they are. away jails opposition activists for criticizing its mark on the web as the gulf state continues to silence anti-government voices. u.k. 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 war plus. well maybe this is the beginning of the end of jobs well let's get it out. as a political vultures circle over venezuela washington is suspected of plotting a poster child this power play as he canceled his inauguration over health problems .

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow with me marina josh. now two years behind bars for a twitter message that's the verdict for two opposition activists in kuwait who criticize the country's rulers on the web that 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 seen were tons the points to striking similarities with other u.s. allied states in the region which have seen the so-called for god and revolutions. it's obvious that the united states and 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 human rights groups themselves are in a sense a different subject because some of them are being knobbled by u.s. authorities but in fairness there have 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 loved 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 the three decade long conflict over self rule 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 ridiculous can our reports by seeking a regime change in damascus ankara could be further inflaming violence at home. turkey's prime minister may have shot himself in the food by openly supporting the syrian opposition the country's leader may have overlooked the fact syria's political mayhem may have on turkey especially in the border areas largely populated by kurds some observers believe any turmoil in the region between un corralling 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 now to the kurds of march this was

perfectly predictable but the dangers here argued. guns reasoning behind his support for the rebels can stem from lessons of the recent past. what do you. make of. the syrian opposition because they've made the same mistake in iraq with the kurdish region which is. now. i think again the problem in syria but that could come as a dear cost. conflict between turks and kurds has been simmering for some thirty years with thousands of victims on 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 strong kurds are ready 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 uncross 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 democratic autonomy we want our identity to be recognized and we want. regional autonomy. we should have our south governance right but these desires

seem to fall on deaf ears within the turkish government within caracas kurdish conflicts coming under increasing scrutiny from human rights organizations accusations of rape torture kidnappings and use of chemical weapons against suppose it pretty separatists have been backed up by independent reports and investigations and are a major stumbling block on a crusade for e.u. membership the turkish government nevertheless seems determined to avoid the issue altogether instead of turning its attention across the border into syria it in a ghost go r.t. . well our correspondents are closely following the developments and around syria via r.t. is twitter feed so log on to check all the latest updates on this and other issues . he.

was just. but as well as president hugo chavez is to miss his inauguration deadline postponing the ceremony indefinitely due to poor health pepe escobar from asia times online told us there will now be manny players willing to stand in his place. show his will is not a monolithic saying like would dare to say the communist party in china there at least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems a few we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez house because there will be an internal struggle for power inside chevys will it make the same time we're going

to have more possibility just a horror of interference trying to rule that you know a louvered this process and i mean specially our friends in washington who have all the news he will seek an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just let spit it out also have for you in the program here on r.t. alleged us army week a legal bradley manning gets a one hundred twelve days off if he is eventually sentence but could still face a life imprisonment. plus we 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 for you here on r.t. . now more bell tithing is looming for the u.k.'s parliament moves a step further to calve fits a new bill seeks to limits an increase in the welfare spanning to one percent

a year and could see the most vulnerable being hit hardest it also comes against a backdrop of hysteria measures britain introduced as a struggles to heal its ailing economy artist 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 is strivers versus sky 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 job seekers allowance employment and of course 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 taking from our stride but 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 beneficiaries kinds of things and in fact a charity the children's society has come out and said that if you are single a 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

governments proposing to do according to labor is hits households towards the bottom of this is your economic scale much harder than they hit households for the average person in the street is very keen to stamp. these as the go as the government sort of 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 it'll hit 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 and 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 unless 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 per year and people are up in arms about. bradley manning have private bradley manning accused of sharing classified u.s. army files with a whistle blowing web site we can leaks will get one hundred twelve days cut from his vandal sends the victory for his to fans team comes after a judge ruled that manning's nine months in prison amounted to free trial punishment and was excessively harsh retired colonel morris davis told us the military is just trying to spare its blushes. now 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 that 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 there 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 they're good leaks and they're badly it's 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 so they're 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 we'll bring more information and analysis on bradley manning's case on our web site r.t. dot com so use our common session to let us know what you think of the line we've got a story off a chinese father has ordered his own son's assassination find out more online plus fun turns tragedy as to thrill seekers roll off a float and authority at a russian resort. watching r.t. and we'll be back with more news after a short break stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow the u.s. senate is considering president obama's picks to lead the path of god in the cia the candidate for the spy chief post a presidential counterterrorism advisor or john brennan is a strong advocate of aggressive cia tactics and hasluck you already controversial drone program as one of the agency's main tools for brafman american anti-war activists 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 terrorists 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 and the next decade because where where ellen ating 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's only two possibilities one is he's a pathological liar he knows that will murder hundreds of civilians with the lies about it 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 if brennan is confirmed as a cia had the agency will further expand its powers granted moving the cia to 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 the 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 this 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 and then later today watch our expanded report on people's growing discontent over police action against american citizens during protests. the government no longer represents the dream. of the people. we. meet. the

