u.s. army private bradley manning admits to leaking classified military data claiming he was led by good intentions but the prosecution is determined to prove his expose a hugely jeopardized american interests. became dependents party delivers a blow to the governing conservatives in a closely watched by election run to europe sentiment gaining momentum. and the u.s. economy is held hostage on capitol hill with just hours left to go makers to hammer out a deal at one point massive budget cuts which could plunge global finances deeper into crisis. costing live from our studios here in moscow this is alt. 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 uglier side of washington's foreign policy and to spark a public debate manning fell short of admitting to tougher charges of aiding the enemy denying that his leaks could have harmed american interests when the point now now reports. 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 we few leaks 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 incident logs from the wars in iraq and afghanistan hoping that

it would start a public debate he also said that he believed that the incidents 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 contact her additional 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 mcnamee he engaged in prolonged internet conversations with the wiki leaks member called ox who he believes was julian a songe bradley manning says that no one associated with wiki leaks at 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 now 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 a. 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 with out 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 may get a maximum of twenty 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 bradley manning and wiki leaks and it will be developing for days weeks and months to come reporting from new york marina r.t. . well iraq discussed manning's leaks with the president of the new york center for constitutional rights michael ratner has been pressing. he explained why the whistleblowers decision to make what he had seen public so significant. bradley manning you know the mess of the media or trade is you know this disturbed mixed up week person as it turns out to be a very strong person turns out to lead guilty to a number of important. disclosures to wiki leaks one of the videos he admitted to

me which 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 not to wait a minute to prison thing is waiting for life now given the nature of what was explained do you think his potential punishment would be disproportionate you know person a guy is a hero look at he exposed whether it was an iraqi or with what you just referred to the collateral murder video when he saw that video he said he couldn't believe what he heard the people who were doing the shooting from the helicopter the blood lust and then when they saw a man crawling along the ground it would probably been wounded they were praying that the guy would pick up a gun so they could murder 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 who revealed the pentagon papers and he is someone who should be a hero because he revealed american criminality across the world in a diplomatic cables and much referred to as the collateral murder video where children were actually injured in an 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 public statement in court that should be a booklet that everybody growing up in my country ought to read because it shows that criminality is a country but it shows what an individual can do to expose. well to britain now where the u.k. independence party has beaten the governing conservatives in the third place and a key byelection liberal democrats hope to see the vote highlights the ever growing support for those calling for britain to exit the e.u. so for the story.

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 swarmed 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 eastley by election fever as the political candidates vying for those all important based parties 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 there is a 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 same oxford colleges they all take the same degrees they all marry each other sisters

firebrand leaders known for raising some eyebrows use they're backing the party's candidate diane james every step of the way the party once dubbed by david cameron is free cakes and loonies and closet racists has to patrol itself as a credible political force and in eastley it seems is gain some traction you could have over. very good thank you very much would you think it's where you get the people's attention. so the refreshing approach than the normal sort of rhetoric that you get a lot of papal are actually sick of mainstream politics because they've got nothing out of it except unemployment think economically ukip don't know what they're doing if they if they get us out of europe then we'll be in a real mess whereas once you can't seem. to pulling away from the money sapping. its message on immigration is also increasingly striking a code blue in the faces from both coalition party he says he is craving tough the

ukip to shake its one policy party image and while it's tapped into the anti westminster me critics say it offers little more than a protest fete concerned about those. parts you can depend no no really i mean you have people the thing is that there's exactly where they are there right down the heel somewhere because they have any of the supposed issues like immigration they say that but what are they going to deliver the big question for any labeling for moratorium deliver anything they're never going to be in place a lot of people there with a school you can't will not be they may not be in power he kips got put in his major parties on the run and is predicted to leap frog the next year's european elections i do four hours himself admit number ten is an unreachable call 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 was 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 by election has been a litmus test of what voters really think at 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 the ukip certainly lighted things up so r.t. eastley u.s. president is running 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 not to the so-called sequester which is due to take effect later on friday and the booming impact on the economy could reach far beyond america's borders as art is going to church or can experience. 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 around 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 then this will affect each and every state no except in no exception excuse me just a few examples and i don't know let's take kentucky eleven thousand civilians

working for the pentagon are facing possible unpaid leave their state of illinois we can take would see a 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 long. 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 delaying 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 so pretty powerful for an artificial crisis the sequester maybe a manufactured crisis but a very because 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. well coming up shining on the outside but what lies beneath you look at the georgian the press accounts of civilians building campaign that have put a gloss on the capitol but overlooked the people who are meant to benefit. to speak the language. the programs the documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you if you. try. to find out more visit our big. dog called.

