egyptian opposition condemns what it calls blatant u.s. interference in the country's affairs as a secretary of state heads to cairo for talks regional tension that's putting the squeeze on america's israel. army private bradley manning's decision to confess he intentionally leaked classified material supporters of the prosecution to prove the revelations helped terrorists. and massive austerity hits the u.s. as president obama is forced to order eighty five billion dollars of budget cuts after lawmakers failed to agree on alternative. live from our studios here in moscow this is kerry. the opposition in egypt

has criticized washington for allegedly meddling in the country's affairs it comes ahead of a trip to cairo by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry. has more on the diplomats intentions. he says that the purpose of his visit is essentially to discuss regional and international issues have a wide spectrum of egyptian leadership that is refusing to meet with him the criticism is coming from liberal and secular leaders and they accuse kerry and the united states of siding with the muslim brotherhood and they accuse its leader mohamed morsi of the same should be stepping into the same role as the ousted dictator hosni mubarak now it is true that the united states has maintained close ties with morsi but the criticism is that he is failing to implement reforms and at the same time he is turning the country into a more religiously conservative ruling system at least to opposition figures have refused invitations from kerry to sit down and hold talks with him and this follows

this week a call by the united states for the main opposition group and that is known as the national salvation front to reverse its decision to boycott parliamentary elections that are due to begin next month and yesterday kerry was in ankara telling the turks that they need to improve their relationship with israel the turkish prime minister recently made the comment that zionism was a crime against humanity and response to the kerry said that the comments were objects in a bowl those comments could indeed frustrate kerry's attempts to try and create an improvement in a strange the israeli turkish relations that have hit an all time low what we essentially see through kerry's visit is an attempt by the united states to try and appease countries in the region israel to essentially insure tel aviv security but the problem really is that the positions of both israel and the united states in this region are at an all time low they are under threat and in most small part due

to the actions of washington and tel aviv themselves the situation in syria has only made things worse you have the rise of islamic extremism across the region following the arab spring and this is something that the united states directly supported at the same time what we're really seeing is and washington is having to deal with problems that it created and this is essentially the core or at least part of the core of kerry's first visit to this region after taking office. well with israel coming under increasing pressure from its neighbors some experts believe the u.s. is prepared to ensure security by any means we have not seen a major rewrite situation in the american city in light years ring. transition in egypt in particular it's really still the same whole series of them for now the body is used to protect american interests is really the army

rather than the presidential palace it's the army that continues to get a great deal of american funds and it's through the closed door that i think americans hope tuning in many of the same policies that maintained under or so the way that you seem to be staging it suggests a continuation of the same american policy where israel comes first and israel's arab neighbors are really cool. use only to try to preserve israel's security when it dies supporters of whistle bradley manning have hailed him a hero after his decision to admit in court to purposely passing scores of u.s. military diplomatic files to wiki leaks the army private claims he acted with good intentions attempting to show the public the ugliest side of war when manning however denies charges of aiding the enemy for which he could be handed a life sentence to america's blake 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 took 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 or correspondents marina point nine husband closely watching bradley manning's case since his detention two and a half years ago she says the 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 on

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 he is minos apologies for his behavior for his actions when bradley manning statement contains some powerful comments which are being picked up by many media outlets around the world so let's focus a little on some of what he had to say here we go for me it was like a child torturing an ant with a magnifying glass that's how he described the infamous video from iraq and literally showing civilians and even children attacked by an american helicopter crew he says he was sickened by the blood lust running also revealing such information to the american public would spark debate on the u.s. military and foreign policy in general you also says he was trying to push society to reconsider counterterrorism operations which he believes misuse individuals to

