headlines tonight military whistleblower bradley manning says he wanted americans to know the true cost of the war as he faces two decades behind bars for the biggest ever leak of u.s. state secret. ballot bruising for britain's prime minister voters kicked his conservatives in a third place in a key election by a surging anti e.u. . key u.s. policymakers give up trying to avert a debt crisis leaving americans staring at eighty five billion dollars budget cuts for the ramifications be felt beyond the united states. there are a good evening to you this is r t it's kevin owen here tonight levon pm now moscow

time first the u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning could get twenty years in prison for it described 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 that carries a life sentence america's andrew blake was in the courtroom. there's been over one thousand days of detainment since he was first picked up in may two thousand and ten and charged with releasing all this material and since then he's had to undergo so much just completely agree just treatment nonetheless yesterday there he was is a small man only five foot two you know of one hundred and some odd pounds sitting very calm very collectively very cool right in front of the judge and read a thirty five page statement pretty much owning up to every single fact that the government has accused him of for the last three years and it was people expected

him to go ahead and plead guilty but the way in which he actually honored what he did himself in the way that he actually still to this day is ok with with releasing information and is aware of the significance i think really shows this was someone who had committed to doing something and was aware aware of the repercussions and is ok with that in the press room there was a couple dozen of us gathered yesterday just after around noon local time when p.f.c. manning finished reading his thirty five page statement he turned his microphone off down testifying and a handful of members of the press gallery actually journalists began applauding it was something that people had waited for a long time to give him and the only other time we've ever heard p.f.c. manning speak at length is when he spent hours discussing the treatment that he endured in a military brig in quantico something that the united nations special rabbit or on torture completely completely condemned so i guess today though here he was actually speaking speaking very truthfully and with power about what he did and why

he did it and i think that resonated with a lot of people it became something not just a trial about someone who is convicted of the of spot accused of spying and subjected to torture but the trial of someone who was actually aware that things needed to change and he thought he might be able to actually do that by blowing the whistle. on his report closely following bradley manning's since his arrest thoughts are turning to whether the harsh conditions of use to turn should move driven him to plead guilty it sure has been a rough ride since bradley manning was arrested in may two thousand and ten for the first ten months of his incarceration the former army intelligence analyst was held in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day in a six foot cell windowless cell forced to sleep naked without bed sheets and kept on suicide watch during that time hundreds of scholars experts human rights advocates as well were signing petitions and letters to have him released from what

was dubbed draconian conditions essentially called torture many critics would argue that manning was essentially forced into pleading guilty ten charges because of the conditions he has been held in by the u.s. government but at the end of the day when manning stood up and owned up to what he did he still made no apologies for it and some of the comments he said was that he wanted to his intention was to start a public to paint within the u.s. about america's foreign policy how u.s. was behaving that was his intention are releasing classified information he said he believed the u.s. reputation would not be damaged by the u.s. but he said in essence be embarrassed he also believed that americans had the right to know true cost of war he went on and on and made lots of comments as you mentioned thirty five page statement he read but at the end of the day he did

explain what he did why he did it and from. read about his manos apologies for his behavior for his actions. well bradley manning's police statement contains some pretty powerful words which have been picked up by many around the world here are some striking extracts from what he's had to say let's bring him up on the screen surely we would have done if it hadn't gone there we go here we come well there we go let's talk about the first from first of all. we've heard just seen journalists and children. he commented on the infamous video from iraq we've just seen as a said showing journalists and children attacked by american helicopter crew he said he was sickened by their blood lust and said they're acting like children torturing ants he went on to say as well that he believes that revealing all this to the american public could spark debate on the us military and foreign policy and generally said he was trying to push society to reconsider counterterrorism

