army private bradley manning's decision to confess he intentionally leaked classified material inspire says supporters as a prosecution to prove the revelations help terrorists. fictional position condemns what it calls blatant u.s. interference in the country's affairs as secretary of state heads to cairo for talks with regional tension that's putting the squeeze on america's ally israel. strikes the u.s. as president obama is forced to order eighty five billion dollars of budget cuts often don't make has failed to agree an alternative. more twenty four hours a day this is carried. by energized supporters of bradley manning have hailed

him a hero after his decision to admit in court to purposely passing scores of u.s. military and diplomatic files to wiki leaks the army private claims he acted with good intentions attempting to show the public the ugliest side of war manning however denies charges of aiding the enemy for which he could be handed a life sentence r.t. america's was at the hearing. when p.f.c. manning finished reading his thirty five page statement he turned his microphone off he was done 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 there he was 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 a big small man only five foot two you know of one hundred some odd pounds sitting very calm very collectively very cool right in front of the judge and read it

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 to 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. correspondent marina portnoy been closely watching bradley manning's case since his detention two and a half years ago she says there's speculation over whether the harsh conditions of his pretrial detention could have contributed to him pleading guilty to some of the charges 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 by eight 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 and from what i've been told and read about his manos apologies for his behavior for his actions. well bradley manning statement contains some powerful comments which are being picked up by many media outlets around the world let's focus on just some of what he had to say now as you can see here we go for me that was like a child torturing an ant with

a magnifying glass that's how he described the infamous video from iraq allegedly showing civilians and even children attacked by an american helicopter crew he says he was sickened by their blood lust and manning also hoped that revealing such information to the american public would spark debate on the u.s. military and foreign policy in general he also says he was trying to push society to reconsider counterterrorism operations which he believes pursues individuals to recklessly we were obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists and that's how he described american troop missions abroad. running has done a great service to those who struggle to reveal the truth behind the u.s. helicopter attacks in iraq that's according to former m i five agent any major herself a former whistle burg. for years the families of the victims both the morris's 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 closure gave peace gave answers to these traumatized families that's been lied to repeatedly by the pentagon i think it's also interesting one other aspect around this is that he tried to get this nation's he other mainstream media outlets to begin with the washington post the new york times and the political left right and he was dismissed and in fact that the washington post said that if this was if they were going to politicization it would need to be their criticism and eleven i had to press so what we're seeing is the old model did not respond to this push toward transparency to inform the american people what is done in the name so you went to weekly and i think that shows very clearly this is an amazing service he's done to people. while human rights activists praised manning prosecutors are going all out to prove that al qaeda benefited from access to the leaked data let's have

a look at the r.t. dot com online poll today where you can have your say and we have it almost half of . the scapegoats in the government's fight against whistle blows thirty five percent see him as a martyr to the cause of free speech slightly up the south and nine percent think he's just a naive idealist and a little under that seven percent agree with the prosecutors that he's guilty of high treason i had to r.t. dot com and tell us what you think. of the opposition in egypt has criticised washington for allegedly meddling in the country's affairs it comes ahead of a trip to the u.s. secretary of state well to kill opposition figures have already rejected an offer to meet john kerry on saturday it was it comes amid simmering tension between islam and liberals in egypt u.s.

has stood by the ruling muslim brotherhood which the opposition accuses of inhibiting democracy and betraying the revolution will carry earlier received a lukewarm welcome in key nato ally turkey and washington in ankara disagreeing over relations with israel some experts believe the u.s. is prepared to ensure telegraph security by any means. we have not seen a major situation in the american. years during. transition . it's really still the same. will now be. used to protect american interests is really the only. presidential us army to continue so. fun. or that i think americans hope tuning and many of the same policies that they maintained under mubarak so the way that seem to be stage manage suggests

a continuation of the same american policy where israel comes first and israel's arab neighbors are really a tool. use only to try to preserve israeli security. coming up later in the program economic migration britain's brain drain continues with hordes of young professionals leaving the country despite government plans to reform tax rates plus. welcome the boy ready to play a little music. sit back and enjoy the ride as astronauts on board the international space station team up with the well known musicians back on earth to take you on in musical odyssey. u.s. president has been forced to give the green light to automatic budget cuts potentially worth eighty five billion dollars the so-called sequester is kicking in because

