tonight on r t thousands fly the flag for president assad in the syrian capital while the u.n. blames damascus for escalating the violence that we've seen claims terrorist activity has been sucking at the rebels continue to sign the united nations group that keep bad all of this coming up in just a few minutes. it emerges tear gas and water cannons were used on crowds in bahrain on friday as thousands marched in support of a jailed anti government activist and. support that was laid out on spain's lost livelihoods relentless cuts and record jobless leave

investors cagey over whether the euro zone's fourth largest economy could really escape or plays out that. pre-war come for me kevin owen it's nine pm near moscow now this saturday night you're watching our team forecast around the world from our central headquarters here our top story then damascus claims armed terrorist gangs for the recent spate of violence in syria say they've increased their activity ahead of the ceasefire deadline the u.n. though condemns the syrian authorities for the killings despite their pledge to pull back brellier upon middle east correspondent paula sphere. president bashar assad says that he is fighting these armed groups ahead of the april tenth deadline which was agreed to according to and his plan and he also says that these armed

groups are increasing their activity he says they are interested only in violence and that they're being funded and armed by countries such as to keep saudi arabia and qatar now in a show of support for a side in the reforms he's been implementing thousands of syrians took to the streets of damascus on saturday in a massive rarely rarely coming while banky moon says that syria has not been doing enough to show its commitment to announce a proposal but this is something that assad has denied he says there for days now he has been withdrawing his tanks and troops from numerous cities at damascus is worried about the commitment coming forward from the opposition side it says it is no indication from the opposition as to whether or not they fully committed to the peace plan and they're also concerned by the void that will now be opened in the cities where the troops no longer are at the same time there is a united nations team in damascus preparing the groundwork for next week's cease

fire did lie in the rebel fighters continue to look for support from aboard we are hearing from the united states from its allies and other gulf countries that they intend to maximize and increase the material support that they are giving to the rebels at the same time the rebels are calling for the conditional skipping down of the syrian president bashar assad and indeed this is not a condition that was put forward in coffee announce plans or indeed any united nations statement on syria in doorstep plan the friends of syria meeting that happened several days ago really has become the friends of the syrian opposition and here too we're hearing even more pigeons can increase support for the rebel fighters now the rebels as i say have yet to officially agree a man's proposal and this is some. thing that has many an international community concern among the moscow which has made the point that as countries continue to endorse funding as well as supplying arms to the rebel fighters this is merely

going to inflame the situation and the violence on the ground took a poll worker from the future of freedom folk ation spoke to us and says the syrian rebels and washington will not give up their pursuit of regime change if you have a cease fire where the rebels are under their 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 with their goal the u.s. for example is pressuring the assad regime to relinquish power they're doing it under this hour of democracy in freedom or this is this your piracy we know that the u.s. loves a dictatorship they just sent one point three billion dollars to the egyptian dictatorship they support the dictatorship in bahrain because of the u.s. military base near what's involved here in syria it 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 and a pro freedom pro democracy regime as an empire is and always lives. but security forces fired tear gas and water cannons the crowd of people on friday only eventually became known because events there are currently difficult to verify thousands marched in support of the jailed human rights activists who said in a life sentence for taking part in the city's anti-government uprising he's been under strike for two months and is being treated at a military hospital middle east expert at a risk says the man's case gives more momentum to the movement that's putting pressure on the parade route from. these hunger strikes i think they do contribute there you do which their goal because what they do is they reveal the real tactics which are being pursued by the regime in order to clamp down on the protesters still so more and more such acts i think call for that exposes the true nature of

all the true practice which the regime use using and what that that the fence was it puts more pressure on certain western countries also the european powers in order to change their stance because of the visibly the regime in bahrain the focus is all on syria and what's going on in syria who are setting aside the training we all know that the fifth fleet in bahrain does exist we also know and i think this is the a major issue here that bahrain is a very close ally of saudi arabia and saudi arabia hence is one of the allies of the u.s. so when we speak about the blackouts being put on the plane i think first and foremost this is a saudi arabian wish because a saudi arabians also fear that there might be a domino effect which could happen in the persian gulf beginning from the holiday inn and then spreading spreading to saudi arabia the international community is still focused on the world also i think that all contributes to the anger which are we witnessing the popular anger which in the end i believe will achieve the end

