u.s. army private bradley manning admits to leaking classified military data he was led by good intentions the prosecution is determined to prove his expose jeopardized american interests. u.k. dependence party delivers a blow to the government conservatives in a closely watched byelection europe sent in to gain momentum. u.s. economies held hostage on capitol hill just hours left for lawmakers time around the. massive budget cuts which launched global finances deep crisis. international as it happens twenty four hours a day this is carrie johnson american army private bradley manning has confessed in

court to charges of passing u.s. secret data to wiki leaks he justified his actions stating they were intended to shed light on the ugliest side of washington's foreign policy and the spark of public debate manning though fell short of admitting to tougher charges of aiding the enemy denying that his leaks could have harmed american interests. reports now . he has accepted guilt but makes no apologies for what he did at a pretrial hearing on a maryland military base u.s. army private bradley manning admitted to sharing u.s. classified documents and videos with weak you leak saying that he believes the american public have the right to know the true cost of war the twenty five year old pleaded guilty to ten of twenty two charges before reading a thirty five page statement explaining what he did and why he did it now manning said that he leaked instant logs from the wars in iraq and afghanistan hoping that

it would start a public debate he also said that he believed that the incident involving the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks would not damage the u.s. but instead just embarrass the u.s. now the former intelligence analyst said he attempted to. u.s. media outlets first such as the washington post the new york times politico but he said he wasn't able to get through to them later on deciding to leak the classified information to wiki leaks now according to many he engaged in prolonged internet conversations with the we can leaks member calls ochs he believes was julian assange bradley manning says that no one associated with any point pushed him to disclose information now bradley manning is admitting to all of this for the first time publicly more than

a thousand days after he was arrested he pled guilty to unauthorized possession and willful communication of sensitive material including the state department cables and other material provided to wiki leaks but according to manning's attorney he pled not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge against him now. once manning was arrested in two thousand and ten we should remind our viewers that he was held in solitary confinement for ten months that means twenty three hours a day he was in a six by eight foot windowless cell he was forced to sleep naked out of bed sheets and was put on suicide watch many experts believe that the way in which manning has been treated by u.s. authorities has forced him to go into a plea because otherwise many believe that he stared he would have spent the rest of his life in prison because that's what u.s.

prosecutors are seeking with the case against him experts say that they they believe that if manning now enters these pleas as he has he may get a maximum of one two years in prison instead of life in prison of course a lot still remains to be seen but this is a huge development in the case involving brad. and wiki leaks and it will be developing for days weeks and months to come reporting from new york marina r.t. . earlier i discussed manning's leaks with the president told the new york based center for constitutional rights michael brown has been present the latest hearing explaining why the whistleblowers decision to make what he had seen public was so significant. one of the videos he admits it's an eclipse i should warn viewers is very disturbing shows u.s. troops firing and on and killing unarmed civilians now manning exposed this but yet

he faces charges that could see him loped away in a minute to prison for years or even for life now given the nature of what was exposed do you think his potential punishment would be disproportionate. first the guy's a hero look at he exposed whether it was in iraq or with what you just referred to the collateral murder video when he saw that video he said he couldn't believe it when he heard the people who were doing the shooting from the helicopter the blood lust of that when they saw a man crawling along the ground would probably been wounded they were praying that the guy would pick up a gun for like a murderer i mean it's like he was really disturbed so if you ask me what i think ought to happen i think bradley manning should be a hero i think in ten or twenty or some number of years we were recognized that he was a whistleblower like daniel ellsberg revealed the pentagon papers and he is someone who should be a hero because he revealed american criminality across the world in a diplomatic a rose in march referring to as the collateral murder video our children were

actually injured in an on in the iraq war logs i mean he really did an amazing i mean what i think we can never get our hands on the statement it's a comment statement in court that should be a booklet that everybody growing up in my country ought to read is it shows the criminality of the country but it shows what an individual can do to expose that. you came dependence upon to has been in the governing conservatives into third place in a key by election and that will democrats held the seat photon lights the ever growing support for those calling for britain to exit the e.u. south as a story. i have read. this tiny town in england south is helping to map out the shape of british politics as party scrambles to gauge the nation's political need eastley was swamped with

politicians in a byelection festooned with posters placards balloons and even a few babies care well probably this is politics perhaps not best known for its high drama but here in east by election fever as the political candidates vying for those all important based policies like you can't get attention from those that they could only have dreamed of a few years ago and amid full team different candidates it was one party in particular that stood out i think the feeling i share it that we now are run by a political class of people they all go to the same schools they all go to the so much for colleges they all take the same degrees they all marry each other sisters firebrand leaders knowing raising some eyebrows use their backing the party's candidate diane james every step of the way the party once dubbed by david cameron is free cakes and loonies in closet racists has to trace so as

