up in the lower show we'll get the real headlines with none of them or see me live in washington d.c. well it's not time again the g eight has officially begun in france we'll speak with one of our correspondents who the who's there to find out what's on the agenda including a bilateral meeting between russia and the u.s. then one year ago today p.f.c. bradley manning was arrested in iraq or remind you of how he got to four leavenworth where is detained now and we'll speak to one of the most famous whistleblowers and u.s. history daniel ellsberg about how the u.s.

government handles those who leak secrets then time is running out for the patriot act that is when some there is working hard to keep key provisions of this bill from being renewed and we'll tell you about a secret interpretation of the bill that the government doesn't want you to know about then it's a problem that will literally affect everyone skyrocketing global food prices but this time around how they become permanent will look into the geopolitics of food scarcity and it's got all of that i will make a toast in tonight's happy hour but up first our top story. it's a meeting of some of the most powerful leaders in the world the g. eight summit kicks off in dobell france today and as always there's a long list of items on the agenda for the summit but much of the talk it's going to circle around the arab spring and the continued uprisings around the world are t. is and he's now a has more. the g. eight has gone full circle the last time the summit was held in france eight years ago the agenda looked almost the same. war the economy and somewhere in the

middle aid to africa on the table then iraq and boosting the euro now it's libya and saving the euro. only two goals and three france had a very different stance on global politics then it was staunchly opposed to the u.s. invasion of iraq french fries quickly became freedom fries after france u.s. relations soured despite summit smiles but with the new french president came a new friend circles a has rejected entirely the path of good friends playing a constructive role in a multi multi-polar world and has aligned himself with the single superpower the united states nowadays france is barking much louder with more soldiers involved in foreign military conflicts of brawn then ever before it's a globalist more than colonies and it's not just the friends it's. global

plan to change governments as they want. france played a central role in ivory coast's bloody presidential stalemate and is considered the un spoke in the leader of the intervention in libya this great cause he wanted to participate and to be one of the first. ruler western ruler to go there and just for his political agenda critics say this new global policy was meant to win over french food hers but hasn't worked france is kind of small united states with many interventions that are very costly and very little thinking about the relationship between rhetoric and. costs and costs is the killer european countries are facing more and more protest over huge spending cuts in an attempt to lower deficits and save a drowning euro the sex scandal involving i.m.f.

had done many extracts come on might have knocked out a top contender competing against sarkozy for the presidency but experts say d.s. k. was toppled at the wrong time when you've still got worries about whether the euro will still be the currency of all these european countries in the next twelve to twenty four months and at the same time spending hundreds of millions forcing their way into the libya conflict they don't see eye to eye but they doing to try to regroup around. the idea that it's a humanitarian intervention and the u.n. resolution a resolution that china and russia didn't veto but it claims has been manipulated to suit western interests perhaps there will be an appearance of agreement but if there is an appearance of agreement to my mind it will only be an appearance. appearance at the g. eight is hard not to notice the venue is usually some exclusive resort town where

you can't hear protests over the euro and it's easy to forget bombs are falling in libya this year france's beautiful normandy was chosen to house leaders as they sit down to debate some of the world's ugliest problems and once again are faced with the question of whether the g. eight can regroup and split in issues and he said no way archie movie fronts. earlier i caught up with r.t. correspondent he said now we get more details from the g eight and i first asked her to tell us about the bilateral meeting between president obama and russian president need to get these it since obama's taken office and talk has been all about reset but how friendly did they look at this press conference. while i was intense i mean if you look at the video of their faces they were star and they were serious it was really hot in the room every journalist tries to get into that room there's not very many spaces so it was stuffy hawk eye view take a look at the pictures president video was sitting in front of the american flying russian rock obama in front of the russian flag that's actually we found out i

think that the americans do because officially they were the hosts in this bilateral meeting i don't know how they decided but they like to switch the flags around so i thought it was a little strange but it was time to call each other friends all the time that's been the way since their very first meeting my friends were are my friends in the tree constantly almost like they're trying to prove that they're friends in a way of course missile defense it is an intense issue for russia in the u.s. and they signed the start treaty last april but there's still a lot of concerns that there's not enough transparency coming out of america on their future plans and president medvedev made it very clear that that's still a big deal to russia now is there any talks of maybe a joint fight against terrorism we found out today that the u.s. announced that joke omar of considerate russia's number one terrorist or most wanted man would be added to a u.s. list with a five million. there are rewards so did the two presidents actually mention that themselves. they didn't but i think it's fair to say that they certainly spoke

