this is our breaking news to start this wiki leaks bradley manning pleads guilty to ten charges brought against him by the government we'll update you on this news also had. full agreement over mali but syria remains a point of contention president putin sums up his key foreign policy discussions with french leader francois hollande. and catholic count in the final hours of pope benedict's papacy taking away the church looks to restore its image marred by sexual abuse and corruption. there a very good evening to you just joined us here in moscow is kevin i am with you

here at r.t. and as i mention the breaking news just coming through to us military whistleblower bradley manning has pleaded guilty to ten out of twenty two charges against him this news coming through in the news wires just in the last few minutes he explained he wanted to spark debate on the role of the u.s. military in foreign policy a correspondent washington d.c. a gun if you can is going to bring us up to speed on all these latest details within the next few minutes of you can stay with us for that as this news develops . ok next russia and france say they still got work to do in bridging some key foreign divisions syria or mali were among the main issues in talks during french leader from swell lands first visited a moscow sean thomas has been across what the leaders have been saying. comes it to syria francoise alond saying that they've come a long way they had some really serious discussions putin saying they had some intense discussions even an argument if you will on the topic but they share the same common goals and they both agree that syria should not use stabilize even

further and they should be fighting terrorism of course francois hollande believes that bashar assad needs to go and putin saying that the government the legitimate government is better then the insurgents or better than fighting the opposition in fact this is exactly why russia supported france's involvement in mali because france went in to support the government and to fight terrorism there they said that they discussed the transition from the combat operations to the new peacekeeping mission which will be happening there both sides said that they were working a little closer together to improve business relations and relations within the country even some jokes about them not feeling very warm towards each other but they put on a good show to make sure that people realize that france and russia are indeed working together to improve the relations for both countries even though on some of the key sticking points they don't agree. they're just pretty good speed again no

no it was mentioned just now military was a blow bradley manning we've been talking about a lot of this channel over the last couple of years has pleaded guilty we're hearing tonight to ten of the twenty two charges against him he explained that he wanted to spark debate on the role of the u.s. military in foreign policy this is news come from the military courts media liaison person apparently in the last going to count a correspondent in washington d.c. is across this for us other ghani you won't see admitted to him what could this mean for his sentences obviously already spent time in prison for a number of years what's he going to be no. that's right thousand years. excuse me a thousand days while bradley manning is pleading guilty to i'm sorry. ten out of twenty two charges against him every county pleading guilty to could land him in prison for two years maximum so if convicted on those charges and no others he would receive a maximum sentence of twenty years behind bars however the big question is if the

government decides to drop charges of aiding the enemy because this is one of the charges that he's facing in the most serious one if convicted this count could allow the judge to sentence the judge to sentence. bradley manning to life in prison well bradley manning himself pleaded not guilty to this charge so he is also slated to go before a military court martial this june. so he may face life in prison according to those charges we are actually expecting to hear a statement from bradley manning later today his. according to his support network bradley manning's testimony this thursday will speak to a larger issues affecting his case as a whole and expends upon a plea perfect responsibility for releasing information with noble motives while contesting the most serious charges so he is arguing that that he had the motive

for this noble motives which is in bradley manning's own words to start a debate in this society on the role of the government and some of the serious things some some of the most embarrassing things that we have seen in those leaks. bradley manning as you said has been detained for over one thousand days without a formal trial and well and we now see that it is just the beginning well being that this is going to play out and. certainly sparked a debate it seems as he wanted to these or is intelligent all along all right well this news coming through thick and fast and we're following it up throughout the evening with you are going to chicken thanks ever so much for that. and the other big news of the day the syrian opposition met in rome to see exactly what's on offer from his western backers washington will for the first time provide rebel fighters with normally lethal aid and give the opposition an extra sixty million dollars let's see what the syrian opposition got from the international community

so far as take a look at the well the u.s. has already provided them fifty four million dollars in normal lethal assistance but washington has been reluctant to directly to the rebels who fears that could fall into islamist turns the e.u. is also backing the rebels calling for the embargo to be lifted despite restrictions opposition fighters are thought to be getting covert weapon supplies from gulf states john laws democracy and cooperation in paris he told us the u.s. is trying to beef up the opposition but only makes them look like western puppets them. sixty million dollars should not be sneezed at and what the americans are trying to do is basically to prop up a project that so far has failed if we look back to two thousand and eleven when entering clinton was calling for the overthrow of a stance they expected at the regime in syria to fall very quickly and that hasn't happened however great the rebels gains may have been the regime is still fighting back and still shows no signs of collapsing instead is the opposition which is

fractured famously the syrian national council is a rag bag of different interests the opposition is breaking up and there are plenty of people within the opposition at least according to my sources in the region who are bitterly disappointed with the west who expected a lot more money they probably wanted to steal a lot of it but certainly they have not received all that they have been promised it'll be interesting to see how much of this sixty billion dollars gets through that the ordinary syrian population is suffering very greatly from this opposition from this so-called liberation because this these paramilitary groups clearly cannot provide any basic services they are not the state they don't run hospitals they don't run the police they don't run the water supply and so on and i'm sure many syrians who watched the meeting in rome today and who seemed to conceive in the others hobnobbing with john kerry will draw the conclusion that the opposition is a western puppet and that actually will not be good for its image back home in syria

