please. please. please. please please please . the syrian conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people has inspired a new online game that's already been rejected by some major operating systems as an unethical. way jailed she opposition activists for criticizing its monarchy on the web as the gulf state continues to silence anti-government voices. and turns a tragedy at a russian ski resort and one extreme sport and loses his life and another is seriously injured after plunging off a cliff in a giant inflatable ball. well maybe this is the beginning of the end of the job.

as a political vultures circle over venezuela washington is suspected of plotting a post chavez power play has a president canceled his inauguration over health problems. is three pm here in moscow you're live with us on r.t. it's good to have you with us i'm to bomb what's a first the bloody conflict in syria that's been dragging on for almost two years and claimed more than sixty thousand lives has now entered the realm of internet gaming called endgame syria players get the chance to fight on the side of the rebels exploring various options to push the conflict to the end joining me now in

the studio is r.t. as you go out of greece cannot even go i don't know if your devoted game but you've taken a look at and gave syria how does it work well unfortunately i can't really as much time for computer games as i would have wanted to but i did take a look at the some more of what's called. the developer has them say. took two weeks to develop the scheme which is obviously a. we want to develop something with good quality so there is no actual three d. action there are no people running around shooting this is more like a court game you can see here and basically it's all about seeing the chances of how the situation could work out kind of simulating the situation of the regime's forces on one side and the rebels forces on the other side so it's more

like a sort of like a gambling card game online instead of an action so betting who has the best cards to win the syrian game this conflict has many dimensions as we all know as there is a serious diplomatic standoff going on around it how is it all going to be reflected in a card game well the developers. put this game together using real media reports from the situation in syria they say that it's absolutely based on the real kind of conflict so there's also the possibility of. so you can see here the political phase so there is these gambling kind of fights if you can use military hardware or you could use a political methods and. the military one again but it's quite interesting that it puts you can put countries that support or allegedly support

the regime against countries that support the rebels there is the option of some western states supplying weapons to the rebels all of that is reflected in this game but. what i can say. against the statement that it's based on real media reports it puts countries like russia. those who openly support the regime while we always get statements coming from the foreign ministry of russia does not take any side so that's kind of a one of the points which makes you doubt object of this game really is is speaking about of your objective which i mean like you said when you would have in the beginning that it's not the sort of game you would expect to have three d. you know shootouts and that kind of stuff so i mean it may seem insensitive that such bloodshed could inspire an online game doesn't it i mean it seems almost like people are just sort of taking the mickey out of all of this this is

a serious thing that's happened you know it's definitely an ethical and the developers if people have problems with the term game then they could call it simulation or online interaction but we are talking about thousands of lives which have been lost throughout this conflict and it's a really really serious topic making a computer game out of it. i guess it is it does raise questions into how ethical it is and actually also gives you the opportunity to. for this diplomatic solution for a peace treaty but actually begin itself says that even if the player takes this option does go for this peace treaty then he wouldn't really gain that much respect for points from the rebels and you're always always saying only one side always has its own conclusion anyway whether you go for you you can't take the side of the

regime even if you want to see how the simulation would work if you did. so that's so how has this been you know in terms of the world of gaming. we know that apple has already rejected other developers plan to use this as a platform are they rejecting it is a kind of a sense of it's an ethical we're not going to go away we're going to keep away from it what's been the reaction around this well the game was initially developed specifically for apple's platforms and apple has rejected it due to its policy. and it's also the game is about targeting a specific existing government which is also against all existing rules of the company and i'm pretty sure that all the other major. companies like apple would have pretty much the same rules about that but the developer say they are going to

try to resubmit this game perhaps they're going to what they said they're going to change it from the terms game to simulation or whatever but. needless to say there are very many games which do simulate various. sometimes these could be these games could go back to the to the second world war to the cold war sometimes possibly. some future where even russia could face off with the united states are the worst these games are quite popular they're not really core games. much better. put together but you can always take either side of the conflict and sometimes you can even take the side of the terrorists but it always gives you the choice to see how the simulation will work this game doesn't give the choice obviously it's only on one side or i'm just thinking what is anybody gave me. but i guess so if you use it may know better

