one policeman is killed and hundreds injured as fierce clashes erupt in the egyptian city of port sunnydale sources move those polled over the alleged involvement in last year's deadly stadium riot that some of the country's opposition greets america's top diplomats with hostility and accusing actions of meddling on his first visit to iraq. u.s. soldier bradley manning admits being behind the biggest leak of secret documents in american history claiming he wanted the public to know the truth is the military prosecution is pushing to good that we can exhaust behind bars for life accusing him of aiding terrorists. by by benedict the pope becomes the first catholic leader to quit in six hundred years leaving behind a church of mind and child a decent corruption scandals. the

latest news on the week's top stories you're watching the weekly here on ars he was me. it's seven in the morning here in moscow and we start in egypt where hundreds have been injured and at least one policeman has been killed after fierce clashes erupted in the city of paul slade demonstrators took to the streets after also as he was chose to move prisoners jailed i would sure all in last year's deadly riots that left over seventy dead 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 and she's boettcher has more now from cairo where we've having a quite dramatic reports from port sorry because through the city this started to after thirty nine defendants in this ports are you trying to bridge the about this said massacre that happened in february of this court at this point are you based local much these defendants are being moved the families are very angry about that . believed they gathered at the security

a direct trip building and crash between the police forces protest this because you'll see how violence in months were the naldo city 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 his father how to maintain two is one of the twice rights groups report saying that a field hospital in the. political group or a popular current course this was also attacked by police with tear gas so it was 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 covers per justice. but most of 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 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 political analyst and author of myths lies and oil rules the news washington is starting to realize it may be 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 one thousand 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 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 ever it really remains paralyzed by a post-election stalemate. the dog can't be paid for out of the current that cannot be a trial system. so shortly we'll tell you why time in coalition chaos could cause a continent sized headache for the whole year as a. lot of 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 on how the partisan bickering is costing the country d.n.a.

. we can exhaust bradley manning finally got 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 the whistleblower is facing a possible life sentence of charges of aiding the enemy something he denies he is more important that has been following the 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 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 troops of 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 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 than the risks brought by whistleblowers and leaks like this one manning pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge which washington is determined to prove 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 you know 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 invade your weapons smuggling right like the blackwater executives or you can have bankers that engage in financial fraud and they are pursued as jealously as whistleblowers following his arrest in may two thousand and ten manning was kept in solitary confinement at a military jail in wheat then at a marine prison in want to build bridges 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 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's very them

from doing that manning himself said he believed to do move it would only embarrassed but not damage to the u.s. and eventually kick start the 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 or in a court in i.r.t. new york. a week after parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear winner parties across the political spectrum so far refusing any talk of coalition so former comedian that they agree has become an unlikely came to make up to his politicking said what he's suggesting is he may leave the year and return to the nearer that raised eyebrows across the us which is cautiously watching how the

deadlock will be workin the democrats and the coalition led by a disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi but he's got one hundred seventeen seats and investment advisor patrick young says zeroes 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 had 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 era of smaller government smaller gaps and actually a great deal more power to listen rather than the government that djibouti it really is running into an incredible break with all of the european union with it if the child cannot keep stealing the debt they already have then they have fundamental problems and 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 benedict the sixteenth of fishery resigned something upon the present done for six hundred years and as the church remains leaderless internal divisions and a damaged reputation mean that many are losing faith 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 it 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 leaks are 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 and was eventually 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 now this is the age of transparency the age of the people the churches should be properly. they'd be. considered sacred she was. the great assets and everybody now you see that they will be to be. the problem of the media they're really working on this 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 news obstructing the investigation that's likely they knew about this in the states on 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 put a feely. accusations alleged large scale corruption and possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has been having it healed day with the scandals the vatican either stayed silent or rebuffed all of his agents 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 which we would shrug wish were were with the church we would you know be with a group through google but the. wrong group could be stronger 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 stealing it with the people ring for secrecy is a tradition better left in the past in rome in a ghost town r.t. . and still ahead here this hour cementing a special relationship with potentially deadly consequences america's pro israel will be gathering in washington under what they have found could lead to support for a strike on iran we have expert opinion on bad coming up rise out of the bright. was a few. going

to. thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank. you thank. you you. thank . please. i.

