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 ever leak of u.s. state secrets. a ballot bruising for britain's prime minister voters kick your conservatives into third place in a key election 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 financial deadlock will impact the world. live from our studio in a moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now

a straight to our top story this hour 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's artie's report nine with more 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 many he engaged in prolonged internet conversations with the we can leaks member called ox 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 with out bed sheets and was put on suicide watch many experts believe that the way in which manning has been treated by u.s. authorities has forced him to go into a plea because otherwise many believe that he stared he would have spent the rest

of his life in prison because that's what u.s. prosecutors are seeking with the case against him at sport 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 bradley manning is police statement contains some pretty powerful words which are being picked up by many around the world here's some of the most striking extracts from what he's had to say so far he commented on that infamous video from iraq that shows journalist and children attacked by an american helicopter crew he

said he was sickened by their blood lust saying they were acting like children torturing ants with a magnifying glass now manning believes that revealing all this to the american public could spark debate on the u.s. military and foreign policy in general he said he was trying to push society to reconsider counter counterterrorism operations which neglect the human aspect this is how we describe the actions of the us military we were obsessed with capturing and killing and killing human targets on lists sorry about the graphics there we lose them and ignoring goals and missions. well also bring you expert opinion on bradley manning straight and about.

ok we're going to move on to our next story here on our t.v. and that is a byelection in the united kingdom. forgive me we will say with our continuing coverage of bradley manning i want to point out that human rights activists proclaim manning is a hero prosecutors are going all out to prove that all kind of benefited from access to data we want to know what you think today and we're asking on our our web site who you think bradley manning is you can log on to our team dot com so look at the results and have your vote. these are some of the results so far

a large majority of you the largest forty eight percent believe he's a scapegoat in the war against whistleblowers thirty seven percent see him as a martyr to look cause of free speech eight percent agree with the prosecutors that he's guilty of high treason and just one percent less thank you and leave idealists like i said head to our t.v. dot com and let us know what you think. britain 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 seat despite of becoming vacant because one of their former cabinet ministers had to quit over a driving offense scandal as for the u.k.i.p. it's the third time they've come in come in second in

a byelection the main parties dismiss it as protest votes but analysts say the group stance on quitting the e.u. and immigration have some genuine traction with voters one of the u.k.i.p. euro m.p.'s is gerard batten and he now joins us live let's hear what he makes of these results thank you for being with us so what does this vote mean to you coming in second or trouncing prime minister cameron. well i think it's historic landmark for us and our party was formed twenty two years ago this year it was always intended to be a force in british politics and it's been a very slow job you know actually achieving that you know from absolute. position just a few people in a room and of course we have the disadvantage of the first half of the post electoral system but i think it's historic for oxen it's historic for the country because we've as you said earlier on we coming secondly elections in recent months into our the elections and they were actually in labor seats and this is.

shows that week's vote across the board from people who voted for all the other political parties and no political party so i think that it is a big step forward for us and the country and i think out of the day when britain leaves the european union it's that little bit closer because with our success. how much real support is there for your anti european stance a lot of economists do. predict the worse for britain if it quits the e.u. or what do you know that they dealt here well i think one of britain's leading economists professor tim kong is actually one of our members and writes literature on the benefits of living the our lot of the arguments of the pro e.u. brigade on you know we lose jobs we looted we would lose try our net actual fact completely thoughts and have no foundation in fact. opinion polls are over fifty percent fifty five percent of people at least would want to leave the

european union out and that's on the basis where you've got the whole of the political establishment most of the media the press t.v. right now actually pushing the line are well you know this thing that's wrong with the e.u. but we have to stay and it's for our benefit if we actually had a fair referendum in this country with an equal amount of time and money for both sides are no doubt that the no side would actually win and we would leave the european union so i think that public opinion is coming now why there are lots of people cannot see any good country if we get mass immigration what we don't want we get we get to spend billions of pounds every year that we chant for. noory negative effect on the economy and of course they now mike eighty percent of our lord's many laws people don't want and don't really understand where they come from because our own parliament and our own needier don't explain we're having to do these things because they're close on us by the european you know quickly you could also carve

support from the us what's one for britain and are you really prepared to cut off ties on both sides well it wouldn't be cutting off key ties because there are a lot is full of independent countries australia new zealand japan south america you go around each year you know the world is full of them i mean country so there will be nothing to stop us having to trade friendship and cooperation with all the other countries of the world if we left the you and our car out kast is going to ukraine. r.t. and we stand for the independence of our country not just from the european union but from the usa and it will be else that wants to have undue expects of us we want our country for the benefit of british citizens we wish everybody else in the world well we want friendship cooperation with them but we want to run our own affairs in our own democratic by means of our own democratically elected government which is a longer look. all right and one more final question for you what's the next stage just briefly what happens here in fact in

