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between their own and the alien. and guard their family and thinks the treasure. thought. the catholic church has a new pope with argentina jorge mario bergoglio becoming the first south american ever to head the church that's now battling its greatest crisis in decades. bradley manning says he revealed confidential army data to make the us reconsider its foreign policy revelations come in a full audio recording of his court testimony leaked to the press in defiance of a military band on reporting. china's new leader officially takes the reins of power with his priorities to boost defense spending make the country one of the world's military giants.

stadium in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the catholic church has itself a new leader argentina jorge mario bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the americas in the first from outside europe in more than a thousand years his election was greeted by tens of thousands who gathered at st peter's square in vatican city i. white smoke was finally seen after cardinals voted for a fifth time during the second day of the conclave that will be remembered as one of the fastest years the group to choose a new leader for more than a billion catholics after the previous pope benedict the sixteenth resigned artie's peter all over has more on the new pontiff and what his leadership might bring for

the catholic church. seventy six year old told him out he. wasn't one of the main names that were at the top of the list because there simply wasn't any names at the top of the list going into this conclave for the first time in a while quite a while ago but he really knew who was the front runners but he came out is the man who took two thirds of the vote by the cardinals and it's taken the name of francis the first now in his own country of argentina he has been referred to as a modernizer but then you have to really look at the church in argentina which is one of the most conservative in that part of the world of latin america and anywhere else you would certainly put francis into the category of a catholic conservative on the subject of gay marriage and adoption by gay parents he has been incredibly outspoken in the past certainly these are testing times for

the church of rome there are a series of sexual abuse scandals that are rumbling on just as celebrations are taking place right now in st peter's square we're looking particularly at one of the most senior catholics the head of the catholic church in scotland in fact who resigned and didn't turn up for calm conclave not to want to draw attention to himself after accusations of. an appropriate sexual behavior were leveled against him there's also scandals in the united states that have come out regarding the payment of money to victims of abuse of sexual abuse by catholic priests in the california area and there's also on the very first day of the conclave was taking place anti mafia police in italy while they raided. properties belonging to some of those who were taking place in the conclave because corruption scandals have dogged the vatican in recent times thinking particularly about the just who the vatican

bank is being dealing with that there was certainly. well from some of the. vatican's bank there so corruption sexual abuse also the issue of mold nice thing to church the house being campaign is still talking about the church accepting gay marriage accepting perhaps a change only celibacy laws full priests and perhaps even welcoming women priests into the catholic church however as i said as a well dyed in the world could serve to when it comes to matters of the catholic church i don't think we're going to be seeing too many of those issues regarding huge sweeping changes of how the church of rome deals with the everyday life of those who apostle of the it's ministry well the new pope francis certainly has many challenges facing him leading catholics at a time when the church is facing a deep crisis besides being marred in number of recent mismanagement corruption and even sex scandals the church is also facing aggressive competition from competition

from islam which is spreading across europe faster than the christian church gets new members with a number of muslims growing by an estimated eighty six percent in recent years and the number of christians growing by five percent winning back the continent will be one of the most daunting tasks for the new pope we've got more on the church crisis on our website including all theories as to why pope benedict sixteenth stepped down and the value leaks and all that and more a click away on our t.v. dot com. turning to some of the day's other top stories he's seen by many as one of the world's most renowned whistleblowers but an enemy of the state by the u.s. government now soldier bradley manning can be heard news own words explaining why he sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks in two thousand and ten and a new lead to audio recording from his court martial manning accuses the american army of not valuing human life and says he wanted to provoke a debate about u.s. foreign policy artie's guy named she has more. nobody was allowed to make

recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals at the military court in february but someone did it and the freedom of the press foundation released mr manning's testimony in its entirety in this hour long testimony bradley manning in his own words explains how and why he leaked all those documents many of which revealed how the u.s. government covered up civilian casualties in human rights abuses during the wars in iraq and afghanistan he served as an intelligence analyst in the military and had access to all those documents the biggest leak in history let's take a listen to just one episode where bradley manning explains why he leaked the video of the patchy helicopter gunning down boisterous journalists in baghdad and then targeting those who showed up to rescue the wounded including a van with children in that footage shocked the world. it was the army that is the. hero. and.

