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 acts as a hugely jeopardized 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 a crisis. of the u.k. independence party delivers a blow to the governing conservatives in a closely watched by election with anti europe sentiment gaining momentum. three pm in moscow you're watching archie with me and use the now way good to have you with us our top story this hour american army private bradley manning house

contrast in court to charges of passing u.s. secret data to wiki leaks he justified his actions say 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 leaks could have harmed american interest marina portnoy 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 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 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 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 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. did 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. . well u.s. prosecutors are pursuing a man who 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. bradley manning you know the mess of the media or trade is you know this disturbed mixed up weak person as that 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 expose this but yet he faces charges that could see him knocked 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 you know first the 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 with probably been wounded they were praying that the guy would pick up a gun so 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 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. the u.k. independent party has been the governing conservatives into third place in a key byelection the liberal democrats held the seat but the vote highlights the growing support for those calling for him to exit the e.u. u.k.i.p. leader nigel for raj says the increasing popularity of his party means they'll soon be able to influence mainstream politics. like if you don't like it that we could be the biggest party in 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 and the thing i think if you could gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting and 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 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 that are going into camp 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 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 and 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 acceptance no exception excuse me just a few examples but 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 lie. and it's not just the states it's no breaking news that we now live in a very interconnected world and 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 us pretty powerful for an artificial crisis the sequester may be 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. coming up this hour glitzy on the outside but what wise beneath you look at the georgian president mikheil saakashvili is building campaign that may have put a gloss on the capitol but overlook the people who were meant to benefit.

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here with our t. it live from moscow russia is about to take over the month long presidency of the year and security council the countries i'm going to the world body told my colleague kevin know and what 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 as russia going to try and bring people together than over the next month our position is very simple we believe that the violence must stop and for that dialogue must be established without precondition and the government to saying that there were outlined for

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 the 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 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 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 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 like to talk for a moment about the latest in iran no still sir no significant breakthrough of course in those talks in kazakstan iran said they were. in some ways positive but the

general consensus was not a lot was done the talks for the talks are agreed what are your thoughts about the six brought new proposals to the table with active participation of russia in that 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 and that as you have perhaps 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 un to lift an arms embargo imposed during the two thousand and eleven uprising that brought down moammar gadhafi regime r.t. 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 to me between the. 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 to measure. 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 old 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 he'll be in a much safer hands in the future. and

as libya continues to deal with the fallout from the 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 we report on our website. plus a comment rushing towards mars could collide with it next year and cause an explosion equaling twenty thousand ton bomb find out how that could affect plans for a manned mission to the red planet that's at our dot com. online entrepreneur kim dotcom has lost the latest round in his legal battle to avoid extradition from new zealand to america a court has overturned an earlier ruling that would have forced the u.s. to hand over crucial documents in the case 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 u.s. on criminal charges facilitating piracy and racketeering but maintains his innocence claiming he's the victim of a near campaign r.t. talk to dot com he 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 and more that just spy on everybody permanent 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 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 they. go through it with the with

the comb and find the things even though we think you have nothing to hide of the thing 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. it's times take a look now at some news from around the world our 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 the mostly shiite areas and targeted police forces and civilians there is no immediate claim of responsibility but local officials suspect sunni extremists. the college of cardinals headed by colonel of our tony is now in target of the catholic church until the election of the new pope later this month benedict the sixteenth formally resigned on thursday

saying he will be he will simply be upheld graham 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. as mikhail saakashvili 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 it seems meant is an attempt to rebuild the country literally but while new construction across the capital were meant to attract new investors their real impact on the economy has turned out to be superficial as artie's elect singers have discovered. over the past five years georgia has changed dramatically. 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 police 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 be 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 good for the people but we are the people and we have nothing if there is no one says 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. being george's house was made a priority by saakashvili police is 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. there's been some 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. finding the regional advantages and that could be the fatal waiting another high profile project which saakashvili is government described as the city of dreams georgia a brand new ports. to be built on georgia's black sea coast especially the overall cost estimated at nine billion dollars a year in outer circle she wanted to turn into a major regional center but a call just say the whole idea was doomed to fail from the start that. that area wasn't suitable for constructing buildings if 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 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 new or development project. say. if you made . huge mistakes people write. their methods. 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 left to hope that the new political elite takes notice and action of their plight alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from belief in georgia. certainly peter the valen has gas discuss how the political paralysis in italy could affect the struggling euro zone. 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 what's clear if i see how the government can use

these drugs so basically the act as a bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy. the thing is that one side is arguing for drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem to breed more terrorists than they kill saying that there are only two sides to this issue for drones and well kind for drones is absurd congressman paul if you would please be so kind as to change the name of your legislation to the drones are an acceptable form of tyranny act i would be very grateful to you sir but that's just my opinion.

