one policeman is killed and hundreds injured as fierce clashes erupt in the egyptian city of port side after authorities move those held over their alleged involvement in last year's deadly stadium riot as the country's opposition greets america's top diplomat with facility and accusations of meddling on his first visit to cairo 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 is the new true false teacher news pushing to prove that we can leave behind bars for life accusing him of aiding terrorists. and it's bye bye benedict the pope 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 on the week's top stories we're watching the weekly here on ars he was me. it's six am here in the russian capital and we'll start in egypt where hundreds have been injured and at least one policeman has been killed after fierce clashes erupted in the egyptian city of poor demonstrators took to the streets after also issues chose to move prisoners jailed over their alleged role in last year's deadly riot that left over seventy dead and this comes while the u.s. secretary of state is in cairo were talks with president morsi a move that sparked an angry outcry from the opposition true has more now from cairo for all we're covering are quite dramatic reports from port sorry the coastal city this started to after thirty nine defendants in this ports are you trying to i'm a bridge the about this said what's going to happen in february of this ports are you bracing for much these different. being moved the families

a very angry about them being relieved they gathered at the security a direct trip building and broke out between the police forces protest this because you also have violence in months sure the naldo city here in egypt this 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 how to maintain two is one of the twice rights groups report saying that a field hospital in the. political group 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 of state's 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 how would this is done little to appease 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 will end your political analyst and also have myths lie isn't oil was believes washington is starting to realize it may be supporting the wrong side in a chipped. i think there is a double face policy in washington the backing of the muslim brotherhood goes back to the cia's role in egypt back in nineteen fifties 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 of political islamic fascist movement so it's not really 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 is 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 what kind of options there are in egypt as for. just when it needs effective government more than never really remains paralyzed but post-election stand. the dog should be to can't be paid for out of the current economics of the system so shortly we'll tell you why a time in coalition calles could cause a continent sized headache for the whole euro zone. also later america is bracing for some tough times automatic spending cuts will slash eighty five billion dollars of this year's budget so later this hour we'll have more how

partisan bickering is causing the country costing the country dearly should say. we can bradley manning finally go to explain his actions in public after almost three years in confinement on thursday this soldier pleaded guilty to the biggest leak of classified documents and u.s. history the whistleblower is facing a possible life sentence of the charges of aiding the enemy something he denies. has been following the story in new york for. 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 now admits 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 troops at u.s.

secrets to the weeks and weeks 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 spread americans to expose what their government with doing in their name which with illegal uncouth home around the world so all credit to him he's a right 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 weeks 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 her. 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 news you can have private contractors who bridge a weapon 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 would be they were very much trying to break him in some

jackhammers of horrors and to make it clear to intimidate people around the world who would do the kind of heroic things that granny meeting did to try and it through 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 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's looks in limbo a week after palin mentioned actions fail to produce a clear winner parties across the political spectrum so far refusing any talk of coalitions form a comedian but the greener has become an unlikely can make a party came third at his suggesting italy may leave the euro and return to the era

that raised eyebrows across the eurozone which has cautiously watching how the deadlock over brokers the democrats and a coalition led by disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi both got a hundred and seventeen seats and investment advisor patrick young says it is eurozone partners have good reason to worry now the dots a veto can't be paid for out of 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 the government would ultimately be the answer to all of their problems that europe is all for we're looking at a new era of smaller government smaller debt and actually a great deal more powerful isn't rubber the government duck typically it really is running into an incredible brick wall and the european union with it if the child cannot keep stealing the debt they already have then they have fundamental problems

unfortunately with the 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 your resume then there probably is not going to be a euro zone. the catholic church made history this week as a bag of this extends officially resigned something a pope hasn't done for six hundred years and as the church remains leaderless internal divisions and a damaged reputation mean that many are losing faith. 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 prizes it is a crisis at two levels there's a government crisis and it is a crisis of the believers there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals of about the leaks far

from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight his illusions 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 and was eventually 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 now this is the age of transparency the age of before the churches should be properly. they'd be. considered sacred. the great assets everybody now use of a little bit to be. the problem of the media they're really working on the system he went to change 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 about it in his obstructing the investigation it's likely they knew about this and stayed silent and on top of all those cases of pedophilia was that this is just disgusting the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse pedophile. the accusations alleged large scale corruption and possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has been having a healed 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 that the catholic church has failed to keep pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs as well as in two thousand year long history but there is opinion that perhaps taking on pleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and feeling it with the people ring for secrecy is a tradition better left in the past in rome. r.t. . and still ahead for you this hour cementing a special relationship with potentially deadly consequences americas for israel scatting washington and what they have planned could lead to support for a strike on iran so how about coming up right after this.

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dot com. this is the weekly here and i'll see a let's move the same things over 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 agenda the annual american israeli public affairs commission gathering or a pack that has kicked off in washington oh she's going to shake our knees at the conference to explain what it could mean for u.s. israeli relations. the most high profile speakers are expected on monday including joe biden and benjamin netanyahu is not going to be here personally put is going to speak live via satellite so what's on the agenda first this year a practice pushing legislation that would i guess equate israel as a major city if you don't like united states of course the question many ask is it going to be israel already a major ally why do they need a special registration for that or the way some apac officials explained it is that

