swar is fun for one mobile app developer made a game which allows players to retrace the syrian climb flick but leave little choice except to bring down president exact assad we take a look at that again the sound of the headlines a rocky ride turns into tragedy here in russia as a thrill seeker dies in a thing accident after a ball carrying him and a friend is of course into a brawl. also headlining tonight a gag to send kuwait throws to activists in jail for twenty games the even though one post didn't even mention the. divide and rule the british parliament brings the

axe down a well for spending with low income workers said the hardest hit. hello very good evening if you just joined us just after eight pm here in moscow my name's kevin now in our top story the news just mentioned the a bloody conflict in syria which has been dragging on for almost two years and 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 conclude the war let's try and find out more about this game r.t. to go piskun off our correspondents been looking at it for sure if you're a devoted gamer self yourself but i know you have a good look at this it's called endgame syria how does it work i won't learn the basics of it but what's contained in this game i wouldn't miss this game for the

world it's breathtaking action three d. graphics really it's more about an online card game. basically has two sides so obviously the regime on one side and the computer plays for that and the rebels which the gamers. pleas for their side basically you choose what sort of in syria or other methods you want to use against the regime and put it up against its weapons then you've got chopper the infantry some more choppers on the weapons and here and so on and then the game basically calculates your chances for success it's pretty much how it works what's being said about the appropriateness of this game when as i mentioned thousands and thousands of lives have been lost over the last two years is a huge diplomatic standoff appropriate is this how it will be viewed it's unethical at least really tens of thousands of people have been killed throughout this

conflict has been causing huge diplomatic problems not only with syria but between other world players this game did try to reflect so you could you can see it there the political fees which even offers a diplomatic solution the developers of the game themselves say that it's based on the real reports of the media of the situation there's only one outcome apparently to this game no the only outcome well it does actually there we go it offers a peace offer but the game itself recommends the user not to choose that since it says that then you won't get much credit among the rebels so basically only the best ending of this game particularly is the fall of the regime well obviously the developers are hopeful it's going to sell and make their money and i gather it's available android apple haven't taken it up there was so far the apple denied taking it on their platform violates pretty much all of the rules that targets an

existing government of an existing state that's unethical that's also against the rules the android tablet it's on that currently only on that. the developer say they're going to try to resubmit it to app. they see that it may not be called a game it may be called a single leader or something like that but again if we're talking about a single leader then you have to have the possibility of taking a side in the car for instance there are lots of games about existing carful it's about historical conflict and so on you can always pick a side that's pretty much the whole point of a simulation here in this in this case the have to change probably the game in its core if they do want to become popular eve of thanksgiving in and explain a bit more to us appreciating your piskun off there our correspondent. drones take the skies over disputed territory in the east china sea we talk about that soon tonight to the asian giants for cash and high tech arms race with analysts warning

surveillance could lead to skirmish. but next social networking in kuwait has landed too many jail lower courts given each of them a two year sentence claiming they defame the amira with the tweets the uprising in the country's about a market second anniversary with the government accused of resorting to any means necessary to go dissenting voices author and journalist i should return z. told me kuwait is just another us back to the ship. it's obvious that the united states nato countries desire to keep their thousands of troops in kuwait and as you see because 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 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 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 has 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 but we invite you to read up more on the crackdown on the opposition on the web site r t dog before the similar cases inflaming other tweets in another go. to and why in prison activists there are losing hope for early release. tragic story next it was meant to be

a bit of fun it ended in fake tallaght a giant inflated rubber ball commonly known as absorb carrying two thrill seekers inside as rolled out of control and plunged off a cliff at a ski resort in southern russia one of the men died the other was injured my colleague that i must say it discussed the tragedy with our correspondent tom barton but first let's see how it all happened the fateful moment he was caught on camera. all right come on on come. how much is it just ten dollars whether these guys just a real say 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 some

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 all 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 for 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 they spin around bounce around as the ball goes down and then the court at the end very popular sport it's caught on 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 boom you see they're up on top of 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 out and that was on a controlled course that wasn't that wasn't supposed to happen

a tall so what is in principle looks totally safe giant protective plastic ball can actually prove quite dangerous. they don't have story for us other use of a belfast loyalists marriage to negotiate on the sixth day of union flag related riots in northern ireland but the protesters say they don't want to talk and they're preparing to take their action to dublin we've got more on that in a few minutes time. maritime dominance appears to be turning into high tech high stakes arms racing 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 though james corbett editor of a japan based news website told us 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 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 jumping 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 isn't just limited to a jury the fate of the whole u.s. sharp focus is the pick for cia chief is to trigger happy talk about that later in the program. now there's still no sign of the violence between loyalists and police in belfast relenting after six nights of riots over the flying of the union flag there and we mobs through petrol bombs fireworks and stones in offices the special meeting of unionists representatives has been called to try and end the violence but the protest leaders say they will take part in discussions they're prepared to take action in the irish capital dublin instead on saturday for natural deputy leader of the u.k. independence party says there's little sense in rioting and it's up to the

politicians to tried now to defuse the situation but i think it is getting out of hand 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 not only allow the flag to fly and said dave is a wrong decision i hope it is wrong. but as i say i condemn the violence that's wrong and this should be done through politics a lot of people up the street i'm not sure about the logic that. it is in effect obviously the republic of ireland is a different country only are you tell you northern ireland is part of the u.k. i 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 outraged and 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. reporting soon tonight stripped

