u.n. says children being increasingly used as human fighters and human shields in the syrian crisis by both rebels and government forces. so you know it in secretly recorded audio from court bradley manning reveals why he sent thousands of us ossified documents to wiki leaks we discussed how his case could affect whistleblowers. leader officially takes the reins of power with his priorities to boost defense spending to meet the country one of the world's military giants. one am and one pm in moscow très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story an increasing number of

children being recruited by both rebels and pro-government forces in the bloody conflict in syria this according to un investigators and charity activists as the bloody crisis in syria is approaching its second anniversary this week the un is again warning the conflict far from a simple fight between good rebels and evil government forces reporter. has the details from damascus. the conflict is getting more complicated we have seen many many phenomena to guarding the children being involved in this crisis we have seen many children eighteen and. shouldn't and the school ages where this would be would destroy and they don't have any of that being a good clue to done some time paid for paid and one of the most important example of this was the video that was on you tube something like a month a month two months ago put it child of seven years old by having cutting the head of the office at a pool and we have many reports about position position of force especially from

a new kind of group in syria they are recruiting people and recruiting children between eleven years old and fifteen years old you know that the fight was there with this exchange the group against the government extremists a group getting more control over the pollution we have video of the. fact that the. syrian soldiers it and we have also some areas where the extremists . trying to implement and. somebody has openly. implementing all of that all of that the additional loads of inside the cities russia says any try by foreign governments to arm rebels in syria's conflict would be a legal warning came as britain indicated it might be ready to bypass in the e.u. arms embargo on syria to help the opposition fighting president assad as the number of deaths in the civil standoff grows by the day so does foreign involvement as artie's worry 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 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 the from key 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 with 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. 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 enough to tell here is seventy thousand a million people displaced tough sanctions imposed on syria dozens of countries within nato and the arab league can damage 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. we have a hollywood blockbuster featuring ukrainian journalist held captive by bandits in syria a fifteen million dollar ransom ended daring escape take a listen. at some point 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 in an exclusive interview to coach me of a said she had to cross fifteen unforgiving kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter more from the journalistic counted r t dot com. he's been 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 he sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks in two thousand and ten in a new leak to audio recording from his court martial many uses of the our american army of not valuing human life and says he wanted to provoke a debate about u.s. foreign policy or he's got a cheeky on his 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 van with children and that footage shocked the world. it was about i mean that's what. you're. not going to that.

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 of what had been three years of pretrial punishment and detention that's something that 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 followers 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 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 trail 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 well probably 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 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 manning 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 finished. will give you exact of 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 but doesn't look very good for the obama administration or the government in the way 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's

a disgrace to our military it's a disgrace to the promises the obama promised in two thousand and eight on our website r.t. dot com what you think about bradley manning's prosecution and testimony here is how the online vote is stacking up thus far half of you about 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 only seven percent think he's actually guilty of treason while the same amount believe he's a naive idealist what do you think lied on to r.t. dot com and cast your vote more news coming your way after a short break stay with us. wealthy british style. is no time to.

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thanks for staying with us here on r t fourteen minutes past the hour now china's new leader officially taking the reins of power as beijing completes the long process of a once in a decade transition rose keeping a close eye on who will lead the rising global player with new leadership already announcing a boost to military spending now this coming amid a battle for influence in influence in asia between china and the u.s. after washington shifted its priorities in the region and what's been dubbed the asia pivot as we can see here the u.s. has been boosting its military presence in the region but unsurprisingly the strategy is making china nervous for more on this i'm joined by political analyst pak neumann wong thank you very much for joining us here on r t so how do you see china's foreign policy priorities changing under this new leadership in the country

