u.s. whistleblower bradley manning will soon hear you sentenced he could face life in prison if found guilty of aiding the enemy. all talk as israeli palestinian negotiations resume after years of failed peace efforts we take a look at the roots of the deadlock. slowdown in the world's workshop as china post of modest growth figures we find out whether that was predicting a major financial dip are justified. this is already coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh and welcome to the program a military judge is set to deliver the verdict on u.s.

army whistleblower bradley manning later on tuesday he could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted of aiding the enemy is the fans argues that manning a leaked classified documents because he wanted to expose war crimes but when it comes to press coverage of the case in the u.s. innocent until proven guilty may not apply are these granted she can explains guilty before trial much of the u.s. media together with the government have all but convicted bradley manning look at simple if many did what he did they ought to try him and they ought to put his ass for far. as he should be fun is to the fullest extent possible and what is that. you think he should be killed yes. by comparison here he jeopardized he jeopardized national security that. we broke the law the president after all the two mandarin chief called him guilty before he years before he was on trial that's under command

influence to the judge in this trial who is a military officer in thousands of leaked documents bradley manning has exposed many aspects of u.s. foreign policy through his world logs the public has learned about war crimes committed by the u.s. in iraq and afghanistan perhaps best illustrated by the leaked collateral murder video this classified footage showed the knees with which the crew of a u.s. apache helicopter killed civilians in iraq we see protesting support of bradley manning throughout the country you come across demonstrations of supporting places like this restaurant slash bookstore in washington d.c. and their supporters not so much for many visiting to be told that too of course but more importantly for the public's right to know. but manning supporters are in the minority polls show that the majority of americans consider manning a traitor who cares whether the army killed some innocent people or not over in iraq we you know we don't want to we don't want to be a part of that we're very uncomfortable so if it's

a complex issue and it's uncomfortable americans generally will pull back from it and it allows the media to fill that gap and portray bradley manning as a traitor it's been all too easy to label bradley manning a traitor perhaps because his revelations had to do with the u.s. government's wrongdoings abroad. polls show that americans are more sympathetic to snowden perhaps because these revelations are about their rights their civil liberties so they care more when some iraqis rights they apparently care less some argue that politics and timing have also played a role in the media coverage of bradley manning's case this it happened during the war and he was. the least got the stuff out scooped all these major media outlets right as the bush administration was ending the war was still an issue and something that was raul the american psyche might be something different but we're short attention span people so three four five years later he's

a traitor three four five years ago he might have been a hero the main narrative that the us government has pushed forward and he was effectively delivered by the west media was that many revelations have endangered u.s. national security but the conversation that's been avoided is that perhaps the government's killing of civilians with drones and otherwise has generated more enemies for the united states than great the mannings revelations in washington i'm going to check out. a man who was responsible for the largest leak of classified documents in u.s. history and let's see how the exposure of those seven hundred thousand cables came about while bradley manning joined the army in two thousand and seven and was deploying to iraq two years later he's leaked collateral murder video was shown by weakening showing u.s. forces killing civilians in iraq manning was arrested shortly after that video was released and charged for revealing that classified information the public is then got to learn about what the u.s.

military did and of data stand by the afghan diary or more information about u.s. military operations during the iraq war emerged followed by a series of u.s. diplomatic cables all through weekly leaks in march the extent of the charges against a whistleblower became known and manning was. aiding the enemy we can weeks made their next move releasing documents about the guantanamo bay prisoners the court martial proceedings against the whistleblower began shortly after that with the u.n. saying that he was subject to excessive isolation and cruel treatment during detention a judge did not allow the un torture inspector to testify and a high profile trial finally gone away in fort meade maryland. well and here are your thoughts about what sentence bradley manning should receive as you can see the vast majority so far believe that whistleblower should be found guilty and honored

as a hero just over tamper see and think a suspended sentence is the right penalty for him seven percent add this point and believe that he should gather death penality or at least spend life in prison and the minority which is about five percent vote of. those voters want to see manning spend two decades behind bars it's all gone to our web site r.t. dot com and have your say to. well we'll of course be keeping you updated on what's happening and on the actual version of course will be. here brought to you on our team so stay tuned at seventeen g.m.t. because that's when it's expected to be announced. he is charged with perjury in. order. to get. israel and the palestinians are holding a new round of peace talks in the u.s.

