america's secretary of state's admits white house diplomacy has failed on syria and suggests more weapons are the answer were reports from the war zone on how the already deadly fighting is affecting the country's youngest citizens. sports walked about the gay propaganda boycott battle we talked to the city's sikh community about what life's really like and how they're affected by the anger directed at russia. don't descend on drones activists across the u.s. are put on trial for campaigning against their country's use of on mind killing machines responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths.

in the russian capital you're watching artsy international with me marina. washington's the policy has failed in syria while the key geneva two talks are of no use that's from a statement reportedly made by america's chief diplomats in the private meeting with american lawmakers john kerry apparently proposed sending more weapons to moderate from bowls in the town to resist the wrong. in the war in torn country but poor and in a more hardware won't ease the desperation of the country's most vulnerable citizens as many if emotional reports. lesson of arabic in a syrian elementary school these boys and girls may look like ordinary kids but they've already faced

a lifetime of adult us who insist they must cover every ten am read but let's call them a day in the crossing the road i saw sarah and then a missile found somewhere near my man my cousins ran for cover and the next day when i went to school teacher told us that sarah died in the gun it was for it was that family. sarah's sister was also the day editor is now afraid to go to school the choice for news was a grave or a good many grown ups to be proud of this lot and not did it really happen i hear from my parents teachers and friends that there is a lot of people dying but i will not surrender i will continue to started to rebuild my country. might have. made the violence of a protracted war the kids go up there a fast circle holds us i feel afraid because of this that's when i feel sad because it's not ok to see kids killed like their fishing was not good this year in a kids die while it. is eleven years old the syrian conflict has claimed for his

relatives he was eight when it started and his had no real childhood seems how long would it i ask myself was there are all of us why did they died but i'd like to say they have nothing to do with this conflict so why you had the pleasure in. these stories not to meet in almost every serious school direct casualties like least was last november the entrance of the school in damascus old town was hit by three mortars for children and the bus driver died at the scene i haven't been able to accept these deaths until now they were my kids and i can clearly see the smiles and hear their voices i still see them in my dreams that nothing can justify this no religion and no amount of thinking makes it acceptable. the principal of the school term. is a member of the children. have been affected but is also encouraged to continue.

the mission of education is to bring a new engineers. we have to resist this. and this will be anything between is an issue after a short break kids at this school in damascus are back to their classes but thousands of other syrian children all across the country still can't make it as their schools are destroyed and families displaced there were around twenty thousand schools in syria before the crisis today at least if the four of them are gone and even if the reasons school nearby parents are simply too afraid to let their kids out of this site once a thriving nation with a strong education system syria today faces not just a crisis of the present as of the future to. from syria. and we've got much more on syria on our web sites including the latest reports from

the overcrowded refugee camp in damascus where tens of thousands are on the brink of starvation for that and more had to r.t. dot com. the head of the international olympic committee has squashed ounce over saatchi's right it is for the eminence whence her games thomas bach also says he is sure the events will be safe and secure pointing to some of the unique measures in place for hosting a tournaments on such a scale. but the olympic stages is ready for the winter of the world. we can see this in the sports facilities. and there we see in the olympic village which are all of very high quality about eighty percent of the athletes literally walk

from the bed in the we reach to the competition when you. something i have never seen before at the olympic games one of the issues that's been threatening to overshadow the olympics has been the harsh criticism aimed at russia's over the recently adopted law against lots of nontraditional relationships to under eighteen's the move triggered calls in several countries to boycott the games arts and culture reporter martin matt some of the gay and transgender community living in the house city of sochi to ask about their feelings on the law and their experiences of discrimination. thousands of athletes and businesses are expected to arrive this week and three billion people are also estimated to watch the winter olympics this month for some however the games aren't about spiritual progress they're about gay rights and the controversy surrounding last year's legislation that restricts children being given information about

nontraditional relationships a similar law to the u.k. section twenty eight that was a false two decades in the late eighty's we had to the city's only beach front gate venue my act old white house english club that's been in the city for more than thirty years it seems as though it's being subculture is far more liberal than people think traditionally one of the more tolerant russian cities when during the civil era christians from all over the country the holiday here. club owner and his partner a man have been a couple for over thirteen years and settled that they don't agree with the law they remain mostly unaffected by it and well christmas is but they describe the west's response as heavy handed and an overreaction. or cup of color i think it's really bad it negatively affects gay russian people because society blames them for spoiling the lympics for a new port open in opinions are still divided on sexuality in russia and this club

does give something of an insight into the reality of gay life here the one time in the club and meeting people. need like any other gay bar that i've ever been to a day out of the backstage the performers are getting ready for tonight's performance in preparation for the club's new foreign audience english songs added to. the performance here can't believe the media attention bush has gacy has generated in the west to disapprove of spoken loudly in great numbers but the reality is that the issue is more complicated. that seems. almost broken last night for a good new wave of violence the same. kinds of mistakes in. the tickets we've. learned. people don't run the streets handed sochi

behind closed doors as such clubs people can be acutely affectionate and one thing is for sure but you have conservatives who'll miss views this month is going to be a celebration of school to remember. them to see such. artsy is at the hearts of the winter olympics will be broadcast in daily from song throughout the games and of course online at one hundred fourteen dot r.t. dot com.

