thousands rallied behind president assad in the syrian capital while the un denounces damascus first spike in violence. but the regime case that terrorist activity has risen sapi as the rebels continue to tighten you in brokered peace plan and. in other news mali's new military leaders agreed to hand power to civilians to end the sanctions imposed by the embattled african countries neighbors also. said. that all planes lost and livelihoods relentless constant record jobless leave investors cagey over

whether the euro zone's fourth largest economy can really escape a battle out. live from our studios in the central moscow you're watching r t with me and he's now away this saturday it's four pm here in the russian capital our top story thousands of people gathered in syria's capital in support of president and his reforms but there are reports of intensified attacks from syrian troops with almost one hundred killed in the last days damascus blames armed terrorist gangs who are fed up with weapons from abroad saying they've increased their activity ahead of the ceasefire deadline the u.n. chief though conventions the syrian authorities for the violence despite the pledge to call back more now from our mideast correspondent posts they are. like this means is that the mask. this 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 here today they will be to quote the u.n. scooter council through the measures now this is the strongest statement from the united nations that it is not binding 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 certainly 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 fought 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 urgent beatrice the opposition have not yet agreed to the conditions before would 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 our allies pledging to the 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. the u.s. backed syrian opposition also committed to the u.n. peace plan is looking for more help from abroad take a point burger from the future freedom foundation says the rebels in washington will not give up their pursuit of regime change 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. 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 dictatorships they just sent one point three billion dollars in the egyptian dictatorship they support the dictatorship in bahrain because of the u.s. military base there and what's important 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 cars on the part of the west you in stark pro freedom pro democracy regime this is about empire

is it always lives. well this juncture has agreed to hand power to civilian rule in return for an end to sanctions imposed by the country's neighbors as part of the agreement the west african bloc. will lift trade and fuel burns on mali and grant amnesty for those involved in the coup country's parliamentary speaker will be sworn in as interim president and organize elections within forty days political crisis in mali broke out from the military seized power and top of the president last month saying he had felt his efforts against an insurgency taking advantage of the chaos rebels captured key towns in the north and declared independence for the area political analyst. says the rebels offensive was inspired by libya's uprising. 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 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 is 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 different the elements who are supposedly trying to liberate the people themselves have very precarious very colorful very dangerous background. coming up on r t the britons risking everything on the roll of the dice look at how the u.k. gambling industry is becoming russian roulette for countless statics unable to fight the war easy money. and a red alert from moscow as hundreds of communist supporters hit the streets to try

and shake off the party's soviet image. spain may have unveiled twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts but investors still aren't sure the country is on the road to recovery the huge figure is still sort of previous deficit targets and has drawn hundreds of thousands of people out in protest it was jacob greece reports they're angry at the government saving the euro at their livelihoods expense. for a construction which is now in ruins lately older spanish economy has been building is this content expensive failure. cross the country the hundred fifty million euro castille an airport be one of the most catching today. used. and for madrid to pass alone are more stark reminder of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here everybody because that's how he said i am he

says before the elections he said nobody will be sick out but at the daily show the new law said everybody can pick out the total business of these new low i'm we've seen in lagos what us. here is even among the crowds of get out there is an after time force there are problems law and where these parts of maize and from 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 but don't have our national interests at heart but some don't think government policies to blame mariano is familiar with austerity if is a sports ability should be shouldered by the individual. everyone the only

improvement in having good cars but it was just an illusion. to have nothing to do with. how many live beyond their means who is playing having to slash twenty seven billion euros 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 were deceived 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 want work and a government that can provide it with many believing that cuts to health care education and job security morris. foundation on which to build the country's future to greaves literate. but the handling of its drawn out financial quagmire is being seen as the leading

a bloc of both energy and influence a little science professor believes it's down to policies which extend the yawning gap between rich and poor the e.u. influence is waning all the reasons that have to do with the so-called the crisis that is where europe needers a try to crisis which banks invented by not taking the proper measures and also all these new liberal policies but make the rich richer and poorer but there isn't kagen is employed on the part of many people they want a different kind of europe they are hostile to the way europe runs its policies or is totally incompetent when you comes to solving the so-called that problem is if we had a functioning central bank it would be no problem so there is this weird. against this particular kind of your. minority dot com report on russia's far reaching

ambitions the moves for tensile is up for grabs say scientists as rats appliances to be at the forefront of a stamp are saying a permanent manned mission part of the earth's surface. was an american fighter jet crashes into apartments in the state of virginia three people are still unaccounted for much of the video of the aftermath on our you tube channel. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. no sea of red flags flooded central moscow today as hundreds of commuters gather to show their political support the sons fight with the results of the presidential election they want to revamp the party image and see the movement become a real opposition force to say was that the event. the red flags of the communist

party as well as they played cards and did ben as have been flying high here in michigan sway in moscow with slogans saying a decent life in their parliamentary election as well as russia heated up this gathering here was an old apology to party members talking to them members say that if you want to be a false reckon with in government we also want to be a very strong opposition party to the communist party didn't do so well in the recent parliamentary and presidential elections with the lead as you've gone up only taking in seventeen percent of the country's vote and even declaring that these elections were not a they were not rich men and that they were not transparent ponting now wants to revive things a little bit to be looking at the lefties movement to try to shake up the communist party as all its leaders have done the only time will tell when his leadership and the communist party will which way it will head to the will have to wait and see

