thousands slyer the flag for president assad in the syrian capital while the u.n. blames damascus for escalating the violence but the regime claims terrorist activity has business sarky as the rebels continue to shun the united nations a booklet. all of this coming up in just a few moments. also emerges tear gas and water cannon we used on crowds in bahrain on friday as thousands marched in support of a jailed anti government activists like comment on that coming up with news and. that's it was. sad all spain's lost livelihoods roland cuts and record jobless

leave investors cagey over whether the euro zone's fourth largest economy can really escape. hello and welcome it's eleven pm saturday night here in moscow watching r.t. with me kevin no in our top story the damascus planes are armed terrorist gangs for the recent spate of violence in syria saying they've increased their activity ahead of the ceasefire deadline meantime the u.n. though condemning the syrian authorities for the killings despite the pledge to pull back more from our middle east correspondent paula. president bashar assad says that he is fighting these armed groups ahead of the april tenth did line which was agreed to according to him and his plan and he also says that these armed groups are increasing their activity he says that they are interested only in

violence and that they're being funded in arms by countries such as turkey saudi arabia and qatar in a show of support for our side in the reforms he's been implementing the thousands of syrians took to the streets of damascus on saturday in a mess of a rarely that rarely coming while banky moon says that syria has not been doing enough to show its commitment to enhance 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 damascus is worried about a commitment coming forward from the opposition side it says if there's 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 these 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 lion of the rebel fighters continue to look for support from the board we

are hearing from the united states its allies and from at the gulf countries a damed team 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 sticking down of the syrian president bashar assad and indeed this is not a condition that was put forward in coffee announced plans or indeed any united nations statement from syria that clare 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 pledges to 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 meaning in international community concerns among the moscow which has made the point that as countries continue to indorse finding as well as supplying arms to the rebel fighters this is merely going to inflame the situation and the violence on the ground the movies

correspondent paula slayer will bahrain security forces fired tear gas and water cannon the crowds of people gathered there on friday the only eventually became known because events there are currently difficult to verify but here in fountains marched in support of a jailed human rights activist who's no serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's anti-government uprising is in fact and i'm distraught for two months and is being treated now in a military hospital it's a break in the conversation journalists antiwar activist on the prize winning us on the line from new york on good evening if you think you are witnessing now will put more pressure on the bahraini regime and drive the antigovernment movement forward and how powerful is this movement well the movement is powerful enough to have been standing up to the united states the saudis and the could tori's for more than a year you know there's something interesting. psychologists people study the size of psychology will tell you that the thing that distinguishes humans from computer is the most basic fundamental skills that is out of recognition as well that's

a four year old distinguish between a cat and a dog you take away our story with the role that the united states is playing in syria and look at the role the united states is playing in bahrain when they've been claiming that they're in syria over human rights that they were in libya over human rights and yet they're suppressing human rights of bahrain is shows that president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton are there why well don it's funny you should say that because i care for you can help me explain what seems to be america's contradictory stance the pushing on one hand for democracy across the arab world and then only a week or so ago we see u.s. deputy ambassador stephanie williams visiting police officers in hospital there at the same time saying nothing about the dozen. civilian protesters killed in the anti government crackdown you know not only that we're is the outcry over this the . you know the that you have a human rights activist a bona fide human rights activist on a hunger strike you don't hear

a word of it in the american media not a word rather than having president obama you know standing on national television and calling on the world to help remedy the situation you hear silence across the board and also it betrays. the interests of the united states in bahrain according to the people that make policy here is to maintain the fifth fleet period that's it the bahraini people are nothing but people that are supposed to service that base and keep their mouths shut while they do it elsewhere there's oil and other geopolitical considerations that their prime u.s. policy and you mentioned saudi arabia just now but all of this melting pot as well isn't it americans key allies one of them anyway in the region playing a significant role in affecting events in bahrain not least by helping as we saw reported a brutal suppression in last year's revolt how strong is their influence in bahrain at the moment well they have military influence there and they have policy influence with the government that is despised by the entire party was the reason

that they were involved aside from you know being there was a proxy for the united states is that democracy catching fire in bahrain will eventually engulf saudi arabia where there is no democracy and when that happens the saudi regime will end up like benito mussolini in a driveway upside down from a book ok well let's look at where we are in bahrain at the moment people are still on the streets despite the country's leaders saying played into the broad major reforms they don't seem to be going down very well these reforms what scale of these reforms being the. well certainly not the scale of the united syria where you had more people show up for referendum under gunfire who showed up in the two thousand and eight us presidential election and eighty nine percent of them validated the new constitution that was offered by your side as before you go see any referendum taking place in bahrain at all. activists and journalists who are activists and journalists for your thoughts there on the line from new york much appreciated thank you. coming up on this program the britons risking everything on

