tonight war is fun for one mobile app developer made a game which allows players to replace the syrian conflict but leave little choice except to bring down president the sad. rocky ride turns into tragedy here in russia was a thrill seeker dies in a solving accident after the ball carrying him when a friend flies off course and falls into a gorge. gagged for dissent kuwait throws to activists in jail for tweeting against the enemy and even though one post didn't even mention the route. and divide and rule the british parliament is bringing us the actual

welfare spending with low income workers said to be hit hardest. if you just joined us just after nine pm. the new center tonight in our top story for you 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 endgame syria players get the chance to fight on the side of the rebels exploring various options to conclude the war. piskun off took a look at the game and shared his impressions of it with. well i wouldn't miss this game for the world it's breathtaking action three d. graphics not really it's more about an online card game you can see it right there

basically it has two sides were obviously the regime on one side and the computer plays for that and the rebels which the gamer plays 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 along 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 as i mentioned thousands and thousands of lives have been lost over the last two years is a huge diplomatic standoff appropriate is this. an ethical at least because the really tens of thousands of people have been killed throughout this conflict there has been causing huge diplomatic problems not only with syria but between other. players this game did try to reflect so you could you could see

it there the political fees the developers have been saying that the game was beast on real media reports from the real situation in the in in syria. of all here there's the perfect example china which is automatically given by the game it's here represented as the 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 what 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 is not taking any. i know the only outcome well it does actually offers a peace offer but the game itself recommends the use or not choose that since it says that then you won't get much credit.

it was meant to be a bit of fun but it ended in faith turn a t. a giant inflated rubber ball commonly known as dissolved carrying to thrill seekers inside has rolled out of control and plunged off a cliff at a ski resort in southern russia one of the men inside died the other was injured my colleague have a mock say discuss the tragedy with our correspondent tom but first let's see how

it all happened this freak accident was caught on camera. now right come on come on. how much is it dollars where will it go in a minute cool isn't it let's do it now. you can see the plastic zor ball here which gone horribly off track from where we just saw it before some people try to stop it they're trying 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 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 deals but what exactly is being for those who have never even heard of the words are being it's looks like quite a strange thing as always a giant plastic ball of 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 they spin around bounce around as the ball goes down and then the court at the end very popular sport is caught on

or around the world many people try it all over the place at ease said you've tried it it seems to be popular but isn't thing a thing is the principle is reasonably quite safe but people like to try and push it as far as it can go here's some people in the city bomb you see their point 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 or my. it properly here we see a woman flies outside here in slow motion we can just see her right here and she sits up 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 tom barton though with the story for us. maritime dominance appears to be turning into a high tech high stakes arms race these days in the east china sea japan and china

are vying for power in the disputed territory drones that are quickly coming to the forefront of the race though james corbet editor of the 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 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 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 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 jim payne is taking the helm of china for the next ten years i think he's looking to to put his stake down its 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. fears over drones is not just limited to a jury to the fate of the whole u.s. programs in sharp focus right now claims of his pick for cia chief is to trigger how big the missed later in the program if you can stay with. that works there's still no sign of the violence between loyalists and police in belfast

relenting after a six night of riots over the flying of the union flag angry mobs who petrol bombs fireworks and stones at officers a special meeting of unionists representatives has been called to try and end the violence but the protest leaders say they will take part in the discussions there instead preparing to take action in the irish capital dublin on saturday all mottled deputy leader of u.k. independence probably told us there's little sense in writing though and it's up for politicians to try to diffuse the situation that is why i think it is getting all the hands 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 flag to fly 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 up the street i'm not sure about the logic of

a protester in dog it is in effect obviously the republic of ireland is a different country to our own we are the u.k. 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 out on the street 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. all mottled stripped locked up and kept quiet wiki leaks bradley manning wins the ruling against the u.s. military over the harsh treatment of him while we report on claims of double standards towards whistleblowers. 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 realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has seen from the streets of canada. giant corporations are.

again britain's well famous welfare system is going through the mill right now with parliament rubber stamping a cap on benefit rices that just because the exorbitant cost of handouts and abuse by many on benefits but figures though show that by far the hardest hit will be low income workers so it is there a smith picks up the story there. members of parliament have voted in favor of this bill which would have a one percent cap on benefits welfare benefits minister say this cap is needed because the state's 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 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 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 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 household. 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 a tax cut for the ricks that will be introduced in eight for unless anything happens if you earn 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 earning a million pounds that's going to save you forty thousand pounds per year and people are up in arms about that not is laura smith debate over the ability of president to go chavis to rule venezuela is heating up in a few minutes for the clash the government which is trying to cement the leaders of forty despite his recovery from cancer and the opposition's own political ambition

. social networking in kuwait's landed too many jail a court has given each of them a two year sentence claiming they defamed the amira with the tweets the uprising of the country's about to market second anniversary now with a government accused of resorting to any means necessary to go dissenting voices i spoke to all three journalism should return z. he says kuwait is just another u.s. 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 there and 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 it has love to say about humanitarian things in syria believe imprisons people that tweet anything against them even though it is one of the most democratic places in the persian gulf arab countries willing read more about the crackdown on the opposition at r.t. dot com our web site including some of the cases of tweets in another gulf state bahrain and why imprisoned activists there losing hope for early release. a small victory for private bradley manning with the u.s.