will xing the weekly here on r.c. it's good to have you with us 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 their agenda at the annual american israeli public affairs committee is a gathering or a peg that has kicked off in washington and he's going there to try counties 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 it's going to speak live via satellite so what's on the agenda first this year a practice pushing legislation that i would guess a great israel as a major city if you don't like the united states of course the question many ask me as a citizen of israel major ally why do they need a special legislation for that the way some apac officials explain it is that they want to maintain defense assistance funding averaging more than three billion dollars annually at a time when both parties are seeking ways to drastically cut spending so that could

have gone unnoticed by the way the sequester that kicked in friday will hit israel funding something officials are saying among other things on those legislators do something to reverse it at this major strategic ally legislation is expected to be introduced in the house and in the senate in the coming days and separately be a part has been pushing and now welcomes the senate resolution of the says should this will decide to strike iran's only was 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 west in 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. faces that gives an impression that the apac is not too happy about it ministrations seemingly trying to play down the war talk in washington i'm going to check up. on the notion of both obama and netanyahu that isn't the only sign the prairie zero influence in washington is waning says political analyst robert naiman from just foreign policy there is a lot of belief that the. israel lobby is losing the clout. they have had a series of reversals bush about the election the reelection of obama was a reversal where the israeli government clearly made clear they didn't want that

obama to be reelected feel that he remembered 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 he just had the spectacular defeat and the nomination and confirmation of chuck able to stick except to just suffer 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 breaking agenda dad a lot of democrats don't want to be a citizen so for example they are pushing legislation to 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 called for more news and leaders there and here's some of what we have that for you right now following in the footsteps of washington today introduces a new call like protection a bill after pressure from the u.s. which has already adopted controversial measures against internet my receipt so read more about it online. block agree geisha in the middle east's only democracy as israel introduces palestinians only buses on a route connecting the country with the west bank so find out why on our website it's called. a. multi-billion dollar cut of cake say in the euro such as the white house failed to find common ground with the republicans or how to cut america's massive debt it's estimated the so-called sequester will cost america over seven hundred thousand jobs but even as the first

name some made the blame game grows with both counts desperate to offload responsibility and economist richard wald 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 raisins 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 of 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 what condon 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 are just some other news from around the globe this hour police and the military buffs like helicopters and tongs have raided slums in rio de janeiro the operation was aimed at retaking control of the country's notorious for veliz from drug gangs ahead of next year's world cup in the twenty sixteen olympics the forty years have labeled the raid during which not a single shot fired a success. in pakistan a bomb has gone off near the law school in karachi killing up to forty five people and injuring one hundred fifty rooms the blast apparently targeted a share area of the city as washers left evening prayers is the most recent in a series of attacks on the share minority in the country last month and rallies

were staged to demand the government through security. and in the u.s. state of mississippi a baby girl born with a tribe the appears to have been cured of the disease the girl was given an aggressive treatment of standard drugs the discovery was made after her mother stopped medicating the child and the blood tests came up negative so the baby has been off drugs for a year and is now seemingly healthy so 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 rising a chair and on top of this wages are falling in the u.k. at one of the fastest rates in europe supposed only by three other states and as the government steams on with the stereo she the opposition is warning that time is short for the country's embattled middle class but for some first reports now it has all but running out. for

a large part of her life liz hoggard has been tapping away 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 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 you know you go into interest in anticipation get paid quite soon that. 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 earning. a similar amount 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 lives has found out she's having to sell off possessions to pay for essential is like dental treatment. packing up the required. is quite emotional at times and you have a rush of memory and then 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 fast 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'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 you see when you look online and i'm something that was confronted so there is a sense of well at least i can pay for my newspaper and also treating that. you know you have to not be in tough economic times it can be hard to keep up appearances that's why schemes like the one run by the store here in the that's a proving so popular you bring along a designer clothes things at the credit which could be in the store. but it was a bit of a structure where the first person to actually combine the dress exchange element with the charity. introducing the exchange voucher system rather than

buying stock. 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 is in a generation like a facing up to the reality that the britain's middle class is the next chapter is looking pretty bleak. london and my colleague my treasure will be here in about thirty minutes with the latest headlines for you and taking is for you to then we'll take a look at why a tribe infections in the united states occur in just thirteen percent of the population.