goals. coming up on this channel the britons risking everything on the roll of the dice we look at how the u.k. is gambling in the streets becoming russian roulette for countless salix these days unable to find the easy money but this story coming up. also read the alert for moscow as hundreds of communist supporters hit the streets to try and shake off the party soviet image. or international news that marley's jones 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 ecowas will lift trade in fuel bands on mali and grant amnesty for those involved in the coup the country's parliamentary speaker will be sworn in as interim president and organize elections within forty days now political crisis in mali broke out when the military seize power toppled the president last month saying he failed in his efforts against the insurgency taking advantage of the chaos rebels captured key towns in the north and

declared independence for the area explode in african politics milton alomari says the rebellion in mali is the result of the nato bombardment of libya for people to try to return this. is not try with the war but needs a war in libya is completely preposterous because we know that it's because of because lapse of the coffee regime after the nato invasion that the rebels were able to well equip themselves with the most sophisticated weaponry and for the first time literally defeat the army or bombing and that's exactly what's happened mother question is there are other insurgents in other regions probably the world but also equally well equipped we might this be seeing the beginning of the aftermath of the collapse of the libyan government spain may have unveiled twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts but investors still aren't sure the country's on the road to recovery the huge figure still short of previous deficit targets and

has drawn hundreds of thousands of people out in protest and jacob reeves reports they're angry at the government saving the euro at their livelihoods expense. known for a construction boom which is now in ruins lately all the spanish economy has been building is this content expensive failure still lies strewn across the country a hundred fifty million euro cast elana airports be one of the most i can't change today it stands largely unused. and from madrid to barcelona there are more stark reminders of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here everybody because as i said i am he says before they let you know he said nobody will be sick out but at the delegation don't you know say if you don't become can't be kicked out because of these though these new low and briefing and labor supply because.

there is play even among the crowds are gathered there is an appetite force there are six problems law and where these parts of days 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 resourced to follow in 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 i don't have our national interests at heart but some don't think government policy is to blame mariano is familiar with austerity but feels responsibility should be shouldered by the individual. property and having good cars but it was just an illusion. to have nothing to do with the lives of coal miners and women live beyond their means who is playing having to slash twenty seven billion euros from this 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 were deceived for the. 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 stane are looking for but they just want work and a government that can provide it with many believing that cuts to health care education and job security are a stable foundation on which troop build the country's future degrees auty madrid but he is handling of it still want to have financial corp is being seen as bleeding the block of both energy and influence political science professor police instead of policies which extend the yawning gap between rich and poor the e.u. influences raining for reasons then have to do with this so-called debt crisis that is the way european leaders are try to solve

a crisis which banks invented by not taking the proper measures and also all these new liberal policies that make the rich richer and poorer and there is an tag in his employer's that i'm not part of many people they want a different kind of europe they're hostile to the way europe runs its policies or is totally incompetent when it comes to solving the so-called debt from them is if we had a functioning central bank there will be no problem so there is this where said hostility against this particular kind of europe. online at r.t. dot com reports another russia's far reaching out for moves potentially for grabs say the scientists as russia plans to be at the forefront of establishing a permanent manned mission on the lunar surface want to read more about that so on our website article can also as well informatic pictures that awful accident yesterday american fighter jet crashing into those apartments in the state of

virginia at least seven people were injured no reports though amazingly of any deaths which is the only pretty good news to come out of it see footage of the aftermath on aren't you change. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations rooted a. sea of red flags for the central moscow today as hundreds of communist gather to show their political support dissatisfied with the results of the presidential election they want to revamp the party image and see the movement become a real opposition force i think have them out say without the event for us. the red flags of the communist party as well as they play cards and the banners have been flying high here in pushkin square in moscow with slogans saying a decent life there parliamentary elections as well as russia with the chance that

this get real here was all college party members talking to their members say they do want to be a force to reckon with in government we also want to be a very strong opposition party the communist party didn't do so well in the recent parliamentary and presidential elections with the needles have gone up only taking in seventeen percent of the country's days and even declaring that the elections were not there they were not rich and that they were not transparent it's hard to know once you meet life being a little bit to be looking at the lefties this makes you trying to shake up the communist party as well if he doesn't run up only time will tell when his leadership and the communist party with which way it will head to the will happen which in st paul terms of the upcoming days what they decide. and the world might come out of this channel still ahead for you watch what you write big brother is on to your blogging apparently. so you don't mind i'm not going through your email i

have nothing to find it important so my email part of it i can see and why they're doing it but i also don't want them to get too much into your personal business we are willing people are to let us out his private intimate online life. but next when it comes to gambling it's clear who really hits the jackpot online betting sites in britain these days of booming but it's leaving those hooked into trying and penniless homeless and this is becoming worse it's so little use expecting help from the multi-billion dollar industry to help me there is a bennett has been hearing from the struggling addicts. ok be the famous drink and drugs. ronald the compulsive gambler he started betting when he was fifteen and couldn't stop for fifty years his addictions left him with nothing years ago inheritance. money and.