the roll of the dice we look at how the u.k.'s gambling industry is becoming russian roulette for countless addicts unable to fight the lure of easy money. and i read a lot from moscow as hundreds of communists of porters hit the streets to try and shake off the party's soviet image. mollies johnson's 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 bombs or mali now and grant amnesty for those involved in a coup the country's parliamentary speaker said to be sworn in as an interim president and organize elections within forty days political crisis in mali broke out when the military seems to power and topple the president last month saying he failed in his efforts against the insurgency that religion taking advantage then of the chaos rebels captured key towns in the north and declared independence from the

area as opposed to an expert in african politics built an analogy and told me that the rebellion in mali is the result of the nato bombardment of libya. for people to try to pretend that this rebellion is not tried with their war a bit nato war in libya is completely preposterous because we know that it's because of the collapse probably about the 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 army and that's exactly what's happening now the question is there are other insurgency in other regions in that part of the world that are so equally well equipped we might just 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 put investors still aren't sure the country's on the road to recovery the huge figure still short of

previous deficit targets on its own hundreds of thousands of people out in protest as artie's jacob graves reports next they're angry at the government saving the euro at their livelihoods expense. for a construction boom which is now in ruins and lately all the spanish economy has been building is this content expensive failure still lie strewn across the country the hundred fifty million euro cast in an airport be one of the most i catch him today it stands largely and used. and from madrid to barcelona there are more stark reminder as of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here everybody because that's what he said. he says before the last chance he said nobody would be sick out but after a show and a new law said anybody can be he can be called these the will of the seal and we're

seeing a layperson what does this leave here is even among the crowds are gathered there is an appetite for steroids the problems lie away these parts of maize and from the tens of thousands of people who 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 resorted to following whatever is that the line that all of us the faith without paying attention to the fact that maybe those of us have different interests don't have our national interests at heart the sun going think government policies to blame mariano is familiar with austerity if is a sports ability should be shouldered by the individual but. everyone enjoys all in probity and having good cars but it was just an illusion. it had nothing to do with the lives of corners and many live beyond their means. spain 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 when we would have seemed 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 but many believing that because the health care education and job security chorus. they will foundation on which troop build the country's future degrees altie the dritte. or the e.u. sounding a bit strong have financial quagmires being seen as bleeding the bloc of both energy and influence political science professor peer girl and believes it's down to policies which extend the yawning gap between rich and poor or. evil influences reigning for reasons then have to do with this so-called debt crisis that is where

europe and leaders are trying to solve a crisis which banks invented by not taking appropriate measures and also all these new liberal policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer and there is an tag in his employer's that on the part of many people they want a different kind of europe they're hostile to the way europe runs its losses or is totally incompetent when it comes to solving this so-called death problem is if we had a functioning central bank it would be no problem so there is this weariness and hostility against this particular kind of europe. checking out a few stories on one r.t. dot com for you tonight we're reporting on brushes and far reaching ambitions you'll see online just take a look myself now the moon's potential is up for grabs say scientists says russia is planning to be at the forefront of the study showing a permanent manned mission on the lunar surface and split some although some light

. merican fighter jet crashing into apartments here those stop motion pictures state of virginia injuring at least only injuring no one killed we're hearing so far the amazing itself seven people took the footage there of the aftermath and. these are the images. from the streets of kandahar. operation today. a sea of red flags flooded central moscow today as hundreds of communists gather to show their political support they satisfied with the results of the presidential election they want to revamp the party image and see the movement become a real opposition force not say was at the event for us. the red flags of the communist party as well as they play cards and their banners have been flying high

here in pushkin square in moscow with slogans saying a decent life there parliamentary elections as well as russia putin now this gathering here was all apologies party members talking to their members say they do want to be a false reckon with encampment but 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 leaders of one of only taking in seventeen percent of the country's vote and even declaring that the actions were not there they would not be ditching much and that they were not transparent party now wants to revive things a little bit to be looking at the lefty's movement to try to shake up the communist party as all its leaders have gone up only time will tell when his leadership and the communist party with which way it will head to the will have to wait and see the terms of the coming days what they decide coming up here are with me kevin i'm

going to night so much more cheer roit big brother you're blogging. so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail i'm not going to find it important so my e-mail part of it i couldn't see and why they're doing it but i also don't want them to get too much into your personal business but we are willing to pry into the wrong line in life come on just a bit. but when it comes to gambling it's clear who really hits the jackpot online betting sites in britain have booming these days leaving those books to trying their hand penniless homeless or worse and there's no use expecting help from the multi-billion dollar industry either result of a bennett's been hearing from struggling a bit. it's a killer the side with drink and drugs can be a game ronald's a compulsive gambler he started betting when he was fifteen and couldn't stop for fifty years his addictions left him with nothing to go got the inheritance.