reviving that have been stalled for almost three years having a long and disappointing history there's already growing skepticism over whether the sides would reach a compromise on the most intractable issues the united states is seeking to broker an agreement on a so-called two state solution under the proposal israel would exist peacefully alongside a new palestinian state great and the west bank and the gaza strip lands occupied by things really since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven war the major issues that need to be resolved to bring an end to more than six decades of conflict in cool borders future of jewish settlements the fate of palestinian refugees and the status of jerusalem and what's been called a goodwill gesture israel has agreed to release one hundred four palestinian prisoners but many critics say the two sides are no closer to a solution argues policy reports from a divided palestinian city where the conflict is rooted.

hebron to israeli settlers seen through the barbed wire that protects us of a she's home his is the only outhouse left in the tell the maid a neighborhood in the same to ancient hebron. she lives on one side of the street across from him his settler neighbors who he watches only through this video camera afraid of what would happen if he didn't like this you are. now where you. did you see what you did you are in your daughters are two russia is a boy you she's a daughter she's afraid to visit her father because the second is throw stones and eggs at her and her children. getting worse my mother was supposed to give birth i called the ambulance but these are very army did not give permission for them to get close to the house so my father and my brothers carried my mother out

on the chair she gave birth in the chair and the newborn baby died but it's not only ambulances who refuse permission to drive down this road no palestinian is allowed to use a vehicle here seventy eight year old she has no choice he spends hours each day walking these well trodden stones to fetch groceries gas or to go to the mosque because of what had you are but it was really say they closed the road because they were afraid somebody would smuggle bombs but i also know how we were supposed to get to our houses when they said you can buy a donkey and so i told them people are flown to the moon and you want me to buy a donkey or you go home by car. palestinians in hebron are no strangers to vote blocks here in hebron the streets are a maze if you palestinian there are some streets palestinians can't use or others they can walk on but not drive and still others they can access only with a permit it's to make sure the seven hundred. grady's who live among two hundred thousand palestinians in hebron can move around safely although hebron is the

second oldest and largest palestinian city it's also the second most holy site to jews after the western wall corrosive for us to sit in the land of israel this is the very roots not only of judaism but of monotheism. just down the road it's the second holiest site of the jewish people in all the world and only since we've come back everybody wants access to that holy sorry. fable to go in and worship there these radios justify the road closures arguing they protect the settlers who live here but palestinians say it's often done for no other reason than to make their lives difficult and you have the often the soldiers prevent me from crossing for no reason it depends on their mood whenever they feel like if they refuse this commission. only abu ayyub she's arab neighbors have left this part of hebron the city is made their lives and living hell but he says he's taking a stand one step at a time. r.t.

hebron. for israeli palestinian peace talks washington has left hamas out of the score a palestinian militant group has governed the gaza strip since two thousand and seven but it has also been classified by some countries as a terrorist organization how are you saying from the hamas interior ministry says leaving the group out of talks is a serious mistake. actually this is a new call for policy and it's really negotiation is coming from the american administration so they can want to make some. special is that mr obama didn't do anything in this case it during the last period negotiation will fail especially that israelis will give nothing for the palestinians and the only thing they're looking for the security. and. actually is not given the right to from the palestinian to negotiate and to give up the lands

and. the sea and constant cases. coming up down to a drone diplomacy in the run up to presidential elections on manned airstrikes by the u.s. are keeping pakistan on edge is the new government serious about halting the strikes stay tuned to find out. with. its technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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and. and. i. welcome back this is art after years of china's rapid growth and development the world's second largest economy appears to be slowing down the government is expecting the lowest rate of economic expansion in more than two decades at seven point five percent and some economists are predicting

a grim future saying that growth may dip to as low as three percent in the coming years the big banks are sounding the alarm over the slowdown which is also complicating global recovery so is china in for a financial collapse or are the doomsday predictions overblown artie's business correspondent katie pilbeam breaks it down. china despite enjoying phenomenal growth over the last three decades is not immune to the overall global slowdown and as an economy reliant on external investment and demand the cracks are beginning to show as it currently stands a chinese economy is expected to grow a modest seven point five percent by their standards having enjoyed a nearly ten percent average growth for the past thirty years now some point five percent is certainly not a disaster this figure acquaints of the whole of switzerland economy one of the wealthiest countries in europe so china's growth was to stay at this rate because

