bradley manning says he leaked confidential army data to make the us reconsider its foreign policy revealed in a faulty a recording of his court testimony in defiance of a military band. young president in case of a country suing hollywood is about to become a reality is iran's plans legal action outraged by the oscar winning blockbuster. plus the old god passes the reigns over to a new generation in china tasked with combat in an economic slowdown corruption and in encroaching u.s. military. hand as britain repels all argentina's claims over the falkland islands backed by strong support from portland as residents of another island feel abandoned and the being forced by london to live miles from home.

and i welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow with me andrew pharma now the world has got to hear the voice of whistle blowing u.s. soldier bradley manning for the first time since his imprisonment in twenty ten in a recording leaked despite a court ban he explained why he released classified military data he says he wanted the world to see the true cost of war accusing troops of not valuing human life and comparing them to children torturing ants with a magnifying glass tom barton gave me some details on the case he used emotive language is especially as he worked through this over an hour of audiophile statement to the court describing his feelings we've taken a couple of edited excerpts of that one of them concerns this video from the cockpit of an apache attack helicopter over iraq the two pilots very eager to

engage a group of what turned out to. the civilians on the ground killing twelve of them including two reuters journalists a van men comes to try and help those shot in the first burst of firing and the helicopter then engages that van as well let's have a listen to what he said about that does that mean that. this was the only. way. for. me this is. bradley manning was shocked by what he saw in the video in two thousand and ten he took the decision to upload hundreds of thousands of documents onto the internet that were then released by wiki leaks now this is the first time we've heard him say why is that how has this happened and what difference do you

think that might make to the case if any yes there's been really strict reporting restrictions and great secrecy surrounding this trial no video no or do you know photos and no transcript as well out of that court although one transcript house already been released from that in contravention of that reporting ban followed by this all go real east by the freedom of press foundation about the statement he gave a couple of weeks ago i think for many people it will be the first time they will have heard bradley manning's voice and they'll hear a little bit of the man behind all of this controversy perhaps help to make up their mind about him a bit many people in the u.s. do not take kindly to what he is didn't quite frankly consider him a traitor as for him he has said that when seeing videos like like we saw and seeing many of the things like the covering up of human rights abuses and civilian casualties he really started to question what the wars in afghanistan and iraq were

all about and that helped to push. to this decision he tried official whistle blowing through the army he was rebuffed he says and then he decided to go and leak this information as he explains. why the difference is that it was. really designed. so it should just be said as far as his trial goes at the moment he is has twenty two charges against him he's pleaded guilty to ten of those not guilty to the others some of those others include more serious charges such as aiding the enemy if he is convicted bradley manning could face up to twenty years in prison but you can share your opinion on bradley manning's case at r.t. dot com this is how you are voting so far half of you say the moment you believe that he has become a scapegoat in the u.s. war on whistleblowers another thirty five percent say he has become

a martyr of free speech eight percent reckon he's a naive idealist and around the same number seven percent say he's guilty of high treason so let us know what you think is still time to vote and you can do that by heading to our web site. an intercity community shows it's an outrage at the shooting dead of a teenager at the hands of officers stay with us at r.t. as hundreds hit the streets to vent their anger against us police brutality and we bring you the first hand they can get you in this you had a narrow escape after being captured by syrian rebels still ahead for you. loved by some and loathed by others the oscar winning drama argo has not only drawn the admiration of the academy but now caused a fury in iran the islamic republic is planning a lawsuit against hollywood accusing the movie makers of an unrealistic portrayal of the country artie's alexy explains exactly what has angered.

