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it is just after eleven am on monday here in moscow this is arts he lives with me rule research they have very good morning to you one hundred fifty four years the amount of time whistleblower bradley manning could be spending behind bars his espionage trial begins later today in the u.s. after his arrest in two thousand and ten which saw him charged with aiding the enemy after release thousands of classified documents online a latest report on this new details now. from. it was a video that shocked the world footage of a u.s. apache helicopter killing twelve iraqi civilians including two journalists collateral murder the cold blooded brutality of the occupation captured on film it was leaked by young american soldier army private bradley manning the video was

uploaded to wiki leaks but it would prove to be just the tip of the iceberg. a former army intelligence analyst leaked more than seven hundred thousand documents containing classified information to that whistle blowing web site they included reports of torture abuse higher than acknowledge civilian casualties in short an unvarnished view of america's wars now known as the afghanistan and iraq war logs in may arrest seeking approval for his actions manning began a dialogue with a hacker named adrian lebo chat logs that turned over to the government leading to manning's arrest and subsequent confinement now what came next was what proved to be one of the longest military pretrial detentions of a u.s. soldier since the vietnam war bradley manning was held in maximum security solitary confinement in a cell his attorney says was no bigger than six by eight feet and as the number of charges grew against manning to twenty two he was allowed to plead guilty to ten

lesser charges this in exchange for a maximum sentence of sixteen years now by december two thousand and twelve when he took the stand to testify about the conditions that he endured he had been in confinement for more than one thousand days now the freedom of the press foundation broke court perscribe rules it released bradley manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. robert manning says that he leaked the material because he felt the people had the right to know that the u.s. military had little regard for human life when fighting its wars in iraq and afghanistan certainly being world wide demonstrations in support of the embattled

on the private over the weekend indeed with the thousands rallying in front of the courthouse where the trial will take place canada germany even south korea have also seen similar rallies and is on his marina portnoy reports his court martial process begins at a time when the u.s. is accused of being anything but truthful or transparent the military court martial against private first class bradley manning begins at a complicated time for the obama administration u.s. journalists have been spied on an unprecedented number of whistleblowers have been imprisoned and access to the truth many say grows increasingly harder by the day we have a severe problem with transparency and secrecy in this country that's for sure our problem is a cult of secrecy extreme levels of dystopian secrecy washington classified ninety two million documents in the year two thousand and eleven that's the last count we

have to put things in perspective what bradley manning leaked is less than one percent of that the former army intelligence analyst has admitted to leaking hundreds of thousands of top secret military and diplomatic docs. wiki leaks in february manning pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty two charges he faces the twenty five year old said he wanted the public to know how the u.s. military campaigns in iraq and afghanistan had little regard for human life it should be clear day anybody paying attention to bradley manning. thought of himself at the times the whistleblower that he did what he did because he thought he was making the world a better place and that contrary to the way he's been represented by some people he in fact it really did from a place of sort of patriotism he's in no way anti-american or has never expressed anti-american sentiments in any way in fact he's always said that he is and was driven by a sort of sense of patriotism and and hope that the united states could be the

you know sort of great country that he would do to be prosecutors however are pursuing a court martial on the remaining charges including the espionage act and aiding the enemy which carries a life sentence in prison in an interview with democracy now julian a songe addressed washington's allegations that manning aided the enemy by going to wiki leaks if that precedent is allowed to be erected in boulder two things thoughtlessly it means it's a potential death penalty for any person in your training speaking to a journalist about a sensitive matter secondly it also remember orioles the journalist and the publication that training and of communicating what they would say to the enemy and therefore making him susceptible as well to the espionage act which also has a capital offense and that is a positive thing. us but let

a positive part of the us attack. including ourselves we hope this letter finds you healthy and strong daniel ellsberg known as the original whistleblower leaked seven thousand government documents to the press in one thousand nine hundred seventy one revealing the truth about the vietnam war more than four decades later he says the u.s. government is going to even greater lengths to keep the public in the dark call it a war on truth telling the truth telling specifically about truth that the government doesn't want. truth about government crimes or law that the public needs to know. if military prosecutors successfully prove that whistle blowing is aiding the enemy then bradley manning could spend the rest of his life in prison a verdict handed down under

a president who promised to usher in an era of transparency when he stepped into the white house new york marina martini. and private moneys revelations shined a light on u.s. operations in iraq and afghanistan we can all talk to a bend griffin a former british so u.s. soldier who refused to continue serving in iraq good to see you today thank you for sharing some of your monday morning with us here on r.t. i'll get straight to it why why do you think it's taken three years for the whole court martial process to get started. well it's unprecedented money spent the longest time of any u.s. soldier ever in pretrial detention what manning has done is he revealed the irrational immoral and illegal nature of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and as a result of that he's been persecuted and part of the reason for dragging out this this pre detention pretrial detention is to punish him now do you think there are many if not many certainly some of the media saying that manning is

