the u.n. says children are being used as fighters by both government and opposition forces in syria while colder to arms rebels from abroad grow louder this point in international involved word. to boldly say what no one has said before bradley manning is very claiming he became a whistleblower because of the u.s. army's a blood lust and leaked audio from his court hearings. there's more and you'll start to raise in your rope with a blog why day all the action aimed at stamping out a budget cuts that are blamed for an epidemic of unemployment. also as a new leader comes to power in china beijing and washington struggled for dominance in the age of looks set to heat up.

you're watching r t a line from moscow with me to bomb would say it's good to have you company with us of the soft and the child soldiers fighting them both sides of the bloody conflict in syria that's according to u.n. investigators and charities as a crisis in syria approaches its second anniversary this week of the u.n. is warning this is not a simplistic battle between good rebels and an evil regime reporter. has this update 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 eighteen and these children in the school ages where there's going to destroy and they don't have any other thing that we can get through today and

sometimes paid for paid for their paid in one of the most important example of this was the video that was produced or let's say on you tube something like a month month two months ago for a child of seven years old by heading 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 extremist group or against the government extremist groups are getting more control over their evolution we have a very remarkable report by al qaida of attacking some syrian soldiers in iraq and we have also some areas where the extremist group under the car the group trying to implement and our laws in some areas openly and in italy and implementing all the

all the traditional laws of inside the cities russia says any attempt by foreign governments said to the rebels in the conflict would be a breach of international laws that's one of the bridges admission that it's a way to trick nor the e.u. arms embargo to help the rebels find president assad and as artie's maria explains foreign involvement is increasing all the time. the syrian uprising the last of the arab spring sprang up in march two thousand and eleven by august of that year when in another arab spring country in libya colonel gadhafi had lost defacto power it was already clear who was next in the firing line this morning president obama called on assad to step aside as if one key many others would soon 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 every 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 the 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 countries 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 e.u.'s arms ban the us of a 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 the b.o.'s but he very would prevail instead the u.s. has decided to watch from a safe distance we played a crucial role in starting the americans can't fix this problem syrians have to fix this problem 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 result 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 the story or the of a hollywood blockbuster it features a ukrainian journalist held hostage by bandits in syria a fifty million dollar ransom and a daring escape. you know at some point i realized that you could be killed by the army as i was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or and be killed by the rebels in an exclusive interview to our t. and harder question of ah said she had to cross fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter find out more from the journalist account at r.t. dot com. and audio recording of bradley manning's court testimony has been lead to by his supporters the u.s. soldier is heard to say he became

a whistleblower to provoke debate about who was foreign policy and accuses the american army of blood lust he faces life behind bars for handing over thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks in two thousand and ten r.t.s. granted she can has more on the story. 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 patchy helicopter gunning down boisterous journalists in baghdad and then targeting those who showed up to rescue the wounded including

a van with children in that footage shocked the world. i mean that's a. hero. it was a. huge not. just. 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 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 just 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 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 said they were going to pursue that other people other people who are going to try to seek for more open transparency are going to be more hesitant because they know that this could mean three years of being put away in a chair 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 both bradley manning has been held in u.s. military custody for around three years now and the un special rapporteur on porcher has formally accused u.s. government of the grading 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 churches 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 on. russian experts are planning to intercept dimitrios before they smash into earth they hope to have the blueprints of bustelo rocket defense system in place by the

end of this year than have it up and running with an. answer the u.k. is showing signs of a dearth of or more russian gas pumps a high level delegations from the two countries met to discuss of the possibility of opening the taps so go online for all the details. a day all the action involving some of the largest trade unions in europe begins today ahead of a two day european summit the protests saw a huge at the massive and growing joblessness across the blog as well as the austerity cuts that's not talked to international consultant and former deputy speaker of the european parliament the news the midst of the news it's good to have you with us you know with all these austerity measures once again we're witnessing a clash between the people the public and bureaucracy who's going to win at the end

of this battle. just as just a short intermission are a deputy speaker of the belgian parliament but to get to your question one cannot measure social certain social service on a day by day basis this is definitely a long term struggle that's going to take years so it's not going to be over soon what we see is definitely a clash between what public opinion wants and what governments and the e.u. are doing can europe still live to its old. lifestyle as a vote hotez just want. and don't think you can just summarize what the protests want as just going back to the old lifestyle it's much more complex than that because what do you mean by old lifestyle what happened in the eighty's in the ninety's or what happened the seventy's or does sixty's but it definitely what they're asking for isn't getting back to this state of public authority was much

more active in the economy whether you like that or not from an ideological point of view is not a g.p. but that is definitely what the public here in the protests wants there want a much more public involvement in the economy. how will they get public involvement to between government and the public because it's kind of difficult to sort of sit down with that one one hand the public eye say we're going through the affair to cut a hitting us more than they hitting new and yet we are asking for these changes but these changes i'm being made so how do they come together and work together if that's what needs to be done to make sure that all these austerity measures and all that hardship is over well actually if you if you see the social protests what that means is that for the moment there is no such dialogue between the public authorities and the public so to speak and that is exactly what the problem is that for the moment there is no no real. how would