operations which neglect the human aspect so he described the actions of the military said we're obsessed with capturing and killing human targets or listen ignoring goals missions will someone who knows what it's like to take on a government by blowing the whistle on wrongdoing as former m i five agent only masha she says manning has done the people a great service at least for those who struggle to reveal the truth behind u.s. helicopter attacks in iraq. for years the families of the victims both the more it was journalists and the traumatized iraqi families pushed the pentagon to find out what had happened in that attack and the pentagon lied for years saying that there was no video they couldn't answer they didn't know what has happened so by exposing this bradley manning again close peace gave our answers to these traumatized families that have been lied to repeatedly by the pentagon i think it's also interesting one other aspect around this is that he tried to give 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 it would need to be that it is a senior level i.e. suppressed so what we're seeing is the old model did not respond to this amazingly brave push towards transparency to inform the american people what is done in the name so he went nearly the wrong place it is a publisher of sensitive information and i publishing such sensitive information it allows the citizens of the globe to realize what is done by governments and to hold their governments to account and to try and push for justice just as the bout 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 in russia while the right side of his proclaimed bradley manning a hero prosecutor is going all out of course to prove that al qaeda benefited from access to the league data what do you think about it all we're running a poll of r.t. dot com this is what it says where i ask. who you think bradley manning is what his

motives were this is very telling us half of you still fifty percent think he's a scapegoat of the war games was a blow as thirty five percent of you see him as a martyr to the cause of free speech like the up with. eight percent think that he's just a naive idealists and seven percent as well agree with prosecutors that you think he's guilty of high treason had to r.t. dot com tell us what you think if you haven't done so already played. britain's voters adult prime minister david cameron

a serious blows governing coalition conservative party has been shunted back to a poor third in a key by election you can depend his party surged into second place meantime while the beleaguered liberal democrats held on to the say despite a becoming vacant because one of the former cabinet ministers had to quit of a driving offense campbell as for ukip it's the third time they've come second in a by election the main parties dismiss it as a protest vote but analysts say some quitting the e.u. immigration as some genuine traction with voters. says you keeps increasing popularity means they'll soon be able to influence mainstream politics i think there's 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 was 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 anything i think if you keep gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting. well it was even worse news for the party that is supposedly leading nationally right now labor came a disappointing fourth one of its m.p.'s jeremy corbyn is concerned that you keep gaining statement that prime minister cameron may play in their hands on key issues like immigration ukip doesn't actually offer very many answers to anybody except it's sort of general narrative of them to europe and to foreign and. anti every other party and i think one should be quite cautious about ukip and what it offers and what it could achieve concerned however the way in which you can't run

its campaigns and the kind of appeal that ukip has which is a very narrow very xenophobic what david cameron is toying with is a very right wing alternative of playing into u.k.'s hands by stopping all internal european migration into britain because primary immigration is actually quite small this used to be a strong family unit as much as anything else and there is of course a free movement of workers anywhere within the twenty seven member states what ukip and david cameron should think about for a minute if we're going to start preventing people moving to britain as part of european migration the most going to happen if other european countries decide to say that all those hundreds of thousands if not millions of british people living all over europe are going to be forced to go home this is really a very bad step. so i had for you stand by america the cuts are coming the decision

makers on capitol hill have hailed for how to stave off the eighty five billion dollars of cuts which will start in a few hours now what does that mean for americans of the rest of us will be fun and actually. us prosecutors don't have to share files with. tradition for the internet.

download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from. your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anywhere. america is soaring at eighty five billion dollars with a cut in a few hours time of the politicians on both sides failed to breakthrough in last ditch talks the sequester as it's know will mean they go duction military in domestic spending if you can explain why this could prove

a worldwide. 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 internet and sphere of crisis they can solve something so they manufactured the crisis not the first time by the way they're actually getting into the habit of doing that the previous one was the fiscal cliff two months ago now it's the sequester let's see who may soon pay for washington's self scaring tactics nationwide seven hundred fifty thousand jobs are on the line the thing about automatic cuts is that agencies 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 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 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. hello 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 of erica's deficit problem is not it is very real the country is running a huge deficit washington keeps spending and borrowing but fails to balance the budget and economists say that could have serious long term effects on the global economy in washington i'm going to check out of the whole the president obama said

