this week's main headlines on our team u.s. private bradley manning faces more than a century in prison for a court martial finds him guilty of murder charges in america's biggest ever leak of classified data. edward snowden slip signs of a moscow airport ending his weeks of transit limbo off to russia grants the fugitive whistleblower eight years asylum to the fury of washington. also the last british resident in the guantanamo detention center describes daily assaults by the guards as we start our own investigation into the torture claims. and the new self set deadline for a decision on arming rebels in syria passes but the blocks determination is shaken by the syrian opposition and growing radicalism and recruitment of europeans.

r.t. with me andrew farmer. now private bradley manning was this week found guilty of america's biggest leak of restricted information with almost all charges in his court martial standing although he was cleared of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy he still faces more than one hundred thirty years in prison so let's take a look at how it all unfolded bradley manning was deployed to iraq in two thousand and nine he soon exposed the collateral murder video showing the civilians there being killed by u.s. troops but after a series of online chats with a hacker manning was turned into the government and arrested revelations followed

exposing iraq and afghanistan war logs along with diplomatic cables all published by wiki leaks in march twenty levin manning was accused of aiding the enemy charge that could have kept him behind bars for life while waiting for his court martial the un described manning's prison treatment as inhumane but the judge did not allow the global bodies torture inspector to testify the high profile trial at fort meade maryland led to guilty verdicts in nineteen out of the twenty two charges against him we can link spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson believes far from stopping leaks manning's case will lead to even more possibilities of secret data coming to light . he is obviously facing a long time in prison especially when you think about how this trial has been carried out by judge lindh the one is not filled with any optimism only last week. to allow the prosecution to change some of the charges on the last stage of the

trial. the trial has been partly closed off to journalists to journalists have been intimidated 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 now a new era beginning and an expansion of the limits of journalism. while the founder of wiki leaks the website which released the data handed over by bradley manning claimed the whistleblower never received a fair trial during the sanjoy also lambasted the us government for its radical national security vs. this is the first ever espionage conviction against was the war in the united states it is

a dangerous person and an example of national security extremism is a short sighted judgment that cannot be tolerated and it must be reversed. it can be. moved to the public because we know. well supporters of bradley manning need just a few hundred more signatures for a petition seeking an unlikely resolution they want to serve part of the whistleblower sentence themselves and you can read more about the petition on our website and while it's there take part in the ongoing poll on what you think manning sentence should be here's how the votes have panned out so far them are vast majority of you believe that he is he is a hero a not guilty in their own fifteen percent say a suspended sentence is what is required of of several years the remainder four percent say he should receive twenty years in jail and then the last fraction of you that's another four percent believe that he should receive capital punishment

or life in prison you can alter those figures if you like or you have to use go to r.t. dot com. or one chapter in edward snowden saga was closed this week the u.s. whistleblower on the run has finally left the transit limbo of a moscow airport where he's been stuck for more than a month snowden's been granted temporary asylum in russia and has already received some job offers including one from russia's biggest social network while his whereabouts at the moment remain unknown artie's lindsey france recaps the media's chase for the former n.s.a. contractor. on sunday do twenty third when reports surface that the u.s. is newest whistleblower edward snowden was in russian airspace on a flight from his hong kong hideout every journalist knew the weekend was over and they all scurried here to section a shared metro airport snowden and his wiki leaks

advisor sarah harrison are a no show reporters found out that snowden and his advisors were due to be on a flight to cuba the next day so what did they do search around for the nearest hotel to get a good night's sleep before getting on that flight. june twenty fourth dawns the doors to the flight close seat seventeen a is empty galleys and restrooms are searched the cargo hold is suspected a drinks trolley is found in business class hangovers are reported june twenty fifth president putin confirms that snowden is still in the transit area of the airport foreign minister sergei lavrov dismisses a u.s. request for extradition this stick out continues because you just never know when he'll come out from hiding everyone with a press badge gets to know airport food courts and the coin operated massage chairs very well july second wiki leaks says snowden is seeking asylum in nineteen more countries including china cuba nicaragua venezuela and india. the next day at

