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government is collecting information about americans and using it for purposes have nothing whatsoever to do with spying americans are not supposed to know that they're supposed to be controlled through the mass media that the five mega corporations that control and manage conflict of opinion here in the united states so all the control over public opinion is a lynchpin of the control of the united states a representative government and that government represents the interests of the bankers the military contractors big oil and such and this system of information control is beginning to crack and just comes back again to bradley manning and wiki leaks and the importance of obama target being both manning and julian what have all the lot of my expect need to be a military. legal expert here but i've got
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a bit of confusion in my head myself now since this verdict come out over the last couple of minutes a correspondent saying the maximum that bradley money could face in jail twenty is and yet we're hearing you know he's been found guilty of the most he's been found not guilty the most serious charge aiding the enemy yet we understand that that was punishable by life imprisonment but manning still faces over one hundred years in prison on nineteen counts is not true or is that falls. that's my understanding is the nine hundred twenty counts bradley manning has already pretrial pled guilty to certain charges and those are already on the books so to speak she has pled guilty to nineteen or twenty charges my understanding is that ellie manning will be since subjected to a minimum of twenty years in prison even though the as you mentioned and noted carefully that the judge has just discarded the arguments that he was committing treason ok thank you so much for talking about to action on the sentence is due to
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come out over the next maybe tomorrow but maybe over a couple of days a lot of people are still involved in that sentencing tomorrow could it go to a pale. yes it can my understanding is that the maximum for all those other charges just like aiding the enemy could go to two hundred fifty four years yes the u.s. army court of criminal appeals that would be after the sentencing procedure where i understand that around twenty witnesses had to be called just for the sentencing procedure then it could go to this military court of appeals and theoretically then to the supreme court but certainly the verdict isn't that has just been released isn't as early in the final word by any chance because also the sentencing could be appealed as well as far as i understand best guess with the best to come away with you think as a sentence. you know i suppose the major thing to remember here and it's good that people are were identifying the constitutional law professor obama with this case
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we've been running a clip of president obama caught off guard on a mobile camera he himself complaining about president obama complaining about bradley manning and assuming his guilt and obama wants to get him lots of people recently saying he wanted to close guantanamo not because of a case of justice he thought that he didn't like the legal concerns where some members of the american political establishment could be tried for war crimes of different. different levels and so obama has put himself here he's the one that said manning is guilty how that will affect an appeals court procedure how that affects sentencing one would hope that the lawyers will not only be making the case that he's british which they so far haven't in which case should he be should britain have a hand in this and the lawyers should also be making the case that there is some distortion of the judicial process let alone the torture that bradley manning
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underwent which is of course in violation of any kind of constitution the first amendment tonight certainly looks to be a lie. regardless of the acquittal only aiding the enemy charge a contributor after the times he also american political analyst and compare mark mason thank you as well for your time much appreciated ok let me just sum up again what we've found out in the last fifteen minutes or so bradley manning has been found not guilty of the most serious charge of maryland aiding the enemy that was would have been punishable by life imprisonment manning still faces over one hundred years in prison on nineteen counts including faffed and espionage the sentencing is set to begin wednesday we will bring you the latest from the court and the news continues here after the break.
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i look about to our continuing coverage of the bradley manning verdict that's been coming out in the last couple of minutes so that he's been found not guilty of the most serious charge aiding the enemy that would be punishable by life imprisonment he still faces he's been saying over one hundred years maybe in prison or nineteen counts including theft and espionage and sentencing is set to begin on wednesday tomorrow we'll bring you the latest from the court then back to no more analysis from professor david lewis of the international whistleblowing research network professor thank you for your time your immediate reaction to what we've heard in the last few minutes. on my back to have a good life is that we don't be found guilty of aiding the enemy because it is that important message that you don't want it throughout the world to be in place and
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obviously are you people like other whistleblowers like that we don't. we don't i would pose. lends weight without the bradley manning is a suitable person for the nobel peace prize to be nominated to be the hero in both the war crimes he's been convicted of nineteen charges and it would be the people that they do like a very positive result to get it in in the in revealing with the theory would be to pocket the fact based about what's going on i think you have the figures with a bit of a rope global that is well depending on how to. do you talk to he's called a traitor or investigative journalist in the world a lot of good. he's not the best to do this because of those he was killed because of this position in the military i regard him as a hero because he has exposed war crimes by.
