what's next for bradley manning a us judge will decide on how much time the whistleblower will spend behind bars despite a strong army of those who say he should never been tried in the first place. brings to paris prodigious terror of. the debate on surveillance publications journalists and even. but will it work we report on the media's reaction. and the political instability in egypt international investors to pull out leaving the country struggling not just for stability but also for economic survival.

just now turning nine am on wednesday here in moscow and with me rory sushi a very warm welcome to you today a hero to some a traitor to others private bradley manning we'll hear its fate on wednesday when a u.s. judge decides what sentence he deserves for spilling the hordes of secret government data to wiki leaks now there's no doubt he'll be locked up the quick question though is for how long details now from. she's just outside the courthouse in maryland. well the judge is now deliberating bradley manning suntans the judge colonel of the new zealand says she'll deliver the sentence wednesday morning manning faces a maximum of ninety years after he was found guilty of most of the charges against him including asked again knowledge in the closing arguments of the sentencing hearing the prosecution requested that manning spend no less than sixty years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the website

wiki leaks they say and doing so manning betrayed the trust of the united states and of his fellow soldiers national security at risk and her diplomatic relationships that offends on the other hand urged the judge to be lenient they did not require 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 is a young age who was twenty one years old at the time that he was deployed in iraq manning's troubled mental state was highlighted during the sentencing phase military mental health professionals testified that manning suffered from anxiety and a gender identity crisis who has also said manning had good intentions when he leaked u.s. secrets that he was he thought that he could spark a national debate possibly bring an end to the wars in iraq and afghanistan coombs

asked the judge to allow manning a chance at life and becoming a productive member of society the judge is now and deliberations here in maryland liz wall are two. bradley manning is america's first. languishing behind bars for the rest of his life although the obama administration has a history of pulling the plug on whistleblowers but also brings us more now on what exactly he did to get exactly what's coming to him. bradley manning was found guilty of espionage for leaking government secrets but let's take a closer look at how exactly this verdict breaks down now the first charge against him was comes after the u.s. uniform code of military justice under article ninety two of the five charges against a man was found guilty of storing classified information transferring data onto his personal computer while he was based in the wrong now manning was also found guilty

of two charges under the computer fraud and abuse act of article one hundred thirty four but those violations brought to light what's been known as cable gate within two hundred fifty thousand cables between state department officials and diplomats throughout the world now they date back from one nine hundred sixty six all the way up to twenty ten now the army private was also found guilty of seven out of eight as charges but those violations brought to light hundreds of thousands of classified military along with related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan now they also included a shocking video of a u.s. army helicopter gunning down a group of civilians in baghdad including two voyagers new staff now secret files on the guantanamo bay detainees that revealed interrogation techniques as well as indefinite detentions and the video of the faroe massacre in which scores of afghan civilians mostly women and children were killed in an airstrike and of course much much more now bradley manning that may have broken the law but his supporters say that his actions shed much needed light on flawed or u.s.

diplomatic military and intelligence operations and while manning may have been responsible for the biggest leak in u.s. history he's not the first nor the last american to blow the whistle on the government now more than four decades ago a former military analyst by the name of daniel ellsberg gave confidential documents about the vietnam war to the new york times and the washington post now he became the very first person to be prosecuted under the espionage act and the so-called pentagon papers revealed that the u.s. government had been drastically expanding military operations in vietnam. and that four successive administrations openly lying to the public about their true intentions meanwhile a former senior executive at that and say thomas drake he was charged with violating the espionage act two when he lead classified documents to the baltimore sun that he had claims that if the n.s.a. use their resources more effectively it could have prevented the september eleventh terrorist attacks that have killed thousands of americans and of course triggered

the subsequent invasions of of ghana stan and iraq now moving on to former cia official john kiriakou who faced up to thirty years in prison after he was charged by the government for leaking classified info to the press and he was the very first cia official to publicly confirm and detail the bush administration's use of waterboarding and while the charges against him filed under the espionage act were drawn up just part of a deal he is currently serving two and a half years in jail for his actions now the the us administration of barack obama has prosecuted more government officials for alleged leaks under the world war one era espionage act than all his predecessors combined but he has this has raised concerns that future whistleblowers of government fraud and abuse are likely to think twice before speaking out this week after not reporting in moscow. so bradley manning's actions done much harm to u.s. security hole that's according to wiki leaks activist i'm blow good plug stuck.

