military whistleblower bradley manning says he wanted americans to know the true cost of war as he faces two decades behind bars for the biggest everley of u.s. state secrets. about a bruising for britain's prime minister voters kick his conservatives into a third place and a killer lection beaten by a surging anti e.u. party. and america's eighty five billion dollar battle republicans and democrats wrestle over how to avoid massive budget cuts stoking fears that the financial deadlock will impact around the world. live from our studios in moscow you're watching our team with me and he said now

it's good to have you with us four pm here in the russian capital it's seven am in washington and u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning could get twenty years in prison for what he describes as an attempt to reveal the blood lust and disregard for human life in the american military manning pleaded guilty to ten lesser charges out of twenty two he's facing for the biggest leak of state secrets in u.s. history it could help him escape the most serious charge of aiding the enemy which carries a life sentence here is our cheese report maya in new york. he has accepted guilt but makes no apologies for what he did at a pretrial hearing on a maryland military base u.s. army private bradley manning admitted to sharing u.s. classified documents and videos with weak you leak saying that he believes that 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 the incident involving the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks would not damage the u.s. but instead just embarrass the u.s. now the former intelligence analyst said he attempted to 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 ox what 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 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 with out of bed sheets and was put on suicide watch many experts believe that the way in which manning has been treated by u.s. authorities has forced him to go into a plea because otherwise many believe that he'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 one two years in prison instead of life in prison of course a lot still remains to be seen but this is a huge development in the case involving 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 before giving the classified data to wiki leaks manning trying to show what he found to the washington post and the new york times but they didn't take him seriously well the head of the center for constitutional rights says manning should be recognized as a hero for what he did as he told archie's kerry johnston. bradley manning you know the mess of the media or trade is you know this is 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 he looked away in a minute to prison thing is waiting for life now given the nature of what was explain his 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 london must've been 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 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 that criminality is a country but it shows what an individual can do to expose. now bradley manning's police statement contains some pretty powerful words which are being picked up by many around the world here are some of the most striking extracts from what he said as we see it here on our t.v. . he commented i should say on that infamous video from iraq that we just saw showing journalist and children attacked by an american helicopter helicopter crew he said he was sickened by their blood lust and said they were acting like children

torturing that's one of the quotes were were focusing on with a magnifying glass revealing all this to the american public could spark debate on the u.s. military and foreign policy in general that's one of the things manning is hoping for also trying to push society to reconsider counterterrorism operations which neglect the human aspect this is how he described the actions of the u.s. military we were obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists and ignoring goals and missions well human rights activist bradley manning a hero prosecutors are going all out to prove that al qaeda benefited from access to the leak data what do you think that let's have a look at our r t v dot com poll online today we're asking who are you who you think bradley manning is this hour most of our responders forty three percent say he's a scapegoat in the war on no whistleblowers around thirty percent say or see him i

should say as a martyr to the cause of free speech sixty percent thinks it's very plain and simple he's a naive idealist and the remaining ten percent say they agree with prosecution that he's guilty of high treason will head on to our to dot com and tell us what you think if you haven't done so yet. burns voters have dealt prime minister david cameron a serious blow his governing coalition conservative party has been shunned back to

a poor third in a key by election the u.k. independence party surged into second place while the beleaguered liberal democrats held on to the st despite it becoming vacant because one of their former cabinet ministers had to quit over a driving effect scandal as for the u.k.i.p. it's the third time they've come in second in a by election the main parties dismiss it as protest votes but analysts say the group's stance on quitting the e.u. and immigration have some genuine traction with voters leader nigel farage says u.k.i.p. is increasing popularity means they'll soon be able to influence mainstream politics i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics while as we draw votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just about as deep as crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative

party they don't agree with each other on virtually 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. on capitol hill there's still no deal in sight to avert the eighty five billion dollars worth of cuts which will kick in later on friday it's noon in washington as the sequester and would see significant reductions on military and to mastic spending but republicans and democrats just can't agree on what to do i need you to can explain why this could prove a worldwide headache. 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 many fractured 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

scaring tactics nationwide seven hundred fifty thousand jobs are on the line the thing about automatic cuts is that agencies in the parkman'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 except in 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 can take would see half a billion dollars in cuts to spending for law enforcement and crime prevention. in virginia ninety thousand civilian defense the department employees would also be for a law. and it's not just the states it's not 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 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. still to come here on r.t. access denied a court rules that u.s. prosecutors don't have to share their advocates files with online entrepreneur kim dotcom is facing extradition over internet piracy. and the unwanted facelift we examine why and to these architectural it transformation under president saakashvili isn't what it seems behind the facade all the details after the break.