another airport this time in austria drama unfolds the president of bolivia his plane is forced to land on suspicion that snowden is on board the heat and the debate turns up on the heels of this bolivia nicaragua and venezuela make their offers of asylum well known denouncing the pressure exerted by america but one little problem remains getting to any of these destinations without falling into the hands of american law enforcement it was here on the second floor terminal where snowden held a conference with human rights activists and with his advisors made the announcement that he was scared to fly not for heights and that he was thinking of asking russia for asylum video and photos make it out of that meeting and are quickly uploaded for our stories finally we have something to bring back to our newsrooms now the wait for the paperwork in this case

a response to snowden scribbles on a blank sheet hey whatever works staff only this unassuming door here on the first floor of the terminal at the airport was headquarters july twenty fourth when everyone thought anatoly snowden's russian advisor would be bringing that very important piece of paper from immigration services allowing him to exit the airport instead all he brought were a bag of books some new clothes and a healthy dose of consolation for snowden and the journalists. until august first one day now himself shows the press that fateful document making edward snowden free to travel through the russian federation until july thirty first two thousand and fourteen he says edward is gone and his lips are sealed. due to the fact that he's the most wanted person on planet earth today he would be concerned about the issue of security that includes questions of safety in the place where he is going to live that's all up to him as he is where we'll consult and advise him but on

other. shoes it's up to him according to our sources when a plane from paris was emptying out he took his chance jumped in to blend in. edward snowden had flown and then walked out nearly unnoticed much to our chagrin in moscow lindsey france r t. well one of the conditions moscow had earliest set for taking snowden in was that he stops harming washington with his leaks and then interview to a russian t.v. channel the whistleblower his father said his son had already done enough public good to abide by that request with a clear conscience i understand his tremendous political interest and at this point our government i suspect is somewhat angry about the way this has has turned out i am again thankful to the russian people president vladimir putin and anatoly couture enough for the courage the string the humanity that they have

demonstrated in what i believe is this noble action of protecting my son and keeping him safe as a father he needs to respect the president who requests i believe my son's work is done with this in terms of he has made a tremendous sacrifice to the american people what has been done to them and in their name and i again so thankful to the people of russia. we spoke to political analyst dmitri babich he said russia had no other choice but to grant snowden temporary asylum. i think that snowden is a very special case because he didn't serve any foreign government what he did he did on his own and he revealed this information to press the foreign agents i'm pretty sure that the united states would shield such a person if he had been over russian origin and if he had been found in the united states or russia i think was not very willing to have him here i think it's clear

from mr bush's statements that he was not particularly. by the question is so what could put in do if he had delivered mr snowden out of the united states mr snowden would probably face life imprisonment in the united states so no civil list country can do it or this country won't be respected. now we have more news coming up in just a few minutes including the story of the belgian father desperate to find his son he went off to join the ranks of the syrian rebels that is the conflict that drives the country into never ending bloodshed. overconsume got a call it's after saakashvili steps down georgia's new political leaders find a way to develop relations with a self a say to an apostle. was would it be possible at least in theory a for these

nations to unite. and would russia recognize the territorial integrity of georgia in this case. we want them to live in peace. but it's up to him who decide what relations they will have of the please we won't interfere with the procedures. choose your language. because with oh if. some of. us choose to use the consensus you can. choose the opinions but invigorating to. choose the stories could impact your life choose be access to your office.

i. welcome back now inmates at guantanamo bay have accused guards of carrying out invasive procedures including the so-called get no mass sars the offices daily routine against the hunger strikers was outlined by the last british resident at the facility shakir amir in a private talk to his lawyer according to the inmate during such invasive searches an extraction team walks in and forces a detainee to the floor and any movements restrained by the guards who hold detainees by the arms and the legs such procedures are conducted anytime a prisoner wants to leave his cell to see a lawyer or a relative the same when he returns prisoners believe this is a tactic to intimidate them break the ongoing hunger strike and prevent them from talking to their advocates but attorney clive smith representing shakha says the measure is at the camp of a reverse effect. we have now raised it with the american courts that they

shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't effectively be sexually assaulting the prisoners and it was the government i believe who first started using the term scruton search if you're the leader in the they actually admitted doing this sort of thing and it's been done to try to intimidate prisoners out of talking to their lawyers so that unfortunately the truth would not come out of crown tonneau bay but i don't doubt that most of them are resisting jack has been going through this for months and months and months now and i've got a proud woman and weighed it and his response to that is when they leave him in his cell he starts singing you know both marley songs new get up stand up or be your rhythmix and the guards to show that he's not to be coward. i think that shaq is standing up for his rights and the rights of other prisons prisoners has motivated their guards under orders from the more senior offices to to treat very bad but

actually it's not had the effect the desired effect on the arts and it's may shock a stronger mentally because he recognizes that he is now at least in some parts in control of his life so i've actually been impressed by the psychological improvements and even though physically isn't very tough strings well our t. did send a request to the clan town and i can pass to the south accusations by the inmates and we got an answer a facility representative said they were unwilling to comment on such claims regardless of how ridiculous and absurd they might get. now this week the unofficial deadline passed for the you to take a decision on arming the syrian rebels but blocks leaders are still hesitant to see growing extremism within the opposition there are also fears of terror backflow with even more european citizens now joining the fight against president sat a french official says this flow is unprecedented during the nine years of the

afghan conflict only fifty jihadists were identified is going to the country in one year alone more than one hundred left france to syria and experts say most of the westerners are self radicalized and join the terrorist ranks of al qaeda and the al nusra front in total more than six hundred europeans are now estimated to be fighting in syria artie's tests are syria reports on why the e.u. could be wary of arming the rebels. while the u.k. arm the syrian rebels would not that's a question that's been answered in a number of different ways it's a card that began to mostly in varying degrees of light but ultimately always sending signals of support for the opposition it will be new political progress unless the opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad so he is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to

shape the moderate opposition. to. bugger off. we must ensure that these arms go to the syrian national coalition into no one else to one half years on syria continues to pay the delicate complex picture a battleground constantly shifting as it is with western leaders rhetoric in american twelve hour meeting in may you need or is agreeing to disagree on syria with the u.k. and france successfully getting their way even though they were at odds with the twenty five other member states the european union has agreed to bring to an end their arms embargo on the syrian opposition this is the outcome of the united kingdom it wanted rhetoric in the millicent and the need up to the libyan intervention also led by the same players it's remarkable there you go they could simply try and override the experience of libya because as a recent report said the. supermarket for being tarty of the of the middle east and

if they were to go into syria that would be true to the power of attorney on august first e.u. countries can reassess their positions on syria and those who wish to arm the rebels may do so but as that day drew closer hesitation grew louder with david cameron acknowledging that there are quote unquote a lot of bad guys amongst the rebels and recent reports from syria show all kind of affiliated groups wanting to establish an islamic caliphate and dissolution rebels defecting back to the government side before the the war in afghanistan and before the attack on iraq there was no al qaida in iraq there was no al qaida in yemen there was no al-qaeda in somalia there was no al qaida in syria but there is not an idea that's not lost on the british prime minister there's too much extremism about some of the rebels but frankly we do need to do more to help promote those parts of

the opposition that want a free purchased a democratic syria and so we're not being the rebels this are cilia r.t. london. we did manage to contact the father of a belgian man who joined the radicals in syria. to want to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers when they became eighty and there's nothing wrong with that to go holiday cover the walls you know and after. that they may send as much as theirs in cairo that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that they pay money to study to continue the study of this muslim religion and sufism you know but i didn't trust it i had the feeling that something was going wrong i start to discover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria and one day i recognize my all son in a video with other belgian guys so i moved to see that i was in the way i've seen so many cruel things even when the fighting group and got to where they kidnapped

me that put the cuffs on me i was almost dead and at least i came back to the bottom but then the hands because these radical people these leaders this show you know they don't give me the opportunity to see our side of this game is we're standing above all these children from the west not only from the west but many of the young guys from all over the walls they are using this young children. some international news in brief now police in istanbul have used tear gas against an anti-government rally in tanks in square the protests was part of a two and a half million strong move across eighteen turkey cities to demand the resignation of the prime minister the wave of unrest into kicked off in late may with a similar police break up a rally against the demolition of the stumbles. twenty two u.s. embassies across the middle east and north africa are closed today and may remain shut for the next few days due to an unspecified threat by al qaida washington's