barack obama for example campaigned in two thousand and a on the promise to protect whistleblowers and we've seen the complete reverse actually we've seen obama go after eight whistleblowers and and so i think what will really have a big impact on the future chances of clemency or a pardon would be winning the nobel peace prize i think it's very important that those who actually decide on the nobel peace prize winner take into account that over one hundred thousand people have signed the petition for bradley manning in the sentencing hearing we learned that there was no harm done by these leaks no one was killed no one was wounded several activists had to be moved around but that was about it in the meantime though it's about a fifty fifty when it comes to public opinion to manning's disclosures. important he went out onto the streets of the big apple to watch the people there whether

they give a thumbs up or thumbs down when it comes to his whistleblowing it's very important when he did is really important and i don't think he should be punished for doing something that's very american i was going to trial but he you know what he did was against the law she's a young guy he's got his whole life ahead of him it's not like a serious thing where you deserve so much jail time. sixty years or so years along . i mean he obviously had his reasons for doing what he's doing and the government's. reasons for doing what they're doing mostly just to. protect themselves protect the states i think he's guilty i think he should go to prison not for sixty years but he should go to prison you know the sticky situation but sixty years sounds a little harsh i mean you have people feel that committed worst crimes against other people being sentenced alas it sounds like i mean i would definitely have

mixed feelings as well because i see the importance of national security. at the same time revealing work crimes always an important thing also. just generally a human rights really kind of torn on the issue he's not a threat to people i think he is not going to stop somebody hopefully but i think he could be put to work for communities rather than putting people in prison it's ridiculous. and if you've missed anything on the story just check it out of. our round the clock internet team being. keeping a very close eye on manning's court saga providing up to the minute facts so the opinions and the latest images for you as well. for me this is some of the final version is. probably.

why is a busy day for news here on our t.v. thanks for joining us today from thwarting chinese spies to fighting terror and the british government is having a little trouble justifying its efforts to stamp out the surveillance debate the lengths it's going to are actually causing an outcry journalists are threatening legal action the rights groups are incensed and even the usually public is taking notice to reports. you've had your fun now it's time to return in the documents said the unnamed government official to the newspaper editor it could be the stuff of movies only it isn't we were faced effectively with an ultimatum from the british government that if we didn't hand back the material or destroy it they would move to law in recent months the guardian newspaper has come to be known as the paper that's been exposing secret material from a trove of information passed on to work by former contractor of the national

security agency edward snowden but in recent days the editor of the newspaper is also publicized what had gone on a behind closed doors here how security officials had ended up in the basement of their offices overseeing the destruction of hard drives and computers which contained the very information the paper has been exposing a bizarre turn of events salaries moochers says that came all the way up from the prime minister's office once 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 and i was happy to destroy it because it was not going to inhibit our reporting we would simply problem erica not from london a twenty first century possibility in a highly digital and connected world the revelation by rusbridger came just a day after the detention of david miranda partner of the guardian journalist in glenn greenwald the journalist who had broken the story of snowden's leaks and the

same materials were random was obtained under the case terrorism act and was held in question for nine hours at heathrow airport it caused an outcry among politicians and journalists and even david anderson the independent reviewer of terrorism laws who demanded an explanation prompting the u.k. home office to go on the offensive the government and the police have a duty to protect the public and our national security those who oppose this sort of action need to think about what's their condoning. if they want to protect the public to tell the public what it is they're protecting them from a generalized statement about terrorism in general doesn't really do the trick you've got to be able to say well the information he's got would endangered the public for the following reasons you've got to have reasons for it no such reasons have been advanced miranda's detention as well as the destruction of computers in the guardian's basement have one of britain's most respected newspapers in the spotlight the story teller has become this story this is

a very damaging moment actually for britain's reputation for free speech is being laid bare the way that the british state is very prepared to use terrorism legislation to use accusations of terrorism in order to shut down what looks to be journalistic practice good healthy investigative journalism with some of pointed to be noticeably lackluster response from the country's other newspapers following russell religious revelations especially considering that press freedom appears to be at stake the business of reporting securely and having confidential sources is becoming difficult in these documents there is the stated ambition to scoop up everything and store it all to master the internet this is the language that's being used internally desser celia r.t.e. london and the guardian in the meantime says the destruction of its computers won't achieve anything as it will continue the coverage of surveillance from abroad german from the stop the war coalition she points out the inherent in the situation