it was the most the last in one day when i was regularly and. the my when you want to when you look not just the one game to do you want to celebrate it again more if you lose you want to get your money back it's not winning or losing. can you just walk away once he had called on a compulsive gambler and why would he had reports coming. off every penny or had ronald pawned his grandfather's war medals and stole from his own family staging bits so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling and told. you to get no money back. you know and the sad thing was that i did not a pioneer

a name but the sickness in morehead told me but now you can go out and gamble to morrow with that money we no money pride and full of money. i'm not for the them are on the money for an about the money it will be thickly thought you know it took five prison terms two divorces and being shunned by his family for ronald to finally manage to walk away he hasn't gamble 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 don't actually let us film inside but even kids are allowed to play on the arcade machines in there for 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 gives it to when it. comes to dealing altogether. it. makes a grand way to get monica lewinsky a share back in syria. go read the system. try your money maybe something like ronald john turned to crime to pay for his addiction selling drugs and stealing his only income now is unemployment welfare but as soon as he gets it it disappears like money will go away. a generation is when you when you get this could be limits a one way using the idea given to me my money back they never making money back.

then i was. leaving you've got a problem he said yeah. yeah definitely. series. is when i get my. john recognizes his problem but countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling it's only ever one winner i could win it our team london. bring up tonight on some world news in brief now an avalanche you see the pakistani military base on a himalayan class here it's buried over one hundred civilians and soldiers but the rescue has been suspended now because of bad weather and darkness as night fell no survivors were found the areas on the northern tip of the divided kashmir region that's claimed by both india and pakistan it's known as the world's highest battlefield. gun laws again so as to present to shut down the country's main

airport threatening to shoot down planes the siege came after two military chiefs close to the former leader was sacked reshuffle came as al qaeda gunman launched attacks against government sites suicide missions targeting security forces sense of crowds and present took office in february after a year of protests against the fruits of. the law is vice presidents been sworn into office following the sudden death of. joyce band is the country's and indeed south africa's first ever woman leader in what's one of the world's poorest countries took over after the previous president died of a heart attack on thursday is expected to stay in charge until the show you all the election in twenty fourteen the us 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 the conditions treatment abuse they face behind bars as artie's lives while reports it causes others who do get released to be stuck then

in a cycle of re offending. authorities in western pennsylvania have charged eleven year old jordan grown as an adult the boys will have a line a trial together in adult court but late that his sentence is also the length of his 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 a youth icon of all 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's going to my daughter and i want you so you need to be fair and right. with what happens when 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 neither was it designed so rehabilitation was designed for punishment you know having to run again and just but paying you for. your life that like most kids that serve time as

a juvenile in the u.s. he got into trouble again at seventeen he was charged with armed robbery as an adult he says for a kid being an adult prison is a constant struggle to survive they know why it is we come off the bus and you don't have any notice you just. sort of pull you when in reality trying to get a favorite you fliers or section where you know if they come out you know you're going to 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 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 of went crazy. because i was warning this there was nothing to do for the home critics slammed the practice of putting kids in adult jails as cruel and unusual punishment or less capable of understanding the consequences of their behavior of element 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 the harsher the penalty is the greater the public safety payoff kids should instead be rehabilitated says lubell that's the focus out of washington d.c.'s 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 wall r.t. . perswade you hope your online privacy is sacrosanct firms like google and facebook store terms of legislation so let's take a peek at a private info but are you going to share it. 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 this speak let's talk about that for national security reasons i wouldn't object to that but that's ok isn't it yeah it should be illegal so you trust them to use that power wisely. i haven't think about it but i think so yes. you know that does make you do. maybe if you're in the u.s. or some other place there might be yeah exactly security privacy also. so. we're going to find out regardless anyway so let's look at it so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail. going to find important in my e-mail but it's your e-mail and it's your life and they don't have any way to look

through 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 make the right person that's why you get the chance that's why you have a ballot you know that's where you go and you vote and vote for somebody who you think you can trust part of and i could see and 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 cause it's of course 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 if inevitably our mind can it be not so free yes i do believe that you think about that when you go online that someone might be watching all the time where 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 citizens the bottom line is before you post anything on

line you might want to consider who could be listening. surely the cause report takes a swipe of debit card scams it considers tighter reins on financial markets plenty of that to come and prefer something but with those headlines in just under two minutes time for. the.

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