the u.n. says children are being used by both government and opposition forces in syria. to all rebels from abroad to grow despite an international embargo. to boldly say what no one has said before bradley manning is heard claiming he became a whistleblower because of the u.s.

army's a block lost on leaked audio from his court hearing. there's more rage in the europa of the day of action aimed at stopping all the budget cuts but of blame for an epidemic of unemployment. right now this is china's a new president ray being sworn in more coming up. in a national news analysis and a report so this is all. child soldiers fighting on both sides of the bloody conflict in syria that's according to un investigators and charities as the crisis

in syria approaches its second anniversary this week the un is warning that this is not a simple battle between good rebels and an evil regime reporter xeni has this update from to mask. 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 their school day were destroyed and they don't have any other thing that we can get through today and sometimes paid for paid for they have paid into 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 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 that evolution we have a very marketable report by al-qaeda of attacking some syrian soldiers in iraq and we have also some areas where the extremist group under the group trying to implement and. in some areas openly and indeed live implementing all the all the traditional laws of al qaeda inside the cities. russia says any attempt by foreign governments to arm rebels in the conflict it would be a breach of international law and follows of britain's admission that it's ready to ignore the e.u. arms embargo to help the rebels like president assad and as artie's maria phenomena 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 tag on assad to step aside as if on cue 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 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 criticized 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 here in assistance doesn't stop bombs. the rebels who have suffered losses as have you as the military now say 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 use arms ban the us of a no objections everyone knows that the u.s. 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 enough to tell here is 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 race national naughty mosco now it's a story worth of a hollywood blockbuster good features a ukrainian journalist held hostage by bandits in syria of a few million dollar ransom and a daring escape. at some point i realized that you dared be killed by the army is that was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets board be killed by the rebels in an exclusive interview to our t.

and how the question of us said she had to cross a fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on foot before finding shelter find out more from the journalists account at our teen dot com. an audio recording of bradley manning's court testimony has been leaked by his supporters a u.s. soldier is heard saying he became a whistleblower to provoke debate about u.s. 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 artie's gannett 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 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. i mean that's. your. it was a. huge. point. for. me this is such a child. 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 in the song did you get a sense of what he would have done the same had he known how this would turn out you know i don't think bradley manning or anyone else would have known that by leaking this information would have been three years or 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 whistleblowers story 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 said that 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 thanks very much 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 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 manning pleaded guilty to ten out of twenty two charges brought against him just one of 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. before they smash into the earth they hope to see you prince of stellar rock defense system in place by the end of this yeah then have it up and running within five. and the u.k. is showing signs of a third more russian gas off the high level delegations from the two countries met to. thus the possibility of opening the taps go online for all the details. a day of action involving some of the largest trade unions in europe begins today ahead of a two day european summit

a protest saw aimed at the message of ongoing joblessness across the block as well as the austerity cuts international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament a load of unused is that it is a struggle that will last for yes one cannot measure social certain social circle on a day by day basis this is definitely a long term struggle that's going to take years definitely what we see now more and more is governments and governments implementing boluses that go against their will on their own people now they call it austerity they call it courageous decision and so on basically what it is is the destruction of the social combat as it was constructed after the second moon war and that is exactly what the problem is that for the moment the willingness to listen to what 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 do voices that say you have to do exactly the opposite to revive the economy are not being hurt and that's why you get these protests i mean this is a way to forms of extremism people who are desperate for special young people will look for ancestors on the extremes with us from 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 just push that specially for the young that's the only way to do it. i reckon i'll show you live pictures from the protests which about to begin now provided by a rugby video agency some of the largest trade unions of from a cross you rope have come together on the eve of today european leaders summit budget cuts and especially unemployment job the focus of the rallies you to in their millions across europe have watched their job prospects think the with the

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they're watching are to you thanks for staying with us breathing new life into a stalled middle east peace process is the order of the day in moscow wavelet to meet a putin has met his palestinian counterpart mahmoud abbas is on his first official visit to russia since becoming president of the palestinian state in the wake of a u.n. vote late last year it has been following the sweety. this is mahmoud abbas his first visit to moscow since last november the united nations general assembly voted to operate the fingers of palestine to that of a non member of the over state of the movie essential to recognize palestine is 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

house sitting on the backdrop 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 at this guy anti israel than 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 announces for his priorities as leader

