bradley manning says he leaked confidential army data to make the us reconsider its foreign policy that revealed in a full or a recording of his court testimony in defiance of the military band. the unprecedented case of a country suing hollywood is a bank's become a reality is a rant plans legal action by the oscar winning blockbuster i'll go. past the old guard passes the reigns over to a new generation in china tasked with combating an economic slowdown corruption and an encroaching u.s. military. and is breaking repels all argentina's claims over the falkland islands by strong support from falkland this presence of another island feel abandoned and being forced by london to live miles from home.

and i welcome good to have you company watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me andrew pharma. now the world has got to hey 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 than he explains 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 and with a magnifying glass. tom barton gave me some details on the case. he used emotive languages especially as he worked through this over an hour of audiophiles 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 be civilians on the ground killing twelve of them including two reuters journalists a van then 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 was that. it was the only. way. for. me this is. bradley manning was shocked by what he saw in that 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 order you know photos and no transcript as well out of that court although one transcript how's already been released from that in contravention of that that reporting ban followed by this audiophile 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 him 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 it was only. difference is that it was. so he 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. well you can share your opinion on bradley manning's case i just go to r.t. dot com some of you have been voting already in this is how it looks half of you believe that he is actually a scapegoat in the war the u.s. war on whistleblowers just over a third of you believe he has become

a martyr on free speech there around eight percent believe he's just naive idealist and just behind seven percent if you believe that he's guilty of high treason. well you still got time to cast your vote you can do that by heading to our web site at our take dot com. and inner city communities shows rage at the shooting dead of a teenager at the hands of officers stay with us at our table as hundreds streets to vent their anger against u.s. police brutality. and we bring you the firsthand account of a journalist who had a narrow escape after being captured by syrian rebels but still ahead. loved by some and loathed by others the oscar winning trama argo has not only drawn the admiration of the academy but now called fury in iran the islamic republic is planning planning a lawsuit against hollywood accusing the movie makers of an i'm realistic portrayal

of the country artie's alexia share of skin now explains exactly what is angered to run. 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 when 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 well independent filmmaker and blogger danny should get care things are going is the last straw that pushed iran to take action amid a much deeper conflict. it's propaganda but it's probably get it not 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 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 is it is really not a battle argo but it's about policy american policy sanctions against their will on the hostility between the two countries which this movie three and forces unfortunately. well iran is planning to take on hollywood its own game barbara choosing a movie with iran's version of the events to trade in argo and you can find that online also at r.t. dot com justice saudi style read 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 there. the. beijing is now just a day away from a once in a decade power transfer as a new generation takes over from the old one with china's economy still growing at a prodigious 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 though 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 racing 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 it's developing its military they have appointed a couple of 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 will affect. 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 that 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. the new leadership has to be voted in. national people's congress but no ready approved military spending gives a strong indication as to where china is heading according to professor joseph chang of hong kong city university. it's moves from the state to buying it from abroad 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 defend its territories and its own

overseas interests it will continue to spend that kind of rate of increase and means substantial military expenditure i suspect in fact the time is so far to 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 financial difficulties now a story of a hollywood blockbuster a journalist was held hostage by bandits in syria demanding a fifteen million dollar ransom but managed to escape the captors and coaching of us says she had to cross fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter of all artes sean thomas says he's been following the story an incredible one that isn't it how she captured the well this is one to be told time and time again and of course as details come out i'm sure it's going to become

even more impressive but the good news is that she is speaking to the press now and the ukrainian foreign ministry has confirmed that she is safe in damascus at this point she's made contact with the ukrainian embassy where this all started back in october two thousand and twelve when she was reporting from the city of homes and she was captured by syrian rebels reportedly with the free syrian army at that point they threatened to kill her they demanded a ransom as you mentioned. fifty million u.s. dollars that was not paid this began an ordeal of around one hundred fifty three days where she was kept in poor conditions in fact she tells of there being a holes in the walls and holes in the roof where she was sleeping and so when it snowed the snow actually came in to where she was as well. then she said basically enough is enough and on monday she escaped walked fifteen kilometers through mountainous conditions found someone who she felt that she was secure talking to let's listen to what she had to say about the ordeal in her own words. well at some

