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zaza is the president of south supporters of romney in the syrian capital while the who are going to dance damascus for escalating but at the head of the cease fire deadline. for stupidity has risen sharply as the rebels continue to shun the united nations brokered a peace plan and all of this coming up in just a few minutes. bahrain's security forces from my team down sound water cannons at the crowds marching in support of it and to government activities a hunger strike in protest said he's aligned center. sanctions too much it's a bad model itself declared military leaders to step down in the face of
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international pressure and agree to return the country to constitutional. international news life from moscow this is also with me huge national problem thanks for joining us because blaine's arms terrorist gangs for the recent spate of violence in syria saying they've increased activity ahead of the ceasefire deadline the u.n. but it condemns the syrian authorities for the killings despite a pledge to pull back let's get more now from our middle east correspondent here. president bashar assad says that he is fighting these armed groups that hit of the april tenth did nine which was agreed to according to plan and he also says that these armed groups are increasing their activity he says and that they are
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interested only in violence and that they're being funded and armed by countries such as turkey saudi arabia and qatar in a show of support for our side in the reforms he's been implementing for thousands of syrians took to the streets of damascus on saturday in a massive rally that 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 damascus is worried about a commitment coming forward from the opposition side it says it is no indication from the opposition as to whether or not they are 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 deadline and the rebel fighters continue to look for support from the board we
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are hearing from the united states from its allies and from 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 sticking down of the syrian president bashar assad and indeed this is not a condition that was put forward in coffee and his plan or indeed any united nations statement on syria in doorstep player and the friends of syria meeting that happened several days ago really has become the friends of the syrian opposition and here too we hear even more pledges to increase support for the rebel fighters now the rebels as i say have yet to officially agreed to indorse a man's proposal and this is some. it has many an international community concerned 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 nearly going to inflame the situation and the violence on the ground. bahrain security forces
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feinstein gas and water carried out thousands of protesters across the country it happened on friday about only became known a day later the vents in the country are currently hard to monitor times traitors marched in support of a jailed human rights activist who is serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's anti-government uprising has been on hunger strike but eman sound is being treated in a military hospital journalist and antiwar activist don de bar. last policy highlights contradictions in the western attitudes to human rights which washington claims to defense of syria. look at the role the united states is playing in bahrain when they've been claiming that they're in syria over human rights and they were in libya over human rights and yet they are suppressing human rights and really 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
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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 an oriole of other geopolitical considerations and their prime u.s. policy. coming up later in the program knocking on the door recession. and so what. spain's relentless counts on direct hold harmless salad causing headaches for investors all asking if you are its fourth largest economy and really can't escape. a red alert in moscow as hundreds of communist supporters take the streets to try and shake up the party is something to much. but now mali is trying to one has agreed to hand power to civilian rule in return for an end to sanctions imposed by the country's neighbors
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as part of their grievance the western african bloc will lift trade and fuel bans and 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 political crisis in mali broke out while the military seized power and toppled the president last month saying he had failed in his efforts against an insurgency taking advantage of the chaos rebels captured a key towns in the north and declared independence for the area after an african politics of milton on the mahdi the rebellion in mali is the result of the nato been involved until the year. for people to try to return this. is not with the war but major war in libya is completely preposterous because we know that it's because of the collapse of the qaddafi regime after the nature invasion but the rebels were able to well equip themselves with it most refused to
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get weaponry for the first time literally before the army or bali and that's exactly what's happening now the question is there are other insurance in other regions in that 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. they may have embellished twenty seven billion euros worth of cards but investors to launch sure the country is on the road to recovery the huge figure is still short of previous deficit targets and has drawn hundreds of thousands of people out in protest and as jake agrees reports they're angry at the government citing the year at their livelihoods expense. known for a construction boom which is now in ruins and lately all the spanish economy has been building is discontent expensive failure still lies strewn across the country the hundred fifty million new castle an airport be one of the most i catch him
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today it stands largely unused. and from madrid to barcelona more stark reminders of excessive spending triggering public anger we are here everybody because that's what he said i am he says before the elections he said nobody will be sick of that at the delegation then you know us it. can't be he can't be told these will the deal and we seeing him lead us it was his latest here is that even among the crowds i gather there is an appetite for steroids it problems lie away these parts of maize and from the tens of thousands of people gathered here in madrid alone and across the rest of the country many think to be made in the wrong place we don't know what to do so we 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 to them have our national interests at heart
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some don't think government policy is to blame mariano is familiar with austerity if is a sports ability should be shouldered by the individual. everyone enjoys owning property and having good cars but it was just an illusion who are to have nothing to do with the lives of corners when they live beyond their means who is spain having to slash twenty seven billion euro from its budget and many are outraged that even education and health care will suffer from the cuts at a time when unemployment is higher than ever. we 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 won't work and a government that can provide it with many believing that because the health care
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education and job security all risk. they should and will build the country's future degrees. and remember you can always find more news and comment on our website on iraq home and figure right now are anonymous and located as they are tourist how to have taken down a u.k. government website with their tweets saying it was a protest against and for parody and surveillance proposals. as well the latest dui laws leave people without at least a treat we're going to ask you don't want to find out. these are the images go girl from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.