. the ongoing standoff between israel and hamas has made it almost impossible for journalists to do the jobs on both sides palestinian media as recognized by israel nor as journalists rights while hamas prohibits guards and journalists have any contact with israelis it is policy they are met colleagues struggling to report through the blackout and help sworn enemy try to understand each other. november last year israel and gaza are at war and in the middle of it a gaza journalist the party he for you to an israeli newspaper it was the last major story sunday are as rami would write for the hebrew place a month later gaza's ruling hamas party banned palestinian journalists from working with israeli media accusing it of being hostile tel aviv refuses to recognize hamas and regards it as a terrorist organization and make that a for mother i do not understand this decision unfortunately i feel that our struggle will have less meaning if we do not speak to the israeli media and make them here on message sami feels he's on a personal crusade to help both sides better understand each other when his nine

year old daughter was hit by an israeli missile it was his israeli editors who arranged for her to be bought across the border and treated and it was in the newspapers that he published his anger and anguish over israel's bombardment of gaza. the how to. israelis using the media in its war against us in this war journalists are under attack they want to kill all our words and reports that prove that there were war crimes in gaza their father has a half in the attackers coming from both sides of the border is ready journalist two are banned from working in gaza but ironically it's not hamas but tel aviv that stops them deeming it too dangerous for them to report from there is a very scary place for israeli some a masked people came to my palestinian cameramen in gaza they gave him twenty five thousand dollars and we told him that the next time that the jewish is going to enter gaza please tell us where it's going to be a route with

a car we're going to kidnap both of you and take you take him and it really is you know had him oh is among a handful of his way to journalists who'd regularly working gaza but after his government made it illegal six years ago his station employed gaza based palestinian journalists now because of hamas is ruling even that has become impossible. very problematic decision of from earth for a lot of other decisions with the hamas made i think that the problem of normalization in. collecting trying working with the israeli media the result is that the only reports leaving gaza but are those hamas sanctions not particularly promising in one of the recent human rights watch report that accuses hamas of harassing assaulting an arbitrarily detaining journalists israel too has come under fire for deliberately targeting reporters and media houses affiliated to her must june of last one gaza is worth all twenty places in the two thousand and

thirteen world press freedom index due to the actions of its army in the palestinian territories these two journalists are where sami because he speaks of mice he engages israeli audiences. because he spends so much time in palestinian areas with few israelis day to trade the media blackout does little to shed light on the fate and future of ordinary gazans it also perpetuate stereotypes on both sides of the border that have done nothing but breed mistrust and hatred policy on our teen television. busy newsnight tonight says you can see just above my head there helicopter that helicopter with the pope inside the sun setting on by the sixteenth ten year as pope earlier bid farewell to his cardinals he is heading to a temporary residence for a couple of months now while works completed on a permanent home in the vatican is successor of course has got the daunting task of restoring the church's battered reputation after a string of child abuse and corruption scandals. he was speaking on his final day

earlier on that the vatican and. to his cardinals there one of whom of course will be elected next month to replace him benedict eighty five now he's set to leave for the papal retreat at castle gandolfo new rome a little bit later on today the cameras trained on that helicopter now of course yesterday an estimated one hundred fifty thousand people packed into some peter's square to say their goodbyes now let's catch up with our correspondent when we stay with these pictures that will go back from just a minute. is the arena we've just been showing our viewers the pope in a helicopter there flying overhead no doubt you can see him to i guess what's he going to be like what you're going to be like for him next what is the next step. well it's probably safe to say that he has breathed a sigh of relief and some respect because yesterday during his address to the masses as he did say that for the last several years he felt like i was

a tear like it was a tremendous burden on him and sometimes he felt like he could crack under the pressure and it was definitely not that easy being a pope who would believe that but yes he just flew by literally meters away from me that this was the ever going to get to a pope i think in my lifetime so that was actually an interesting moment people have poured out on their rooftops and they were hanging out of the windows yelling child to him as fleet he flew by it was actually really interesting moment but of course that the pope was going to take with him along with some twenty thousand books that he's brought when he first took on his position as the leader of the catholic world and it is expected that he's going to spend his time reading and praying but of course what he's leaving behind is not just his famous red shoes which he will not be wearing any more his room behind a rather trying rather hard legacy as a lot of people that we have spoken to have said that the pope has not been quite good in and making the catholic church keep up with the times with the modern times

