coming up on r t in less than twenty four hours bradley manning will know his fate the army will blow or could face up to ninety years in prison for leaking government documents an update from fort meade just ahead the n.s.a. surveillance scandal takes a new twist overseas the guardian's editor revealed that the british government forced the news publisher to destroy data it gained from edward snowden more on the government intimidation of the press i mean up. and in egypt the government crackdown of pro morsi protesters continues the death toll from clashes has reached at least one thousand while a curator of the muslim brotherhood was also arrested last night more on the developments later in today's show.

it's tuesday august twentieth five pm in washington d.c. thanks for joining me i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r t well bradley manning is less than twenty four hours from finding out how much time he will spend behind bars after a u.s. court martial found him guilty of stealing and sharing american secrets judge denise lynn announced today that she will make her final sentencing decision on wednesday manning could face up to ninety years in prison or to correspondent lives while brings us the latest from fort meade. the judge is now deliberating bradley manning son to court open for a short time this morning when the judge announced that she would begin deliberating the earliest we will hear a sentencing is tomorrow morning this according to the judge in this case judge colonel diddy's lindh manning faces a maximum of ninety years after he was found guilty of most of the charges against him including aspi

a notch and the closing arguments of the sentencing hearing today yesterday the prosecution requested that manning spend no less than sixty years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website wiki leaks they say in doing so manning betrayed the trust of the united states and of his fellow soldiers but national security at risk and hurt diplomatic relationships now the defense did not request an exact number of years but manning's attorney david coombs asked the judge to take several factors into consideration in order to give manning a fair sentence these factors include manning's young age he was twenty one years old at the time that he was deployed in iraq manning's trouble mental state was highlighted during the sentencing phase military mental health professionals testified that at the time manning was struggling with being a gay man in the military and dealing with a gender identity crisis coombs also said manning is

a good candidate for rehabilitation and he asked the judge to allow manning a chance at life and becoming a productive member of society many have spent more than three years behind bars so far he will be credited the one thousand two hundred ninety three days he has already spent in confinement the judge is now in deliberations she says she'll be ready to announce the sentence tomorrow morning here in fort meade maryland liz wall r t well the guardian newspaper is upping the ante in its standoff with the british government first the guardian. blish articles about the u.k. government as part of the edward snowden revelations over the weekend glenn greenwald's partner david miranda was detained in the heathrow airport for nine hours and used and questioned using britain's terror law now editor of the guardian alan rusbridger says that the british government intimidated him in several meetings over the edward snowden saga and then gave him an ultimatum either destroy

all of the material on the matter or shut down his publishing operations here's rusbridger explaining why they decided to destroy the computer hard drives containing some of these secret files but also explained to the u.k. officials we were dealing with that there were other cup is. already in america and brazil so they wouldn't be achieving anything but it was obvious that they would be going to law. i would rather destroy the copy than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting so what should we make of this i was trying to earlier by josh levy he's the internet campaign director at the free press and he gave us his take on the revelations from the guardian. we should be very very worried about it. this is an escalation in the battle between privacy advocates and whistleblowers and folks either in the n.s.a. here in the united states or other intelligence agencies abroad. who are fighting

for the future of our right to communicate in private. so the fact that british intelligence agencies are actually willing to go as far as as what they have done and destroy the hard drive of a major one of the most prominent newspapers in that country and in the western world is incredibly frightening and it really shows what we're up against here if we believe as we do here a free press and many of our allies do in people's right to communicate in private and in rolling back the n.s.a. is. enormous and over reaching surveillance programs it sounds like what you're saying josh is that this goes beyond obviously just taste well what about beyond the guardian do you think that it effects and journalists in general that report on this kind of information or simply the guardian as a kind of ah back and forth between the government and that organization i think this affects all journalists everywhere and it's not just journalists who are

reporting on information pertaining to the specific leaks this is a clear signal that the british intelligence agency was trying to send and did send that any kind of dissent or any kind of reporting that goes against what it seems to be its priorities or its own messaging it's fair game to go after those journalists and you know we've seen here in the u.s. the obama administration going after journalists from the new york times or fox news for perceived leaks and. across the board at least here in the u.k. there them clear message of intimidation being sent that if you get too close to home they're going to go after you and i think. all journalists everywhere in fact anybody who supports a free press and supports the freedom for for us to find out the truth about what our administration when our elected officials are doing that anybody who supports those things should be worried about these developments i want to read to you

