i gues ations that america's siding with egypt's islam is leaders the angry opposition is refusing to meet u.s. secretary of state john kerry who's in cairo. bradley manning's partial guilty plea is not enough for u.s. prosecutors who intend to prove the wiki leaks whistleblower aided terrorists by leaking classified documents. and why britain's brightest are bailing out for better lives elsewhere we examine what's making them patched up and the damage it could cost to u.k. . live from our studios in moscow you're watching are two with me and he said now our top story this hour egypt's opposition has lashed out at washington for meddling in

the country's affairs its leaders are refusing to meet secretary of state john kerry has arrived in cairo they accuse america of siding with the ruling muslim brotherhood despite egypt's sharp political divisions paul the slayer looks at what the u.s. chief difficulty mass intentions could be. 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 essentially 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 move 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 but what we essentially see through kerry's visit is an attempt by the united states to try and appease countries in this region israel to sensually ensure television 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 and solves 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 call or at least part of the core of kerry's first visit to this region after taking office. secretary kerry's visit to egypt is not expected to herald a major shift in washington's policy towards the country but with israel under increasing pressure from its neighbors it's called the overriding concern for america is protecting its key regional ally and by any means we have not seen a major rewrite situation american policy in light years bring

a transition in egypt in particular it's really still the same whole series of head of the board though now the body within it's used to protect american interests is really the army rather than the presidential powers it's the army that continues to get a great deal of american funds and it's through the clothes or that i think americans hope tuning in many of the same policies that they maintained under mubarak so the way that used to seem to be staging it 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 israel's security the u.s. is pushing forward with a full court martial against army whistleblower bradley manning prosecutors plan to call a full witness list to prove he is guilty of a range of serious charges including aiding the enemy manning denies this admitting

only to providing secret data to wiki leaks with the aim of revealing the true cost of war hard to america's andrew blake was at the hearing. if he 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 a hundred and 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 if found guilty of aiding the enemy private manning could spend the rest of his life in prison he has already spent over a thousand days behind bars awaiting trial manning's defense team argues that his harsh detention conditions violated his constitutional rights and that the charges against him should be dropped as a result. is following the case. 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. one of the shocking items plagued by manning was the so-called collateral damage video shows the u.s. helicopter attack in two thousand and seven targeting civilians including children and journalists in court manning said you were sickened by what he called their blood loss and compared the stain with child torturing an apt former m i five agent annie mustang says the revelation did

a great disservice to the relatives of those victims. who knew the families of the victims by still mostly canada and twenty roughly harley's pushed against them to find out what was happening to pack and attempt in life he is saying there was no video they can also take what has happened so by exposing this bradley manning. closure case he says aren't fit to be told the price counties this night. and i think it went to one other aspect to our is that he tried to sleep with the other mainstream media outlets begin with the washington post the new york times and the political web site and he was dismissed and in fact proposing that if this were if they were days a political thing like it was to netflix i pray that we see the old model do not respond to this push towards transparency to inform the american people what is done in the name 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 martialed and this happens time and time again with whistle blows you shoot the messenger but you protect the people committing the crime. but no one budgeting on the budget budging on the budget i should say america's got some sort of cots ahead eighty five billion dollars worth be precise president obama signed off after politics prevailed over progress on capitol hill as we report in a few minutes also. get sued. let's tell our performance from the space station stand by for details of a musical collaboration that's truly out of this world.

