civilians increase taliban attacks as well as nato fears that pakistan and iran are backing the insurgency army intelligence analyst bradley manning has been named as a possible source of the information earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to our correspondents on both sides of the atlantic laura amity in london and in washington. well this certainly is some suggestion that this is nothing new we knew this before we knew that there was corruption running right through the war in afghanistan and we knew that this was going on but suddenly to see black and white particularly represented by as you say more than ninety thousand documents is something quite extraordinary what happened was that julian assange the founder of wiki leaks released this information ahead of time to three nice papers one here in london the guardian one in germany and also to the new york times they then looked at that information and assessed what they wanted to write about and whether the information was genuine and he then held a media conference. and talked about it and one of the things that he said was

he was pressed by journalists on war crimes whether he thought there was evidence of war crimes hair and eventually he said that he felt that it was for a cool it's of course to decide what constitutes a war crime and whether this did but he's looking at the documents that he has seen felt that there was evidence of war crimes having been committed during this war some of these documents are about civilian deaths going on reported. to pick out one that says that he. was difficult to do that he said it's the continuing. war that we don't necessarily know about when you read about him in these places that only going deaths of children the deaths of civilians the deaths of servicemen which he said to the every day squaller war another thing that he says is shown by the documents is that pakistan which is being given a billion dollars a year by the u.s. government to help them in their fight against afghan insurgency is in fact not

helping hindering the members of that spy service or meeting with taliban leaders and and organizing the militant groups that are in fact quite senior u.s. soldiers practice on a pull them out to them and they have a need to know. that one of the most interesting things about this is that this is not. the end of this story that already as we've said ninety thousand documents but says that there are fifteen thousand more that he has yet to assess but he is going to put out there when he judges the time is right we will release nearly all of them. thought some of them may need production some of them may need to. and therefore release eventually before material will be released. situation you know going to sustain proves important to understand that this material is being held back. to assist one side of the conflict or the other

but to make sure that the civilian population you know going to stand this sort of . publish today will to christine result christine the white house is saying this leak compromises u.s. national security how did they come down on these revelations today. well given they're coming down very hard on many levels as you said the national security level they say that this makes the fight against extremist much harder to have this information out here they're also coming down quite hard on wiki leaks press briefing wrapped up with president obama's press secretary robert gibbs he says wiki leaks is not an unbiased media source something interesting to note here. no point even though a lot of the questions i would even say the majority of the questions to mr gibbs were about this week he leaks not once did he necessarily dispute the content of it he did sort of try to say again that wiki leaks was not totally credible and he really disputed how this came about that this is

a breach of federal law so certainly the white house coming down but in addition to this criticism they are also really really downplaying what has been released on wiki leaks they're saying that you know this is from a period of time the majority of which president obama wasn't even in office it was a time that he wasn't overseeing the war and that since december two thousand and nine which is sort of when this picture that's painted in the documents and the relationship between the united states and pakistan has gotten much better he says also sort of trying to turn this wiki leaks story around he says you know some of these atrocities that you see in these leaks well these are the reasons that president obama saw to throw more money he said that it shows that the war was underfunded that the strategy was sort of on the wrong path and these are reasons if nothing else that the president got in there and threw more money have the troop surge happened so really trying to shift the message here from the white house in terms of what's happening brian becker who's the director of the american war

answer coalition feels the u.s. government is quickly trying to twist the truth. well the obama administration's pronouncement is like an alice in wonderland turning reality upside down they are the ones who are putting american soldiers and afghans lives at risk and in fact taking those lives every day in a war that they know can't be won and yet when wiki leaks and people who are whistleblowers tell the truth then this sort of explanation from the white house is that these people who are telling the truth exposing the lies are the ones putting the people's lives in danger i mean that is so ludicrous such nonsense but because of the tepid character of the the propaganda nature of the us corporate media that line will be promulgated time and time again today and tomorrow and in the coming days but i don't think the american people will believe that they want to know the truth robert fisk the middle east correspondent for the british daily the independent says in stories like this the internet is stepping on the toes of

