world will be. able to live. america's secretary of state's admits that the white house the promise he has failed on syria and suggests more weapons are the answer for reports from the war zone on how the already deadly fighting is a factor in the country's youngest citizens. sports what's about the gay propaganda boycotts battle to the city's eligible sikh community about board live scruby like and how they're affected by the anger directed at russia. don't descends on drones activists across the u.s. are put on trial for campaigning against. and killing machines responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths.

you're watching artsy international with. washington's diplomacy has failed in syria while the key geneva two talks are of no use that's from a statement from ports that we made by america's chief diplomat in a private meeting with american lawmakers john kerry apparently proposed sending more weapons to moderate rebels and in attempt to resist the rise of al qaida and the war torn country but poor and then more hardware one sees the desperation of the country's most vulnerable citizens as many of the national now reports. lesson of arab league in a syrian elementary school these boys and girls may look like ordinary kids but they've already faced a lifetime of adult experiences they must somehow cover up with them i'm bad but

let's call them day and cross the road i saw sarah and then a missile fell somewhere nearby me and my cousins ran for cover the next day when i went to school out teacher told us that sarah died god bless her was that. sarah sister was also killed that day editor is now afraid to go to school a choice pons was a bravery that many grown ups would be proud of it was good to me but 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. amid the violence of a projected war the kids grow up very fast so. i feel afraid because of various and i feel sad because it's not ok to see kids killed like this it's not good this year and kids die like this. is eleven years old the syrian conflict has claimed for his relatives he was eight when it started and his had no real childhood scenes

how long i ask myself these girls why did they die so they have nothing to do with this conflict so why did they do. this story is not unique in almost every syrian school direct casualties like these. last november the entrance of a school in damascus is old town was hit by three mortars four children and a bus driver died at the scene i haven't been able to accept these deaths until now they were my kids i can clearly see their smiles and hear their voices i still see them in my dreams that nothing can justify this no religion no moment of thinking makes it acceptable. but life the principle of the school tells us all it must go on at the holy religion that he is immense the children and the administration have been deeply affected but it's also encouraged us to continue are teaching and are

learning the mission of education is to bring up new engineers new doctors new teachers to build up this country we have to resist this violence and this will be anything but an easy mission 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 a feel for them a gun 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 but of the future too. from syria. and on our website you can find out more on syria 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 r.t. . the head of the international olympic committee has squashed doubts over saatchi's readiness for the eminence winter games thomas bach also says he is sure the events will be safe and secure for instance or some of the unique pressures in place for hosting the tournaments on such a scale at the olympic stages is ready for the best when the rest of the world. we can see this in the sports facilities. state of the arctic and there we can see in the olympic village is which are all of very high quality about eighty percent of the athletes literally walk from the bed in the real each to the competition when you is

something i have never seen before at the olympic games one of the issues that's been frightening to overshadow the olympics has been the harsh criticism aimed at russia over the recently adopted law against promotes a nontraditional relationships under eighteen's the move triggered calls in several countries to boycott the games our arts and culture reports are martin andrews matt some of the gay and transgender community living and the host city of sochi to ask about their feelings on the law and their experiences of the scrum a nation. thousands of athletes and visitors 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 sporting 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 impost for two decades in the late eighty's we had to the city's only beach front gate venue my ak or lighthouse english club that's been in the city for more than thirty years it seems that it's being subculture is far more liberal than people think traditionally one of the more tolerant russian cities when during the soviet era russians from all over the country could holiday here. club owner and his partner a man had been a couple for over thirteen years and said although they don't agree with the law they remain mostly unaffected by it and well business is booming they describe the west's response as heavy handed and an overreaction. up of course i think it's really bad it negatively affects gay russian people because society blames them for spoiling the olympics for a new port opening 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 i'm meeting people. need like any other gay bar that i've ever been to really on a back stage the performers are getting ready for tonight's performance in preparation for the club's new foreign audience english songs have been added to the show. the performance here can't believe the media attention which is gay seen has generated in the west activists abroad have spoken loudly in great numbers but the reality is that the issue is more complicated. that it seems. almost broken last year i think in the new wave of violence and the situation had to be changed and they gave up the knowledge that she could speak. even someone learn it well people did not run the streets handed hand in sochi behind closed doors at such clubs people can be openly affectionate and one thing is for sure

