coming up on r t accused wiki leaks bradley manning finally gets his core his day in court today three years after he was arrested the latest from inside the courtroom and his supporters who are surrounding fort meade next signed stanton sealed one time of a hunger strikers write a letter to their doctors demanding better treatment we'll speak with an attorney representing some of those men just ahead. the massive demonstrations rocked turkey to its core hundreds of thousands floods the streets in protest with at least one casualty and no sign of unrest that of this unrest slowing down any time soon the sights and sounds from this unbelievable scene coming up.

it's monday june third eight pm in washington d.c. american lopez and you are watching r.t. well more than three years after he was arrested in iraq an accused of the biggest leak of classified military documents in u.s. history private first class bradley manning is finally getting his day in court today the twenty five year old former intelligence officer is facing twenty two charges ranging from possession and transfer of documents to violating the computer fraud and abuse act to his most serious charge aiding the enemy if he is found guilty manning could spend the rest of his life behind bars and if you're wondering why you haven't heard much about this historic trial from the news today here's why . it has been thousands and thousands of years since the woolly mammoth walked across the face of the earth but guess what it could soon return next road warriors what happens when a former president battles one hundred kilometers in three days we'll talk to the only reporter who went biking with this guy it's bush and some veterans i met oh

you have seen the internet sensation known as grumpy cat it seems success hasn't gone to this katie's head about new photos surfacing of the bloody crime scene where a libyan oscar pistorius shot his girlfriend a few months ago to show that blood spattered bathroom in which reveal steenkamp was shot while there's one thing we know now it's not news and the holder but the bradley manning trial will no doubt make history books r.t. has sent an entire team down to fort meade today to cover this monumental trial argy producer adriano settle brings us more on this case. after over a thousand days of being held without a trial private first class bradley manning's first day in court concluded today right here at fort meade on the busy legal docket first up opening statements with the prosecution arguing manning aided the enemy by releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the web site wiki leaks they went on to argue that

manning knew the full extent of his actions and actually acted under the direction of wiki leaks co-founder julian a son the core proceedings also attracted various amounts of attention with activists actually holding a vigil outside of fort meade for the soldier they deem a hero also in attendance in the courtroom various notable faces with including code become founder medea benjamin a pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges dr court cornel west and also wiki leaks attorney michael ratner following opening statements we've heard of testimony from various witnesses including army specialist tasked with gathering evidence from the crime scene in iraq and also heard word from kevin baker manning's roommate so with the trial underway we are expected to see it continue throughout the summer from fort meade maryland. r.t. . meanwhile hundreds of manning supporters have been demonstrating all weekend in

defense of the private first class members of the bradley manning support network marched to fort meade on saturday to demand his release the man behind the pentagon papers like daniel ellsberg was present at that march and so was our team's very own loz wall she followed the protesters tracks to bring us this report. yes. supporters of bradley manning march in solidarity chanting carrying signs calling for his freedom but pretty badly the twenty five year old army private admitted to leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks the prosecution accuses him of aiding the enemy for putting the information on the internet for everyone including terrorists to see and the three years since bradley manning's arrest there have been a number of protests held in his support today as one of the largest we've seen so far it's one of many protests happening across the country and across the globe

it's just two days before his trial is set to kick off hundreds here and court meade maryland calling for his freedom he boldly stood up and told the truth about his true calling and took full responsibility did not implicate anyone from the wiki leaks organization took it upon himself to expose all these lies at tremendous personal risk is somebody that we should all support critics see manning as a traitor who put american lives and national security at risk but his supporters here see him as a hero i think the american people but you understand a lot of these issues and what's really going on with you know they they support this man among his most vocal supporters daniel ellsberg he's a former defense official who leaked the so-called pentagon papers that spilled government secrets on the vietnam war of course pled guilty. while living military

regulations and remember when the law under which he and i were charged of this so-called shock was and is unconstitutional ellsberg doubts manning will get a fair trial evidence of the crimes that he revealed is not going to be allowed so it's a. no there may be a limit to why he did it and what we should thank him for our mission from this trial. manning support network has raised more than a million dollars for his defense and public outreach if convicted of aiding the enemy the army private faces a sentence of life behind bars in fort meade maryland r t thirteen inmates participating in a lengthy hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention facility have written a letter to the military doctors demanding better treatment in that letter the detainees wrote that they are competent to make their own health decisions when it comes to the ongoing hunger strike they are also demanding for the u.s.

