breaking news to start this hour now t. wiki leaks will support bradley manning pleads guilty to ten charges brought against him by the government we'll bring you up to date on this developing news tonight. the headlines for the group whatever molly but syria remains a point of contention president putin sums up his key foreign policy discussions with french leader from the. catholic countdown benedict is sixteenth leaves the vatican as pope for the last time while the church took to restore its image marred by sexual abuse and corruption. there very good evening to just after ten pm moscow time now this is my name's

kevin irwin and that top story that we've just been talking about military whistleblower bradley manning has pleaded guilty to ten out of twenty two charges against him he admitted to leaking the u.s. state secrets to wiki leaks but tonight aiding the enemy the charge that could lead into life in jail as get the details marty's miniport in new york now. what he admitted to what could it mean for his sentence now bring us up to speed here. well this story is unfolding minute by minute kevin right now u.s. army private bradley manning is addressing a military tribunal for need we are told reading thirty five page statement on what he did and why he didn't did it according to reports manning said he leaked incident logs from the wars in iraq and afghanistan to in order to start a public debate twenty five year old told the tribunal is that he believed that the diplomatic cables he gave to weaken leaks would not damage the u.s.

but would be embarrassing manning claims that he had initially attempted to contact contact traditional mainstream media outlets such as the washington post the new york times and politico but failed to get through to them later deciding to pass the documents on to wiki leaks he also said that he engaged in prolonged internet conversations with a wiki leaks member called ochs and manning assumes it was julian a songe now manning has reportedly also requested to the tribunal that he be tried by a military judge alone no jury according to reports he also did say that no one associated with wiki leaks pressured him for more information presumably that it was manning who was giving the information voluntarily more than one time now this is the first time the twenty four twenty five year old soldier has formally admitted guilt since being arrested more than one thousand days ago now manning pleaded guilty to ten

counts including authorized possession and go for communication of sensitive material such as the state department cables and other materials provided to wiki leaks now according to manning's attorney manning has pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy and a number of other lesser charges however the soldier allegedly told the court that he'd like to take blame for charges that were not presented by the u.s. . government but rather introduced by manning alone at the u.s. government has charged manning on twenty two counts he as we can remind our viewers now has pled guilty to ten counts we can imagine that this is because he hopes that he by cutting a plea deal will get a shorter sentence prosecutors were aiming for life in prison what's being reported is that manning is hoping that with this with this plea he could be sentenced to a maximum of twenty years in prison but many critics say that it is through all

the horrific detention that manning has endured for years that has gotten him to this point of pleading guilty on ten counts and we should remind our viewers that it was for more than nine months that this army intelligence analyst was held in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day in a six by eight foot windowless cell forced to sleep naked without bed sheets and kept on suicide watch so this is been a very long story story that r.t. has been on top of the news is still unfolding but all the information we've reported right now is what we have so far with bradley manning pleading guilty on ten counts. in new york thanks to the use of the speech much appreciated. syria came up during president putin's talks with the french counterpart of moscow several hours ago it's pretty busy news day and the leaders admitted that it was. very clear divisions that need bridging to sean thomas for two years but across what the president's. but it comes in to syria francois hollande 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 be stabilized 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 than 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 well the syrian opposition has met in rome to see exactly what is on offer them from western backed his washington will provide rebel fighters with non-lethal aid for the first time as well as giving the opposition extra sixty million dollars but secular state john kerry says the u.s. will not provide weapons to opposition fighters and the e.u. has also agreed some non-lethal aid for syrian opposition to as you can see going to teach you can a correspondent in washington d.c. wait in the wings to talk about that i mean as a syrian opposition left disappointed that end of the day. well kevin one could think so this is a significant change from what we were hearing from washington a year ago the tone has changed that the administration has become a lot more cautious when talking about syria at some point it became hard for washington to ignore the very strong radical element among the opposition in rome

