it is dangerous for. the. extremists. the world reacts to the guilty verdict handed down to us whistleblower bradley manning still facing over one hundred years in prison despite being acquitted of aiding the enemy. so no solution in sight to the u.s. so it's a nine month deadline to end the israeli palestinian conflict has restarted talks give a glimmer of hope. and all four on the u.s. secretary of state's plans to visit potus on this week are shrouded in mystery amid along the bonds growing anger at american drone strikes.

thanks for tuning in this hour i'm lucy cough and often of course you're watching our team well on to our top story now the u.s. army was lower bradley manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy but he could still spend more than a century behind bars the judge had convicted him of twenty out of twenty two counts which could see manning in prison for up to one hundred and thirty six years sentencing will begin later on wednesday but it could be weeks before manning learns his fate blake was at the proceedings. after three years of pretrial detainment and two months of testimony the court martial of private first class bradley manning is finally wrapping up in fort meade maryland starting wednesday the court case will enter its sentencing phase and the government and defense are expected to call upwards of forty witnesses total in order to testify to the merit and intent and motive of private manning now during the last two months of testimony we've heard all sorts of stories about how private manning acted in an off of the battlefield what kind of experience he had as an army intelligence

analyst however not all of those testimonies will be heard by members of the public or the press in fact or more than a dozen of the testimonies that will be entered in the court will be done so under seal those are all classified witnesses whose testimonies could harm national security if they were released earlier this year we heard from manning himself how he did it and why he did it he admitted guilt in releasing more than two hundred fifty thousand state department diplomatic cables guantanamo bay detainee assessment reaves iraq war logs afghan war logs and a number of other classified materials according to private manning himself when he went to the web site wiki leaks he did so in order to expose the rest of the world to the atrocities that he saw while serving in iraq private manning was held in pretrial detention up until earlier this year having spent more than one thousand one hundred days in military custody now that the trial approaches a conclusion however manning's fate will for once be a little bit less undecided once the judge decides how many years he will have to

spend in prison they'll finally have an answer. we've been talking about the verdict but i want to take a closer look at how those charges against bradley manning actually break down so let's get to it the twenty five year old was acquitted of the most serious charge against him that of aiding the enemy which had carried a potential life sentence but the army private was convicted on fifteen counts of espionage and theft of government property charges there's also a computer fraud charge along with similar infractions now manning that manning committed pardon me while in the military so if you add it all up that he could face up to one hundred thirty six years behind bars well for a closer look at how the white house has used the espionage act in its war against whistleblowers here's arties going to can the espionage act was never intended to punish whistleblowers it's a nine hundred seventeen statute for spies but the obama administration has already charged eight whistleblowers with espionage and here's doing what i saw as the man

who gave me the apart form to bradley manning's revelations here's what he said about about the verdict this is the first. conviction against united states it is a dangerous first example national security extremism is the short sighted judgment that cannot be tolerated and it must be reversed. it can never be the true measure to the public is it and yet yet even in the face of those very serious charges whistleblowers keep coming forward with revelations about the government's wrongdoings as they see that bradley manning's example didn't stop edward snowden for example from doing what he did and the question now is to what lengths will the government go to stop the whistleblowers of the future prosecution evidence that were even claimed a single person came home as a result of the humanities disclosures the only victim was the u.s.

government. but the abuse of this fine young man bradley manning was never the way to restore. the bradley manning this is the world with a sense of disco's. ministration has warned. bradley manning. of course we don't want to underestimate the fact that the military judge ruled that manning was not guilty of aiding the enemy but the obama administration's treatment of whistleblowers in general has already done a great disservice to investigative journalism especially to journalists who cover matters of national security many of them say their sources have dried out people in the government are afraid to speak up in the wake of bradley manning's leaks to the government came up with the so-called insider threat program under which government employees with clearances are basically encourage the new structed to snitch on each other on top of that journalists learn that they can be targeted as

accomplices of a crime for seeking classified information and publishing it as is the case with julian assange remember julian assange is not a whistleblower he has provided media platform for whistleblowers and on the list and then most recently that was the fox news reporter who was investigated as an accomplice of a crime for having sort of classified information so all of this is certainly sending a chilling message to the journalistic community here. bradley manning's espionage act conviction makes it likely that the u.s. will prosecute wiki leaks founder julian assange now that is according to his attorney and some civil rights groups political analyst mark mason weighs in this is really all about not only of course bradley manning but attack on journalism and we do leaks and julian are sorry. and we want to catch terror in that state court had a ton of terror about wiki leaks that's really really we have

