vereker chief diplomats might with a wall of criticism from the opposition juries visit in egypt facing accusations that the u.s. is siding too much with islam is prunes. u.s. soldier bradley manning pleads guilty to leaking secret data to wiki leaks but the prosecution is ready to jail him for life for what they say was aiding the enemy. and it was by benedict pope becomes the first catholic leader to put in six hundred years we've gone to church why child abuse and corruption scam. i am. i am. a low this is the weekly on r.t. around but the big stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen and first egypt has given the visiting u.s. secretary of state a fiery reception with a show of public anger against american support for the muslim brotherhood the

opposition accuses the ruling is amiss of stifling democracy and sees the u.s. role as unwelcome interference in their country's affairs is artie's bell true. there was a lot of anger from the people here in egypt but we saw with protests outside the foreign ministry and people actually burning pictures of john kerry saying that he was supporting the muslim brotherhood and u.s. interests here in egypt on a full political level opposition leaders including hamdeen sabbahi mohamed el baradei failed to attend the meeting on saturday yesterday six of the eleven opposition figures used to attend the sit by himself who of course is part of the national salvation front the leading opposition coalition here he said that he wouldn't open dialogue with john kerry as the u.s. continues to pursue their interests here and the interest here at a domestic level. for his part apparently did meet with john kerry we're not sure

what was actually discussed. today talked to him on the phone clearly a feeling of anger towards the u.s. secretary of state who was calling for political consensus which many people interpret as a backing the muslim brotherhood policies here that has historically been a lot of anger towards the u.s. since the revolution people saw supporting hosting back to form and to dictators switching their leases to their most in brotherhood and of course pushing forward this very unpopular four point eight billion dollar i.m.f. loan which will see subsidy cuts and tax hikes affecting the poorest of society and if william and jew political analyst also. was told out to the washington starting to realize that maybe supporting the wrong side in egypt. i think there's a double faced policy in washington the backing of the muslim brotherhood goes back to the cia's role in egypt back in but i nine hundred fifty s. when the world saw the muslim brotherhood as

a potentially useful tool to put in their bag of organizations that they manipulate around the world i think some people around president obama have the delusion that they could control what's basically a political islamic fascist movement so it's not a movement for democracy and any of the imagination at this point morsi is in a life and death struggle because the popular support is not there for this who and washington is beginning to get a little bit wobbly on its support for morsi for that reason they're beginning to rethink i think that's one of the reasons for the change between hillary clinton and john kerry to bring in a new cast of people and see what what kind of options there are in egypt just for italy's paralyzed post vote stalemate just what it needs a reliable government more than ever. the dog should be taken out be paid for

under the current economics of the italian system well we've got some projections on where the coalition could lead the already struggling euro zone's coming up shortly and the sequester kicks in taking a chain saw the america's economy with eighty five billion dollars in potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs to be cut thanks to republican democrat. but next after more than a thousand days of waiting u.s. soldier bradley manning got to tell the world why he exposed classified military data to wiki leaks on thursday he confessed to some of the lesser charges against him which carry a twenty eight jail sentence but prosecutors are plowing on nonetheless with the conviction of aiding the enemy when a port nine hour manning's reasons for risking everything to go public. guilty but not sorry more than one thousand days after his arrest u.s. army private bradley manning admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history private first class bradley manning has pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty

two charges against him private bradley manning minutes he gave thousands of secret document to the wiki leaks website manning gave his first detailed explanation of why he did it manning said he uploaded troves of u.s. secrets to the we see leaks website because quote americans have a right to know the true cost of war he is the purest form with he had the very sophisticated now a fifth of why he had to do it as a duty to spread americans to expose what their government was doing in the name which within the home around the world so all credit to him he. was the former intelligence analyst said he attempted to contact traditional media outlets like the washington post the new york times and politico but failed to get through to them later deciding to pass the documents on to wiki leaks manning said he engaged in a prolonged internet conversation with the wiki leaks member called ox who he assumes was julian a songe i think it's very clear that the risks of street government secrecy are

much graver and have already done much more serious damage to the united states and god knows other countries and the risks wrought by whistleblowers and leaks like this one manning pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge which washington is determined to proof the u.s. government is reportedly planning to call a key witness to testify that osama bin laden actively sought to access material manning passed along to wiki leaks some reports suggest the unknown individual could reportedly be one of the navy seals involved in the about about raid that killed bin laden the fear here i think is that you would be sensationalizing the proceedings and it would it would make it nearly impossible for manning to have. a fair trial in a just because we now be talking about terrorism terrorism and terrorism will get away from the fact that he is charged with the offense of releasing the information and they don't have to show that terrorists received it this will continue the

obama administration has ushered in this era of pursuing whistleblowers and making certain that they are prosecuted and they go after them zealously in a manner that they do not go after other individuals that's been the thing i think is the most particularly striking is you can have private contractors who engage in weapons smuggling like like the blackwater executives or you can have bankers that engage in financial fraud and they are pursued as jealously as whistle blowers following his arrest in may two thousand and ten manning was kept in solitary confinement at a military jail in kuwait then at a marine prison in quantico virginia for the first ten months of his detention the former army analyst spent twenty three hours a day in a six by eight foot windowless cell and was forced to sleep naked without bed sheets treatment that hundreds of legal scholars including president barack obama's