point i realized that you thought i'd be killed by the army is 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 i lost some twenty kilograms and received no medical attention so i decided to take the situation into my own hands and escape i picked this time when it was possible to escape and one early morning by the guards was sleeping i sneaked out dressed as a civilian i knew i could be beat not for even killed of captured again but i did have an idea of where to go and some passer by asked me who i was i told him the truth and luckily he didn't turn me in and help me get out thank god he did that i was afraid the territory was mined. now this group kept her captive basically said that they would kill any ukrainian a russian or even an iranian that they found in syria so really serious people that she was dealing with but now on how to coach and have a safe in damascus she said she's dedicated to telling the story of what's happening in syria something that she says the world community has been blind to so

far and now i'm sure with a story like this people are going to start listening that's not really a harrowing story isn't a bit least one with a happy ending thank you and that's shown tell us. the scandal ridden vatican is in deadlock over its future leader coming up after the break we get an expert's take on high father corruption goes and what it will take for the vatican to cleanse its holy night. hard. we don't like. that. they're ready to clean up pollution. and bring liberty. to salute three zero.

zero. zero like to be free to sway. cherian diary on our. download the. publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. and i welcome back not a has been yet another night of protests in brooklyn hundreds gathered on the streets to vent their anger after a sixteen year old black boy was killed by police officers crying the teenager pointed a gun at them before they hit him with several reins some are accusing the police

of systematic racism while racial equality activist col dick says authorities in america have got their priorities or wrong the police whenever they murder or kill a black or latino youth it is always dealing 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 mordor or injure an innocent person but it's the other way around this is why people are upset and they should be upset people are frustrated people are angry and i am not going there can dampen them for standing up expressing that anger because the real violence in this case begins with the killing of keep money rape. the people of the falkland islands made their choice despite argentina's efforts to regain control of the territories they chose to stay british luxury the population

of another group of islands in the indian ocean have never been afforded and as r.t. sarah furthur britain's overseas policies are being labelled hypocritical. this is the story of an island a proud and spirited people displaced and i government he put it devastatingly high price. shockingly many it will be the first time this will be. leaving. we discover. it's very hard to go says a british colony in the indian nation and the largest of the chaebol silence as a population of roughly two thousand people say the. good memories. there you go it's a home

a real paradise today they da gusty is one of america's biggest military advices because 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 learn the islands to the us but there was a problem the island had for generations been inhabited by the chikezie and people they'd built schools hospitals a 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 dishonesty always rooted in facts in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. britain went to war protecting the folks and islanders from argentina in training

first sums of money and costing precious lives the exact same time it was also using expensive resources preventing the people of the taker silence from attending the falkland living in the home and they have a choice to stay where they they wanted to stay under their the rule of the british or if they wanted to go to the folk. time rules they have a say in who don't have the c. he gave me the impression that there's not just this event a british government is the one like you every now and then you see you here in the news talking about human rights justice social justice and so on but they are the one that money the justice the chico seeing community have been fighting for their right to return to the island ever since they winning some of their cool cases pushed. government have continually appealed blocking their progress every step of

the way how differently that 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 age four 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 home. where we belong that's our trees send us back home perhaps the most shocking thing about this story if this is 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 choko since returning to their island and so their stories remain largely consigned to the shadow. people continue to

bravely fight to return to their home. says. it was once a plane that education is the best investment the students are starting to don't that with a stereotype forcing tuition fees up and up and those who can afford higher education are finding that getting a job is also becoming a tougher challenge as artesia. now reports italy was once an abode for thinkers philosophers and artists known for its universities and schools now however the tables have turned as more and more students choose not to receive higher education for the simple reason of not being able to afford it and academics say no one but the government is to blame the country's national university council estimates in roman to italy universities dropped by nearly sixty thousand applicants in ten years that's equivalent to losing an institution the size of the university of new