recklessly and he said we were obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists and that's how he described american troops missions abroad. well manning has done a great service to those who struggle to rule the truth behind the u.s. helicopter attacks in iraq that's according to a former m i five agent unemotional herself a former whistleblower for years the families of the victims by still mostly journalists and traumatized iraqi families pushed the pentagon to find out what had happened in the last attack and attempt to live to see it saying that there was no video taken outside they didn't know what had happened so by exposing this bradley manning gave a close case he says are said to be traumatized families that's been lied to the city by pentagon i think it's also interesting one other aspect around this is that he tried to get information with 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 the promotion who posted that if this was if they were going to politicization it would need to be their criticism level i use the 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 he went weekly and i think that shows very clearly 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. disturbing pictures there while human rights activists praise manning prosecutors are going all out to prove that benefited from access to the leaked data let's have a look at the r t v dot com online poll today where you can have your say of course every other exults so far almost half of voters think he's a scapegoat in the government's fight against. thirty five percent at the top see him as a martyr to the cause of free speech slightly up this out nine percent think he's just a naive idealist let alone that that seven percent agree with the prosecutors that

he's guilty of high treason you can head to r.t. dot com and tell us what you think. coming up later in the program economic migration britons a brain drain continues to have young professionals leaving the country despite the government plans to reform tax rates. welcoming the google play a little music. sit back and enjoy the ride as astronauts on board the international space station team up with a well known musicians back on earth to take you on a musical odyssey. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought.

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the 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. blame the republicans for refusing to prevent what he

called spending cuts after they refused to allow the democrats to close tax loopholes used by the rich and sequester puts hundreds of thousands of jobs on the line and the impact on the u.s. economy could slow financial recovery across the globe economist and author richard wolfe says the people. paying for the crisis. 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 a common they lose people jobs they make people cut back in their spending with less jobs and less bending 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 britain is continuing to news young professionals to countries with a better economic outlook that's despite government plans to cut the top rate of income tax in april when 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 nazis and reform has the story now. jesse 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 chiropractic feet treats dozens of high end london kind suffering from stress every week britain's high rate of taxi 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 get a lifestyle basically they i know from my my point of view 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 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 say oh yeah i straight is like 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 rate of income 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 term. 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 that you are 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 that acts as a counterbalance although exactly how much is also being debated the reality is in there there are in 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 is leasing it's homegrown 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 our 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 the sides don't see eye to eye on a host of subjects ranging from syria to nuclear arms recent reports suggest moscow and washington are working on giving each other guarantees could break the ice on the controversial issue of missile defense both leaders also instructed their diplomats to push harder to advance a political transition in the ongoing syrian conflict friday moscow criticized western and arab states plans to send aid to the rebels saying it would only

strengthen the opposition in airing to overthrow the government. a second look now at some other news dominating the global headlines this hour the 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 showed that the bruises found on maxime his means body were self-inflicted injuries a cause suspicion among russian officials leading them to believe that the boy had been abused investigation is still ongoing however and charges may still be filed against the. hundreds of activists in two ists have stalled the demolition project on the longest remaining section of the berlin wall property developers have permission to tear it down and build a luxury apartment block the police were forced to hold the demolition of the twenty three metre long segment after the standoff multiple works of iconic street art will be lost if the construction goes ahead. the american

food program that helps those on low incomes is reportedly being abused by some who don't need financial aid and artie's new york resident laurie half an ist going to find out what taxpayers think about the way their 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 because 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 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 right 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 and everybody who's ever using everything so it doesn't bother you that the numbers are increasing. no 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 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 it's good to be american because you can depend on the government so i mean i guess society is kind of you know hinting at that 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 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 their hearts but it's a change that music well that's why astronauts working on the international space station have collaborated with musicians back on earth to produce a song like they were other takes you on a 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 the band 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. there are. here cathy coleman plays the i assess his first duet with one of the music idols

ian anderson band jethro tull two hundred year old irish and also attend and then and then once you get up there you want to share this as with most things that 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 that they had to relax the strings and i did foam rubber to prevent vibration i use it is all about sharing as chris hadfield found out the first time that 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 on finding out his return to earth was delayed by two months. that those troops stationed.

there are going to do. just got a call on the phone. to say we're going to call. from cool pop the fleet duets of the cosmic blues they've got it all here on the international sun station and i'm tom button for aussie your host on the orbits our stay tuned planet earth. to. get back soon. next hitting hard on the stories which the mainstream networks ignore it's not the mountains breaking the silence.

there's an old urban legend that says that the us are you stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot at people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women yeah law enforcement targets offers

a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the unborn and innocent children and you know it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but that's just my opinion.