you got the skin of thank you very much for being with us here in the studio to explain this endgame syria. two years behind bars for twitter message that's the verdict for two opposition activists in kuwait to 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 afshin rattansi points to striking similar. states in the region which have seen the so-called forgotten revolutions. it's obvious that the united states nato countries just to keep their thousands of troops in kuwait and as we've seen of course there 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 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 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 still ahead for you in the program alleged u.s. army really bradley manning if the hundred twelve days off of his eventual centers but could still face life imprisonment. the u.k.

government to make sure people from all walks of life ahead by belt tightening with the country's most vulnerable now about to feel the pinch even more. an extreme sports fan has died and another has been serious injured in a horrifying incident. just caucuses region the true way using a saw when they're trying to inflatable ball went out of control and plunged off a cliff let's take a look now at how the accident unfolded. all right come on come on how much is it ten dollars where was it because you'll see in a minute cool isn't it let's do it now. but

with me in the studio is artist tom botton and tom it sounds like everybody was happy before all of this happened what actually happened thing. well just to add to that you can see the plastic zor ball here which has gone horribly off track from where we just saw it before some people try to stop it they're trying to put pushes against the rocks to stop it but it careers on it goes in the end one point five kilometers starting off over the edge of this mountain you can see this on this amateur video which gets a bit shaky now inside a russian father of two and his friends all the others watching the french can see careering down this mountainside plunged off cliffs and then onto a frozen lake where it came to rest one man inside both of them fired around like pinballs one had a broken neck and died on the way to hospital the other skate with just injuries i mean these kind of a extreme ativans one always has to think about their repercussions when doing this

but what exactly is being for those who who've never even heard of the words are being it's looks like quite a strange thing as always a giant plastic ball with the sport was invented in new zealand here's one with this two layers of plastic air in the middle and the person sits inside that there is the straps in his of someone getting in now they're either strapped in or they roll around inside it or slip around inside it i tried it myself once actually and then they push down usually quite quite a gradual slope reasonably short slope and then they spin around bounce around as the ball goes down and then the court at the end very popular sport is caught on or around the world many people try it all over the place at ease said you've tried it it seems to be popular but isn't thing a thing is the principle is reasonably quite safe but people like to try and push it as far as it can go here's some people in the city bomb you see there are this

car people like to try and use this this great ball of plastic. as a creatively as they can and it can go wrong especially when it's not. regulated or monitored properly here we see a woman flies outside here in slow motion we can just see her right here and she ships out and that was on a controlled course that was that wasn't supposed to happen at all so what is in principle looks totally safe like giant protective plastic ball can actually prove quite dangerous i mean i'm an adrenaline junkie myself you said you've done this i've never done this or been but i don't know if i'd be comfortable sitting in a giant plastic how thief was that well i mean i was i was doing it on a grass slope in new zealand they put me inside without at least being strapped in perhaps of water with me and i rolled around like a whatever a little ball inside a big ball really as it were and i found it very pleasurable but obviously the message of this is going to have people who. piss in order to make sure that

everyone can enjoy it so if they. find out more on the deadly is all being an accident and others involving in this thrilling adventure sport on our website at our de dot com. venezuela's president hugo chavez is to miss his inauguration deadline postponing the ceremony indefinitely due to poor health is requests passed the national assembly amid opposition claims that the move to set a later date is unconstitutional but escobar from a.z. times online told us that there will now be many players willing to stand in his place. chevy's war is not a monolithic saying like us would dare to say the communist party in china there at least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is a lot of problems a for we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez house because there will be an eternal struggle for power inside which are visible in that the same time we're

going to have more possibility just go for an interest in areas trying to rule you know a louvered this process and i mean specially our friends in washington paul who says he will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just let speeded up more news is heading your way off to the south bank. choose your language. clearly we can we know if you are mentally ill going to kill