man in the last six or seven years we had. diminished from twenty percent. to the access. to university. twenty percent in five years the me young people understand that even if they go to university they would not find a job propped up on the scaffolding art history student and restore to reset continues from work even during our interview for her long working. ours aren't a burden but a blessing. it's very difficult to combine work and school i used to spend four hours just getting to work but i can't complain i'm actually very lucky that i got this opportunity because it's hard to find a job as it is and since tradition fields have gone up i have to have a job otherwise it's impossible to continue with school although it's early and aren't i considered to be synonomous with one another to resist as an art historian

like her is likely to be doing something entirely different after graduation. and this my specialty is restoration i'm going to get a diploma yet i will look for a job in other fields as it's hardly possible to get a job in this area there is a very slim chance to get a solid long term contract so i'll be looking for other ways to make money at. the discretion is something students seem to share with the faculty who have an equally dismayed perception of the situation. but i feel quite awkward talking about it but we the professors have really felt the strain we haven't had a cell arrays in a decade but we have it easy and can't complain in comparison to the students and normal families who don't think of higher education as a stepping stone for the future it's no longer considered a worthy investment and a lot of families can afford it occasioned fees for a country with a glorious past where times people were literally ready to die for knowledge this

trend does not bode well for a bright future in rome in a ghost r.t. . some international news brief now cardinals have filed into the sistine chapel for a first full day of voting as they seek to elect a new pope ballots on tuesday failed to gather the two thirds majority needed to name a successor to benedict the sixteenth was that two weeks ago up to four rounds of votes could be held today white smoke billowing from the roof of the chapel will signal a new head of the catholic church has been chosen. militants disguises cricketers have attacked paramilitary forces in the indian controlled region of kashmir killing at least five five other people were wounded in the shootings which took place in a school for children of indian police it's not clear who carried out the attack kashmir has been hit by decades of violence but this is the first major incident this three year. the dutch government has raised the national terror threat level

from limited to substantial the netherlands fears an attack both on home soil and against dutch interests abroad thirty say that's because citizens who left the fight in the syrian civil war could return home battle hardened and radicalized the warning comes just two months before a major public celebration the transfer of the crown from queen beatrix to his son . now up ahead the twelve thousand kilometer question is britain claims the put its claim the falklands are going to debate that in crosstalk in a couple of minutes. to some people the extreme cold is the chilling threat to life or will it do if it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water runs out rates in my body feels

really warm now this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to make themselves stronger you can't get used to the cold if you can tolerate it and you can struggle with. people of snow and ice victims across. the goal. today. these are the. operations the day.

following welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the residents of the falkland islands or mohit as i have spoken they wish to maintain their status as a british overseas territory argentina the referendum is folly it would appear the twin pillars of the international order are on a collision course self-determination trump the sanctity of sovereignty. to this island dispute i'm joined by lou coffee in washington he's a margaret thatcher fellow at the heritage foundation also in washington we have. he's a research fellow at the council on hemispheric affairs. and in london we crossed to richard got he used

a former latin american correspondent an editor for the guardian or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it richard if i go to you first the recent referendum overwhelmingly passed so we should recognize self-determination of those people living on those islands yes or no definitely not self determination doesn't apply to this move group of people living on an island miles away from the mainland of britain ok that was very clear look jump in. i tell you it certainly does it doesn't matter if it's one single person they have the right of self-determination is clearly outlined in the un charter this is a very fundamental rights and they have exercise this right in the world should listen ok you guys are being real quick here alex. it could be short for the past few years the argentine gorgon has accused the u.k. of a policy of twenty first century calling at least in the islands a theme they were for in the most interesting and he.