silence fly the flag for president outside in the syrian capital while the ground blames damascus for escalating the violence. but the regime claims terrorist activity has risen shockey as the rebels continue to shun the united nations brokered peace and all of this coming up in just a few minutes. into majestie a gas and water cannon we used on crowds in bahrain on friday that's not as much in support of a jailed anti-government activists to. sanctions to march to bad knowledge self declared military leaders step down in the face of international pressure and agreed to return the country to constitutional rule.

around the world this is us he was me you don't ship our thanks for joining its cause damascus blames arms terrorist gangs for the recent spate of violence in syria saying they're increase their activity ahead of a ceasefire deadline the u.n. though condemns the syrian authorities for the killings despite a pledge to pull back let's get more from our middle east correspondent policia. president bashar assad says that he is fighting these armed groups ahead of the april tenth a deadline which was agreed to according to 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 and armed by countries such as to keep saudi

arabia and qatar and i'll show support for our side in the reforms he's been implementing thousands of syrians took to the streets of damascus on saturday in a massive rally that really coming while banki 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 that for days now he has been withdrawing his tanks and troops from numerous cities 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 open 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 line the rebel fighters continue to look for support from the board we are hearing from the united states from its allies and from other gulf countries or

dainton to maximize and increase the material support that they are giving it to the rebels at the same time the rebels are calling for the conditional stripping down of the syrian president bashar assad and indeed this is not a condition that was put forward in coffin as planned or indeed any united nations statement on syria. 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 increase support for the rebel fighters and now the rebels as i say have yet to officially agree to indorse 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 nearly going to inflame the situation and the violence on the ground. bahrain security forces pricea gas and water cannon and thousands of protesters across the country

it happened friday but only became known a day later as events in the country are currently hard to monitor demonstrators marched in support of a jail human rights activist who is serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's anti-government uprising is in hunger strike for two months and is being treated in a military hospital journalist and antiwar activists down to bars as the man's case shows us policy in bahrain highlight contradictions in the western attitudes to human rights which washington claims to defend in syria. look at the role the united states is playing in bahrain when they've been claiming that they are in syria over human rights that they were in libya over human rights and yet they are suppressing human rights and bar raids it shows that president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton are hypocrites their wives you have a human rights activist a bonafide human rights activist on a hunger strike you don't hear a word of it in the american media 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 oriel and other geopolitical considerations that their prime u.s. policy. coming up later in the program knocking on the door of recession. so what does not does not all. spain's relentless counts and record trouble is causing a headache for investors all asking the euro's fourth largest economy really can't escape the bailout. also later a red alert from moscow as hundreds of communist supporters hit the streets to try and shake all the parties solve it even. has agreed to hand power to civilian rule in return for an end to sanctions imposed by the country's neighborhoods as part of their agreement the western african bloc

will leave trade and fuel brands on mali and grant amnesty for those involved in the coup. so the country the country's the parliamentary speaker will be sworn in as the interim president and organize elections that for today's political crisis in mali broken up by the military power and top of the president last month saying he had failed in his efforts against an insurgency to take advantage of the chaos rebels captured a key towns in the north and declared independence for the area that happened in politics an open are in reality as they were they in mali is the result of the nato been bombing totally of the air. for people to try to return this rebellion is not charged with a war a bit nato war in libya is completely preposterous because we know that it's because of the collapse of the qaddafi 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 volley and that's exactly what's

happening now the question is there are there. other reasons part of the world but also equally well equipped we might just be seeing the beginning of the aftermath of the collapse of the libyan government. spain why haven't they i was twenty seven billion euros worth of cars but investors to launch sure the country is on the road to recovery but huge figure is still short of previous deficit targets and has drawn hundreds of thousands of people out in protest and as jacob grieves are poor they're angry at the government saving the gear at their livelihoods expense. for a construction boom which is now in ruins lately all the spanish economy has been building is discontent expensive failure in life strewn across the country the hundred fifty million euro castile an airport be one of the most only catching today it stands largely amused. and from madrid to barcelona there are more stark

reminders of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here everybody because that's what he said. he says before the elections he said nobody will be sick out that they delay shandon you know us it. can't be kicked out because of peace deal with piecemeal and we think we have a layperson what us. here is playing even among the crowds of go there is an appetite force there are six problems lawyer 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 resourced to following whatever is the line that all of us think they are without paying attention to the fact that maybe those of us have different interests that don't have our national interests at heart but some don't think

government policy is to blame mariano's familiar with austerity is a sports ability should be shouldered by the individual. everyone enjoys all improve with the end having good cars but it was just an illusion. to have nothing to do with lives of corners and when he lived beyond their means to spain having to slash twenty seven billion euro from its 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 would have seen 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 staying a looking for they just want work and a government that can provide it with many believing that because the health care education and job security our. they should i wish to build the country's future

degrees. madrid. and online at r.t. dot com for your report on russia's a far reaching and visions so the real potential is up for grabs a scientist as russia plans to be at the forefront of establishing a permanent manned mission on the minute. and a known was case of the notorious accidents take down a u.k. government website that we said it to protest against draconian surveillance proposal. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operation. i see a red flags flooded central mosque on saturday as hundreds of communities gather to

support their party downside would be presidential election results they want to revive the movement's image and see it become a real political force again the bangle say was a big brand for us. the red flags of the communist party as well as they play cards and the banners have been flying high here in michigan square in moscow with slogans saying a decent life there parliamentary elections as well as russia butin now this gathering here was all politics party members talking to their members say they do want to be a pulse to reckon with in the 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 leaders of ghana of only taking in seventy percent of the country's vote and even declaring that the elections were not there they would not be ditching much and that they were not transparent hard you know once you move by being a little bit to be looking at the lefties movement to try to shake up the communist

