is that, you know, when you push the to try to explain the un explainable you give up. the prison wasn't interested in explaining the violence to us. and we weren't explaining the circumstance with our particular events to the system. what they were interesting in doing is having a show of stopping the violence. when i think about why juveniles shouldn't go to prison with adults. it's that it's the numbing effect. some peep in the audience i feel some of you are traumatized in forever because i told a terrible story of violence. and i'm probably traumatized in ways that i couldn't articulate. i moved on. i couldn't count a number of instances of violence i witnessed in prison. when i try to advocate for juveniles that have to go to prison with adults. it's not that i'm trying to argue that all of the men who have been in prison are dangerous. at one point, i was a man in prison. i wasn't always like, 16. i'm trying to say that -- this is what the book is about. when i'm describing the different things. in the book i'm trying to go through the process to come from a 16-ye

finally sacked of a stand un expert phyllis bennis explains why sending more my friends into the call flicked can only create more danger. if the escalation continues if the militarization continues what we will then see is that the post assad government will be led by the men with guns when the victors are those with the guns that always bodes ill for women for children for civilians syria is not libya syria has a long history of civil society mobilization and organizations they have many things that was not possible in libya but the danger is that you will have certain parallels certain similarities such as unaccountable militias who will not put themselves under the accountability of a new government that is a very dangerous reality and if syrian body politic explodes it will be an explosion not an implosion the danger of course is that with that growing the sectarianism growing there is the danger that it will spill over the border. and you can see the point of view with activist and u.n. expert banus in the next hour right here on our team. it's been two weeks of courtroom drama

the notion of general wealth and well being is an illusion a leading un health economist and renowned american statistician now explain the social and financial ills of his country. in the promised land of stars and stripes us presidents have always reminded citizens how lucky they are and where people of every background can work hard and realize their drinks the old fashioned american dream. yes we did just this i don't think america is an exceptional nation of freedom and opportunity and the story of america reads much differently when facts are taken into account the measure of a nation is a new book comparing america against thirteen other wealthy nations to see where in fact the u.s. stance author dr howard stephen friedman sat down with r.t. i mean it was initiated by a conversation with my cousin when they were discussing the patient care and affordable care act patient patient protection and affordable care act and he had been defending the current system in america saying that it's the best in the world and i asked her how do you know that and his response was well i have no idea interestingly just a couple

un report. of the west bank territory. director of the new internationalism project of the washington based institute of policy studies she explains why she thinks the flowing into syria. thank you for joining us on r.t. the red cross and many other experts are saying that the situation in syria has descended into a civil war a full scale civil war. how does that how does that affect the positions of the positions of the west versus the position of other countries so far we have seen no indication that either the us or any of the outside actors are taking seriously the consequences of the determination by the international committee of the red cross that this is a full scale civil war what it means among other things is that the international laws of war what's known as international humanitarian law apply throughout the region and it applies to the opposition as well as to the regime they are obligated under the conditions of international law not to use certain kinds of weapons not to attack civilians not to hold prisoners without some kind of process all of those things are part of international humanitarian law and we have see

un. rising costs of all of the good and services that you just explain a sloww economic environmentt.nemployment and a sloww economy and prices that are rise what makes it so difficult, healther, the way to fix the component hurts another one. i will give you an example. if we wanted to stimulate the economy we might lower interest rate to stimulate the economy. we have interest rates so low it is difficult to do that. if you add moroctain to our high cost in goods and services. when you are fixing one you are hurting another one. >> before you get to how we fix it. it is not a pres pee. but we are in stagflation right now. kitchen table politicings. how do they see that in the every day lifes. >> they see it on the news. it is a sloww economy and they see it in their paychecks and see that in new business and construction and everything they are doing. can if you are unemployed and you see other people unemployed that hurts you. it is greater at risk because the economy is low. high prices. the government does a horrible job in measuring the cost of living increase from year to year.