a massive attack on free speech and on freedom of the press this comes back to the larger context here that we have the only person in the clear george bush should be shooting in acutely facing charges for look for it. well bradley manning's case has certainly sparked major concerns in the european union with lawmakers from all over the block calling on the u.s. to free the whistleblower i mean he is from france sweden spain portugal ireland and germany have written an open letter to president obama and defense secretary chuck hagel and it says that manning is not a traitor but he had the best interests of his country in mind now the e.u. representatives also expressed concern over the u.s. war on whistleblowers saying that harms democracy in both the united states and europe lawmakers also called for an end to manning's prosecution they say that he has suffered too much spending over three years behind bars including of course ten months in solitary confinement now their messages manning should be freed us soon

as possible and that is also some of the view of some americans as our team is more important i have found out union square has been something of a stomping ground for bradley manning supporters in new york city you see over the years many rallies have been held here in honor of the army private first class intelligence analyst now manning has been found guilty of downloading and releasing confidential u.s. documents that subsequent. activity and crimes on the part of washington manning faces up to one hundred thirty six years in prison instead of telling you how the public is reacting to this news we're handing our microphone directly over to the citizens bradley manning didn't commit any crimes would be like is if you shot me and the camera man said hey i've got this footage of this crime and he. you know put it out there for justice and instead of trying you they try him and it doesn't

make any sense it whether it's mr manning or snowden. i think they're doing a good thing because the american people are basically enslaved and they're you know they're told what to do by the media and they follow orders it would appear to me that the manning verdict would be sending a message to edward snowden i'm sure he's listening to news in better hands than russia does matter you see there. abide by whatever we do i want to just salute bradley manning we would support to you if you look at the apache helicopter video which probably the most famous one. for the american public at least know what is actually going on in the war i think something needs to be done is far from a legal standpoint needs to be changed because like the american public needs to know about things like that now although manning has been acquitted of aiding the enemy charges he may be punished for the rest of his life for presenting the

american public with the truth reporting from new york for an up or nine our take. now whether or not you agree with the folks in new york we here at r t want to give you a chance to weigh in and have your say about bradley manning and the verdicts let's take a look at how those who have already voted actually cast a ballot so as you can see right here the majority almost eighty percent believe that the court decision is wrong and a private manning is a hero who should have been found not to kill. fifteen percent of you believe that he deserves a suspended sentence of several years now just four percent believe that manning should go to jail for twenty years and exactly the same a percentage point that he deserves the death penalty or in fact life will present so it's not too late to vote a lot on to r.t. dot com and cast a ballot meanwhile the united nations has said that a man could have been tortured while awaiting trial in solitary confinement for nearly a year but we tweak spokesman kristen roughness and said at the prospect of such treatment won't deter future whistleblowers we have seen that despite the way that

bradley manning was treated being tortured in prison in isolation in solitary confinement for almost a year it has not stopped whistleblowers and there are still brave people out there who act on their conscience and with the public interest in mind we have seen a new era beginning and an expansion of the limits of journalism an era that began in earnest of course prior to two thousand and ten with the weeklies revelation in two thousand and ten and the world sure a new opportunity and a chance for information getting out bypassing the mainstream media often. lapdogs of the administration's instead of being the watchdogs they should be meanwhile the general counsel at the national whistleblowing center doesn't agree with that assessment david says that the government agencies are now on an active lookout for what's a blowers. there over reaction to the bradley manning case has been just

to clamp down on or types of whistle blowing and that that's unfortunate there have been some advance moments in the law in the non national security or intelligence area but that's being drug war if by the overreaction to this and also there's been an attack on the media there has been a chilling effect in the united states on whistleblowers as a result of the government's overreaction to this case and that has been throughout the federal government not just in the intelligence community but all government agencies have been faced with a crackdown on whistleblowers because the obama administration sent out a warning to all agencies to be on the lookout for leakers and to identify the leakers before they happen in response to the manning case. manning sentence

