catholics have 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. you know it in secretly recorded audio from the court bradley manning reveals why he sent thousands of u.s. classified documents to wiki leaks we take a look at how his case could affect whistle blowing. 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 giant. eleven am 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 argentine cardinal jorge mario bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the americas and the first from outside europe in more than a thousand years his election greeted by tens of thousands cheering in st peter's square in the vatican. white smoke finally seen from the rafters as the cardinals voted for a fifth time during the second day of the conclave that will be marked as one of the fastest in years the group had to choose a new leader for more than a billion catholics after the previous pope benedict the sixteenth step down or he's peter all over has more on the new pontiff and what his leadership might bring for the 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 comp 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. there was certainly far from some of the. vatican's bank there so corruption sexual abuse also the issue of mold mice in the church the house being campaign is 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 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 certainly not the only challenge pope francis has ahead of him the church also facing aggressive competition from islam as you can see here islam spreading across europe at a much faster rate than the christian church getting new members the number of muslims has grown by an estimated ninety percent in recent years the number of christians grown by a mere five percent by two thousand and thirty the growth of the muslim population expected to surpass one hundred fifty percent winning back the cotton it will be one of the most daunting tasks for the new pope and we've got more on the church

crisis on our website including all the theories as to why pope benedict the sixteenth resigned and the vatileaks scandal all that and more on r t dot com he's seen by one 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 he sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks in two thousand and ten in new leaked audio recording from his court martial manning accuses the u.s. army of not valuing human life and those who want to provoke a debate about american foreign policy artie's guy in a cheeky man has more. nobody was allowed to make recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals at the military court in february but someone did 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. going to it was a very huge. for. me this is. 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 would have been three years of pretrial punishment and detention that's something that i think even the u.s. government saw 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 study happening on exactly. do you think anybody ever is going to do anything like this again having mr manning 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 that's what 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 chair 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 thanks andrea thanks 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 the u.s. government of cold 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 the. wiki leaks activist clark stukely thinks manning's actions couldn't of 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 the enemy to harm the u.s. he made that very clear even shows cables and videos 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 strays to the promises the obama promised in two

thousand and eight. dot com ross and what you think about bradley manning's prosecution and testimony here's how the online votes stacks up just over half think bradley 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 and the same around think he's a naive idealist in case you haven't cast your vote click over to our web site and let us know what you think. an increasing number of children being recruited by both the rebels and pro-government forces in the bloody conflict in syria this according to u.n. investigators and charity activists as the bloody crisis in syria approaches its

second anniversary of this week the u.n. again warning conflict is far from a simple fight between good rebels and evil government forces let's go now to damascus and speak with a reporter abdullah malas xeni thank you very much for joining us here on r t so how exactly are children becoming involved in this deadly standoff in the country. the conflict is getting more complicated we have seen many many and phenomena to god the children being involved in this crisis and this conflict in particular one of the most important example of this was the video that was produced or let's say . you tube something like a month a month two months ago child of seven years old. cutting the head of the military officer in a pool and we have many reports about. position position forces especially from a group in syria they are recruiting people are recruiting children between eleven

years old and fifteen years old and this crisis. all right thank you very much for your insight damascus based reporter ma was indeed. russia says any attempt by foreign governments to arm rebels in the syrian conflict would be illegal the warning came as a burden indicated it might be prepared to bypass an e.u. arms embargo on syria to help the opposition fighting president assad as the number of deaths grows by the day sort of 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 from peace 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 . 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 the 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 motor home and abroad we are providing vital

humanitarian assistance but my it is here in 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 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. now to moscow to tell worthy of a hollywood blockbuster featuring a ukrainian journalist held hostage by a syrian band fifteen million dollar ransom in a daring escape take a listen. at some point i realized that you thought i'd be killed by the army as i was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or i'd be killed by the rebels in an exclusive r t interview on a hard coach and have a said she had to cross fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter a fight a war from her account on our team. more news coming away after a short break stay with us here on r.t.

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thanks for staying with us here on r t twenty minutes past the hour now china's new leader officially taking the reins of power as beijing completes a long process of a once in a decade transition of power the world keeping a close eye on who will lead the rising global player with the new leadership are already calling for a boost to military spending this amid a battle for influence in asia between china and the u.s. after washington shifted its priorities to the region and what's been called the asia pivot as we can see here the u.s. has been boosting its military presence but unsurprisingly the strategy is making china increasingly nervous beijing based correspondent shouted and said things there's an ideological rivalry between china and the west. i wouldn't say it's a competition yet militarily but certainly i can honestly and to some extent in terms of ideology and ideas in terms of how political system should be and liberalization there are

a lot of competing ideas right now between the west in between age and china specifically china's economy is growing at a very very impressive rate and the economies of us other brics nations and so china provides leadership in a certain way and china as well 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 economy and if it's going to continue to do that it has to make this transition from an economy based on many facts to an economy based on consumption that's one of the biggest challenges for china's new leadership in the years the. u.s. and china aren't just sizing up to each other militarily the two powers also moving closer to a digital war after president barack obama promised beijing tough talk over alleged cyber attacks this is the u.s. military is launching special units to launch offices in cyberspace in response to further attacks artie's lexer shows q reports on the digital conflict

a bigger threat than al qaida this is how washington officials now describe the legit cyber attacks coming from china u.s. officials now rank the threat of computer loads to foreign assaults higher than terrorism transnational organized crime and weapons of mass destruction. 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 and experts have no doubts 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 to some other stories making global headlines areas clashes between protesters and police multiple arrests mark the new york city district of brooklyn for a third consecutive evening more than one hundred people rallied in the streets voicing anger over police brutality after the killing of

a sixteen sixteen year old by police officers authorities maintain the dead teenager was the one who pointed the gun at officers protesters accuse the police of murder. 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 a renewed part of peace talks aimed at ending three decades of us still agreed between the. movement demands turkey recognised kurdish identity and its new constitution and release hundreds of imprison activists where than forty thousand people have been killed in fighting between the two sides so far. and then thai austerity rally broke out in brussels just prior to a meeting of the european council 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 of gathered in belgians capital to find a balance between the need for austerity cuts and also public investment in the union's member states. kaiser report coming up after

a short break stay with us. a u.n. investigator ben emmerson 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 of 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 without 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 connected 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 naive enough to think that they'll 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.

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manage to answer this is the kaiser report numbers can tell a different story don't get fooled by the station over tells more yes max in the past week we've had the dow jones hitting all time highs and everybody of course celebrating that the jobs numbers look good they came in better than expected but check out this headline and yet the labor force participation rate is still falling and turning to this nice chart here and you can see that yes indeed this is the participation rate by those available to work in the market and they are not working sixty three point five percent of the workforce is actually working now all of this looking at the chart and the data that was available from the bureau of labor statistics is that felix salmon of reuters said that the number of multiple job holders rose by three hundred forty thousand this month to seven point two six million arise larger than the headline rise in payrolls which means that one way of

looking at this report is to say that all of the new jobs created were second or third jobs going to people who were already employed elsewhere so remember this is that famous scene looking back on george w. bush when he was campaigning for reelection and he was sitting there with that woman who said yeah i have three jobs and he's like uniquely american isn't it so these are people who are taking out second and third jobs in these new segment their job all the. that's calculators being a new job overall and this is heralded as oh this is fantastic there is growth in the economy but the labor participation rate continues to decline but that faulty assessment of what's happening with jobs is all the impetus needed by the algorithms on wall street to kick in borrow another trillion or two trillion buy stocks at the market drive the dow jones to new highs and then say you see jobs are plentiful stocks are higher failing to say that the job participation rates crashing and.