they want to maintain defense assistance funding averaging more than three billion dollars annually at a time when both parties or seeking ways to drastically cut spending it's like going to court and i would say by the way the sequester that. as well funding something officials are saying among other things on those legislators do something to reverse it of this major strategic ally of legislation is expected to be introduced in the house and in the senate in the coming days and separately be a park has been pushing and now welcomes the senate resolution that says america should disclose decisive strike iran's only worse would give all that supporting putting military while non-binding congressional resolutions don't directly make policy but this resolution could still build for a hawkish push against iran at a time when world powers are in made a go shooting boxes the u.s. intelligence community judges that iran has not made the political decision to create nuclear weapons and many fear that these constant constant threats of war

can actually problem them to pursue the weapons aggressively this kind of a green light from congress although non-binding about overwhelming support from the western cases for all attacks first is seen by some as a way to bypass president obama in this very serious the solution which may involve the united states into another war in the middle east president obama will not be speaking at the conference this year but he is traveling to israel at the end of the month and one of the speakers here said it's going to be a real challenge for the president to show that deep down he really understands israel and the threats that it faces and that gives an impression that the apac is not too happy about the administration seemingly trying to play down the war talk in washington i'm going to pick up. on the notion of buzz. isn't the only sign the pro israel influence in washington is waning says political analysts of all that name and from just foreign policy. there is

a lot of belief that the. israel lobby is losing a club from a high level but they have had a series of reversals bush about the election the reelection of obama was a reversal where the israeli go clearly made clear they didn't want that obama he was elected to go back to iran with us then their candidate for secretary of state with susan rice she was our john kerry came in they didn't want john kerry so that was your second defeat and then we just had the spectacular defeat and the nomination confirmation of chuck hagel the secretary of defense who has just. suffered a number of the worst in the one hand they're losing top in the other hand their agenda is getting more stream and more radical these two things are a little bit used to be used to be very careful to try and project a bipartisan image republicans democrats but increasingly openly advocating

a right wing agenda dad a lot of democrats don't want to be a citizen so for example they are pushing legislation. 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. and remember you can always log on to our website of course the new news and these years and here's some of what we have for you there right now following in the footsteps of washington canada introduces a new right protection bill after pressure from the u.s. which has already adopted controversial measures against internet piracy read more about it that online. segregation in the middle east the only democracy as israel introduces palestinians only buses on a route connecting the country with the west bank find out why on our website r.t. dot com. multi-billion dollar cuts have kicked in in the two eyes

out of the white house fails to find common ground with republicans on how to cut america's massive debt it's estimated as the so-called sequester will cost america over seven hundred thousand jobs but even as the first snips the blame game grows with both camps desperate to offload responsibility and economists are we should wolf 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 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 comment on 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. and let's check some other news stories were around the globe this hour police and military advance by helicopters in times have raided slums in rio de janeiro bracing was aimed at retaking control of the country's north or is the veliz from drug gangs ahead of next year's world cup and the twenty sixteen olympics the authorities have labels the raids during which not a single shot fired at success. in pakistan

a bomb has gone off here and mosque in karachi killing up to forty five people and injuring one hundred fifty more the blast apparently targeted a shia area of the city as washington has left evening prayers is the most recent in a series of attacks on the shia minority in the country last month rallies were staged to demands the government through security. in the u.s. state of mississippi a baby girl born with a try the appears to have been cured of the disease the girl was given an aggressive treatment the standard drugs the discovery was made of her mother stopped medicating the child and blood tests came up negative so the baby has been off drugs for years now days and how seemingly healthy is the second case of a person reportedly cured of the virus that causes aids. press freedom has become the latest victim in the gaza israel confrontation in its heat for tart exchange hamas has stopped israelis from working in the territory and

the israeli government says palestinians can no longer work for media only soil policy and now reports. november last year israel and gaza are at war and in the middle of it a gaza journalist reporting he for you to an israeli newspaper it was the last major story sunny as rami would write for the hebrew press a month later gaza's ruling hamas party banned palestinian journalists from working with israeli media accusing it of being hostile tel aviv refuses to recognize hamas and regards it as a terrorist organization and a magnet for mother i do not understand this decision unfortunately i feel that our struggle will have less meaning if we do not speak to the israeli media and make them hear our message sami feels he's on a personal crusade to help both sides better understand each other when his nine year old daughter was hit by an israeli missile it was his israeli editors who arranged for her to be bought across the border and treated and it was in the

newspapers that he published his anger and anguish over israel's bombardment of gaza. to how the. israelis using the media in its war against us in this war journalists are under attack they want to kill all our words and reports that prove that there were no crimes in gaza is therefore there has to have you with all the attackers coming from both sides of the border israeli journalists today are banned from working gaza but ironically it's not a must but tel aviv that stops them deeming it too dangerous for them to report from their overhead him oh is among a handful of israeli journalists who'd regularly work in gaza but after his government made it illegal six years ago his station employed gaza based palestinian journalists now because of hamas ruling even that has become impossible it's very problematic decision of hamas fracture of lot of other decisions that the hamas made of the result is that the only reports leaving gaza that are those hamas sanctions are not particularly promising in light of the recent human rights watch

report that accuses a mussel harassing assaulting an arbitrarily detaining journalists israel too has come under fire for deliberately tog. reporters and media houses affiliated to him us joined us last one gaza israel fell twenty places in the two thousand and thirteen world police feeding index due to the actions of its army in the palestinian territories the media blackout does little to shed light on the fate and future of ordinary gazans it also appeared straight stereotypes on both sides of the border that have done nothing but breed mistrust and hatred policy on television. with no news figure around thirty minutes and after the break we'll look at why hoffa all h.i.b. infections in the united states occur in just thirteen 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 i.v. over sixty two percent of those are diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about there were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able have a lot less h.v. a lot less human suffering.