hearing is set to begin at thirteen thirty g.m.t. to make sure that you tune in to our team course we'll have all the latest from those proceedings at fort meade maryland. thirty six hours with the surgery it is. hard to know that everybody. third parties. there of muslim world is ablaze with conflict and turmoil be a revolution civil war or external meddling there could be no doubt this region will never be the same again it would also appear to be old meal colonial order for much of the region is coming to an end but what is replacing it and who is on the right side of history. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging welcome to the big

picture. mission. couldn't take three. three. three. three stooges free. download free broke video for your media project a free medio don carty dot com. welcome back israeli and palestinian negotiators have agreed to that they really launched peace talks will shift from washington back to the region in about two weeks time but there is no compromise on the horizon just yet the two sides still have major disagreements on. number of issues including borders as well as security now

washington says that the goal is to reach a final status agreement within nine months it's called two state solution under which israel would coexist peacefully alongside a new palestinian state but the true sides will first have to tackle a number of burning issues israeli settlement expansion the status of jerusalem and the fate of refugees moreover the palestinians also want israel to return to land that it seized in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. or has the story of how one arab minority is fighting for equal rights in israel. each weekend his radius flock to this truce village on the top of mount carmel the shops are busy the restaurants full and the laughs flow as freely as the wine there is very good restaurants here in the area it's very welcoming they like to be a lot of love that brings it's great to make you feel really comfortable twelve thousand inhabitants of a sphere village have opened their doors to tourists it's a way of bringing in cash while preserving the traditional dru's lifestyle. kamel

aboard owns a popular cafe that would not be out of place in tel aviv or any other israeli jewish city. the people who come here usually look for something with center something they can only find within the druze community what they don't look for and don't see is something just as authentic a community floundering under a lack of basic necessities the druze are an arabic speaking people who follow an offshoot of islam they hold a distinct place in israeli society as the only major non jewish community whose majority of members are drafted into the israeli army. has lived here for twenty years his home still has no electricity and only three years ago did he get running water i served in the army my kids will serve as well will live in israel but we don't receive what the israelis are getting i don't know why we don't ask for special privileges just electricity crews and arab villages have always received

less funding than jewish areas resulting in poor quality of education in arab schools and weak infrastructure and social services. our relationship with the jewish communities around us is perfectly fine no problem but our relationship with israel establishment is different for the trees people are not with the druze people we have difficulties on many levels first of all getting budgets approved for planning and then the planning itself. most of these radios who visit here are bolivia's to the problems and even those who know prefer to look the other way i haven't heard on this i myself don't know about it i read that there was some problems regarding some of the just you are wrong but i don't know if israeli government really tried to do that yeah i've heard about it i know the problem. a lot of problems. through words and. trouble building the limited space in building but it's not only about turning the other cheek and

choosing not to see there are israelis i've spoken to here feel nothing about adding racist slurs about arabs and then eating in a restaurants but getting them to admit it on camera is almost impossible. the problem is not from my side i know the language but they don't understand mine i served in the military i understand them but they sometimes come with certain prejudices about the druze and we surprise them by how alike we are. but not enough alike it seems to stop them living in very different worlds policy r.t. is fear village in northern israel. force we've got lots more for you on our website r t dot com including a story about on the telly and village of the face of the old mother nature there's the video right there a freak turn nato rips through a long problems causing millions of euros worth of damage you can watch the full video on our site also for you you can meet a man who flies claims in his own custom a jet pack in motion section r.t.

dot com for more incredible footage. and i think. what. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is such a visit to pakistan this week but the meeting with the country's new government is shrouded in uncertainty and one of the main issues is the cia drone strikes that continue to be carried out on pakistani soil now some have claimed that rather than destroying the militant groups the unarmed attacks actually feed the extremist ranks who earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to us foreign policy analyst fred

brand about kerry's visit and how drone politics are affecting the region. he himself just two years ago when he was the head of the senate foreign relations committee correctly the afghanistan is the sideshow into the main of which is pakistan so he understands the importance of having good relations with pakistan and the first step to doing that is to end the drone strikes mediately because they've truly eighty percent of the population against the united states they strengthen the pakistani taliban they've made it impossible for the us to cooperate with the pakistani government and safe in its nuclear weapon so we did touch on it just now i just want you to elaborate on it a bit more you said how much the population i guess naturally are against it more and more than i guess it's driving a maybe into the hands of terrorists the pakistani taliban were far weaker in two thousand and three than they are today as

