more is fun for one android app developer who's made a game which allows players to retrace a syrian conflict but leaves little choice except to bring down as a giant ass on. the bar rocky ride turns into tragedy as a thrill seeker dies in a solving accident after the ball carrying him and a friend of flies of course falls into all. the began for design to go away through his jew activists in jail tweeting again even though one post didn't even mention the ruler. and to divide and rule the

british parliament brings in the axe down on welfare spending with low income workers to be the hardest hit. it's four pm here in moscow you're live with us on our t.v. with me tom would say it's good to have you with us our first story. the bloody conflict in syria which has been dragging on for almost two years has 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 to explain more all is are these you got a piece going on a year ago or i mean i don't know if you are at a game user at all but i would imagine that something like this what is it about

what is the end game have you taken a look at it have you pleaded i couldn't miss it for the world amazing graphics stunning three d. action now really it's more about an online game which simulates the situation the standoff between syrian government forces and the rebels so you've got two sides the regime and the rebels you can only play for the rebels the computer generates what the regime has to offer in terms of combat you can see those artillery tanks and so on so forth you choose on the side of the rebels what sort of methods you want to use against the regime like anti air weapons then you've got the tanks also and basically the the game calculates your chances of success i mean i'm looking at this now and i'm not a game user at all and i'm not really impressed with those so it we're talking about a serious thing here this is

a conflict happening people are dying. why would somebody go to the extent of actually creating a game that looks at the syrian war in these terms well it is pretty unethical we're talking about thousands of lives which are going to last throughout the conflict in syria. there is also the political freeze which you can see here the developers have been saying that the game was based on real media reports from the real situation in the in in syria. over here there's the perfect example china which is automatically given by the game it's here represented as a country which supports the regime although we haven't heard any open statements from the chinese government russia is put in the same line with iran and with has also actually has but hasn't openly supported president assad's regime either and neither has washing fact we've been hearing constantly from moscow saying that it's not taking any side of the conflict so if we're talking about any sort of

simulation here i guess this is what they call a feel for a major a very or an epic fail in the online world but there's also the possibility of getting three friends to help the rebels there also possibilities to supply the rebels with weapons so this is sort of like an online i guess it's a brainwash i feel i feel like it's almost like the old like an old a new version of monopoly except it's like a political monopoly you know what i mean because in a game says you think ok there's going to be lots of noise lots of graphics is going to be exciting and it's going to be equally divided two who can win and who can lose but on this point it's not there's only one side to the story exactly in all games and there are many simulated simulators of various conflicts real conflicts which happen before war which may happen in the future whatever the game is about whichever side there are you can always pick

a side is that that's how we kind of similar like and in fact it's really interesting the. if you're playing a game about the second world war you're playing on the sides of the nazis for instance there's a possibility of kind of replaying history here even though there's this conflict hasn't ended yet you're only taking one side clearly it's just about kind of looking for ways for the rebels to get assad out there's also it's also interesting there is the possibility of a peace treaty the game does offer that but it actually comments that if you do go for the peace treaty as the player then it won't be really that useful you should continue fighting until the regime falls i mean it baffles me but this one side of the game is that i've heard that it's been rejected by apple as an app how well these developers develop this game intending to actually get it out into the market at the using other. platforms what kind of platforms are they using it has been

rejected by apple initially it was designed by apple but it goes against all the ethical rules of the company since basically targets a ruling existing government that's against all the rules of the corporation the developers say they do they are going to try to. submit this game but i guess there really are going to have to change a lot of. the kokura of this game if they want it to be on. the platforms as popular as apple. now you've played it do you like it there's something you want to do you think oh yes oh yes it's going to take some a little bit more time for me to get into it but i highly doubt that. back i'm probably going to be more about something. well more objective definitely i think objectivity is even in a monopoly there's objectivity thank you very much he's going to thank you.

right drones are to the skies over disputed territories in the east china sea two of asia's giants are called cash into the take arms race with analysts warning surveillance of could lead to a skirmish that's ahead. social networking in kuwait has landed two men in jail court has given each of them a two year sentence claiming they defamed to the emir all with their tweets the uprising in the country is about to malkuth second anniversary with a government accused of resorting to any means necessary to gag dissenting voices offer and journalist option read tons he says kuwait is just another us back to dictatorship. 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'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 essentially 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 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 read more on the crackdown on the opposition at r.t. dot com including similar cases of over driven another gulf state by rain and wind present activists they are losing hope for early release. it was meant to be a bit of fun but it ended in a fatality giant inflated rubber ball commonly known as a evolved caring to thrill seekers has rolled out of control and plunged off a cliff at a ski resort in southern russia one of the men died yabber was severely injured the tragedy was caught on camera. come on come on. how much is it ten dollars where would it go else in a minute cool isn't it let's do it now.