about that behind closed doors terrorism is something that russia and the u.s. can certainly agree on in another sense there's a question of why this is happening now because as you know very well you're so cool mars has been acting and killing people in russia for years so why now is it happening perhaps it could be seen as a token of what will give you this and then maybe in the future you'll get what you want in terms of missile defense because the u.s. is not ready to give it right now as it seems so perhaps a little brokering going on there libya of course is a hot topic there any signals as to whether the u.k. has decided to send apache helicopters we also know that libya wrote a letter to a number of governments asking for a cease fire agreement all wall there continue to be a lot of nato bombings today in tripoli so what do they have to say about libya. right and of course we just had. broke obama david cameron saying that the mission

can't have a deadline yet and that it will basically continue until moammar gadhafi resigns that's something russia is the little wary about they do look at this very differently i do tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to getting involved in a sovereign nations internal affairs and it's just come out recently that in fact that cheerleaders have asked russia to be the broker in the libyan crisis that's a pretty big deal maybe they're understanding that it's not quite working the way they thought it was and now they've asked russia to come in and try to get something done now of course president obama when he delivered his middle east speech to the arab world to americans last week he said that the u.s. would provide aid that it would also try to be a trade partner to those countries like tunisia or like egypt that are embracing democracy in that region did they try to get the rest of the g eight on board in terms of providing for financial means today. we didn't hear anything about but in the actual statements tomorrow we're expecting

a sort of joint statement and in fact delegations from chinese and egypt for taking part for the first time in the g. eight of course they're going to speak it could be speaking about the spring uprising but a question that's really being asked here is why is america picking and choosing which countries deserve money and deserve to become a job market for see through them what about bahrain what about other countries that are experiencing the same thing we saw in tunisia and egypt i'm back what i think countries like russia and china are going to be bringing up behind closed doors although of the experts i've been speaking to really think that us to the journalists they will make it seem like they really are on the same page and ok lastly i know the g eight isn't typically you know in a large city the way that we see in the g. twenty when we might see tens of thousands of protesters but what is the security situation there like. it's intense yesterday it was really hard to get around deauville we were really lucky because it's is my fourth g eight and we've never

been able to get a parking pass to actually drive around in our own car and because of our schedule all we can just take the shuttle bus is so i was really impressed that we actually got a parking pass and we at least at our t. are able to move around freely and we live about six kilometers which is about. three miles i would say from the actual venue and we haven't seen any signs of protesters although today actually. i assume he's a journalist he wouldn't tell me how he made it cost security a protester in a pink bow i made his way into the press center where i am right now i don't know how he did it he wasn't kicked out he got to make his speech and he was trying to bring awareness to the fact that g eight leaders have promised for years to gather money for aids awareness of research and that hasn't been done but that was an interesting moment in terms of protests but in terms of ansi global with what we saw in pittsburgh and toronto not one sign right and he said thank you very much for filling us in. also to come on tonight's show one year ago today private first

class bradley manning was arrested by the military and accused of leaking classified information for having been called a traitor for his alleged option but nine hundred seventy one daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers to say he's a hero so we'll manning the legacy change over time so i ask you all very himself in just a minute. let's not forget that we sat in a parked car right. on the well. we never got the look as they're going to keep him safe get ready because you can see the.

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hey guys welcome to shell and tell me alone a show we've heard about our guests talk to say on the topic now we want to hear our audience just go on to you tube video response or the twitter profile of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday to show your responses we let your voice be heard. one year ago today private first class bradley manning the military analyst who's accused of leaking classified materials to a.q. leaks was arrested so on this day we'd like to remind everyone at home about this convoluted really does jointed journey that's led into where he is today at fort leavenworth back in may of two thousand and ten the army's criminal investigation unit arrested manning all he was stationed at forward operating base hammer east of back that he was held at a facility in kuwait without receiving any formal charges and former hacker adrian

lamo spoke with manning the online chats along i was the one who alerted the feds to the army privates alleged activities manning was accused of leaking an army video to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks and you probably know the video better as collateral murder. all right. the video caused an uproar in political and military circles and brought ricky leaks which has been around since two thousand and six to the position of being the number one enemy enemy of the united states now while detained manning was charged with exceeding his authorized access anybody's search deeper into the army's online files that he was supposed to ask for to july two thousand and ten where the election leaker was transferred to the quantico marine detention facility in virginia according to a press release he was transferred because the kuwaiti facility was designed for merely short term detentions foreshadowing his brutal stay at quantico all manning