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far right. for breaking the rule that he would have got to be committed atrocities themselves or i mean what's his case done this verdict done for investigative journalism. i think it's been really quite reassuring for the. national security issues if they do so in a modest. as june the founders say the consequences of being found guilty not only with the blood of. journalists generally so this is a very significant issue for the coverage of national security issues both in the u.s. and will this encourage do you think more or less whistleblowers to come forward now in the future because manning still potentially facing a very long time behind bars that can't be underestimated. probably not going to lack he's not been started this by the way i don't want to be the consequences of the deal that the stars will because of people that would be
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surprised if i don't think people are rich whistleblowers of this are going to do what they think is the right thing anyway snowden. with it was necessary to do it respectable whether a bradley manning was found guilty or otherwise be very careful despise the. flavor of the month and in the newspaper the rule says that the. voting has a conscience. that it is committing the truth so how can the private money is that good with the crimes that he's committed to. the truth in months. the base is the enemy that would have been an unconscious professor our last guest described him as bradley manning if someone were to be reading about in the history books for decades and decades to come could he be described as a martyr for free speech. possibly not because of it because remember is it was because he had obligations in the military and he recognized the speech of those
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obligations but there is a great the goods iraqi people will bear that in mind he's opened up security issues this is been defunct so we can have a debate about how much security with tolerate it is in the modern society to want extent it's been this we need discuss. these privacy issues and the security issues we need to have the intelligence the base roughly have the information be nice to send in these these these these things are not simple for us or thank you very much for some to stay with us. let's go about no to a washington d.c. correspondent going to check for another update how they're governing our job to get this straight in my head are one of you is to be straight as well we were talking earlier on about the fact that the what he has pleaded guilty to if you get twenty years that's twenty years per charge or does this work cumulatively because we're also so you could face a hundred years in prison how does it work. well absolutely bradley manning has
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been found not guilty of aiding the enemy but he was found guilty on nineteen other counts including five counts of violating the espionage act now in theory yes this carries this could carry a sentence of more than one hundred fifty years in prison under under those charges . but then the judge can you know go on and sentence him in a few days or weeks or two to let him walk from court having reduced his sentence to nothing but that's again that's that's in theory we're going to hear from the judge very soon in the coming weeks or coming days as far as the sentence but if he is sentenced to a term in prison any term he will be of course automatically entitled to to an appeal to the army court of criminal appeals and that of course suggests a lengthy appeals process but this is of course not to underestimate the importance of the fact that he was found not guilty of aiding the enemy because
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this is setting an important precedent for these types of cases the espionage act was never intended to punish was a blower in one thousand nine hundred statute for spies but the obama administration has already charged eight whistleblowers with espionage so the verdict in a sense puts a dent in this practice in one way because it's also very important for the journalist i mean we've we have heard the argument that. it's a it could be if it had he been found guilty of aiding the enemy would be such a huge threat to investigative journalist because they their sources dry up and be this this is sort of the same as accusing journalists of aiding the enemy although indirectly because you know journalists who. speak about what about the revelations made by the whistleblower and publish it going for viewers who have been just
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joining us just just getting this news know that he's been acquitted on the main charge rate and we have to be what was the word on the street very difficult to predict these things what was the word was he expected to have been found guilty of this or nor how much of a surprise is it. well actually it's not. the poll say of course of course bradley manning has a huge support group of but the polls say that the majority of americans think bradley manning is a traitor so i don't know what the expectation was but again of course his his motivation his intent did matter for the judge as well as for the public support of bradley manning it was quite obvious throughout the hearings it was quite obvious that the young man you know whatever he did he did with with the intention to to help his country not to harm his country in his own words so it's
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a tricky issue take us through the next step the just for the last thirty seconds or so so what's next for him so what's next is the judge will sentence him is it tomorrow or in the coming days or weeks we don't know that. as of now and then if he is sentenced to a new term in prison he will be entitled to to of course appeal that decision and that could be a lengthy process so we are not at the end of this process or are going to kind of watch the thing for him for the update well let me bring in our verdict again what we know so far that sir come out in the last forty minutes or so bradley manning has been found not guilty of the most serious charge against him a little earlier of aiding the enemy which would have been punishable by life imprisonment but manning still faces one hundred years in prison may be. the judge spent five minutes reading the charges manning has been convicted among
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other things on five counts of espionage as well as theft and computer for the sentencing set to begin is going to say wednesday morning we'll bring you the latest from the court as well. bradley manning is the course a twenty five year old from oklahoma let's talk about him for a minute he enlisted in the u.s. army in two thousand and seven two years later he was deployed in iraq where he encountered video footage showing u.s. forces killing unarmed civilians apparently mistaking them for insurgents journalists and children were among those victims that video was labeled collateral murder by the wiki leaks website which published it after receiving it from manning the army private was arrested then in may twenty ten and saddled with twenty one charges relating to espionage computer fraud theft and aiding the enemy and it's that last charge of course that kind of a life sentence now while he's been in confinement in a maximum security prison the publications have continued to be released exposing multiple wrongdoings by american troops in afghanistan and iraq the u.n.