where john kerry met with syrian opposition leaders is that the u.s. would provide only non-lethal assistance to buy food medical supplies the u.s. has pledged sixty million dollars to that it's been clear for some time now that they've ministration decided against arming the rebels we heard we previously heard president obama talk about non-lethal assistance about the need for a political solution so the syrian opposition has been already getting those signals from washington their leader marcel has recently called for dialogue with the government although a year ago that seemed to have been out of the question for the syrian opposition so political ramifications of this shift in the administration's rhetoric could soon be felt on the ground a note of caution here syria is already washing arms we're getting reports that the gulf states continue to provide weapons to the rebels and they don't share the views of the white house as far as flooding syria with more or mz and it's not clear whether washington is making any effort to bring its arab allies closer to where the u.s.

now stands on the issue. thanks for thanks for your take on it from washington we've got another guest talk about regarding syria there is a growing fear that volage from syria could encroach into lebanon let's talk about this with a former advisor for the syrian government george bush on the line from beirut tonight mr good evening to you sir explain where this syrian rebels said wednesday didn't know that they've killed hezbollah. chief something that's been denied by the group's leader if it is true though how significant would that be do you think . well i suppose that the significance of it if it is true is that there is some sort of unity of seeds of action scenes between syria and women on this is something that everybody in the area knows syria and iran on complete each other complement each other also if this is the case between syria and jordan. i suppose that if we want to see

the area in general from trouble we should work more successfully who are seriously regarding finding a political solution for the crisis in syria another issue the syrian rebels last week didn't they gave hezbollah in lebanon ultimatum threatening to attack the group why do you think everything went quiet once that deadline passed well i suppose because everybody when it tries to calculate a sings irrationally would refrain from any violent action violence might spread over here and its reaching the crisis in rational way requires that everybody keeps quiet. i want to give thoughts next about reports that some residents in lebanon saying

that syrian rebels are posing as refugees to cross the border and they're arming members of the refugee community in lebanon to fight in syria do you know anything about that have you heard a better yourself. this is. news that we are more or less deceived me needed by many i am personally not in touch with anything of the sort but at the same time if you think about it this is all possible as a matter of fact there are certain groups in the area especially in libya and on who would like to meet the whole area the whole village a sham area greater syria one field of action against the regime in syria but also against the regime in iraq and also against the regime in

iran there is a an attempt by some to make the divide between sunnis and she's this is of course very poor and things and at the same time is right caused so much lives so all those who are more rational than the fanatics feel that they better keep quiet as a matter of fact i hope that they keep quiet because it is for the good of the area all together to keep things under control and can i ask where you are on the line your thoughts about what's happening in lebanon it's of course divided over the civil war in neighboring syria what do you think the consequences could be if large scale violence erupted there. well i don't like to see that possibility but really there are certain capitals in the area there

are certain international capitals also who encourage some sort of sectarian divide some sort of suddenly she i hope that we all stick to the purposes of human rights to the principles of human rights we i hope that we all stop blood cheating and try to find a solution for our problems by little. she lay very distinct from the first century after islam and we should not be victims of this all season between israelis and she's we have to be rational we have to deal with our problems of reactively we have to preserve peace we have to respect human life we have to respect basic principles of human rights we appreciate taking the time to talk to us tonight sir george of

a former advisor of the syrian government live from beirut thanks for much. now russia is about to take over the month long presidency of the u.n. security council the country's envoy to the un earlier told me about what that means then for the un agenda. but looking like a very crowded month of march the highlight of our presidency is going to be a ministerial debate on afghanistan the mandate of the u.n. mission in afghanistan is going to be extended for another year and that of course is going to be very important for afghanistan with the upcoming presidential elections in april of two thousand and fourteen also of course the big important decision or talks to be had about what to do with syria next a big schism amongst a very she remembers about what is the best thing to do as russia going to try and bring people together than over the next month our position is very simple we believe that the violence must stop and for that dialogue must be established