was detained a virginia wiki leaks dumped a massive trove of u.s. diplomatic cables as well as files on both the wars in iraq and afghanistan all of which manning is accused of leaking now those hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables reveal how the u.s. government approach domestic and especially international relationships are feeling the most of my new details about foreign leaders dictators americans spying operations at the u.n. as you can imagine the government was none too happy to learn that their treasure trove of secrets is now available for anyone to read this disclosure is not just an attack on america's foreign policy interests it is an attack on the international community the alliances and partnerships the conversations and negotiations that say star global security and advance economic prosperity. that's when the real charges for manning began on march second two thousand and eleven the army

private asako a twenty two new charges on top of those who previously mentioned in one of them being aiding the enemy a capital offense while the state department work diligently to mend relations with world leaders politicians and pundits were sharing would. they felt would be a fair punishment for manning there are traitors in america that is the subject of this evening talking points memo whoever leaked all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life who ever in our government will leak that information he's guilty of treason and i think anything less than execution is to find it in a. while perhaps the u.s. government was listening to o'reilly because details then started emerging about manning's treatment while he was a quantico he was only allowed visits on a few occasions he was held in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day checked on every five minutes where he had to answer that he was ok gunpoint he was stripped of his clothes and forced to sleep naked for several nights in

a row and all of these conditions or qualifiers for inhumane treatment and torture get the obama administration turned a blind eye what happened i want to go tell the president even said he was told by the pentagon that manics treatment was appropriate you'd think that a former constitutional law professor would know better himself but there was only one person who dared speak out state department spokesman p.j. crowley who said that manning's attainment was ridiculous counterproductive and stupid and just days later on march thirteenth he was forced to step down from his position even congressman dennis kucinich tried to visit manning to check on his conditions but his requests were not here's how it goes so i asked the secretary of defense he sent me a response and said talk to the secretary of the army i talked to the secretary of the army is there talk to the secretary of navy and since they have control the marines have control over quantico and then the circuitry of the navy said no i have to talk to the secretary of defense so that the runaround. now the

administration continue to turn a blind eye the public began shining in they went to quantico to protest manning's treatment and keep in mind he still has not been convicted of any crime but it seems the president. our t. has his mind made up on many fields. we don't. know. now move forward april twentieth of this year after facing scrutiny from the public over his treatment want to go manning was transferred to a new facility in fort leavenworth kansas now while this the saudis also close doctor the public worry is that manning is being detained in much better conditions while we wait for a trial to begin let's take a minute to see how quickly how bradley manning has changed the world over the last year earlier i caught up with daniel ellsberg former us military analyst who

famously leaked the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one he's also the author of the book secrets a memoir of vietnam and the pentagon papers i first thought that if you think this is been a good year or bad year for journalism on one hand we saw trove of documents that were reported on but only because wiki leaks was willing to release them and we know that our mainstream press might not have done the same. well that's true every time there's a major leak of any sort whether it's the pentagon papers forty years ago with thousands of pages or particularly like the and as a wiretap one of those wiretap it for which the new york times got a pulitzer prize after sitting on it for a year through question of the government in any such case it would be well for readers and journalists both to look back and say why couldn't we have this before who misled us for re to go of all those it's so easy to fool us and who did the fooling and should be listening to those people with the same credibility as before

very little of it seems to go on that retrospective look and i think it should be for example in the case of the iraq war logs of the fact that the pentagon had been saying for years we don't do body counts we don't know how many civilians were killed over there the logs show and fact that they were counting up very well and that there were fifteen thousand there had not been reported in the press earlier really an occasion. to look like whether the president doing its job in asking those questions about what's taking apache helicopter case that was revealed of the video of the people being shot up in iraq. mess or any investigation either by the press or the government is too wide at it didn't refute sunder freedom of information for seven years even though reuters and i'm trying to find out why under what circumstances there are people who had been killed and very choppy and

what did it show about the rules of engagement while people should. i'm afraid that are there hasn't been very much curiosity in a way as to whether the process of informing the public by the press could be improved if they were more skeptical of if they were more probing in their investigations what do you think happened the art carry off any opera. the general american public a lot of people have credited weiqi leaks with some of the information that they put out a few spurring of the revolutions in tunisia and egypt where the majority of the information that you that was released we're talking about the apache helicopter if we're talking about the iraq war logs of the afghanistan war logs that's damning information about the u.s. government and how it conducts its business how it conducts wars on behalf of the american public so why haven't we seen more of an outrage from the american people . actually the to reflect on that is rather dismayed it does confirm what some people have told me for forty years now that the doesn't prove it

but it's in the direction of st p. merican people don't care that much about who would kill him over there i've hated to accept that but i know since but there's a lot of evidence for that there isn't that much interest in how many people are being killed collaterally slope supposedly in the thousands of people millions of all together in the middle east that sounds excessive but it could easily be over a million in iraq and yet there's been no pressure from the public to pin met on her to get more information out of the torture information chain and reps or of us the photographs of upgrade were before the election in two thousand and four and yet that wasn't the factor in the electoral debates the campaign debate that year and the public didn't show much concern or for that matter about the n.s.a. warrantless wiretaps i think that should have been the basis for very great public