also issued a travel alert for u.s. citizens there though with a specified timetable u.k. france and germany of also announced they will close their missions in yemen u.s. embassy there was attacked last year while a deadly assault was also carried out on the ambassador in libya. now the economic crisis in greece has left a major dent in the country's health care system couple that with more people forced to live on the streets and turning to cheap drugs in desperation is adding up to a major problem but instead of rehabilitating the addicts the government simply keeping them locked away from view. has the story. used to be out of work now he's still unemployed but also on heroin is homeless and has aids he's already tiny chances of getting a job have vanished completely. on this some start using because they are angry at

life no work no money for the same reasons many decide to start selling drugs but end up using the needle themselves. every day drugs rock the lives of new people with just one many thought they'd hit rock bottom it's very to hear gunfire that everywhere. and as far as i'm concerned is the worst thing i've learned so far. the leaders hit on the greek drug market is making even the most experienced junkies shiver and with a price tag starting from just two year old produce it's becoming increasingly widespread in the crisis hit nation together with heroin there are now among the key engines behind the spread of hiv infections every day n.g.o.s go into the field trying to stop the virus spreading so a drug user spots in one of the poorest districts of athens were asked not to film outside in order not to frustrate anyone since it's morning now and apparently many users still haven't taken the first dose of the day but here the procedure is quite

simple the social workers collecting used syringes distribute these alcohol wipes of fresh water and syringes for their users to inject but just as we thought being on the street is as low as a drug addict can get we want to investigate this the greek government's radical approach to tackle what's seen as a scourge on society by forcing addicts off the streets and holding them along with prostitutes and illegal immigrants and special detention centers like this facility where up to five thousand people are believed to be kept hidden from the eyes of the public or at one of these camps outside of athens for the amount of security here is. really impressive several lines of gates barbed wire and lots of security guards in fact one of them has already asked us to leave so we don't we have that much time to film not much time at all and we had to stop filming since our local producer told us we were risking our documents and footage to be taken away i did

manage to grab a couple of more shots from my phone looks familiar. disappoint a few screws and from human rights organizations greek officials see the populations of these guantanamo. double and that these should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you go to school of. greece. that's coming up to twenty five past to you here in moscow i'm back with more news in about half an hour's time next speaking to the russian prime minister about the two thousand and eight conflict with your jokes on a boy is next with her latest program well it's a pod.

i've got a big question for you how stupid kid stupid terrorist paranoia get according to for progressives dot com 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 sense but what 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.

and on welcome to worlds apart five years have passed since georgia launch its assault on self a suitable all but forgotten war inside given its relative still in function from the castle to could barely even call it that war and the five things a fighting true profound political changes that. often put all have been avoided well to discuss that i'm now joined by russia for much faster than current prime minister. thank you for your time now that it's been five years the international community has all but forgotten this war because they've been many other conflicts some of

the even more horrible. but i'm sure you haven't forgotten those days what is the first thing that comes to mind. right thank god this conflict didn't last too long or what it was burned into my memory to me and i think it's the same for many other people especially those living in the regions. the first thing i remember is how it all started and what was going on more the situation was very tense i have to admit i remember how difficult it was for me to make a decision that i might even with this. news quiz was absolutely the most difficult decision that i've ever had to make. them both among them it was very difficult for me as a person which manders a new president who had spent less than three months in office. but that's the way love history and sometimes there's nothing we can do. but if you with. the

time of this. august and open up now specificially the war broke out on august eighth but tensions obviously had been escalating for a few days or even weeks before that. when did you get reports that georgian troops were massing on the border. and were you aware of the actual plans of the georgian authorities. we of course have been getting reports for a few days prior to that. but there were troops concentrating on the border there were some provocations and incidents. but since this conflict had been simmering for years and we had our peacekeeping forces there we tried not to jump to conclusions but still we were alarmed by those reports.

and then in the still of night they opened fire. and it became obvious that the situation was escalating. still until the very last moment i was hoping they would stop. around one am when i talked to the people who were directly involved in the situation. it became clear that those were not just minor provocations but a full blown attack. intended to turn the situation in south ossetia around by force and overthrow its government. so after that was reported to me i had to make a decision. a very difficult decision. i had to give the order to open fire on georgian troops. with. me and that this was if you will and.