party as well its leaders who plan the only time will tell them what is good leadership and the communist party will which way it will head to the will have to wait in seattle times of the coming days what they decide. this is ahead for you the u.s. penal system forces miners into a frenzy cycle because teenagers are often charged as adults leaving a bleak outlook for their future that's coming up on our team. plus a cruel and piles of junk as russia's preparations for the twenty fourteen winter olympics uncover exceptional artifacts found that one of the construction sites. therefore when it comes to games of chance it's clear who really it's they can't point so online betting is sites in britain are booming but all this is leaving people hooked on counting pedlers homeless or even worse and little help can be expected from a multi-billion dollar industry as

a matter of minutes and hearing from struggling arctics. ok b. the famous drink and drugs will. remain ronald's a compulsive gambler he started dating when he was fifteen and couldn't stop but fifty years his addictions left him with nothing to go in her. only for months was a nice one day when i was regularly under ten thousand at the halifax. the met when you want to know if you want to gamble you know you want to gamble more if you lose you want to get your money back it's not what we know losing supply can park what can you just walk away once you become a compulsive gambler. three points. couldn't walk. off the balcony or had ronald pawned his grandfather's war medals and stole from

his own family staging favorites so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling. and for better or good no the money back. you know and the sad thing was that i did my pioneer and then put the sickness in morehead told me but now you can go at him with them or with that money when the money parliament flow one. hundred forty one the money for a new 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 as 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 this in places like this can actually there's film inside but even kids are allowed to play on the arcade machines in there for the jackpot of what's five pounds johns just eighteen and has already been gambling for four years first scratch cards then the lottery now online poker gets it's a win. all together. it. makes a grand way to get money. back in syria kill the system. money every. some. 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 money will be one. generation is when you when you get this could be limited. i didn't. mean in making money. do you think you've got a problem you said. serious. as well. john recognizes his problem but countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling there's only ever one winner are the bennett party london the us is the only country in the world that treats young offenders as adults jailing them for life without parole that what's what conditions treatment and abuse they face while behind bars. or

porthos is exactly what causes the convicts to get released an account stuck in a cycle of refounding. authorities in western pennsylvania have charged eleven 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 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 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 when my daughter and i do need you so you can be fair and right. what's going to happen to me he was locked up for the first time when he was twelve years old here at oak hill juvenile correctional facility ok it was in that wasn't as it was in design it's a rehabilitation it was designed for punishment you know having

a wise around the game and use but paying for. a lifestyle like most kids that serve time as a juvenile in the u.s. he got into trouble again at seventeen he was charged with armed robbery as an adult he says for a kid being in an adult prison is a constant struggle to survive they know why it is we've come off that worse and nobody. will notice you just. sort of pull you when reality trying to get a favor out of you five or sexual acts you know and you if they've been around a little 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 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. i would as i went in this there were nothing to do for critics slammed the practice of putting kids in adult jails as cruel and unusual punishment a day or less capable of understanding the consequences of their behavior their bill 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 the american phenomenon in which we tend to believe that harsher the penalties the greater the public safety payoff kids should instead be rehabilitated says lubell that's

a 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 recall militating you to become productive members of society but unfortunately places like this in 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. . more international headlines for you this hour an avalanche has a pakistani military base on a himalayan glass here bearing over one hundred civilians and soldiers but their rescue has been suspended due to bad weather and darkness as night fell no survivors were found there is on the northern tip of the divided kashmir region

playing pakistan at the world's highest battlefield. at least ten people including two children have been killed and more than forty injured in a bomb squad in northern argentina it was traveling from beleaguer to the capital business diaries carrying at least sixty passengers of different nationalities state media is a double decker into a ravine after the driver lost control. of the law is vice president joyce binder has been sworn into office making holy the second woman ever to become the head of state in africa this followed official confirmation that her predecessor. had died from a heart attack at the age of seventy eight on thursday found it also leads the country's opposition is expected to stay in charge until the shaking election committee. are you top in your username and password and believe your online privacy is sacred like google and facebook terms of your personal data and

legislation is second to that third party to take a peek at your private information but are you ready to share let's find out that. 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 a key isn't it yeah it should be illegal so you trust them to use that power wisely. i have a think about it but i think so yes i'm 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.

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 i have nothing going to find of importance on 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 a world where you have to. have some type of power you know to be. we just have to try to let the right person that's why 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 who you think you can trust part of it i can 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 car it's a tough call 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 it's inevitably on line 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 but more and more hackers and stuff like that so that was my biggest concern not the government not the government. whether or not you think it's ok for a government to monitor its citizens but bottom line is before you post anything on line you might want to consider who could be listening. as the russian city of sochi prepares for the twenty fourteen winter olympics they tie result as enjoying a make over twelve a vast construction effort is mostly about the future it's also a rust some thinking meat from the past but has been a warrant on the ground forty. the discovery that would make indiana jones eyes light up the ruins of the ninth century byzantine turnbull emerging from the ground as a future olympic park takes shape i am now entering one of the hidden underground tombs . inside the grief of the parishioners monks and priests some of them are believed

to have been wild as 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 put us all to winter games in two thousand and fourteen was every corner carefully surveyed and examples all the light once again and in surprisingly pristine condition for centuries these plodding stones kept the ceiling from collapsing little to match we assume a container again it will periods like egg white to give it extra strength but this is the most prized discovery plead with the biblical tale edged on it the first time anything like it has been found in the russian black sea coast. it's a story of saying being your who was thrown into the lion's den but instead of killing him the winds leave 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

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