america's secretary of state's admits that white house the plum a c. has failed on syria and suggests more weapons are the and so we have reports from the war zone on how the already deadly fighting is a fact in the country's youngest citizens. saw she sets off for sports but what about the gay propaganda boycotts battle we talked to the city's l g b c community about what my life is really like and how they've been affected by the anger directed at russia. don't descend on drones activists across the u.s. are put on trial for campaigning against her country's use killing machines are responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths.

international with me marina call survive very warm welcome to washington's diplomacy has failed in syria while the key geneva two talks are of no use that's from a statement for ports of the made by america's chief diplomats in a private meeting with american lawmakers john kerry apparently proposed sending more weapons to moderate rebels in an attempt to resist the rise of al qaida and the war in torn country but foreign and more hardware won't ease the desperation of the country's most vulnerable citizens as maria in the 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 experiences they must offer coverage and i bet bluffs called

a 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 our teacher told us that sarah died god bless her was that. sarah sister was also changed that day editor is now afraid to go to school a choice pons was a bravery that many grown ups would be proud of this war and marketability 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 will holds us i feel afraid because a very sad and i feel sad because it's not ok to see kids killed like various issues it's not good this year in kids dialect 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 scenes along with that i asked myself prison or else why did they do they have nothing to do with this conflict so why you need to publish it. this story is not unique in almost every syrian school direct casualties like these. last november the entrance of this school in damascus is old town was hit by three mortars four children and the 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 at the holy is immense the children and the administration have been deeply affected but it's also encouraged us to continue or

to change. the mission of education is to bring out 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 the four of 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 to refinish nasty from syria. and on our website we've got much 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 eco log on to r.t. dot com. as afflatus from all over the world arrive and sarsi there is reassurance from the head of the international olympic committee that there was or some more than ready for the games to begin artist is there for us. well organizers have been saying for some time now that is ready to welcome the sporting world it of course all gets underway on friday evening at eight fourteen pm local time the contents of that two and a half hour spectacle are a closely guarded secret over the last twenty four hours or so actually spectators and journalists that continue to arrive in and around sochi the reports are emerging the 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. says he's confident

that everything will be completed in time under 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. there we can see in the olympic. which are all of. very high quality about eighty percent of the fleets can literally walk from their beds in the wheel each to their competition bring you. something i have never seen before at the olympic games. also went on to address the issue of security saying that he is assured 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 but 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 buildup 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 andres 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 visit is 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 known traditional relationships a similar law to the u.k. section twenty eight that was a two decades in the late eighty's we had to the city's only beach front gate venue

my act like the house in english for a club that's been in the city for more than thirty years it seems as such and it's being subculture is far more liberal. some people think traditionally one of the most tolerant bush cities when during the service era christians from all of the country the fia. 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 while christmas is big they describe the west's response as heavy handed and an overreaction. i think it really bad it negatively affects gay russian people because society blames them for spoiling the lympics for an important opinions are still divided on sexuality in russia and this club does give something of an insight into the realities of gay life here the one time in the club and meeting people. needs like any other gay bar

that i've ever been to be on the back stage the film is all 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's gay scene has generated in the west to disagree with have spoken loudly in great numbers but the reality is that the issue is more complicated than it seems while some in the algae to community say that the bill was brought in last year but bringing a new way to the baby and violence of the state of the situation has to be paid in full and they gave up in the tickets. and even somewhat large well people do not run the streets handed handing sochi behind closed doors at such clubs people can be openly affectionate and one thing is for sure whether you have conservative cool liberal views this month is going to be

a celebration of sport to remember last r.t. sochi. and don't forget that r.t. is at the heart of the whens harlem becks will be broadcasting day and from throughout the games and all online at twenty fourteen dot com. i . in other news now and see drone activists are finding themselves in courts across the us for protesting

against the use of the deadly on land aircraft several groups are on trial separately with one being prosecuted for a blockade in a drone air base yet there's still violence of media silence about what the drones do to civilian populations leaving the public in the dark that's what answer war activist david swanson has told r.t. . 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 apne 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 their george w. bush but has been widely expanded crn barack obama's presidency the most affected by drone strikes are yemen and pakistan where hundreds of civilians have been killed by the on manned aircraft a variety of us the met suggests that in the last five years more than three hundred and the since became victims of drone warfare and even though the american

