tonight war is fun for one mobile app developer who made a game which allows players to retrace the syrian conflict but leaves little choice except to bring down president as sad. a rocky ride turns into tragedy here in russia as a thrill seeker dies in a solving accident after the ball carrying it when a friend flies off course and falls into a gorge. drugs take to the china sea two of asia's giants pour cash into the high tech race and made warnings that surveillance could lead to skirmish. and a gag for the said kuwait throws to activists in jail for tweeting against the

enemy even though one post didn't even mention the country's leader. other thanks for being without international it's kevin and it's a night in moscow just after eleven pm now a top story the bloody conflict in syria which has been dragging on for almost two years and has claimed well than sixty thousand lives is now into 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 has gone off to look at the game shared his impressions with me. 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 there

basically has two sides were obviously the regime on one side and the computer plays for that and the rebels which the game are placed 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 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 there's a huge diplomatic standoff appropriate is this how. well 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.

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. although here there is 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 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 is not taking any side of the conflict but 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 choose that since then

you won't get much credit among the rebels so basically the best ending of this game particularly is the four of the regime you've got can offer them a bit earlier on the expanding and more coming up pressure a bailout ireland assumes presidency of the e.u. and is now been tasked with leading debt ridden you rip's charges of economic crisis we look at what's in store for dublin coming up. next social networking kuwait's landed two men in jail a court each of them a two year sentence claiming they defamed the with the tweets the uprising in the countries about the markets second anniversary with the government accused of resorting to any means necessary to gag dissenting voices or journalists i should returns he told me coates just another us back to 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 are demonstrations in bahrain and of course saudi

arabia where i'm not being covered on any corporate media it's very difficult to cover the brutal suppression of human rights in the nato and u.s. backed dictatorships human rights groups themselves are in a sense a different subject because some of them are being normal day 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 and in fact kuwait 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 we invite you to read more upon the crackdown on the

opposition on our website r.t. dot com putting similar cases of killing of a tweet in another gulf state to bahrain and why imprisoned activists they're losing hope for early release. it was meant to be a bit of fun but it ended in fade tele to a giant inflated rubber ball commonly known as a sword carrying two thrill seekers insiders 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 badly injured and my colleague ted one would say discuss the tragedy with our correspondent on but first let's see how it all happened this freak accident was caught on camera. right come on come on. how much is it ten dollars where will it go he'll 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 they're trying 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. 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 their repercussions when doing this 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 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 it all over the place he 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 they're often talk 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

monitored proper. 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 was 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 out his tomball reporting for us maritime dominant speirs to be turning into a high tech 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 for james corbett editor of the japan based news website told us some stand to gain from this 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 serves 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. well fears of a drugs are just limited to asia either the fate of the whole u.s. programs in sharp focus right now amid claims of barbers pick for cia chief to trigger happy explore. belfast loyalists are urged to negotiate on the six day now of the union flag related to northern ireland but the protesters say they don't want to talk the preparing instead to take their action to dublin to head as well. the presidency of the council the european union with the head of the european council visiting dublin to mark the occasion islanders own economy was saved by a bailout in twenty ten is presiding over an economic nightmare for the union with twenty six million people and. group think tank thinks that the visit was all about reinforcing austerity and has its own economic problems which are continuing of

course as has the economic problems which have been happening ever since the the euro which created high inflation there and then of course exacerbated the faster they had ready to take on the presidency of the european council is of course a very large piece of work not just for the senior politicians in the government but also for many of the civil servants and would be better off spending their time really trying to address the economic difficulties rather than trying to solve the problems within the european union which are very great indeed of course unemployment now in the e.u. is alarmingly high and of course the thing is is that arlen when he says island is that we mean that ireland's a poster boy for austerity means that the irish people are not protesting and taking up their white to protest as people in spain and greece have done because we know that austerity at this time point actually work last year in the euro in the single currency it will create more economic problems and that's why we see unemployment across the eurozone rising quite alarming lee so he's very happy that

arlen is getting on with the e.u. policy of austerity but actually it's actually the wrong policy this time. strip's looked up at wiki leaks brother when there's a ruling against the u.s. military over the treatment of him while we report on claims of double standards towards whistleblowers and debate over the ability of folks to the chavis to rule venezuela is heating up we're reporting on the clash between the government is trying to submit that his authority despite his recovery from cancer and the opposition's own political ambitions for.

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hello again venezuela's courts ruled out the delay of president a good chance his inauguration is legal the country's legislators have voted to give the commandant to use face in complications still after his fourth cancer surgery enough time to recover before swearing him in the opposition over claims that the moves are unconstitutional is calling for new elections let's talk about all this political wrangling then go live to new york based at host of your world news radio show someone coming chung thanks very much for being with us on the swearing in ceremony then as i just said spin perspire on the country's course back that decision does it come as a surprise to you first of all this news no no there are especially if you're not you know following the propagator that's been put out by western media as well as of course obviously the the opposition and been as well you've been trying to ask the kate a lot of folks internally in business well it's a bias there are indications i mean you know within the constitution that it's well within their purview to delay this and so it wasn't

a surprise for me or or other folks that we're getting there is a common sense question here that while the writing it all. is actually fit enough to do the job. well that remains to be seen because i don't think too many people know i mean the science is inner circle and and it's his doctors in cuba i don't think too many people know or so you know i think we need to stay away from this speculation in terms of you know what his health may or may not be the like i mean he was cancer free some months ago and then unfortunately the cancer came back in and yet to go back for surgery so it really remains to be seen opposition leaders stance is that when chavez chose his current term ends john in the tent that's it the officials appointed by and therefore his previous term will have no longer any legitimacy after that they got appointed and they surely know that actually completely farce and you know because they can delay the national assembly you can delay. they can dilute the you know through the screening for up to six months i