you won't see such at the oscars every year none other than the u.s. first lady announced the best movie award and ben affleck could not hide his delight at scooping the top statue for our goal not forgetting though to stick another boot into iran's backside right at the ceremony and we think canada our friends in iran living in terrible circumstances right now but will affleck is probably still celebrating his triumph his movie set to be based on the real cia operation spark fury in iran needless to say argo has been forbidden for screening in the islamic republic but a closed circle of iranian officials and critics watched it and described it as cia propaganda aimed at moring the country's image this episode the storming of the us embassy caused particular fury witnesses of the nine hundred seventy nine event say only students took part whilst affleck chose to portray them as bloodthirsty terrorists holywood just trades on the spirit types and loves it remember borrett such a baron cohen's comedy that depicted kazakhs as uncivilised farmers

a comedy for some but kazakhs definitely were not laughing borat was heavily criticised but it never went beyond that this time iran may go one step further iranian media report that controversial french lawyer is the payer is now in tehran preparing an unprecedented lawsuit the public versus hollywood affleck himself is yet to respond to the accusations but with such strong statement of intent coming from iran soon enough hollywood produces may have to argo defend themselves an independent film a cam blog and then he said things are go is the last straw that pushed iran to take action and made a much deeper conflict. this is propaganda but it's probably given that so much against iran but even that american stoke sustain their fear of iran and also it's the most political part of it is also it's its attack on hollywood which it shows how empty the whole hollywood culture is in coming up with this phony movie that

the plot is sort of based around you know this is just a movie with that particular overlay you know tying it into the club in iran and it basically is is propaganda for the cia more than against iran because iran has been treated one to me and chablis for years going back to the hostage crisis i think this whole battle this is really not a battle argo but it's about policy american policy to sanctions against the law the hostility between the two countries which this movie enforces unfortunately. well iran is planning to take on hollywood at its own game by producing a movie returns a version of the events portrayed in argo you can find that online also with r.t. dot com justice the star read online about a new execution method used to carry out a sentence on seven gang members. and. a robot has drilled

below the surface of mars finding new evidence that life could have existed. beijing is now just a day away from a once in a decade power transfer as a new generation takes over from the old and with china's economy still growing at a producer rate all eyes will be on those set to lead the country over the next decade the transfer will see a near total change in china's top leadership with incoming xi jinping expected to form a new fifth generation government his priority will be to get the country's economic engines running at full speed after a slight slowdown in recent years by twenty seventeen it is expected that china will overtake the u.s.

as the world's largest economy the economic rivalry comes amid a battle for influence in asia between the two beijing based correspondent shannon van sant says foreign policy is another issue the new leadership faces the obama administration announced a pivot to asia last year which means an increase in military spending on military military resources by the united states being focused in asia so that's very significant and china is really increasing its own military spending its developing its military they have appointed a couple of a few senior diplomats in charge of china's foreign affairs one person who's been the point person on japan for a long time another person is very familiar in dealing with the united states so how this was fact. leadership going forward particularly in terms of these territorial disputes china's been very assertive and sometimes even bellicose over the last year when talking about these territorial disputes and they seem to really want to show their strength in terms of talking about these issues it's just increasingly china has the military strength now to back up some of these more

bellicose claims and territorial claims and these parts of asia. new leadership is to be voted in the twelfth national people's congress but an already approved military spending hike gives a strong indication as to where china is heading according to professor joseph chang at hong kong city university it's moved from the state to buying it from the broad to the development of. the state of the art weapons on its own sold the research and development budget is expected to grow rather substantially as new weapon systems are already on the pipeline ready to be deployed given the fact that china aims to become a major power and be you know position to be fair territories and overseas interests it will continue to spend that kind of rate if you increase

doubt any substantial military expenditure i suspect in fact the time is so far to ease probably understand that the american military spending is very much limited by the fact that. the obama administration has to cut its military budget because of the mess that from men show difficulties. now a story worthy of a hollywood blockbuster a journalist was held hostage by bandits in syria demanding a fifteen million dollar ransom but managed to escape kept is on a question of says she had to cross fifteen kilometers a mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter a latte shown thomas is here with me now to tell us more about it you've been following the story how did she end up being a hostage and how did she escaped the whole andrew certainly a hollywood blockbuster indeed first they say that she's been speaking to the press and it has been confirmed by the ukrainian foreign ministry that she is safe in