the u.s. could get through the deep budget cuts but admitted life's going to get tougher economist richard wolfe told me the american people should prepare for the worst. republicans and democrats alike are committed to an austerity policy as we do in see it in europe their only disagreement is exactly who gets cut whose axes get raised and i'm very pessimistic as are most observers in washington that we are about to do what britain italy greece have done with the same dire consequences looming in our future if you cut government spending as we're about to do if you raise taxes on average people which we did on january first with the rise in the payroll tax those are a double whammy two hits on our economy they depress the economy they lose people jobs they make people cut back in their spending with less jobs and less spending government tax revenues go down and that you races whatever benefit you might have

imagined what condon the government's budget the irony is the economy gets worse and the government budget gets worse until they wake up and realize that this is an inappropriate way to go at a time of economic crisis let's remember the budget deficit of the government took off in two thousand and seven and eight which is because we had a crisis if you solve the deficit without dealing with the under lying prices it will not work russia's taking over the monthlong presidency of the u.n. security council the country's envoy to the world body spoke to me and told me 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 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 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 the two rebel armed groups 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 the process was anything radically new 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. if you'd like to see the full interview with u.n. envoy vitale churkin accountability dot com also online to the now the cancer concern for japan many saw it coming now the world health organization says the fukushima nuclear disaster could see a seventy percent increase in young girls developing fire avoid complications a sad state of affairs the pictures coming up also online to the investigation into whether former french leader nicolas sarkozy was illegally bankrolled by libya's moammar gadhafi for being part of a push to ousted. talk of online matters online entrepreneur kim dotcom a step closer to being extradited to the united states from new zealand an appeals court overturned a ruling that would have allowed him and three co-defendants brought access to the

evidence against them the four are accused of massive copyright fraud through dot coms mega upload file sharing website with the extradition hearing set for august dot com says he can't be held accountable for other people using a site to illegally download songs in films it's lawyers plan to appeal the new zealand supreme court which could further perspire in the extradition hearing earlier dot com told us that r t the online freedom is completely at the mercy of government access what i have learned since i got dragged into this case is a lot about privacy abuses about the government spying on people they are 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 any 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 data go through it with the with the comb and find the things even though you think you have nothing to hide and done nothing wrong right now we are living very close to this vision of george abo 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. well news a brief tonight first to iraq the two deadly blasts of struck a crowded livestock 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 first day saw a series of explosions targeting shia 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 the civil conflict witnessed a decade ago u.s. led invasion. angry crowds of the new delhi hospital were seven year old girl

was treated after she was raped at school it's the stones that police and vehicles were demanding the suspects face justice two teachers in the security guard have been questioned over the typing the child intense protests of the sexual violence against women and girls has grown since that deadly gang rape of a student last december. south korean peace protesters have gathered in front of the u.s. embassy in seoul there demanding an end to the country's joint military exercises which started friday war games always stir deep anger in north korea which is called the drills proof of american hostility is also valid in quote miserable destruction and quote if the two countries go ahead although the threats of never been acted upon. activists and tourists oiled attempts to destroy the longest remaining section of the berlin wall property developers have permission now to tear it down and build a luxury apartment block on top but police were forced to halt the demolition of the twenty three metre long segment when protesters stormed the site to try and save what's left of the wall which has become

a focus of germany's national heritage. libya admits that it struggling to control the armed militias it says a hijacking the country the government now wants the u.n. to lift the weapons in bargo imposed there during the twenty eleven uprising that ousted mumma gadhafi to try and recruit its military the country's interim prime minister jury in the civil war has been telling r.t. why it's vital that the army does get that hardware. realistically speaking who holds power who holds guns you know so there is a state in this because to me between. the post conflict periods of the difficulties one national consensus it's not an easy thing to speciate in the country where culture was totally absent heeds time needs patience and love of this country the measure would die if you look

between all those groups if we manage to have a national do what it is that a body can express his points of view he come talk about his all rights what he wants what he thinks of libya as of the future if we can't have this national killed today not tomorrow i think he'll be able to be in a much safer hands in the future. more of what libya's former interim prime minister has to say in just over an hour's time here without you having to stay with us for that short of the next program italy's political paralysis and the repercussions for the rest of europe big stories talked about in cross talk about syria after the break.

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