newspaper and t.v. journalism we've got all these expensive newspapers with huge investigative staffs watching and it's new york times in london in france and yet we didn't get this story it was the internet that got it this is the most important proof so far that in many ways newspaper journalism is retreating and going along with authority please can i be embedded i mean i'm not you betty but please can i be embedded can i go with the tenth mountain division cannot be with the british army and these reporters are not getting the story and these people this week leaks organization which i have some serious concerns they've managed to do it on a mass bulk scale that we've never seen recently in modern newspaper journalism or television journalism this i think is one of the lessons for us journalists political analyst christoph forrestal says the u.s. is using beleaguered documents to accuse pakistan of playing a double game. ninety one thousand documents coming out of we could say it's

very clear that without some kind of test account tested ok from u.s. institutions leagues would not have been able to publish anything and what we see here and what we have to make of this is what the new york times writes pakistan aids insurgency in afghanistan reports a surge that is what on page a one the new york times carries this morning and they use the whole week you leaks information to accuse pakistan of a double game and the dreadful and on and on for ten pages with new york times with exes ations of double game against pakistan and what i accuse the new york times and what i q's american institutions of of lying all the time in their teeth they draw pakistan into that and i don't know how they manage to read the ninety one thousand documents and find out this truth in them but explicitly do they talk

about what we can leaks and that is something which i find very astonishing and it reminds me in fact of the practice of nine eleven where the american knew within seconds that this was a bed. some of bin laden killing american citizens and what we have here somehow is making use of these leaked documents to make a case that pakistan is not playing straight in this war in this so-called war against terror and that's of course wrong what i see is and i have proof for that and i've written three books on it america itself is playing a double game and it's forcing pakistan to play this double game alongside america that's what's going on right now and all the rest of this is a dirty lie and we should not believe anything of it. war veteran groups in the u.s. are becoming increasingly angry over what they claim are broken government promises they say the country they fought for has turned its back on them leaving many out

on the street the want to speak with some of them. beyond san diego's picturesque. ugly truth a wounded military community neglected by the very nation to defend. the mentally able to do this country. and i came home to be medicated and pushed it was. morally ethically unjust like a monster we're creating when our bad i think. about not just. the service people but i think. everybody these are just some of the troubled voices coming from a growing number of homeless veterans this particular weekend they made their way to stand down an annual nonprofit event that helps thousands of homeless vets get

back some dignity many of these vets will get assistance in housing clothing work even a little inner team. and a good hot meal just a day here at stand down they're going to go through about how tanami just at the all these veterans it's a big deal some of these veterans haven't had a square meal in weeks and unfortunately once they leave here they won't have another one for a very long time it's kind of depressing. to just. clifford wakens is a vietnam veteran hoping to get his life back on track for his grandchildren he's a recovering alcoholic weakens remembers returning from the war and the better ones administration trying to medicate him and stead of addressing the real problem he suspects their motivation politics politics. this country takes care

of everybody else. their own. definition be like that. it's a pattern that has continued for the newer generation of vets i went to the veterans administration for treatment a year after i was discharged because i was feeling suicidal and i was discharged i was refused treatment actually brian little things history is repeating itself that the u.s. government hasn't learned anything from the vietnam war and that the ongoing conflicts in afghanistan and iraq will only get worse. it's scary i don't want to be around here in ten years this place will be wall to wall no active duty military in general i think. needs to do a better job helping people with transitioning to civilian life dr john nash is in help start stand down twenty three years ago he's relied on volunteers and donors to pitch in and help where the government has failed not just in things

a growing bureaucracy and a lack of coordination are keeping veterans from getting the help they need these weather war heroes have their own take on it. julio with. ok. why should he have to come to you and. you give it to him with more people going to say you know screw this this is wrong we've got to do something about it instead of committing a crime or rioting or hurting somebody or telling somebody they're going to go walk up to a camera get on the internet you know start an insurgency that needs to be started . in san diego. r.t. . the white house expects the u.s. budget deficit to top one point four trillion dollars this year many financial pundits are now predicting that no matter what the obama administration does

america is financially doomed to find out more on this we spoke to max volt an economist at the new school in new york we have a little bit of a tweedle dee tweedle dum budget problem here with democrats and republicans so republicans didn't meet a budget deficit they were in love with from two thousand to two thousand and eight when president bush came in across his eight years in there and we did something that pretty much we've never done historically and nobody does historically which is cut taxes and have two wars which you don't do because it's budgetary ruinous and so we saw our total outstanding u.s. government debt double from about five and a half trillion dollars to about eleven trillion dollars under george bush as soon as their party lost the white house and obama came in the republican suddenly found some kind of major religion when it comes to budget cutting but they don't really want to raise any taxes and when you get a budget hole as big as the one americans are in right now honesty with the general public says we're going to have to pay more taxes we're going to have to spend less but that doesn't mean we have to give tax cuts to the rich and spend less on school

