war is fun for one mobile app developer has made a game which allows players to retrace a syrian conflict leaves little choice except to bring down president assad. a rocky ride turns into tragedy here in russia as a thrill seeker dies in a evolving accident after the ball carrying him and a friend flies off course and falls into. a gag but xander kuwait or three sure activists in jail for tweeting i games are the enemy of even though you want boys 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 sent to be hit hardest. you're watching our live from moscow with me to say it's good to have you with us this evening 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 gaming called end game syria players get the chance to find on the side of the rebels exploring various options to conclude the war aren't easy to go a piece of took a look at the game and showed 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 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 and here weapons then you've got thanks also and basically the the game calculates your chances of success there's also the political phase 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. has also actually has a bill that hasn't openly supported president assad's regime either and neither has 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 field there are many simulated senior leaders of various conflicts real conflicts which happened before war 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 simulate there's a possibility of kind of reporting history here even though there is this conflict hasn't ended yet you're only taking one side. drawing say to the skies over disputed territory in the east china sea bases giant forecasts into their high tech

arms ways but analysts warning surveillance could lead to skirmish at the hague. social networking in kuwait has landed two men in jail a court has given each of them a two year sentence claiming they defamed their meter with your tweets the uprising in the country is about to market second anniversary with the government to kings of resorting to any means necessary to get dissenting voices off when journalist afshin rattansi says kuwait is just about the u.s. back to take the ship it's obvious that the united states and nato countries desire to keep their thousands of troops in kuwait and as we've seen of course there 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 it does 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 our deeds are coming to the similar cases of living i would tweets in another go state by frame and why imprisoned activists they are losing hope early release.

it was meant to be a bit of fun but it ended in a fatality and joined inflated rubber ball commonly known as assault 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 one was injured the tragedy was caught on camera. or a camel camel. how much is it turned out all is well it got all three 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 they're trying to put it 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 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 exhuming to vittie is 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 it's looks 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 a you 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 up until 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. 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 joint protective prostate wall can actually prove quite dangerous. or it is tom barton with the story for us belfast lawyers urged to negotiate on the six day of the union flag related riots in northern ireland but the protesters say they don't want to talk and are preparing to take their action to dublin that's coming up in a few minutes. maritime dominance appears to be turning into a high target high stakes arms race in the east china sea japan and china 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 a japanese news website 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 tensions 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 and 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 service 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 i'm afraid of the whole you was programming something focus i mean claims obama's pick for cia chief is to trigger happy in a mess that later in the program. the still no sign of the violence between loyalists and police in belfast relenting after six night all riots over the flying of the union flag and remarks through petrol bombs why it works and stones at officers a special meeting of unionist representatives has been called to try and end the violence 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 that there's little sense in writing and it's up to

politicians to diffuse the situation well 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 and certain days is a wrong decision i hope it is overturned but as i say i condemn the violence it's wrong and this should be done through politics and not through people on the street i'm not sure about the logical approach to it is an approach go to sleep republican i want a different country only of you tell your that island is part of the. fear that there might be violence i hope there's not as i say this is a job for the politicians this isn't the job for people over the weekend 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 leave

bradley manning will remain against the us military are over there hard treatment of him while we report on claims of double standards towards whistleblowers.

the news today volunteers once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a shelter on the day. you're watching our team which is a famous well for a system is going through the mill with polymer ends rubber stamping a cap on benefits rises the justification is the exorbitant cost of the handouts and abuse by many on benefits but figures show that by fall the hottest hid will be low income workers archie's lawyers 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 is 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 under a sarah c. 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 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 this is your 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 tax

cut 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 present good tavis to rule venezuela is heating up in a few minutes we'll report on the class between the government which is trying to cement the leaders authority despite his recovery. and the opposition's own political ambitions. a small victory will private bradley manning with a u.s. judge ruling any eventual sentence he may receive. hundred and twelve days the justification was the especially hans friedman to you received after being locked up for leaking classified information to weaken me but retired colonel morris davis

says he sees a double standards here nonetheless now think the government here is overplayed their hand if you recall when the wiki leaks documents were going to come out it reminded me of the y2k scare everybody kind of braced and expected the worst and then when it came out not much happened and i think 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 the monson anniversary for an infamous institution america's one time of day you can catch archie's special coverage from the sliding