. it is hardly our role make isn't it. a british newspaper house report from new york which does hard for very high levels of surveillance but i think it also tells you about the level of violence in britain about t.c.h. kid about the various violence like how many people are extremely worried in this country that this violence is now a very serious part of government policy it's not about keeping us safe it's about making sure that they know everything they want to know about individuals who are in the you why challenge them and we have to really reject this and we have to oppose it in every way that we can and we're killing spokes person christine hanson told us what about say that his organization and warned years ago that of course it would be the journalists who get next in the firing line you have been a warning about this for years let me remind you that three years ago when we can under massive attack even under dress threats and the journalist in the mainstream

media did not come to our defense or even work directly against us we said you should to think twice because you are next and this except what has happened in the escalation in the war on journalists and we see the phone records of a.p. journalists in the states being seized we see an attempt to brand in the us journalists who were working with blowers us coconspirators who could be prosecuted and now we see this recent development the u.k. this is part of an escalation against the freedom of the press and we weren't about this a years ago. and i just how much of the net is being watched by the n.s.a. may have been previously under estimated a new report says the government's powers to intercept communications including those of americans may be far more sweeping than previously thought in fact speaking to r.t. ecuador's president i felt he told us that instead of ending the surveillance of its own people in the west it spends all of its energy hunting down supporters of

whistleblowers he didn't even get that what is happening in europe is simply terrible we're talking about irresponsible behavior on the part of various governments such as that of the united states surveillance cannot be tolerated instead of protecting their people who are being spied upon wholesale they did not yet space to prison evo morales it's scandalous fortunately the ensuing reaction from latin america was both strong and just we did not want it to happen but we reacted accordingly instead of defending the rights of their own people instead of rejecting surveillance they prosecute those suspected of helping snowden with something must change in the world are still to come here on our team going all in a push for green. i'll be having a look at how european cannabis campaign is have staged a horticultural invasion of one german tell. that story and many more for this

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market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser report. joining us here on our show in moscow as the political turmoil rages in egypt the country is plunging deeper into an economic abyss and now following the latest wave of deadly street violence international companies have started putting their investment ultimately making the nation's future as uncertain as. the story. this is the place where egypt's creative minds meet and mingle for more than one hundred years they've congregated here gleaming inspiration from the famous faces

watching down on them but the state imposed day because few has severely restricted the free flow of thought it strutting the use of the day and the hours and you feel that you are surrounded by by the curfew government offices now closer to thirty in the afternoon businesses closed their doors an hour later the roads are clogged with traffic so if you want to get home before seven at night one of the irony is that now with the state of emergency there is no one on the streets at night so for the first time in weeks there is no shortage of fuel but there is an emerging shortage in foreign investment with some of the biggest international companies shutting down their operations and leaving thousands of egyptians without jobs electrolux is about to cut seven thousand employees and shell are said to shut up shop but even those who until a few weeks ago were in power don't blame foreign investors for pulling out. a year

what the initial it's a direct result of instability and insecurity because of the depression investors are not feeling safe international community needs an atmosphere of freedom and encouragement and i don't think the government now after the coup can offer that but many like amir selim are suspicious of the withdrawal of western multinationals this leading egyptian lawyer believes his country is ultimately better off without them this is the plan. to be followed by the multinational companies committed and the related to the united states is a raid. of roads in this region that's why it's the eve for they will leave for a very temporary why because they have interests here because not leave it the need us. maybe we don't need them but the fact is that the country

is in economic freefall the value of the egyptian pound has plummeted to record lows and foreign currency reserves have dropped to less than half what they were time but right now the government is too busy preventing the country from descending into a civil war economics to top its list of priorities the main issue that we are facing the budget deficit we have a huge budget deficit because the revenue the tax revenue is lower than where it should have been. the country's revenues are less high cost because. some salaries have been raised for the police and. this is the. income so the main issue that we're facing in egypt is the budget deficit but for the few hours a day that the curfew is not in place these egypt think is can do nothing but watch and listen as they observe the chaos that is sadly become modern day egypt policy r.t. kind of a. nobel peace prize laureate and egypt's vice president mohamed el baradei will