a result of our drone strikes of we've put tens of thousands of people into the pakistani taliban and strengthen them and the pakistani government has not shown itself particularly capable of controlling them several dozen u.s. national security experts have said been very clear terms that these drone strikes are not harming the pakistani taliban but actually helping them recruit members this is a strategic catastrophe without parallel in american history. and it's time for a brief world update in brazil a high water pressure a high pressure water pipe ruptured killing a three year old girl injuring scores of people in the opening additional leak had swept away trees and cars and forced the evacuation of two hundred homes rescuers had to use inflatable boats to reach stranded residents in the compound district authorities have promised to be house of those victims. have gathered in london to

protest against new cuts to public spending less time the government wants to slash the legal aid by. they want solicitors to get a fixed fee rather than payment for the work they put in it is feared that defense lawyers will start pushing for a guilty plea is that any cost to save both their time and money. and al qaeda linked group has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings in iraq on monday sixty had died in nationwide attacks against me in the shia neighborhoods iraq's interior ministry has declared there is now an open war against insurgents in the country. while the e.u. is struggling to be part of its beefed up pardon me its ailing banking system europe's smallest banks have been doing pretty well with no ambition of multi-million euro deals they're sometimes run by just one member of staff parties peter all over had traveled to a small german village to meet one such banker. it's not all big city banks with bailouts bonuses and big shots in rural germany this small town has all its

financial needs taken care of by just one man constantly and wants a new war here we only concentrate on people from gams failed if you lived away sorry you can't be a customer in fact the furthest away one of our customers lives is about seven hundred meters. with only nine hundred customers peter believes he can offer something that big banks can't. and he has to personally people get a personal service here i know everyone who comes in of course i do or they're my neighbors this means there is a big trust the aren't just a number or part of a money making machine and when our t. stopped by at this one month bank we found that the man in charge wasn't alone the regulators were going through the books like they do in every other european bank people have to once a year someone come for four weeks i think it's a bit too long but hey that's the way it is even as we live more and more of our daily lives online in small towns like this one still

a place for the face to face because a bank sometimes i need to go to the city banks are all run by machines don't even get me started on the internet becomes that we have here we're all members not customers. it's hardly the most modern of operations opened at the end of the nineteenth century some of the equipment looks like it isn't much younger now wouldn't make working on my predecessor had a quite specific grip you can see here over forty years he wore the pain away all the modern stuff doesn't look right here if it works why buy new. so how did a lot. of the. even the youngest in town a case of four having their own individual money boxes to make sure they aren't sheepish about saving they even gets a lesson every now and again to make sure that they know that not every bank should

be trusted not see it ok who wants to count your teacher's money you need to meet. that right now with twenty sure. you got me. right everyone gets a lollipop. due to the cost of running them small rural banks of all but disappeared for most of germany but the people of the town of. want to hang on to this for many more years to come peter all of the south west germany. next us product.

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the way of the cross. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the arab muslim world is ablaze with complex and turmoil be it revolution civil wars or external meddling there could be no doubt this region will never be the same again it would also appear that the old neo colonial order for much of the region is coming to an end but what is replacing it and who is on the right side of history.

to cross-talk the middle east in turmoil i'm joined by grant smith in washington he is the director of the institute for research middle eastern policy and in london we process charles wolf he is a writer broadcaster and politike. commentator all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it grant if i go to you first in washington we have turmoil all across the region and particularly in egypt libya tunisia syria iraq i can go on and on brain is this a regional civil war it's what we're saying. i think you can make an argument that even though we've got nation states that you can make an argument that there is a conflict between two major parties that's broken out across the region i think you see entrenched elites that don't have much representation given over those they rule you have protesters who have been fired up usually by some abuse arbitrary abuse by police affecting their their meager

economic life and breaking out in the revolution i think that if you if you define kind of a classical civil war assen ario where it's a couple of entrenched groups duking it out so that you could make an argument that there is a region wide civil war but obviously there are some pockets that have been able to resist that you usually by hauling out the checkbook ok that was one point of view when grant in washington charlie jump in london well i think the argument can be made either way i don't quite see it yet at the point of civil war it's almost like in medical terms i think of a heart that's fibrillating if it's not pumping effectively democracy or society is not operating effectively. is grant said you have a lot of different major and minor players involved. and then on the.