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of the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza reports on our team. here at our t.v. live from moscow russia is taking over a month long presidency of the un security council the country's envoy to the world's body told our chief kevin knowing about moscow's plans for its time in charge. 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're outlined or 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 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 was russia's 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 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 and bastard like to talk for a moment about the latest in iran no still certain no significant breakthrough of course in those talks in kazakstan iran said they were. in some ways positive but the general consensus was not a lot was done the talks further talks were agreed what are your thoughts about the six brought new proposals to the table with active participation of russia in that process was there anything radically new in those things we know in kazakhstan. well you know. not really a radical new but there are some new important elements which should make it more attractive for the iranians to finally enter into negotiations on the core of the matter that is yet to happen. the full interview with un envoy vitaly churkin is

available on archie dot com also online for you the cancer concern for japan many who saw it coming now the world health organization says the fukushima nuclear disaster could see a seventy percent increase in young girls developing fibroid complications. but the investigations ramped up into whether former french leader nicolas sarkozy was illegally bankrolled by libya's moammar gadhafi before being part of the push to oust him. online entrepreneur kim dotcom is a step closer to being extradited to the united states from new zealand an appeals court has overturned a ruling that would have allowed him and three co-defendants broad access to the evidence against them the four are accused of massive copyright fraud through dot com as mega upload files sharing website with the extradition hearing set for august dot com said he can't be held accountable for other people using his site to

illegally download songs and films his lawyers plan to appeal to new zealand supreme court which could further postpone the extradition hearing dot com told r.t. the online freedom is completely at the mercy of governments. what i have 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 more than just my own body armor and all the time and what that means for you and anybody 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 can go through it with the with the koom and find the thing. even though you think you have nothing to hide

and done nothing wrong right now we're living very close to this vision of george although 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. saakashvili his presidency in georgia and in october and as the clock ticks to his departure thoughts are turning to his legacy on the plus side he's being held by some for revitalizing the look of the capitol but as alexie are seventy reports not everyone sold on saakashvili is big money building spree. over the past five years georgia 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's no us then there's no need for all this beauty we have small children here and we live in a house with this building with no heating or electricity improving george's outlook was made a priority by saakashvili his old town has seen more than building spring up including this huge government justice department said to be the world's biggest and this gloss and steel bridge and while the public's response to the modernization has generally been positive there's been some notable criticism as well this peculiar building is probably the biggest example of these 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 with his government described as the city of dream structure a brand new port was to be built on georgia's black sea coast with its overall cost estimated at nine billion dollars now really wanted to turn into a major regional center but a call just say the whole idea was doomed to fail from the start. that area wasn't suitable for constructing buildings they call here the area is basically a swamp this region is protected by an international convention and has always been protected we said all along this would be an enormously expensive project because it's difficult to build a skyscraper on unstable soil the first hotel spilled there immediately had problems they basements were flooded. the logical plan was eventually scrapped by

the new government and the same goes for many other investment plans which economists say have seen huge sums simply squander it. really is not. so. they call it part of the new 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. let's take a look at some more world news this hour first to iraq and two deadly blasts which have struck a crowded market five people died in the bombings which happened in a shia dominated city in the south no one's admitted the attacks yet a day of violence on thursday saw a series of explosions targeting shiite neighborhoods killing at least twenty two people there's been a worrying rise in sectarian violence in iraq in recent weeks and there are fears it could descend into civil conflict witnessed decades ago after a decade ago after the u.s. led invasion. south korean peace protesters have gathered in front of the u.s. embassy and so they're trying they're demanding an end to the country's joint military exercises which are due to start later on friday the war games always

still deep anger in north korea which calls the drills proof of american hostility is also valid miserable destruction if the two countries go ahead of the threats have never been acted upon. but as well as alan leader still has the backing of most people that's according to a poll three and five believe will go chavez will return to power despite his uphill struggle against cancer and the respiratory infection he's currently tackling is unlikely to return to the public eye in the near future but it's reported that he continues to meet cabinet ministers in the military hospital where he's being treated. next hitting hard on the stories which main networks miss after the break it's abby martin and breaking the stats.

i've got a lot of messages from our two viewers who are very concerned about dry. 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 of for drones is absurd.