tackling corruption and narrowing the wealth gap at home and restoring the military budget the plans comedy u.s. efforts to gain a struggle foothold in asia a tendency that has spurred beijing on edge washington has been expanding its military reach in the region as you can see the on the map beijing based correspondent shannon o'brien center has some inside 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 how political system should be and liberalization there are a lot of competing ideas right now between the west and between asia 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 as 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 ball games between the u.s. and china also playing out in the digital world washington has left out at beijing accusing chinese hackers of must in minding attacks on american cyber security. investigated whether the u.s. is really the victim here. a bigger threat than al qaeda this is how washington officials now described alleged 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 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 in competition between the superpowers will remain fractious if not downright dangerous. a man who took four men hostage in russia saw the in-city of us or khan has been arrested by police all of the captives have been freed and none are injured the man claimed to have explosives and threaten to use them his initial request where he too extravagantly also for pizza and a coca-cola he's now awaiting questioning. roman catholics have a new leader in time born pope francis has become the first pontiff ever from the americas and the first are from outside europe in over a thousand yes the seventy six year old was elected by a conclave of cardinals after five rounds of voting the search of for

a manager leader more than a billion catholics began one of the previous pope resigned one of the main task for the newly elected pontiff movie rebuilding the churches reputation following a spate of scandals. now a string of child sex abuse cases or where the most damaging unless you look at just some of those numbers the largest number of reported cases of children being abused by priests is in the you as allegations were made against more than four thousand priests and deacons more than a billion dollars has been paid out to victims in the settlements in ireland which come second in these groups to to six the church had been turning a blind eye to the allegations for over thirty years now and in germany two thirds of the diocese away allegedly involved in sex abuse scandals and all she is an example of how these scandals have led to people's a does allusion meant with the

church almost ninety thousand austrians have deserted the church is just one yeah now right now to discuss the challenges of facing the new pope we've got italian journalists of franco. mr oliver thank you very much for joining us now benedict to step down saying he no longer had the strength to carry on as as pope pope francis is just two years younger than his predecessor if we able to is he up to the task i hope mr oliver can you hear me. miss all of i can you are you able to hear me. ok we don't have mr oliver at the moment will bring you more from him in the next hour but for now that's all we have for this hour let's now return quickly to one of our top stories of the european day all the action against austerity these are

live pictures from the protests which have just begun they are provided by our genes or rather the video agency some of the largest trade unions are from across europa have come together on the eve of a two day european leaders a summit budget cuts and especially unemployment are the focus of the rallies you could say any of them millions across europe have washed their job of prospects think of with the euro crisis just to remind you you can watch iraq please live stream from the protests at our team home. right i'll be back with more latest news in around thirty minutes a do stay with us might be for that report on an unseen conflict in a remote area of colombia a scramble for gold you're watching on t.v. .

or you were an 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 series program of addition and secret detention of suspected terrorists and recent believes that there is now credible evidence that shows that black sites were used extradite suspected terrorists with neither charges nor access to a lawyer you know nothing says protect a democracy like snagging people in foreign countries even charging them with a crime this year investigator may have good intentions but the thing is that no matter how much he and his. un pelz urge the u.s. to prosecute officials connect with torture or expose classified information they really have no power to do anything if you haven't noticed the un is very happy to section and punish certain countries bernie if you out there 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 us government no matter how much it's investigators whine and plead and beg but that's just my opinion. for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota be independent expert cleo farrow denounces an incestuous relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class.

know it through that but it isn't just an impression it's a reality that there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elites that they serve the interests of the big multinationals that marked in red on the map of the country the land requested for mining concessions of vast area the multinationals bag the major part of the mining rights about seventy percent of the andes is tenure and all covered by requests from mining concessions well you know if they when we see that it's easy to imagine that we're all going to find ourselves expropriated that's where we're going to grow the economy and people's food yet what's going to happen to our regions if that's so that it's a completely irrational gamble that. the mining permits are already allocated but the big companies aren't yet mining the n.d.s. gold. the largest reserves lie in the heart of the cordy era mountains where the

revolutionary armed forces of colombia the fark operate at war with the colombian government for over fifty years no one can penetrate this region without their authorization with the help of divers go betweens we've established contact with the four guerrilla fighters they've authorized us to travel through their zone while waiting to receive us. the local. connery is based on coca plant growing these small green leaves on the raw material of cocaine. after years of anti drug enforcement cocoa farming has gone through a crisis more and more pickers are leaving the fields to work in the gold mines. we penetrate into the mining zone in the far controlled mountains we get there by mule a two day journey with a good guide. is the president of a local small scale miners as.