u.s. army private bradley manning goes on trial facing a possible one hundred fifty four years in prison for blowing the whistle on the alleged wrongdoings of the american army and action prosecutors view as aiding the enemy. rage against the regime turkish police continue their crackdown on protests now into their fourth day as demonstrators vent fury of what they call a tear in government. becomes the first global t.v. channel to a score of one billion you tube views with some of online video hits you liked the most.

on screen online international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day the trial of the american whistleblower bradley manning who handed classified military data to wiki leaks is now under way in maryland he faces a list of charges among them aiding the enemy which could land him in prison for the rest of his knife to see coming off as more. 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 levo 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 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. well for more on this story we're now joined live by we can read spokesman kristinn hrafnsson manning is on trial for providing information to your organization your the ones who published what he gave you so do you not feel a certain amount of responsibility for his predicament now well we're a journalistic organization or war or it's a platform for

a whistleblowers and sources to submit information it was anonymously and the best way to secure the people the whistleblowers is by it not knowing better than he did so i can i can say that. the neighborly manic when i read it is that he had been arrested in may two thousand and ten so it's sort of worth emphasizing that nothing that we kids did that to his arrest was try to. what will we can eat now do. he's facing this big trial is there anything that you feel is normal they say as an organization you can do to help him. we do. support him in any way possible with the order of millions of people that we have spoken to or twitter or facebook account. and we've tried to provide its necessity or to

do better than anything but it certainly needs it and we need it in the future this trial is. very much a trial of the defeat of the press and it's worth to take notice that this stream really serious step being taking by the u.s. administration to issue these extremist views charges against bradley manning. for aiding the enemy for basically treason it's a death penalty it's extremely serious thing that should be considered by the general and general. what was it made as a serial killer publishing this in effect aided the enemy as well so what do you say to those who say you should be in the dock as well it's always totally up showed i mean we worked with more than one hundred media organizations all around the world including the new york times who this information so did in new york

times eight the envy. would have made a chair chase if those soldiers who were killed osama bin laden would have found a copy of the new york times. in his house or a material this is journalist yes but he was leaking battlefield information and without a doubt the u.s. say that he was compromising national security the safety of the military you do agree that he should be punished in some way should be absolutely. you know it's easy to be set free it's sort of north of to see years of prison. and one year almost under torturous condition enough is enough the information that was revealed what we can leads. was information on war crimes and corruption and information that should be in the way that is.

not a single report. or a play that life has been harmed a child of these elites what the u.s. government is is already now under fire for apparently clamping down on press freedom the associated press debacle is one example do you think perhaps that this could play into manning's hands and he may actually get a softer sentence than many predict might get. will this is should be a wake oath call where everybody yes you are correct that there is this is a part of strategy tendency which is actually the series. you mentioned the. phone records that were taken from twenty general should the associated press the folks rose of fear as well and let's not forget that the obama or more whistleblowers have been prosecuted under all other presidents of the second world

war combatant so the future is another so in that case the future is looking bright for whistle blows is it bearing in mind what you just said and also we think you're innocent you still hold up in the ecuadoran embassy manning now facing this trial but what is the future for the likes of you know it's well listen all of us that tend to just stop wizard mode because those in power they have corsi that. in our modern age it is easier to submit information to the general public so we can use all or all the platforms that are similar. it will not stop with the rose there will always be great people there to filled with the right ideas and feel that sometimes they need to break the rules to get information out to the people because that people have the right to

know and. i don't see that this is a serious that was swiftly blown or in general and it's. seeing that in many other countries outside the us there is. a growing and as it was actually strengthening even baseball was growing including here in my own country so i don't fear that too much further the overreaction in this ridiculous show trial today is an indication of actually the positive element that whistleblowing going to have at the need for us to have whistleblowers submit information instead of a kristinn hrafnsson spokesman but we can thank you very much indeed for joining us live here now to good to talk to you thanks for the manning is admitted to being one of we could leak sources but pleaded not guilty to violating the espionage act well by protesters stage 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 frightening example to other potential whistleblowers wanted miniport not as more . 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 web site 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 in 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 anti-american and 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 this you know sort of 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 julia songe addressed washington's allegations that manning aided the enemy by going to wiki leaks if that president is allowed to be erected it will be interesting for a slightly. it means it's a potential death penalty for any person here literally speaking to a journalist about the sensitive. secondly it also holds the journalist and the publication shereen of communication they would say to the enemy and therefore making him susceptible as well to be espionage act which also has capital offenses and that is that is the. us but latter part is part of the us attack. including ourselves broadly 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 us government is going to even greater lengths to keep the public in the dark call it a war on truth telling truth telling specifically. truth that the government doesn't want. truth about government crimes or 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 reporting from new york maureen up or not martin. or you know if you're moskos to have the program reaching