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italian people have spoken and they're deeply divided how does this bode for the euro and the brussels cash for austerity consensus as well as any plans for structural reform of the currency how long can the eurozone muddle through with high unemployment and recession particularly when voters punish very harshly anyone who goes for austerity. to cross not the euro crisis i'm joined by dylan matthews in washington he's a reporter for the washington post also in washington we have nicholas varan he is a visiting fellow at the peterson institute for international economics and in london we crossed to david coburn he is a member of the u.k. independence party all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage a deal and if i go to you first in washington political paralysis in italy what does this do for the ongoing euro crisis i mean is it making it far far worse

doesn't make it better but the one glimmer of hope for the euro. i suppose that can be taken from this is. the democratic party which is. the perp most puryear a party or one of majority in the lower house but mario monti the technocrat has been leading their their probe russel's coalition for a while did not have a very good election to sign it. brokers are all very anti euro and so it seems likely that the democrats will either have to make a deal with with that big rio or some of the other anti euro forces in the senate or else we're going to be seeing another election very soon which no one in particular wants ok if i'm going to david in london i mean brussels most people really quite worried to say the least right now i should hope it should be i mean that you quite frankly you could go about to win of probably four seats in the united kingdom in the in the palm and here i think the italian people are just exacting their right to democratic vote i think they don't want to be ruled by an

e.u. proconsul from brussels they want to make their own mistakes in their own decisions if they want to impose a stair to the draw to have an italian government imposing austerity rather than one sponsored by the european union nicholas is this a. verdict on austerity people have had enough now it's primarily a very tight and put it good system so i think what we just heard from london is actually it's a bit always a way around the voters in italy have not expressed a nationalist insistence that they prefer to be governed from rules and from brussels to just have said their political i mean twenty five to doesn't want five hundred say the electorate could travel i'd say it is them vote we have a twenty five percent of the electorate voted for a referendum on the e.u. that's pretty significant isn't it. it's not the only things i voted for they voted for systems that condenses all the parties that have traditionally by the seen in

italy so this is a massive in a way radical revolutionary. system first and foremost of course there are elements about your sturdy. putting into question some of the you commitment this is obvious but if you want to go to the core of what happened this weekend in italy it's a pox on all houses of the italian political systems this is what it is about dylan would you agree with that but this is a european going to get a deal and perhaps into this is a pan-european what i think david is oversimplifying the somewhat in that that the referendum that and his coalition backs is not on membership in the e.u. it's on membership of the euro and that's significant certainly and his cup to say with a monetary union should should trouble brussels it's not the same thing you're in the in the e.u. and not in the euro. and yes but i don't there's a european i'm going to be right evidently good because big big griddle has called for go ahead nicholas go ahead david is right on this because big grillo has called

for reexamining all the treaties ok david go ahead jump in this is a revolution throw your can to eight hundred forty eight where all the countries the people are revolting against the establishment and all those various countries from spain to greece to italy i also the u.k. and u.k. you have two political parties you have the liberals or conservatives the labor party which is the establishment party and then those you can't which is the opposition and we are trying to change this country the way it's run people are sick and tired of the establishment which have back to the european union and got us into the mess we're in dillon go ahead you want to reply that. sure i mean the thing i would say to david is that his his anti brussels movement is very. diffuse and not in agreement on

a lot of other things i don't think many members of ukip would agree with those call for a twenty hour work week or for free tablet computers for all children or. i know of other sort of beyond beyond social democracy programs but which is just to say it was a really great was their right to be you know decisions and not decided by the european union we believe it should be that are losers only significant if the italians want to make a mistake and go against the market that's up to them it shouldn't be done to a european proconsul telling them what to do nicholas this the euro when democracy go together or they antithetical. yeah but the current a little i have a question that we want either all of this is of course but it's not either or ok so the question is you know because basically we can so european institutions are work in progress they change all the time so they can be improved. i don't either