concern cool is being tapped we're journalists what congress street are being kept and what is being done with that information and how many people congress itself doesn't know the answer to those in public i have to say hasn't demanded in a way that there's not a great public concern for maintaining democracy i'm sorry cigarettes in america but that. i still have hope it will recover our our veterans. long arc is but segue over to bradley manning a young military and analyst who is accused of leaking at the documents to wiki leaks we have been following his story very closely on the a lot of show about the treatment and conditions out that he was in a bar he was held at quantico and now he's of course at fort leavenworth but once he does go to trial do you prepare is a possibility for this man to get a fair trial we've already seen videos of the president himself saying that he thinks he's guilty saying he broke the law feared by

a military standards is not saying it's fair because the burden severs even by military standards we do have a case here where the commander in chief has pronounced him guilty saying broke the law even before he's on trial now if president nixon had done during my trial we certainly would have crossed for a mistrial whether we would have gotten it or as it was. charges were dismissed at the end because of governmental misconduct of different sorts and i would say that in this case there's been very clear cut governmental misconduct as the former former state department spokesperson p.j. crowley said the treatment of him in history or conditions has in his words been pretty stupid ridiculous counterproductive he could well have said illegal and even the money to torture and abuse and i think that is the case i think that actually the charges whatever their merit other words against bradley manning could will or

should will be dropped at this point in a military court martial because of those abusive conditions just as mine were but to go back to the earlier point the people who would be judging them were arbitrary subordinates of the commander in chief who's almost given them a directed verdict i would have to say that's inevitably earlier for. now of course people like yourself think that bradley manning if he did indeed these documents is i hear a he's a patriot you say that you were bradley manning and of course we have a lot of politicians pundits americans to you that think that bradley manning is a traitor and you also were given at that label at one point but now i think that it's fair to say that you are nationally seen as a hero that you did something for this country and putting the pentagon papers out there helping and the war in vietnam do you think that it's just going to take a little bit of time and maybe perceptions about mangal change i'm not sure people have changed their opinion o.b.e.

or of the war no a lot of people of course did change their opinion on the war over time with them to change their opinion of me but i think people who regard bradley manning is a traitor without any basis that over the terms of their constitutional definition of creature that hearing to our enemies to say that inside we're giving them a time for it to see the gravity manning it appears for the telegram to ok that is absurd he's no more a traitor than i was already of iraq and that's it absurd say that you know sure that he's a being the enemy. without any question of intent that george could almost that without any question of the chance he agreed directed to president bush or cheney or rumsfeld people i would say who were interested in civil recruited for a candidate and that's still true in iraq your creation of iraq and numerous dilution of care is there certainly not charging the president reagan's people with

inch and going to be enemies but if you're going to ignore the question which is this charge has and it is i see it most surely it applies to them better than it does to veterans so that's an absurd structure on the course of changing their opinion people who think that it was wrong simply to disobey regulations whatever isn't set in. whatever the impact those people probably cannot change their creativity they have to distance negative opinion and i live with that. i think there are mistaken but that's their entitle to that opinion the fact is though that in the middle east i'm sure that he. it is not programming but the source of the wiki leaks documents reveal that is is very much appreciated in tunisia and egypt the revelation that the american government was well aware of the corruption that they suspect you're going to own governments. was critical of a violent protests that the murder and that led to their losing dictators that the

u.s. government had supported for years it occurred to me that. sometimes their whistleblower is somebody who shows for you're in a crowded theater it's on fire and the threat is the middle east is probably enough for the players to shoot for generations and it's time i would say for instance stop it to reverse course this or that i should think is so great remaining i believe will be seen if he is in the source and we can start to consider as somebody who really contributed to cover credit training for the middle east. all right mr el baradei i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight and of course we'll continue to follow the case of bradley manning here he may have a trial perhaps by the end of this year i will have to wait and see but if the chat logs that allegedly bradley manning wrote between himself and adrian lamo are

correct in those he said that he doesn't care if he perhaps is executed or if he is put away for life for this information he felt it was important enough to get that out there and it is out there and it's making an impact thank you so much for joining us tonight. just ahead disney areas are told time awards night for a bad p.r. move turning to raid that killed osama bin ladin and at midnight several evasions of the patriot act if that's the fire that will harry reid fear mongering convince the senate to act for real rand paul stand against the patriot act leave the bill through expire alive into the topic in just a moment. we are right. i think.