someone. as she was good the consensus here you can. choose the opinions that you think are great to. choose the stories going to. choose the accents to go off to. sigrid laboratory curbeam was able to build on its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything to change mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care watch only on the algae dot com. you're watching our private bradley manning accused of sharing classified u.s. army files with a whistle blowing website with leaks or get

a hundred and twelve days cut to from the eventual sentence the victory for his defense team comes up to a judge ruled that 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 this i'm not aware of there being any replay does i'm not aware that it's 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 in there 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 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 we bring all information and analysis on bradley manning's case on our web site at r.t. dot com he has a comment section to let us know what you think say. we've got the story of a tiny thought that is all that is done that from a certain kind of law online. and so one enterprising hugh was

billionaire has big plans of establishing a colony on mas but it appears there is a criteria to fulfill so i had to argy dot com to learn if you enjoy the chosen one . to a. more belt tightening is looming for the u.k.'s palm and moves a step further to kep benefits a new beatles sixty limits an increase in wealth of spending to one percent a year and could see the most vulnerable being hit hardest it also comes against a backdrop of austerity measures britain introduce as it struggles to heal it's a economy is laura smith reports. members of parliament has 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 skivers thing where the government says that 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 to search of it goes to the lower paid workers 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 what the government's proposing to do according to labor is hits households towards the bottom of this is your economic scale much harder than they hit households. the average person in the street is very keen to stamp. the skies as the government

initially called them but now is backing away from that people who are staying 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 land those association says it could contribute to more homelessness it'll hit women particularly hard because they're the people who will tax credit go to 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 less than a thing happened if you over one hundred fifty thousand pounds per year after april you'll be paying five percent less tax at the moment you pay fifty percent it'll be forty five percent owning a million pounds that's going to save you forty thousand pounds per year and people

are up in arms about that. some other international news in brief now tunisia release a suspect in the u.s. diplomatic mission in the libyan city of benghazi for 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 was extradited from turkey was one of the very few people detained over the attack the u.s. are still failed to make any real progress in the investigation. one hundred people are still missing after a wildfire swept through south eastern australia so temperatures cooled on wednesday firefighters are still battling scores of blazes and a new heat wave is forecast for the weekend a combination of soaring temperatures and dry windy conditions since last friday as bonfires there burned vast parts of forests and farmland. the u.s. military contractor whose employees were accused of torturing and abusing prisoners

in baghdad during the rotty war or 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 causing public outrage. for many of also a dog is man's best friend bird with the rising number of serious attacks in the u.k. that's a growing call for more to be done to regulate these sometimes dangerous pets are these are for the went to me to 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 earlier this year and sneers stacey's two year old son kiran with viciously set upon by a neighbor's dog the straw. still does

a mistake it's been six months now and still is on going surgery for much of the week 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 a. neighbor share it the dogs got him so then we ran round the corner the dog was chewing into pieces. taking the dog. to release them and then one picked him up when the dog started talking make it go two seconds earlier it wouldn't happen because two seconds later he would be here they say it was a pair but it's not the grotto. also. an intruder. family 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 lands 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 ek 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 breeds but organizations such as 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 prevented to. actually take those aspects into account now we hear a loss 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 we had to put to sleep just hundreds of dogs and arrived here on site is just under

two thousand dogs charities and politicians agree it's time belongs on dog 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. a dog's this isn't a big issue with irresponsible owners and meanwhile all the abandoned washing up in places like dogs when it's a tragedy for the government agency he's rebuilt the schools and say this is a situation. and they're trying to rectify in a statement to say it's a compulsory might could tipping of pets and legal changes were under discussion and it's all make and then the thing that's little comfort that the care and family

they were going to. release days wages money. i mean his for his well being but if the dog didn't attack him who had been a situation to be a happy family and he won't be a blank one of his own and if there were zero changing the rose it's too late to care and and while the lazy drag on the how bush handled its dogs another tragedy is so i wait to happen so. the head is cross talk with people about stay with us. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality

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