one policeman is killed and hundreds injured as fierce clashes erupt in the egyptian city of port side of the authorities move those held over the alleged involvement in last year's deadly stadium riot that has become trees opposition greets america's top diplomat with hostility and accuse asians of meddling with his first visit to cairo. also the son of a u.s. soldier bradley money admits being behind the biggest leak of secret documents in american history claiming he wanted the public to know the truth the military prosecution is pushing to put the wiki leaks source behind bars for life accusing him of aiding terrorists. and is by by benedict becomes the first catholic leader to quit in six hundred years leaving behind a church mired in child abuse and corruption scandals.

the latest news and the week's top stories this is the weekly here on our c with me . and a very warm welcome to the program. hundreds have been injured and at least one policeman has been killed after fierce clashes erupted in the egyptian city of port demonstrators took to the streets after authorities chose to move prisoners jailed over their alleged role in last year's deadly riots that left over seventy dead and this comes while the u.s. secretary of state isn't kyrie president morsi for talks with president morsi. boettcher who has more. well we've having a quite dramatic reports from port sorry the coastal city this started so off to thirty nine defendants in this ports are you trying which the pilot this said what's going to happen in february of this this post are you based focal much these defendants are being moved the families are very angry about them being relieved

they gathered at the security a direct trip building and broke out between the police forces protesters because you also have violence in months or the naldo cities here in egypt this is after a young man was killed he was run over by a police vehicle the minister of interior saying it is a mistake for his father who maintains one of the twice rights groups report saying that a field hospital in the. political brief but popular current headquarters was also attacked by police with tear gas what we're really getting is chaotic and quite violent reports across the country including here in the competition as countries have broken out on the cornice between the governor perry justice and security forces were posted this is all the backdrop of the u.s. secretary state visit to egypt which was seen to be very unpopular here in egypt he spoke with the president today and said he would america with that pledge four hundred fifty million dollars to the country however this is done little to peace

the people i see roy and how his meeting yesterday protesters gathered in front of the foreign ministry and burned pictures of john kerry saying that he was here to support the mission brotherhood and push american interests and william and political analyst and author of myths lies and oil was the leaves washington is starting to realize it may be supporting the wrong side in egypt. i think there is a double face policy in washington back in the muslim brotherhood goes back to the cia's role in egypt back in nineteen fifties when he 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 he's for much of the imagination at this point morsi

is in a life and death struggle because the popular support was not there for this this coup 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 kind of options there are in egypt as for. just the one it needs effective government more than ever really remains pretty lies by a post-election stalemate. the don't you think can't be paid for out of the current economics of the trade system. very shortly it will tell you why thailand coalition calles could cause a continent sized headache for the whole eurozone also. america is bracing for some tough times automatic spending cuts will slash eighty five billion dollars of this year's budget later this hour we'll have more how partisan bickering is costing the country. that later but now we can

league source of branding mining finally to explain his actions in public after almost three years in confinement on thursday the soldier pleaded guilty to the biggest leak of classified documents in u.s. history it was a blow is facing a possible life sentence of the charges of aiding the enemy something he denies he's more in a fortnight has been following this story new york for us. 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 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 weekly leaks website because quote americans have

a right to know the true cost of war with the purest form with he had the very sophisticated now a fifth of why he had to do it as a duty. to expose what the government was doing in the name which within the home around the world so all credit to him he's a. 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 cox 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 out because i'm 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 and agent weapons smuggling right 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 would be they were very much trying to break him and subject him is orders and to make it clear to intimidate people around the world who would

do the kind of heroic things the ground the meeting did to try and the tour of them from doing that manning himself said he believed the move would only embarrass but not damage to the u.s. and eventually kick start a public debate the results 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 for young private they spend between twenty years and a lifetime behind bars very important i.r.t. new york. italy's looks to me a wake up to parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear winner passes across the political spectrum is so far refusing any talk of coalitions form a committee and beth agree lho has become an unlikely kingmaker after his party came third at his suggesting italy may leave the euro and return to the lira that

raised eyebrows across the eurozone which is cautiously watching how the deadlock will be broken now the democrats and a coalition led by disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi both called one hundred seventeen seats and investment advisor patrick young says now heroes and partners have good reason to worry the dot should veto it can't be paid for under the current economics of the italian system of course we've heard a number of politicians who've spent the whole of the last fifty or sixty years in frankly all of western europe telling people the government would ultimately be the answer to all of their problems that europe is all for we're looking at a new year of smaller government smaller debt and actually a great deal more powerful isn't rub of the government up to virtually it really is running into an incredible brick wall of the european union with that if the child cannot keep. going the debt they already have then they have fundamental problems unfortunately with our coalition that's essentially

a coalition from hayle looking at the negotiations that are noise 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. meanwhile the catholic church made history this week as benedict the sixteenth officially resigned to something a pope president done for six hundred years and as the church remains leaderless internal divisions and a damage reputation mean that many are losing faith and things are going to explain . 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 this is a government crisis 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 all about i distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been taught with special after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church 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 before the churches should be properly. they'd be. considered sacred. the great assets and everybody now you see that they will be to be. the problem of the media they're really working on the system he went to change many things about the church for people of 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. 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 here but instead of helping them with vatican is obstructing the investigation it's likely they knew about this and stayed silent and on top of all those cases of pedophilia with this is just disgusting the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse pedophile. accusations allegedly 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 all accusations 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. through but

there. could be strong we become to reform but in spite of that spirituality recent revelations have left me wondering if the holy see has been blind the world is rapidly changing and to grok why it was that the catholic church has failed to keep pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs as well as scandal in the two thousand year long history but there is opinion that perhaps taking on pleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and sealing it with a papal ring for secrecy is a tradition better left in the past in rome in a ghost r.t. . and still ahead for you this saga cementing a special relationship with potentially deadly consequences america's worries rated gapping washington i'm told by house blunt could lead to could lead to support for a strike on iran so how that opinion on that's coming up right after this short break.

