these parts of days and for the tens of thousands of people who are gathered here in madrid and across the rest of the country many think to be made in the wrong place we don't know what to do so we resource to for all we whatever is that the line. that alters the faith without paying attention to the fact that maybe those of us have different interests of the 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 only probably in heaven good cars but it was just an illusion. to do with. when you lived beyond their means who is spain 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 it this global swindling means the financial sector the question is whether we've learned or listened. but lessons from the past are not what the unemployed twenty three percent in strain are looking for they just want to work on a government that can provide it with many believing that cuts to health care education and job security all right stable foundation on which troop build the country's future degrees c. the dritte. and i had a pledge to america it is not duration it's russia's next president the country's communist party states a rally against elections and refuses to accept hundreds of comrades turned up so their support in central moscow earlier on saturday our correspondent tom remarked say was that they have that. the red flags of the communist party as well as they

play cards and big ben as have been flying high here in michigan sway in moscow with slogans a decent life there parliamentary election as well as russia he said this gathering here was all the college party members talking to then members say that if you want to be a pollster reckon with in government we also want to be a very strong opposition party in the communist party didn't do so well in the recent parliamentary and presidential elections with the lead as one of only taking in seventy percent of the country's vote and even declaring that the elections were not a they were not rich meant that they were not transparent ponson now wants to revive things a little bit they're looking at the lefties movement to try to shake up the communist party and so its leaders have gone the only time will tell them what his leadership and the community will which way it will head to the will have to wait and see which of the up coming days what they decide. to say look at some world news in

grief for you this hour first of pakistan good media's reporting and i'm doing an avalanche has buried more than one hundred soldiers and the disputed kashmir region after military headquarters was engulfed by a wall of snow rescue operations underway with reports claiming with some bodies have 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. egypt's former vice president says he intends to run as a candidate in next month's presidential election but more so the amount served under hosni mubarak before the leader was ousted from office last year he says he will run if he receives 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. gunmen loyal to the

president have blasted buildings at the country's main airport forcing authorities to shut it down this comes one day after president obama sacked two military chiefs who were close to the country's former leaders today following the replacement of nearly twenty top officials the reshuffle came as all kind of gunmen launched two attacks against government sites suicide missions targeting security forces have intensified since he took office in february probably a year of protests against sunnis regime. and the christian community worldwide has celebrated good friday with france and day long prayer services holidays observed before easter sunday as a religious day according to the christian faith that marks the crucifixion of christ it's believed that christ died on good friday and was resurrected on easter sunday easter also marks the end of lent a forty day period of fasting prayer and. later in the program when private lives

become public. we're going to find out regardless anyway so. we've got it so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail nothing they're going to find for you so 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 the r. and b. hits the streets of new york to ask whether a government should be allowed to monitor its citizens online in the name of national security. us finding a relic all going for the gold we are on earth the archaeological side of preparations for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi. it's a craze that pushes people to the edge and turns many into attics gambling diseases spreading faster than ever in the u.k. and the multi-billion dollar industry is doing little to help our season ever venit spoke to those whose lives. crust i can process. can be the same as

drink and drugs. ronald's a compulsive gambler he started dating when he was fifteen and couldn't stop for fifteen years his addictions left him with nothing now years ago i got the inheritance. of my money and got hooked. for months i was the missing last and one day when i was regularly until. i got to the matter when you want to when you lost. exactly one gangrene we wanted to celebrate it again. you want to get your money back it's not really no illusion. how can you just walk away once you. can't walk away with. your head ronald pawns his grandfather's war medals and stole from his own family

staging tastes so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling. didn't know their money back. you know and the sad thing was that i did not get a pioneer and they put the sickness in morehead told me but now you can go out and jam with them or i with that money we no money tied up in celebrity. and for the toilet for peter no one the money for the one the money will be 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 a huge 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 it's in places like this they would 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 in the lottery now online poker but it's a win. loss it. comes to feelings all together to. keep the. name brand where you get money from the women's game show back in syria. go read the system from. your money every summer 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 is appears like money will be one. generation is when you when you get this could really miss a point when using the idea to make the money back they never make you money back. then i was. the thing you got a problem she said yeah. yeah definitely. how serious. this would get. 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. london. online privacy may soon become a thing of the past as governments around the world attempt to closely monitor internet users present 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 just brought people on line are you ok with that this week let's talk about that for national security reasons i wouldn't object to that bots 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 there might be a different yeah exactly security risible privacy also counts so for me it's. going to find out regardless anyway so let's look at it so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail i have nothing going to find of importance in my e-mail

but it's your e-mail and it's your life when 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 what i mean. 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 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 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 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 and stuff like that so that was my biggest concern you know not the government not the government because they're probably already looking. whether or not you think it's ok for

a government to monitor its business then the bottom line is before you post anything on line you might want to consider who could be left. as the resident resort city of sochi piers that the house to try to fourteen winter olympics the whole city is receiving a make over and are helping the common game stand on more solid ground the preparations have already led to a unique archaeological find these boats can go underground in sochi for r.t. . the discovery that would make indiana jones eyes light up the ruins of a nine century byzantine temple emerging from the ground as a future olympic. i'm now entering one of the hidden underground tombs. inside would agree of the monks and priests some of them are believed to have the 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 sortie winter games in two thousand and fourteen was every corner carefully surveyed and that sample saw the light once again and in surprisingly pristine condition for centuries these plodding stones kept the ceiling from collapsing little to much we assume a container gannett materials like egg white to give it extra strength but this is the most prized discovery i played with the biblical to on it the first time anything like it has been found 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 two years time then as boards are team. so cheap. and they're upset our main news

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