without precondition and the government to saying that they have outlined their negotiating team their outline their proposals for dialogue unfortunately in the past few days the opposition seems to have been backtracking from the original statement which was made by the leader of the national coalition is to cut the about readiness to go into dialogue with the syrian government this is the key issue without dialogue i'm afraid and without the political will on the part of all syrians all the main stakeholders in that country the international community can do much course the syrian opposition very much in the news again today they've been promised more non lethal help from the u.s. if that's the case where's the lethal support coming from do you think what russia is her view on the united states for a number of reasons chooses not to sally's hands with direct supply of weapons to to the armed groups because among them there are some terrorists and others with

whom the united states would prefer not to be associated but at the same time they they give a wink and a nod to those who provide direct military aid to to rebel armed groups ambassador i'd like to talk for a moment about the latest in iran no still sir no significant breakthrough of course in those talks in kazakstan iran said they were. in some ways positive but the general consensus was not a lot was done the talks further talks were agreed what are your thoughts about that six brought new proposals to the table with active participation of russia in doubt but also this was anything but all the windows that we know in kazakhstan well you know. not really radical new but there are some new important elements which should make it more attractive for the iranians to finally enter into negotiations on the core of the matter that is yet to happen. can speak to me better they are all i can say with us tonight to very soon not reporting on pope

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today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operation. motional farewell to his cardinals he flew into his temporary residence where he set to stay for a couple of months until work completed on a permanent home in the vatican while his successor the daunting task of course of restoring the church is battered reputation after a string of child abuse and corruption scandals. reports from rome. it's probably safe to say that he has a brain the size 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 tremendous burden on him and sometimes he felt like he could crack under the

pressure of course what he's leaving behind is not just his famous red shoes which he will not be wearing anymore 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 and and making the catholic church keep up with the times with modern times and more details here now about what kind of challenges the catholic church is now facing it's not just about selecting a new bishop of rome some say but the very future of the catholic church the catholic church is undergoing a very important prizes it is a crisis at two levels it is a government tries this and it is it tries this of the believe us. in the last year or so the world was focused on the government crisis and devout to the gloria pope benedict was a pope who is a great intellectual if being

a theologian but he has not a strong hand to lead the victoria he has not the temperament of a governor 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 highlight disillusionment and frustration with the church i'm still about that i distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been talked with specially after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church and i realize that it doesn't represent my spirituality has 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 the people the churches should be properly. considering.

the great assets everybody now you see that they will be to be the problem of the media they're really working on leases he went to change many things about the church for people the gabrielli of this 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. if there's another scandal with the girl who disappeared in the vatican twenty years ago and they say the man found her remains the italian police are leading the investigation here but instead of helping them the vatican is obstructing the investigation going on it's likely they knew about and stayed silent and on top of all those cases of pedophilia with 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 allegedly 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 states silent or rebuffed all accusations 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. you know with the with the church really splitting with lutheran but then came out stronger could be stronger with a come to reform because you know the two ways the power diminished in the spiritual so based. on this long back to the church is the spiritual but in spite of that personality return relations have left me wondering if the holiest. he has been blind the world is rapidly changing and there are claims that the catholic church has failed to keep up pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs as well as scandal in its two thousand year long

history but there is opinion that perhaps taking an unpleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and filling it with people going for secrecy is a tradition better left in the past in rome. r.t. . well over you know your thoughts on all the long term prospects for the catholic church is it prepares for its new leader thanks taken part of the poll online if you have done here is have things forward according to you are you see in the vatican over the next decade you can see just forty three percent is going down a percentage since the last viewer in our poll think the church will drown amid its mounting scandals not that optimistic twenty five percent of just about think the catholic movement will benefit from the anti muslim sentiment in europe and actually increase its influence more positive than more than fifteen percent of you think the schism will render the church powerless will slightly fewer as you can see still have some confidence that there will be a resurgence r.t. dot com is the place to be you can still change the graph a deal has been changing over the coming hours so it's good to hear from you of