it was a. huge. point. for. me . it seems right now is bradley manning who is the and under the magnifying glass of the government very serious charges lined up against him here is a weapon he was there at the hearing when bradley manning delivered this testimony you heard him you saw him did you get a sense of what he would have done the same had he known how this would turn out you know i don't think bradley manning or anyone else would have known that by leaking this information or would have been three years of pretrial punishment and detention that's something i think even the u.s. government thought however i do think that he knew that these documents were very very substantial and in fact in two thousand and ten he said that these were some of the most significant documents of our time last month during his testimony he says he still believes that the iraq war logs and the afghan war logs. are perhaps

the two most important documents of our generation let's let's talk about the chilling effect that the whole trial will have on the whistle blower's it's already happening on exactly do you think anybody ever is going to do anything like this again having many example in mind i mean faces life in prison people are going to be more hesitant not only does he face life in prison but he could face the death penalty and if the u.s. government said they were going to pursue that other people other people who are going to try to seek for more open transparency are going to be more hesitant because they know that this could mean three years of being put away in a shell without ever being taken to trial on the other hand i think i think p.f.c. manning did what he did because he knew that these atrocities need to be exposed and i think other people are going to do that maybe not during our generation but in years to come it's going to happen absolutely thank you thank sandra thank you very much bradley manning has been held in u.s. military custody for around three years now and the un special rapporteur on torture has formally accused u.s. government of the grating treatment towards bradley manning including but not limited to keeping him locked up for twenty three hours

a day in solitary confinement for eleven months in a row bradley many pleaded guilty to ten out of twenty two charges brought against him just under those charges he faces twenty years in jail but the prosecution may still pursue the twelve remaining charges including the most serious one one of aiding the enemy and that one carries a punishment of life in prison and the big question for many remains whether it was the enemy that bradley manning aided or the public which has the right to know what their government is doing in their name in washington i'm going to check out. we can to visit karr clarke a strictly believes manning's actions couldn't harm national security. bradley manning has just been nominated for his third nobel peace prize meanwhile he's been charged with aiding the enemy but doesn't look very good for the obama administration or the government the only way obviously was not motivated the enemy

to harm the u.s. he made that very clear he chose cables and videos that had no national security concerns and he released them so that we could have this conversation it's a disgrace every day that he is in jail. it's a disgrace to our military it's a disgrace to the promises the obama promised in two thousand and eight. on r.t. dot com we're asking what you think about bradley manning's prosecution and testimony here is how the online vote is stacking up so far more than half believe bradley manning has become a scapegoat in the u.s. economy war on whistleblowers a little more than a third say he's a martyr for the cause of free speech seven percent think he's actually guilty of high treason in the same amount believe he's a naive and naive idealist if you haven't cast your vote yet head over to our web site r.t. dot com let us know what you think. well russia says arming syrian rebels would be against international law this after western governments are dropping

growing hints about providing military aid if you minutes we take a look at how backing from abroad affects the blooding syrian conflict. and hundreds take to the streets another night of anger in brooklyn new york over the deadly police shooting of a teenager stay with us for more. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia we did a very profitable also the it is a very high return on investment. you'll know me and he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups and they needed betis i knew the managers have changed their name and strategy but just tell the same murderous. high ranking suspects you know comment

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a frost. loving the cold. for staying with us here on our team quarter past the hour now the u.s. and china moving closer to a digital war after president barack obama promised beijing quote tough talk over alleged cyber attacks on washington this is the u.s. military is creating special units to launch offenses in cyberspace in response to further attacks are the reports on this digital conflict build up. a bigger threat than al qaeda this is how washington officials now describe the legit cyber attacks