whether you have conservative or liberal views this month is going to be a celebration of sport to remember more centrist see sochi and artie's at the hearts of the winter olympics will be broadcasting day in a from saucy throughout the games and online at twenty four tina dot artsy dot com .

in other news now and see drone activists are finding themselves in courts across the u.s. for protests than against the use of the deadly on manned aircraft several groups are on trial separately with one being prosecuted for blockading a drone air base yet there's still violence of media silence about what the drones see to civilian populations leaving the public in the dark that's what answer war activist david swanson has told r.t. . yes had people surly know the six month prison sentences we've had people facing horrendous charges for exercising their first amendment rights this is an ongoing activity across the country and it's noticed in the local media but there's a virtual blackout in the national media in the united states you would have no idea this was happening it's that there's an extensive protest resistance movement against these drone murders and unfortunately most americans don't even know it's

happening 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 on george w. bush but it has been widely expanded sam barack obama surprise then say the most the fact that by drone strikes are yemen and pakistan where hundreds of civilians have been killed by the on manned aircraft and variety of estimates suggest that in the last five years more than the three hundred in the sense became victims of

drone warfare and even though the american people are growing unease he would be attacks washington shows no intention of putting an end to that. coming up the war in the major drug supply routes has opened up and get to have an armed nation is on able to stop the spread of illegal substances were reports on that in a few minutes. and the secrets of the island of the dead one of the united states largest cemeteries keeps the public away and it's barely accessible to even the relatives of those buried there that story is coming up in. the united states has significant technological over the rest of the wild and it is now using that that's why on the rest of the wall then there was the deal between

the u.s. and england where u.s. spy agencies couldn't spy on people in the u.s. but british a spy agencies could spy on people in the u.s. so the government said all right each of us will spy on the other citizens and then we'll trade and that we will be sure veiling our own people so this is what i think of as the scandal. is the media leave those who we leave the. plaza see motions to the play you call the usual. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic.

new york london. the whole world is on the go. you can see trujillo of the original one a further one down the end there are five that you hang up the point that they link at the end of the street another one the more transparent society gets the money or the puppet tears become we see military and state police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city the more people trust electronic devices the more new front slows the. fear that it has a thousand on is on our t.v. . is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. when they wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns and burn how to use them i'm. sure this is the one that i want to go away from once again it's the fear factor for all

women are definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them when you're killing money but if so many would you would just prefer. i know to say more and more is this really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation 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 we're clearly not the safest. we're watching artsy ensor national thank you for joining us one of the world's largest hacker groups is soon chancellor merkel and the inside. higher german governments for foster and in-depth spying projects led by american and british

agencies along with human rights activists they say leaders enabled the mass surveillance and violates of the country's criminal law we spoke to one of the activists behind the move. we have strong indications that the german government code and or work 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 debating 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 ground wrong and how the government not only the american or 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 everyone everybody's privacy and probably will also be of big danger for the democracy. high school as reeling from a us citizen rampage online you can get the story of how a brush in students who had been showing great promise turned into a killer on a tampa us. house speaking outs against the king of saudi arabia and get children that severus. 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 and vein a un report reveals more than two hundred seventy million people around the world are addicted to illegal drugs that's the spirit strict policies and billions of dollars spent on fighting the problem the study also lists the world's largest drug hubs name and among them policy reports on how the country became a major traffic center. like most major cities there is a dark side to the television night scene armed with a hidden camera we visit one of the popular downtown nightclubs everything's on often short of doing drugs in the middle of the room. using drugs in