children public schools lunches or public transit but we have to face it we're going to have to pay more taxes we're going to have to make more difficult choices that we've made of late to put our budgetary house in order because otherwise we risk that our budgetary house like too many of our private houses will eventually be foreclosed because of the borrowing. and now to other stories around the world twin a suicide attacks on a road often used by muslims in the iraqi city of karbala have killed at least twenty five people six others died in a separate attack on a television station in baghdad officials say that al qaeda was planning to target a rabbit channels that were seen as being too pro western it's thought that news was hit because it regularly interviews u.s. state figures. the e.u. has slapped iran with more sanctions targeting the country's energy sector to impede its nuclear program european foreign ministers meeting in brussels also

agreed to tougher restrictions on international trade canada has followed the move and imposed similar limitations this comes after last month's security council resolution to pass a fourth round of sanctions on iran terror ron has been accused of trying to develop nuclear nuclear weapons something it strongly denies. it's been ten years since it became possible for crews to both live and work at the international space station new russian and american life support systems also mad more research could be carried out at the i s s r t sean paul was once a star city near moscow to witness some of the wonders of space engineering up there. it's circled the globe about three hundred fifty kilometers from the earth's surface it is the largest construction in space it is a marvel of modern engineering which is approaching a crucial milestone moment. this is a major contemporary space project it has

a huge mass of around three hundred eighty tons it involves a big number of program participants including the united states canada european countries belonging to the european space agency and japan and the station is being used as a big scientific laboratory. though it is a prime example of international cooperation now the roots of the station stem from the apollo soyuz program thirty five years ago when two rival space programs of the u.s. and soviet union integrated technology for the first time twenty years later russia and the u.s. expanded on that shared experience with the goal of creating a permanent space presence. we've done a lot with in the mir shuttle program which was the ancestor of the international space station we worked hard to ride cymbal to news operation of both the mir orbital station and preparation for the launch i remember those years the most interesting period of strenuous work which finally did to this great result during the link up there were no hiccups and everything went smoothly. this is the mark up

of the capsule which is where astronauts and cosmonauts come to train at star city who are traveling to the international space station and it is in here that you get a sense of the significance of this capsule in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the zarya and the unity capsules war and watch but it wasn't until ten years ago when the capsule was attached that the space station became livable. but i'd say it was a foundation of sorts for the rest of the station if the module had failed then other systems were it would be pointless since the module consisted largely of life support systems the module made it possible for the crew to stay in both the station it would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed that without the special part of the infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion bitter with those two weeks were critical since

a lot of the systems were being activated for the first time some russian system segments were merged with us systems those machines had never seen each other in earth and that was the first time they would work together bonce ability was huge and that was why their career had been composed of experienced cosmonauts with you . ten years on the i.s.o.'s is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space and on a currently held by russia's mir project and while it was originally only supposed to be in service until two thousand and fifteen it looks like a bright future for the international space station which. has decided to prolong the station's use until twenty twenty and possibly even longer if the technical state of the station is good. ensuring a continued international presence in space for many more years to come john thomas moscow. has yet to respond to an official request to call parade with the u.n. human rights council's investigation into the deadly attack on

a gaza bound. now. take a closer look at the story with veteran british journalist alan hart who spent decades covering the arab israeli conflict. today i'm talking to you alan hart veteran middle east correspondent we're going to start by talking about israel's blockade on gaza and the aid ships that are trying to get into the region allan hart thanks very much for talking to r.t.