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welcome back you're with our t. live from the russian capital more and more of britain's young professionals are looking to take their talents elsewhere that's despite government plans to cut the top rate of income tax next month and with the country's most economically active class dwindling in numbers there are fears that policymakers aren't doing enough to avert for their brain drain and farmer examines what's driving the young and smart to greener. 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 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 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 of a bit of a lifestyle and this is what they're seeing they're seeing it in places like florida or in the states they're saying that some countries in europe that there's this sort of heat it's the lifestyle really it's the things 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 a bit 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 although nick the bois know his 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 the u.k. is still around two hundred thousand people a year and independent think tank migration what she claims than acts as 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 is losing its 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. london

. from the haves to the have nots it's america's food aid program getting to those who really deserve it. it's good to be american because you can't depend on the government so i mean i guess society is kind of you know hitting a bad but that's ok is that the american way to make it on your own and not depend on the government or others or you think that true but it's a case by case basis where in new york where taxpayers are concerned that food stamps are going towards the greedy and not the needy. but first barack obama has been forced to give the go ahead to huge spending cuts which could save as much as eighty five billion dollars off the federal budget by october the president hopes the automatic measures could be avoid. did but both obama and congress couldn't agree on a way out after months of wrangling after the talks failed the blame game began with obama condemning the republican finally in transcendence for refusing to plug

tax loopholes for the most wealthy senate sent hundreds of thousands of american jobs are now on the line with fears that the economic impact of what's called the sequester could have global impact economist and author richard wolfe says it's the people who will ultimately pay for capitol hill's selfish squabbling. 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 would come to the government's budget the irony is the economy gets worse and the government budgets get 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. a close call for the palestinian prime minister caught up in a rocketing violence in the west bank and treated at the scene we're more on line how israel soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds furious at the building of a barrier cutting them off from their own lands. plus occupy and the

officer one of the n.y.p.d. is fine this is left red faced after prosecutors acquitted of assaulting him when video so the police account in and up to the evidence it's all available at artsy dot com. these children. they're serving a sentence just like their mother. little ones born in prison. now must be for the crimes committed by their parents. to babies on our t.v.

. world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future of covered. the presidents of russia and the u.s. are seeking ways to avoid further setbacks in relations between their countries that was the main theme of a phone conversation between vladimir putin and barack obama the leaders have pledged to seek new ways of ending the conflict in syria an issue they don't see eye to eye on both have instructed their diplomats to push harder for a political transition to the and the violence on friday moscow criticize western plans to send aid to the rebels saying it would only encourage them to seize power by force who can and obama are also willing to work closer on global security

issues including missile defense and concerns over iran and north korea's nuclear program. one issue that's driving a wedge right now is the death of a russian orphan in texas legal officials in moscow want to see all the evidence in the maksim koosman case that's after a district attorney ruled that the three year old died accidentally while in the care of his adoptive american family the final autopsy results so that the bruises on his body were self-inflicted and that a pretty heavy role disorder meant maxime was likely to harm himself russian officials suspected that the toddler had been abused separate investigations are still ongoing in both russia and the u.s. . and other world news hundreds of activists and tourists have stopped a second fall of the burger and wall a twenty three meter section of the iconic barrier is due for demolition on a site that's going to become luxury apartments but police were forced to temporarily halted destruction after

a human chain was formed in front of it. as well as vice president says alan leader chavez is undergoing chemotherapy at a hospital in caracas and is fighting cancer his statement was to counter swirling rumors in recent days that the president's health was failing java's has not made a public appearance since october venezuelan officials insist he's still in charge and meeting cabinet ministers in the military hospital where he's being treated. and now for some melodies from space astronauts on the international space station have been teaming up with musicians down on earth are just tabard found out how. 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 a kid 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 and 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 from the band jethro tull set at two hundred year old irish and also a ten and then that 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 i use it is all about sharing as chris hadfield found out the first time he 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 i'm finding out his return to earth was delayed by two months. those. are going to do. just got a call on the phone. to say we are going to. call paul to

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 our state she didn't plan it to. give back soon. the american food stamps program that helps those on low incomes is reportedly being abused by some who don't need financial aid artie's new york resident laurie heart finesse has been finding 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 said everyone to take the fifth on the stock exchange views and

everybody's ever using everything 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 well i think it's a social situation so i think that we 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 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.

i'm max max kaiser reveals more black magic on the market after a break stay tuned. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. yours who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act what's clear if i see how the government can use these trolls so basically the act as bureaucracy to drone usage it or first.