you would be adding the whole of the swiss economy to its balance sheet every year but nevertheless the economy is slowing so what is being done to get the chinese economy to accelerate a bit more and avoid this three percent scenario what happened chinese whispers that the government is planning to implement a huge spending package to boost the country's gross rushing out of the new railway isn't in the start up the government also intends to dig itself out of debt most of the country's risk comes from having high death and bad loans now all of this sounds bad it's nothing compared to the situation in europe where the year area is expected to contrast and over in the u.s. growth is expected to reach just below two percent and china's spello emerging markets are expected to grow five percent this year in fact remains that while china is some point five percent growth may be ruffling a few feathers most of europe can only dream of being able to fly. dr thorson pav

burke from universities as the contraction predicted by barclays is unlikely. i think this this is not realistic at all like this is on zero seven point five percent is still a healthy grown and it's actually desired by the government to reduce the overheating economy and the secret knowledge of the mess the consumer is spend it on mystic spending has to go up the government announced three major. stimulus now and they want to reduce it taxes for small businesses and then not on the export they want to balance the currency a little bit so that export is still working explore and they want to set up the rain wind farms this is a kind of seamy privatize that is an off the railway system the projection of the government it's not a place they want to grow the next ten years with seven point five percent something like this and this is achievable i guess china is still running the world economy this what the figure to say it's no that us grew by four percent china

seven point five and this is enough for the chinese government at the moment and a big gene has been pouring cash into the infrastructure of debt ridden greece making it a gateway for investment and trade between china and you are on top of that china has become a priority market for the greek food business and is a corpus going up has more. this is not the set of a movie about the post-apocalyptic world but the old international airport this is what six years of recession twenty seven percent of unemployment and billions of euro in debt look like. me very well be the perfect reflection of the greek economy and since its creditors or the troika demand that greece of reserves nearly seventy billion dollars by the year twenty twenty two it has to sell off its state assets and here is where the chinese come in beijing is only planning to purchase the abandoned facility but is also looking at leasing the current working international airport it's also attracted other countries like russia and the u.s.

but there is a great chance that that deal me also go to china back in two thousand and nine china's cost course the shipping company you least half of greece's largest port in your happens for thirty five years and local authorities say it's completely revitalized it's a win win situation great business for costco and millions of euro in tax revenues for greece in fact things have been going so well athens is now considering leasing the second half of the board beijing is once again interested to turn it into the number one seed in the mediterranean from here chinese products are put on trains and then distributed throughout the e.u. so there are no prizes for guessing who wants to snap up the greek railways as well but this chinese takeaway doesn't end all the infrastructure greek food products or virgin all of all to be exact or storing up an appetite in china last year the country became reeses number four export market and officials here say they used to think was a long term priority and now it's top of the list so as the troika slams greece

with various measures and demands a new job cuts and the reduction of salaries china is storming in on the white children for springing big business said it's considering covering some of the debt which is great news and a great opportunity for the greek economy and given that many other southern e.u. countries are also in donors. it's china will just be flexing its muscles you want is going off athens and he had five more on the story and much more at r t dot com including the fans crackdown on sax the r.b.i. says the same one hundred five miners from prosecution and arrested one hundred fifty people all the details online for you. at work snowden remains stranded in a moscow airport to look out what the future could hold in russia grant him asylum for all the latest on this and more of had to r.t. dot com. right to see.

the first lady. and i think the trip. on our reporters with. the. pakistan state t.v. says unofficial results show memnon hussein from the ruling party will be the country's next leader is to become the twelfth president of pakistan succeeding the ongoing us if these are dari it's just two months since pakistan had its first democratic transfer of power but it seems that no matter which government one controversial issue continues to plague the country well the cia led program of drone strikes and with a militant group promising reprisal attacks for each u.s. strike retired senior air force officer sultan hali says hands are tied.