let's talk first about israel's blockade on gaza and the eight chips that are trying to get in and israel insists that that blockade is legal what do you think well let's first of all say that the purpose of the blockade is the collective punishment of the whole people of gaza to try to wean them away from hamas now collective punishment by definition is a war crime it is absolutely illegal. the only benefit of the attempts to break the blockade is not really assisting the people of gaza but it is helping to make israel be perceived in the world to people as more and more prostate and who is set to gain the most from that p.r. exercise has a very simple truth that most people don't know when israel was created and closed the palestine file after its picture on the battlefield in forty eight. the whole

establishment world wanted that file to remain closed in other words zionism and the western powers were not only of one mind the arab regimes behind closed doors were one mind they wanted the file to remain closed the palestinians were supposed to accept their lot. as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of political expediency and then along came this arguable man yasser arafat who opened the file and it stayed open so the file is opened but it's deeply embarrassing for the arab regimes because they are divided they are impotent they are corrupt they are repressive so back to the flotilla a point that you made it's a little gesture that says you know we really with the with the palestinians that's what president carter well it's called b.s. bullshit but not israel says that it's now easing the blockade and allowing certain supplies to reach garza seemingly in response to its national international press

or do you think that the timing of that is evidence that israel accepts that this blockade is unjustifiable to the international community well i have a yes or no no answer yes answer is zionism i hope to the point we can talk about different judaism and zionism zionism is becoming terribly worried about its image in the world it realizes of course it is being perceived by people as if not governments as something of a prostate so you can say yes to a certain extent they're playing their own p.r. to bend to that to say look we're not all that are reasonable but i would quote one of the better independent writers on it jonathan cook who writes out of israel palestine will have a story the other day so what it means is the salvation of the strangulation of the people of gaza more slowly and maybe now is a good time to talk about the differences between zionism and judaism as you

perceive them the key to understanding is knowledge of the difference between judaism and art some simply stated judaism is the religion of jews not the jews because by no means all jews are religious and like christianity and like islam it has as its core a set of moral values and ethical principles right now that is judaism. zionism. is the nationalism of some juice it's a sectarian colonial enterprise which created a state in the arab heartland for some jews by terrorism and ethnic cleansing and in doing so it made a complete mockery of the moral values and ethical principles of judaism the truth in summary is that judaism and zionism are total opposites so what we are witnessing is the rise of anti israeli ism now that is not anti semitism

it is anti israelis in other words it is designed this colonial enterprise that is promoting anti semitism and what about israel's position in the rest of the world do you think that it's reaching a turning point where the us may be forced to say at some point in the near future enough is enough only an american president has the leverage required to cause or try to cause israel to be serious about peace on terms but they all palestinians and most other arabs and muslims could accept the problem is that an american president has his hands tied by the zionist lobby the zionist lobby really does control in congress. american policy for israel policy are not saying the whole middle east i'm saying israel palestine another of israel's issues at the moment is iran do you think that iran is justified in being worried about

a nuclear threats from iran i don't think they have any interest in developing nuclear weapons but maybe some of their number now saying look we ought to at least have the capability but let's just supposing iran had one two three dozen nuclear bombs do you think you would be stupid enough to launch a first nuclear strike on israel of course it would because the whole of iran would be devastated and they talk about the future of the region with the palestinian authority now decidedly divided into a with hamas in charge of one pump that's an important corrupt irrelevant is there any chance of a two state solution no the two state solution is long ago dead the two state solution never would've given a fair complete solution to the problem it's now much too late to happen i mean israel colonization of the west bank is is about forty two percent of the land area

and it's stretching either there will eventually be a one state solution and which as i've said jews and arabs have equal rights but in my view zionism will never allow that to happen because it amounts to the zation palestine i think israel's leaders will invent a pretext to drive the palestinians off the west bank and into jordan syria or ever . and the blood will flow the west bank will be sowed with blood and it will be mostly palestinian blood and if there be honest reporters around they will call it a zionist holocaust now i fear that's where we're going because that wouldn't be the end of the story. it would so inflame. a muslim nessus that you would be opening the pandora's box of a much wider conflict well as i think i've suggested earlier the only person with the real power to try to influence israel to behave in its own best interest as

well as those of the world is the president of america now yes it's true that europe russia there are lots of other countries with the same power the same leverage economic sanctions whatever but no other government on earth is going down this road until an american president gets the lead.

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you're watching live from moscow six thirty in the morning here and these are the headlines a whistleblower leaks of thousands of military documents to the internet revealing major cover ups over the war in afghanistan it's the biggest leak in u.s. military history which discloses unreported civilian deaths and america's suspicion that supporting the taliban. war veterans groups in the u.s. are up in arms over what they say are broken government promises. has let them down and left many homeless. a space to call home it's ten years since the international space station first became habitable when a russian life support systems docked with the orbiter many space experts worldwide see the project as the pinnacle of international cooperation.