catholics have a new pope with argentina jorge mario bergoglio becoming the first south american ever to head the church that's now facing his grazer greatest crisis in decades. speaking out in secretly recorded audio from court bradley manning reveals why he sent thousands of u.s. classified documents to wiki leaks we'll take a look at how his case could affect the whistleblower. china's new leader officially takes the reins of power with priorities to boost defense spending and make the country one of the world's military giants. it's ten am in moscow i met a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour the catholic church

has itself a new leader argentine cardinal 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 gathered in st peter's square in the vatican i. i the white smoke was finally seen from the rafters after cardinals voted fourth fifth time during the second day of the conclave that will be remembered as one of the fastest in recent years the group had to choose a new leader for more than a billion catholics after the previous pope benedict the sixteenth stepped down from the post peter all over as 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 complex 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 asians that they were certainly. from globally some of the. vatican's bank there so corruption sexual abuse also the issue of the church the have been campaign is still talking about the church accepting gay marriage accepting perhaps

a change only celibacy laws for 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 very much 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 rebuilding the churches reputation after recent scandals will certainly not be the only task facing pope francis the church is now facing aggressive competition from islam as you can see the faith is spreading across europe much faster than the christian church is getting new members the number of muslims grown by an estimated ninety percent in recent years the number of christians by a mere five percent growth by twenty thirty the growth of the muslim population expected to surpass one hundred fifty percent winning back the cut and it will be one of the most daunting tasks for the new pontiff got more on the church in crisis

on our website including all the theories as to what why pope benedict the sixteenth step down and the so-called vatileaks scandal all that and more a click away on our web site r t dot com. 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 in his own words explaining why you sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks in two thousand and ten in a new leak the audio recording from his court martial manning accuses the u.s. army of not valuing human life and says he wanted to provoke a debate about the country's foreign policy or he's got it she reports. 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 apache helicopter gunning down boisterous journalists in baghdad and then targeting those who showed up to rescue the wounded including a band with children in that footage shocked the world. it was i mean that's what. you're. it was a very you know. for me. it seems like 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 in the song 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 or 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 it was still lower it's already happening on exactly do you think anybody ever is going to do anything like this again having missed too many example in mind i mean places like unpleasant 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 we're 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 but 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 senator thank you very much well frankly 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 fear is

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 finished. with you exacted his clerks directly things 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 that doesn't look very good for the obama administration or the government anyway obviously was not motivated to 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 is a disgrace to our military it's a disgrace to the promises the obama promised in two thousand they are to dot com

or what you think about bradley manning's prosecution and testimony here is how the on line vote stacks up so far just over a half thing manning has become a scapegoat in the u.s. war on whistleblowers little more than a third call him a martyr for the cause of free speech seven percent think he's actually guilty of high treason in the same amount think he's simply a naive idealist what do you think log on to our tea dot com and let us know what you in your opinion. china's new leader officially taking the reins of power as beijing completes a long process of a once in a decade transition the world keeping

a close eye on who will lead the rising global player with a new leadership already announcing a boost to military spending is coming amid a battle for influence in asia between china and the u.s. after washington shifted its priorities to the region in what's been called the asia pivot as we see on the map the u.s. has been boosting its military presence but unsurprisingly the strategy is making china increasingly nervous based correspondent shannon events and so there's also an ideological rivalry between the west and china. i wouldn't say it's a competition yet militarily but certainly at canonical e and to some extent in terms of ideology and ideas in terms of of how political system should be and liberalization there are a lot of competing ideas right now between the west and between age and china specifically china's economy is growing at a very very impressive rate and the economies of these other brics nations and so china provides leadership in a certain way and china as well of their trade relationships with brazil with african nations with russia and india it's very very important and so i think it'll

be very interesting to see going forward china of course right now in some ways this fueling the world's economy and if it's going to continue to do that it has to make this transition from an economy based on manufacturing to an economy based on consumption that's one of the biggest challenges for china's new leadership in the years ahead of us and china aren't just sizing up to each other militarily the two powers also moving closer to a digital war after president obama promised beijing tough talk over alleged cyber attacks originating there is the u.s. military is creating a special unit to launch offenses in cyberspace in response to further attacks or show skew reports on the digital conflict. a bigger threat than al qaeda this is how washington officials now describe the legit cyber attacks coming from china u.s. stop or 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 queues china 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 systems 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 and experts have no doubt it was created by israel and the united states to derail iran's nuclear program 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. russia says arming syrian rebels would be against international law this after western powers drop growing hints about providing military aid in a few minutes a look at how backing the broad affects the bloody syrian war. dozens arrested in brooklyn during scuffles with over the deadly police shooting of a teenager and more after a short break stay with us. download

