what was one for one mobile app developers commonly use made a game which allows players to retrace a syrian conflict but leave little choice except to bring down president assad. a rocky ride turns into tragedy here in russia as a thrill seeker dies in his valving accident after the boat carrying him and a friend flies off course and falls into a cold. i gag for dissent who way to activists in jail for tweeting against the enemy even though one place didn't even mention the ruler. and the divide and rule the british parliament

brings the axe down on welfare spending with low income workers to be hard. to. get six pm here in moscow you live with us on our t.v. with me it's a bomb was a it's good to have you with us first. the bloody conflict in syria which has been dragging on for almost two years and claimed more than sixty thousand lives has now entered the realm of internet game called the end game syria players get the chance to find on the side of the rebels exploring various options to group the war r.t.c. garvey still took a look at the game and shared his impressions with me. amazing graphics stunning three d. action not really it's more about an online game which simulates the

situation the standoff in 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 here weapons then you've got tanks also and basically. the game calculates your chances of success there's 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. although 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. has also actually has more hasn't openly supported president assad's regime either and neither has the russian 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 there are many simulator simulators. of various conflicts real conflicts which happen before or which may happen in the future whatever the game is about whichever side there are you can always pick a side that's our kind of single it there's a possibility of kind of reporting history here even though there is this conflict hasn't ended yet old you're only taking one side germans take to the skies over

disputed territory in the east china sea here maybe giants poor can be a high tech arms race but analysts warning surveillance could lead to skirmish that's ahead. social networking in kuwait has landed two men in jail a court has given each of them a two year sentence claiming they defamed the emir with it tweets the uprising in the country is about to market second anniversary with a government accused of resorting to any means necessary to gag dissenting voices although in journalism as kuwait is just a mother you was back to take ownership. 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 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 pride read more on the crackdown on the opposition at r.t. doug com including similar cases of jailing over tweets and another girl said bahrain you know i'm prison activists they are losing hope but only really.

it was meant to be a bit of fun but it ended in a fatality and giant inflated rubber ball commonly known as a zombie carrying two thrill seekers has rolled out of control and plunged off a cliff at a ski resort in southern russia one of the men died the other was severely injured tragedy was caught on camera. all right come on on come. how much is it ten dollars where would it go 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 pushes against and 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 ativan is one always has to think about you know there are repercussions when doing this but what exactly is being for those who have never even heard of the word of being it's 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 they were strapped 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 to all over the place at ease said you've tried it it seems to be popular but is if they are the 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. 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

a tall so was in principle looks totally fluid giant protective prostate wall can actually prove quite dangerous margie's tom barton with the story for us brian bell vaso loyalists are urged to negotiate on the sixth day of the union flag relations rise in northern ireland but protesters say want to talk and are prepared to take their action to dublin in minutes. maritime dominance somebody has to be turning into a high tech high stakes arms race in the east china sea china and japan are vying for power in the disputed territory and it's drones that are quickly coming to the forefront of the race james covered editor of the age of pandora is news website says some stand to gain from the escalating crisis. 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 and in east asia as unfortunately i think tension military tensions are going to lead to increasing military expenditures on both sides 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 and i think that washington is perfectly happy to to encourage japan in this not only because it obviously benefits their armaments industry in the defense contractors who stand to make the billions that japan will be spending on increased expenditures but also because i think when the further the wedge is driven between japan and china the more it plays into american hands as long as this doesn't actually come to a full scale war i think the more off balance japan is the better it services america as they seek to get a bigger toehold in the region 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 she jinping 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. and fears over drones is not just limited to asia the face of the u.s. program is doesn't make claims obama's pick for cia chief is to trigger happy damas that late in the program. there's still no sign of the violence between loyalists and police in belfast relenting after six night of riots over the flying of the union flag angry mobs threw petrol bombs fireworks and stones at officers a special meeting of union is 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 paul natal deputy leader of the u.k.

independence party says there's little sense in writing and it's up to the politicians to diffuse the situation when i think it is getting older homes and the reports that there are sort of quasi fascist groups and far right elements who are now directing this this protest is very worrying indeed i think the decision taken by belfast council to to lower the flag or only allow the flood to flow in certain days is a wrong decision i hope it is overturned but as i say i condemn the violence that's wrong and this should be done through politics and not through people on the street i'm not sure about the logic of a protest don't go into the fact obviously the republic of ireland is a different country only of northern ireland is part of the u.k. i fear that there might be violence i hope there's not but as i say this is a job for the politicians the isn't the job for people also let's get the politicians around the table and let's hope that the council come to see sense and

let's have the union flag flying stripped locked up and kept quiet we can legally bradley manning was a ruling against the was military over there harsh treatment of them while we report on claims of double standards towards whistleblowers. government no longer represents the. people we're going to take the trip. we. leave. the you. the way our economic system currently. in the.