think it's less about three months time you know initially and then another three months can be postponed you know by the national assembly as well as the you know the high court and as you know it is your lead off the high court ruled today to swear in and we. know it's a lot of us. to do exist just that that's to confuse the people within minutes well and i can't i don't if you can put some some flesh on the bones of this and your mentioning there may be a term of up to six months postponement i don't know what you know about this this latest judgment now. going to be in till he gets better the question is how long is a bit of string this could take six months could take a year it could take eighteen months no. i mean it all depends on the gravity of us how but within the constitution you know that you can you can delay the swearing in you know for three months and then the national assembly can delay it for another

six months and and you know what i was a power vacuum in the time of the power vacuum well i think look you know look at some of the world with the vice president that he's the former minister for foreign affairs he's a strong he supports a bold area. he supports the social programs the mission it's been put out by sarkozy's administrator which he's a part of and so i think that if you were. but i think that nicolas maduro i think that he would win if they had a snap election and i think that with that power i think that you will lose your will i think that there's no indication that he has any plans of reversing what has been set forth by chavez and his administration so much coverage of thanks bill the program much appreciate it good to see you tonight thank you. they're often called man's best friend but what dangerous dogs attack they can leave scars that never heal coming out that we look at what's being done to control the ukase dangerous

animals. following what's happening in northern ireland as well as still no sign of the violence between loyalists and police in belfast relenting after a six night a flag and red mobs threw petrol bombs fireworks and stones at officers a special meeting of unionist representatives has been called to try and end the violence but the protest leaders say they won't take part in the discussions instead they're preparing to take action in the irish capital dublin saturday paul not all deadly leader of the u.k. independence party says that little sense and rioting it is up to the politicians to defuse the situation there. well 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 or only allow the flag to fly and said it's

a wrong decision i hope it is over the line 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. it is in effect obviously the republic of ireland or the from country only of northern ireland as part of the 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 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. paul knuckle this channel attempts to answer life's big questions like is there life on mars well if there is no there could be so we're talking about online the founder of internet by pay pal's planning to send people there to live not quite sure that's going to work you can read more about it and his wild idea that r.t. dot com preparing for the football world cup brazilian style authorities in the country leaving nothing to chance now they're giving sex workers free english

classes to see that everything covered with details to them about that as well on our website. a small victory for private bradley manning with a us judge ruling any eventual sentence he may receive should be reduced by one hundred twelve days the 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 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 in expected the worst and then when it came out not much happened and i think the government really overplayed i'm not aware of there being any thing 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 there are good leaks

and they're bad leaks 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 you know it's a capital offense this week marks not averse story for an infamous institution america's guantanamo bay you can catch r.t. special coverage for this friday. borders and beyond the courts eleven years on guantanamo remains open for business marty looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. barack obama nominating john brennan to head the cia the future of the u.s. drone program has come again into focus but a nickname by some the assassinations supporter of unmanned drone attacks paul craig roberts a former assistant secretary the treasury believes america's now becoming the battleground in the war on terror. moving. to

a more powerful position which the c.e.o. wired what you see. is the movement. away from. agency but toward being your police agency and military force the. war on terror is becoming more and more directed at the american population it's the american population that's being expired on around the clock and we now have drones flying here domestically all of this is coming on right here spying the drones and the unaccountability of the growing police agencies at least two people have been left in a critical condition after a ferry rammed into a dock in new york as many as fifty seven other people are said to been injured that collision led to a huge gash on the starboard side of the bow you can see it there that dock itself too was littered with people on stretchers many with bandaged head wounds witnesses

say it happened during rush hour and it was packed with commuters therefore having to work at the time. of the world news headlines for eight people have been arrested in athens as police finally ended a standoff at a squat in the city center authorities say the building was occupied by people who took part in violent street protests the sites been used for squatting for about twenty years. pitched battles were up to the south africa between farmers calling for higher wages and the police the protesters many working in the local wine industry are calling for their salaries to double or similar demonstrations last year left two people dead. the head of fattah mahmoud abbas and his hamas counterpart are in egypt for talks that could lead to reconciliation between the two palestinian groups president morsi has met with both leaders calling on them to form a unity government with a view to holding them a fighting elections further down the track hamas and fattah of been involved since hamas took control of the gaza strip five years ago. of course in the u.k.

for more to be done to protect the public from dangerous dogs but political inaction is having horrific consequences of first met one family struggling to come in terms of 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 every day earlier this year and near state t.v. year old son kiran with this italy set upon by a neighbor's dog distraught. so does the minister it's been six months now and still is ongoing in surgery. it's not going on with staying at his granddad's house when he managed to slip. what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking for him. the dogs got him so then we ran round the corner the dog was chewing into pieces. of chicken

a dog. released the picked him up when the dog started it all two seconds earlier it would have happened because two seconds later both there was a pair but it's not 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 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 case is increasing more than six thousand people were mitta to hospital in t. thousand and eleven now we hear a loss about how dogs can hurt us but the truth is that the rules in this country were also hurting them every year how the innocent dogs are put down simply because of the way they lost to how to go to sleep just hundreds of dogs with the right

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 top. dogs this isn't a big issue with irresponsible owners 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. family. and. oh changing the rules it's too late and while the ladies drag on the how

person handles its dogs another tragedy is simply waiting to happen so r.t. . thanks agree with us tonight rob you're watching around the world this is our tayyar next program is cross-talk people of elam is guests here to discuss the legalization of marijuana in parts of the u.s. and the moral legal and economic consequences coming up so. download the official r.t. 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.

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