the way jails to opposition activists for criticizing its monarch on the web as the gulf state continues to silence anti-government voices. you government make sure people from all walks of life are hit by belt tightening with the country's most vulnerable now about to feel the pinch even more plus. well maybe this is the beginning of the end of let's get it out as a political vultures circle over venezuela washington is suspected of circle over one of us power play as he cancelled his inauguration over health problems.

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program now two years behind bars for a twitter message and that's the verdict for two opposition activists in kuwait who criticize the country's rulers on the web the oil rich arab state has intensified its crackdown on the opposition with protests going on there for almost two years now author and journalist have tons of points to striking similarities with other u.s. allies states and the region which have seen the so-called forgotten revolutions. it's obvious that the united states nato countries desire to keep their thousands of troops in kuwait and as we've seen of course there's been demonstrations in bahrain and of course saudi arabia which are not being covered on any corporate

media it's very difficult to cover the brutal suppression of human rights in these nato and u.s. backed dictatorships the rangers themselves are a different subject because some of them are being noble by u.s. authorities but in fairness than been some human rights groups that have campaigned for the horrible human rights situation suffered by the. elements the we do and people under a thousand of those stateless in kuwait and anyone really trying to look for greater freedoms in kuwait in sort of forgotten country in terms of the arab spring and in fact kuwait is hosting at the end of this month a whole conference about syria and about humanitarian help for syria so it has love to say about humanitarian things in syria but it imprisons people to tweet anything against them even though it is one of the most democratic places in the persian gulf arab countries clashes between turkish troops and kurdish rebels in southeast

turkey have left thirteen people dead and three decade long conflict oversell for all has already claimed tens of thousands of lives now turkey is also facing the emergence of an independent kurdish enclave in neighboring war torn syria as a reading a list of reports by seeking a regime change in damascus anger i could be further inflaming violence at home. turkey's prime minister may have shot himself and. by openly supporting the syrian opposition the country's leader may have overlooked the fact serious political mayhem may have on turkey especially in the border areas largely populated by kurds some observers believe any turmoil in the region between on karate damascus will have a devastating effect on to guns country. turkey now involved virtually in a war it's used as a base by the syrian rebels and is now good to the kurds are more just

really predictable but the dangers here are you. dirty guns reasoning behind his support for the rebels can stem from lessons of the recent past. what do you. make. with the syrian opposition because they've made the same mistake in iraq with the kurdish region which is. now. the. right game for the problem in syria but that could come at a dealer cost. conflict if you turks and kurds has been simmering for some thirty years with thousands of victims of both sides in fact the last eighteen months have seen seven hundred deaths from the confrontation between turkish security forces and the kurdistan workers party or p k k recognized by some western nations as a terrorist organization some believe the thirty million kurds already to rise at

a moment's notice to at least gain some autonomy if not reach their ultimate goal the kurdish state the syrian crisis may very well provide such an opportunity and on cross increasing animosity towards both kurds and damascus it may very well be turkey that will end up being the biggest loser in this call that. game kurdish representatives in the turkish general assembly firmly believe no matter the outcome of the conflict the kurds in syria are set for some sort of autonomy and they're eager to follow suit the syrian kurds so will have their own status autonomy for long years we also struggling for a democratic autonomy we want our identity to be recognized and. democratic autonomy regional autonomy then we should have our south governance right but these desires seem to fall on deaf ears within the turkish government

with on cross kurdish conflicts coming under increasing scrutiny from human rights organizations accusations of rape torture of kidnappings and use of chemical weapons against suppose a pretty separatist have been backed by independent records and investigations and are a major stumbling block on uncross crusade for membership the turkish government nevertheless seems determined to avoid the issue altogether instead of turning its attention across the border into syria in a ghost go r.t. . while our correspondents are closely following the developments in around syria via artie's twitter feed so log on to check all the latest updates on this and other issues there. because he.

was just. as well as president ever thomasis to miss his inauguration deadline postponing the ceremony and down a lady to poor health pepe escobar from asia times online told us there will now be manny players willing to stand in his place chevy's what is not a monolithic saying like will dare to say the communist party in china they actually used for five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez house because there will be an internal struggle for power inside chevys will and that the same time we're going to have more possibilities of foreign interference trying so you know

a louvered to this process and i mean specially our friends in washington whole all the news he will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just of shop he is going to let spit it out. watching r.t. live from moscow still ahead for you in the program alleged u.s. army away the leader of bradley manning gets one hundred twelve days off of his eventual sentence but could still face life imprisonment. plus lee report on how some british families are paying the price for the country's failure to counter the rising number of dog attacks that are more just ahead. whether you dive from high or to the depths. catch the power of the wind or drift in the beauty of the currents.