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torture reppert has said that manning has been subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment during his detention. more on this story of course throughout the even more line as well from a web seen working on it twenty four seventh's for you r.t. dot com you can stay with us real time in-depth coverage to come of the bradley manning trial. this is part of surgery in the. world. has taken some or the day's big stories israeli and palestinian negotiators have agreed to meet again in a fortnight's time to continue their talks on a long sought peace agreement the process had stalled for the past three years the sides still have got major disagreements about borders and security in this no compromise on the horizon just yet either washington wants to broker an agreement on a so-called two state solution which would allow israel to co-exist peacefully alongside
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a new palestinian state but the burning problems continue to be israeli settlement expansion and the fate of palestinian refugees and the status of jerusalem the resumption of talks is extremely unpopular among the palestinian people who want israel to return all the lands that was seized back in the one nine hundred sixty seven war in a gesture of restart diplomacy if you like tell of eve only this sunday approved the release of one hundred four palestinian prisoners yet thousands more of course remain locked up in israeli jails our middle east correspondent paula still reports next from a town where the divide is most bitterly felt. to is really sick as seen through the barbed wire that protects abu use of a she's home his is the only outhouse left in the tell the maid a neighborhood in the center of ancient hebrew on. a she lives on one side of the street across from him his sickly neighbors who he watches only through this video
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camera afraid of what would happen if he didn't like this you are only now lady. if you see what you did you are in your daughters or to russia is a boy he she is daughter. she's afraid to visit her father because the settlers throw stones and eggs at her and her children and the many will this getting worse my mother was first give birth call 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
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because of what had you are but what you really say they closed the road because they were afraid somebody would smuggle bombs and i asked them how we were supposed to get to our houses when they said you can buy a donkey 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 at all 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 israelis 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 around it's a frustration in the land of israel this is the very root not only of judaism but of monotheism. just down the road as the second holiest site of the jewish people
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in all the world and only since we've come back because everybody wants access to the whole 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. and you have the often soldiers prevent me from crossing for no reason it depends on their mood whenever they feel like if they refuse this commission. only or do i use these arab neighbors have left this part of their plan to sit is maybe lives a living hell but he says he's taking a stand one step at a time. r.t. hebron. they were told to do. political analyst from the alexy university in gaza he says neither side is ready to take publications required by international law that national low guarantee is the right to self-determination to the palestinian people and the right to self-determination of the palestinian people in kenya is
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one that right of more than seven million palestinian refugees are scattered all over the world living in miserable conditions in miserable refugee camps all over the world actually their right to return also international law guarantees that i took the quality of more than one point two million palestinian citizens of the state of israel who are treated as second if not third class such as but also international law guarantees that out of you know palestinians in the gaza strip that wish the bank to live freely and free from direct military occupation and i don't think that you know that assumption of the negotiation is means that the palestinians and there is a will be able to deal with these serious issues john is simply unstoppable economic rois appears to be leveling off with g.d.p. growth twenty three year low so mccollum is still really holding a long slide down to three percent in the coming years the banks have voiced alarm over the numbers from china which is the time of recession of course in europe and
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deep fiscal problems in the u.s. too but despite the naysayers the chinese government remains staunchly optimistic pressing ahead with reform plans and setting an ambitious seven point five percent growth target for this year so while we see the end of the chinese economic miracle or those doomsday predictions premature is artie's business correspondent katie pilbeam. 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 an early 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
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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 well there have been chinese whispers that the government is planning to implement a huge spending package to boost the country's gross rushing out a new route ways and infrastructure the government also intends to dig itself out of debt most of the country's risk comes from having high deaths in 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 go five percent this year the 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 our high dose of
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czerny's a professor at the university of hong kong uses china's stumbling because of term proof cycles in the global economy but the leadership has got it sorted certainly less on long term structural reforms. it is cyclical in the sense that the external and merriman is unfavorable and hopefully when they do it us economy branded european economy improves and. chinese economy may do better it is structural in the sense that china has to change and transform is economic development model it cannot be pan all the time of cheap exports new leaders. and parents are ready to suffer from a slowing down of the economic growth rate and gage in structural reforms so as to deliver at a later stage. more world news on the way in
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a few minutes and of course we keeping our eyes on maryland as well to bring you a live analysis of the verdict as well thanks for being with us. i've 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 at 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
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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. so we. can see. that no one is going with the guess that this is from.
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news at ten pm from moscow the whistleblower bradley manning is found not guilty of aiding the enemy and lifting the lid on american military wrongdoings but still faces over one hundred years in jail on a host of other charges. i. i. get evening it's kevin owen r t h q tonight one big story dominating our coverage of the verdict in the trial of the twenty five year old u.s. army private responsible for the largest leak of classified documents in american history bradley manning has escaped conviction on the most serious charge against him.
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