way i can hardly. wait. this is arguing for moscow now tension between loyalists and police in belfast over the flying of you know flag are far from easy after pro british protesters pelvis security forces with petrol bombs for a six consecutive day now me along the m.p. for belfast he says 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 flood when in fact we were opposing a host of from nationalist to take the flag diamond target there was a direct targeting of myself as the m. pay for a spell fast in all of this the why i'm not a member of the consul i do not have a vote so there was a political orchestration behind this and i think that those who wept up the year on tension which existed around this issue which is a mode of i think of to bar some of the responsibility for the consequences of that . now take a look at some of the stories from around the world. has released the suspect in the attack on the u.s. diplomatic mission in the libyan city of benghazi for a lack of evidence the 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 attack the u.s. has still failed to make any real progress in the investigation. a u.s. military contractor whose and louise were accused of torturing and abusing prisoners in baghdad during the iraqi war will pay five million dollars compensation it's the first known case of detainees being compensated by american contractors for the abuse 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 though temperatures cold on wednesday firefighters are still battling scores of blazes and new he wave is forecast for the weekend a combination of soaring temperatures and dry windy conditions just last friday a spark fires that burned vast parts of forests and farmland. well for

many of us a dog is man's best friend but whether a rising number of serious attacks in the u.k. there's a growing call for more to be done to regulate the sometimes dangerous paths are just there for us when to meet one family that's paying the price for britain's relaxed attitude to dogs. it was a nightmarish attack that lasted just a few minutes but one which these parents wake up every day earlier this year and city and state t.v. year old son kieran with recently set upon by a neighbor's dog distraught. so does the minister it's been six months now and still is ongoing and surgery. it's not going on with 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 him confined in. the box

got him so then we ran round the corner the dog with two and two pieces. of chicken a dog. released. him up. the whole two seconds earlier it would have happened because two seconds later they say it was a pair. of the grotto. also. an intruder karen stanley maintains the attack happened in the alleyway next to their house and not on their neighbor's property the law in the u.k. only covers attacks on public land they say take place on private property are often impossible to prosecute even they that's when most occur the number of dog attacks in the u.k. is increasing more than six thousand people were mitta to hospital in two thousand and eleven and the problems with the law go even further the dangerous dog act bans

for breed but organizations such as but docs say blame the owner not the animal but we believe in the principle of deed not breeds it's about what the. trained dog . in this country is not preventative actually take those aspects into account now here in los about how dogs can hurt us but the truth is that 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 and people right here on site it's just under two thousand charities and politicians agree it's time you 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 in a big issue with irresponsible owners and meanwhile all the abandoned washing up in places like battersea dogs home it's a tragedy for the government agency his remit this falls under ses is a situation. they're trying to rectify in a statement. compulsory microchip ing of pets and legal changes were under discussion and it's all make and then the scene but that's little comfort that the care and family. i mean his for his well being. who had been in a situation. one of his own and he. changing the rules it's too late. and while the lazy drag on. handles its dogs

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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for wednesday january second two thousand and thirteen happy new year it's two thousand and thirteen we're back let's reflect on some of the economic predictions that never came to be last year so our thinking can progress pragmatic capitalist colon roche is here to explain why some folks were wrong about inflation as an example and what the fed's overly optimistic past predictions mean for its future guidance and we have heard about it in. the senate strikes a deal on the fiscal cliff but not before we the fish we fall off the cliff to just two hundred so just. more time remaining and it is now the house that. you are dear smart viewers i'm sure already know about the deal congress reached then that it leaves lawmakers wrangling again in

a couple months over the debt ceiling and the spending cuts that they delayed but when it comes to the reported six hundred billion dollars over ten years in new revenue this deal is said to raise never mind the new deficit that creates what does that kind of money by any way we have a reality check plus why is the government involved in keeping the price of milk whoa part of the fiscal cliff deal involved of burning what some have dubbed a dairy cliff will discuss and wall wrong cliffs we have five phrases we'd like to retire this fear that's in loose change let's get to today's capital account. so the fiscal cliff has been averted kind.