now stand trial for breach of trust that's after he quit the interim government over the violent dispersals of protests just last week and hear about see we've actually spoken to the advice that egypt's interim president for his view on whether current is going he claims it's only a matter of time though for the society rejects the idea is still being promoted by the muslim brotherhood. when i think and when i think that the muslim brotherhood exists as an idea as a group and as an organization i believe such clandestine organizations come to exist in the twenty first century in the same shape they were created one hundred years ago such organizations are the products of the era they had based on ideas that don't exist anymore the social ideology of the past this means that such organizations the muslim brotherhood included have lost their place among humanity the muslim brotherhood has lost a lot and has put itself in

a position i had warned about in the past this happened because this movement went from an illegal struggle against the state to an open confrontation with the whole of society those who opposed to society get rejected by it sooner or later. well thanks for joining us here on r t today there's a state of emergency in russia's far east as waters swamp a once flourishing region on our website right now check out the footage of the worst flood to hit the area and more than a century with the devastation stretching as far as the eye can see. and desperate times call for desperate measures and examined drone hunting could become a new challenge for iranian pupils as the country's military hopes to bring a new security improving subject straight into the school curriculum. right the scene. first for you and i think you're.

on our reporters. in. the in the. on. by just a moment on the aussie wild update for now though a pro cannabis campaign is in one german town have found a rather orthodox way to go green all giving the pot can actually be much less harmful than tobacco and alcohol they have literally planted the seeds of alternative opinion all over town peter all of a reporter what exactly they want to harvest. it's high time for a change in the law say activists in the university town of getting that seen a novel form of protests springing up is around a thousand marijuana plants were added to the leafy city this autonomous group wanted to raise awareness and to get publicity for their cause which was our

legalization of marijuana. just wanted people to stumble over the plants was just something that you would find on your way to work or on your way across town despite an active program of weeding out the weeds by authorities it isn't hard to find a sport where the surreptitious seeds have sprouted. in fact what we can find here is that very plant and you can find them in all sorts of random places like this one those behind the planting who call themselves a few autonomous flower children also held an online photo contest to gather pictures of the best birds which the police told me is very handy when it comes to tracking down the pesky plants. we first got wind of it when someone saw this online contest this is a very big and a very green city the best way for us to find them was to look for landmarks in the picture. many have passed off this stunt is

a bit of student high jinks towards the end of the academic year however this could be the start of something far bigger say those in the legal profession i think that this. is an act of civil disobedience should be a starting point for a much wider discussion on legalizing all kinds of drugs are not doing it i am not . made up my mind to it but we should have this discussion supporters of the activists believe that used responsibly cannabis could be fun a less dangerous than things like alcohol and tobacco many people think that you can actually consume it responsibly. and assume as you have that a responsible approach towards consumption then it should not be a problem to legalize that supplying the drug carries a prison sentence in germany so far no one connected with the raising of this crop has faced any legal action due to the jury ability of the plant meaning it can grow

just about anywhere don't expect the pot pioneers to give up their campaign any time soon peter all of their arty get in germany. for starting with germany as we head into the yard he would update now an immigration tensions have turned into street violence left wing anti fascist activists clashing with police and then there's the crowd protested against the national democratic party members of the n.d.p. recently stage their own rally outside in a commendation for asylum seekers they oppose illegal immigration saying it's damaging german culture the party founded back in the one nine hundred sixty s. has been repeatedly accused of being a racist organisation. to america rule has been evacuated in the state of georgia for a gunman on with an assault rifle fired shots as teachers help everyone to safety the police stormed the building and arrested the man after a short firefight it was just december of last year when i don't know lanza killed

twenty six people most of them under the age of seven the sandy hook elementary school shooting of course that spoke to a huge debate on the issues of policy. why that's taken a bit further here in a closer look now at the fate of a small scale farmers in ghana who've been left to starve fascinating introspected documentary coming your way in just a second we're not. to show. douglas drills and took its existence on this one show we found out why security state may soon be a girl's best friend already can you truly machine make sure its work a solid watch design classic still has room for improvement and we'll learn how to dispose of tires and improve roads in one fell swoop. as you update your own on leave the country. but i'll pull over my language at all

but i will only react to situations i have read the reports to and let you know for those who know i will leave them to stay current to comment on your latter point i come on to say that this is a cause are you talking no god. no more weasel words when you have a direct question be prepared for a change in your profile you should be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to crash. but he sees things that sighted people don't notice. he's dead. but he hears things that most people never to think call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind dog.