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technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we. covered. every staying with us here on our t.v. sixty minutes past the hour now fear is clashes with police enraged protesters multiple arrests it's been far from a quiet night in the new york district of brooklyn for a third consecutive evening more than one hundred people rallied in the streets voicing anger over the killing of a black sixteen year old by police officers they claim the teenager pointed a gun at them but as are his marine important i reports the deadly shooting has sparked concerns of systematic racism in the n.y.p.d. . 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 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 eleven times and was late was brought to a hospital where he later died now according to police they say that the teenager mr gray 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. a lot of residents in the community on monday evening approximately one hundred people holding a vigil for come on gray when 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. in his neighborhood concerned police. veteran police force. and then. back to times absolutely crazy what happened 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 now if anything this latest episode latest event has just fuel to the distrust that already exists between millions of new yorkers and the n.y.p.d. reporting from flatbush brooklyn new york marina port night r.t.

michael skolnik editor of the current affairs web site global grind thinks there's a rise in police brutality against innocent teams and must be stopped as of right now to officers have been put on a mission a mission to meet their names not be released i think at some point their names will be released and if there is a investigation and if they were in fact was doing wrong i sincerely hope they put on trial for murdering i six year old child but until that point it is an investigation ongoing investigation most of the folks are out there on monday and tuesday night were just exercising their constitutional right to peacefully assemble and to protest and majority overwhelming majority of them were peaceful and were set in sad mourning the death of their friend i support them in doing that until they have answers to the answers that indeed they should approach as they should take into the streets we have a harvell racist policy called stop and frisk i want to stop being an overwhelming

number of black and brown men in our city if for no apparent reason this might have been a stop and frisk action by the police will not sure yet but there isn't a tag a nation of the police 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 at the need to stop dr way to police our streets not to treat our people in this country and it should come to an end. you can follow developments of the turmoil in brooklyn r.t. dot com head there for the latest info and pictures on this and other news including a story worthy of a hollywood blockbuster listen in. some way until i realized that you thought i'd 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 rebels and ukrainian journalist held hostage by syrian bandits tells r.t.

in an exclusive interview how she had to cross fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot for her daring escape. russia's as any tribe 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 an e.u. arms embargo on syria to help the opposition fighting the assad regime bloody civil war now approaching its second anniversary having claimed an estimated seventeen thousand lives as the number of deaths continues to grow daily so does foreign involvement as artie's marine if an ocean explains. 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 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 piece many others would soon echo 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 look at the regime of bashar al assad must come to an end we ask the regime to step down. has to go through 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 had in syria both at home and abroad we are providing vital

humanitarian assistance for my it is terry an 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 countries do 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 e.u.'s arms ban the us offered no objections everyone knows that the us 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 us 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 is 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 condemn 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the militant group the kurdistan workers party has released six turkish soldiers plus a police officer and a local official after holding them captive for two years the move came as part of a new peace talks aimed at ending three decades of hostility between the p.k. k. and the movement demands turkey recognize kurdish identity and its new constitution and release hundreds of its imprison it jim is more than forty thousand people have been killed in fighting between both sides so far. and as sturdy rally broke out in brussels just prior to a meeting of the european council

a group of demonstrators 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 belgians capital to find a balance between the need for austerity cuts and also public investment in the union's member states. up ahead breaking the set with abby martin stay with us. a u.n. investigator been emerson has decided to not let the sins of the recent past go he's demanding that the u.s. government release documents about the cia's program for addition and secret detention of suspected terrorists everson believes that there is now credible evidence that shows that cia black sites were used to extradite suspected terrorists with neither charges nor access to

a lawyer you know nothing says protect a democracy like snagging people in foreign countries even charging them with a crime this huge investigator may have good intentions but the thing is that no matter how much he and his u.n. pals urge the u.s. to prosecute officials connect with torture or expose classified information they really have no power to do anything if you haven't noticed the un is very happy to section and punish certain countries bernie if you out there i even have to think that they will sanction the usa or send a peacekeeping mission to stop the human rights violators in washington not a chance the un really has no business meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries but they do it all the time but there is a zero percent chance that the un will stand up to the bad behavior from the us government no matter how much its investigators whine and plead and beg but that's just my opinion.

to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so many i mean family and the towns i believe that i'm seeing really messed up. in the old story so closely. it's a little worse for the only thing the white house or the. radio guy for a minute from a hospital i want. to give you've never seen anything like this i'm told. bottom drawer no it's welcome a break in the set i'm your host abby martin paul recently audio of the thirty five page handwritten statement by whistleblower private bradley manning has been leaked

it's the first time the public is at a chance to hear his voice since before his military detention here's a bit of that recording where manning describes the now famous collateral murder video take a listen. to the others did you all remember terry ball's interview with the little so even though i'm a little one of the everybody who remembers early enough or. not good for me this is similar to a child in the night. now while the identity of the person who leaked the audio remains a mystery thanks to them the world will always hear manning's voice and story and breaking the set will always be a platform to tell it.