to send in independent nonmilitary doctors in order to treat them part of that letter reads quote i do not wish to die but i am prepared to run the risk that i may end up doing so because i am protesting the fact that i have been locked up for more than a decade without a trial subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment and deny access to justice i have no other way to get my message across you know that the authorities have taken everything from me more than one hundred detainees are currently participating in this hunger strike many have become extremely sick in the process david remes represents several of the detainees who wrote that letter and he joined me earlier today to discuss the condition of the prisoners at guantanamo bay. first time that i saw my clients after the hunger strike began was in early march they had lost an average of thirty pounds each as measured by the clinics and it was just obvious to the army that they were much much thinner when i went back again at the end of

april early may they had lost even more weight they were saying that they had lost up to fifty pounds each and it really showed they were weak one of his arms were like sticks it was really quite a horrible situation and i understand it thirty seven of the one hundred three people that are participating in this hunger strike are now being force fed so let's talk about the idea of their demand of an independent non military doctor why is that so important because the military doctors have to put the military's interests ahead of the individual interests that they're serving the most glaring example is whether or not to force speed detainees under the structures of the american medical association the world medical association and others the detainees supposed to have that choice and self there are other questions whether it detainees should be regarded as a hunger strike or when the intervention should occur how the for speeding should

be administered is all involve. medical issues that independent doctors can make on the basis of the patient's best interests but military lawyers doctors have to make on the basis of the military's best interests now i want to be a part of this letter to you that your clients wrote it says quote you claim to be acting according to duties as a physician to save my life this is against my expressed which as you should know i am competent to make my own decisions about medical treatment when i was trying to refuse treatment you offered you force them upon me sometimes a violently for those reasons and you are in violation of the ethics of your profession as the medical american medical association and world medical association have made clear now the competency competency poor. part of this letter of this statement specifically is really important here because they are saying that once detainees or somebody that is on a hunger strike becomes incompetent of making their own decisions then that's when they start force feeding so does the slaughter and this claim of competence and see

debunk what officials the medical officials at one time obey are saying you can never be sure whether or not the judgment of whether somebody is competent is being made with military interest in mind or the patients interests i think that really underlies or and underscores the concern that we have. ok and so let's talk about the comp and see in general who decides when a man is competent and when he's not competent medical doctor or a psychologist or psychiatrist is that ok so in this letter they expressly say that they are willing to die should they have that option and should their physicians respect their wishes some are willing to die others want to be hunger strikers but keep themselves alive the i.c.r.c. that's the great cross plus the organizations you've mentioned require the position to respect the choice that an individual makes in this regard and therefore should not be for speeding these detainees now on the other side of that token suicide is

a legal in most us states most except for three i believe so if american citizens don't even have the privilege of letting themselves die of choosing suicide whether it be assisted suicide or otherwise should the detainees really expect to get that right as well well. suicide may be illegal i'm sure it's a very hard law it would force but on a more serious note it's a right under the constitution the supreme court has held a number of times that the state cannot put things into your body can't touch your body even for good motives. now what kind of pressure would you say the obama administration would be under if one of these men actually don't die what would it do to us domestically and internationally i think you put your finger on the motivation for for speeding these detainees it would be disastrous to the united states from a political standpoint if one of the detainees died in addition to the fact that it

would make kuantan a look really bad it would create martyrs that the men did die as a military commander said it would turn zeros can two heroes as i understand it the starts of the men are still on hunger strike those one hundred sixty six people total in that detention facility and you haven't had contact with your clients over a month that's right to refuse to take my telephone calls last friday because of a new search policy so we're really we're really under challenge here david remes human rights attorney thank you for bringing us that story. still ahead here on our team protests rage on in cities across turkey thousands in the streets clashing with police the sights and sounds of this town rest after the break.