in other news now and drone activists are finding themselves in courts across the u.s. for protesting against the use of the deadly on manned aircraft several groups are on trial separately with one being prosecuted for blockading a drone airbase yes there is still relative media silence about what the drones do to civilian populations live in the public in the dark that's what answer war active as they get swanson has told r.t. . but you have had people serving a six month prison sentences we've had people say say no or industry are just for exercising their first amendment rights this is an ongoing activity across the country and it's noticed in the local media that there's a virtual blackout in the national media in the united states you would have no idea this was happening there's an extensive protest resistance movement against mr

emerson unfortunately most americans don't even know it is admitting they don't even know what the drones are being used for much less that they're being protested when these missiles go and kill innocent men women children infants in pakistan afghanistan yemen somalia there is no discussion there's no debate it just happens under the radar and there's a little blurb the next day saying militants were targeted and nobody knows what that means who they were and good reporting has shown that many many innocent people who have done absolutely nothing wrong have been killed by these drones which are counterproductive in their own terms they are making the united states more hated the drone program was launched under george w. bush but has been widely expanded barack obama's presidency and also the fact that by drone strikes are yemen and pakistan where hundreds of civilians have been killed by the end manned aircraft and parents have asked the met suggests that in

the last five years more than three hundred and a sense became victims of drone warfare and even though the american people are growing uneasy with the attacks washington shows no intention of putting an end to them. coming out for you a warring major drug supply routes is opening up and israel yet the heavily armed nation is on the table to stop the spread of illegal substances were forced on that in a few minutes. and the secrets of the island of the dead one of the united states largest summer story keeps the public away and is fairly accessible to even the relatives of those bird there that story's just ahead.

in two thousand and one of the first things released by wiki leaks was a secret video recording that actually looked like a video showing two american actually political actors opening fire on a dozen people in iraq this is going to mean instability in a society the images of our lives have become normal this is what the sense of isolation lack of empathy look like. when we try and experience a spectacle only disassociate. and by that action. to believe we also have the same person from certain kinds of. i absolutely am frightened of the potential games desensitize people we know they can because the military uses games nations. all the of war is not simply put it is killing and killing exacts a penalty of the killer. people for whom it is defined by the popular

media. dramas the truth be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world lights never. old picture of today's new it's a good place to and from around the globe. up to. fifty. this is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really need to buy guns and learn how to

use them. this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again it's the fear of. women definitely the target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would just prefer. i'm noticing more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth. were clearly not the safest. welcome back you're watching artsy international now one of the world's largest

hacker groups is soon chancellor merkel and the entire german governments for foster an end that spying projects led by american and british agencies along with human rights activists they say leaders and they pulled the mass surveillance and violated the country's criminal code we spoke to one of the activists behind the move. we have strong indications that the german government. and or together with the american spies on all of our digital lives at the moment even if the whole media was covering but they stayed very very passive and they it for us it looked like they were just waiting until the storm is over and that's why we want to force the federal prison prosecutor to start real investigation on what is going on and want beyond wrong and how the government not only the american all the others are injured invading our digital lives it's still not proven that any of these measures

really help finding terrorists than all the other excuses they find and that's just a new way of power and which is fundamentally destroying every everybody's privacy and probably will also be of big danger for the democracy. and also the high school is reeling from a u.s. style suits on the rampage online and get the story of how a russian student who had been showing great promise turned into a killer on thomas. plus how speaking out against the king of saudi arabia can get shipped around that terrorists are to dot com has the story.

it's good. to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher. the trillion dollar war on illegal drugs could be largely in vain a u.n. report reveals more than two hundred seventy million people around the world are addicted to illegal drugs that's despite strict policies and billions of dollars spent on fighting the problem the study also lists where the world's largest drug cops naming estoril among them fall asleep part song how the country became a major traffic center. like most major cities is

a dark side to the television night scene competition and this is one of the downtown nightclubs everything's on offer children doing rides in the middle of the room or. using drugs. but. stuff and sixteen years ago. fell to the heroin and this was terrible one is a former user he spent many nights in prison and paid the ultimate price we were living on the street we were doing you know you just you know you want to use this you're getting. to get it again so. you can come out from a lot of people coming over from the circle my wife she died from the drugs she couldn't stop with full borders drug smugglers are interim the country from all sides although in this instance security forces manage to make an arrest they

cannot stop them. israel has a starve role in the most recent wooldridge drug report issued by the united nations office on drugs and crime alongside brazil it's listed as a country. doctrine importer expulsion and user of narcotic drugs i can confirm that more than fifty percent of all the drugs that enter israel seized but this is obviously long term police operations that will take place and continue working with the ins opponents twenty five representatives that are here in israel and therefore information is transferred on a day to day basis but maybe that is not enough for some figures but these are the police know about and based on the suspects that we arrested there has been an increase in attempts that's correct all sides agreed this is a dangerous situation israel has to be moved so people like me will have once again i think. even the government even the girl. people understand it's