a traitor who risk the lives of u.s. citizens are you buying that no not so manning had access to a huge amount of information as did and do thousands of other employees of the united states government he saw that information within that information actions and activity that were illegal and immoral and he thought he should do something about that he was the only one to take action on that he thought that if other people could see what was really going on in iraq in afghanistan and in the relationships between u.s. government and other governments around the world that something would happen and something did happen you know the arab spring was informed by information that manning released now you have some strong convictions on the story about a private manning if you had access because you're a former soldier if you had had access to these documents would you have done the same as private manning that's a hypothetical situation i was in a completely different situation to manning and other people who've resisted the

wars in iraq in iraq and afghanistan were in a similar situation to me they could only see a very narrow picture about what was happening they can only say what they were involved in and we this is what makes a man in charge special a man who could see the bigger picture he had access to the whole of all of the followers in iraq and afghanistan so he was in a much more privileged position than myself and other soldiers who resisted because he had access to the bigger picture now you served in the air so yes and you refused to return to iraq you left the british army why is that. you know i grew up thinking that britain was a great country in our armed forces you know the good guys that's what i was brought up believing and my experience in iraq you know so paced that bubble i realised that actually you know things are a lot more complex than that what we're involved in in iraq the actions were involved in were in effect illegal and i decided as a matter of conscience i can continue to do that and you know manning is in the same vein as myself and committed on me here and malcolm kendall smith and mike

lines you know this is a guy who's joined the military to do the right thing and then realized that actually the actions that military are immoral irrational and illegal and he's decided to do something about it let's get out of this ongoing trial are just getting off today for private manning manning supporters coming out in force worldwide at this weekend what do you think will happen if indeed he does get a long sentence that's threatening upwards of one hundred fifty plus years behind bars i think what will happen is the campaign will move from one of see in the pretrial period to one more akin to the campaign around mordechai vanunu to the jail it is really. going to have to try and go into a longer term campaign to support his appeals and more importantly to support his family you know bradley manning's family half of his family live and while we're going to have to support them maybe support him so that i can go and visit manning in prison to try and support manning so that he's able to. continue to resist

during his imprisonment all right former soldier ben griffin joining us live here on r.t. from london many many thanks for your time indeed today. thank you. this is sarge with. thanks for joining us here on our. show a wave of violence in turkey has seen riot police clashing with protesters now for a fourth day running as security forces using tear gas and water cannons as protesters responded with stones on homemade barricades also trying to break through police lines and attack the prime minister's office the latest report now from istanbul and. this transpired overnight when the protesters have been trying to build barricades and roadblocks in order to keep police out of the area

that they were in but the police actually tore through those barricades and then used water cannons and tear gas and rubber bullets to evict the protesters i have seen more and more of those appearing throughout the city sporadically there trying to keep police out because fortunately the police force has been rather brutal in cracking down on protesters there were scuffles between protesters and police not just in istanbul at this point we're looking at around seven hundred people who have been arrested as a result of these protests more than a thousand people who have been injured university even some shops have been turning into makeshift hospitals or a little medical station where people are trying to what help those who have been injured and protests everyone's knowledge that police have. some points but at the same time he called the protesters thugs and extremists. that they are undermining democratic principles of the country and that is definitely not something that the protesters agree with the streets of istanbul look like

a scene from war burned cars makeshift barricades broken shop windows not exactly what residents of the city. are used to this protests is not only for talks and there's a park this is the. policy of governments under pressure. for for about ten years the current chaos is the aftermath of the protests that gripped not just istanbul but some other cities and towns across turkey prime minister recep tayyip erdogan policy on syria the increasing islamisation of the country and a major crackdown on the media these are just a few of the problems turks have with their government many feel it doesn't serve the people but rather works against them. my daughter was beaten because of what she was wearing because her attackers were affiliated with the government the police to bar and did nothing but all the. cars from the television

from here i said why don't you move they got direction from the police they couldn't make. life interviews with the people and this is the problem. what happened in turkey was called a disgraceful use of excessive police force by amnesty international water cannons tear gas and pepper spray were all used against mostly peaceful protesters once the police are treated however the crowds turned their anger against the t.v. trucks of the state media accusing stations of failing to broadcast the reality of square hundreds of people wounded and talk of several deaths this is the human toll of the clashes on the street politics is the hottest topic of conversation even an attempt to record an interview turns into a heated debate this is a very strange experience for me and. i can explain. i will explain my son my grandson. after after maybe ten years or five years

it began as a quite simple sit and decide because the park people were trying to save some trees in the middle of the city but now they're saying they're trying to save turkey from aragon and his government and they say they won't leave until the prime minister does in istanbul. r.t. . and with police continuing the use of force against demonstrators across turkey their human rights groups have condemned them saying some protesters have been left blinded by the tear gas now this coming up here is a video which appeared on the internet showing turkish police apparently firing tear gas into civilian homes and sort of the future right here of people seeking shelter at the local university back in the back of the room there the glass you see through that looks to be a huge amount of tear gas being used by the security forces since told in a former journalist to be economic press agency says the current term all is a response to all of the ones failed policies of both domestic and foreign i'm told

