the. officials raise the alarm over a corruption of the world sucking one hundred twenty billion euros a year from the european economy roughly the size of the total budget and what's worse the report warns this may be just the tip of the iceberg. as the u.s. reportedly plans to back up its syrian diplomacy with more weapons for the rebels and r.t. crew travels through damascus school were the children refused to be victims of conflict. such he set out for sports but one of ballad the gay propaganda boy called battle we talked to the city's l g b t community about what life's really why again how they are affected by the anger directed at russia.

what you are to international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program e.u. officials have uncovered a corruption pandemic sweeping member states with one hundred twenty billion euros lost to shady deals each year that figure was published in a report by the e.u.'s home affairs commissioner who warned that the scale of the problem is probably even broader and getting worse are all over highlighted for us the most worrying details. over half of those who were surveyed have said they think the corruption within the union was growing seventy six percent of those who were asked thought the corruption was widespread within the european union twenty six percent said that they'd been directly affected by corruption government effectiveness of tackling corruption though only twenty three percent thought that

they were capable of doing that and seventy three percent a huge number three quarters almost saying that they thought that the best way to get public services was through bribery just into who's put forward this report the e.u. commission or an unelected body they have made the headlines themselves a few times when it comes to some of the more leftfield laws that have been imposed upon the e.u. citizens now their report didn't look into e.u. institutions and that's certainly raised a few eyebrows people wondering just how much more than one hundred twenty billion a year in backhanders of being going on if the e.u. would looked into themselves while u.s. secretary of state john kerry has reportedly admitted washington suffering a diplomatic defeat in syria according to two sanders who met with him privately america's new strategy could include sending more military hardware to the rebels as al qaida is accumulating power and the region but as mary international reports

inside the country some think more guns won't help. 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 a madman but let's call them day and cross the road i saw sarah and then a missile found 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 killed that day khadijah is now afraid to go to school a choice points with a bravery that many grown ups would be proud of his mother and marketability and 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 the whole villages are still afraid

because of this and i feel sad because it's not ok to see kids killed like this issue it's not good this year and kids die while others. 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 would i ask myself this girl's why did their daddy but at last they have nothing to do with this conflict so why you need to publish. these stories not chain me in almost every syrian school direct casualties like these. last november the entrance of a school in damascus 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 and. the principal of the school tells us to go on at the very last that he is a man's children on the administration have been deeply affected but it's also encouraged us to continue or to to. the mission of education is to bring out new engineers. to build up this country we have to resist this friday. and this will be anything between as a nation after a short break kids at this school in damascus back to their classes the thousands of other syrian children all across the country still can't to 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 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 because of the future to. keep from syria. a log on to our com to get more of frontline experience from syria as well as the latest reports on the flimsy shelter that's been provided for those who fled the war. americans are fighting back against their government's use of deadly drones but at some point our stars face trial a media blackout at a national level leaves the movement struggling to get its point across. there was such a welcomes in the world's top winter assets the head of the international olympic committee is confident that the russian city is more than ready for the games are there for us. well organizers have been saying for some time now that sochi 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 i think spectators and journalists that continue to arrive in and around sochi the reports are emerging that 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. 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. and 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 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 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 part 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 my colleague martin andres has been . and he's been finding out how if at all the new law is affecting the lives of gay people here in the city. or in the city. 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 the law she's legislation that restricts children being given information about nontraditional relationships a similar law to the u.k. section twenty eight that was a forced two decades in the late eighty's we had to the city's only beach front gate venue my ak all white house in english for a cup 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 most tolerant bush cities when during the civil era christians from all of the country the. 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. or cup of color i think it

really bad it negatively affects gay russian people because society blames them for spoiling the olympics for an important 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 be getting 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's gay scene has generated in the west to. shapiro would have spoken loudly in great numbers but the reality is that the issue is more complicated than it seems while some in the analogy to community say that the bill is broken last year let's bring in a new way the debut violence others say that the situation has to be changed in

full and they gave up and you know that's a good speech development even somewhat more it won't people you don't run the streets handed hand in sochi behind closed doors at such clubs people can be a can be 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 that centrist party sochi party is at the heart of the winter olympics and we'll be broadcasting daily from such a throughout the games and online ads twenty of fourteen ad dogs are t.v. dot com.

