it is a dangerous person i mean example national security extremism. us was a lower brownlie manning's conviction on charges ranging from ask you know computer fraud of both a wave of international criticism with lawmakers in europe urging the obama administration to release the army private. meanwhile the sound saying phase of his trial is set to begin with manning facing decades in prison despite being acquitted of aiding the enemy. and the u.s. secretary of state heads to his mom about hoping to ease tensions with the new government there over america's conversational drone strikes on pakistani soil.

four pm in the russian capital you're watching our. bradley manning has been found not guilty of one of the most grievous offenses on american law aiding the enemy but is still staring at the prospect of life behind bars the sentencing of the twenty five year old army private responsible for the largest leak of classified documents in the country's history will begin later on wednesday and could last several weeks are sandra blake has been following the court proceedings at 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. now bradley manning was convicted

on all but two of the twenty two charges against him let's take a closer look at them so aiding the enemy was most serious charge it carries an automatic life sentence and in some cases capital punishment manning was acquitted of that but convicted on fifteen counts of espionage and theft of government property while he was also found guilty of computer fraud along was relating to the infractions committed it was while he was serving in the military all those crimes together mean a maximum sentence of one hundred thirty six years behind bars are just going to she can has been investigated how the obama administration has redefined the espionage act. 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 a song with the man who gave media pot form to bradley manning's revelations here's

what he said about about the verdict this is the first. conviction against was low in the united states it is a dangerous precedent and unique example of national security extremism is the short sighted judgment that cannot be tolerated and it must be reversed it can never be taken very true information to the public is it's beyond 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 the prosecution did not provided evidence that were even claimed a single person came home as a result of bradley manning's disclosures the only victim. was the us govt.

but the abuse of this young man. was never the way to restore. the sense of the scope. of the amount. 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 up 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 encouraged than instructed 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 sought classified information so all of this is certainly sending a chilling message to the journalistic community here. well according to the general counsel at the national whistleblowing sander of the government is more determined than ever to crack down on information leaks. there over reaction to the bradley manning case has been just to clamp down on or types of whistle blowing and that's unfortunate there have been some advance moments in the law in the non national security or intelligence area but that's being divorced by the overreaction to this and also there's been an attack on the media 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 now the case has alarmed many e.u. lawmakers some of whom have called on the u.s. government to free bradley manning i am a piece from france sweden spain portugal caray show island and germany sign a letter to president obama and the u.s. defense secretary they say that manning is not a traitor and have the best interests of his country at heart the lawmakers also expressed their concern over the u.s. war on whistleblower saying it undermines democracy on both sides of the atlantic manning has suffered too much the letter says in spending over three years behind bars including ten months in solitary confinement well the message is manning should be freed as soon as possible and that you shared by plenty of americans as

maria 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 subsequently disclosed illegal 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 voted you have 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. but our hands in russia don't matter you see there. abide by whatever we do i want to just salute broadly modern we were supported. the video which probably the most famous one i'd say it's important for the american public at least you know what this 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 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 r.t. well let's go live now to christian and a member of the european parliament who cosigned an open letter to president obama urging him to free manning thanks so much christian for joining us here on r.t. to talk about this well as we know bradley manning a potentially faces up to one hundred thirty six years behind bars however the life sentence for aiding the enemy is no longer on the cards well given that still what is the message of the verdict but i think it's very very unfortunate the way the american administration just behaving bradley manning exposed war crimes here oh that's a good thing it should be in the america getting dressed and even encrypted american government to make sure that. the public gets made aware of it and the government can correct it of the obama administration doing everything it could go well cover up and quickly but very very. i do apologize for the quality of sound

coming from you christian but nonetheless while the prosecution has pushed intensively for up to portray manning as a traitor however the judge decided to refuse to take to take charge of aiding the enemy why do you think that happened. what if the judge judge by but i mean you should never have been charged with aiding the and then getting. the general public is not the enemy at least nothing under the democracy and it's very sad to see america behaving this way. don't let's talk about manning's revelations here i mean what about so those who committed those crimes specifically in iraq and afghanistan do you think that attracted i mean the mannings revelations attracted attention to the perpetrators of those crimes and

what are we likely to expect i don't know what to expect i mean the way the american administration is behaving but i mean things go. far enough those things because they have to be x. . people lose. their wrongdoings should it should be punished. not the person who. says so the americans go to their own it's just like i'm moving in this direction that might make me. all right christians from a member of the european parliament for the part prior party of sweden thank you so much for joining us here and doing apologize for the quality of sound as it was taken sometimes right is story in and of filmmaker tariq ali believes the verdict against bradley manning was designed to intimidate and discourage whistleblowers around the world. the fact that he didn't get the maximum penalty is

cited frank a psychological ploy it's obvious that they want to keep bradley manning in prison for a long long time and the aim is very clear to deter that was so close i mean there could be no other possible to him except to restrict the flow of information in more is hope ultimately a free society but it is closing down very rapidly so i think lead to terror and it will not work because many young people come to these things fresh they don't claim should we do it because x. was from ish they think should we do it because what we are witnessing is utterly obscene and should be made known to american citizens and the world at large a man examines hearing is set to begin at thirteen thirty g.m.t. and that's a little over an hour from now so make sure you're tune in to our team because we'll have all the latest from those proceedings at fort meade maryland. this is a summer with.