. beyond borders and beyond the courts eleven years on the guantanamo remains open for business marty look at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. with barack obama nominated in john brennan to hit the cia the future of the u.s. drone program has come into focus brennan nicknamed by some assess a mission vom is a supporter of on men drone attacks paul craig roberts of almost a sense that surreal the treasury believes america is now becoming the battleground in the war on terror brennan is moving the cia to a more powerful position which the cia will like what you see here is the movement of the cia away from being an intelligence agency 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 that's being spied on around the clock we now have drones flying here domestically all of this is coming on i hear spy drones and the unaccountability of these growing police agencies. they're often called man's a best friend but when the dawn of the time they can leave scars that never heal coming up we look at what's being done to control the u.k.'s dangerous animals. the inauguration are venezuela's reluctant 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 but the opposition says the move is unconstitutional and once an

official poll driven to resolve this you better ask obama from a viewer times online believes that chavez's political power is in 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 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 hauled loosely will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just of shop is look let's split it up. there's a live on mars so if not to there could be the founder of the internet bank of

paper now is planning to send people there to live find out more about his wild idea on r.t. . preparing for the football world cup brazilian style authorities in the country are leaving nothing to chance giving sex workers free english classes the details on a website. there are holes in the u.k. for more to be done to protect the public from dangerous dogs of political inaction as having horrific consequences for to meet 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

anthony and stacy's two year old son kieran with viciously set upon by a neighbor's dog the straw. so does and this has been six months now and still is ongoing and surgery for image of rick it's not going on kevin was staying at his grand house when he managed to slip out a native what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking for him could find. the dogs got him so then we run round the corner the dog will join in two pieces. of chicken a dog. released they'll pick him up when the dog start attacking the photo seconds earlier when it happened because two seconds later it will be here they say it was a pair but it's not it was a the grotto. also. an

intruder karen stanley maintains the attack happened in the alleyway next to their house and not on their neighbor's property the law in the case only covers attacks on public land those that 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 the fact that rules in this country were also hurting them every year countless innocent dogs are put down simply because of the way last year that we had to go to sleep just hundreds of dogs that arrived here on site is just under two thousand dogs charities and politicians agree it's time laws on dog control changed there appears little consensus on just how it should be done what. attack dogs

the biggest are with irresponsible owners and meanwhile. they want to result in a zero zero changing the rules it's too late for kiran and while the lazy drag on the how person handles its dogs another tragedy is simply waiting to happen so.

in a rush hour and was packed with commuters heading to work. in bangladesh hundreds of teachers have closure violently with reasons part of an ongoing pay dispute the protestors were held back by a very case as authorities used pepper spray it's a third consecutive day teachers have rallied to call for a rise in salaries. in india hundreds of protesters have shown their anger at the deaths of two indian soldiers allegedly killed by pakistani troops slum about denies his soldiers were involved saying the accusations are being made to divert attention from the killing of one of its military personnel at

the weekend skirmishes along the disputed kashmir line of control are common but rarely leave two deaths. around eighty people have been arrested in athens as a police of finally ended a standoff at a squat in the city center authorities say the building was. but invited three protests the facility has been used for squatting twenty yet. emergency services are raising to save the lives of people caught in huge floods a triggered by heavy rains across israel schools in the capital have been closed and buildings have been damaged a number of heroes were shut off on tuesday but have since reopened. up ahead is cross talk with peter lavelle.

least he told language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team reporting from the world talks about six of his v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. enjoy the arabic to find out more visit arabic t.v. dot com. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t. any time anyway.

welcome to cross talk and peter all about the so-called war on drugs has been fought for decades if you believe it is achieved much beyond horrific budgetary costs and extremely high levels of incarceration in the u.s. as well as the staggering death toll south of the border as some american states liberalized their drug laws is it time for the u.s. as a whole to do the same.