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seven pm here in the russian capital ten am in washington our top story u.s. army general private i should say 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 t. is marina port 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 that the incidents involving the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks would not damage the u.s. but instead just embarrass the u.s. now the former intelligence analyst said he attempted to contact her additional u.s. media outlets first such as the washington post the new york times politico but he said he wasn't able to get through to them later on deciding to leak the classified information to wiki leaks now according to mcnamee he engaged in prolonged internet conversations with the we can leaks member called ox and he believes it was julian a songe bradley manning says that no one associated with the 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. 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. . let's now talk to someone who knows what it's like to take on a government by blowing the whistle on wrongdoing former m i five agent. whose door now joins us live and it usually is criminal activities within intelligence

agencies and pay for it with your career manning lease classified military data and may spend much of his life in prison why is what he did perceived as worse than what you did. i think it's not the perception that shifted since my whistleblowing years what has changed has been the crackdown in the u.s. government where we have a so-called democratic a democrat president barack obama who has cracked down more on whistleblowers in his time in office than all the previous american presidents combined so he's using this espionage act to terrorize whistleblowers to stop the sort of leaks and i have to say that everything i've heard from bradley manning statements has given me the impression that he is the purest form of whistleblower he had the a very sophisticated analysis of why he had to do it as a duty to his fellow americans to expose what their government was doing in their name which was illegal and causing harm around the world so all credit to him he's a modern hero one of the most shocking revelations was the so-called collateral

damage video it shows us helicopter attack of two thousand and seven which targeted civilians including children and journalists didn't actually get enough response apart from that of human rights activists well it was unfortunate because this was the big story that really thrust wiki leaks into the public consciousness and a lot of the common field who is focused very much all of the new shy around the attacks and what people seem to forget at the time was this this really this film this happened in two thousand and seven and for years the families of the victims both the reuters journalists and the traumatized iraqi families pushed the pentagon to find out what has happened in u.s. attack and then can live for years saying that there was no video they couldn't answer they didn't know what had happened so by exposing this bradley manning gave close p.c.'s answers to these twin with high stanleys that's been lied to repeatedly by the pentagon manning is accused of endangering national security as well as fellow soldiers wives even if his intentions were good as you claim they

are his actions sorely can't go completely on punish. well i think he's admitted that by by pleading guilty. certain things he does take responsibility for what he did but in terms of the bigger picture in terms of his duty to his fellow americans he stated very clearly not only in his statement the court but also when he was first in communication with the government snitch atria lamo that his motive to do this was to expose information so that the american people knew what the gulf was doing as i said this is the purest form of whistleblowing and it's a great service to the people of the planet. see that's going on and i think it's also interesting one other aspect around this is that he tried to get this information to other mainstream media outlets to begin with the washington post the new york times and the politico web site and he was dismissed and in fact in the washington post said that if this was if they were going to follow this information that would need to be vetted there's a senior level i.e. suppressed so what we're seeing is the old model did not respond to this amazingly

brave push toward transparency to inform the american people what he's done in the name so he went to wiki leaks and i think that shows very clearly the role that he plays it is a publisher of sensitive information and i publishing such sensitive information it allows these citizens of the globe to realize what is done by government and to hold their government to account and to try and push for justice just as the van the families of the dead iraqis and reuters journalists have been pushing for justice so this is an amazing service he's done to people and i really hope that he doesn't pay too high a penalty for it among the one hundred forty one witnesses expected are those who attempt to testify of our navy seal to took part in. the fight to capture and kill osama bin ladin are prosecutors now trying to pen manning as a terrorist. oh i'm sure they'll they'll call him all sorts of things but this man is a whistleblower pure and simple and he's made it very clear that what you have to do

is just give information to inform the american public and the rest of the world about what was going on it's amazing though isn't it that the the people who actually committed those war crimes in collateral murder video have never been arrested have never been charged and have been court martialed is the person who exposes war crimes who is court marshaled and this happens time and time again with whistle blows you shoot the messenger but you protect the people committing the crime by former m i five agent annie much and thank you very much for your analysis very interesting comments. well bradley manning's pleas 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's had to say so far he commented on that infamous video from a rock we were just talking about showing journalists and children attacked by an american helicopter group he said he was sickened by their blood lust and said they were acting like children torturing ants with a magnifying glass manning also 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 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 while while human rights activists proclaimed bradley manning a hero prosecutors are going all out to prove that al kind of benefited from access to the leak what do you think though let's have a look at artie's dot com poll we're asking you who is bradley manning this hour almost half of our respondents believe he is in fact a scapegoat in a war on whistleblowers thirty six percent believe see him as a martyr to the cause of free speech eight percent believe it's as simple as he's just a naive idealist and just one percent below that seven percent believe and agree

with prosecutors that he is guilty of high treason had to argy dot com and tell us what you think if you haven't done so yet. britain's 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 search since a second place while the beleaguered liberal democrats held onto the seat despite

it becoming vacant because one of their former cabinet ministers had to quit over driving on a driving offense scandal as for u.k.i.p. it's the third time they've come in second in a by election the main parties dismiss it as a protest vote spread out a list say the group sounds 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 there is a feeling i share it that we now are run by a political class of people they all go to the same schools they all go to the same oxford colleges they all take the same degrees they all marry each other sisters 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 our votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think

just just about its deepest crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything and i think if you get gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting. still to come here in our access denied a court rules that u.s. prosecutors don't share evidence files with online entrepreneur can dot com. extradition for internet piracy the full story just ahead. and another drama for a. fine flounder and trying to avert major. hours away reports for. good lumber a jury was to build a new most sophisticated. fortunately doesn't sound anything.