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 or try to put it 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 it plunged off cliffs and then onto a frozen lake where it came to rest. inside both of them fired around like pinballs one had a broken neck and died on the way to hospital the other escaped with just injuries i mean these kind of a extreme ativans one always has to think about you know there are repercussions when doing this but what exactly is being for those who who've never even heard of the words are being here's a look like quite a strange thing is

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 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.

monitored properly here we see a woman flies outside here in slow motion we can just see her right here and she shoots up and that was on a controlled course that was that wasn't supposed to happen or taught so what is in principle looks totally fluid giant protective prostate wall can actually prove quite dangerous. there it is some bargain with the story for a strip a locked up and kept quiet maybe go bradley manning with a ruling against the u.s. military over the harsh treatment of him while we report on claims of double standards towards whistleblower. britain's famers welfare system is going through to the mill with parliament to rubber stamping and cap on benefit drivers the justification is the exorbitant cost of handouts and abuse by many on benefits but figures show that by far the hardest hit will be low

income low income workers archies laura smith picks up the story. 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 state handouts have been rising twice as fast as pay as in 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 the measures 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 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 a 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 and 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 further up the scale more children in poverty they say of the landlord's association says it could contribute to more homelessness it'll hit women particularly hard because they're the people who child tax credits 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 this hat cuts for the rich that will be introduced in april less than a thing happens if you're over one hundred fifty thousand pounds per year to 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 owning a million pounds that's going to save you forty thousand pounds per year and people are up in arms about the. belfast loyalists not urge to negotiate on the sixth day of union flag raises riots in those in ireland but the judge does say they want to bolt at not preparing to take the action to dublin that's coming up in a few minutes. a small victory for private bradley manning with a us judge ruling and any eventual sentence he may receive should be reduced by a hundred and twelve days the justification was the specially hostage meant he

received after being locked up for leaking classified information two weeks but meantime colonel morris davis says he sees double standards here nonetheless 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 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 that you know when it helps make the administration look good on a leak is ok when it's an embarrassment like it is with bradley manning then you know it's a capital offense. the debate over the ability of present

a good job is to rule them as well that is heating up later this hour while we report on the plane the government was trying to cement of the leaders of florida a despoiled is recovering from cancer and the opposition is all political ambitions . 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 realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. if you.

believe. this is our team mary time dominance appears to be turning into a high tag high stakes arms race in the east china sea china and japan are vying for paul in the disputed territory and it's drawing. that are quickly coming to the

forefront of the race that's got more on the matter though with all that added to the age a pan base news website that's a call that the drugs are in cheap and acquiring fleets of them will cost an arm and a leg up both nations ready for the expense of this potential arms race i think they are preparing to to be ready to commit more more resources to the military expenditures and they're getting ready to do that even as we speak and i think we see really the start of a new normal here in east asia as unfortunately i think tension military tensions are going to lead to increasing military expenditures on both sides and we already see that with japan coming out this week announcing the defense ministry announcing an extra one hundred billion yen in spending for the two thousand and thirteen budget for the defense ministry and still japan is only spending about one percent of its g.d.p. on defense so there's a lot of room for growth and i think that's exactly what we're going to be seeing as japan is looking to buy some more global hawk drones and china is launching

a new line up to its own fleet of drones so i think both sides are really preparing to to ramp up military expenditures quite a bit right now as both countries are preparing to pump up the defense side of things to china's drones program especially is it its infancy kether way to compete with a u.s. trained and supply japanese drones fleet. well that's a good question and there's a lot of speculation about what the chinese drone fleet is actually capable of a lot of the specs and other things that have been released about their drones show that they are more or less clones of us u.s. craft so for example layers the c.-h. for the we know long and the long and these are those are basically just clones of the reaper the predator in the global hawk respectively so it looks like china is really just attempting to clone us technologies and if they're successful in that i suppose then it is feasible that they'll be able to produce drones that will be able to counteract the american the american supply japanese drones but so far

