u.n. says children are being used as fighters by both government and opposition forces in syria while calls to rebels from abroad despite an international. accusations of racism and brutality is spills on to the streets of brooklyn for a third day after the police shooting of a black teenage boy. with a block wide action. budget cuts the blame for an epidemic of unemployment. report. comes to power in china. struggle for dominance in asia looks set to top stories this hour.

international news and common live from a studio here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day child soldiers are 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. 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 we're going to destroy and they don't have any other thing they've done some time paid for or paid for did 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 child of seven years old by heading cutting the head of military office at 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 this extremist group against the government extremist groups getting more control over that evolution we have vetted the market will report by al-qaeda of attacking some syrian soldiers in iraq and we have also some areas where the extremist groups. trying to implement. 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 to all rebels in the conflict would be a breach of international law for those britains admission that it is ready to

ignore the e.u. arms embargo to help the rebels fight president assad and his autism or if an ocean 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 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 bush are 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 are 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 criticized for its failure to bring things to had in syria both 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 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 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 its friends there that they should stop it well everyone knows that the us but the rain would prevail instead the us has decided to watch from a safe distance we played

a crucial role in starting the americans can't fix this problem syrians have to fix this problem is genuinely surprising after 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. now it's a story worthy of a hollywood blockbuster and it features a ukrainian journalist held hostage by bandits in syria a fifty million dollars ransom and

a daring escape. at some point i realized that even the army is i was held in a location from where the bandits were firing rockets or i'd be killed by the rebels . in an exclusive interview with r t. said that she had to cross fifteen kilometers of mountainous terrain on food before finding shelter from the journalist only killed at r.t. dot com. at least forty people have been arrested in new york on a third night of demonstrations after police shot dead a black sixteen year old authorities say the officers were acting in self-defense when they were fired when they fired eleven rounds at the teenager but the protesters accuse police of systematic racism and brutality. joins me now live with the details so marina tell us what is the latest now from brooklyn.

well the latest we're seeing is that. continues to flood the streets of east flatbush brooklyn that is where a sixteen year old kamani gray was shot to death by two plainclothes police officers on saturday evening what happened most recently is that the night began on wednesday with a peaceful vigil to honor. grade but soon after and in a rage crowd split off from the vigil broke out into the streets and subsequently clashed with police officers dressed in riot gear what fueled all these anger is the fact that the autopsy on kamandi greg was released wednesday indicating that the sixteen year old boy was struck by the seven times by bullets and three of those bullets hit him from behind according to the autopsy he was shot twice in his front right thigh shot one bullet in his back and in each side from the back side

he was hit in his left forearm his left shoulder and his lower rib cage so this clearly fuel the anger that has that has already been boiling for days many new yorkers that believe that that this is a nother indication other example of of police brutality of police targeting minorities of victims of new york being shot dead through police shootings now the scenes that erupted in brooklyn on wednesday clearly were not were not pretty protesters were thrown down by police on the ground before being arrested they were also pepper pepper sprayed there were images of those in the streets throwing bricks bottles and garbage one police car according to reports smashed window according to the n.y.p.d. at least forty six people were arrested including kamani gray's sister and there's also reports that one police officer suffered

a head injuries due to the clashes but clearly clearly an indication that the anger is only growing. short would have the circumstances surrounding his death. well according to the new york city police department what they say is that on saturday evening two plain. plainclothes officers got out of a car. and eleven thirty pm it was an unmarked car and were approaching kamandi grade they said and at that point he was shuffling with his pants or his belt and according to police they say that gray out a gun and pointed it at the under cover officers and that's when they fired off a levin rounds at the teenager shooting him seven times friends and family of i spoke with one personally told me that this young boy would never ever point a gun at police any police officer let alone you know two that were there on scene

and the there was a thirty eight caliber recovered at the scene according to police no shots were fired from that gun by according to friends and family they said this is a young man who would have never ever pointed a gun at a police officers so that is what that's the events that unfolded but the bigger problem here is that there's a lot of a lot of young teenagers that are falling victim and dying in police shootings last year alone twenty one people according to reports died in police involved shootings and we should mention one more thing at this vigil that took place wednesday evening the parents of remarkably graham were in attendance for morley graham is a young teenager who died last year in the bronx at the hands of police it was an plainclothes police officer that burridge him to his house and shot him so this

some would say is a huge epidemic targeting minorities in new york city living in low income areas and at this point i could tell you there's a clear indication of the public has had enough i don't think this is the last we've seen of these protests. thanks very much indeed. a day of action involving some of the largest trade unions in europe is coinciding with a two day summit in brussels the protesters want to see drastic job shortages tackled across the block a situation that's been made worse by deep sturdy cuts our correspondent is in brussels and reports on the agonies and aspirations of those who are protesting. well we're here today in brussels where thousands of people are gathered from across the board to protest against the u.s. stare at me that they're seeing across the a continent of angry i fear cuts thousands of job cuts that they've already seen in their own countries now interestingly enough just beyond this facade over here

