the week's main headlines in r.t. private bradley manning faces more than one hundred thirty years in prison after being found guilty of the biggest leak in u.s. history. while fellow whistleblower edward snowden breaks his cover spending his first days in russian territory after receiving long awaited paperwork allowing him to leave the moscow airport and live and work in the country. meanwhile the surveillance scandal snowballs in the u.k. snowden's latest revelations show how leading telecom companies klein stated to british intelligence which is funded by america's controversial spy agency. a prisoner held without charges. you cues his guards in carrying out procedures

that amount to sexual abuse critics say invasive searches are used to break the result of. international news and comment you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. now an american judge has found private bradley manning guilty of almost all charges against him a former intern. is more than one hundred thirty years behind bars for leaking a massive amount of classified data 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 the world of video showing u.s.

troops killing civilians in iraq his arrest didn't stop revelations as wiki leaks published a new trade of classified data including diplomatic cables he faced twenty two charges including aiding the enemy united nations called manning's confinement conditions torture us and inhumane as he awaited the court martial which started this chain but the judge didn't allow be un inspected to testify finally he was found guilty of nineteen of the charges against him with the leak seen as the biggest in u.s. history wiki leaks spokes person kristen had offense and believes manning's case will lead to even more secret data coming to light. or be used to facing a long time in prison especially when you think about how this trial has been carried out by judge lindh one is not filled with a new york to mr only last week. to allow the prosecution to change some of the charges on the last day of the trial. the trial has been partly

closed off to journalists who are 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 a little brave people of the who act on their conscience and to with the public interest in mind we have seen though a new era beginning and an expansion of the limits of journalism. supporters of bradley manning are ready to put their lives on the line is they offer it is a major chunk of his sentence. to new york sheen squared so you hear 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 you know what is actually going on in the war they're fighting a war fighting at that point i just hope maybe somebody like obama. may be doing is the 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 our take. well this week also saw a benchmark moments in the pirates of another u.s. whistle blowers he attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution edward snowden left. in a moscow airport as he was granted temporary asylum by the russian authorities he cannot move around freely and work in the country for up to twelve months and

russia's top social networking website has already offered him a job but the story does have a fresh twist with his current location for striking journalists overflowing with the nonsuch questions oxys the friends and i takes a look back at high snowden's and pour saga unfolded on sunday june twenty third when reports surfaced 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 seventy eight is empty galleys and restrooms are

searched the cargo hold is suspected and 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 the 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 when they 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 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 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 we spoke to political analyst to me and she thinks that if the roles were

reversed the u.s. would do exactly the same as russia i think that snowden is a very special case because he didn't serve any foreign government what he did here you don't know he was old and he revealed this information to press not to foreign agents i am 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 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 fabian but the question is so what could 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 west country can do it or this country won't be respected. for snowden's asylum course a great deal of anger in the u.s. with american politicians rushing to

a barbed rhetoric more on that now from are things getting. 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 bushes 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 felony 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 we're striking civil liberties three years ago twenty five percent of americans thought so it's a massive shift in attitudes a shift that the lawmakers and 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 this is. a potential. you know program run amok but when you actually look at the details then 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 net 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 dead or 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 unit having sekret phys to screw ear and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's lie in washington i'm going to check him. and snowden's revelations continue to send reverberations around the globe his latest published leaks show that telecom giants like arisan vodafone and british telecom allow allowed a british intelligence agency 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 access to surveillance

data british intelligence analysts glenmore true near harvey says that close ties between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence services are nothing new. do you see h.q. like we're on their side when you say very very close in their operations in fact there are three main locations in the united kingdom menwith hill up near here a gate. the big dome. the stone office they call it it shows them and the winstone call these have all been funded in the main rival national security agency and the movement i mention men with there are seven hundred fifty national security agency american employees working so they meld together we might as well be known as the n.s.a. jussi h.q. there are so close still to come in the program the open is the possibility of arms

shipments to syrian rebels but the blocks leaders aren't rushing to send weapons to the country and made alarming numbers of europe pains leaving their homes to fight against president assad three bringing the story of one father whose son joined the rebels plus around the moderate president. is sworn in before parliament as dozens of u.s. senators call for yet more punitive sanctions on the country these stories coming up in a couple of. the judges are sentenced. to killed on the streets. their women are kidnapped and converted to islam. will be another hearing models for the coptic christians of egypt to the existence of its future victims. the way of the cross.