which of the up coming days what they decide. this is r t live from moscow still ahead for you watch what you write bring brothers on to your blog. so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail and they're going to find the importance of my e-mail order that you could see and why they're doing your book deals we don't want them to get too much into your personal business we ask how willing people are to work the authorities prying into their own mind lives. doesn't liberate standard historical find as a rare ancient temple as understood uncovered at the site of the trying to fourteenth winter games in russia as such. when it comes to gambling it's clear who really kit's the jackpot online betting sites are booming but it's leaving those hopped into trying their hand penniless homeless or

even worse. little use expecting help from the multi-billion dollar industry as i've heard bennett's been hearing struggling out x. . drink and drugs. and ronald's a compulsive gambler he started dating when he was fifteen and couldn't stop fifty years his addictions left him with nothing years ago in her. life and considered my money and. for months it was the most to last him wondering well with regular until. the moment when you want to know if you want to gamble and we want to celebrate it's a game or if you do want to get your money back it's not that we know losing. can you just walk away once you're caught on a compulsive gambler and why would you have those reports coming.

lost their grip on your head ronald pawned his grandfather's war medals and stole from his own family stating so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling. and said good no the money back . and the safe thing was that i did a pioneer and then put the sickness in morehead told me but now you can go out and . with that money we no money supply them with money. unfortunately i thought i meant for the the no one the money for one the money when 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 dangers compulsion the 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 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 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 it's a win. loss of. family stealing altogether so now it. makes a grand way to get money for women's good shape back in syria. go read the system.

you might never. 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 work. dinesh is when you when you get it's good feeling. one way using idea gaming the money back they never make you money back. kind of a scam. the thing you've got a problem he said. yeah definitely. how serious. is when. john recognizes his problem but countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling it's only ever one winner on the bennett team london. some other stories from around the world and i'm allowed to sit a pakistani military base on

a himalayan glaciers bearing around one hundred soldiers rescue efforts are underway with reports claiming that some bodies have been recovered the area is on the northern tip of the divide of kashmir region by both india and pakistan and known as the world's highest battlefield. security forces fired tear gas and water cannons at a crowd of people on friday it's only now it has become known because the events are currently difficult to verify in the country thousands were marching in support of jailed human rights activist who is serving a life sentence for taking part anti-government uprising last year the man has been a hunger strike for two months now and is being treated in a military hospital. gunmen loyal to governments ousted president have shut down the country's main airport threatening to shoot down planes the siege came after two military chiefs close to the former leader were fired from the south all

came as al qaeda gunmen wants to tax against government sites suicide missions targeting security forces have intensified since president harding took office in february following your protests against the survey regime. the u.s. is the only country in the world that jails young offenders for life without parole because it treats them as adults for their crimes those words are the conditions treatment and abuse they face behind bars as those while reports that cause others who do get released to be stuck in a cycle of reinventing. authorities in western pennsylvania have charged eleven year old jordan brown as an adult the boys will have won a trial together in adult court of life but his sentence is also the length of this life they're not old enough to drive drink or vote but in america kids as young as seven years olds can be tried as adults when you hold the youth accountable the same manner and passion 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 what went on my daughter my duty to you so you could be feeling like. one having seen 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 is so rehabilitate your desire for punishment you know him around the game and it is. 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 and in adult prison is a constant struggle to survive they know how it is we come off the worst and you don't have any. sort of pull you when reality trying to get a favor out you find your sexual act you know it is. you know it you become

someone's. person he was spared from sexual abuse 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 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 says for five months he spent twenty three and a half hours per day locked up alone i could have been crazy. because i was home when this there was nothing to do for that moment critics slam the practice of putting kids in adult jails as cruel and unusual punishment 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 a very good 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 penalties the greater the public safety payoff kids should instead be rehabilitated says that's the focus out 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 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 is that is much more effective i 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. . but you type your username and password and hold your online privacy is. firms like google and facebook for cons of your data. circling to work third parties take a peek at your private data are you ready 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 but that's the case isn't it yeah it should be legal 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 were in the u.s. store or some other place that might feel different yeah exactly security reason privacy also counts so for me it's. going to find out regardless anyway. so you don't mind them looking through your e-mail nothing going to find importance in 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. hard to explain i guess you know it's just the nature of the world. 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 why you go out and you vote and vote for somebody 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 car it's a tough call do you think that's just the way it's going you know as a society as we move more on line is inevitably our mind going to be not so free yes i do believe that 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 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. but the russian city of sochi prepares for the twenty fourteen winter olympics the entire resort is drawing a make over and all the grass construction effort is mostly about the future it's also longer some unique something unique i should say from the past to his boss he went underground for r.t.e.

. a 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 glory takes shape now entering one of the hidden underground tombs . inside would agree 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 source the winter games in two thousand and fourteen was every corner carefully survey and the temple saw the light once again and in surprisingly pristine condition for centuries these plodding stones kept the ceiling from collapsing to match we assume it contained organic materials like egg white to give it extra strength but this is the most prized discovery appointed with the biblical tale done 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 licked his feet this rarity and other findings here will now go on display in salt cheap precious artifacts which would otherwise never have been found will take their place alongside the olympic athletes who create history themselves two years time. r t sochi. pearl is that is no moscow out is coming up here in just a few minutes after the supreme in a reply of our top stories.

dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace and with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with elizabeth always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the

question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about it's where side effects serious life change and side effects. cysts. the book is the lead and the book.