damascus but this all started back in the city of holmes a stronghold of syrian rebel activity in the beginning of october syrian rebels reportedly with the free syrian army captured her said that she was pro bashar al assad and his regime and they threatened to kill her and demanded a ransom of fifty million u.s. dollars and in this time this began a one hundred fifty three day ordeal where she was in treated in incredibly poorly in horrible conditions in fact she has said that there was a hole in her wall a hole in her roof so that when it snowed the snow came in to the room where she was and then on monday she basically said enough is enough and she found a way to escape had to walk fifteen kilometers in mountainous conditions until she found someone who she felt that she could get some help from let's listen to what she had to say about the whole ordeal. you know. at some point i

realized that i thought i'd be killed by the army as i was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or i'd be killed by the rebels the treatment was very bad and i lost some twenty kilograms and received pneumatic attention so i decided to take the situation into my own hands and escape i picked a time when it was possible to escape and one only morning sneaked out dressed as a civilian i didn't have an a.t.m. . way to get and some possible ask me while. i have the trust with the so i told him the truth and he helped me get this far it's possible from the place where i was held hostage with him it's hard to imagine any one going through these circumstances but on a harder coach knew about says that she is going to stay in syria she is now safe in damascus but she says that she wants to tell the truth of what's happening in syria something she says that the world community has been blind to up to this point and right now you can be sure that many people are willing to listen because

they want to hear her story an incredible one of that thank you very much showing that was shown thomas. under total lockdown at guantanamo bay in a few minutes we report on the hunger strike that's broken out at the infamous facility with prisoners apparently revolting over rampant abuse by guards. been living in the seventeenth century. clicked. their community. clearly distinguish between their old. guard their families and things. so

so. welcome back now there has been yet another night of protest in brooklyn hundreds gathered on the streets to vent their anger after a sixteen year old black boy was killed by police officers claim the teenager pointed a gun at them before they hit him with several rounds some are accusing the place

of systematic racism racial equality activist col dick says authorities in america have got their priorities all wrong. the police whenever they murder or kill a black or latino youth it is always deemed justifiable homicide the witnesses tell a different story this happens again and again we should live in a society where those who are intrusted with public security. risk their own lives in minor injury an innocent person but it's the other way around this is why people are upset and they should be honest people are frustrated people are angry and i am not going to condemn them for standing up expressing anger because the real violence in this case begins with the killing of kimani gray the people of the falkland islands made their choice despite argentina's efforts to regain control of the territories they used to stay british that's a luxury the population of another group of islands in the indian nation has never

been afforded as r.t. sorry for the three post britain's overseas policies are being labelled hypocritical. this is the story of an island a proud and spirited people displaced i think government he put it devastatingly high price paradise so keenly for many it will be the first time the stories of the being heard. the happiness we were leaving to each other and the way when been treating here we discover. it's very hard to go see it's a british colony in the indian nation and the largest of the chaebol silence as a population of a thousand people about the same as the. good memories. there you go it's a home a real paradise today they da gusty is one of america's biggest military attaché

says because we it's our land. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this anger because they are enjoying the island . we are suffering back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it is shrouded in secrecy bush cynically to loan the islands to the u.s. but there was a problem the island had for generations been inhabited by the chikezie and people they'd built schools hospitals whole life and what did the british government they simply pretended none of this existed by fixing the entire population from their homes secrets lies deception this almost always rooted in facts in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. britain went to war protecting the folks and islanders from argentina in training for sums of money and costing precious lives the exact same time it was also using

extensive resources preventing the people of the chakan silence from returning home in the falkland living in the homeland and they have a choice to say where they if they wanted to stay under. the rule of the british or if they wanted to go to the fork. and time rules they have a city. and we don't have the city. give me the impression that there's not just this event the british government is the one like you every now and then you see you hear in the news talking about human rights justice social justice and so on but they are the one that many people in the justice the chico seeing community have been fighting for their right to return to the island ever since they winning some of their court cases pushed. government have continually appealed blocking their progress every step of the way how differently the chikezie and people have

been treated there's been a government balloting or knocking on doors on their behalf or asking what they want the h word comes to my mind. for how long are you going to punish us for how long we're going to live this life we don't want to be here we don't want this life. we want to go back. where we belong that's our true. perhaps the most shocking thing about this story if this isn't simply something that happened decades ago this past injustices have been compounded by successive british governments right up to the coalition of today he continued to fight against the church returning to their island and so their stories remain largely consigned to the shadows and yet you persist in people continuing to bravely fight to return to their home.