judge ruling any eventual sentence he may receive should be reduced by a hundred twelve days the justification was especially harsh treatment he received after being locked up for leaking classified information to wiki leaks the retired colonel morris davis told us he sees double standards here and the less. 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 that 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 marks the anniversary from an infinite set institution america's guantanamo bay you can catch up to special coverage of that from this friday. beyond borders and beyond the courts eleven years on the guantanamo remains open for business marty looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. is barack obama nominating john brennan dead the cia the future of the u.s. drone program has come into focus but a nickname by some assassinations is a supporter of unmanned drone attacks paul craig roberts a former assistant secretary of the treasury spoke to me please 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 but 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 and we now have drones flying here domestically all of this is coming on i hear the spying the drones and the unaccountability of these growing police agencies. they're often called man's best friend but when dangerous dogs attack they can leave as they never hear coming up and we look at what's being done to control the u.k. dangers and the. integration of venezuela's reelected president chavez has been postponed the country's legislators have voted to give the commandante is facing complications after his fourth cancer surgery now enough time

to recover before swearing them in but the opposition says the moves unconstitutional and wants an official court ruling to resolve. from asia times online believes that chavez's political power in a shaky position. shows this war is not a monolithic saying like us would dare to say the communist party in china there at least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems a few we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez house because there will be an internal struggle for power inside. him at the same time we're going to have more possibilities of foreign interference trying to control the you know as mover of this process and i mean specially our friends in washington who have all the news all seen and all pretty well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just more let's get it out is there life on mars always been

a big question well if not those who could be the founder of internet page planning to send people there to live find out more about this while they're on the web site r t they'll can also lead to the football world cup brazilian stylee authorities in the country leaving nothing to chance giving sex workers free english classes details on our website. there are calls in the u.k. for more to be done to protect the public from dangerous dogs but political and actions having a riff and consequences are two sarah firth met one family struggling to come to terms with the cost of letting vicious dogs roam the streets and there it was a nightmarish attack that lasted just a few minutes but one which these parents wake up every day. and me and stacy thirteen year old son kiran with recently set upon by a neighbor's dog distraught great job there. still does

a mistake it's been six months now and still is ongoing surgery for much of the week it's not going on he was staying at his grandad house when he managed to slip and they test what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking for a. neighbor share it the dogs go in so then we ran round the corner the dog was chewing into pieces. of chicken a dog. released about one picked him up when the dog started talking make it go to seconds earlier it wouldn't happen because two seconds later he would be here they say it was a pair but it's no it was a guard dog. 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 only covers attacks on public land they

say take place on private property are often impossible to prosecute even though that's when most of. 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 can but the truth is that rules in this country were also hurting them every year countless innocent dogs are put down simply because of the way last year we had to put to sleep just hundreds of dogs and people right here on site it's 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 part of the dog's home and it's

a tragedy for the government agency whose remit this falls and says is a situation they're trying to rectify in a statement 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 ladies and innocents dogs another tragedy is simply waiting to happen so are to. at least one person has been left in a critical condition after a ferry rammed into a dock in new york has fifty seven others are said to been injured the collision led to a huge gash on the starboard bow as you can see there the dock itself was littered by people on stretchers many with bandaged head wounds witnesses say it happened

during rush hour and it was packed with commuters heading to work at the time. around eighty people have been arrested after this is police finally ended a standoff at a squat in the city's center there authorities say that building was occupied by people who took part in violent street protests the facilities being used for squatting for about twenty years. pitched battles have erupted in south africa between farmers calling for higher wages and police protests is really working in the local wine industry are calling for the salaries to double similar demonstrations last year left two people dead. well being a stay with us in a couple of minutes time we head to our washington studios for tonight's capital account with a list of. wealthy

british style. that's not on right time i don't know i don't i would. like the. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. if you.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for a wednesday january second two thousand and thirteen happy new year it's two thousand birds we're back let's reflect on some of the economic predictions that never came to be last year so our thinking can progress. here to explain why some folks were wrong about inflation as an example and what the fed's overly optimistic past predictions mean for its future guidance and we have heard about it . the senate strikes a deal on the fiscal cliff but not before we the fish we fall off the cliff to just two hundred so just. more time remaining and it is now the house where. you are dear smart viewers i'm sure already know about the deal congress reached then

that leaves lawmakers wrangling again in a couple months over the debt ceiling into spending cuts that they delayed but when it comes to the reported six hundred billion dollars over ten years in new revenue this deal is said to raise never mind the new deficit that creates what does that kind of money by any way we have a reality check plus why is the government involved in keeping the price of milk was no part of the fiscal cliff deal involved of burning what some have dubbed a dairy cliff will discuss and wall wrong cliffs we have five phrases we'd like to retire this year that's in loose change let's get to today's capital account.