the new government which had. resorted to a lot of it brought it in the run up to the elections especially during the electoral campaigns it had promised that it will bring an end to the controversial drone attacks but it seems that there is a reality check given to the new government by the americans that the aid which comes through. through loans and other things will be stopped unless the government of the line so therefore it does appears to be business as usual although the number of drone attacks have in fact increased with the new government coming in that are being only lip sympathy there have been number of protests but there has been. a stance taken to pick it up with the u.s. government but the drone strikes must stop john kerry the u.s. secretary of state is likely to visit this week and maybe it is taken up with him but i personally have very little hope from diet because if something had to be

done in a concrete manner it would have been done the thing is that the new government taking over it's been nearly fifty days but the number of better strikes have actually increased. violence in the country continues twelve people have been killed during a taliban assault on a prison holding some of the or top leaders in northwest pakistan over two hundred forty prisoners reportedly scape during the attack which was coordinated by more than one hundred man disguised as often serious and squad of suicide bombers the find went on for over three hours forcing prison officials to call in the army for backup. and other world news the body of a driver has been recovered from the wreckage left by a commuter train collision in switzerland thirty five people were hurt when two trains smashed into each other head on near the city of bern twenty six are still in hospital but there are no life threatening injuries according to local rail

officials the cause of the accident remains unknown. stories in thailand have closed the coastal area on a popular tourist island after streaks of crude oil contaminated the shore about fifty tons spilled into the sea on saturday morning after a leak sprung a pipeline more than three hundred workers have been deployed to clean up the oil the nearby area has been declared a disaster zone. a series of powerful explosions has ripped through a propane gas plant in the u.s. state of florida the massive blast continued for about an hour and tore the roof off the building seven people have been injured three of them are in critical condition authorities evacuated people living near the plant and are trying to find out what caused the initial explosion. or a series of deadly blasts has rocked the city of kano in northern nigeria a hospital source says up to twenty eight people were killed in the attack the

explosions ripped through a crowded christian neighborhood of the mainly muslim city the same district have been already targeted in the past by nigeria's ball as well as group since the beginning of the islamic insurgency in two thousand and nine over two thousand people have been killed. and up next abby martin talks me of freedom and a whistleblower politics during the obama presidency breaking the sat in just a few minutes here on our team. i got a big question for you how stupid can stupid terrorist paranoia get according to four progressive stuck on the texas department of public safety demanded that any women entering the state senate hand over any tampons or pads before entering wow

so why would they do this are they really that scared that some terrorists are playing a sneak a bomb into the place at any cost according to news that yahoo dot com the official reason is that they're afraid of people using projectiles as a form of protest against a law that would really restrict abortions oh well no i kind of see where you abortion is an issue that people really get furious over now it kind of all makes sense but wait wait wait wait what's that they're afraid of projectiles but people with guns were allowed to take them into the senate are you kidding me i think the second amendment does a lot more good than harm by i think it goes without saying that for women to concealed carry their hygiene items they should need a permit or permission from anyone but that's just my opinion.

you get. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less and less. i mean . that i'm. really necessary. in the old story so actually. it's. the worst we're going to go live now to the. radio guy and. i want. to give you never seen anything like this until. they are now being martin and this is breaking the set today as the first day of d.c.'s annual whistleblower sometime this morning i was able to sit on a panel with some other journalists to talk about the obama administration's

crackdown on whistleblowers it's quite unfortunate that we're seeing this kind of attack on the press happened under obama considering how one of the foundations of his presidential platform was the urgency to protect whistleblowers in fact for the last five years obama's website changed our gov has maintained a pledge to protect them by stressing the importance of encouraging people within government agencies to expose wrongdoing more specifically it reads obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste fraud and abuse of authority and government obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and have whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process for access to courts and due process so that the bradley manning who sat in a solitary cell for years before seeing his day in court or edward snowden who is already being deemed bit guilty in a court of public opinion and can't even come back to the u.s. because he knows his face concealed well don't try to look for this pledge now

because of last week and it no longer exists as obama's whistleblower protection declaration as well as all those other promises are now completely scrubbed from the internet according to sunlight foundation which first published the news what will the front splash page for change dot gov as a link to the main one. house website for years you could still continue on to see the materials and agenda laid out by the administration this is particularly helpful for those looking to compare obama's performance in office against his initial vision for reform yes perhaps obama's embarrassed about how many glaring contradictions exist between his initial platform and shameful performance as president maybe it was too hypocritical to claim to care about whistleblowers while being the all time worst president for whistleblower protection i guess it's easier to rewrite history than it is to stay true to your word and if this pisses you off to enjoy me and that's very sad.