a lot of elections not really at the top of westminster yet where do you see it the folk are going it's a step by step process this is my we have council elections you know local authority elections around the country not in london where i am outside of the country the fact that we did so well now it's in been in the you know it's been on the t.v. it's been radio television will mean that more and more people will fill it with a vote ukip we will get i'm sure local councils elected which will give us a voice locally in politics which will also help us build constituencies for the parliamentary election in two thousand and fifteen and also in two thousand and fourteen next year we've got a european parliamentary election now we came second in that in two thousand and nine and our leader nigel clough it's been on television today same it's now our goal to become first in that election so that we will have more any peace than anybody else and of course only you can any police job is to argue for britain's

withdrawal from the european union and of course that's why you're interviewing me today thank you very much gives me the chance to talk about that and we can have lots more people elected representatives talking about that in the months and years to come a u.k. independence party m.p. dr batten thank you very much for your thank you. 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 known washington as the sequester and would see significant reductions on military and domestic spending but republicans and democrats just can't agree on what to do you 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 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 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 a reduced 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 and i don't know if they 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 no breaking news that we now live in a very interconnected world and that this manufactured storm created on capitol hill will most certainly cause ripples across the globe the i.m.f. confirms that they're saying there will be an impact on global growth economy start

talking about how vulnerable european markets are one economist is writing this could further delaying the european recovery recovery just long enough for something to go wrong in one country and send europe into a severe contraction and that would have a backlash in the 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.g.p. access denied a court rules that u.s. prosecutors don't dare to share their evidence files with online entrepreneur kim dot com which is closer to extradition for internet piracy story in fall just ahead .

speak your language. programs you documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. try. to find out more visit. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of. us with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less a tragedy a lot less human suffering. here

with r t live from moscow russia was taking over the month long presidency of the un security council the country's envoy to the world body told r.t. is 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 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 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 today they've been promised more lethal help from the u.s. if that's the case where is 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 to rebel armed groups ambassador i'd 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 the. in some ways positive but the general consensus was not a lot was done in 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 anything radical even though 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. the full interview with the u.n. envoy vitaly churkin is on our team dot com right now also aligned for you the cancer concern for japan many saw it coming now the world health organization says the fukushima nuclear disaster could see seventy percent increase in young girls developing fibroid complications. also online 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 a news event an appeals court has overturned a ruling that would have allowed him and three co-defendants brought access to

evidence against them the four are accused of massive copyright fraud through dotcoms make upload files sharing website with the extradition hearing set for august dot com says he can 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 has told r.t. that online freedoms are is completely at the mercy of governments access to what i have learned since i got dragged into this case is a lot about privacy abuses about the government spying on people they're not spying on individuals based on a warrant anymore they just spy on everybody permanently all the time and what that means for you and anybody is if you are ever a target of and kind of investigate 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 with with the we . the cool and find things even though you think you have nothing to hide and it's got nothing wrong right now we're living very close to this vision of torture 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 back to our top story before giving the classified data to weekly leaks bradley manning trying to show what he found to the washington post and the new york times but they didn't take him seriously human rights activist peter tatchell thinks the soldier is a democracy defending hero he now joins us live from london thank you for being with us you're not only in agreeing with manning that he was protected by democracy human rights but what else is the government supposed to do when it's most confidential information is released everywhere

mr tatchell can you hear me in moscow anybody really. i can hear you clearly thank you ok we seem to have a very bad connection with your video i'm sorry about that we're going to have to move on and we will try to join you next hour thank you for that we're going to have to move on this hour. these are all suckers for these presidents in georgia ends in october and as look 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 alexei yourselves he 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 several years ago after falling on hard times they had been promised a new flat by the city's authorities but the promise hasn't been kept and now there are a moment group of several others who are homeless forced to find shelter in an abandoned school. this city is building and being painted but we have nothing it is supposed to be built for the people we are the people and we have nothing if there is no 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 they've been some notable criticism as well this peculiar building is probably the biggest example of it is architectural failings millions will poured into it 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 original and that could be the fate awaiting another high profile project which saakashvili is government described as the city of dreams a brand new port was to be built on georgia's black sea coast with its overall cost estimated at nine billion dollars saakashvili 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 squandered saakashvili is no go to court on this so. they call it part of the new development project. say they play he made. huge mistakes he pried. the matter was the idea of ok it's. important for america power to.