for months i was the most seen lost in wondering where i was regularly until. i got so mad when you want to win you lost. if you won game play do you want to celebrate it again if you lose you want to get your money back it's not like winning or losing. well can you just walk away once you've. lost your head ronald pawn his grandfather's war medals and stole from his own family staging pits so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling. and for good no their money back . you know and the sad thing was that i did my entire mere name put the sickness in

morehead told me but now you can go out and cam with them or i with that money with no money a pile of money. this ought to be thought about for being the no one the money problem on the money when we 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 thing dress 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 it is in bed with the gambling industry which isn't in the slightest degree interested in the prevention of gambling 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 one actually there is 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 player gets it's a win. loss that. really all together. it. makes a grand way to get money. winnings go straight back in syria. go read sister from a. child you might never saw. 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 likely will work. a generation is when you when you get this could really miss a year you will use a good idea to make the money back they never making money. can have

a scam. the thing we've got a problem she said. yeah definitely. how serious. it is whenever a. john recognizes his problem but countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling it's only ever one winner either bennett. london music brief avalanches of the pakistani military base on a himalayan blassie is very to run a hundred soldiers rescue efforts are underway with reports claiming that some bodies have now been recovered the areas on the northern tip of the divided kashmir region played by both india and pakistan are known as the world's highest battlefield. gunman loyal to yemen so the president has shut down the country's main airport threatening to shoot down planes the siege came after two military chiefs close to the former leader fire reshuffle came as al qaeda gunman launched

attacks against government websites and sites suicide missions targeting security forces intensified since president had he took over office in february following a year of protests against the from origi. allow his vice president's been sworn into office following the sudden death of previous choice band is the country's and indeed south africa's first ever woman leader in what's one of the world's poorest countries she took over after the previous president died of a heart attack on thursday and she is expected to stay in charge until. the election in twenty forty. the united states is the only country in the world that jails young offenders for life without parole because it treats them as adults for their crimes and what's worse is that the conditions treatment abuse they face behind bars that is liz while reports now it causes others who do get released to be stuck in a cycle of reoffending. authorities in western pennsylvania have charged eleven

year old jordan brown as an adult the boys will have a line at trial together in adult court the length of his sentence it's 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 which 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 what one of my daughters and i going to do so i need to be fed and i. was what happened to me he was locked up for the first time when he was twelve years old here at oak hill juvenile correctional facility or killed and that wasn't and neither was the design and so rehabilitate it was designed for punishment you know who are only gay and just. 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 an adult prison is a constant struggle to survive they know why we come off the bus and you don't have even you know to. sort of pull you in but in reality trying to get a favorite you frys a sexual act you know it in you if they come out you know and 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 dull 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 cam says for five months he spent twenty three and a half hours per day locked up alone i could have went crazy. and just

i would have someone from the 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 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 peculiarly 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 newly opened new beginnings now walking into a classroom at new beginnings is much different from walking into a classroom at other given i'll detention facilities that this is considered to be

a model facility it's a system based on rewards rather than punishment and experts say that this system is much more effective i rehabilitating you to become productive members of society but unfortunately places like this and to us are rare here kids are given a second chance at 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. . now we'll do it. username password you hope your online privacy is sacrosanct firms like google and facebook store tons of your data are in the them too legislations circling to let third parties know take a peek at our private information but we share. in the name of national security governments around the globe are trying to pass

legislation that allows them to monitor cancer and just what people on line are you ok with this week let's talk about that the national security reasons i wouldn't object to that but that's a key isn't it yeah it should be legal so you trust them to use their power wisely i haven't been about it but i think so yes. you know that does make you do. maybe if you're in the u.s. or some other place there might be out there yeah exactly security there is a privacy also comes. 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. to find the importance of 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.

power you know to. 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 to vote for somebody who you think 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 and yet it's a tough cause. 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 believe that they 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.

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