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back you're watching are you going to live from moscow more belt tightening is looming for the u.k.

as parliament moves a staff further to cab benefits and your bill seeks to limit an increase in welfare spending to one percent a year i could see the most vulnerable being hit hardest and also comes against a backdrop of a staring measures britain introduced as a struggle to heal its ailing economy argues laura smith reports. members of parliament have voted in favor of this bill which would have a one percent cap on benefits welfare benefits ministers say this cap is needed because the states handouts have been rising twice as fast as pay as in work pay in recent years this bill will now go through to further reading so it's not passed yet but we can expect significant changes to the welfare budget in the years to come it's all about this kind of what we've seen in recent weeks this this strivers versus scalia versus thing where the government says it wants to support people who are going out to work trying hard to make money versus the people who are staying

in bed all day and they say it's fair because public sector pay. is being kept and private sector pay is rising below the level of inflation so why should people who are on benefits get more money and the stories go all about having to support these people and the stamp out this benefits culture and make it more profitable for people to be working them for people to be sitting at home on benefits but again not everyone agrees obviously a lot of it jobseekers allowance employment support allowance that does go to people who are out of work but a lot of it goes to in fact two thirds of it goes to the lower paid workers so people who are strivers these various tribes that we've been talking about essential workers nurses rubbish collectors people without whom the country would come down to its knees and that's what labor's talking about working tax credits child benefit those kinds of things and in fact the charity the children's society has come out and said that if you are single or single primary school teacher or a nurse with two children you're going to be losing four hundred twenty pounds

a year by two thousand and fifteen under these new measures so certainly very controversial it says we're not all in it together in fact what we are what we want the government proposing to do according to labor is hits households towards the bottom of this is your economic scale much harder than they hit households further up the scale the average person in the street is very keen to stamp. these as they go as the government initially called them but now is backing away from that people who are staying at home with the curtains drawn in bed while ordinary people while the strivers go out to work but the fact is that these measures according to labor would hit those poor people harder more children in poverty they say the landlords association says it could contribute to more homelessness women particularly hard because they're the people who child tax credits for example and of course people struggling to pay for rising inflation rising fuel prices rising food prices to put food on the table and then on the other side of the coin we've got

a tax cut for the rich that will be introduced in april invest anything happens if you earn over one hundred fifty thousand pounds a year after april you'll be paying five percent less tax at the moment you pay fifty percent it'll be forty five percent if you're earning a million pounds that's going to save you forty thousand pounds a year and people are up in arms about. the private bradley manning accused of sharing classified u.s. army files was the whistle blowing web site we leaks will get one hundred twelve days cut from these events will sentence the victory for he's a fan steam comes after john drooled death manning's nine months in quantico amounted to pre trial punishment and was excessively harsh retired colonel morris davis told us the military is just trying to spare its blushes. i think the government here is overplayed their hand if you recall when the wiki leaks documents were going to come out it reminded me of the y2k scare everybody kind of

braced and expected the worst and then when it came out not much happened and i think the government really overplayed this i'm not aware of there being anything more than embarrassment that has been caused by the wiki leaks documents if there's been any operations that have been compromised or any individuals harmed i'm not aware of it but it certainly seems at this point this is more of a case of embarrassment than actual harm it seems to be that there are good leaks in there badly because the administration has been accused of being more than happy to leak information that makes the people feel good or makes the administration look good or supposed to be a congressional hearing with the movie coming out this week as zero dark thirty and are supposed to be a congressional hearing on whether the white house facilitated leaking classified information to the producers of the movie there's been other instances like the killing of osama bin laden the internet attack on the iranian facilities

that you know when it helps make the administration look good in a leak is ok when it's an embarrassment like it is with bradley manning then you know it's a capital offense. well of bring you more information and analysis and bradley manning's case on our website r t v dot com so use our common section to let us know what you think. while we've got the story of a chinese father who has ordered his own son's assassination more online r t dot com plus fun turned to tragedy as to thrill seekers roll off a slow storm at a russian ski resort. tension

between loyalists and police in belfast or the flying of flag are far from easing after pro british protesters pal the security forces with powerful bombs for six consecutive day long the m.p. for belfast as the violence was a planned action and those in charge should be held responsible i think the problem is that there was political orchestration certainly in the initial stages of this particular on rest to try for example to use very emotive and inflammatory language around the position that my party was going to take kids enough of repping die in the fly when in fact we were opposing a hosel from nationalist to take the flag diamond target there was a direct targeting of myself as the m. pay for a spell fast and all of this the why i'm not a member of the decline so i do not have a hope so there was a political orchestration behind this and i think that those who whipped up fear on