course. the ongoing standoff between israel and hamas has made it almost impossible for journalists on both sides to do their job palestinian media isn't recognized by israel nor are its journalists rights while hamas prohibits gars a journalist have any contact with israelis artie's paul asli a colleague struggling to report through the blackout and help small enemies understand each other. november last year israel and gaza are at war and in the middle of it a gaza journalist reporting he gave for you to an israeli newspaper it was the last major story sunny as rami would write for the hebrew priests 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 a magnet 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 brought across the border and treated and it was in the newspapers that he published his anger and anguish over israel's bombardment of gaza. to how to me and israel is 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 no crimes in gaza is that their father has a half in the attack is coming from both sides of the border is ready journalists today are banned from working. 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 of some a masked people came to my palestinian cameraman 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 israeli journalists who'd regularly work in 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 hamas for a lot of other decision to hamas made i think that the problem of normalization in. connecting trying working with the israeli media the result is that the only reports leaving gaza 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

harm us during its last war gaza israel felt 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 with sami because he speaks of and engages his radio audiences. because you spend 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 team television. is coming up to twenty nine minutes now past ten o'clock at night moscow time things over for much brain with this review tune to r.t. around the world that touches in as tough a business as a break and one of the big stories of the day business wise euro leaders play the cat bonus payments to one year's salary for bankers maybe two if shareholders agree

to it you know honestly london's not happy though is it not not really while certainly not considering that it's a global financial sector and we talked to the market participants i would have thought they'd be dead against it but actually as you'll find out in the business bulletin in just a couple of minutes. they actually welcomed the move surprisingly all the details after a short stay in a bit improperly. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. yours 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 what's clear if i see 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 arguing for drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem to breed more terrorists than they kill saying that there are only two sides to this issue for drones and well kind for drones is absurd congressman paul if you would please be so kind as to change the name of your legislation to the drones are an acceptable form of tyranny act i would be very grateful to you sir but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes

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thirty two minutes past the hour here in moscow you're watching business r.t. with me now the shiny welcome to the program the european union is just a step away from introducing a cap on bonus payments for the banking industry the bankers became the scapegoats that many blamed for the for igniting the financial crisis on thursday the european parliament the european commission and the country's representatives agreed to cap

the bonuses at the level of annual salaries now the critics including british prime minister david cameron say these bonus rules would drive away talent and would make europe's financial sector a less competitive let's listen to what cameron had to say. we do have in the u s not every other european country has its we have major international banks based in the u.k. we have branches negativity is all over we need to make sure that regulation to place brussels is flexible enough to allow the banks to continue to treat and succeeding while being located in the u.k. earlier on thursday i asked those who work in london's financial sector what they thought of this initiative run the kelly from i g markets is actually in favor of this idea she explained wife. i think it's

a good step for you and the effort to create a certain amount of stabilisation around the financial sector there has been a certain amount of dropping the roads about moral hazard and the fact that we saw a financial crisis at the beginning of two thousand and eight that still goes on and ultimately a lot of the banks have been giving bonuses during this period of time despite the fact that they have. losses over the last number of years and the case in point would be or b.s. the royal bank of scotland today showing a five billion profit before tax loss today this is the fifth consecutive loss in as many years so i think in some respects it's giving a bit of confidence back to the market to the actual citizen of europe and in an effort to bring us back to where we were pretty crisis so you don't think it's a populist move how do you think it will affect the banking industry in the short to medium term. welcome to the u.k. is very much behind it are against it should i say and i think they've been against

most of the regulation ideas that have come from the e.u. and i think in some ways they may be correct in the sense that you might see a certain amount of fixed prices in relation to the salaries common to be increased because a lot of the banker bonuses will be based on commission only status but do remember that any of these bonuses have to be signed off by the shareholders so in some respects it does help in that way where they have to sign off if there's going to be any more than two hundred percent of the fixed salary paid out in a bonus so i think it's a way of letting capitalism actually work while the shareholders actually decide whether or not a bonus is actually deserved and of course lengthening it over a certain length of time does allow any investigations that might might be needed in respect to any wrongdoing of fraudulent activity to be ratified unclear dop rather than having to claw back any sort of bonuses from the five percent question so in some ways there are problems with it you may see a few bankers seeking employment elsewhere so to singapore perhaps new york but i

