u.s. army private bradley manning goes on trial facing a possible one hundred fifty four years in prison for blowing the whistle on their leisure wrongdoings of the american army. rage against the regime turkish police continue that front down projects now into the fourth day as demonstrators vent fury at what they call an authoritarian government. crossing the rubicon becomes the blowhole t.v. channel to have schooled want to lend you tube views look at some of our online video hits you like tomorrow's.

news from russia and around the wall this is all see with me thanks for joining us . the trial of the american whistleblower broadly mining who handed classified military days who we could leaks is set to begin in maryland in just a few hours the army private faces a list of charges among them a zing the enemy which could land him in prison for the rest of his life confident hostile 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 a 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 the 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 prescribe rules it released bradley manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the pub. 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 or 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. documents obtained by mining exposed alleged misdeeds carried on by the american military in iraq and afghanistan and caused an uproar among the international community my colleague where we sue shea spoke to a former british soldier about griffin who explained what had believed drove manning to lead this secret date. some of the media saying that manning is a traitor who risk the lives of u.s.

citizens if you're buying that no not at all manning had access to a huge amount of information and 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 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 and our armed forces were you know the good guys us who are brought up believing and my experience in iraq you know it's your peers that bubble i realized 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 kind of smith and mike lyons you know this is a guy who's joined the military to do the right thing and then realise that actually the actions that military are immoral irrational and illegal and he's decided to do something about it. money has admitted to being one a we can make those sources but pleaded not guilty to violating the spanish act and wild wild protests that were staged in support of him with people saying the u.s. government is clamping down on the freedom of speech using the twenty five year old to set a threshing example to other potential whistleblower as a partner hostile. 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 documents to the whistle blowing website 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 to anybody paying attention that 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 here in fact it really did from a place of sort of patriotism he's in no way to take american has never expressed anti american sentiment seen any way in fact he's always said that he is and was driven by the sort of sense of patriotism and and hope did. united states could be the this great country that he could do with the 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 assange addressed washington's allegations that manning aided the enemy by going to wiki leaks if that president is allowed to be erected in full there are two things firstly. it means it's a potential death penalty for any person who really treats preaching to

a journalist about a sensitive and other secondly it's also the orioles' of the journalist and the publication train of communication that they would say to the enemy and therefore making it very susceptible as well to be espionage act which also has capital offenses and that is that is the. u.s. but latter part is part of the u.s. attack. including myself broadly we hope this letter finds you healthy and strong daniel ellsberg known as the original whistleblower who leaked seven thousand government documents to the press in one thousand nine hundred ninety one revealing the truth about the vietnam war more than the war decades later he says the u.s. government is going to even greater lengths to keep the public in the dark corner of the war on truth telling 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 whistleblowing 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 according to new york marine up for tonight r.t. . nationwide protests in turkey are raging for a fourth day as demonstrators clashed with police in several cities one man's reportedly being killed one of taksim plowed into a crowd in istanbul protesters are demanding concessions from what they call the authoritarian regime of the prime minister and his policy police have been a burst of cracking down leaving hundreds of people injured. is in istanbul where

they arrest. 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 use 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 universities 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 been brutal at some points but at the same time he called the protesters thugs and extremists and that they are undermining democratic principles of the country and that is definitely

not something that the protesters agree with and we're now joined live on the followed by opposition m.p. i could add the duties out demonstrating in istanbul mr evidence thank you for joining is why all these people including yourself protesting and was expecting to achieve by taking to the streets. or to protect. our troops from what we square. do you want. to. go. right probably pretty soon or the contrary. and.

the government buys them and demonstration over to you you turkey yes but of course the police have been criticised for excessive use of force as you say but surely they must do something when some of the first test is us rowing rocks and molotov cocktails right there are a little small group doing that but there are real you. is demonstrating peaceful demonstration and one patient and the police using excellent violence on the. people there are teenagers didn't bother to shoot you. in the sand they are using christian. and then. you have broken people arms legs and. relatable to

surrey a block to the station and we are trying to protect the people from the college violence. do you expect the protest movement to keep growing oh will the wave as subside in the coming days or do you think. nobody knows what will happen next day and because our prime minister read the blunt. warningly insulting. and he's threatening people by the park to support a strike because the semi groups and people are getting them angry and angry and angry because they need using get mylan language and doesn't want to stop. this process we are trying to contact. the ruling party but there is no shen to contact them no shan to contact them at the parliament

event the last two years. the link party is at taking on the parliaments of the opposition party member upon whom member of parliament then never listen so as they have never contact us they are constantly insulting each other yet a whole is blaming that there is no democratic means being the problem and so you remain and. you say yes you say context back so it's hard to say to tell what to expect how far could all this potentially go are you aiming to usher in a revolution that probably. nobody know nobody knows but this station is very dangerous because because. it may turn into the. group and secularist middle class. it's the board of the for the turkish people because there are no such and un took