tension which existed around this issue which is the mode of i think of the bar some of the responsibility for the consequences of that now some other international news in brief. tunisia has limits the suspect in the attack on the u.s. diplomatic mission in the libyan city of benghazi for a leg of avon's u.s. ambassador and three other americans were killed in the attack on september eleventh last year the twenty six year old tunisian who was extradited from turkey was one of the very few people detained over the a tad the u.s. is still fail to make any real progress in the investigation. a u.s. military contractor who was employees were accused of torturing and abusing prisoners in baghdad during the iraq war will pay five million dollars compensation as the first known case of detainees being compensated by american contractors or they received. the mistreatment of prisoners in abu ghraib came to light in two thousand

and four after a military investigation with graphic photos taken at the scene caused public outrage. one hundred people are still missing after a wildfire swept through southeastern australia so temperatures cold on wednesday firefighters are still battling scores of blazes a new he wave is forecast for the weekend a combination of soaring temperatures and dry windy conditions since last friday has sparked fires that burned vast parts of forest farmland. now the u.s. senate is considering president obama's pick to lead the pentagon and the cia candidate for the spy chief post presidential counterterrorism advisor john brennan is a strong advocate of aggressive cia tactics and assoc you were a car virtual drone program as one of the agency's main tools for american anti-war activist and author believes brennan's nomination can backfire on the u.s.

. the message the president is sending is that i need to be able to say that i'm fighting terror for the short for my own short run political gain but in doing that he's sowing a world when which i believe will kill many many more americans of next decade because where we're elevating so many muslims in terms of john brennan look at the first time he went public with this drone program and he said and this is a quote there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency precision of the capabilities that we've been able to develop now for john brennan to say that there are only two possibilities one is the pathological liar he knows that will murder hundreds of civilians of the lives of the but i think the second possibility is much more serious and that is that he's delusional. paul craig roberts a former assistant secretary of the treasury told us earlier he thinks they have

ran as confirmed as the cia had the agency will further expand its powers granted moving the cia into a more powerful position which the cia will like what you see here is the movement of the cia away from being an intelligence agency toward being a police agency and a military force the. war on terror is becoming more and more directed at the american population it's the american population is being spied on around the clock we now have drones flying here domestically all of this is coming home i hear spy drones and the unaccountability of these growing police agencies. on just a few minutes watch our expand report on people growing discontent over police action against american citizens during protests. the government no longer

represents the people. the people are going to take the terms. we. the way or the fish really. want. to write. what you

are to live for moscow now for many of us a dog is man's best friend but with a rising number of serious attacks in the u.k. there is a growing call for more to be done to regulate these sometimes dangerous paths are the sarah first went to meet one family that's paying the price for britain's relaxed attitude to dogs. there it was a nightmarish attack that lasted just a few minutes which these parents wake up to every day. and me and stacy's two year old son will share it with viciously set upon by a neighbor's dog to stroll. still does a mistake it's been six months now and still is ongoing surgery. it's not going on he was staying at his grandad house when he managed to slip and they test what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking for a. neighbor share it the dogs got him so then we ran round the corner the

dog was chewing into pieces. of chicken a dog. really still picked him up when the dog start attacking me because three seconds earlier it would have happened two seconds later he would be here they say it was a pair but it's not the grotto. which is. also. an intruder karen stanley maintains the attack happened in the alleyway next to the house and not on the neighbor's property the law in the case only covers attacks on public land they say take place on private property are often impossible to prosecute even though that's when most occur the number of dog attacks in the case is increasing more than six thousand people were committed to hospital in two thousand and eleven and the problems with the law go even further the dangerous

dogs act bans for breed but organizations such as but the docs say blame the owner not the animal we believe in the principle of deed not breeds it's about what the. trained dog. in this country is not preventative so it doesn't actually take those aspects into account now we hear a loss about how dogs can hotels but the truth is that the rules are also hurting them every year countless innocent dogs are put down simply because of the way last year that we had to go to sleep just hundreds of dogs like right here on site is just under two thousand charities and politicians agree it's time control changed there appears little consensus on just how it should be done i think everybody. in government and in parliament cross party. to see movement on this and we can't

understand why it's taken so long somebody ought to get a grip on this i'm going to move on because. dogs this isn't a big issue with irresponsible owners and meanwhile all the abandoned stories are washing up in places like part of the dog's home and it's a tragedy for the government agency he's remit this falls under says it's a situation. they're trying to rectify in a statement said compulsory microchip ing of pets and legal changes well under discussion and it will make and then the thing that's little comfort that the care in the family. where we live day's wages. i mean his for his well being but if the ball didn't attack him who had been a situation would be a happy family and he would be a long one of his own and if there were zero changing the rules it's too late to care and while the ladies drag on. and do this it's dogs another tragedy is

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