that's where the twenty seven e.u. leaders will be gathering for the e.u. summit to discuss precisely what stared and unemployment and the policies that they've been imposing to try to get out of this a sovereign debt crisis going on for three years now with twenty seven million the e.u. citizens unemployed that's eleven percent of the population and what's interesting is there's always a debate about austerity versus growth but economists are now pointing to the fact that these social impact is actually one of the biggest factors that could be breaking the very fabric of the e.u. even though those economists from think tanks that have been advising the e.u. they're warning that this kind of social dissatisfaction could really bubble over and cause bigger rupture than they've already been seeing so far and the economic theories have been argued before people here say there's absolutely no theory to be argued when they're looking at their own lives they have no jobs and they don't have enough money and that's simply the reality that they're seeing on the ground

across europe. to international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament lord of the newest says it's a struggle that will last for years. one cannot measure certain social struggle on a day by day basis this is definitely a long term start and that's going to take years and definitely what we see now more and more is government and governments implementing boluses that go against the 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 gold backed as it was constructed after the second world war and that is exactly what the problem is that for the moment the willingness to listen to 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 devices 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 i mean this opens the way to forms of extremism and people who are desperate especially young people will look for answers on the extremes with debt and the left side on the right said does matter 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 but especially for the young that's the only way to do it. later in the program here to boldly say what no one has said before bradley manning is claiming he became a whistleblower because of the u.s. army's blood lust leaked from his court hearing what put his case to the whistleblower movements. corruption within the catholic church in shrinking congregations are just some of the challenges the first latin american pope will have to cope with that more often

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a free media. news continues here on. an audio recording of bradley manning's court testimony has been leaked by his supporters the 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 thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks back in two thousand and ten or he's going to can has more on the story. 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. i mean that's a. hero. it was a very easy. way. for. 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 or pretrial punishment and detention that's something i don't 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 whistleblowers society 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 have faced 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 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 bradley manning has been held in u.s. military custody for around three years now and the un special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the u.s. government of call 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. in china has been formally confirmed as the new president completing a lengthy transition process he's already announced his first priorities as leader tackling corruption and narrowing the wealth gap at home and boosting the military budget the problems come amid u.s. efforts to gain a stronger foothold in asia returned see that has put beijing on edge washington has been expanding its military reach in the region as you can see on the map here and the power games between the u.s. and china also playing out in the digital world as. reports. 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 queues china 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 never gave 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. the eleven year sentence for the experts been convicted of involvement in the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya will stand the high court ruled that the sentence is legitimate and rejected an appeal by lawyers the man just one of six suspects was found guilty of following the victim in preparation for the murder and a political scar was a prominent journalist writing on human rights violations in the russian republic

of chechnya it's believed she was assassinated in two thousand and six because of her work. for some international news in brief this hour a series of coordinated hit the iraqi capital baghdad killing dozens and wounding more than fifty the bombs went off near a number of government departments including the justice and foreign affairs ministries security forces were involved in a shootout with government in order to regain control of the justice building. the south korean prime minister has visited the disputed young people on the island in a move likely to anger north korea the territory was shelled by the north back in two thousand and ten killing four islanders and the military is being put on full alert by their leader joint u.s. and seoul war games which are ongoing in the region are also adding to the tensions . roman catholics have a new leader argentine born pope francis has become the first pontiff ever from the americas and the first from outside europe in over

a thousand years the seventy six year old was elected by a conclave of cardinals off to five rounds of voting the search for a man to lead more than a billion catholics worldwide began when benedict the sixteenth resigned one of the main goals for the new pope will be rebuilding the church is reputation following a spate of scandals. a string of child sex abuse cases with the most damaging it's just have a look at some of the numbers we have for you here on screen the largest number of reported cases of children being abused by priests in the u.s. how to geishas 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 comes second in these grim statistics the church had been turning a blind eye to the allegations for thirty years and in germany two thirds of all dioceses were allegedly involved in sex abuse scandals and austria is an example of how these scandals have led to people's disillusionment with the church almost ninety thousand austrians have deserted in just one year when italian journalist

franco device he's an expert in vatican affairs he says that reaching out to believers in europe at a time of economic crisis will be one of the greatest challenges for the new pope. the problem is that the new poverty law better go now comes from south america they say very sensitive area would be for this kind of progress but be a source of to face the nobility of their of there's a late new slice of countries from europe for example your piece your very the economic and moral crisis and so there can be so young meaning people in this question in europe they are getting away from the church need to find their interest in need you know that you're in the region. he's going to be to be problem if they don't welcome there to marginalize they do the rituals to their to the through world you know all the poor countries. well that's it for me in the news

team for the moment we get that with wolf in about half an hour from now in the meantime off to the break mexico is there and stacy herbert look at the scandals behind the financial headlines that is the kaiser report next an aussie of the brain. 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 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 or 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 wind and plead and beg but that's just my opinion.

oh man shows are this is the is the report you know numbers can tell a different story don't get fooled by the station over tells more yes max in the past week we've had the dow jones hitting all time highs and everybody of course celebrating that the jobs numbers look good they came in better than expected but check out this headline and yet the labor force participation rate is still falling and turning to this nice chart here and you can see that yes indeed this is the participation rate by those available to work in the market and they are not working sixty three point five percent of the workforce is actually working now this is 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.