the u.n. says children are being increasingly used as fighters and human shields in the syrian crisis is why both the rebels and government forces. speaking out in secretly recorded ordeal from korda bradley manning reveals why he sent thousands of the with classified documents to wiki leaks to discuss how this case could affect whistle blowing. china's new leader of fishing he takes the reins of power with his priorities do you believe the fans to make the country one of the world's a military giant. wherever

you're watching around the world this is our duty to mahmoud's and it's good to have your company with us. an increasing number of children are being recruited by both rebels and pro-government forces in the bloody conflict in syria that's according to un investigators and charity activist as the crisis in syria is approaching its second anniversary this week at the u.n. is again warning the conflict is far from a simple fight between good rebels and evil government forces reporter dilemma was ini has the details from damascus. the conflict is getting more complicated we have seen many many phenomena regarding the children being involved in this crisis we have seen many children like eighteen and. shouldn't and the school ages where their school they were destroyed and they don't have any other thing they've been going through to done some time paid for or paid for they've paid and one of the north important example of this was the video that was on you tube something like

a month month two months ago for a child of seven years old by having cutting the head of a military officer in an airport and we have many reports about position position of force especially from a group in syria they are recruiting people are recruiting children between eleven years old and fifteen years old in order to fight with their with this explains to group against the government extremist groups getting more control over the pollution we have a very remarkable report by al-qaeda of attacking some syrian soldiers and we have also some areas where the extremists on their cars are you trying to implement islamic sharia laws in some areas were fairly poor and in italy implementing all the all the traditional laws of inside the cities russia says any attempt by foreign governments to arm rebels in the syrian conflict

a would be illegal one came as britain indicated it might be prepared to bypass an evil arms embargo in syria to help the opposition fighting president assad as a number of deaths in the civil standoff grow by the day so does foreign involvement as artie's maria fanaa 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 pag 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 because 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 of 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 criticized for its failure to bring things to head in syria home and abroad we are providing vital humanitarian assistance for 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 u.s. 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 has been interested in seeing if there's a way out of this mess but in reality america is still in a 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 is doing little to stop others doing just that washington was silent when and other nato 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 the u.s. but he would prevail instead the u.s. has decided to watch from a safe distance when it played a crucial role in starting the americans can't fix this problem syrians have to fix this problem is genuinely surprising after telling years seventy thousand deaths a million people displaced tough sanctions imposed on syria dozens of countries within nato and the arab league condemning 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. knotty mosco. now it's

a story worthy of a hollywood blockbuster it features a ukrainian journalist held hostage by bandits in syria of a million dollar ransom and a daring escape. at some point i realized that you dared be killed by the army as i was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or be killed by the rebels in an exclusive interview to r t r question of oz that he had to cross the fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot to before finding shelter find out more from the journalists account at 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 voice 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 a says he wanted to provoke a debate about u.s. foreign policy artie's can and should you can report. nobody was allowed to make recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals of 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. those are you know. 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 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 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 story happening on exactly. do you think anybody ever is going to do anything like this again having many example in mind i think 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 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 trial 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 for 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 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 and vanished. we hear his clock stokely believes the mannings 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 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's a disgrace to our military it's a it's a disgrace to the promises the promised in two thousand and eight. and on our com we've been asking what you think about bradley manning's prosecution and testimony yet how the online verge of looks like a safe. off of you think that it's going to come up a right now but how full of you think that manning has become

a scapegoat in the u.s. a law in whistleblower was a little over a third of the say he's a model for the cause of free speech and only seven percent think he's actually guilty of high treason while the same amount to believe he's just so naive idealist if you haven't called your vote yet have to our website and let us know your opinion. was was. was was. was. like i was. such. reviving the middle east peace process that has been stalled for years is a key focus of talks today between russian leader vladimir putin and his policy in contra park in moscow mahmoud abbas is on his first official visit to russia since

becoming president of the palestinian state and the way governor you would vote here in english though is following the meeting. this is my point about his first visit to moscow since last november the united nations general assembly voted to offer great the status of howard time to that of a non member of their first state of the movie essentially recognized palestine's right for statehood and has why they've been considered as part of the basis for a permanent peace settlement and of course this is going to be one of the major issues to be discussed between the palestinian and russian leader this is coming ahead of the forthcoming visit by president obama to palestine and there's also house sitting on the bag dropped off a notable coolness inhalations between washington and tel aviv of course president obama has brought new from new fresh faces into his new administration during his second term and some of these spaces have been notably it's not just i'm t. israel then definitely not quite as friendly as the previous administrations have been for example john kerry on his first trip abroad in his capacity as secretary

of state has not paid a visit to israel that was noted by many and of course there's also chuck hagel who has openly spoken about israel has said that israel is on its way to create apartheid and was generally regarded as an anti israeli official in the u.s. administration so it's these issues which are obviously dominating the israel palestine. and of course these are also the issues which will be on the table for discussion in moscow today you're watching our team all international news all this break. killing it with oh if you're going to steal from the. truth it's going. to. be great. to see the stories to do.