language. calling for a cure without difficulty. it's good to consider. choose to use the degree to. choose the stories but if you. choose access to. hello again now an inmate at guantanamo bay has accused guards of carrying out

procedures amounting to sexual assault the invasive routines were described by the last british resident at the facility shakha in a private talk to his lawyer says that during the search is an extraction team walks in and forces a detainee to the floor pinning down their arms and legs to prevent movement the procedure takes place anytime a prisoner wants to leave his cell to see a lawyer or a relative and it happens again when he returns prisoners believe this is a tactic to intimidate them break the ongoing hunger strike and prevent them from taking legal steps to defend themselves bodies brady is an attorney with the u.s. center for constitutional rights she says conditions at the prison may well contravene international law. these toxic tactics of solitary confinement whose body searches among other things have been used to pressure the man to break the strike one point i want to correct as

a factual matter is traditions at one time or right now are not the same they are not named you had most of them and they are protesting for over three months in conditions of solitary confinement so there is not only a problem. and it's illegal detention without charge at one time or right now but a question of serious serious questions about the united states is compliance with the geneva conventions in terms of humane treatment of these men they are in twenty two to twenty four hour solitary confinement well r.t. did ask one ton of authorities for a response to the accusations this is it a facility representative says they were i'm willing to comment on such claims regardless of how ridiculous and absurd they might be. an e.u. arms embargo on syria officially expired this week which means there's nothing now stopping the block from sending weapons to the country but it appears some european countries already deeply involved in the civil war isa decisions are flocking to

syria to join and he is sad fight is on the scale appears to be vast a french official said that in nine years of conflict in afghanistan only fifty 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 join al-qaeda and other terror groups the total number of europeans who have left to fight in the syrian war is now over six hundred three think you son joined jihad his forces in syria told us his story. you want to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers when they become eighty and there's nothing wrong with the goal of the to discover the war you know. after the last contact with them as much as though there's entire euro that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that pay money to study to continue this study of this muslim religion and so off. you go but i didn't trust it i had the feeling that something

was going wrong i started this cover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria and one day i recognize my all subtle in the video with other belgian guys this am use we're standing above all these children from the west not only from the west but many young guys from all over the walls they are using this young children now son rouhani has been sworn in before parliament in iran a day after being endorsers the next president by the country supremely ronnie was elected with support of the reformist vote in vying to end the country's international isolation as part of his election platform but the u.s. is 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 international relations expert dr mohammed assam harney says the u.s.

must make the first steps to improving relations with iran. now the ball is in the american court i mean wrongly has shown the flexibility i mean he came to campaign with this law again of moderation and prudence says that he is far from being extremists. foreign policy makers so in that sense it's now american term to to try to really engage really are on gauge meant i mean a true engagement it doesn't work if they want a game to talk about. under stick talking about all options on the table now it's time for negotiation iran is now in the best position to do so unless there harney has the mandate to solve the problem not only do nuclear problem but all of the longest standing problem with the united states now the world's biggest financial

institutions are pouring billions of euros into the greek economy but the amount it needs to survive seeing creasing the debt ridden country is looking at a funding shortfall of nearly eleven billion euros according to the international monetary fund while the latest tranche of almost six billion has already cost thousands of public sector jobs a large share of the installment four billion euros is funded by the euro zone and the european central bank the international monetary fund is contributing one point eight billion in return athens has to fire four thousand civil servants by the end of the year twenty five thousand more must be redeployed the impact of worsening unemployment is felt everywhere in greece not least in its drugs clinics pieces of takes a look at the unorthodox way athletes is dealing with the social fallout from the crisis. 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. alone that some start using because they are angry at life no work no money for the same reasons many decide to start selling drugs and 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 done so far. the latest 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 is becoming increasingly widespread in the crisis hit me together with heroin they're 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 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 in the field and many users still haven't taken the first dose of the day but here the procedure is quite simple the social workers of collective used syringes and 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 to the amount of security here in. really impressive several lines of gates in the 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 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 they should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you go to school of athens greece. quickly some of the stories people have been killed in attacks across iraq an explosion hit baghdad's commercial street leaving two people dead just outside the capital another to work mortar attacks a roadside bomb also went off in the country's north targeting an army patrol according to u.n. statistics more than seven hundred people were killed last month in iraq as the country sees an increase in sectarian violence. twenty two u.s.

embassies across the middle east and north africa are closed this sunday and may remain shut for the next few days due to an unspecified al qaeda terror threat washington's also issued a worldwide travel alert for u.s. citizens which also remains in effect the u.s. embassy in yemen was attacked last year while a deadly assault was also carried out on the ambassador in libya. coming up we look at the tough changes for the gyptian coptic christians since the gang sting of former president hosni mubarak. remember we talked about calling for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible drones well freedom fashions as i like to call them are continuing to

expand although the fact that our drones infrared eyes are very scary the more common street cameras are way more likely to on average day violate your privacy and thus they invented the just to scare up this hat blocks your face with l.e.d. lights from face recognition software all the camera will see is an anonymous glowing ghost i personally haven't tested this thing out nor have i seen it with my own eyes and wearing three aaa batteries on your head at all times does seem like a bit of a bother but hey if you really want to be left alone and you're willing to throw down a few dollars this looks like a pretty good fashion statement to me the sad thing is that this sort of invention shouldn't need to exist people shouldn't have to live with the constant fear of unlawful consent less observation but sadly they do so inventors keep the freedom fashions coming but that's just my opinion.

in the poll cairo suburb of close ten year old mina likes to escape from his tiny apartment on the rooftops there you can see the crosses on top of the local church where policemen enjoy the intensity and heat next to the entrance it's unlikely that mina realizes his father knows like a tia a humble government employee was killed on this very roof. a sniper's bullet caught him in the chest on that april night of twenty thirty meters father was one of six christians who died in sectarian violence.