congress failed to agree a deal for an alternative rock obama has blamed the republicans for refusing to prevent what he called dumb spending cuts and sort of lawmakers refused to allow democrats to close tax loopholes and by the rich the sequester now puts hundreds of thousands of jobs on the line and the impact on the u.s. economy it's no financial recovery cost the globe economist and author richard wolfe says the people will ultimately end up paying for the crisis manufactured on capitol hill. republicans and democrats alike are committed to an austerity policy as we do and see it in europe there are just agreement is exactly who gets cut who's 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 major presti a common they lose people jobs they make people cut back in their spending with less jobs. unless spending government tax revenues go down and that you races whatever benefit you might have imagined would come to 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 so i had feel abusing the system. well if it.

yes. but it doesn't not really know why do you just assume that people are going to be is this them i think everybody abuses a system one way or another president speaks to the people of new york about how the food stamps have to be backfiring on taxpayers. wealthy british style some time to play with the free.

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they clearly distinguish between their home. and garden their family and think the treasure. a comeback britain is continuing to losing young professionals to countries with a more preferable economic climate that's despite a government plans to cut the top rate of income tax in april but he believes policymakers aren't doing enough to prevent scores of talented and skilled people from escaping the country in search of a potentially more profitable life parties and reform has the story. jetting off in search of a new life abroad that is what three and a half million britons have done over the last decade but it isn't just pensioners

seeking a retirement in the sun latest figures show that actually two thirds of them are professionals age twenty two to forty four and it's feared the outflow of talent is actually hurting the nation's economy clearly a lot of these people are trained professionals who are seeking to build a life elsewhere and i think that that's something policymakers should be very concerned about so what are the reasons for the exodus chiropractors feet treats dozens of high end london kind suffering from stress every week britain's high rate of tax he says makes many consider emigrating but that's only half the story the weather is a big factor in this country it's one thing to want to bet a lifestyle basically they i know from my my point of view and when i was younger in south africa for example at the weekend we could go you know maybe water skiing we could go out we could of the lifestyle and this is what they're seeing they're seeing it in places like florida or in the states they're seeing that some countries in europe that there's this sort of heat it's the lifestyle really that

these people want and the quick straw poll on the street seems to confirm what he's saying but consider emigrating i definitely yes why where they're trying their finances just a nice if it works where can i sell yeah i studied late would you ever consider emigrating yeah why. just work. with lots of lovely countries in the world and it would be nice to experience living in one of them so britain has a lot to compete with it can't change the weather but from next month the top right of being can tax will come down to forty five p. in the pound well there are no she's government needs to do more at the moment and understandably government and commentators are entirely focused on austerity but we need to send a signal about the future the twenty five year olds the thirty year olds are thinking long to. not in the immediate future and we need to try and explain to them that it's this country is the place to be that you will be able to keep more of your income. and that there is the place for aspiration and for growth it's here

in britain despite the outflow of talent net migration into ek is still around two hundred thousand people a year and independent think tank migration what she claims than x. is a counterbalance although exactly how much is also being debated the reality is in there there are a number of talented people coming to the country but there's also as we well know there's a large migration from issues of asylum where they've come from very troubled and and difficult backgrounds through to economic migration where people are just trying to improve their lives that are not necessary replacing the level of skill that we're using so it's not a straight match for match whatever the true picture it is clear easily using its home grown talent on average at a rate of four hundred people per day flying away from britain's economic troubles on a one way ticket is becoming an increasingly popular option andrew farmer. london