coming from china u.s. stopper delegates officials now rank the threat of computer large foreign of sorts higher than terrorism transnational organized crime and weapons of mass destruction for the first time since nine eleven washington has long accuse china of stealing military secrets and intellectual property from hacking president obama's facebook page to cyber attacks against u.s. flagship media like the new york times but a recent u.s. congress report warns of going beyond online vandalism chinese penetration of defense system threaten the u.s. military's readiness and ability to operate it said that could include u.s. satellites weapons start getting systems navigation computers and many more but are the chinese really the aggressors here as washington wants everyone to believe and is the united states really an innocent victim china's ministry of national defense claims sixty three percent of the one hundred forty four thousand monthly cyber attacks that it recorded last year came from the u.s. based be addresses while washington claims its military cyber programs are there only to defend the country's borders but the stuxnet virus signaled

a new aggression experts have no doubt it was created by israel and the united states to derail iran's nuclear program besides it's hard to imagine given the tough economic competition that the united states would have no interest in infiltrating china's networks for one reason or another both american and chinese leaders continue to shake hands and speak of fruitful cooperation at official meetings such real world optimism is undermined if not totally negated when it comes to cyberspace and given reports of mutual cyber attacks intensifying in the last six seven months as well as beijing changing the man at the wheel it seems that only in competition between the superpowers will remain fractious if not downright dangerous. china's new leader officially taking the reins of power as beijing completes the long process of a once in a decade transition world keeping a close eye on who will lead the rising global player an economic powerhouse with the new leadership already announcing a military spending boost professor joseph chang from hong kong city university

says it gives a strong indication of where china is heading given the fact that china aims to become a major power and be in a position to defend its territories and its own for the overseas interests it will continue to spend that kind of rate of increase without any substantial military expenditure i suspect in fact the time is so far probably understand that american military spending is very much limited by the fact that. the obama administration has to cut its military budget because of the financial difficulties stay with us for more on how the new faces of chinese leadership may change the global power balance both politically and economically more analysis on that throughout the day here on r.t. . russia says that any attempt by foreign governments to arm rebels in syria's

conflict would be illegal the warning came as britain indicated it might be ready to bypass in the e.u. arms embargo on syria to help the opposition fighting the assad regime the bloody civil war is now approaching its second anniversary having claimed an estimated seventeen thousand lives as a number of deaths grows by the days so does foreign involvement as artie's marie if an ocean reports. the syrian uprising the last of the arab spring sprang up in march two thousand and eleven by august of that year when in another arab spring country in libya colonel gadhafi had lost defacto power it was already clear who was next in the firing line this morning president obama called on assad to step aside as if one key many others would soon echoed the same rhetoric is time for bashar to go to the message to president assad is it is time for transition it is totally to go because the regime of bashar al assad must come to an end we asked

the regime to step down. has to go through the syrian forces fighting assad immediately felt encouraged the train was in motion and a two year journey later had the destabilization on syria has been a us nato project from day one they have lined up all of their allies in a very ugly effort to overturn the government of syria and to create instability at emory and. so perhaps america did indeed pull the others in to then pull itself out two years on washington is criticised for its failure to bring things to ahead in syria both at home and abroad we are providing vital humanitarian assistance for my it is tarion assistance doesn't stop bombs the rebels who have suffered losses as heavy as the military now see they feel betrayed

by the us we did not get any real action on the ground from the united nation from the united states speculation is brewing that washington is starting to view the assad regime as the lesser of two evils preferable to radical jihadist groups the obama administration although there are levels and levels of what you what governments do basically it is it has been interested in seeing. there is a way out of this mess but in reality america is still in it white house decision last month may have ruled out arming the rebels an idea backed by the pentagon cia and state department but the country's doing little to stop others doing just that washington was silent when another made to member turkey asked for the arms embargo to be lifted nor did protest when the arab league gave the go ahead for weapons supplies and more recently when the u.k. said it could veto the use arms ban the us offered no objections everyone knows

that. if it were to tell saudi arabia or qatar or turkey or whoever of its friends there that they should stop it well everyone knows that but he would prevail instead the u.s. has decided to watch from a safe distance we played a crucial role in starting the americans can't fix this problem syrians have to fix this problem it's genuinely surprising after two years seventy thousand deaths a million people displaced tough sanctions imposed on syria dozens of countries within nato and the arab league can dam in assad and urging him to go and after so much money and weaponry invested to achieve this to hear america's ambassador to syria saying that only syrians can fix their problems perhaps there was a time when syrians could have resolved things on their own but pressure from the outside has been relentless and now it could simply be too late for anybody to fix

