this is our see tonight bradley manning says he leaked confidential army data to make the us reconsider its foreign policy as revealed in a full audio recording of his court testimony in defiance of a military bad. precedent case country suing hollywood but becoming reality is a rant plans legal action outraged by the oscar winning blockbuster would go. bust the old guard passes the raiders over to the new generation in china tasked with combating an economic slowdown corruption encroaching u.s. military. also written repels all argentina's claims that over the island backed by strong support for residents of another island say they feel abandoned and abused forced wide london to live miles.

over it even if you just joined us kevin i would hear they are to new center tonight our top story then at nine pm the world has got to hear the voice of whistle blowing u.s. soldier bradley manning for the first time since his imprisonment back in two thousand and ten in a recording leaked despite a court 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 quote children torturing ants with a magnifying glass. as the latest 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 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. 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 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 has 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's 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. this. was. that. 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 time bombs a correspondent covering a story there would you share your opinion on bradley manning's case and testimony of r.t. dot com that's the question we're asking of the day the vote who goes who had been telling us thanks if you voted so far seems of yet still fifty percent of cast votes believe bradley manning has become a scapegoat in the u.s. war on whistleblowers a little over a third thirty five percent. say he's a martyr for the cause of free speech just eight percent they're saying he's

a naive idealist and seven percent think he's guilty of high treason so it's what you think r.t. dot com is the place to cast your vote right now and it's always good to hear from you. and in a city community shows his outrage at the shooting dead of a teenager at the hands of officers it's coming up soon i hope you can stay with us on our t.v. reporters hundred to the streets to vent their anger against us police brutality. but next loved by some loaves of by others the oscar winning drama argo is not only drawing the admiration of the academy but now calls fury in iran to the islamic republic's planning a lawsuit against hollywood accusing the movie makers of an unrealistic portrayal of the country artist lectures esque explains and exactly what triggered the terror . 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 would like our friends in iran living in terrible circumstances right now but while affleck is probably still celebrating his triumph his movie set to be based on a real cia operation sparked 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 islamic republic 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 are go defend themselves. next election will independent filmmaker blogger dunny schecter think goes the last straw the push 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 americans to sustain their fear of iran it also works the most political part of it is also with 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 under a movie with that particular look overlay you know tying it into that is caught

in a wrong and it basically is is propaganda for the cia more then against iran because iran has been treated one to me and shortly for years going back to the hostage crisis i think this whole battle is really not about argo but it's about policy american policy sanctions against iran the hostility between the two countries which this movies and forces unfortunately. the true story that could very well fit hollywood's big screen to a dramatic prison break from bandit captivity would tell you about that so we bring you a firsthand account so of a journalist who had a narrow escape after being captured by syrian rebels is coming up shortly tonight . before that. syria was the hot topic at a meeting between the foreign and defense ministers of both russia and the u.k.

learned that the first gathering indeed of his kind in the so-called too close to former baathist party boy could joins us now live to tell us exactly what was said how there probably are. hi there kevin yes this is indeed the first time that these types of talks have taken place in this format we had the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov his defense minister sergei sure you and their counterparts william hague and philip hammond top of the agenda as you said was of course syria and what we've learned is that despite there being sort of a show of unity about everybody wanting an end to the crisis there really is a difference in approach to it now we know that the u.k. is starting to supply the syrian opposition with non-lethal weapons that means forty armor and ahmed fear calls we know that they've actually said that they're willing to define and e.u. arms embargo and to actually go it alone and start providing weapons to the syrian opposition if the e.u.

continues its embargoed we know that france is actually behind that approach germany however has said that it's concerned that providing the rebels with weapons would actually lead to more bloodshed in the country now speaking today at the press conference saggy lavrov said that providing the rebels with more arms would of very much be a breach of international law he also mentioned that for those dim on doing that president bashar assad stepping down the end goal is actually more important than saving civilian lives in stopping the bloodshed so another point that the foreign minister made was that whereas the government has already agreed to diplomatic talks about ending the crisis the opposition has made no such moves so while both sides say that they want to see a unified and a democratic syria their approaches seem to be very very different nevertheless the very fact that these talks have taken place for the first time the strategic

dialogue is already a move in the right direction sort of political songs for a brief news that of london. now a story of worthy of a hollywood blockbuster next a journalist was held hostage by bandits in syria demanding a fifty million dollar ransom but escaped thankfully to tell us about it she escaped to catch his captors and her coach never says she had to cross fifteen kilometers or mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter r.t. shaun thomas followed this story for us. the good news is that she is talking to the press and that the ukrainian foreign ministry has said that she is safe in damascus she's checked in with the embassy there but going back to october two thousand and twelve she was reporting from the city of holmes a syrian hotbed of for the rebels there she was captured by syrian rebels reportedly from the free syrian army which is a very well known name there they threatened to kill her they held her for ransom