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month long presidency of the un security council the country's envoy to the world body area 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 there were outlined of 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 as the what 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 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. dialogue should should be amplifying their political program because we have not seen a political program from them or the government and 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 other important members of the international community would be there to facilitate those discussions 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 libyan or thirty's are desperately trying to control a scattered armed groups across the country in attempt to force them to cooperate the government is searching the u.n. to lift an arms embargo imposed in the twenty seven uprising that brought down market after his regime not interviewed the country's former interim prime minister jabril for his take on the situation as a glimpse of what's coming up. realistically speaking who holds who holds guns you know so there is. this decor to me between the poet.

and official poet of post conflict periods of the difficult one to national consensus it's not an easy thing especially in a country where there was a culture it was totally absent heeds time needs peace and love of this country the measure would this dialogue. between all those groups if we managed to have a national dialogue would everybody can express his points of view he can talk about his own rights what he wants what he thinks of libya's in the future if we can have this national killed today not to mortal i think he'll be in a much safer heads in the future. and as libya continues to deal with the fallout from the twenty there from that revolution one of the main foreign supporters of the uprising could be further in

the case of probe into whether french president nicolas sarkozy got a lucrative campaign contribution from ousted to take the market down three weeks a new term as we report on our website. fast comet rushing towards mars could collider the next year and cause an explosion including a twenty thousand bomb blast on that how that could affect plans for manned mission to the red planet one of the answers. online entrepreneur kim dot com has lost the latest round of legal battle to avoid extradition from new zealand to america the court has overturned an earlier ruling that would force the u.s. to hand over crucial documents on the case an extradition hearing itself has not yet started the investigation ongoing who made a fortune from his sharing service. was arrested by zealand police raided his mansion in january last year he's wanted in the u.s.

on criminal charges of facilitating piracy and record terry maintains his innocence claiming he's the victim of a smear campaign on early r.t. talk to dot com who says online reason is that governments. what i have learned since i got dragged into this case is a lot about privacy abuses about the government spying on people they're 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 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. we think you have nothing to hide and done nothing wrong right now

we're living very close to this vision of george all 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 because of headlines from around the world now a series of suicide bombings in iraq you capital baghdad killed at least twenty two people and wounded dozens more attacks took place in mostly shiite areas and targeted police forces and civilians there was no immediate claim of responsibility but local officials suspect sunni extremists. and the college of cardinals headed by cardinal bertoni is now in charge of the catholic church until the election of a new group later this month and at the sixteenth formally resigned on thursday saying he will simply be a pilgrim and remain hidden to the world successor will be tasked with redeeming egyptians reputation on a string of trial there is

a corruption allegations. will. really prepares to stand down as leader of georgia later this year the question turns to what his legacy will be some saying his main achievement is an attempt to rebuild the country literally but while new constructions across the capital were meant to attract new investors a real impact on the economy has turned out to be superficial artie's alexia shuster reports. 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 and 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 is no worse then there's no need for all this beauty we have small children here and we live in a house with this building there's no heating or electricity moving george's outlook was made a priority by saakashvili believes 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 his architectural failings millions will poured into what 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 regional issues and that could be the fate awaiting another high profile

project which saakashvili is government described as the city of dream structure a brand new port was to be built on georgia's black sea coast overall cost estimated at nine billion dollars now after saakashvili wanted to turn into a major regional center but a call just say the whole idea was doomed to fail from the start because. 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 or 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 no go take on this

. is a quality of the new development project. the way he made. huge mistakes the pride. of the method. the idea ok it's. important for america power to change hands in georgia after his 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 the gorge 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.