way. i. am. sorry technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got the huge earth covered. thank you. this is our key regions i met famous welfare system is going through the mill well paula meant to rubber stamping a cap on benefit dreiser's the justification is the exorbitant cost of handouts and abuse by many on benefits but figures show that by fall the hardest hit will be low

income workers lower smith picks up the story. members of parliament have voted in favor of this bill which would have a one percent cap on benefits welfare benefits ministers say this cap is needed because the states handouts have been rising twice as fast as pay as in work pay in recent years this bill will now go through to further reading so it's not passed yet but we can expect significant changes to the welfare budget in the years to come it's all about this kind of what we've seen in recent weeks this this strivers versus 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 but a lot of it goes to in fact two thirds of it goes to the lower paid workers sick 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 further up the scale more children in poverty they say of 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 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 anything happens if you 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. debate over the ability of president hugo chavez to rule venezuela is heating up in a few minutes we report on the spot between the government which is trying to cement the leaders authority despite his recovery from cancer and the opposition political ambition. a small victory for private bradley manning with the us just ruining any eventual sentence he may receive should be in the days last hundred and twelve days the justification was the especially haas

treatment he received after being locked up for leaking classified information to leaking leaks but retired colonel morris davis says 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 in a leak is ok when it's an embarrassment like it is with bradley manning then you

know it's a capital offense. this week among senate anniversary for the infamous institution america's guantanamo bay you can catch the r.t. special coverage from this white. young voters and beyond the court's eleven years on the blunt town of the remains open for business markie looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. with a barack obama nominating john brennan to have the cia the future all the u.s. drone program has come into focus brennan nicknamed by some assassination is a supporter of unmanned drone attacks fred brand men american antiwar activists in office says the death saw hundreds of civilians in the controversial strikes one of the 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 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 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 perception of the capabilities that we've been able to develop now for john brennan to say that the only two possibilities one is the pathological liar he knows that was murdered 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. they're often called demand the best friend but one danger of all the time. was the never healed coming up we'll look at what's being done to control the u.k.'s dangerous animals.

they now gratian of ben as well as reelected president hugo chavez has been postponed the country's legislators have voted to give the commandante is facing complications after his fourth cancer surgery enough time to recover before throwing him in the opposition says the move is unconstitutional and once an official called real interest on the issue that the ask about amazing times online believes that the vessel's political power is in a shaky position. shows this war is not a monolithic saying like i 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 if we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez health because there will be an internal struggle for power inside egypt this will emerge the same time we're going to have more possibilities of foreign interference trying

to you know a louvered this process and specially our friends in washington all the news here will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just shut these books let's split it up. as i live on my own so if not to the soon could be the founder of the internet bank now is planning to send people there to live more about his wild and on our team. that are preparing for the football world car brazilian style authorities in the country are leaving nothing to chance giving stats workers free english classes the details on a website.

there are calls in the u.k. for more to be done to protect the public from dangerous dogs of political inaction is having horrific consequences r.t. sorry for me it's a family struggling to come to terms with the cost of letting vicious dogs roam the streets. it was a nightmarish attack that lasted just a few minutes but one which these parents wake up to every day earlier this year and near stacy's two year old son kiran with viciously set upon by a neighbor's dog distraught. so does and this has been six months now and still is ongoing and surgery for image of rick it's not going on karen was staying at his granddad's house when he managed to slip out a native what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking grim confined and. the dogs go in so then we run round the corner the dog will

tune into pieces. think of a dog. release they'll pick him up when the dog started talking very well to seconds earlier when it happened because two seconds later they say it was a pair but it's no it was a the grotto. also. 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 though that's when most occur the number of dog attacks in the u.k. is increasing more than six thousand people weren't mitta to hospital in two thousand and eleven now we hear a loss about how dogs can hurt us but the truth is that rules in this country were also hurting them every year how innocent dogs are put down simply because of the

way last year we had to put to sleep just hundreds of dogs and right here on site is just under two thousand dogs they made charities and politicians agree it's time laws on dog control changed there appears little consensus on just how it should be done what. dogs of the biggest are with irresponsible owners and meanwhile all the abandoned washing up in places like part of the dog's home and it's a tragedy for the government agency his remit this falls 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 will make an announcement. but that's little comfort to karen's family. situation. and. changing the rules it's too late for karen and while the ladies drag on the

how person handles its dogs another tragedy is simply waiting to happen so. long. tensions over the disputed region of kashmir are rising as india says pakistani troops killed two of its soldiers mutilating one of the bodies islamabad like the planes as it is issues are being made to divert attention from the killing of one of its soldiers at the weekend the indian government says a firefighter broke out after pakistani troops were spotted on the side of the line of control the bodies of the dead men have been flown to an indian military base going which is along the kashmir border are common but rarely lead to deaths. in bangladesh hundreds of teachers have pleasure violently with police as part of an ongoing pay dispute the protestors were held back by barricades as authorities

used to have a spray it's a third consecutive day teachers have rallied to call all rise in salaries. whoever has broader some relief to firefighters battling blazes across new south wales australia's most populous state however more than one hundred thirty continued to burn and buildings have been destroyed forward result warned the sweltering temperatures and high winds that spawns the fires are likely to return an applebee's. after the break it's the second part of a special report which explores how you with the dozens are showing their discontent with the police's methods of clamping down on protests that's coming up next here on r.t. .

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way and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of cedar way district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents is rising workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different risin is trying to break the union everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his life and so many diverse people many walks of life to recognize that we are the not percent of the time of record profits of rise there is the very same people that have made the. rich corporations they now want to you go to our benefits except the bill from our point of view there i said it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do no us and everybody else at the bar you say it's about saving a million dollars next year what do you think that this car negotiation is really about.