u.s. private bradley manning faces a sentence of more than one hundred thirty years in prison after being found guilty of the biggest leak of classified data in american history. while the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden receives temporary asylum in russia after five weeks in a moscow airport. the last british prisoner held at guantanamo bay speaks out claiming guards procedures that amount to sexual abuse according to critics such methods are designed to break the detainees will.

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories this is our t.v. glad to have you with us. now private bradley manning was found guilty of most of the charges that were laid against him he now faces a possible sentence of more than one hundred thirty years in jail for his massive leak of classified information the former intelligence analyst was however cleared of the most serious and controversial charge of aiding the enemy let's take a look at how those events unfolded bradley manning was deployed to iraq in two thousand and nine half a year later he exposed the world to a video showing u.s. troops killing civilians in iraq his arrest the following month didn't stop the revelations the iraq and afghanistan war logs as well as diplomatic cables were

released by wiki leaks amid a blaze of publicity he faced a twenty two charges including aiding the enemy which carries the death penalty the united nations said manning's confinement conditions were inhumane as he waited the court martial which started in june but the judge didn't allow the u.n. inspector 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 general counsel at the national whistleblowing center david cole opin toe believes that government agencies are now keeping a close eye on would be whistleblowers. there over reaction to the bradley manning case has been just to clamp down on or types of whistle blowing and that that's unfortunate there have been some advance moments in the law in the non national security or intelligence area but that's being to wharf 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 supporters of bradley manning have started an online campaign for those willing to reduce his sentence by serving part of it themselves and it is already gathered more than seven thousand five hundred signatures over the years of public support of the whistleblower has remained high with activists across the world demanding his release and he's a marine important i ask the people of new york what they think of manning situation. 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 to try him 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 is actually going on in the wall they're fighting a war fighting at that point i just told maybe somebody like obama. may be doing is the last leg news a lame duck president decides to blood 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. another american whistleblower edward snowden managed to remain out of reach of u.s. prosecutors on thursday snowden entered russian territory after authority. granted him temporary asylum the former n.s.a. contractor slipped out of a moscow airport where he had been in limbo for without travel documents for over

a month via papers he received allowed him to move around freely and work in the country for the next year and while the whistleblowers whereabouts remain unknown lindsey friends recaps the key moments of the snowden saga so far on sunday june 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 in mexico 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 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 at 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 a chance and jumped in to blend in. edward snowden had flown in and then walked out nearly an artist much to our chagrin in moscow lindsey france r.t. . london based legal expert alexander mecurio believes that russia has operated

within the letter of the law when dealing with snowden. the russian authorities have been extremely careful to do this by the book they insisted on mr snowden making a problem application 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 cumin 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. nonetheless 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 russia granting asylum to the fugitive

venice a leader has sparked fury among lawmakers in washington one senator after another denounced of the move and called on the white house to head back in moscow or he's going to try to can house commentary. 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 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 and 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 services the government said the n.s.a. does that only with a warrant from the fight to 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 net having sekret feist his career and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's lives in washington i'm going to check him. well still ahead for you this hour we will be looking at what is in store for your wrong new president. in front of parliament on sunday as the country may have to face up new economic sanctions from the u.s. plus. getting cold feet about sending weapons to the syrian opposition as we talk to one father

whose son joined a. good lumber tour. to build a new. mission to teach me.

only. with. technology innovation. developments around russia. and welcome back you're watching the weekly here on r t the last a british prisoner held at guantanamo bay says inmates undergo daily sexual assaults from prison guards shaker on air described invasive searches including what he calls the get momus side and a private conversation with his lawyer says that during the procedure an extraction team enters the cell and forces the detainee to the floor holding down his arms and legs the searches are carried out any time the prisoner wants to leave his cell to

see or speak to a lawyer or a family member it is then repeated when the inmate returns it is believed to be a tactic to intimidate the detainees stop them from seeking legal help as well as to break the ongoing hunger strike clive stafford smith the attorney representing shaker aamer says such searches are not enough to dent the resolve of the prisoners we have no raised it with the american courts that they shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't effectively be sexually assaulting the prisoners there is the governments i believe who thought i started using that scruton if you will believe it they actually admitted to sort of and it's being done to try to intimidate prisoners out of truth into their lives so that unfortunately the truth would not come out of date and i don't doubt that most of them are resisting china has been going through this for months and months and months now now i'm kind of proud of them in a way that you know his response to that is rather neatly even in his cell he

starts singing you know. get up stand your rhythmix and. just show that he's not going to be cowed. argy asked kuantan a month orders to respond to the claims of sexual assault if a syllabi representative answered that they were unwilling to comment on such allegations regardless of how ridiculous or absurd they may be. the new iranian president hassan rowhani has been sworn in before parliament today after his election was indorsed by the country's supreme leader labeled as a moderate cleric rowhani won a june vote by promising to put an end to the country's international isolation over its nuclear energy program obama's administration officially congratulated the new leader of the islamic republic but despite the warm greetings the house of representatives earlier had approved a bill toughening the sanctions that are already strangling the country's economy