people are growing on the z. with the attacks washington shows no intention of putting an end to them. coming up here on our seal warring major drug supply routes is opening up in israel get the heavily armed nation is on able to stop the spread of illegal substances who reports on that in just a few minutes. and the secrets of the island of the dead one of the united states largest cemeteries keeps the public away and is barely accessible to even the relatives of those buried there that story is a member. of the playing. field the big spirit travels with the flame from its place in greece.

james brown for an elementary and picture of the room and beyond. where of art. sigrid laboratory kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care watch only on the algae dot com.

or watch an artsy ensor national very warm welcome to now one of the world's largest hacker groups is syrian chancellor merkel and the entire german government for false certain ends up spying projects led by american employers as 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 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 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 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. aligned for you right now in moscow high school is reeling from a u.s. style shooting rampage get the story of how russian students who have been showing great promise turned into a killer on the campus. plus house speaking out against the king of saudi arabia think it should brand at terrorists are to dot com has that story and more.

people. are happy with us here on t.v. today i rule researchers. are. 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 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 children doing drugs in the middle of the room. using drugs in a twenty five years but. stuff and their sixteen years ago. failed to get heroin and this was a terrible one he 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. to get it again so it's. 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 managed 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 a user of narcotic drugs i can confirm that more than fifty percent of all the drugs that enter israel has 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 them 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 well it's not substantially different from that in europe or united states who came simply arrived in the country fashionably late police here on t.v. television. and a quick glance at other world news stories for you now a blast on abbas has reportedly injured thirteen people in yemen's capital sanaa that's following a large scale anti governor riley 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 want independence for territories in yemen snorts western. 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 tagged by rival christian militias forcing muslim rise then stiffly to 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. it'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 a lip service of the deceased to visit their loved ones graves as an essential 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 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 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 it 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 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 the people are not properly informed in the hospital so 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 busy bowl on the island following id checks after permission from prison system officials if this were a private cemetery it would be very clear on 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 correction to make arrangements

to. visit hard island and then not to be able to go to an actual grave site of this is worked from regular to 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 the. access to the graves is is impossible because the graves are not marked they've lost records lost great their story 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 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. new york. warnings for you in about half an hour from now but up next why cash much canadians are eyeing up property and bankrupt destroy it's stay with us. 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 a 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. happens the downside to all this is that across america the world people are looking for change and they want a 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 challenging the system legalizing weed will just pacify the masses even more but that's just my opinion.

the. economic downturn in the final. days. sank night and the rest of the life they meet every week. there i marinated this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. coming out gerald celente author blogger and publisher of the trends journal is live on today's show you won't want to miss what he has to say about the

u.s. economy plus the latest on the herbalife ackman pyramid drama this week the f.t.c. is being forced to look at allegations that the company is one big old theorem it's game but tell you all about it coming right up and add harrison joins me in today's big deal to talk about canada finally and from the u.s. to build a bridge to detroit her story you don't want to miss that and it all starts right now. today we're talking about the emerging markets crisis and the u.s. economy however i want to lead off with the latest drama surrounding nutritional supplement distributor herbalife now the head of the federal trade commission edith ramirez has agreed to meet with minority and consumer activists to hear their

concerns about the pyramid scheme excuse me excuse me company i meant to say company herbalife it's a company now herbalife the pyramid drama it's already the stuff of legends thanks to an impromptu televised verbal brawl between investors bill ackman and carl icahn now after man has been shorting herbalife and calling the company a pyramid scheme for well over a year however color carl icahn along with some other big name hedge fund honchos like george soros and download they've taken the other side of the bet and done much much better herbalife shares were up six percent in early trading monday after the company said it increased its share repurchase program from five hundred million to one point five billion dollars herbalife considers itself a multilevel marketer and strongly denies allegations that it's a pyramid scheme the f.t.c. says quote a company can be considered a pyramid scheme if it's just repeaters make more money from work.