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how dangerous these protests have become in the last week the. protests began on the last day of may when a group of people gathered to ask the government not smallish a public park and put a shopping center in its place since then. the demonstrations have swelled to include hundreds of thousands of people over two hundred thirty five protests have taken place across the country and counting seventeen hundred people have been detained so far and this protest is not slowing down any time soon many are demanding that the prime minister a democratically elected prime minister at that they want him to step down u.s. secretary of state john kerry spoke about the protests briefly today he expressed concern about the reports of the use of excessive force by turkish police officers he also urged the government to exercise restraint when dealing with the demonstrators are roughly producer lizzy feel and join me earlier today with the

latest from the ground. i'm sending out can i have a texan square which has been the scene of protests for the last seven days which began in i guess the pub and any hopes really by the government that this would have been over on monday the day the day that everybody goes back to when i can no more life. definitely proven not to be the case just in the last hour that was just take asked about a kilometer away from here and there was so much take us to use that it flooded the square and people are still recovering from the effects of that an investor class itself is still ongoing clashes between protest protesters and police fish excesses of course where i don't know about xi palace but the palace is where the offices of the prime minister again located and the police have released a statement saying that tonight will be the night that they finish the protests. so

we're really expecting even more ugly ugly is an obvious thing than we've we've seen over the last three days and of course there's also been the statement earlier today by one of the trade unions here that which has a quarter of a million members that they are going to go on strike tomorrow and a day off in protest at the what they say is a government crackdown on peaceful protests even across turkey and cities across thanking and talk about the reasons for those protests as i understand it the prime minister has made numerous democratic and economic changes for the betterment of the country but also he's made several social changes that have were stripped of the people can you talk about some of the reasons. well although some people say that these are very spontaneous protests really that has been months if not years if not since ten years ago i went out again came into office of underlying tensions. and the policies of the a.k.p.

government. just in the last few months there's been several big protests against the infamous again the khan trials which notorious in that they've that the government has arrested and sent to prison hundreds of people including. sold high ranking soldiers analysts trade unionists and on top of that there's a lot of opposition growing to the government's foreign policy in relation to its protests this collaboration with the opposition in syria and even people who might previously have been in support of this current government really getting fed up with the fact that there are. fights is coming in from opposition fighters from syria streaming over the borders of course not not long ago that was and attacking right hundley in which what was previously seen as an a k p stronghold and that

really provoked a lot of opposition and and people hate blaming the a.k.p. government for that attack in that they have been openly opposing the assad government and facilities and allowing people to come across the border they say that refugee camps but people here say that they are harboring terrorists and speaking of those terrorists and harboring them in the syrian fires can you talk about how dangerous these protests have become over the last week. well really the only time that as it seems that there's any danger is when the police show up because. i'm in texan square since saturday evening there's been no police presence and the protests have been essentially has been like a festival in texan square for the last couple of days and even that you know the buildings around the square they haven't been smashed up people carry on because normal and really there are no incidents of violence is only in places where police

show up and start using water cannons and take gas that provokes obviously a lot of anger and protestors bag so at the moment as the police helicopter cycling over tax and tax and square so it looks as though the last couple of days of peacefulness and the kind of threats festive atmosphere in fact they may be coming to a close now r.t. roughly producer lizzy feel and thank you so much for that report. one american muslim who was detained in the united arab emirates is now suing the u.s. government for the part he believes it played in his arrest and alleged torture thirty three year old claims that he spent more than three months in detention in the u.a.e. back in two thousand and eleven he says it was orchestrated by the f.b.i. because he refused to become an informant at the mosque that he attended in portland oregon here's a describing some of the torture he endured. you

know most people or. someone who listens. now beyond the detention and torture eunice who is a naturalized u.s. citizen says he has also been on the no fly list for years and has been prevented from coming back into the u.s. all this he says as a way to force him to help the f.b.i. now last year the justice department filed charges against his brother and a third man for conspiring to hide seventy five thousand dollars worth of money transfers to the u.a.e. and so don is the fourth american muslim from portland to claim that the f.b.i. tortured him. while monsanto has earned its fair share of critics over the years as a result of its controversial g.m.o. seed growing one of the biotech giants most outspoken critics also happens to be one of its youngest fourteen year old burke bear is an advocate for sustainable

agriculture and has traveled all over the u.s. to speak about organic farms and the problems surrounding america's industrialized food system are she correspondent margaret howell brings us the story of a boy whose experience goes beyond his years her fourteen year old bourke genetically modified organisms just don't fly i discovered the dark side of the industrialized food system. first there's genetically engineered seeds in organisms that is what a seed is manipulated in a laboratory is something not in my nature by taking the d.n.a. of the fish and putting it into the d.n.a. of a tomato yuck don't get me wrong i like fish and tomatoes but this is just creepy. the seeds the seeds of them plant and then grow the food they produce an improvement cost cancer other problems of lattimer's and people of many food producers license the one to mankind and most folks don't even know they exist burke was eleven when he filmed this and at age fourteen he's still on the go again