and more details here now about what kind of challenges. the catholic church is now facing. of course that perhaps we could show you that later but of course some of the challenges accorded the fact that the catholic church has not been really ok you can actually now learn about those challenges. to say the very future of the catholic church the catholic church is undergoing a very important crisis it is a crisis at two levels it is a government crisis and it is a crisis of the believers. in the last years of the world was focused on the government crisis in the vatican the gloria pope benedict was a pope who is a great intellectual i think you're a theologian but he has not a strong hand to lead the victoria has not the temperament of

a government so there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals of but the leaks are far from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight disillusionment and frustration with the church once and all about a lot and i distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been taught what it was actually after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church and i realized that it doesn't represent my spirituality benedict the sixteenth may have been the first pope with a twitter account but many argue this measure alone was not strong enough in appealing to the masses and there will be no more tweets once pope benedict the sixteenth steps down now this is the age of transparency the age of before the churches should be properly and they'd be. considered sacred she went. to great assets well everybody now you see that there will be to be. the problem a bit of this media they're really working on the system he's going through into

change pretty things about. for people the inability to face up to and much less to punish those who may be responsible for tainting the image of the church is the deciding factor in abandoning catholicism. there's another school girl who disappeared in the vatican twenty years ago. found her remains. leading the investigation but instead of helping them. and on top of all those cases of course that this is just disgusting the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse pedophilia accusations alleged large scale corruption and possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has been having a field day with the scandals the vatican other state silent rebuffed organizations

but those things may be looking rather grim for the seat of st peter's at a first glance there's still a chance the catholic church can make a comeback. with the church would be splitting. but there. could be strong. because. the. but in spite of that. relations have left me wondering if. the world is rapidly changing and. failed to keep pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs. in two thousand year long history but there is opinion that perhaps taking an unpleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and feeling it. is a tradition better left in the past in. in

a dollars go. and will be with rain again a little bit later lucy of mosul the pope benedict the sixteenth. still flying around rome we just passed over airport earlier on in rome german pontiff of course once born joseph ratzinger will continue to be known as benedict the sixteenth with the new title of pope emeritus so a brand new feature future lies ahead of him a little big event in rome this a big event of course in italy and for catholics around the world a lot of attention they're being paid to what's happening in the skies the pope. i guess showing his appreciation to his followers as well as he looks down on rome as he looks down on the vatican and people wish him their very best this is our t. stay with us more news in a couple of minutes time with me art with me kevin ollie. wealthy

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again this is more world news in brief. seven people have been jailed for ten years each for attempting to murder a police officer that instant took place during ongoing government demonstrations thirteen other people were acquitted on wednesday two policemen were found not guilty of shooting a protest a dead threaten to fuel more unrest in the city controlled kingdom it's been embroiled with rallies for two years and. a car packed with explosives has gone off in a district of baghdad reportedly killing ten the blast happened in a restaurant it wounded sixteen others it's not known who is behind the attack but the militants have often targeted the shia majority in the past sectarian violence continues to divide iraq and the recent upsurge in attacks is raising fears of a return to the civil conflict that plague the country following the u.s. led invasion a decade ago. clashes broke out today in that car as the vice president of the main opposition party was sentenced to death for war crimes seventeen people reported

dead and two hundred injured after protesters rampage through the capital setting fire to a hindu temple and attacking a police delaware has same saidee was convicted of mass murder rape and other atrocities during the one hundred seventy one independent war against pakistan. european bankers about their bonuses kept as part of a new raft of financial laws passed by the e.u. one year's salary will be the maximum reward or possibly double if shareholders overwhelmingly agree it the u.k. those very good challenge the moves with e.u. finance ministers next week it fears legal caps on bonuses will severely damage london's banking dominance it could also impact and worse nanti europe sentiment in britain where a referendum is being planned on whether to quit the block you. will soon as the un to lift an embargo on arms imports it was imposed at the start of the uprising that toppled mama gadhafi in an attempt to protect civilians libya still turbulent

though with security forces made up of former rebel fighters still struggling to control the vast desert territories the interim prime minister during the civil war told r.t. that vast oil reserves make libya a target for regional and global players. well first of all libya did not pick up its economy did not pick up only the oil production was to resume you know. it's a pity you know because the. foreign countries you know. rushed into libya immediately you know to start pumping more leg again because it's connected to their way of life to their economies you know while barrister projects all over the country are still intact i think libya because of this oil was the subject of. being targeted by too many countries libya. we use it or at least is being seen as

a most you know to finance company for the lack of assistance that might be coming from there not to states and that's why libya. is target for too many too many players and and the reason why you. you know we'll show you the full interview with the former libyan interim prime minister mahmoud jibril on friday you know on r.t. . now the waste of money on gadgets never in use i have at least is probably nothing compared to the british military it's blown over a billion pounds of public money on equipment which is neither used nor needed we'll tell you more but. not get a lot of clicks so far today also there as well ukraine's justice ministry gets to feel the force had a line for why the desk finest knocking at its doors. that's online back to the president in just

a couple of minutes time. again because max it back. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. viewers who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act which clarifies how the government can use these drugs so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy the thing is that one side is.