a say willingness to listen. when these people have to say i mean it's always about austerity it's also about privatization it's always about cutting down public services but the voices that say you have to do exactly the opposite to revive the economy are not being heard and that's why you get these protests let's talk about unemployment youth unemployment is also a major concern for the protesters the ones that solution has been offered for well what dangers could that points for the future if there is no solution to to cater to what's going on in terms of the high unemployment in the well and this is what it is europe or latin america or asia that doesn't give a perspective for a good future for young people isn't really dyess rates i mean this opens the way to forms of extremism people who are desperate spencer young people who look for answers on the extremes with this and the left side on the right said his mother but if you want to really prevent this to happen there's only one way out you have

to invest you have to invest in jobs and jobs especially for the young that's the only way to do it yes served as a senior politician before the way to see how the public and government were together either working together does the public have the people's interests at all are we just simplifying things because it's such a complex situation that there's so much that needs to be done from both sides to come to an agreement of some sort well i'm not going to idealized the ninety's and the being of the two thousand when i was in politics as though as if it was good then and it's not just as simple as that but it definitely what we see now more and more is governments and governments implementing boluses that go against the will of their own people not they call it all started they call it courageous decision and so on basically what it is is the destruction of the social compact as it was

constructed after the second moon and people don't want it they won't secure jobs there won't be good services and they're willing to pay taxes for it but they do not want this to be taxes give everything to big corporations or to the wealthy. load of unused international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament i thank you for your time thank you very much always a pleasure. still coming up but new pope old problems abuse scandals corruption within the catholic church and shrinking congregations are just some of the challenges the first lesson american pontiff will have with. palestinian president mahmoud pays his first visit to russia off the u.n. recognition hoping stoled middle east peace process can get a kick kiss of life one that after the break.

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back you're watching our team now breathing new life into a stalled middle east peace process is the order of the day in moscow where bloody meter putin is meeting his palestinian can't of blood mahmoud a bus he's on his first official visit to russia becoming president of the palestinian state in the wake of a u.n. vote last yeah it is the meeting this is mahmoud abbas his first visit to moscow since last november the united nations general assembly voted

to offer a the status of palestine to that of a nonmember observer state the move of sensually recognized palestine's right for statehood and has widely 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 the bag drop of a notable coolness inhalations between washington and tel aviv of course president obama has brought you from new fresh faces into his new administration during his second term and some of these faces have been notably if not just empty 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 possible a peaceful settlement. in china she has been formally confirmed as the new president completing a lengthy transition process he has already announced his first priorities as leader tackling corruption and narrowing the wealth gap at home and boosting the military budget plans outcome of a major u.s. effort to gain a stronger foothold in asia a tendency that has put beijing on edge washington has been expanding its military reach in the region as you can see on the map right now beijing based correspondent shannon of venice and has come some insights on the rivalry between the two powers 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 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 raid and the economies of these other brics nations and so trying to provide 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 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. all the paul games between the u.s. and china are also playing out in the digital world washington has less started beijing accusing chinese hackers of masterminding attacks on american cyber security. investigated whether the us is really the victim here.

a bigger threat than al qaeda this is how washington officials now describe the legit cyber attacks coming from china u.s. stop it 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 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 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 a competition between the superpowers will remain fractious if not downright dangerous. at least three people are being held hostage by a gunmen in the russian the sponsoring city of. the man locked themselves and his captives in the classroom of a fishing college initial number of hostages was five but two of them have now

since set be free the man claims to have explosives and is threatening to use them as if his demands are if his demands are not met is initial demands a work jurist dragon pizza and a coca-cola security forces have surrounded the building and entered into negotiations but no further demands have been made yet. and on that note let's look at some other international news in a brief way candlelit vigil for sixteen year old boy shot dead by police in new york has a turned into another night of rage as hundreds of protesters clashed with police in group. several of people were arrested this latest demonstration comes after a medical report showed the black teenager was hit by seven rounds in both the front and the back of his body authorities deny allegations of police brutality and racism insisting they opened fire in self defense.

a series of coordinated blosser have a hit to the iraqi capital baghdad killing dozens and wounding more than fifty but bombs went off near a number of government departments including the justice and foreign affairs ministries isolde gunmen who could still be involved in a shootout with security forces in the allawi district not far from the heavily defended green zone. roman catholics have a new leader and time born of pope francis has become the first point to ever from of the americas and the first of from outside europe in over a falls and yes the seventy six year old who was elected by a conclave of cardinals after five rounds of voting the search of for a manager lead more than a billion catholics began when at the previous pope resigned one of the main task for the newly elected pontiff will be rebuilding the churches reputation putting

a string of recent scandals. now a string of child a sex abuse cases where the most damaging let's look at just some of those numbers are the largest number of reported cases of children being abused by priests is in the u.s. allegations were made against more than four thousand priests and deacons more than a billion dollars has been paid out to victims in settlements in ireland which come second in these grim statistic of the church or had been turning a blind eye to the allegations for thirty years and in germany waldron two thirds of all diocese away allegedly involved in sex abuse scandals and austria is an example of how these scandals have led to people's a disillusionment with the church or almost ninety thousand austrians have visited in just one year. break in max kaiser and stacey have it

and look at the scandals behind the financial headlines that's kaiser report here ninety three with. a un 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 over 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 birdie 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 u.s. government no matter how much it's investigators whine and plead and beg but that's just my opinion.