or i mean what the talons long basically and this is supported by all. means want to stay in europe that's a big difference between ukip and five star movement a five star movement is a movement of the young it is it is so italians including five star movement voters are culturally improved european and european federalists in general. are believed to ukip much older electorate there are much more protests still is there much more nationalistic and that's you know when you look at it are younger and they are culturally viscerally untaught european so these are very different movements are are some common threads but you cannot say that you keep in touch on human time much in common syrians support go ahead david know your kids have a libertarian support from the young. people very much the young in the u.k. who do not like the european union they think is anti libertarian and they want to have their own say in the u.k.

they don't want to be dictated to a bunch of school or all tickled gentlemen in brussels who are basically a bunch of crooks and we see what we don't really have a. five star movement and you see the difference i mean there is a massive generational difference dillon you want to jump in there i was asking the question about the euro and democracy go ahead i think there is a tension with the existence of a monetary union and not a fiscal union and the ability of the institution to respond to the interests of of all citizens that there's when you have disparate fiscal policies by the united career and see some monetary policies are going to appeal to the german people some are going to appeal to the italian people and when you have independence and for banks that isn't too accountable to democratic forces it's really hard to dissolve those just to resolve those disputes and i quibble way that makes sense to all parties i mean look i don't i think the differences as nicolas has been saying is.

i will bet you any amount of money that if tomorrow an actual united states style federal fiscal system emerged in europe and italy was being flooded with money from germany the five star movement would be very much ok with that. the difference between principled opposition in. using federal zation oh sure if you think it's impossible then that's obviously a salient factor but it's not i think if you keep has a very well it's a bold opposition to these bureaucrats in brussels and i don't see that same kind of opposition and we also believe that the european union is unworkable we get nothing against europe we very much want to work with with the european countries but we want to free trade europe we want to be able to do deals and do business with them but we don't want to be ruled by. brussels i don't think anybody does i don't think the greeks do well that's chucking molotov cocktails around this is not a quiet disapproval of brussels it's quite

a violent disapproval of brussels brussels seems to have managed to engender revolutions wrote europe i mean this may sound excitable but it's true i mean spend spend an hour in the us and then you would realise that the people who who threw a coat of cock those are not representative of the greek population so it's unfair to the greek public to describe this as a mainstream of greek deal and what's taken lives on business in greece and i can assure you that people get upset you sick to death of the european union there was great greece's only interest in the european union being a member of it and as it is it's only as long as they're getting money being transferred to keep their economies afloat otherwise they're not interested in what's wrong so what's the what's a possibility of could taint in tears if there's political deadlock in italy i mean i think that would not endure it or you to see that you see be your to brussels on that could halt the flow of payments that could make mario draghi less inclined to you but this is the third largest economy in europe this is not greece. well it's not greece certainly not and i think that would be

a significant form of resistance that might provoke some rethinking but in so far as it prevents the sort of combination of short term. expansionary policy and sort of long term structural adjustments that seem like the only way out of this mass it's probably not going to reassure markets it's probably going to. change the situation from the sort of high unemployment sclerosis that many of these countries are facing at the moment as long as people don't have jobs and the economy is in recession no one is going to look too kindly on these top political establishment in our country nicholas i want to go to you before we want to tell you something else and i think you will or the break go ahead go ahead nicholas yeah. i think the important thing to keep in mind is that you know it's how many people who like to buy so you and say it's going to die to morrow but i think it has proven very resilient in this crisis much more keys and many of the commentators where assuming it if you remember a year ago there was ninety percent probability in market consensus that greece

would be outside of the euro zone by the end of two thousand and twelve this hasn't happened so i think what happened in italy is very important it's very very i think what you call the way earthquake and put it go system yeah but it's a very important situation and it moves their right to believe has to be one of turd but i would want against jumping to conclusion that this is again going to create massive contagion and threatens the viability of the region and we're going to be juggling here and we're going to go to a short break and after that shoppers will continue our discussion on the euro crisis state what are. these.

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