a quote from glenn greenwald and that response to how his partner david miranda was treated by the u.k. authorities that says i'll be far more aggressive in my reporting from now on i'm going to publish many more documents i'm going to publish things on england too i have many documents on england spying system i think they will be sorry for what they did now he is getting a lot of flak obviously for those comments from a do a bunch of different news stations saying that it's where avenge journalism but is it justified for him to go all out on the u.k. government especially considering that that is arguably what the u.k. government is doing to him until his fellow our guardian journalist i think this is more than just greenwald versus the u.k. government he's allowed to do what he wants to do if he has access to information that you believes to be serving the public interest it's his right to to document that information into to write about it when i'm working certain about is. if

occasions where there's beyond. where there is no what we're seeing is a chilling effect on people's freedom to to communicate you know in our right to speak freely and finally we have just about a minute left but this order allegedly came from the very top this order to snatch these hard drives u.k. prime minister david cameron was the person that actually signed off on these how was that different then if it came from a member of say the spy agency there. well it's different in the course it goes to the very top it's as if you know any head of scale for signing up on this kind of vengeance against a specific journalist to go off it and so it's very worrying and you know we are approaching it almost to a charity or even mindset in the u.k. perhaps you're in the u.s. as well where there is absolutely no tolerance for dissent among the press and they're willing to. go to extraordinary measures to try to you know josh luvvie the

internet campaign director at free press thank you so much. and yet another internet service is shutting down as a result of the edward snowden leaks to telling massive n.s.a. surveillance structures the owner of the award winning legal analysis site grow claw announced it will shut down because it cannot morally submit to government surveillance and allow its clients to be secretly spied on or as editor palin jones puts it there is now no shield from forced exposure or nothing and that parent that a call fatless is terrorism related but no one can feel protected enough from forced exposure anymore to say anything the least bit like that to anyone in an email particularly from the us out or to us in but really anywhere you don't expect a stranger to read your private communications to a friend and once you know they can what is there to say constricted and distracted that is it is actually that's how i feel jones went on to say that there was no way

for her site to function without email and consequently surveillance in the long term and in the short term she encouraged internet users to take measures to protect themselves with things like incursion technology decision follows that of the recent shutdown of the security e-mail site while the bit that was allegedly used by edward snowden it was in a legal dispute presumably with the u.s. government silent circle follow that suit just our. slater preemptively shutting down its own encrypted e-mail service site. still ahead here on our teeth tensions remain high in egypt between the government forces and morsi supporters plus a key muslim brotherhood leader is now in government custody we'll tell you all about the on rest of egypt after the break.

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welcome back there have been three major developments in egypt today first the spiritual leader or leader of the muslim brotherhood mohamed body was arrested overnight this latest move is sure to further fuel the standoff between hard line islamists and the military also out today egypt's former bryce vice president mohamed el baradei is facing a lawsuit over his decision to resign from the army backed interim government the case was brought on by and gyptian law professor and he accuses el baradei of quote but trail of trust meanwhile the office of vermont senator patrick leahy told the daily beast on monday that military aid to egypt has been temporarily cut off this is why to different narrative from what we are hearing from the white house itself which says that the aid is under review particularly military aid but it is on hold

and our it is not on hold and has not yet been cut off now to be clear technically the administration's rhetoric is not completely amiss the five hundred eighty five million dollars of promised aid to the egyptian military in fiscal two thousand and thirteen is not due until september thirtieth so it could still happen if things hold down before then all the while the clashes in egypt are still continuing on a daily basis in the straits of cairo. at least one thousand people have died hundreds of others have been injured and there are still no signs of an end to the bloodshed to talk about this more in depth and the crisis in egypt what it means for the u.s. as well as the region moving forward earlier i was joined by our keys bell true from cairo and i started off by asking her about the government imposed curfew. right now where the government imposed because of you which means the close of the country everyone is at home holed up in that living room always leads to the

screening see what the lace is happening in egypt has been a quite a few days. really cause because i don't see all the protests which over the house and through the night and through the day meanwhile the minute you have deployed and most of chunks of the streets people are having to go through checkpoints to get home to have something that is all the clashes at these checkpoints which have led to a desperate security a really quite jumpy at the moment but for the moment egypt is largely calm and quiet now bill what kind of a curfew is it is there a set time is there anything that you know about when it could end. well because if you it's happening every single night it's seven pm in the evening it finishes at six and this is quite is the one of the biggest. scene we have because you've overseen during the eighteen day uprising it's a thousand and eleven but this is the most significant one and really people are abiding by it the streets are empty at night to greet civic citizens to full means

popular committees going around the neighborhood under the supervision the police potentially protecting their using and who may come in and this can mean that the streets to be quite dangerous if you're picked up by one of those groups suspicions there are cities so it's quite a significant. thing to happen to egypt the whole company which is normally bustling through the night stand so people are terrified of what clashes will come next and that is there any indication of what clashes will come next i know that we have rumors that mohamed morsi could be released seven barak could be released so there are a lot of different things that are circling can you talk about how all of these recent occurrences could play into this. well absolutely it's the extreme the tense here in egypt we had a very bloody week or so i mean six thousand people killed tonight this going to is backing down i've spoken to political parties in both the brake so i expect the government signed on the mission by the head and they really are not going through reach any reconciliation in the coming days now the mission brought ahead in the