and next hour our debate show cross talk does discuss how the falkland islands are likely to fare after the referendum and whether it will change anything at all. the views and thoughts of the islanders are completely and absolutely irrelevant true the the worse the wishes and the will of the islanders is very important here this is what it's all about it's about what do the people of the falkland islands want to live under do they want to live under the crown united kingdom or do they want to be part of argentina there is a debate about sovereignty two countries claim these islands and they should get together and have a discussion about what might happen and that is what the british absolutely refused to do.

kuantan of my bay prison is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis according to lawyers and activists is a hunger strike enters its fourth week as many as one hundred inmates are said to be taking part protesting against abuse at the hands of prison guards authorities insist just a few inmates are involved sara flounders head of the international action center says the prisoners are trying to draw attention to their plight. the treatment act one ton a mile from the very first moment that these prisoners were kidnapped while the other side of the world and brought to guantanamo has been horrendous and it's organizations such as center for constitutional rights who have fought for the most elementary rights for these prisoners and their hunger strikes are the only way they have of even making themselves heard years and years without any

hope of release without any real charges it was a center. for constitutional rights study that took the u.s. government's own figures to confirm that ninety two percent of all the prisoners held at guantanamo really had no connection at all who are no one in the world deserves this form of us treatment which has become absolutely routine and systematic that is use of torture the use of isolation humiliation degradation religious and so all of this. some international news in brief now cardinals have filed into the sistine chapel for the first full day of voting as they seek to elect a new pope but it's on chief state failed to gather the two thirds majority needed to name a successor to benedict the sixteenth he stepped down two weeks ago up to four rounds of votes could be held today white smoke billowing from the roof of the chapel will signal that

a new head of the catholic church has been chosen. an e.u. official has been killed in a rocket attack in syria he was providing humanitarian aid to the community and that i are located to the southwest of the capital damascus is not yet clear who's behind the attack with the opposition blaming the army while the government says the area was recently targeted by rebel strikes. now after the break war on the far from glittering side of go would in colombia. part. of freedom. i. feel ready to clean up pollution.

and bring new liberty and. salute free i. i would. like to be reduced to a. syrian diary on our two. wealthy british style. was. that. markets. finance scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on r.t. . for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota the independent expert coolio fiero denounces an

incestuous relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. no it's whatever but it isn't just an impression it's a reality that there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elites that they serve the interests of the big multinationals that marked in red on the map of the country the land requested for mining concessions of vast area the multinationals bag the major part of the mining rights about seventy percent of the andes is tenure and all covered by requests from mining concessions well you know if they when we see that it's easy to imagine that we're all going to find ourselves expropriated that's where we're going to grow the economy and people's food yet what's going to happen to our regions so that it's a completely irrational gamble that. the mining permits

are already allocated but the big companies aren't yet mining d.m.d.'s gold. the largest reserves lie in the heart of the cordy era mountains where the revolutionary armed forces of colombia the fark operate at war with the colombian government for over fifty years no one can penetrate this region without their authorization with the help of divers go betweens we've established contact with the four guerrilla fighters they've authorized us to travel through their zone while waiting to receive us. the local economy is based on coca plant growing these small green leaves are the raw material of cocaine. after years of anti drug enforcement cocoa farming is going through a crisis more and more pickers are leaving the fields to work in the gold mines. we penetrate into the mining zone in the four controlled mountains we get there by

mule a two day journey with a good guide. is the president of a local small scale miners association. with it for all that used to be cocoa plantations. and the government has eradicated all the coke on the region. each day dozens of mules amble up and down these paths loaded up with cans of cyanide like mercury it's used to extract the gold from the or. we're in the heart of a rich gold bearing region. the mines are artisanal the techniques and c'est the gold reserves have hardly been tapped.