this race national party. there is a story worthy of a hollywood blockbuster featuring a ukrainian journalist held hostage by bandits in syria fifty million dollars ransom in a daring escape. some weeks i realize that you thought i'd be killed and the irony is that was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or i'd be killed by the rebels on. says she had to cross fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain before finding shelter or find out more from her account at r.t. dot com. now to some other stories making international headlines this hour militant group the kurdistan workers' party has released six turkish soldiers along with a police officer and a local official after holding them captive for two years the move came as part of renewed peace talks aimed at ending three decades of us still a t between the p.k. k. and the movement demands turkey recognised kurdish identity in its new constitution

and to release hundreds of its imprison activists more than forty thousand people have been killed in fighting between the two sides so far. and the rally broke out in brussels prior to a meeting of the european council a group of demonstrators that stormed the offices of several banks and unsuccessfully tried to enter a european commission building twenty seven e.u. heads of state have gathered in belgium's capital to find a balance between the need for austerity cuts but also public investment in the union's member states. more and protests in greece where more than ten thousand retired civil service workers marched against cuts to pensions and wages they were joined at the rally by uniformed firefighters and civil servants a delegation of protesters met with local government officials who promised to pass their demands on to the country's prime minister until this summer's.

brooklyn facing yet another rally as more than one hundred people continue voicing anger over the killing of a sixteen year old black boy by police officers who claim the teenager pointed a gun at them one of the boy's relatives was reportedly arrested and two protesters have been led away in handcuffs the deadly shooting spree or concerns over the n.y.p.d. systematic racism artie's marine important. relations between tens of thousands of new yorkers and the city's police department may have hit an all time low this coming after a sixteen year old was shot and killed by two plainclothes officers saturday evening according to reports come on a gray was standing outside of a home in flatbush brooklyn with a group of men when the two officers approached the boy ended up being shot a levin times and was brought to the hospital where he later died now. say that the teenager mr grey pulled out a handgun and pointed it at authorities and that's what caused them to shoot and

fire at the teenager subsequently killing him but according to mr gray's friends family and even some witnesses they say that no gun was ever pointed at the plainclothes police officers his family and friends say that the n.y.p.d. is just trying to paint a bad picture of a teenager this of course has angered a lot of residents in the community on monday evening approximately one hundred people were holding a vigil for come on gray when a protest broke out outside of the sixty seventh precinct residents i spoke with around here say that they are all too familiar with teenagers dying as a result of police shootings and gun violence in his neighborhood concerned and police cops shoot. and kill and. injure. veterans when

a police force the city says an investigation into the police involved shooting of the teenager is ongoing last year according to reports twenty one new yorkers died as a result of police shootings and if anything this latest episode latest event has just fueled the distrust that already exists between millions of new yorkers and the n.y.p.d. reporting from flatbush brooklyn in new york marina porter nine r.t. michael skolnik an editor of the current affairs web site global grind thinks there is a rise in police brutality against innocent teens and it must stop. as of right now and two officers have been put on a mission to minister to me their names and not be released i think at some point their names will be released and if there is a investigation and they were in fact is going wrong i sincerely hope to be put on trial for murdering i sixteen year old child but until that point it is an

investigation not going investigation most of the folks who are out there on monday and tuesday night were just exercising their constitutional right to peacefully assemble and to protest and majority an overwhelming majority of them were peaceful and were set in sad mourning the death of their friend and i support them in doing that until they have answers to the end user need they should protest they should take it to the streets we have a horrible racist policy called stop and frisk i want to stop being overwhelming number of black and brown men in our city if for no apparent reason this might have been a stop and frisks action by the ways we're not sure yet ah but there isn't tag a nation of the police to these young people that we hit rock bottom and now we see six year old kid getting shot absent think it's racism audience a racist policy i don't agree with that whatsoever of the need to stop not the way to police our streets not to treat our people in this country and it should come to

an end. after the break a look at the far from glittering side of gold mining in colombia stay with us here on r.t. . for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president won my.