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your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. it will xing the weekly on aussies great to have you with us let's move on now is roe could become the first of a country to be formally designated as the major strategic ally of the united states the ambitious goal is apparently on the annual american israeli public affairs committee gathering or a pug that has kicked off in washington and if it becomes a little war the u.s. could be obliged to support israel diplomatically and militarily if it strikes iran the move could also exempt israel from any reduction in foreign aid that might result from budget cuts the conflict with the palestinians however is no time for discussion a big gathering of america's most powerful for israeli group and

a whole snore neither of the country's leaders will be attending and that's prompting speculation that the group is no longer as consul as it used to be. there is a lot of belief that the. israel lobby is losing the clout. they have very serious reversals the election the reelection of obama was a reversal the israeli guy made it very clearly made clear they didn't want that obama to be reelected that you. then their candidate for secretary of state was susan rice she was our john kerry came in they didn't want john kerry so that was your second defeat and then just had the spectacular defeat and the nomination and confirmation of chuck able to say terry effectively is just so for a number of personal and one hand they're losing khloponin the other and their agenda is getting more stream and more radical he's too dangerous

a leader he used to be used to be very careful to try and project a bipartisan image republicans democrats but increasingly they are openly advocating a great weekend dad a lot of democrats don't want to be assertive so for example they are pushing legislation that would have the congress explicitly endorse in this really attack on iran well many democrats don't want to have anything to do with that that's a contradiction to the obama administration's policy multibillion dollar cuts have kicked in and they go after the white house failed to find common ground with the republicans on how to cut america's massive debt it's estimated this so-called sequester will cost america of a seven hundred thousand jobs but even as they've made the blame game grows with both camps desperate to offload responsibility and economist richard wolfe says the u.s. cannot cut its way out of the current 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 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 jihadist rebels have reportedly seized control of the prison in northern syria and freed hundreds of detainees fighters from the so-called al nasra front a with links to al qaeda are believed to be among those taking part in the action meanwhile the u.k. says it doesn't rule out of supplying weapons to the syrian opposition and i know this week the u.s. for the first time publicly committed itself to sending known that lethal to armed factions barfing the syrian government and clint from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says these efforts won't bring c. read closer to peace. sixty million dollars should not be sneezed at and what the americans are trying to do is basically to prop up a project that so far has failed if we look back to two thousand and eleven when hillary clinton was calling for the overthrow of a stance they expected the regime in syria to fall very quickly and that hasn't

happened however great the rebels' gains may have been the regime is still fighting back and still shows no signs of collapsing instead is the opposition which is fractured famously the syrian national council is a rag bag of different interests the opposition is breaking up and there are plenty of people within the opposition at least according to my sources in the region who are basically disappointed with the west who expected a lot more money they probably wanted to steal a lot of it but certainly they have not received all that they have been promised it'll be interesting to see how much of this sixty million dollars gets through that the ordinary syrian population is suffering very greatly from this opposition from this so-called liberation because this these paramilitary groups clearly cannot provide any basic services they are not the state. to some other news stories from around the world police and the military banned by helicopters and tongues have raided slums in rio de janeiro the operation was aimed at retaking

control of the players from drug gangs ahead of next year's world cup and the twenty sixteen olympics your thought is have labeled the raid during which not a single shot fired as a success. in the u.s. state of mississippi a baby girl born with hiv appears to have been cured of the disease the girl was given an aggressive treatment of stunned the drugs the discovery was made on her mother stopped medicating the child and the blood tests show that she was clean so the baby has been also the drugs for you now is now seemingly healthy is the second case of a person reportedly cured of the virus that causes aids. now struggling to stay afloat britain's middle class faces a bleak future with taxes and household bills are rising each year on top of this wages are falling in the u.k. at one of the fastest rates in europe are supposed to only buy three of the states

and as the government seems on with us territory the opposition is warning that time is short for the country's embattled middle class but for some as some are further reports now it has all but run out. 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 seeing credit cards pay their mortgages on time and they thrived during being but then came the bust and with as the decline of opportunities there 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 go into interest in anticipation get paid quite soon that got much tougher as low incomes coupled with high living costs stoking fears of a shrinking little 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 earnings for 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 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 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 face meant in a way it's really inching exhibition catalogues that i bought back in for not very much money just just a normal price and then of course they 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 a snob in something you cannot make times it can be hard to keep up the parents is that's why schemes like the one run by the store here in is that it's a proving 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 structure i think where the first person to actually combine the dress exchange

element with the charity element. and introducing the exchange about your 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 britain's middle class is the next chapter is looking pretty bleak. r.t. london. with more news for you in iran such minutes time and after the break we'll continue to look at why half of all h.i.v. infections in the united states occur in just sensing percent of the population.

there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of each and over sixty two percent of those species i don't mean this with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable but was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able have a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering.