this week's main headlines on our tape private bradley manning faces more than one hundred thirty years in prison after being found guilty of the biggest leak in u.s. history. follow whistleblower edward snowden breaks his cover spending his first days in russian territory after receiving long awaited paperwork allowing him to live and work in the country. meanwhile the surveillance scandal snowboards in the u.k. snowden's latest revelations show high leading telecom companies and their clients data to british intelligence which is funded by america's controversial spy agency . a prisoner held without charge at guantanamo bay accuses guards of carrying out procedures that amount to sexual abuse critics say the invasive searches gives to

break the results of the inmates. and iran's new moderate president hassan rouhani is being sworn in before parliament these are live pictures as dozens of u.s. senators call for yet more punitive sanctions on the country. and i welcome you watching our take with me. now an american judge has found private bradley manning guilty of almost all charges against him the former intelligence analyst now faces more than one hundred thirty years behind bars for what's seen as the biggest leak in u.s. history the soldier was however cleared of the most serious and controversial charge of aiding the enemy so let's take a look at the timeline of events surrounding manning it all started when he was

deployed to iraq in two thousand and nine several months later he exposed to the world a video showing u.s. troops killing civilians in iraq is the arrest didn't stop revelations this week in leaks published a new trove of classified data including diplomatic cables he faced twenty two charges including aiding the enemy the charge that could have kept him behind bars for life the u.n. called manning's confinement conditions as torturous and inhumane is here waited the court martial which started this june and finally he was found guilty of the biggest leak in u.s. history guilty of nineteen of the charges against him political analyst mark mason thinks this verdict is an attack on free speech. this is really all about not only of course bradley manning but the attack on journalism and the wiki leaks and julian or sarge that's the one they want to catch they're in a state of like catatonic terror about wiki leaks that's really their goal 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 wrong person in the court george bush should be sitting in a courtroom facing charges for war crimes. while supporters of bradley manning ready to put that lives on the line as they authenticity of a night a chunk of his sentence many important i went to new york's union square to hey what u.s. citizens think of the verdict. 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 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 would appear to me that the manning verdict would be sending a message to edward snowden i'm sure he's listening. you know because it's a really similar situation and 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 if you look at the apache helicopter video which probably the most famous one. for the american public

at least know what this is actually going on in the war. fighting all worth fighting at that point i just hope maybe somebody like obama. may be doing his last leg news a lame duck president decides to board money 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 heartache. meanwhile gavin macfadyen the director of the london based center for investigative journalism says manning's leak was to conscience. he thought that the crimes committed by the army should be made public and what they're admitting to was the fact that he broke the law in getting those documents and sending them out to wiki leaks the justice of what he did is another matter and i think in that most people are agreed except those who regard him or america as a traitor most people would agree that indeed he did it as an act of conscience

certainly attempted to publish these documents in the new york times the washington post and other sources but none of them would do it until they were a wiki leaks that then they all took up the case but it's a very strong case that nobody would gain from this certainly not bradley manning who is affected abused very badly of solitary confinement. or meet the six hours with a child or turned into. her you know that. there are these . now this week or so or a benchmark moment in the plight of another u.s. whistleblower as he attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution edward snowden left his name in a moscow airport as he was granted temporary asylum by the russian authorities he can i move around freely and work in the country for up to twelve months russia's top social networking website has already offered him a job but the story has

a fresh twist because his current lack of balance still not known for straight and journalists overflowing with unanswered questions ati's lindsey france takes a look back at high snowden's airport saga unfold it. on sunday during 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 i said to metro airport snowden and his wiki leaks advisor sarah harrison are a no show reporters found out that snowden and his advisor 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 stakeout 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 is 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 could head into 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 when they know 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 and the place where he is going to live that's all up to him as he is new or will 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 chariots jumped in to lend him. edward snowden had flown in and then walked out nearly and now just much to our chagrin in moscow the frat party. meanwhile london based legal expert alexander mchugh it is believed russia has operated within the letter of the law

when dealing with snowden but the russian authorities have been extremely careful to do this by the book they they've insisted on mr snowden making a problem. he's done it through a lawyer there is a well founded case here for asylum are not just the person who says that amnesty international says it human rights watch says it given that this is so the u.s. has no legal grounds to object to this now if the u.s. number less wants to jeopardize its very important relationship with russia because russia has done something which it is legally fully entitle to do that is a decision for the u.s. but many people will i think feel that if the u.s. does that then the u.s. frankly is behaving in a very strange and self destructive way as you might expect snowden's asylum caused

a great deal of anger in the u.s. with american politicians rushing to a barbed rhetoric at moscow or not now from artie's gani stickier. the moment edward snowden walked out of that moscow airport russia became the object of washington's wrath we heard calls for president obama to boycott the g. twenty summit in russia the president's press secretary said washington is quote unquote extremely disappointed with moscow's decision on snowden and that it undermines the growing cooperation between russian and u.s. security services certain members of congress used even harsher term senator chuck schumer said russia has stabbed us in the back and each day that mr snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist of the knife senator lindsey graham says americans in washington should consider this a game changer in our relationship with the blushes and john mccain goes it is a slap in the face of all americans we cannot allow today's action by put into a stand without serious repercussions of course for many politicians here attacking

snowden and russia is much easier than defending the surveillance state the white house keeps repeating this mantra mr snowden is not a whistleblower he is accused of leaking classified information and has been charged with three fairly villany counts and he should be returned to the united states polls show the majority of americans actually disagree with the white house on whether or not mr snowden is a whistle blower they think it is so what else they disagree with a gallup poll shows fifty three percent of americans now disapprove of the government surveillance programs as opposed to thirty seven percent who approve another poll by the queen a parent university conducted just in the wake of snowden's revelations shows forty five percent of americans say the government's anti-terrorism efforts have gone too far with strict civil liberties three years ago twenty five percent of americans thought so it's a massive shift in attitudes a shift that the lawmakers in the government can't ignore as much as they like to

attack snowden his revelations have put the white house on the defensive you can complain about big brother and this is. a potential. program run amok but when you actually look at the details. i think we've struck the right balance well let's look at some of those details from snowden we first learned about the prism program a system the n.s.a. uses to gain access to the private communications of users of nine popular services the government said the n.s.a. does that only with a warrant from the fight the court snowden said the court merely rubber stamp such warrants and he revealed one such revealed one such secret court order for a telecommunications company to hand over its clients debtor in bulk the government has acknowledged the bulk collection of communications but said no one can look at the content of those communications without a warrant snowden said that's a lie this week the guardian relying on the documents that snowden had earlier

provided has revealed details of a program that makes such warrantless snooping possible we learned about x. keyscore which allows to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs snowden has leaked the n.s.a.'s training materials where the agency boasts that the program is the widest reaching system for developing intelligence from the net having sekret fice to screw ear and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government lies in washington i'm going to check out meanwhile the company which carried the most recent security review of former cia employee edward snowden is now under investigation while the man was self is facing espionage charges if he steps onto american soil stephen cohen executive director of the national whistleblower center says if it wasn't the snowden u.s. officials would continue to try to downplay the surveillance issue. one of mr

stoughton's most important allegations was that the high level officials in the n.s.a. lied to congress the american people i think it's been consistent and they've been speaking very hypocritically on the one hand they say it's not important on the other hand they say it's treason why does it are these truthful and important allegations or are they trivial if they're trivial why are they hounding down mr snowden. everywhere they can find them so i think these allegations are very significant and i think the attempt to downplay it is hypocritical and i think that a major debate has been initiated that serves the public interest about the need to protect whistleblowers the rights of intelligence agency whistleblowers and the

legality of the surveillance activities and snowden's revelations continued to send reverberations around the globe his latest published leaks show that the telecom giants like verizon vodafone and british telecom allowed a british intelligence agencies to look through their clients' private data g c h q had unlimited access to millions of phone calls e-mails and facebook conversations and this comes shortly after it was disclosed the n s a poured millions of dollars into the british agency securing it access to surveillance data for my five officers and he says that close ties between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence services and nothing in. one thing that people tend to forget is there's an old program of mutual assistance which was called echelon which was exposed in the one nine hundred eighty s. and then fed into the european parliament in the one nine hundred ninety s. so this is

a resistance being going on for decades let's have no doubt about that and it's also been a very good way for the n.s.a. and g.h.q. to circumvent domestic laws and domestic warrant tree requirements so they could spy on each other and then feed each other the saying the information they needed back without having to go through the court these revelations that came out in the guardian take it to a whole new level we are now looking at g.h.q. effectively prostituting itself to the n.s.a. . the u. opens the possibility of shipments to syrian rebels but the brawl fleet is rushing to send weapons to the countrymen phase it could backfire with hundreds of europeans leaving their homes to fight against presents a sad story coming up on this the first round of the presidential election concludes in. their way of dealing with the scars left by war those stories in a couple of minutes. the

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. welcome back the son rouhani he's being sworn in before parliament in iran. a day after being endorsers the next president by the country supremely rouhani was elected with the support of of the reformists. and the country's international isolation as part of his election platform but the u.s. has welcomed the new president with new economic sanctions more than seventy american senators have also signed a letter calling on president obama to further clamp down on iran's economy so let's go live now to international relations expert mohammed stan carney joins us.

thank you for being with us today now the new president is a career diplomat summers partly educated in europe so are we likely to see you think a big one trait from his predecessor mahmoud ahmadinejad's. i guess we are going to have we are going to see a very different performance from rouhani comparing him with mahmoud ahmadinejad roenicke comes from a very different background his war veteran iran iraq war he has the experience of many years being a member of parliament in year one and also a carrier diplomat as you said he has been in charge of the iranian national security council for many years having the experience of negotiating with the foreign countries so yes we are going to see a very different performance in my view so what are the first priorities then in

office for mr rouhani do you think. and we can talk about three different kind of priorities here the first one is the dumbest of politics i think is going to show a little bit different to atmosphere maybe a more open atmosphere in political terms in terms of political parties activity. the second priority comes with the economy as you know the sanction has been there on the economy is in trouble so he's going to in my view troy to assemble eyes and somehow bring the confidence back to european market on the iranian economy which is a very difficult job and the third one is actually foreign relations. titling the iranian nuclear issue. now you mentioned there according to state t.v.

the new president said the u.s. wants confrontation with iran over the nuclear program so how is he going to approach this this simmering issue. i think now the ball is in the american court i mean rowhani has shown the flexibility i mean he came to the election campaign with this slogan of moderation and prudence says that he is far from being extremists. of foreign policy makers so indulge sense it's now american term to show your good officers to try to really engage with your own and by engagement i mean a true engagement it doesn't work if they want to again talk about the carrot under stick to talking about all options on the table now it's time for negotiation

negotiation and if they are genuinely ready or for discount of approach i think iran is now in the best position to do so on mr rouhani has a mandate to go ahead and to solve the problem not only do nuclear problem but all of the long standing problem with the united states ok thank you very much for that we have run at a time it has sand honey of him and city university thank you. an inmate at guantanamo bay has accused guards of carrying out procedures amounting to sexual assault the invasive routines were described by the latest by the last british resident at the facility shakha in a private talk to his lawyer says that during the search is an extraction scene walks in and forces a detainee to the floor pinning down their arms and legs to prevent movement the procedure takes place any time a prisoner wants to leave his cell or to see

a lawyer or a relative and it happens again when he returns prisoners believe this is a tactic to intimidate them and break beyond going hunger strike and prevent them from taking legal steps defend themselves but attorney clive stafford smith representing shakar says the measures that they can pass the opposite effect we have raised it the american courts that there shouldn't be doing this this should not strictly be sexually assaulting the prisoners there is the government slowly through first started using the term scruton search if you're the leader they are she admitted it's sort of and it's being done to try to intimidate prisoners out of talking to their lawyers so that unfortunately the truth will not come out and. most of them are resisting that has been going through this for months and months and months now and i've got a crowded room in a way that it is response to that is one of the lead gentleman who starts singing

you know. who rhythmix the guards to show that he's not going to take our troops well here at r.t. we did ask lantana mouth already for a response to the accusations and this is what they said the facility representative said they were unwilling to comment on such claims regardless of how would dickless and absurd they may be. now an e.u. arms embargo on syria officially expires this week which means there's nothing stopping the block from sending weapons to the country but it appears some european countries are already deeply involved in the civil war citizens are flocking to syria to join and sad fighters and the scale appears to be vast the french officials said that in nine years of conflict in afghanistan and we think the jihadists left the country to fight meanwhile in syria's case more than one hundred people have gone there from france in one year alone according to some experts in

most cases they joined al qaida and other terror groups the total number of europeans who have left to fight in the syrian war is now over six hundred dimitri . whose son joined you had his forces in syria told us his story but i still want to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers were going to do and there's nothing wrong with that to go home of the scope of the war you know. after we still have contact with them is some as much as though there's entire euro that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that money to study to continue this study of this muslim religion and. you know but i didn't trust it i had a feeling that something was going wrong i started this cover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria when they're recognized but also in the video with other belgian guys this immunise were standing above all these children from the west not only from the west but many of the old young guys from all over the walls

they are using this young children while the grim statistics are seen as one reason why e.u. leaders are so hesitant when it comes to taking a decision over arming syrian rebels r.t. says recent reports on why the e.u. could be wary of starting weapons shipments. good rebels or not that's a question that's been answered a number of different ways it's a complicated gathered mostly in varying degrees of light but ultimately whole way sending signals of support for the opposition it will be no political progress unless the opposition is able to withstand the old school and put pressure on assad so here is there is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition we are prepared to amend alms umbach of the gulf it was. we must ensure that these arms go to the syrian national

coalition and to 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 and 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 they arms embargo only syrian opposition this is the outcome of the united kingdom and wanted rhetoric in the millicent of the made up to the libyan intervention also led by the same players it's remarkable that they could simply try and override the experience of libya because as a recent report said libya is not a super market for the entirety of the of the middle east and and if they were to go into syria that would be true to the power of ten and listen reports from syria show all kind of affiliated groups wanting to a stop.