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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. shining corporations are the day. thank. you. welcome back you're watching our team china's new leader is officially taking the reigns of paul as beijing completes a long process of a once in a decade transition the world is keeping a close eye on who lead the rising global player with

a new leadership already announcing a boost to military spending it comes amid a battle for influenza in asia between china and the u.s. after washington shifted its prior she's to the region in what's been dubbed the age of pivot as we can see on the map of the u.s. has begun boosting its military presence here but i'm surprisingly the strategy is making china increasingly nervous beijing based correspondent shannon oven center says there's also an ideological rivalry between the west and china. i wouldn't say it's a competition yet militarily but certainly i can amik lee 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 and to be nation and china specifically china's economy is growing at a very very impressive rate and the economies of us other brics nations and so trying to provide 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 is 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 many fracturing to an economy based on consumption that's one of the biggest challenges for china's new leadership in the years ahead. while the u.s. and china are in just sizing up to each other's military relieve the two poles also moving closer to a digital wall off to barack obama promised beijing tough talk allege a cyber attacks that says the u.s. military is creating special units to launch offenses in cyberspace in response to for the attacks on. 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 accused 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 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. more international news in brief now furious clashes between protesters and police and multiple arrests among the night in the new york district of brooklyn four thirty converted to evening more than a hundred people rallied in the streets voicing their anger over police brutality following the killing of a black a sixteen year old by police officers of florida's maintain of the dead teenager

was the one who pointed the gun at the officers but protesters accuse the police of murder. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu likud party and its two negotiating partners have reached a deal on forming a government the new cabinet appears sergio to address of pressing domestic issues and is likely to take office next week before of visit by u.s. president barack obama netanyahu emerges victorious by the weekend from generators of parliamentary elections and had to concede on several points with the centrist yes a team ponty and the process jewish home part. scientists have confirmed the discovery of the higgs of the sun commonly dubbed the good particle it was found last july but it has taken until now to officially authenticate the higgs boson is considered

a missing comma stone of physics which could help explain the creation of the universe scientists have been looking for this for decades with the surgeon tests of intensifying after the building of the world's biggest atom smasher the large hadron collider in geneva. other roman catholic church has got itself a new leader in time born of pope francis has become the first pontiff ever from the americas and to the fruits of from outside europe in more than a thousand yes the seventy six year old pontiff but was elected on the fifth ballot during the second day of the voting the conclave had to choose a new leader for more than a billion catholics after the previous pope benedict the sixteenth resigned one of the main tasks for the newly elected pope well will be to rebuild to the churches reputation following the recent scandals that let's take a little bit more look at the catholic church in itself

a numerous child sex abuse cases where certainly the most damaging for the church let's look at some of the. extraordinary numbers of the launches number of reported cases of children being abused by priests have taken place in the you know you can see there the such allegation were also made against more than four thousand priests and deacons more than a billion dollars has been paid by the u.s. churches to victims in settlements now in ireland which comes as second in the grim statistic of the church had been turning a blind eye at the allegations for over thirty years in germany more than two thirds of all diocese there where allegedly involved in sex abuse scandals and austria here is an example of these scandals that have led to people's disillusionment with the church and almost ninety thousand austrians deserted the

church in just one year. now moving along a besides attacking the consequences of those scandals pope francis has another major challenge ahead of him let's take a look at this the church is now facing aggressive competition from islam as you can see here islam is spreading across europe much faster than the christian church gets a new members the number of muslims has grown by an estimated ninety percent each year and the number of christians by a mere five percent by twenty thirty the growth of the muslim population is expected to surpass one hundred and fifty percent and winning back the continent will be one of the most daunting tasks for the new pope. right other head if they're breaking the sad to with every month and 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 u.n. is very happy to section and punish certain countries bernie if you out there are

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 u.s. government no matter how much it's investigators wind 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 the towns i believe that i've seen the scenery really messed up. and we're all very so personally apologized the. worst year for the only thing the

white house chief of a. radio guy and for sale minestrone office i want you to watch closely the power to do good you've never seen anything like this i'm told. bottom drawer no folks welcome a break in the set i'm your host abby martin well recently audio of the thirty five page handwritten statement by whistleblower private bradley manning has been leaked since the first time the public that attends 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 already know terry ball's interview was serious about it so even though i'm a little one of the everybody who remembers early enough for the first by.