for fifty million dollars as you mentioned a huge sum that ransom was not paid and this is from a group that threatened to kill any ukrainians any russians or any rain ians found in the area so we're talking about some serious people here now during this one hundred fifty three day ordeal she was held in very poor conditions in fact there are holes in the walls and in the roof where she was being kept so that when it snowed it came in to the actual room where she was then monday came and she's like enough is enough i'm going to get out of here she. got out of there walked fifteen kilometers mountainous conditions found someone who she believed she trusted let's listen to her in her own words what she had to say about the whole ordeal. at some point i realized that you died be killed by the army is that was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or i'd be killed by the you know 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 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 beaten up or even killed to capture it 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 to tell each other it was mined. in damascus is staying in syria she says that she wants to stay there to to. the truth about what's happening in the country she says that the international community is blind to what's really going on there in fact one of the reasons why she was held because they said that she was supporting the assad regime but she was a journalist basically but now she has a story to tell lot of people ready to listen. thomas with me earlier on the bravest now italian universities face a sharp drop in the number of applicants to talk about that since skyrocketing

tuition fees and then a lack of job opportunities make higher education both on affordable and desirable to bring you the story after the break. for some people the extreme cold isn't a chilling threats. it's a cool thing if you look you can see that the water in the 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 picks as

a frost. surviving the cold. thank you it's not just a day away from once in a decade power transfer as a new generation takes over from the old and with china's economy still growing at a prodigious right all eyes will be almost set to lead the country of the next decade the transfer will see a near total change in china's top leadership with the 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 news but twenty seventeen it's expected that china will overtake the u.s.

as the world's largest economy the economic rival even comes amid a battle for influence of asia between the two beijing based correspondent shot and sun so as foreign policy is another issue the new leadership says 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 few senior diplomats in charge of china's foreign affairs and 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 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 where the new leadership is to be voted on the twelfth national people's congress but already approved military spending high gives a strong indication of where the child is going to be heading according to professor joseph. the sets. it's time moves from the state to buying it from the broad to the development of. the state of the art weapons on its own soul 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

without any substantial military expenditure i suspect in fact the chinese authorities 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 financial difficulties and you for more analysis on the chinese handover of power on a website called body the two might want to check the stories and if you get a moment just to saudi star we don't lot about a new execution method used to carry out a sentence on seven members and unmanned robots still below the surface of the new evidence that life could have existed before the war a month. see the home. of another night of protest in brooklyn hundreds gathered on the streets they divert their anger of a sixteen year old black boy was killed by police officers claim the teenager

pointed a gun at the before they hit him with several rounds some are accusing the police the systematic racism while racial equality act was called 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 being 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 mind or injury 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'm not going i can ban them for standing up expressing anger because the real violence in this case begins with the killing of kimani gray paper the falkland islands made the choice that despite argentina's efforts are regain control of the

territories they chose to stay put ish that's a luxury though the population of another group of islands in the indian ocean of never been afforded and it's not the sort of first reports next 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 a. school we had to go see is 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 oakland. good memories. 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 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 dictating 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 chakan 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. they have a city. would not have the sea. give me the impression that there's not just this event a british government is the one like you every now and then used 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 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 on 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 leave 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 true send us back home perhaps the most shocking thing about this story if this is simply something that happened decades ago this person justice is being compounded by successive british governments right up to the coalition today he continued to fight against the child go 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. just a little after twenty four minutes past nine hours world news in brief the dutch government raised the national ten level from limited to substantial the deadlines for an attack both on home soil and against dutch interests abroad the authorities say that's because citizens who left to fight in the syrian civil war could return home battle hardened and radicalized as they put it and this warning comes just two months before a major public celebration the transfer of the crime from queen beatrix to. cardinals of the sistine chapel for a full first day of voting as they seek to elect a new pope ballots on tuesday though failed to gather the two thirds majority needed to name a successor to benefit the sixteenth who stepped down a fortnight ago up to four rounds of votes could be held today white smoke

billowing from the roof of the chapel will signal the new head of the catholic church has been chosen as yet that has not happened there. it was once claimed that education is the best investment in life however if you're in italy maybe different students there are starting to doubt it with the steroids he forcing chu issue in fees up and up and those who can afford higher education are funny we're getting a job becoming a tougher challenge at the end of it and it is really a political report. italy was once an abode for thinkers philosophers and artists no only for its own 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 i can to make 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 lawn in the

last six or seven years we had. diminished from twenty percent. to the access to university anyway 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 hours 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 italy and art are considered to be synonymous with one another teresa says an art historian like her is likely to be doing something entirely different after graduation the i meant

that he might have been 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 displacement is something students seem to share with the faculty who have an equally distant perception of the situation was. that but i feel quite awkward talking about it but we the professor is everybody felt the strain we haven't had a cellular raise in a decade but we have an easy and con 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 wood investment and a lot of families can afford the occasional 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 go school r.t.

. more topical debate to us ever on this child for clint's sovereignty up for the by the next in crosstalk pavement same in the wings as a britons claim on the islands as discussed between them all it's all its programs . these are decent faces freedom fighters. and. they're ready to clean up in this order.

and bring you liberty anytime. soon lou play free. or you like to be treated this way. an arche. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the residents of the falkland islands or mohit as i have spoken to they wish to maintain their status as a british overseas territory argentina has dismissed.