former harvard professor claims was cruel and inhumane punishment that may have undermined manning's psychological stability i think he was treated very horrendously and they were very they were very much trying to break him and subject him to horrors and to make it clear to intimidate people around the world who would do the kind of heroic things that bradley manning did to try and it through them from doing that man himself said he believed the move would only embarrass but not damage the u.s. and eventually kick start a public debate the result the u.s. was shamed in front page headlines around the world a nervous superpower launched a witch hunt against whistleblowers and wiki leaks became a household name the cost i own private may spend between twenty years and a lifetime behind bars for an important i.r.t. new york. italy is locked in limbo a week after parliamentary elections failed to produce

a clear winner parties across the political spectrum so far refusing any talk of coalitions to arguably holding the balance of power there was former comedian fair pay grillo an e suggesting that italy may leave the euro and return to the lira and that's raised eyebrows across europe which is cautiously watching how this deadlock is going to be resolved grillo splay singh however is still behind the democrats and the coalition led by disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi investment advisor patrick young told us it leaves eurozone partners have good reason to worry the dots a veto can't be paid for under the current economics of the italian system of course we've heard a number of politicians who spent the whole of the last fifty or sixty years in frankly all of western europe telling people that government would ultimately be the answer to all of their problems that era is over we're looking at an era of smaller government smaller debt and actually a great deal more powerful isn't relevant the government activity it really is

running into an incredible brick wall and the european union with it if the child cannot keep sustaining the debt they already have then they have fundamental problems and unfortunately when the coalition that's essentially a coalition from hale looking at the negotiations that are not being put together by the president it's going to be very difficult for italy to sustain itself in the euro zone and if it really is not going to be all that reliable member of the euro zone then there probably is not going to be a euro zone catholic church made history this last week has been to the sixteenth officially resign from the pope wasn't under six hundred years and is the church remains leaderless internal divisions and the damage reputation mean that many are losing faith parties are and explains. it's not just about selecting a new bishop of rome some say but the very future of the catholic church the catholic church is undergoing a very important tries this it is a crisis at two levels there's a government tries this and it is

a crisis of the believers there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals of but the leeks far from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight disillusionment and frustration with the church once and a lot of the i distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been drawn especially after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church and i realize that it doesn't represent my spirituality benedict the sixteenth may have been the first pope with a twitter account but many argue this measure alone was not strong enough in appealing to the masses know this is the age of transparency the age of the people the churches should be properly. they'd be. considered sacred she one of. the great assets everybody now you see today will be to be. the problem with the media they're really working on the system he went to change many things about the

church for people the gabrielli of this inability to face up to and much less to punish those who may be responsible for tainting the image of the church is the deciding factor in abandoning catholicism. and there's another scandal with a girl who disappeared in the vatican twenty years ago and they say the man found her remains the italian police are leading the investigation but instead of helping them with vatican is obstructing the investigation that it's likely they knew about this and stayed silent and on top of all those cases of pedophilia that this is just discussed on the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse put a feely. accusations allegedly scale corruption and possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has been having a field day with the scandals the vatican either stayed silent or rebuffed. but

those things may be looking rather grim for the seat of st peter's at a first glance there's still a chance the catholic church can make a comeback. with the church would be. through but there. could be. but in spite of that. relations have left me wondering if it has been the world is rapidly changing and that the catholic church has failed to keep pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs. in the two thousand year long history but there is opinion that perhaps taking on pleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and feeling that people bring. in the tradition better left in the past in rome. just ahead the status budge for israel that could have deadly consequences america's pro israel will be a smooth washington. friendship the midnight if there's a strike on

a run. for the both countries leaving. how does the u.s. looks to tighten the screws on. what's really pressure coming from capitol hill just a couple stories right after this break. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people. with. over sixty two percent and. this is a problem. it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good pun.

israel could become the first of a country to be formally designated as the united states' major strategic ally the ambitious goals of parley on the agenda of the annual american israeli public affairs committee gathering this kicking off in washington. if the plan becomes legislation it could have blogs the us to supporters were diplomatically and

militarily if it strikes iran it could also exempt israel from any reduction in foreign aid that might result from budget cuts yet surprisingly the conflict with the palestinians is not among the topics which america's most powerful pro israel in nobody's going to be tackling what's more neither of the country's leaders will be attending either and that's prompting speculation the group's no longer as powerful as it used to. there is a lot of believe the. israel lobby is losing the clout. they have had a series of reversals pushing the reelection of obama was a reversal where the israeli go clearly need clearly give me one that was elected to a back room with their candidate for secretary of state with susan rice she was our john kerry came in. here so that was her second defeat and then we just had the spectacular defeat and the nomination confirmation of it. except to these just.

