america's secretary of state's admits the white house the promise he has failed on syria and suggests more weapons are the answer the report from the war zone on how the already deadly fighting is a fact in the country's youngest citizens. sultry sets off a sports bar what about the gay propaganda a boy called battle we've talked to the city's eligibility community about what life is really like and how they're affected by the anger directed at russia. don't the sides on drones activists across the u.s. are put on trial for campaigning against the country's use of unmanned killing machines responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths.

twenty four hours to live from our headquarters in moscow this is r.t. international with me marina koester of washington is 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 a private meeting with american lawmakers john kerry apparently proposed sending more weapons to moderate rebels in the temp to resist the wrong size of al qaida and the war in torn country but pouring in more hardware won't ease the desperation of the country's most vulnerable citizens as many of the 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 have the cover at which it was 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 on teacher told us that sarah died god bless her was only. sarah's sister was also killed that day is now afraid to go to school a choice pons with a bravery that many grown ups would be proud of it was good to me that 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 protracted war the kids grow up very fast so. i feel afraid because of this 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 asked myself this girls why did they die so they have nothing to do with this conflict so why did the. publisher. this story is not unique in almost every syrian school direct casualties like these. last november the entrance of the 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 nothing can justify this no religion no moment of thinking makes it acceptable. but life the principle of the school tells us must go on releasing the pain is immense both 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 and 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 if easy for them a gun and even if the reason 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 to ration oceanography from syria. and you can find out more on syria on our website 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 at r.t. dot com. as afflatus from all over the world arrive and saussure there is reassurance from the head of the international olympic committee that the resorts more than ready for the games to begin let's go live now to paul scott who's there for us. so paul how's it looking. well organizers have been saying for some time now that sort she is ready to welcome the sporting world of course all gets underway on friday evening at eight fourteen pm local time that's the moment of the opening ceremony gets underway at the moment the contents of that two and a half hour spectacle or a closely guarded secret over the last twenty four hours or so athletes spectators and journalists have continued to arrive in and around sochi the reports are

emerging other a number of hotels a colony in complete hotels they're going to house spectators and journalists but the president of the international olympic committee thomas but he is here in sochi says he's confident that everything will be completed in time on the games will run smoothly. at the olympic stage is ready for the base. of the world. we can see this in the sports facilities. state of the art and there we can see in the olympic village which are all of very high quality about eighty percent of the athletes can literally walk from their bed in the wheel each to their competition when you. something i have never seen before at the olympic games. well also went on to address the issue of security saying that he is assured that

the games will be secure all that is a direct quote of course the recent twin suicide attacks in volgograd less than a thousand kilometers from here have heightened tensions book but went on to draw parallels with the two thousand and two winter olympics which were held in salt lake city just a few months after september eleventh and the other issue that of course has overshadowed really the build up to these games is russia's adoption of the law banning the propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to mine is now many critics feel that this is infringing gay rights on my colleague martin and bruce has been out and about in sochi and he's been finding out how if at all the new law is affecting the lives of gay people here in the city. 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 dollars and cost for two decades from the late eighty's we head to the city's only beach front a venue my ak or lighthouse english club that's been in the city for more than thirty years it seems that and it's beating subculture is far more liberal than people think traditionally one of the mall tolerant russian cities when during the soviet era russians from all over the country could holiday here. club owner andrei and his partner a man have 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. in book of. think it really bad it negatively affects gay russian people because society blames them for

spoiling the olympics. opinions are still divided on sexuality in russia and this club does give something of an insight into the reality of gay life here. in the club and i'm meeting people. like any other gay bar that i've ever been to even backstage 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 than it seems while so many out. here let's bring in a new wave of violence and the situation has to be changed in. your

life because. someone. well people do not roam 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 martin and reduced the sochi. parties about hearts of the ones who are lympics will be broadcasting daily from throughout the games and of course online at twenty fourteen dot com.

and drone activists are finding themselves in courts across the u.s. for protests and against the use of the deadly unmanned 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 do to civilian populations and even the public in the dark that's what i and so war activists david swanson has told r.t. . but he has had people serving a 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 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 drawing program was launched under george w. bush but it has been widely expanded ziran barack obama surprise than say the most

the fact that by drone strikes are yemen and pakistan where hundreds of civilians have been killed by the on land aircraft ever rights of estimates suggest that in the last five years more than three hundred innocents became victims of drone warfare and even though the american people are growing uneasy with the attacks washington shows nine tension i've put an end to them. and coming out for you here on artsy a warring major drug supply route is opening up and israel yet the heavily armed nation is unable to stop the spread of illegal substances were reports on that in a few minutes. and the secrets of the islands 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 stories coming out. of.