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on capitol hill there's still no deal in sight to avert the eighty five billion dollars worth of cuts which will kick and later on friday it's known in 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 or nature 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 a conclusion that only 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 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 and departments 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 and this will affect each and every state no except in no exception excuse me just a few examples and i don't know let's take 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. 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 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 west so 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 russia's taking over the month long

presidency of the u.n. security council the countries i'm going to the world body told r.t. is kevin knowing about moscow's plans for its time in charge. but 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 here 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 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. 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. 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 six brought new proposals to the table with active participation of russia in that process with anything radically new even though we know in kazakhstan. well. 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 un envoy vitaly churkin is on r.t. dot com now also online for you the cancer concern for japan many saw it coming now the world health organization says the focus the nuclear disaster could see a seventy percent increase in young girls developing fireworks 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 them. online entrepreneur kim dotcom is a step closer to being extradited to the united states from new zealand and the appeals court has overturned a ruling that would have allowed him and three co-defendants brought access to evidence against them before accused of massive copyright fraud through dot com mega upload files sharing website with the extradition hearing set for august dot com says he can't be held accountable for other people using his site legally download songs and films and lawyers plan to appeal to new zealand supreme court which could further postpone the extradition hearing dot com told r.t. that online freedom is completely at the mercy of government it's 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 than 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 with with the with the comb and find things even though you think you have nothing to hide and from the thing 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. more world news now 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 of 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 just send into the civil conflict witnessed a decade ago after the u.s. led invasion. angry crowds are formed outside a new delhi hospital where a seven year old girl was treated after she was raped at school if her stones of police vehicles while demanding the suspects face justice two teachers and security guard are being questioned over attacking the child intends to protest over sexual violence against women and girls has grown since the deadly gang way of the students last december. and south korean peace protesters have gathered in front of the u.s. embassy and so 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 it's also valley miserable destruction if the two countries go ahead although the threats have never been acted upon. as well as alan leaders still has the backing of most people according to a poll three of five believe what 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 is reported that he continues to meet cabinet ministers in a military hospital where he's being treated. the libya admits that it's struggling to control the are militias it says are hijacking the country the government now wants the u.n. to lift the weapons embargo imposed during the two thousand and eleven uprising that ousted moammar gadhafi to try to reequip its military the country's interim prime minister during that civil war has been telling us he why it's vital that the

army gets the hardware. realistically speaking who holds potent who holds guns you know so and so that is. this to me between the poet and an official poet of post conflict periods of the difficulty to stop national consensus it's not an easy thing to spew shit in a country where they would crush the culture it was totally absent you know heeds time needs patience and love of this country that measure would this dialup between all those. if we manage to have a national day what is it a body can express his points of view to come to his own rights what he wants what he thinks of libya's of the future if we can't have this national killed today to morrow i think he'll be able to be. in a much safer hands in the future. you

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hello and welcome across town for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the 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. 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 probably the most per year a party won a majority in the lower house but mario monti the technocrat has been leading there at their probe russel's coalition for a while did not have a very good election the senate. power brokers are all very anti euro and so it seems likely that the democrats will either have to make a deal with bet 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 sure hope they should be i mean quite frankly

you could be about to win of probably for a seat in the united kingdom in the in the parliament here and 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 stereotype that rather 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 verdict on so tightly and put it good system so i think what we just heard from london is actually it's a bit there was a way around the voters in italy have not expressed the nationalists votes in the sense that they prefer to be governed from rooms and from brussels or just have said they're political i mean twenty five to doesn't want five hundred saying they're going to lecture it 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 the elements about your sturdy. putting into question some of the you commitments 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 we're 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 figure and his coalition backs is not on membership in the e.u. it's on membership in the euro and that's significant certainly and his cap to say with a monetary union should should trouble brussels it's not the same thing you're in the europe and the e.u.

and not in the euro. and yes but i don't there's a european integration isn't right and wouldn't be good because big grillo has called for go ahead nicholas go ahead david is right on this because big grillo has called for reexamining all to treaties ok david go ahead jump in this is a revolution throw europe came 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. where you have two political parties you have the liberals or conservatives and 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 sort of 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 it's 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 little i have to question them if you want either all of this is of course that is not either or ok so the question is you

know because basically we can go to the european institutions our work in progress the change all the time so they can be improved. i don't either or i mean what the talons want basically and this is supported by all. means want to stay in europe this is a big difference between ukip and the five star movement a five star movement is a movement of the young it is it is. including five star movement voters are culturally pro european and european federalists in general. are anti capitalist to ukip much older electorate they are much more protest liz they are much more nationalistic and that you know what you're looking at are younger and they are culturally viscerally untie european so these are very different movements 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 and you can appeal very much to 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 see in the u.k. they don't want to be dictated to a bunch of school at all to call 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 different doing 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 is when you have disparate fiscal policies put the united currency some monetary policies are going to appeal to the german people some are going to feel that italian people and when you have independence and for being fit isn't to accountable to democratic forces it's really hard to dissolve those just

to resolve those disputes and 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 am 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 better than 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 your kid 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 bureaucrats in 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. 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 contained in tears if there is political deadlock in italy i mean i think that would not in italy to either that you see be or to brussels on it could halt the flow of payments that could make mario draghi less inclined to be in

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 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 it was all before the break ok well 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 you and say it's going to die tomorrow 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 into the 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 and very seriously so why do you go all 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 monitored but i would want against jumping to conclusion that this is again going to create massive contagion and threatens to viability of the region and we're going to be juggling 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. the.

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