think it's probably going to draw. the banking sector to reassess its business model and look to be a little bit more confidence and to sing in the future with bread let me ask you a personal question you and your company a part of the financial sector would you want the government to reach far enough to actually regulate how much money you can make and how much you receive at the end of the financial year. come i do see your point but i don't believe that. there should be any internet connectivity between the sovereigns and the banks and that is where the problem was and if we were taking a huge leap every ski investment and ultimately looking for the taxpayer to to bail us out in the aftermath of stuff i would have to see that there has to be a reason for the federal government to possibly get involved and thankfully we don't do investments of that nature in my company but nonetheless it stands to reason that if you take to respond board you need to be able to take the flak that

comes with it and i think that's the major issue here capitalism wasn't really permitted to go ahead because you had the bailouts from the taxpayers in normal capitalism you would see the actual company in question who takes the risk and ultimately fails be allowed to fail rather than be bailed out so i think it's a it's a circular question but i don't believe the banks are in a really good position to dictate at this particular stage. let's now see what's going on the markets on thursday the european bourses were warning would the bulls as you can see right there and that's mainly on some hands from the e.c.b. chairman mario draghi that he has absolutely no intention of tightening the monetary policy any time soon is common those of his colleague the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke on wednesday over old wall street where trade is active this hour the stocks are also on the rise despite the latest data pointing to. some

serious problems the economy grew a less than forecast at the end of last year and now the international monetary fund plans to all lower its growth forecast for the united states this year as eighty five billion dollars in spending cuts take effect on friday now move on to the currency markets the euro lost versus the dollar and here in moscow's you can see the ruble ended up losing against the dollar but gaining to the single currency now the russian indices ended the day mixed she has gained about a one percent the my six closed slot to negative as for the corporate sector telecoms trade a better than the market with ra's telecom gaining four and a half percent. shares of russia's oil producer t.m. k b p which is about to merge with state owned was nasty or one of the best performers on the martian market on thursday up more than four percent the

companies said its fourth quarter net profit fell eleven percent to one point eight billion dollars for the year it blamed sluggish sales and higher taxes for the drop . will complete its merger with was nafta in the first half of the year the two sides are already in the process of exchanging documents and signing signing confidentiality agreements once completed the fifty five billion dollar deal would create the world's largest oil company displacing the current leader exxon mobil. now staying with the energy secretary europe's largest oil company world that shell plans to quit drilling in the arctic shelf that's after several accidents in the twenty twelve drilling season shell has spent close to five billion dollars on its search for oil and alaska's sense that won the license there in two thousand and five but poor weather conditions this winter led to to major accidents on the

drilling platforms despite some analysts saying while the decision will lever to leave the arctic means money down the drain investors actually welcomed the move shares of royal dutch shell on the nasdaq have been on the rise for the past two trading sessions russia's central bank may soon own lose its independence the russian government considers having state officials on the bank's board earlier this year the regulators actually dismissed calls from the government and businesses to soften its want to a fiscal policy richard haynesworth from ratings agencies says if the government starts telling the central bank what to do the country's economy would be worse off . worldwide economists of finances see the world see the central bankers being one of the best in the world so we have a situation where the economy is broken but we have

a working some job. but i worry about is that leaves new moves of the government will break the central power and so what will be left with is a broken economy a broken term for. the movement the problem isn't in the central part the problem is in the economy in the law and corruption in the length of. trust. pav in the russian economy so why do bards not lending to the economy. because they cannot see beyond two or three years why don't they see beyond two or three years because we don't know what will happen in five years time and that's all from us in business in just a couple of minutes kevin will bring you more news and headlines keep it here on