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with the same water that this series is selling and spring water. download. acacia so choose your life stream quality joy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device you can watch your t.v. any time anyway. welcome back this is our team now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is set to visit pakistan hoping to strengthen dialogue with the country's new government topping the agenda are the cia's deadly drone strikes on pakistani soil issues become all the more controversial since classified documents were leaked showing every fifth victim of the attacks is

a civilian u.s. foreign policy analyst for abram an earlier discussed the upcoming visit with my colleague kevin owen. he himself just two years ago when he was the head of the senate foreign relations committee it correctly said that afghanistan is a sideshow and of the main event 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 turned eighty percent of the population against the united states they strengthen the pakistan taliban they've made it impossible for the us to cooperate with the pakistani government and safeco and its nuclear weapons he 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 then 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 and 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 power alone american history of. and a quick look at what we've been covering online so far so all colorado has pledged to spare no effort in freeing prisoners from guantanamo bay we've got all the details on that at our team dot com and me the man who flies this side planes in his own custom made jeff out you can watch that video online as well r.t. dot com. and after

a three year hiatus peace talks between israel and palestine are now starting to get back on track but the only result so far has been an agreement to hold further talks negotiators aimed to iron out there can be disputes over the next nine months where the next meeting planned for mid august washington which is hosting the negotiations says the aim is to reach a final status agreement but there is no compromise on the horizon so far the goal is a two state solution which would see israel told exist peacefully alongside a new palestinian state where the two sides will first need to tackle a number of burning issues israeli settlement expansion the status of jerusalem and the fate of refugees the palestinians also want israel to return land it sees in one nine hundred sixty seven r.t. supposedly or as a story of one arabic speaking minority fighting for equal rights in his world. each weekend is reduced flock to this truce village on the top of mount carmel the

shops of busy the restaurants food and the office flow as freely as the wine drees very good restaurants here in the area it's very welcoming if you like to give you a lot of food out of the drinks. to make you feel really comfortable to 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 druce lifestyle. kamel above owns a popular cafe that would not be out of place in tel aviv or any other is ready jewish city. the people who come here usually look for something with center something they can only find within the community and what they don't look for and don't see is something just as authentic a community floundering on to a lack of basic necessities to do so in 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. told 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 that is really as are getting what i don't know why we don't ask for special privileges just electricity to send our villages have always received less funding than jewish areas resulting in poor quality of education in arab schools and weak infrastructure and social services so. our relationship with the jewish communities around us is perfectly fine no problem but our relationship with israel establishment is different for that reason people are not with a group of people we have difficulties on many levels first of all getting budgets approved for planning and then the planning itself and. 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 this i myself don't know about it i read that there was

some problems regarding some of the just but. israeli government really tried to. yeah i heard about it and the problem. a lot of problems. sewage 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 who feel nothing about adding racist slurs about arabs and then eating and they restaurants but getting them to admit it on camera is almost impossible. the problem is not on my side i know the language and they don't understand mine and 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. not enough and like it seems to stop them living in very different worlds paula c.

r t is fear village in northern israel. and now six look at some other stories from around the world hey iraq you deadly blasts have with two mosques in baghdad killing at least nine people this comes after an all kind of linked group claimed responsibility for you seriously bombings which left sixty dad across iraq on monday the government says the country is now facing a full out war against daring extremists killed five hundred people and july alone . in london around a thousand people have taken part in a rally against the government's plans to slash the budget it's the latest in a string of protests triggered by a controversial proposal to slice over two hundred million pounds from public spending on assistance in criminal cases the demonstrators claim the cut backs will put justice out of reach for the poor and vulnerable leaving them on the able to afford and legal defense. italy's highest court is hearing silvio berlusconi's

challenge against a tax fraud conviction a lower court earlier sentenced the billionaire former prime minister to four years behind bars but the lawyers say he's unlikely to serve actual jail time for this going insists the charges against him as well as a separate case in hiring an underage prostitute are politically motivated if the latest appeal is overturned he will face a long term banned from public office potentially plunging the governing coalition into crisis. while with most of the e.u. still in the grip of recession it's the smallest bags that are taking the biggest hit artie's peter all over travel to a small german village to find out how one band managed to stay afloat. 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 you constantly announce a new or here we only concentrate on people from gams if you live ten kilometers

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 so this means there is a big trust into the are just a number or part of a money making machine and in war 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 a once a year someone counts 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 the concept 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 mind forking out 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. 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 get a lesson every now and again to make sure that they know that not everybody should be trusted let's see it ok who wants to calculate teachers money. meet.

right now with twenty sure any money you got me. 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 this failed want to hang on to this is for many more years to come these are all of the south west germany. and coming your way if abby martin with breaking a sweat. that judges a sense on the side. that killed on the streets. that

women are kidnapped and converted to islam by force will be another layer of moses from the coakley christians of egypt to the cross touches most of us future victims . the way of the cross. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more.

if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'm glad i don't get any i mean i have my hands down i know that i'm sitting absolutely really messed up . in the all very soft mostly apologize fuses that have. worse cheer for those who know the flight now six of a day my favorite guy in fort lauderdale is minutes from a kick off that i want you to watch closely or about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm told. the folks you see. hey guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set on today's episode of corrupt american cops we go to detroit where a series of recent armed robberies conducted by alleged fake cops turned out to be real cops you heard me right real cops robbing people explain now detroit is no

stranger to crime over the last few months multiple people been held up at gas stations and other public places around the city there is a recurring theme one victims called in the crimes the police. were identifying themselves as cops before they robbed them and fled the scene sounds genius right dress up like a cop do a little burglary and when someone snapped a picture of one of the robberies going down police soon realized they were looking for one of their own when you take a look at this photo you may not recognize the players involved but the police when they showed up after the reports of an attempted robbery they recognized this suspect this suspect according to the police department a long time sergeant of the detroit police department you know what is this gotham city so not only are the suspects actual members of law enforcement but this guy's a polies sergeant for crying out loud first of all how the hell they not think they're going to get caught if they're identifying themselves this please.