u.s. army private bradley manning admits to leaking classified military data when he was led by good intentions but the prosecution is determined to prove his exposé usually jeopardized american interests. you can dependents party delivers a blow to the governing conservatives in a closely watched by election europe's sentiment gaining momentum. in the u.s. economy is held hostage on capitol hill just hours left for lawmakers to hammer out a deal to avoid a massive budget cuts which could also plunge global finances deeper into crisis. and i'm carrie johnson you're watching welcome to the program. merican 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 to spark a public debate where manning though fell short of admitting to tougher charges of aiding the enemy denying that he's leaks could have harmed american interests report 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 clearly say 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 we can leaks member called ochs who he believes was julian a songe bradley manning says that no one associated with the leak said 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 or. 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 windowless cell he was forced to sleep naked with sheets and was put on suicide watch many experts believe 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 believe

that if manning now enters these pleas as he has 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. r.t. . discussed manning's leaks with the president of the new york based center for constitutional rights. he's been president. he explained why that was supposed to sit. public so significant. bradley manning you know the mess of the media or trade is you know there's the stir 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 and looked away in a miniature prison for years or even for life that given the nature of what was explained do you think his potential punishment would be disproportionate you know person a guy's 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 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 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 the criminality of the country but it shows what an individual can do to expose it and the u.k. independence party has been in the governing conservatives in the third place in a key byelection liberal democrats held the seat but the vote highlights the ever growing support for those calling for britain to exit the e.u. auntie's has a story. i have. 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 festoon with coasters placards balloons and even a few babies kiss well probably this is politics perhaps not best known for its high drama but here in eastley by election fever as the political candidates by 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 same out 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 was dubbed by david cameron is free cakes and loonies in clothes that graces this place so to trace so as

a credible political force and in eastley it seems is gain some traction you can have. very good thank you very much what do you think is where you get the people's attention around her. so 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 can't seem say that pulling away from the money stopping. it. message on immigration is all stay increasingly striking a code blue in the face is. this creeping touch the ukip to shake is one policy party image and was tapped into the anti westminster critics say it offers little more than

a protest date concerned about the so some popularity you can depend no no really i mean you have people living in his. exactly where they are there right down the bio he'll somewhere because they have any little support in this is like immigration they say that but what are they going to deliver the big question for any labeling for a moratorium on high deliver anything they're never going to be in place a lot of people there with you kate will not be in power they may not be in power he chips got put in his major parties on the run and as predicted clete for the next year's european elections thank you for us himself admit number ten. 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 keep gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting in british politics. has been a litmus test of what voters we think at the parties might not change the price of bread in terms of how government runs but it's served as a good opportunity for everyone to get their point across and love them or hate them you can certainly lighten things up so r.t. . u.s. lawmakers have just hours left to avert a crisis they created thanks to becoming on capitol hill automatic budget cuts worth eighty five billion dollars are due to kick in late on friday republicans and democrats have so far failed to agree on the alternative to the so-called sequester

the looming impact on the economy could reach far beyond america's borders there's a lot is going to come 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 in the portman's 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 veterans 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 in this one the fact each and every state no except in no exception excuse me. just a few examples well i don't know let's take kentucky eleven thousand civilians working for the pentagon are facing possible unpaid leave there the state of illinois which 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 department department employees would also be for a lot 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 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 u.s. 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 global

economy in washington i'm going to check out. coming out there some glitzy on the outside but want lies beneath look at the georgian president mikheil saakashvili is building camp in the last in the capital but it looks the people who are meant to benefit. download the. stream quality and enjoy favorites. if you're away from. your

mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. global financial headline news to report. about to take over the month long presidency of the un security council the country's envoy to the world body told my colleague kevin allen 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 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 do 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 of 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 and should have and should now reciprocate by outlining their political program which of 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 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 are 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 authorities are desperately trying to control scattered armed groups across the country in an attempt to force them to cooperate the government is in the un to lift an arms embargo imposed during the twenty seven uprising that brought down moammar gadhafi is regime well r.t. interviewed the country's former interim prime minister mahmoud jibril for his take on the situation and there's a glimpse of what's coming up. illicitly speaking who holds power who holds guns you know so there is. this decor to me between the. post conflict periods it's difficult to stop national consensus it's not an easy

thing especially in a country where we create a culture who is totally absent you know needs time needs patience and he's a real lover of this country measured world is dialup real between all those groups if we manage to have a national dialogue with everybody can express his points of view he can talk about his all rights what he wants what he thinks of libya's of the future if we can have this national killed today not tomorrow i think he'll be able to be in a much safer hands in the future. and as libya continues to deal with the fallout from the twenty seven revolution one of the main foreign supporters of the uprising could be further implicated a probe into whether former french president nicolas sarkozy got a negative campaign contribution from ousted dictator moammar gadhafi takes

a new turn as we report on our web site. a comet rushing towards mars could collide with it next year and cause an explosion killing of twenty thousand if you could. find out how that could affect plans for a manned mission to the red planet all at r.t. dot com. as make 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 has 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 was 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 they've been some notable criticism as well this peculiar building is probably the biggest example of socrates

architectural failings millions will poured into what was meant to become a major high tech entertainment center now the speculation is rife that the new government is planning to scrap its construction and even dismantle the unfinished building. combining the regional advantages and that could be the fate awaiting another high profile project which saakashvili as government described as the city of dreams georgia a brand new port was to be built on georgia's black sea coast especially the overall cost estimated at nine billion dollars a year in outer saakashvili want to turn into a major regional center but a call just say the whole idea was doomed to fail from the start and that we're suggesting. that area wasn't suitable for constructing. buildings they call here the area is basically a swamp in 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 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 so. they call it part of the new development project. say make way if you made. huge mistakes people write. their methods. ok that's. important for america power change hands in georgia after 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. of ski r.t. because you from billy see in georgia a brief look now at some other news from around the world a series of suicide bombings across the iraqi capital baghdad have killed at least twenty two people and wounded dozens more the attacks took place in mostly shiite areas and targeted police forces and civilians there is no immediate claim of responsibility but the fischel suspects sunni extremists. the cardinals headed by cardinal bertoni is now in charge of the catholic church until the election of a new pope later this month and that the sixteenth formally resigned on thursday

saying he will simply be a pilgrim and remain hidden to the world the successor will be tossed with the redeeming the church's reputation in a string of child abuse and corruption allegations. but coming up after the break how the mountain takes on the mainstream media in breaking the sense that this. 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 clear fice 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 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.