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logan you're watching on t.v. it appears that the dog and health of children could be the latest victims of soaring king family budgets during these tough economic times a recent survey released in the u.k. shows that many are struggling to result to give the children cheap junk food an attempt save money out is under farmer investigates a worrying trend that. my many households in the u.k. are feeling the pinch and i haven't but it's starting to have an impact on children's health because a survey this week says that if you get away from not the lunch box of a child at school you are likely to find this junk food it is the cheap option of like the traditional value to talk more about this is brian back in the royal college of pediatrics and child health thanks for joining us the results of this from the children stew trust it's alarming isn't it it certainly is because the

problem of a thread like banters although it might fill you up it doesn't do any good so there's about thirty thousand calories or you just the book in the park in the pursuits of crisps and some other things if a child goes out for the lunch as opposed to having a healthy nutritious lunch you're going to truly struggle to do well if you'll let me define in the book on the map today make is being a problem bigger than the capacity to solve it that's what we have you here an obesity epidemic so it's incredibly important even if firms are feeling the pinch if you try to forgive the children stuff like this so much time and if you eat something like this you really are just going to struggle to do a decent performance in school and you believe that the government is doing enough to address this problem but i think over the last few years we saw the introduction of nutritional standards in schools in england and i helped a lot because i'm in a child is guaranteed if i do the right kinds of vitamins the right kind of minerals and of the right kind of food if they were having a school lunch and actually school is the healthy option it is better than the prior knowledge the unfortunately over the last few years the standards have been

brought back up and a lot of the new schools the academy schools are not covered by those need to make sure that all schools have that and they're also planning issues out there because we're at a school here in london and right next to the school is a take away restaurant that's right i mean the road is temptation the wrong kind of temptation for with nothing wrong with the unification trade is real of course but the reality is that too many kids are eating the wrong kinds of food too often and it's very difficult to resist if on every street corner. you have to sort of force in the face drawn through it so it will cost you your cool in the forty's ok brian thank you for your time well the department of education has commissioned a report into trying to improve standards in schools it is currently digesting the information from that report and we won't know exactly what action will be taken for a little bit more time but what we do know is that many kids were not be facing an appetising lunch ada in many schools andrew farmer. london. more world news now first to bahrain where seven people have been jailed for ten years each for

attempting to murder a police officer the instant replays during ongoing antigovernment demonstrations thirteen other people were acquitted on wednesday two police were found not guilty of shooting a protest to dead those rulings threaten to fuel more unrest in a city controlled kingdom that's been embroiled with norm stop rallies for two years now. there's been a series of bombings in and around baghdad thought to be targeting the shia population twin bombs went off at sunset in the town north of the capital killing sixteen injuring forty a blast the livestock market killed four wounded dozens in the town to the south five roadside bombs left at least two police officers dead while another explosion targeting a police bus was reported west of the capital. violent clashes continue in dhaka after the vice president of the main opposition party was sentenced to death for war crimes seventeen people are reported dead and two hundred injured after protesters the rampage the capital setting fire to a hindu temple and attacking

a police camp saying you say he was convicted of mass murder rape and other atrocities committed to the one nine hundred seventy one independence war against pakistan. libya will soon ask for un to lift an embargo on arms imports it was imposed at the start of the uprising that toppled moammar gadhafi in an attempt to protect civilians libya still turbulent well 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 us that r t that vast oil resources might libya a target for regional and global players. well first of all libya did not pick up its economy it's kind of did not pick up only the oil production was to resume. it's a pity you know because the. foreign countries you know. rushed into libya immediately know to start pumping more leg again because it's connected to their

way of life to their economies you know while the rest of our 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 an alternative to you know to finance. for the lack of assistance that might be coming from europe from the united states that's why i mean libya. is target for too many too many players and in the region and worldwide you know. and i let you know we show you the full interview with former libyan interim prime minister mahmoud jibril on friday here on r.t. now and a waste of money gadgets you never use but it's probably nothing when compared to the british military however is blowing over

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got a lot of messages from our t.v. yours 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 clear five how the government can use these drones 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 arguing for drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem to breed more terrorists than they kill saying that there are only two sides to this issue for drones and well kind of

for drones is absurd congressman poe if you would please be so kind as to change the name of your legislation to the drones are an acceptable form of tyranny act i would be very grateful to you sir but that's just my opinion.

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