it's a disease this situation is one it's not substantially different from that in europe only united states came simply arrived in the country fashionably late policy r.t. television. calls for yemen's government to step down have grown louder thousands of shia muslim protesters have marched through the capital sana'a demonstrators accuse their sunni led ruling party which has been in power for fifteen years of mass corruption and abuse of power shiites have been engaged in a decade long rebellion against the government and want independence for territories in yemen stored west. international peacekeepers in the central african republic have been engaged in firefights while trying to stop looting in the muslim neighborhoods in the capital the communities where earlier attacked by rival christian militias forcing muslim

residents to flee their homes currently over six thousand troops from france and the african union are in the country trying to quell months of sectarian tension that. killed more than two thousand people. it's the final are simply is for almost a million people kept on the strict lock and key the heart island cemetery is one of the biggest in the united states and the access is strictly limited by the government it's even difficult for relatives of the deceased to visit their loved ones graves. reports. for a place kept from the public eye. you've likely never heard of it despite its long history and size one of the largest cemeteries in the united states with nearly a million burials almost one million people buried here since the eighteen hundreds

the poor homeless stillborn children and bodies not claimed by anyone on just over one hundred acres hart island a piece of land just off of manhattan this is as close as we can get to the island with a news camera this is a dog where ferries transporting bodies inmates and occasional visitors depart from after a variety of uses from a prison to a psychiatric ward to hospital the place has been ran by the prison system making the cemetery more reminiscent of a jail where inmates beurre up to fifteen hundred bodies a year burrows for those the city takes care of take place in mass graves here inmates dig ten feet deep trenches at fifty cents per hour dollars that are buried out there are primarily homeless there are people that are generally forgotten and ignored by society. photographer in ferris was able to get these images by reaching the island in secret on handmade boat the most striking thing when we first landed

it hit our boat for the morning. was that we almost stumbled into an open burial we stepped out and just realized that the plywood covered coffins controlled by the city's department of correction the location is difficult to access and visits if any are strictly regulated i had a live child. and she's gone and i have no control over going to a cemetery to visit her former navy commander ilene josephs five day old baby girl died thirty six years ago at twenty three by herself while the grieving mother was trying to figure out funeral arrangements she found out that her childhood already been buried by the city people are not properly informed in the hospitals as to what it means to allow the city to take care of it ilene was given a death certificate with no indication of where her daughter ended up the search for her child's grave went on for decades she was five days old i had nursed her

she was my daughter and i was in the just about to throw away i would like to go to walk to my daughter's grave and be able to have some final. closing but getting closure has been a struggle so far elaine has been able to come to a busy ball on the island following id checks after permission from prison system officials if this were a private cemetery it would be very clear under the law that you had to allow visits to the actual grades because it's a public cemetery the specific law that requires access does not does not apply filmmaker author and founder of the friday island project melinda hunt works with women like elaine to have the island be made into a public park it's inappropriate to expect the public or someone who's lost a child to have to contact the department of corrections to make arrangements to. visit hard island and then not to be able to go to an actual grave site hi

this is mark taylor from regular taylor lawyer mark taylor who works with the grieving mothers pro bono many of them did not subsequently have children so they have children who are buried out on the island and for them looking back in their life it's something that has meaning and importance to them access to the graves is it is impossible because the graves are not marked we've lost records lost great story in our own records out there under shoddy conditions the department of corrections has not done a great job of maintaining this island as you know the new york culture urges jurors is a viable part of the prison system after a battle that's lasted for years eight mothers including elaine have recently been informed that they will be able to visit specific grave sites still under strict regulations but until the island stops being ran by those who run prisons this place holding almost one million people will continue to treat those fighting for

closure like inmates people don't throw their families away and. we'll have more news for you. and about half an hour from now about to stay where the art scene for a look at life and the big city were surveillance never sleeps. if

you refuse economic up and downs in the final months they belong to the old sang i and the rest of life it's going to be a few will be everything on faith. bush's the perpetrators are old learned is driven by the hatred of the government. as a religious fanatics. and a society protect itself against the encounter. how should it react to attacks with retaliation. or like the citizens of norway and spain who opted for freedom openness and.

london two thousand and five. on july the seventh four bombs exploded three in underground trains one in a double decker bus the result fifty six deaths and seven hundred injuries the attack is not from the outside nor from the end. the four young assassins of muslims three of them born in the u.k. . a traumatic experience for the metropolis in the blink of an eye the entire city fell out of step it's been her ability risible tool. these things live on in the collective memory they've become sources of mourning and more and they have formal memorials and so on but this is nothing actually new you know london has a two thousand year history of disasters of plague of wall

of strife so there is a pragmatic culture to this city as with many other cities that you know you grief you move on you go through trauma and shock and then life goes on and what is the alternative to have one just stay at home. and bunker themselves off from the future of the world and their life in the city it's not an option. the police quickly identified the perpetrators and their accomplices naturally with the help of surveillance cameras. in a second series of attacks fourteen days later an innocent man was shot george sheldon s.s. he had dark skin and was reportedly wearing a thick jacket with wires hanging from it as he fled. but the video shows he did not flee. from.