away jails to opposition activists for criticizing its monarch on the web as the gulf state continues to silence anti-government voices. the u.k. government make sure people from all walks of life are hit by belt tightening where the country's most vulnerable now about to feel the pinch even war plus. well maybe this is the beginning of the end of the job he's going to spit it out. as a political vulture circle over venezuela washington is suspected of plotting a poster child as power play as president cancels his inauguration over health problems.

well this is our take on being it here live from moscow i'm marina joshua come to the program 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 while rich arab state has intensified its crackdown on the opposition with pro das going on there for almost two years now author and journalist have seen or tansey points to striking similarities with other u.s. allied states in 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 i'm moving 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 and sort of forgotten country in terms of the arab spring and in fact it is hosting at the end of this month a whole conference about syria and about humanitarian help for syria so as love to say about humanitarian things in syria but it imprisons people that 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

southeastern 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 and neighboring war torn syria and as a realist growing our 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. 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 two are moral 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 sunni rebels and is now good to the kurds or more just

really. but the dangers here are you. already 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 gate with. syria but that could come as a dear 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 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 are eager to follow suit the syrian kurds so will have their own status autonomy for long years he also striving for a democratic we want our identity to be recognized and. democratic but on a 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 of kidnappings and use of chemical weapons against the cause of pretty separatists have been backed by independent groups the reports 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. . our correspondents are closely following the developments in around syria twitter feed so log on to check all the latest updates on this and other stories here in art.

we. should be listening to. that as well as president hugo chavez is to miss his inauguration deadline postponing the ceremony indefinitely due to poor health is a request passed the national sample yamit opposition claims that the move to satellite or or data is unconstitutional that ask a bar 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 they're actually used for five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems

a few we have an unsteady situation in terms of shot his house because there will be an internal struggle for power inside show this will aim at 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 of shut these well let's get it out. well still ahead for you the program here on our. pledge to u.s. army weekly here bradley manning gets one hundred twelve days off of his eventual sentence but could still face life imprisonment. plus we word on how some british families are paying the price for the country's failure to counter the rising number of dog attacks that have war just ahead here in our. now more valentine day is looming for the u.k.

as parliament moves a staff further to cap benefits and you bill seeks to limit an increase in welfare spending to one percent a year and could see the most vulnerable being hit hardest it also comes against a backdrop of a staring measure of britain introduced as it struggles to heal its ailing economy 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 skivers 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 tories 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 a 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 four 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 what the government's proposing to do according to labor is hits households towards the bottom of the socio 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 of the landlord to c.c.a. she 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 the. private bradley manning accused of sharing classified us army files with a whistle blowing web site if we can leaks will get one hundred twelve days cut from his eventual sentence the victory for his defense team comes after a judge ruled out manning's nine months in prison amounted to pretrial 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 i'm not aware of there being any thing 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 there are good leaks and 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 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 you know it's a capital offense although bring more information and analysis on bradley manning's case in our website r.t. dot com so use our comments section to let us know what you think and also the story of a father who's ordered his own son's assassination online. roll off a slope. at a russian ski resort. well we're back with more news in a couple of minutes stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so 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 trying hard luck is a big issue. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are all day.

watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow now the u.s. senate is considering president obama's picks to leave the pentagon of the cia the candidate for the post of spy chief presidential counterterrorism adviser john brennan is a strong advocate of aggressive cia tactics and has secured a conversational drone program as one of the agency's main tools fred brafman an 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 and 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's only two possibilities one is he's a 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 tell us earlier he thinks if brennan is confirmed if the cia had the agency will further expand its power 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 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 later today watch our extent to report on people's growing discontent over police action against american citizens during protests. the government no longer represents the people. the people. we.

meet. on the. way are going. to. write. well tension between oil assam police in belfast or the flying of you know flag are far from easing after pro british. security forces with petrol bombs for 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 on the fly when in fact we were opposing a host of some lost most to take the flag diagram tardo there was direct targeting of myself as the m. pay for a spell fast and all of this the while not a member of the council do not have a hope so there was a political orchestration behind this and i think that those who whipped up a year on tensions which existed around this issue which is a mode of i think have to bar some of the responsibility for the consequences of that. now some other stories from around the world to. the suspect on the u.s. diplomatic mission in the libyan city of benghazi for a lack of evidence u.s. ambassador and three other americans were killed in the attack on september eleventh last year twenty six year old to me who was extradited from turkey was one of the very few people detained over the attack the u.s.

is still fail to make any real progress in the investigation. and u.s. military contract there are always were a key used of torturing and abusing prisoners baghdad during the iraq war or pay five million dollars compensation as the first no 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 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 cooled on wednesday firefighters are still battling scores of blazes and new he waves as forecast for the weekend a combination of soaring temperatures and dry windy conditions since last friday sparked fires that burned vast parts of forest and form one. while 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 pets are the sarah first went 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 which these parents wake up to every day. and two year old son jared with viciously set upon by a neighbor's dog while distraught. so doesn't this been six months now and still is ongoing and surgery. karen was staying at his granddad's house when he managed to slip a native what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking for him. so then we ran round the corner.

chewing into pieces. of chicken a dog. released. because. they say it was a pair but it's. also. an intruder kiran 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 take place on private property are often impossible to prosecute even though 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 dogs act bans for breed but organizations such as battersea dogs say blame the.

we believe in the principle of deed not breeds it's about what the. trained dog dog legislation in this country is not preventative actually take those aspects into account now we hear a loss about how dogs can hurt us but the truth is that the rules in this country are also hurting them every year countless innocent dogs are put down simply because of the way last year we had to put to sleep just hundreds of dogs and people right here on site is just under two thousand dogs charities and politicians agree it's time to 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 what's happening is we're still having

a dog sell 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 fals and say this is a situation they're trying to rectify in a statement it's compulsory microchip ing of pets and legal changes were under discussion and it's all make and then. that's little comfort to karen's family they will. lose days wages money. i mean as for his well being. who had been in a situation to be a happy family and he won't be one of his own and is zero zero changing the rules it's too late. and while the lazy drag on the how person handles it's dogs another tragedy is simply wait. so. long.

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world of. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like. to eat that's bad luck and i know that i'm still the same thing really messed up. and we're all very sort of silly. that's. the worst we're going through the white house of a. radio guy and four minutes from the cricket. club are about

to give you've never seen anything like this i'm told. welcome to breaking the set i'm having mine so it seems like drones are becoming more and more popular so unpopular in fact that even a high ranking u.s. military officials are railing against them including this guy retired general stanley mcchrystal the same person who wrote the book on u.s. counterinsurgency in afghanistan he said quote what scares me about drone strikes is how they're perceived around the world resentment created by american use of unmanned strikes is much greater than that and the average american appreciates their hated on a visceral level even by people who've never seen one or even seen the effects of one mcchrystal continued saying the u.s. use of drones worsens and quote perception of american arrogance that says we can fly when we want we can shoot where we want because we can you know it's amazing

that this decorated general is actually telling us the unvarnished truth for once the shame clever it's only now in retirement that he's decided to devote all. everything is always twenty twentieth's hindsight but why do we have to wait for hindsight to fix what's wrong let's go break the set. on this show you hear me harp. about terrible things happen in the world that often make us feel disempowered a lot of it has to do with wars corporate control special interest forces which are all in one way or another shaped by america's addiction to fossil fuels seems that while the rest of the industrialized world is enjoying the benefits of clean energy this country is still fighting on how to balance fossil fuel subsidies before going off the fiscal cliff.