. before our dongo where one was and they were interfering with our neighbors in final affairs but the. it seems that under the. government turkey is mainly starving to u.s. interests. also besides this. deep rooted in turkish probably because our government's so-called kurdish separatists. use kurdish separatism especially. by the great middle east. united states is that i'll call the see if. it does not its policies or if it is normal. and early election in turkey these incidents. may repeat itself several times and turkey and i think one should watch out. and

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videos for you. check it out. for now news that an israeli amusement park has been opening up on separate days for jewish and arab school trips it's being seen as the latest sign of an excuse me an inherent racism and perhaps a tendency towards that of segregation street attacks against arabs also appear to be on the rise and often involve youngsters resorting to violence to express their anger but as our reports they could merely be following the example already set by the older generation. of the three hundred million in the middle east north africa. enjoy real democratic rights. but statements like this are small comfort for arab israelis whether or not they enjoy the right to vote they face every day problems of

a more pressing nature three months ago tel aviv street. was badly beaten up for no other reason than that. however there were a lot of them said to me hi arab i said why do you say that i mean what's the difference jewish then another guy came up to me and said you want a country arab or. the next thing the father of three remembers is being hit on the head with a bottle. so everything went black i fell to the ground they started kicking and hitting me my lawyer told me that when they were held by the police they heard the kids competing among themselves who hit me the most. violent racism among israel's youth has been growing steadily for some time we went undercover and this is what we found a typical thursday night in downtown jerusalem young israeli teenagers hanging out in the streets it might be alcohol drugs or just plain boredom but suddenly a fight breaks out undercover police arrive in seconds

a few days later we meet along a guard at the same spot he spent many days and nights here trying to help troubled youth the very a lot of poor population living in jerusalem and the racial element is only a part of things that they're experience moral children come from poverty their parents. have nothing they're working all day and they have no. control over where their children are a lot of them are outside of outside of school dropped out of school this is the generation that witnessed the second intifada as young children the scars left are deep those are the lessons that were exposed to terrorist attacks and develop post-traumatic symptoms they tend to exercise twice as much risk taking we have behaviors that tacking innocent people just because they are arabs

was no provocation whatsoever and that's very typical to people who feel in so valuable more her son is the latest. in a growing number of racist attacks by israeli youth against arabs an arab and jewish teacher were recently beaten up when the exit of their car and an arab commuter was attacked while waiting for a train. they get the inspiration from grownups you don't show any sign you want peace the lives lived by side the result of the conflict still made mention of the wars and. the clashes that is seen argued by territory and the general militant of . the conflict with. the miser's violence. her son has already had several rounds of surgery with more to come not a day goes by without him remembering that fateful night when the division between israel's arabs and jews showed its ugly face. r.t. tel aviv. now to northern china now to open up the aussie world update it's sixty

one people are now confirmed dead after a huge fire in a slaughterhouse at the start of the morning well then three hundred were in the building when the fire broke out only about a third managed to escape and many still unaccounted for we have reports suggesting the exits. trapping the workers inside and. australia's troops in afghanistan have been ordered to stop handing over prisoners to local security forces the decision came from the defense minister following accusations of abuse a military officials refused to comment on how long they have been holding prisoners regulations say detainees must be transferred inside ninety six hours of british troops recently revealed they have been holding some for as long as a year. very insightful documentary here on a tape that is saving seals in just a moment.

new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's will cation via their cell phone the judge supports his decision by saying that there is no legitimate expectation of privacy in the perspective of a cellular telephone where the individual has failed to protect his privacy but taking the simple expedient of powering it off this statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of luxury and that people are just too lazy to turn off their phones when they want privacy this ignores the fact that there are many people who have to be on call twenty four seven like surgeons and server technicians these people can't just turn off their phones so does that mean that certain professions can't have privacy also this presumption that people have no expectation of privacy what about people who send images of text messages of a sexual nature to each other joy i think that all. these people just assume it's all public goods i don't think so the fourth amendment says that people have the

right to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects and i'm pretty sure that's cover cell phones too but that's just my opinion. the ice floes of the white sea are home to harp seals after the winter mating season females come here to give birth however for these are tourists and explorers the fields of. mt.