motions that was is how cool the protest they were supposed to happen every single day this week the security forces and basically put a stop to that and not even allowing people to gather in front of most local residents to be everybody's most where they've been talking that process of those they've been them so stopping marches from happening so it's very tense here with sort of most scuffles breaking out across the country obviously this needs a whole who but it's going to really only going to add fuel to the fire on a case of much hated it here and people are really feeling that even though we've had several years since the g. thousand have been privileged and nothing has changed if you is indeed allowed to walk meanwhile the missing brotherhood leaders are being targeted that are you know it could be to behead him but they expect today. he's reportedly in detention you straight across state television pool soldiers and get this brotherhood and the allies even lol so at the moment it's extremely tense even though people are pretty

much locked up in their homes that was archies bell troop reporting from cairo and to talk more in depth about the crisis in egypt and what it means for the u.s. the region and the world i was joined earlier by michael brooks he's a producer of the majority report and the host of the intersection and i began by asking him what we should really make of all these contradictory reports about whether or not the usa to egypt has really been suspended. you know obviously this is a fluid situation as they say it's kind of a cliche but it is there's a lot of moving parts senator we lay he has actually said from the beginning he's been really clear on this that he thinks age should be cut he said this as soon as the military opposed morsi back in july. and he's saying that it's a coup when the current aid that is scheduled to run through september thirtieth i believe it's completed they cannot get any more money from the united states the

white house is saying that they are still. you know teasing the situation out and trying to figure out how to proceed and also that the sequester has impacted the aid and that's important to explain because a lot of our aid that we send to egypt actually goes through american arms manufacturers who build the weapons that are provided to the egyptian military so that's how the sequester defense cuts would affect that but let's talk about how that aid would affect egypt and what's going on there right now what effect it. i don't think it would affect it materially certainly already the goal states and saudi arabia are very supportive of the military there providing a lot of money certainly filling in any hole that the e use this isn't it suspend aid may have had in the egyptian regime i don't think would have much of a material impact though i do think that it would be

a smart idea at this point to clearly register the united states is still being on the side generally speaking of some type of support for a democratic institution building in egypt let's talk about mohamed el baradei he is the x. face president of egypt who resigned last week as i had mentioned earlier what to couldn't this mean for the muslim brotherhood could tensions really flame up as a result of this. well i don't you know i mean. is this liberal politician who you know rose through the ranks of the international atomic energy agency which he led and other global institutions he was a kind of emblematic of the liberal backlash against the muslim brotherhood for their failures and overreaches in government and then unfortunately the put their faith in military coup which is clearly what this is and it hasn't worked out well in order for him to kind of. you know preserve his dignity so to speak el baradei

has had to resign and what about mohamed body who was a rival detained last night. i'm sorry i think i misheard you to ask you nobody nobody is you know the for the former head of the brother the current head of the brotherhood as you say he was arrested in conjunction with accusations that the muslim brotherhood had ordered the killings of protesters. outside of muslim brotherhood party headquarters joining the initial wave of protests that brought down the morsi government again these things are very cloudy i don't think that there is any real doubt that the muslim brotherhood may be involved in human rights violations that said in the context of a military coup in the context of the wave of killings targeting muslim brotherhood activists protesting the pu and the real attempt to kind of eliminate them from the political space. obviously this arrest raises

a lot of questions i don't know he might be guilty of some things but given the context that we're in it's very problematic and finally michael we just have about a minute left but let's bring it back to the u.s. when the u.s. was supporting mohammed excuse me it was supporting mubarak really we saw how it played into it now the u.s. is really taking a hands off approach. talk about that i mean obviously mubarak could be getting out of prison soon is the u.s. really doing yourself any favors by playing on the silent should it be more involved well i think to be fair to president obama is that he's taking in general globally in many respects a more cautious approach to foreign policy that's paid off in a fair amount of ways i think in this case he's taking it too far as your question of the kids and there's nothing really to be games by not being clear

and decisive action around this you know you got around to supporting the terrorists where movement against mubarak in that process took a little bit of time but there are shelters like that alteration unfortunately michael we're going to have to end it there it's still all very up in the air and i appreciate you coming on the show michael brooks producer so much already report thank you so much thank you well it's been two years and four months since a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami brought japan's nuclear infrastructure to its knees the world watched as the japanese government trying to contain the radioactive materials from spilling out by the millions of gallons into the pacific ocean we watched as elderly japanese people volunteered to wade into that toxic environment sacrificing their own lives to attempt to stop the leak and to save the country but today we are getting news that the leaks continue the latest report is that a storage tank breach spilling three hundred tons of radioactive water is into