an independent researcher and writer soraya support alric says that america's stance towards the new president is nothing but hypocrisy. already greeted the new president with sanctions so clearly washington's policies are not going to change and be guarded so how much mr president rouhani tries to reach out he can reach out to a hand this is not there they're really telling iran did if you don't succumb to our will to what are dictates then harsher sanctions will follow suit and it's really a warning it's you know they say one thing they're speaking from the mouse they're saying this we willing to engage you we want to talk to you but at the same time they punished him to think for a moment to did in america's genuine in reaching out to iran it's being naive and i think as president rouhani. is certainly to it too well informed to season to to to think this is america has iran's good will it's our. well we have

plenty more stories waiting for you online including the show must go home that's after american rockers the bloodhound gang are sent packing from russia after they were beaten and showered with tomatoes they might even face criminal charges in the future as well the whole story online plus. an earthquake measuring six on the richter scale of strikes japan in the same area that saw the fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown after a quake and tsunami two years ago find out what damage was caused by the latest. the unofficial deadline has passed for the e.u. to take a decision on whether to arm the syrian rebels but it appears some european countries are already deeply involved in the conflict that says citizens of member states are lining up to join the fight against to damascus and the scale appears to be vast

a french official said that in nine years of conflict in afghanistan only fifty jihad ists left the country to fight meanwhile in syria's case more than one hundred people have gone there from france in one year alone and according to some experts in most cases they are joining al-qaeda and other terror groups the total number of europeans who have left to fight in the syrian war is estimated to be over six hundred dimitri buntin whose son joined forces in syria told us his story . but i still want to hold on to it's friends with muslim brothers when they become eighteen and there's nothing wrong with that to go holiday discover the wall to know and after. that they may send those 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 the study of this muslim religion and sufism you know but i didn't trust it to have the feeling that something was going on around i start to discover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria

and one day i recognize my own son in the video with other belgian guys this am 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 concern is a mounting in brussels that europeans who join rebel forces in syria to fight against damascus could pose a threat on their return to the e.u. as artie's has are silly reports this is caused some member states to have a change of heart when it comes to arming the opposition fighters. while the u.k. on the syrian rebels would not that's a question that's been answered in a number of different places the conflict began and mostly in varying degrees of light but ultimately always sending signals of support for the opposition it will be no political progress unless the opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad said he isn't

a military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition. to. 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 e.u. leaders agreed 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 it wanted rhetoric in the millicent and the need up to the libyan intervention also led by the same players it's remarkable that you could simply try and override the experience of libya because as

a recent report said there is no supermarket for the entirety of the of the middle east and if they were to go into syria that would be true to the power of ten in recent reports from syria show all kind of affiliated groups wanting to establish an islamic caliphate and dissolution rebels and 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 among 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 all being the rebels this are cilia r t london . new legislation in russia will empower authorities to shut down websites carrying

illegal video content while copyright holders welcomed of the news the online changes caused fury offline activists took to the streets of moscow to vent their anger at the law they fear could lead to censorship. takes a closer look for us. despite that statistics on the internet piracy in russia have improved greatly over the last decade dropping from ninety three percent in two thousand and one to a little more than a sixty percent last year still it poses a huge problem for the country it is rated in top five world countries in terms of piracy let me demonstrate what you can do in russia for instance you want to watch a fresh movie which has been just released but you do want to pay for it you go to one of the social network websites in russia find the movie you like and you have it created to the administration of the website they are trying to fight this problem they're blocking the users who are uploading illegal content but still with more than fifty million users registered for this network alone it is an uphill task something the new legislation is destined to mend from now on if any website

is suspected of having illegal content it would be reported to a special watchdog body called the dog and then in three days the website owner must remove this illegal content if he refuses to do so then his website would be suspended until trial then in court he may prove his innocence and have his website relaunched or the website will be shut down for good if it's proven that he's content was illegal now even before this law became reality even before it passed the russian parliament it caused a fury online and even offline with some minor street protests the internet users have been saying and have been believing that this would suppress internet freedoms that this would cause a massive crackdown and censorship on line and the law if affectively went into force some of the big russian websites including one of the biggest music download websites in russia have gone on strike putting some black screens instead of their starting pages so people have been essentially believing that this may suppress

freedoms which is not quite the case if you read into this law but now let's compare how other countries worldwide are fighting the very same problem in two thousand and nine france adopted the so-called a law which stipulates that anyone violating condom distribution rules is given two warnings. before the internet service provider is forced to cut off the use of internet access if the culprit persists he risks a fine of up to three hundred thousand euros and up to three years in prison the most liberal anti-piracy law is believed to be in the netherlands torrent websites are technically outlawed but still downloading content for noncommercial use is not illegal uploading it means breaking the law and possible prosecution japan adopted its anti-piracy law last year and was immediately branded as draconian quite understandably some may say because violating it would lend you a fine of one million a year and that's roughly ten thousand dollars and a two year prison term and often violators are punished with both it's worth mentioning that none of the above mentioned countries have registered an increase

in purchases of legal content since adopting these laws how the new legislation works in russia which stands in between not only geographically but in terms of the law strictness but has a far more serious piracy issue will become very clear well still ahead greece gets another fix of bailout money from the e.u. coffers totaling almost six billion euros. but not only does it. economy need a bigger dose of the austerity that comes with it has been linked to worsening drug addiction in the country. as the first round of the presidential election concludes in mali we talk to locals about vera way of dealing with the scars left by a war that still have. but first we have a chance to get updated with the latest financial twists and turns with katie pilbeam and our new program venture capital.

wow revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of moloch tough cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical next reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of adult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government resign until police with shields smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't have.