. the presidents of russia and the u.s. have jointly pledged to avoid negative steps that could harm bilateral relations putin and barack obama discussed the issues in a phone conversation initiated by washington and sides don't see eye to eye on a host of issues and from syria to move their arms research reports suggest moscow and washington are working on giving each other guarantees that could break the ice on a controversial issue of missile defense i think there's also instructed their top diplomats to push harder advance of peaceful resolution of the syrian crisis on friday moscow criticized western and arab states that send aid to the rebels saying only strengthen the opposition in marrying to overthrow the government. so you look now at some other news from around the world the south district attorney in texas has ruled that the death of a three year old russian boy while in the care of his adoptive american family was

an accident the statement is based on autopsy results which show that the bruises found on maxime consumes body was self-inflicted injuries caused suspicion among russian officials leading them to believe that the boy been abused mr geisha is still ongoing and charges may still be filed against the parents. hundreds of activists and tourists have stalled the demolition project in the longest remaining section of the early all property developers have permission to tear it down and build a luxury apartment block the police were forced to halt the demolition of the twenty three metre long segment after the standoff on multiple works of iconic street art would be lost if the construction goes ahead. and the american food program that helps those on low incomes is reportedly being abused by some who don't need financial aid artie's new york resident or a half an ist went to find out what taxpayers think about the way that money is

spent. according to the u.s. government more than forty seven million people now use the food stamp program are americans abusing the system this week let's talk about that one of the largest consumers of food stamps is actually wal-mart as they underpay their employees so we're concerned about people getting food stamps we should probably look in the direction of companies like wal-mart et cetera refuse to pay a living wage so it's not the consumer's fault or on the food stamps the corporations who are not providing the benefits they need i think that's a large part of it says it's clear i don't know but it sounds like they or does that bother you know why not well it should probably bother me because i'm a taxpayer yeah ok but it doesn't not really no why do you just assume that people

are going to abuse the system i think everybody abuses a system one way or another so how do you abuse that oh you're trying to throw this back at me or you get everyone to take the fifth on the stock exchange views and everybody who's ever using everything so is it just this the attitude of go get your to at the expense of whomever at any cost and i look at the government now and there are other countries now taking over the resources so it doesn't bother you that the numbers are increasing. you know it just shows you that the there are more poor people that's what it shows you that poverty is increasing in this country amidst all this wealth and do you think it's the government's responsibility to take up that slack absolutely well i think it's a social situation so i think that we as taxpayers have to realize that people do need help and we need to as a country support our own people where we're putting all this one. overseas it

leaves me more here you know with the sequesters are coming and all that kind of stuff that's where the money is going just doesn't make our politicians do to get in order to feel like it's good to be american because you can depend on the government so i mean i guess society is kind of you know him but that's ok it isn't the american way to make it on your own and not depend on the government or others for you think that is true but it's a case by case basis. either way it's good to be american of course we're number one number one whether or not you think people are abusing the food stamp system the bottom line is that you're american you're buying groceries for a lot more people than just your family. intrepid explorers often need something to raise their spirits and warm the hearts

and what better to achieve that than music well that's why astronauts were on the international space station of collaborated with musicians back on earth to produce a song like no other from boston takes you on and musical space odyssey. welcome to the google i ready to play a little music indeed welcome to the international song station. bhansali. turn. by astronaut chris hadfield there with fellow canadian and singer ed robertson of the ben naked ladies and their specially composed cosmic choral duet back on earth chris told us why it's so special to him music is an important part of being human and to have the chance to play and sing and write music in that new place for humanity i think is also and says yes it's still pretty novel but

a little further examination reveals quite a back catalogue from earth's loftiest recording studio. here cathy coleman plays the i assess his first duet with one of the music idols ian anderson from the band jethro tull had a two hundred year old irish and also a tell us song and then and then once you get up there you want to share this as with most things sent up there though they can't be just ordinary instruments. to make their life a little brighter a guitar was a range for them getting it on board was a royal old hassle though they had to relax the strings and i did foam rubber to prevent vibration. music is all about sharing as chris hadfield found out the first time played in space with the crew of the russian space station mir back in

one thousand nine hundred five. and it's a great way of sharing the emotions of the space crews some of them out of this world. others more down to work such as ron garan disappointment from finding out his return to earth was delayed by two months. that those troops stationed. out of going to do. just got a call from the. city going. from cool pop to fleet duets of the cosmic blues they've got it all here on the international song station i'm tom bottom for ought to see your host on the orbits howard stay tuned planet earth i.

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a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america which i've been a ziz gotten a hold in the african-american community it's it's it's is right here and that's spreading out that way it's right in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually this fragging death among ourselves. both black men down women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts use.