a twenty five years but you know. stuff and there are sixteen years ago. i 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 do we want to do it you know you just you know you want to use this you're getting a berth for an hour or two i have to get it again so it's a circle the soup can come out from a lot of people coming over from the circuit my wife she died from the drugs she couldn't stop with for borders drug smugglers are entering the country from all sides although in this instance security forces manage to make an arrest they cannot stop them all 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 that is a major manufacturer an importer expulsion and user of narcotic drugs i can confirm that more than fifty percent of all the drugs that enter israel the seized but this is obviously long term counter police operations that will take place and continue working with the into porn is 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 based on figures that the israeli police know about and based on the suspects that we've arrested there has been an increase in attempts that's correct all sides agree this is a dangerous situation and that israel has to do more so people like one e will have. once again i think it's. even the government even the girl. people of this it's it's a disease this situation is not substantially different from that in europe or united states cocaine simply arrived in the country fashionably late policy r.t.

tell of. some more world news for you now a blast on the boss has reportedly injured thirteen people in yemen's capital sanaa . a large scale and see government rally thousands of shia muslim protestors accuse the sunni led ruling party which has been in power for fifty years of mass corruption and abuse of power shiites have been engaged in a decade long rebellion against the governments and they want independence for territories in yemen just. international peacekeepers in the central african republic have been engaged in the firefights while trying to stop looting in muslim neighborhoods in the capital the communities were 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 secretary and tension and it's killed more than two thousand people. that's the final resting place for almost a million people yet so it's 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 as necessary in their 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 heart 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 bury up to fifteen hundred bodies a year burgles 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 a 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 all 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 and did 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 dizzy 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 hard 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 and to make arrangements to. visit hard island and then not to be able to go to an actual grave site this is work to regular lawyer mark taylor works with the grieving mothers pro bono

many of them were did not subsequently have children so they have still born 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 is impossible because the graves are not marked lost records lost great they're storing their 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 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 run 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 just as he took in a new york. more news for you in about half an hour from now up next though i've

been marts and will be telling you about that year piercing music allegedly being used by the military kuantan the most listeners that's coming up shortly. the first recreational marijuana shops are now open in colorado finally the question of what effect legal marijuana will have on the american public can be answered with real world experience you know there are a lot of people out there with strong arguments as to why we should legalize this controversial play it firstly there are plenty of things just as bad for us as marijuana or worse like beer cigarettes antidepressants and mystery fast food meats

which are totally legal secondly young men are often thrown in jail for the absolutely victimless crime of smoking marijuana i could see punishing someone for drugs like crystal meth which can and do turn people into maniacs but have any of you out there ever heard of someone breaking into people's houses on a we ramp age no no you haven't the downside to all of this is that across america and while the world people are looking for change and they want the message still rise but when the masses are stoned out of their minds it makes things in life that we shouldn't tolerate become very tolerable we now call allow us to make it through another day of our miserable lives so that we can live without going through all that effort of trying to make things better or challenge the system legalizing weed will just pacify the masses even more but that's just my opinion.

the. economic down in the final. day. and the rest i. will be every week on. the for. the. what's up y'all i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set sco in case you weren't aware one of the torture mechanisms used on prisoners at gitmo was having

ear piercing music playing ourselves continuously the melodies chosen for these weapons of war range from heavy metal songs to sesame street songs i would play for hours or even days on and now when this came out the pentagon downplayed the news by saying that the music was not torture despite a.p. report detailing how the music drove prisoners literally mad and even suicidal the bands in question kindly asked the administration to stop weaponized in their art but one canadian band has taken it one step further industrial music group skinny puppy just found out that their music has been used on at least four occasions and the thought of the u.s. government using the band's dark melodies to inflict mental and physical anguish was deeply troubling to the group the lead singer seven keys said quote we never supported those types of scenarios because we make unsettling music we can see it being used in a weird way but it doesn't sit right with us so what are the band do.