a lot of the drones that they've displayed as certainly some of the newer ones they display last month they haven't actually shown any test flights over they haven't really shown their capability so it's really up in the er as to whether china is able to pull this off at this time but certainly they are developing the technology japan's also talking about raising its military budget you said it's now at one percent in its in terms of its defense budget this is for the fourth time and more than a decade you live there how strongly do the people they feel about the standoff with china. i don't think it's something that filters down to the the citizen level as much here as it does in china and there are some new surveys that have come out just this week showing the public sentiment in china is stirring in terms of nationalism once again as again these the dispute over these islands in the east china sea is seen is still a very much a focal point and in fact this week we saw the the chinese ambassador called to

tokyo to receive a formal protest from japan about yet more territorial incursions of chinese ships into the the territorial waters of these islands and china has disputed that dispute so it is unfortunately going around in circles and i think we're going to see more and more of this because now that abi is in power he's known as a hard line nationalist and now that cheating paying is taking the helm of china for the next ten years i think he's looking to to put his stake down it's as someone who can really be a strong defender of china so i think we're really going to see an entrenched position on both sides and it looks like there is a new normal of wars and increasing expenditures that are likely for the next several years. james coppered editor of the corporate report thank you. and fears over drones is not just limited to asia the fate of the u.s. on bad war on terror is in focus and make claims obama's pick for the top job at

the cia is june trigger happy don't miss that later in the program. there's still no sign of the violence between loyalists and police in belfast relenting after six a night of riots over the flying of the union flag angry mobs threw petrol bombs y. works and stones at offices a special meeting of union as representatives has been called to try and end the violence but the protest leaders say they want to take part in discussions and are preparing to take action in the irish capital dublin on saturday now me along the m.p. for belfort he says the violence was a premeditated 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 session that my party was going to take kissing out of wrapping dye in the fly when in fact we were opposing

a host of the nationalist to take the flag during retirement there was direct targeting of myself as the m. pay for east belfast in all of this the way i'm not a member of the council do not have a hold so there was a political orchestration behind this and i think that those who worked up the year on tension which existed during decision which is a mode of i think of to bar some of the responsibility for the consequences of that . the integration of and as well as reelected president chavez has been postponed to the country's legislators are voted to give the commandante facing complications after his fourth cancer surgery enough time to recover before swearing him in the opposition says the move is unconstitutional and once an official court ruling to resolve the issue of basketball from asia times online believes that chavez's political power has a shaky position. shows this war 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 if we have an unsteady situation in terms of sharpest health because there will be an internal struggle for power inside this mall m.f. the same time we're going to have more possibilities of foreign interference in trying to rule that you know as lulu for this process and especially our friends in washington all of loosely will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just of shabbiness work let's split it up with barack obama nominating john brennan to head the cia the future of the u.s. drone program has come into focus brennan nickname to buy some assassinations as a supporter of on manned drone attacks fred rent men american antiwar activists and author says the deaths of hundreds of civilians in the controversial strikes proves one all of two things about brennan. 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 game what i'm doing he's sowing a world when which i believe will kill many many more americans in the next decade because where we're eliminating so many muslims in terms of john brennan what did the first time he went public with this drone program where he said and this is a quote there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency perception of the capabilities that we've been able to develop now for john brennan to say that there's only two possibilities one is just a logical liar he knows that was murdering hundreds of civilians with his life. but i think the second possibility is much more serious than that is that he's delusional coming up in a few minutes abbey mountains breaking the. minute

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from stunts on t.v. don't come. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean. i found i believe that i've seen the same thing really messed up. and we're all very sort of personally appalled at the. worst you were going through the white house of the day the radio guy and columbo minestrone click off that i want you to watch what we're about to do because 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 show. well we want because we hand 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 be a vocal. opponent against drone wars everything is always twenty twentieth's hindsight but why do we have to wait for hindsight to fix what's wrong what's good .