a credible political force and in eastley it seems is gain some traction you have over. very good thank you very much what do you think is where you get the people's attention around to. the refreshing approach than the normal sort of rhetoric that you get a lot of people are actually sick of of mainstream politics because they've got nothing out of it except unemployment think economically ukip don't know what they're doing and if they get us out of europe then we'll be in a real mess whereas once you seem to. pulling away from the money sapping e.u. . his message on immigration is all stay increasingly striking a code blue in the faces from coalition party he says he is proving tough to be ukip to shake is one policy party image and while it's tapped into the anti westminster media critics say it offers little more than

a protest date concerned about the surge in popularity for the party you can depend no no really i mean you have people living in his. exactly where they are there right by our heels somewhere because they have any little support in issues like immigration world they say that but what are they going to deliver the big question for any liberal infirm oratory and how to deliver anything they're never going to be in a lot of people there with a school you can't will not be in power they may not be in power he kips got put in his major parties on the run and his predicted clique for the next year's european elections thank you for himself admit number ten is a number but now i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics while as we draw votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through

i think just about as deep as crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything and i think if you can gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting in british politics the pilot action has been a litmus test of what vote is we really think that the parties might not change the price of bread in terms of how government runs but it served as a good opportunity for everyone to get their point across and love them or hate them you care it certainly lighten things up surface r.t. . well coming up this hour shining on the outside but what lies beneath we look at the georgian president mikheil saakashvili is building campaign. lost in the capital but overlooked the people who were meant to benefit.

the u.s. president is rallying congress in a last ditch effort to avoid automatic budget cuts worth eighty five billion dollars republicans and democrats have so far failed to agree an alternative to the so-called sequester which is due to take effect later on friday and the looming impact on the economy could reach far beyond america's borders arties going to chicken explains. let me begin with where the sequester comes from for a long time congress has been in gridlock over what to cut paralyzed but everybody knows spending cuts are absolutely necessary to balance the budget at some point washington came to conclusion that only ineptness fear of crisis they can solve something so they manufactured the crisis not the first time by the way they're actually getting into the habit of doing that the previous one was the fiscal cliff two months ago now it's the sequester let's see who may soon pay for washington's self scaring tactics nationwide seven hundred fifty thousand jobs are on the line the thing about automatic cuts is that agencies and departments don't get to decide

what to put on the cutting board it's supposed to cut the defense funding by ten percent now a lot of people think that the pentagon's humongous budget does need some serious trimming until now congress has been generally reluctant to do that in the pentagon's budget only grew but the sequester doesn't care what to cut so it's going to cut that are in support programs and other things that are going to hurt thousands of people in the military the cuts could also lead to the closing of hundreds of air control towers making it harder for planes to take off and land and reduce the number of border patrol agents would lead to delays at the ports of entry among other things also six hundred thousand women will lose assistance from the government's women infants and children program as a result of cuts to federal spending on local education ten thousand teachers and eight thousand other staff could lose their job again nationwide and this will affect each and every state no except in no exception excuse me just a few examples and i don't always think kentucky eleven thousand civilians working

for the pentagon are facing possible unpaid leave their state of illinois can take would see half a billion dollars in cuts to spending for law enforcement and crime prevention. in virginia ninety thousand civilian defense the department employees would also be for a law. and it's not just the states it's no breaking news that we now live in a very interconnected world and that this manufactured storm created on capitol hill will most certainly cause ripples across the globe the i.m.f. confirms that they're saying there will be an impact on global growth economy start talking about how vulnerable european markets are one economist is writing this could further delay be the european recovery recovery just long enough for something to go wrong in one country and send europe into a severe contraction and that would have a backlash in the west some pretty powerful for an artificial crisis the sequester

may be a manufactured crisis but of erica's deficit problem is not it is very real the country is running a huge deficit washington keeps spending and borrowing but fails to balance the budget and economists say that could have serious long term effects on the global economy in washington i'm going to check out. online entrepreneur kim don't comb has lost the latest round in his legal battle to avoid extradition from new zealand to america the court has overturned an earlier ruling that would have forced the u.s. to hand over crucial documents on the case where extradition hearing itself has not yet started investigation on world com who made a fortune for his sharing service. was arrested by the seat in the string of rape of his mansion general last year is wanted in the u.s. on criminal charges of facilitating copyright arcee and records hearing don't call him who maintains his innocence claims he's the victim of a smear campaigns. what i have learned since i got dragged into this case

is a lot about privacy abuses about the government spying on people they are not spying on individuals based on a warrant anymore they just spy on everybody permanently all the time and what that means for you and anybody is you if you are ever a target of any kind of investigation or someone has a political agenda against you or prosecutor doesn't like you or put the police wants to interpret something in a way to get you in trouble they can use all that data go through it with the with the comb and find the things even though you think you have nothing to hide and done nothing wrong right now we are living very close to this vision of george abo and i think it's not the right way you know it's a wrong path that the government's on thinking that they can spy on everybody we're