suffered a number of the worst and one here losing property you'll hear their agenda is getting more stream and more radical these two things are they used to be used to be very careful to try and project a bipartisan image of public democrats but you recently. advocate breaking bad a lot of democrats don't want to be so for example they are pushing legislation to have the congress explicitly endorse in this really attack well many democrats don't want to have anything to do with that that's a contradiction to the obama administration's policy. where can this friendship leave the apac congress this sunday on the. multi-billion dollar cuts have kicked in in the united states of the white house failed to find common ground with the republicans on how to cut america's massive debt the measures like the cost hundreds of thousands of jobs but even as the first

snips of may the blame graeme's growing with both camps desperate to offload responsibility economist richard wolfe told me the american people should prepare for the worst and thinks publicans 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 oppress the economy 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. at lunch making news right now this hour in pakistan first there are bombs going off in a mosque in corrupt she has killed at least twenty eight people in india around fifty more and under the shiite area of the city as worshippers left the evening prayers that would have me to be behind the attack. britain's queen elizabeth is an admitted to hospital in central london after developing gastro to rightists it's the first time in ten years the monarchs had to be hospitalized working in palaces all official engagements including a planned two day visit to rome next week will be postponed or canceled the queen has no eighty six last to pull out of an official ceremony in october because of a bad back. a mass political rally has brought part of both guerrier to

a standstill tens of thousands turned out in wagner accusing monopoly energy firms of hiking fuel prices way out of the reach of households as well as anger at the crippled political system which saw the entire government resigned last month in the faces of increasingly angry public. fresh attempt to solve the impasse over iran's nuclear program earlier this week failed to produce any breakthrough six world powers offered to relax some sanctions have to round scale back at you rarely even richmond but iran which insists atomic ambitions are purely peaceful refused to deal with so blower former us political advisor gwyneth todd thinks the risk of a nuclear iran has been blow of proportion the iranian civilization has an hour and five thousand years certainly longer than most questions i say sions or any western civilizations and they're not societal and they know that's where they simply are weapons they would be obliterated washington is being pushed in the west

and israel for a long time to effect regime change in iran. and the nuclear program as an excuse to put pressure on iran to try to cause regime change but i'm not saying that a nuclear armed iran would be a good thing and if they aren't any country it's not a good thing but the rationale behind pressure on iran in my opinion comes directly from israel else desire for regime change in iran and why the united states government to make that happen. so clearly this is a hefty hardware it's a polish gold lovers record breaking revolver the largest ever apparently fully working pistol of its car and we got video of that that she and other stories on our you tube channel moscow's make of money the russian capital's government really it is a part of the new also the world not me though we tell you what they're splashing the cash out on our t.v.

dot com our website. indeed the rate that wages are falling in britain it's emerged is one of the fastest in europe surpassed only by three other states but while the government seems on with austerity the opposition's warning the time is short for the u.k. and battled middle class there are two sort of first reports it has all but run out already. for a large part of her life liz hoggard has been tapping away at building a life for herself as a freelance journalist she's been part of britain's middle class clearing credit cards pay their mortgages on time and they thrived during being but then came the bust and with the decline of opportunities that were for so long a middle class perk i didn't get a contract we knew because budgets were being cut and so all those little things you have in place you always live slightly on credit you know you go into interest in anticipation get paid quite soon that got much to low incomes coupled with high

living costs stoking fears of a shrinking middle in britain is backed up in a report by the resolution foundation think tank it looked into what the future holds the ten million adults in the low to middle income households forecast another decade of hardship well unfortunately it's a bit of a grim prospect prices have risen faster than earning so quite some time now and what that means is that people. simmer about perhaps a little more but they can't buy as much with it a stark example of this is housing a couple of decades ago you've had to save for a couple of years maybe three or four years to get a deposit on a house if you're a low to middle income first time buyer at the moment you're looking at about twenty two years so middle class trimmings like foreign holidays meals out and home improvements are on hold for the time being as liz has found out she's having to

sell off possessions to pay for essential is like dental treatment there's a few packing up the quotes. so it's quite emotional at times and you have a rush of memory and then you think of them for ten years and probably if there's something really important i can find online has revolutionized it but i also think . these books are. my freshman to new ways really inching exhibition catalogues that i bought back in for not very much money just just a normal price and then of course they've become rare as the years go by so in some ways my stocks and shares been sitting on my shelves which i hadn't known about when you look online and i was something that was confronted so there is a sense of well at least i can pay for my newspaper also treating that. you know you have to not be in tough economic times it can be hard to keep up the parents

says it's why seems like the one run by this hearing is that approving so popular you bring along a designer clothes the clinic's things at the credit which could be in the store. but it was a bit of a for the structure where the first person to actually combine the dress exchange element with the charity. and introducing the exchange voucher system rather than buying stock in. that's the kind of give and take on them as more and more families look for ways to make their money go further the government's being warned that without shared growth britain risks becoming a country of two halves the rich getting richer and the middle classes increasingly losing out meanwhile lives in a generation like a facing up to the reality that the britain's middle class is the next chapter is looking pretty bleak. r.t.

london. after the break we look at why half of all the infections in the united states occur in just thirty percent of the population. there's an old urban legend that says that the us are you stopped using search your 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 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.