. hi i think the chinese strategic circles are discussing forming strategic shoe was a response to the us people it's in asia and these strategic issues in cruel north korea pakistan and iran and the other these kind of countries from east asia tools southeast asia and then to indian ocean now this strategic shoes it's purpose is minute to the threat the. pleasure that the americans. forging with her partner such as japan south korea philippines and india to press on china so the start excuse would work to cope with china so that if we were trying to neutralize the pressure caused by the u.s. before policy however recently we also see that what happened to north korea is

that. lucian with the u.s. to sanction north korea but i think we need to look at it in a different point of view because with these sanction over north korea i guess the possibility is that you just push north korea to be much more isolated and at the end it actually will become more dependent on china. now the u.s. government has said it doesn't want a rivalry or a confrontation with china so why is washington trying to achieve with its increased focus in the asian region. i don't think the chinese government is looking in this way all full. appearance the the us the north appearing to be very aggressive and assertive but. i'm looking that in this way since president bar obama is being and tangle by

a serious of internal domestic issues such as the feast call and but issues the control issues and also he's being untangled by the middle east and also the israeli policy issue and in fact the u.s. has to outsource. anti terrorism work to friends in places such as my leniency in africa so in east asia in particularly in the pacific side of asia you could see the u.s. has been outsourcing containment to japan and that has been make. a lot because of the territorial dispute with japan on these and the chinese side because the island. now briefly the u.s.

is also stepping up arms sales to many of its allies in the region including japan do you think that could make those allies take a more aggressive stance militarily on their own. yeah i think it is scatting very very trend because prime minister she's all be he has been very unhappy to declare his right wing tendency. that the. chinese korean and also people in taiwan and also in thing for every. japan's position if the us continue to sell arms all to allow the op a rush him to loosen military control of the abhi rush him that will cause a lot of rattles in in just in not just china also in korea and also in taiwan in the asian countries all right thank you very much for your insight

well 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 barack obama promised beijing tough talk over alleged cyber attacks is the u.s. military is creating special units to launch offenses in cyberspace in response to further attacks and he's like sarah chefs he has more 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. 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 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 the competition

between the superpowers will remain fractious if not downright dangerous. to the now to some other stories making headlines across the globe here is clashes between protesters and police and multiple arrests marked the night in the new york district of brooklyn for a third consecutive evening more than one hundred people rallied in the streets if their anger over police brutality after the killing of a black sixteen year old by police officers authorities maintain the dead teenager was the one who pointed a gun at officers protesters accuse the police of murder. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is lakewood party and its two negotiating partners have reached a deal on forming a new government the new cabinet appears to address pressing domestic issues and is likely to take office next week before a visit by u.s. president barack obama netanyahu emerged victorious but weakened from january's parliamentary elections and had to concede several points on the center with the centrist party in the pro settler jewish home party.

an anti austerity rally broke out in brussels just prior to 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 you had of state and gathered in the belgian capital to strike a balance between the need for austerity cuts but also public investment in the unions member states. the catholic church has itself a new leader argentina jorge mario bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the americas and the first from outside europe for more than a thousand years his election was greeted by tens of thousands who gathered at st peter's square in vatican city take a look. 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 in years the group had to choose a new leader for more than a billion catholics worldwide after previous pope benedict the sixteenth step down one of the main tasks for the newly elected seventy six year old pope will be rebuilding the church's reputation after recent scandals. numerous child abuse scandals certainly the most damaging for the church let's take a look at some of those extraordinary numbers now the largest number of these reported cases of children being abused by priests happen in the u.s. more than three thousand civil lawsuits have been filed there against the church with allegations made against more than four thousand priests and deacons ireland second in these grim statistics with tens of thousands of children reportedly abused other european countries also not spared from the scandals. now besides tackling the consequences of these scandals pope francis has other major challenges ahead of him the church facing aggressive competition from islam

as you can see the faith is spreading across europe faster 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 a mere five percent by two thousand and thirty the growth of the muslim population expected to surpass hundred fifty percent winning back the con it will be one of the most daunting task for the new pontiff after a short break kaiser report stay with us here on r.t. . 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 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 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 contraries birdie of 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. the something evil extreme cold isn't the chilling threat to life or imminent death it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in the rates in my body feels really warm now and this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to make themselves stronger you can't get used to the cold but you can tolerate it and you can struggle with. people of snow and ice picks as a frost. surviving the cold.

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a different story don't get fooled by the hype stacy ever tells moore yes max in the past week we've had a 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 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 and these new segment there are job holders that's calculators being a new job overall and this is heralded as oh this is fantastic there's growth in the economy but the labor participation rate continues to decline but that faulty assessment of what's happening with job 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 so you see job's are plentiful stocks are all they're failing to say that the job participation rates crashing and the debt. driving these prices has never been higher so there's a huge goal between the.