a locked up and kept quiet wiki leaks bradley manning with a ruling against the british open the treatment of him while we report on claims of double standards towards whistle blows. 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 everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

speak or language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about seven v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit. again britain's famous welfare system is going through the mill these days with parliament rubber stamping a cap on benefit rises 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 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 state 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 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 see 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 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 want the government 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 middle 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 the tax

cuts for the rich that will be introduced in april less anything happens if you're over one hundred fifty thousand pounds a year after april you'll be paying five percent less tax at the moment you pay fifty percent it'll be forty five percent if you're owning a million pounds that's going to save you forty thousand pounds per year and people are up in arms about that or a smith debate over the ability of president hugo chavez to rules and as well as heating up in a few minutes to form a clash between government that tried to cement the leader's authority despite his recovery from cancer and the opposition's political ambition. a small victory to private bradley manning with the u.s. judge ruling any eventual sentence he may receive should be reduced by one hundred twelve days justification was the especially harsh treatment he received after being locked up for leaking classified information to wiki leaks but retired colonel morris davis says he sees double standards 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. but barack obama nominating john brennan to add the cia the future of the u.s. drone program has come into focus spent a nickname by some the assassinations is

a supporter of unmanned drone attacks now fred bronfman american antiwar activist and also says the deaths of hundreds of civilians in the controversial strikes proves one of two things about brennan. the message the president is sending is that i need to be able to say that i'm fighting terror for the short for my own short run political gain but in doing that he sowing a world win which i believe will kill many many more americans of next decade. because where we're elevating so many muslims in terms of john brennan the first time he went public with this drone program he said and this is a quote there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency precision of the capabilities that we've been able to develop now for john brennan to say that there's only two possibilities one is he's a pathological liar he knows that were murdered hundreds of civilians with the

lives but i think the second possibility is much more serious and that is that he's delusional. they're often called man's best friend but when dangerous dogs attack they can the scars of never heal coming up we'll look at what's being done to control the u.k.'s dangerous animals. you know gratian venezuela's reelected president hugo chavez has been perspire on the country's legislators a vote to give the come undone to use face and complications after his fourth cancer surgery now enough time to recover before swearing him in but the opposition says the moves unconstitutional wants an official court ruling to resolve the issue as part of puppy escobar from asia times online he believes the challenge is political power is in the shape of position. shows his war is not a monolithic saying like there exists a communist party in china they're actually east for five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems we have an unsteady situation in

terms of sharpness house because there will be only internal struggle for power inside there is more ever left the same time we're going to have more possibility just of for it interference trying to you know louvered this process and i mean specially our friends in washington all the news all seat and all pretty well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just let's get it out we'll newsy briefly one person has been left in a critical condition after a ferry rammed into a bomb in new york as many as seven other people are said to have been injured the collision led to a huge gash on the star board bowed the dock it's self was littered but people on stretchers many with bandaged head wounds witnesses say it happened during rush hour and it was packed with commuters heading to work. bangladesh hundreds of teachers clashed violently with police as part of an ongoing pay dispute protesters were held back by barricades as authorities have to spray it's the third

consecutive day teachers of running to call for a rise in salaries. recalls of the u.k. for more to be done to protect the public from dangerous dogs but political inaction the seven horrific consequences are to serve first met one family struggling to try to come to terms with the cost of letting vicious dogs roam the streets. is there it was a nightmarish attack that lasted just a few minutes but one which these parents wake up every day earlier this year and to me in state t.v. year old son kiran with this italy set upon by a neighbor's dog distraught. soldiers a mistake it's been six months now and still in surgery. it's not going on kiran was staying at his granddad house when he managed to slip a native what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking for

him confined in. the box got him so then we ran round the corner the dog was chewing into pieces. of chicken a dog. they released their own picked him up the dog start attacking the whole two seconds earlier it would not happen opposed to seconds later they say it was a pair but it's not it was a guard dog. kiran's family 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 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 were mitta to hospital in two thousand and eleven now we hear

a lot about how dogs. 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 people right here on site is just under two thousand dogs charities and politicians agree it's time control changed there appears little consensus on just how it should be done. dogs the biggest irresponsible. and meanwhile all the abandoned stories are washing up in places like policy dogs when it's a tragedy for the government agency he's remit this falls and say this is a situation they're trying to rectify in a statement it said 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. and while the lazy drag on the how person handles its dogs another tragedy is simply waiting to happen so. coming up in a few minutes for you drug trafficking gender discrimination in the grave mistakes of the white house all up for discussion the latest episode of breaking the set. that.

i think. that speaks. to you. wish i was. able to use obviously good but. just see the amount of enemy. out on out front of me that really. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch. i mean

. i know that i'm still the same thing really messed up. and we're all very sort of personally appalled at. the worst we're going through the white house soup of a. radio guy and four minutes from the cricket but i want you to watch what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this i'm told. welcome to breaking the set i'm having mine so it seems like drones are becoming more and more unpopular 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 where we want we can shoot where we want because we can. you know it's amazing that this decorated general is actually telling us the unvarnished truth for once the shame clever it's only now in retirement that he's decided to be vocal out an 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 let's go break the set. on this show you.