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and see your red flags flooded central moscow as hundreds of communists got the to support their party dissatisfied with the presidential election results they want to revamp the movement's image and see it become a real political force again the band did not say it was at the front. 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 with the future and now this gathering here was an all volunteer party members talking to their members saying that if you want to be a pollster to reckon with in the government 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 ghana only taking in seventeen percent of the country's vote and even declaring that the elections were not there they were not legitimate and that they were not transparent party now
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wants to revive things a little bit to be looking at the lefty's movement to try to shake up the communist party as well its leaders you cannot only time will tell when his leadership and the communism of the world which way it will head to the will have to await in seattle times of the upcoming days what they decide. you're watching on c.n.n. still ahead for you the u.s. penal system forces minors into a pending cycle because teenagers are often charged as adults leaving a bleak outlook for their future that's coming up on state. and federal under piles of junk as russia's preparations for the twenty fourteen winter olympics uncover exceptional artifacts and that while the construction site. when it comes to games of chance it's clear who really needs a jackpot online betting sites in britain are booming but all this is leaving
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people hooked on gambling penniless homeless or even worse and little help can be expected from them all to good and all industry as i know but it's been hearing from struggling addicts. it's ok to be the side with drink and drugs well. ronald's a compulsive gambler he started dating when he was fifteen and couldn't stop for fifty years his addictions left him with nothing i give the go i mean. thing to. me for months it was the most single someone doing well with regular. hundred twenty thousand i got to know when you want to know if you run game played we want to celebrate it's a game or if you lose you want to get your money back it's not what we know we're losing. like any just walk away once you become a compulsive gambler and i'll call it caught. me.
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off the plane your head ronald pawned his grandfather's war medals and stole from his own family staging its so he could gamble more but even when loan sharks held a gun to his head he still couldn't stop gambling. or get no money back. you know and the sad thing was that i did my time there and they put the sickness in morehead told me but now you can go out and gamble to morrow with that money we no money. and so forth be the mo one the money for a new one the money. 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
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a shocking statistic from a leaked regulators report a huge 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 can 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's a win. loss of. family feeling altogether to mount it. make friends where you get money. wins games shape back in syria. go read sister brother every. child your money every song. like
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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 be way. up there is just when you when you get this could be limits they will use a good idea to make the money back they never make a money back. kind of a scam. do you think you've got a problem he said yeah. yeah definitely. john recognizes his problem but countless thousands in britain don't and when it comes to gambling there's only one winner either bennett can't see them. the us is the only country in the world that treats a young offenders as adults jailing them for life without parole that's why i also
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want to cite the conditions treatment and abuse they face while behind bars. this is exactly what causes the convicts who do get released to become stuck in a cycle of refinancing. 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 it's a life they're not old enough to drive drink or vote but in america kids as young as seven years old can be tried as adults when you hold the youth cannibal 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's going to my daughter my going to you so you need to be fair and i. was going to have its i mean he was locked up for the first time when he was twelve years old here at oak hill juvenile
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correctional facility ok i was in that wasn't and i was in design and so rehabilitation was designed for punishment you know having to run again 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 where we come off the worst and nobody you don't know to just. sort of pull you when reality trying to get a favor out you for a sexual act you know and you hear. you know if 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
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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 after that went crazy and is there with. just i was one in this there were nothing to do for their own 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 the 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 the harsher the
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penalties the greater the public safety pay off kids should instead be rehabilitated says that's the focus out of washington d.c. as a newly opened new beginnings now walking into a classroom out 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 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. . right now some more stories from around the world and we have news just in that israeli air strike. is in the gaza strip near the egyptian border and of course
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we'll bring you more of this as we get it also not a lot childhood and a pakistani military brace on the himalaya glassy eyed burying over a hundred civilians and soldiers their rescue has been suspended due to bad weather and dark as night fell no survivors were found the area is on the northern tip of the divided country a region claimed by both india and pakistan as the world's highest battlefield. at least ten people including two children have been killed and more than forty injured and the blast crashed in northern argentina it was traveling from believe it to the capital going to sorry it's carrying at least sixty passengers on different nationalities so state media it's a double decker fell into a ravine after the driver lost control. egypt's powerful muslim brotherhood truces its party head as backup presidential candidate mohamed morsi has been put forward after a pause that's a big primary normally may be disqualified from playing there are plans to open the
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way for former regime officials to take off its forthcoming election showed up for the end of may will be the us presidential guard says hosni mubarak was ousted after nearly said he gets in power. always vice president joyce banda husband she morning show off is making home only the second woman ever to become a head of state in africa is for that official confirmation that predicts that big reka has died from a heart attack of age of seventy eight a day behind also least the country's opposition is expected to stay in charge until the sheffield election twenty. your top angel user password and believe your online privacy is sacred drugs like google and facebook stored tons of your personal data and legislation it's going to that part is take a peek at your private information that's all you need to share that's right out.
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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 have a think about it i think so yes i come from finland you know so that does make it over it. maybe if you're in the us though or some other place that might feel different yeah exactly security reasonable privacy also comes. up as we're going to find out regardless anyway so. look at it so you don't mind i'm looking through your e-mail i have 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 right to
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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 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 where you got to you vote and 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 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 inevitably our minds going to 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 or government. whether or not you think it's ok for
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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. as the russian city of sochi prepares the twenty fourth in winter olympics the entire resort is enjoying a make over while the vast construction effort is mostly about the future it's also a nurse to something guinea crum the past can spinal skin went on the ground for. a discovery that would make indiana jones eyes light up the ruins of the ninth century byzantine temple emerging from the ground as a future olympic glory takes shape i'm now entering one of the hidden underground tombs. inside where the greed subdued 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
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a future olympic venue for the sortie winter games in two thousand and fourteen was every corner carefully surveyed and the temple saw the light once again and in surprisingly pristine condition for centuries these plodding stones kept the ceiling from collapsing well both the match we assume and container gammick materials like egg white to give it extra strength but this is the most prized discovery a point with a biblical tale edged on it the first time anything like it has been found on the russian black sea coast in you it's a story of st being your who was thrown into the lion's den but instead of killing him the lions lick his feet this rarity and other findings here will now go on display in so cheap precious artifacts which would otherwise never have been found will take their place alongside the olympic athletes who create history themselves in two years' time when assaults are cheap so cheap. i'm back with the headlines in
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