turns out burke's passion started with one decision now while back i want to be an n.f.l. football player i decided that i'd rather be an organic farmer instead that the old. thanks. and that way i can have a greater impact on the world i asked berke what he thinks should be done about genetically modified foods first meaning a gene was labeled so we can educate the public into the unique starting area should know what's in there and looking you know. and number two so that we can eventually get them either me or you know just totally kicked out of the country burke explained that farmers who don't play by months into his rules often find themselves at the wrong end of lawsuits like toronto based farmer percy smiles or who seven year battle with monsanto nearly took the family farm smiles it was

a canola farmer and sea breeder for fifty years one thousand nine hundred ninety seven months and to develop canola seed ended up on his farm the origin of the roundup ready seed remains unknown but smiles are adept at the seed and harvested it in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight months into learned that smiles are was growing a crop of roundup resistant canola and took him to court for pet infringement. when the farmer wouldn't pay a licensing fee for the seats the case went all the way to the canadian supreme court which voted five to four in favor of months anto much it will go and see the farmers whether it be organic farmers large you know armors savers. and they'll sue them for all their money or you know as much as they can. patent bridgeman in they were eventually you know put that person out of business and i just find it crazy because number one these people they don't even know what this or the g.m.c. that our rights and. and our number two you know it's just total can't him

a nation of you know g.m. crops being right next door to whether it be an organic farmer norms you know our you know just coal encroachments you know being able they can to make people's land i think that it should be marked in santo having to pay damages for having you can't have it contaminated crops rather than the farmers have to pay for bills and it's cases like these that give birth to fuel to keep on pushing on now that you met david take a look at the wire up behind me is washington d.c. is monsanto office and they produce the seeds that burke was talking about why do what i do is to get people to really look into their food system and to wonder what they're eating for l. it's companies like monsanto that have the air of the government and their influence over our global food supply but with people like bert barrett raising their opinion that might not always be the case in washington margaret howard r t well it seems that right here in the us a constable modern lifestyle might

encourage some bad habits we are a nation after all that cohen that the term accounts potatoes what the remote control invented to make it so that you don't have to get up to six variants the whole world at the touch of your fingers and even now there are some new inventions coming out to make it easier to do less with your hands for an overview of the new ways to laze around the residence laurie harvest. hey world i get it you think americans are lazy and will buy whatever stupid crap you create to help them minimize movement i get it just in the past week companies

have bombarded us with new products and of research that all back up that supposition consider exhibit a that handsfree whopper holder burger king introduced this thing which is exactly what it sounds like to celebrate its fiftieth birthday in puerto rico because apparently people are too lazy to hold burgers up to their mouths. exhibit b. a coffee bug that catches coffee drips before they hit the table it has a tiny reservoir running around it that catches drips because apparently not only are we too lazy to clean up after ourselves but we are also sloppy slabs and can drink without slipping out a big. or how about exhibit see this cell phone holder party it's a sixteen ounce plastic drink up that holds your phone for you it also comes with a straw up because you know we're all just big babies who can't handle drinking like proper grown ups these were all new products that the media talked about

within the past week thus helping perpetuate the idea that the masses are indeed stupid and lazy but if that weren't enough a company called information resources aig released a new sales report study this week as further evidence it found that ready to eat popcorn sales are growing at a much higher rate than microwave popcorn sales. apparently we are all too lazy to open the box unwrap plastic put a bag in the microwave press a button and then wait a whole minute we just want to have the popcorn ready for us man and this study proves it it found ready to eat. eat popcorn for which all you have to do is rip open a bag has seen a sales increase of eleven point nine percent while microwave popcorn sales have only increased by less than one percent. so apparently these companies making products geared toward our laziness are all on to something whether we're lazy because companies create products that make us that way or companies create

products for the lazy because we demand them who don't know that the bottom line though is that the lazier we get the easier it is for companies and the government to take advantage of us so for the love of god people when you see products designed to make you take your eye off the ball do the right thing get up off your couch and yell at your t.v. i have not going to buy this anymore tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the red hood. all right and that's going to do it for me for tonight but for more on the stories recovered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our website archie dot com and don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez for now have a wonderful night and i'll see you right back here tomorrow with more news and in-depth

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