a drink must be cleared. but. there are. i don't know what he expects what we think what he's learning what we are. all right live over the phone from istanbul that was a turkish opposition m.p. i could do thank you very much indeed for your time. while human rights groups including amnesty international have slammed police brutality in turkey as an excessive use of force. has the details and just what a warning you might find some of the images in his report disturbing. water cannons do gas and rubber bullets what started as an environmental protest provoked a full scale showed force from the police footage shows disoriented protesters

slammed into the pavement by powerful water cannons and often the water's yellow because we are deliberately mixing in pepper spray people are down on the ground trying to return to their senses here a young woman appears to be having a seizure and the police in action all the people. resist taking all this violence. they never just act while. they don't use anywhere else but the police attacked severely using excessive force i wouldn't call it excessive force it's amongst the torture actually similar footage is coming from around forty cities and towns across turkey there are claims the police are deliberately pumping tear gas into residential homes these are among the most violent protests turkey's seen in decades each day more people are wondering whether the government remembers turkey is

a democratic republic. my daughter was beaten because of what she was wearing because her attackers were affiliated with the government the police stood by and did nothing this protests is not only for taksim gezi park this is the whole policy of governments under pressure. for. for about ten years but according to prime minister erdogan the government is the one being oppressed he slammed the broadest as anti democratic and illegitimate accusing those on the streets of being extremists organized by outside forces but protests on this scale take on a legitimacy of their own and human rights organizations are already severely criticizing the government's actions he would be r.t. .

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according to german chancellor angela merkel the statement marks a significant turn from her and visions of creating a fiscal union which will see you are members handing control of their budgets to brussels and this also comes after merkel's talks with french president or learned about the future of the eurozone and for some analysis is when i joined live by dr christian church made he's an alternative for germany party member. dr schmidt thank you very much for joining us now so our plans for fiscal unity of the table now and if so does that mean she finally admits the failure of the euro projects probably could this also be a strategic move ahead of the september elections in germany we feel from the alternative for germany but this is a tactical move to a drawback borders from our camp into the camp of the christian democratic union in the market will return back to old policy to go to full european union

politically and first go but only after the elections. right just last october merkel said member states it needed to give you a beer real rights to intervene in national budgets what's changed since then there . will be believe that given the fact that falls. alone does not want to adhere to the stability and growth pact merkel now realizes that she cannot go ahead on this issue and is giving more freedom to the specific countries therefore reducing the speed to which unity can be achieved. yes and also merkel said she didn't see any need in giving more power to brussels in the next few years but she's turned over this issue so what's to stop her turning again say the election for instance. i think that one of the previous heads of state in germany mr odinga who was a commissioner in brussels has given

a speech at a rate lately and in that he mentioned the brussels is never going to achieve its ideals and. unity and therefore merkel has to take that into account in order to not let her own man stand alone in the wind and you are europe is sinking in a debt crisis france is back in recession wouldn't fiscal unity actually bring good for the union surely its safety in numbers. briefly if you can for the time being i think fiscal unity has for the time being i think first of all unity is completely off the table because countries do not wish to cede power and more power to brussels as we speak. dr christina schmidt alternative for germany party member thank you very much. to suspects charged with murdering a soldier in london have appeared in separate calls during his first hearing in westminster one of the suspects demanded he be called by his muslim name while

holding a copy of the koran both claim that it was revenge for british military campaigns in muslim countries so said i just heard the guardian. milne says such a targets are something intelligence agencies have been warning about since nine eleven. obviously those politicians who support the word terror and continue to quote york nation of afghanistan and interventions in other muslim countries don't want to be held responsible for that so what they do is they say it's got nothing to do with it we must listen to what the perpetrators say about why they carrying out these it's our i mean when britain and the united states invaded afghanistan after nine eleven it was said by critics and by the intelligence services that this country and the united states that launching wars in occupations of countries like if afghanistan and iraq wouldn't end or reduce the threat of terrorism it would increase it and spread it and that's exactly what's happened. and now some other

world news and briefing at this hour so side bombing has killed at least thirteen people including turned schoolchildren and to u.s. troops in eastern afghanistan a bomb on a motorbike detonated explosives at a busy market and bacteria province while an american patrol was passing by the country has seen every since search of so side bombing starting government facilities and international pastor now this comes in afghanistan prepares for the twenty fourth in nato history. almost ten thousand people have been forced to flee their homes as deadly floodwaters the worst in seventy years continue to rise across central europe extreme rains lashed germany the czech republic and switzerland leaving at least six dead and eight more missing emergency operations are underway in all the disasters around one thousand troops were mobilized to set protective barriers in prague as a historical sundays at great risk meteorologists have warned

a western weather conditions and say the next few days will be critical. a fire at a slaughterhouse has claimed the lives of at least one hundred twelve people in northern china more than three hundred were in the building when the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning only about a third have managed to escape leaving school still unaccounted for reports suggest the exits were knocked trapping workers inside the burning building. now it is documentary saving seal is coming your way after a short break. new york magistrate judge gary brown has ruled that it's ok to track people's will k. should 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 you can the simple expedient of powering it off the statement seems to hint that cell phones are some sort of folk 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 faults. 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 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.

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