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 exposé hugely jeopardize american interests. and the u.s. economy is held hostage on capitol hill with just hours left for lawmakers to hammer out a deal to avoid massive budget cuts which could also plunge global finances deeper into crisis. and glitzy on the outside but what blinds me we look at georgian president mikheil saakashvili is building campaign that may have put a gloss on the capital but over a look at people who were meant to benefit. from

our studio in central moscow you're watching the tea with me and isa now it's two pm here in the russian capital our top story american a private army private i should say bradley manning has contrasting 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 public debate manning though fell short of admitting to tougher charges of aiding the enemy denying that his lease could have harmed american interest in important 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 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 many he engaged in prolonged internet conversations with the wiki leaks member called ochs who he believes was julian assange 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. breasted 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 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 without 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's scared 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 men 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 marina r.t. . the u.s. prosecutors are pursuing a man who instead should be praised as a hero that's according to michael ratner president of the center for constitutional rights my colleague carrie johnson spoke to him earlier. bradley manning you know the mess of the media or trade is you know this is the stir mixed

up week person 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 minute to prison for years or even for life now given the nature of what was explained do you think his potential punishment would be disproportionate. a person god 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 i 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 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. u.s. lawmakers have says hours left to avert a crisis they created thanks to bickering on capitol hill automatic budget cuts worth eighty five billion dollars are due to kick in later on friday when republicans and democrats have so far failed to agree an alternative to the so-called sequester and the looming impact on the economy could reach far beyond america's borders as our teams that had to can now 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 a conclusion that only internet and sphere 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 than this one the fact each and every state no except in no exception excuse me just a few examples i don't always think 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 law. and it's not just the spades 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 view was pretty powerful for an artificial crisis the sequester maybe 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 global economy in washington i'm going to check out. with much more coming up for you

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their lives. live. it's thirteen minutes past the hour here with our live from moscow russia is amount to take over the monthlong presidency of the un security council the country's envoy to the world body told my colleague kevin owen 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 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 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. 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 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 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 everything ready for you even though 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 you have to happen. let me in 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 un to lift an arms embargo imposed during the two thousand and eleven uprising that brought down no market aphis regime r.c. interviewed the country's former interim prime minister mahmoud jibril for his take

on the situation here's 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. poet of post conflict periods of the difficult one to establish a 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 would this dialogue. between all those groups if we manage to have a national. body 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 model i think libya would be in

a much safer hands in the future. and as libya continues to deal with the fallout from the two thousand and eleven two thousand and eleven revolution one of the main foreign supporters of the uprising could be further implicated the probe into whether former french president nicolas sarkozy got a lucrative campaign contribution from ousted dictator moammar gadhafi takes a new turn as we report on our web site. was a comment rushing towards mars could collide with it next year and calls an explosion equaling twenty thousand gigaton bomb find out how that could affect plans for a manned mission to the red planet head to our t.v. dot com. online entrepreneur kim dot com has lost the latest round in his legal battle to avoid extradition from new

zealand to america record is overturned an earlier ruling that would have forced the u.s. to hand over a crucial documents on the case but the extradition hearing itself has not yet started with the investigation ongoing dot com who made a fortune from his file sharing service mega upload was arrested by new zealand police during a raid on his mansion in january last year he's wanted in the us on criminal charges of facilitating piracy and racketeering but maintains his innocence claiming he's the victim of a smear campaign earlier are to talk to who says online freedom is at the mercy of government. 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 herman and all the time and what that means for you and anybody is if you are ever

a target of and kind of investigation or someone has a political agenda against you or prosecutor it 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 things even though you think you've nothing to hide and done nothing wrong right now we're living very close to this vision of george or 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. it's time to take a look now at some other news from around the world a series of suicide bombings last iraq the iraqi capital i should say baghdad have killed at least twenty two people and wounded dozens more the attacks 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 a new army later this month benedict the sixteenth formally resigned on thursday saying he will simply be a pilgrim and remain hidden to the world his successor will be tasked with redeeming the church's reputation following a string of child abuse and corruption allegations. in the u.k. independence party has been the governing conservatives into third place in a key a by election the liberal democrats held this seat by the vote highlights the growing support for those calling for britain to exit the e.u. u.k.i.p. leader nizar for raj says the increasing popularity of his party means they'll soon be able to impact the country's politics. when i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party of westminster in twenty fifteen but 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 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 everything and i think if you could gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting and. as me who else across really prepares to stand down as the 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 by but while i should say the new construction across the capital was meant to attract new investors their real impact on the economy has turned out to be superficial as artie's alexei yourselves keep discovered. over the past five years georges has changed dramatically

poor dizzy 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 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 they're 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 one 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 glass 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 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 the regional advantages 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 with its overall cost estimated at nine billion dollars now 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 it's a cohiba area it's 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 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 newer development project. say the way he made . huge mistakes the pride. of the method. the idea ok it'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 this 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. to hope that the new political elite takes notice and action of their plight let's see reporting from billy c. in georgia. and there of that our main news block here in our coming up next abby martin takes on the mainstream media and breaking this that. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v.

viewers who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act which clarifies how the government can use these drugs so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy the thing is that one side is 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.