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a dance. or music program some documentary some spanish matters to you. it will turn it into angles to the stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit. continues here in l a t nationwide protests in turkey a raging for a fourth day as demonstrators clashed with police in several cities protest as a demanding concessions from what they call the authoritarian regime of the prime minister and his party there's a feeling there's a producer video agency ruptly and is in istanbul with the latest for us as he's so in the fourth day now these protests and he saw in that the beginning to subside.

at the moment absolutely not i mean today was very much seen as a crucial day almost a challenge to the. protest movement as to whether it has the ability to continue this standoff against the government but right now i'm standing and i have attacks in square and that continues to be thousands of people streaming into the. where i actually for the for the seventh day running now and obviously over the weekend that was there was face clashes on friday nights going into saturday morning here but since saturday afternoon the square has essentially been occupied so to speak by protesters and since then there hasn't been a police man in sight and that continues today. and so the protests today still very peaceful. but elsewhere in places like the ship that's in istanbul there have been ongoing civic clashes with police very heavy handed response from the police so it seems like essentially wherever the police then there is no peace in the

streets of istanbul because i mean hey even though of course there has been you know barricades set up the buildings surrounding the square have very much been left untouched there has been no kind of incidents of violence breaking out from protesters where there are no police present so at the moment it seems like you know it is monday everybody expected that people might just why i suppose the government hope that people might just go back to work will go back to college and forget about the last week's events but it seems at the moment that there's no chance of that happening will you say the government has hopes that that could well happen but what is the reaction from the government at the moment how is it dealing with the situation. well obviously the prime minister erdogan has branded the protests across the country of course it's not just in istanbul is an anchorite is made in other parts of the country as

branded them extremists and of course that's only going to provoke more iowa from the people because i mean the people are really represented by young people middle aged people of as families that the protests and just a few hours ago a very large trade union which accounts for a quarter of a. a million members has announced that it's going to hold a strike. in protest the government's crackdown on protests really seems like the momentum is still with the protests. and really anything that the government does to provoke them even more. from. turkey in istanbul thanks very much indeed for that update. but we want to talk to turkish opposition could a dog dude who's been demonstrating in istanbul and he says that security forces responsible for turning peaceful rallies into nationwide protests which could

eventually lead to a civil war. to protect the trains and the fox but this is proportional years of. violence by the police. the right problem for him all around my country really and. once a thing for demonstration democratic nation and police using excellent violence on the. people there are teenagers there are mothers to be are using as well but you know what will happen next day because well crime is. being spoken and he's threatening people by. the college and people then angry and angry and angry because using mylan language and doesn't want to follow. the link party is at taking neverland

since it was never contact. him poking into it is no. big problem and it may turn into the. group and speculative. it's. for the. human rights groups including amnesty international have also slammed the police brutality and excessive use of force do you go to school has the details and you may 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 a powerful water cannons and often the water is 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 aid the people. racist against all this violence. they never just act why lately. they don't use any walls but the police attacked severely using excessive force i wouldn't call it excessive force it's a monster torture actually similar footage is coming from around forty cities and towns across turkey there are claims the police are diluted pumping tear gas into residential homes these are among the most violent protests turkey has seen in decades each day more people are wondering whether the government remembers turkey is a democratic republic. because i was wrong. that. they did not think. this protests is not only for attacks and gezi park is the. 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 street of being extremists organized by outside forces but protests on this scale take on a legitimate sea of their own and human rights organizations are already severely criticizing the government's actions he would be r.t. . is temple based news editor jason jones says the authorities have thrown overwhelmingly brutal force against a largely peaceful movement. i saw people throwing stones and i yes there have been people lighting fires that the same things that have been in all mass demonstrations that that are sort of uncontrolled like as this one seems to be however i would say that the bulk of the people that are there are simply stating

their their grievances they're not there to to start fights the the the protesters are often the victims of the violence and the attacks by the police directly it's not the other way around it's not as if the protesters are and. instigating this violence and my call to you to shove out of a hood about the latest on the fun chill side of the wrist for maltese business present to take the pill be the market see invest as the allies and also be happy about it and they were welcomed but it's that desk this morning with the downfall of six percent on the main stock index of scars bonds a concern in selling debt is that. by the most it's two thousand and nine which is very significant indeed so really the debt is a few more tech toxic these protests are awful short and obviously the reaction of the markets seems to be quite logical but when we talk about and when we see the

protests and you're a winter standard they are very sort of economically release it because yeah because of austerity that counts there and let's look at turkish economy it looks certainly yeah it looks there's a good compared to i was near greece and cyprus your insight only in comparison is for a struggle has actually been posting on average five percent growth since about two thousand one can say since two thousand and one growth of that she quadrupled here we go you can see if yourself it's evident to see so we've got this strong growth going on just here particularly high in two thousand and four that managed to keep that right here this is the financial crisis which affected most of the globe they did plummet four point eight percent just now but what is impressive is the resilience just here that they demonstrated just fighting back with nine point two percent and right here we're looking at stable growth that the economy is performing well and we can say that it was relatively unscathed by the financial

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