london. the whole world. of the original one of the one down the end. of the courts building at the end of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the tears become we see military and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city the more people trust electronic devices the more. fear that it is a thousand ways. we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you. a little eternity of

angles keep these stories. for you here. in the spanish. visit. welcome back to our t.v. international. one of the world's largest hacker group says syrian chancellor merkel and the entire german governments are false or an in-depth spying projects led by american and british agencies along with human rights activists they say leaders enable the mass surveillance and violates of the country's criminal code well we spoke to one of the activists behind the move. we have strong indications that the german government code 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 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 every everybody's privacy and probably will also be of big danger for the democracy. i'm all sky high school is reeling from a the last. page on line you can get the story of how a russian student here has been selling a great promise turned and saw a killer on campus. plus house speaker now it's against the king of

saudi arabia can get your brand that's terrorist are to dot com that's. good. to have you with us here on t.v. today i wrote a 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 and that's despite strict policies and billions of

dollars spent on fighting the problem the study also lists the world's largest drug hubs name in israel among them policy reports on how the country became a major traffic center. like most major cities there's a dark side to the tel aviv night scene armed with a hidden camera we visit one of the popular downtown nightclubs everything's on offer short of doing drugs in the middle of the room i was using drugs in a twenty five years but you know. stuff and 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 you know if we were to do it you know you just you know you want to use this you're getting a berth for an hour. to get it again so it's

a circle the soup 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 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 manufacturing importer expulsion and user of narcotic drugs i can confirm that more than fifty percent of all the drugs that enter israel a 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 play some 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 ronnie will have. oop once again i think it's. even the government even the. people of this. it's a disease this situation in israel is not substantially different from that in europe only united states who came simply arrived in the country fashionably late policy r.t. television. some more world news for you this hour a blast on the boss has reportedly injured thirteen people in yemen's capital sanaa following a large scale and see governor 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 government and they want independence for territories in yemen's northwest and. international peacekeepers in the central african republic have been engaged in firefights while trying to stop looting in muslim neighborhoods in the capital the communities were earlier attacked by rival christian militias forcing the muslim rise there is 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 has killed more than two thousand people. that's the final resting place for almost a million people yet 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's it's even difficult for relatives of the deceased to visit their loved ones graves as an associate in the 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 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 even ferentz was able to get these images by reaching the island in secret on a handmade boat the most striking thing when we first landed in hit our boat for the morning. was that we almost stumbled into an open area 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 a 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 hospital 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 good zebo 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 to make arrangements to. visit hard island and then not to be able to go to an actual grave site this is regular taylor lawyer mark taylor works with the grieving mothers pro bono many of them were did not subsequently have children so they have 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 graves 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 as 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. on the back with more news in about half an hour from now but to stay with artsy international as we take a look at life in the big city where surveillance never sleeps.

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 anti-depressants 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 to massive storm 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. you're the horrors such that the b.b.c. is subtitles as we enter the chinese new year which is of course is called the year of the horse alas i'm. the b.b.c. is forty and suburb feel a lot more about the true state of the british a global economies that which is not allowed to be said publicly by the likes of the beloved b. if you think about it the elites in government think of business going to forcing public assets and their populations to turn tricks for bankers using the pip slap of death until the finance or national assets are run too many loads of debt and then abandon the triple slaying of a nation screaming for more crack all the way to the factory.

susie's of a coma nation of globalisation. no where else in the world a conflict so strongly concentrated as here. cities are of the ebus and the savior bustling with possibilities yet vulnerable. those wanting to home a society ambushed the city and its daily life the. city's a defenseless against this form of terrorism. there are now britain's vulnerable. how do cities respond to this threat. and how does fear change our open lifestyle.

cities are excited to see so incredible to see all of. sediment haitians of all of human history they all landscapes of power. london once the heart of the british empire. along with new york and home calm still the center of the global financial industry. symbol and driving force behind the international monetary flow million. twelve.