a puddle nearby this leak is separate from the one that we reported last week if you remember of that one a puddle of the container the contaminated water is admitting about one hundred millions. per hour of radiation so to translate that into layman's terms according to reuters that water is so toxic that within one hour a person standing a little way will receive a radiation dose five times the average. annual global limit for nuclear workers after ten hours that person will go into showing signs of radiation poisoning and need to be going to the hospital but the japanese government doesn't seem to be too concerned with that they call this incident a level one out of seven on the international scale for radiological releases meaning that it's really not all that serious japanese officials say that they are working to correct the problem and they insist that none of that contaminated water has reached the pacific ocean but this latest leak just reinforces the longstanding

concerns over the safety of nuclear energy well just about an hour ago or to the news cable station t.v. channel hit the airwaves al-jazeera america look at our funded news network sister station al-jazeera english rose to fame in the west for their coverage during the arab spring uprisings but it did struggle to enter the u.s. news market with all of those competitors but the news channel expected to reach is expected now to reach forty eight million american households r t same sex brings us more. this afternoon al jazeera america went live on the air after spending five hundred million dollars to buy current t.v. al jazeera america boast the start of staff of about nine hundred people including four hundred newsroom staff it will right off the bat reach roughly forty eight million homes here in the united states but access to viewers will be difficult as major carriers like time warner cable which dropped al-jazeera america after a bach current t.v.

are reluctant to give airtime to a network based out of the middle east now those who can watch will see some familiar mainstream media faces like soledad o'brien mike that kara john seigenthaler analogy velshi but according to the channel's chief executive a how about xabi the m.s.m. alumni won't mean m s m style news quote there will be less opinion less yelling and a few celebrity sightings he said becomes that american viewers want a p.b.s. like news channel and that's what al jazeera america will provide but already the major networks are shrugging off their new competition as a senior television news executive told the new york times al-jazeera america will receive a lower ratings than its predecessor current t.v. which only had twenty four thousand viewers in prime time last month but perhaps the best thing al-jazeera america has going for it is the declining faith of the american people and its competitors in the mainstream news last month m s n b c s

ratings plunged to their lowest level since two thousand and seven and after fox news's disastrous election night coverage and faith in so-called political experts who thought romney would win the election fox news saw its ratings plummet at the beginning of the year to in january fox all its lowest ratings since two thousand and one and as for c.n.n. well as long as there aren't any high profile murder trials then no one is really watching c.n.n. anyway last year gallup gave the largest indictment of the mainstream news networks showing up. an all time high of americans sixty percent have little or no trust in the media to accurately report the news so what does all this mean but it means al jazeera america is jumping into an environment filled with decaying news networks and audiences looking for alternatives so can they become one of those alternatives well we'll have to wait and see in washington same sex are two. well

switzerland has a new tourist attraction to bring visitors to its shores but this one is more like amsterdam's red light district than the majestic the met majesty of the swiss alps take a look at this this is a drive in box yes i set it a sex box other reasons are attempting to promote safe sex practices for both sex workers as well as for their customers essentially customers drive into a box as if it were a car wash and then they get their pipes cleaned if you know what i mean over em it only gets better this sex service doesn't come for free neither for the customer nor the government the swiss government spent one point five million pounds or about two million three hundred fifty five thousand dollars to build these boxes they will be open from early evening to five am and get this the government wants a cut from these prostitutes awnings sex workers will be forced to buy

a work ticket each night in order to conduct their business there and they also must register with a health insurer but don't worry there's a safety alarm located in the box if things get out of hand ok you might be thinking so what these women are working for their money prostitution isn't all that bad but think about this latest u.s. state department report about switzerland raised huge concerns about human trafficking in the region particularly sex traffickers between two thousand and three thousand victims of human trafficking live in that country the majority of them are women between the ages of sixteen and twenty five and are used for sex some of them are as young as fourteen years old most of them come from hungary romania bulgaria ukraine brazil the dominican republican republic thailand nigeria guinea and cameroon now the united states department of state department did recommend a number of things that the swiss could do in order to stop the abuse of these

victims however none of them included a sex box i can guarantee you that one and that's going to do it for now from one of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america. well it was the kaiser report imax kaiser guys during it mom and pop have gone and done it again almost blowing the greater fool i guess that's why the wealth of mom and pop investor is going the way of the mom and pop convenience store fricken extinct right stacey exactly max well there's a myth going around that this is an unloved bull market by mom and pop that they have not participated.