welcome back you're watching r t international and drone activists are on trial across the u.s. for standing against their government's use of deadly on man planes four people have already been found guilty of trying to deliver a letter of protest to the head of an air force base anti-war activist david swanson says that movement is widespread but largely shant by the nation's media. but he has had people serving you 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 that 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 apathy 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. the drone program was launched under george w. bush but has been widely expanded joining barack obama's presidency yemen has been targeted but as you can see most drone strikes have hit the tribal areas of pakistan and a large number of civilians nearly four hundred on conservative estimates have also been killed there by the unmanned planes. now it seems that the german government is not getting away with its sloppy snooping controls coming out at

a say force the country's main hauger group to file a criminal complaint against the government over its part in the spy scandal. plus in the war on drugs it seems that it's the authorities who are on the back food was more people who countries turn to hogs for illicit trade now israel is one of them . found in new york there is a high security cemetery with a shadow we pass still ahead we'll meet a woman who has even been denied the right to visit the grave of her child there. was a year of the horrors south of the b.b.c. news subtitles as we enter the chinese new year which of course is called the year of the horse alas i believe the b.b.c. forty and sub reveal a lot more about the true state of the british or global economies that which is

not allowed to be said publicly by the likes of the beloved b. if you think about the elites in government think tank and business have been forcing public assets and their populations to turn tricks for bankers using the pip's lack of depth until the finances plug those national assets one too many loads of debt and then a bed of the head of a nation screaming for more good credit all the way of the blue factory. this immediately goes so we leave the baby. was he who she truly value quality you should go. for shoes that no one is asking with to get big you deserve answers from. politic you. are today.

well the back here was our two national average have citizens for a scene germany is apparently too much even for the country's leading haggar organization chaos computer clodagh suing chancellor merkel and the government for failing to prevent the u.s. and britain from spying on germans i spoke to one of the activists behind the myth we have strong indications that the german government. and or work together with the american spies on all of our digital lives at the moment even if the whole media blitz covering but they stay very very passive and they are 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 ground 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. now as a clue to some tsunami the ambitions in the high tech world on our website find out about a crowdfunding device that lets you know when the international space station is right above you and city mayors in the pot friendly netherlands even more liberal rules on mari juana seeking the legalization of homegrown we've all the details now on line our team dot com. trillions spent sounds dad but the global war on drugs is turning into an even steeper uphill battle the u.n. says almost three hundred million people around the world are addicted to illegal substances and now the global trafficking network is growing supposedly are reports

now on how israel has unexpectedly become a major hub for the drug trade. 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 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 don't feel what you're doing you know you just you know you want to use this you're getting a berth for an hour or two to get it again so it's. come out from a lot of people coming over from the circus 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 manufacturing importer expulsion and 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 a 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 want me. once again i think it's through. even the government even the go. people of this it's it's. this situation is well it's not substantially different from that to europe or united states. simply you arrived in the country fashionably late. television. now take a look at some other stories from around the world in the evidence capital sanaa at least two soldiers have been killed and about a dozen wounded in a bomb attack on a military bus this comes at a time of intense fighting in the nearby northwestern provinces were shia militant groups are stepping up their campaign to stablish a breakaway state earlier on monday thousands of shia protesters marched through sanaa accusing the sunni led government of mass corruption and abuse of power.

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 muslim residents to leave their homes early over six thousand troops from france and the union are in the country trying to quell months of sectarian tension that has killed more than two thousand people. and peace talks between the pakistani government and the taliban have been dealt a setback the sides were due to meet on tuesday for preliminary negotiations but the government now says they can't go out until the islamic militant group clarifies certain issues the taleban has been waging an insurgency in the country's tribal zones since two thousand and seven and the army recently stepped up its raids on militant strongholds last month more than one hundred ten people were killed in clashes there manny of them soldiers. now on the outskirts of new

york there is a huge and secretive cemetery protected from prying eyes by the u.s. prison service or jesus a church that one woman has struggled against the state for years to be allowed to visit her child's grave. 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

a 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 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 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 vote for the morning. was that we almost stumbled into an open burial we stepped out on to realize that the plywood cover 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 the child had 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 art 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 and to make arrangements to. visit hard island and then not to be able to go to an actual grave site of this is work to do it from regular to a lawyer mark taylor 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 is impossible because the graves are not

marked they've lost records lost great story in 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 up next freud and slips by. b.b.c. and the and science they gave us on the global economy it's max kaiser after the break.

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 weed rampage no no you have it the downside to all of this is that across america and while the world people are looking for change and they want the 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. of the playing. field limbic spirit travels with the flame from its place in greece. join james brown for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond.

welcome to the kaiser report imax keyser welcome to the year of the horse so the b.b.c. news subtitles as we enter the chinese new year which is course is called the year of the horse alas i believe the b.b.c. is forty and slip reveal a lot more about the true state of the british and global economies that which is not allowed to be said publicly by the likes of the beloved being if you think about the elites in government think business have been forcing public assets and their populations to turn tricks for bankers using the pip slap of death until the

financier is plug those national assets of one too many loads of debt and then a bed of the truth was head of a nation screaming for more crack all the way to the glue factory. yes welcome to the year of the horrors. max well you know is speaking flattering and screaming your way for more debt on the way to the glue factory we might want to look here where there's been a lot of horse riding going on real wages have been falling for a longest period for at least fifty years oh and us says real wages have been falling by two point two percent a year and the longest sustained period of falling real wages in the u.k. on record will look at this chart that accompanies this is from one hundred sixty four to present and its average earnings growth with r.p.i. inflation stripped out and this is from the office of national statistics and you can see that we real wages have been falling consistently since two thousand and ten this is the longest period back since the past fifty.