going to take a look at some other news from around the world now this a series of suicide bombings across the iraqi capital baghdad have killed at least twenty two people and wounded dozens more it's acts took place in mostly shiite areas in targeted police forces and civilians there is no immediate claim of responsibility but local officials suspect sunni extremists. the college of cardinals headed by cardinal bertoni is now in charge of the catholic church until the election of the news hope later this month benedict the sixteenth formally resigned on thursday saying he will simply be a pilgrim and remain it into the world the successor will be tasked with redeeming the church's reputation for being a string of child abuse and corruption allegations. rusher is about to take over the month long presidency of the u.n. security council the country's envoy to the world body earlier told my colleague

kevin knowing what moscow plans to bring to the agenda. it's 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 how is 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 and 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 of course the syrian opposition very much in the news again didn't promise 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 the two rebel armed groups the opposition groups including the national national council should be sticking to

their initial offer or expression of readiness to. the dialogue should should be amplifying their political program because we have not seen a political program from them or the government in the speech of president assad in january did outline a political program maybe it was not satisfactory for for the opposition but at least it was there they should have should have and should now reciprocate by outlining their political program which are which they could bring to the table of dialogue with the government and russia and we hope other important members of the international community would be there to facilitate those discussions and bastard like to talk for a moment about the latest in iran no still certain 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 the six brought new proposals to the table with active participation of russia in the process was anything radically new in those we know in kazakhstan. well you know.

not really a 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 the libyan authorities are desperately trying to control scattered armed groups across the country in an attempt to force them to cooperate the government is urging the u.n. to lift an arms embargo imposed to june twenty seventh uprising that brought down market dollface regime r.t. interviewed the country's former interim prime minister would you be real but his take on the situation and him so what's coming up. mystically speaking who holds power who holds guns you know so. this to me between the. conflict periods of the difficulty.

national consensus it's not. a country where the culture was totally absent heeds time needs patience and a love of this country the measure. between all those groups if we manage to have a national. body can express his points of view he can talk about his old rights what he wants what he thinks of libya's in the future if we can have this national killed today to model i think he'll be in a much safer in the future. and this libya continues to deal with the fallout from the twenty eleven revolution one of the main foreign supporters of the uprising could be further indicated the probe into whether former french president nicolas sarkozy got addicted to campaign

contributions from ousted. takes a new turn as we reported on our website. rushing towards mars could come next year explosion including a twenty thousand bomb blast. that could affect plans from mission that. really prepares to stand down as leader of georgia later this year the question turns to what his legacy will be some say his main achievement is an attempt to rebuild the country literally while new constructions across the capital were meant to attract new investors their real impact on the economy has turned out to be superficial. discovered. over the past five years georgia's outlook has changed dramatically. of president mikheil saakashvili is

architectural programs but not everyone is in the mood to admire these architectural novelties and his family lost their home to several years ago after falling on hard times they had been promised a new flat by the city's authorities but the promise hasn't been kept and now there are a moment group of several others who are homeless forced to find shelter in an abandoned school. this city is building and being painted but we have nothing it is supposed to be built for the people we are the people and we have nothing if there's no us then there's no need for all this beauty we have small children here and we live in a house with this building is no heating or electricity improving george's outlook was made a priority by saakashvili his old town has seen more than building spring up including this huge government justice department said to be the world's biggest and this gloss and steel bridge and while the public's response to the modernization has generally been positive there's been some notable criticism as

well this peculiar building is probably the biggest example of saakashvili is architectural failings millions will board it was meant to become a major entertainment center now the speculation is rife that the new government is planning to scrap its construction and even dismantle the unfinished building. finding the regional advantages and that could be the fate awaiting another high profile project which saakashvili has government described as the city of dream structure a brand new port was to be built on georgia's black sea coast with its overall cost estimated at nine billion dollars now really wanted to turn into a major regional center but a call just say the whole idea was doomed to fail from the start. that area wasn't suitable for constructing buildings they call here the area is basically a swamp this region is protected by an international convention and has always been protected we said all along this would be an enormously expensive project because

it's difficult to build a skyscraper on unstable soil the first hotel spilled there immediately had problems they basements were flooded. the logical plan was eventually scrapped by the new government and the same goes for many other investment plans which economists say have seen huge sums simply squander it. really is not. this. is a quality of the newer development project. where if you made . huge mistakes people write. their methods. ok it's. important for america power to change hands in georgia after this party lost the parliamentary election it then became clear some fundamental issues like daunting

poverty with almost a third of the country's three million population living below the poverty line have largely been left unaddressed the new government hasn't yet made its economic policy clear but and his family say they could be forced to leave the temporary home at any minute and they're only left to hope that the new political elite takes notice and action of their plight. ski r.t. reporting from belief in georgia. well next the prevention and impact one of the dead listen barr says of modern times h.i.b. so without tea for our special report.

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