bradley manning reveals he'd like to spend the rest of his life as a woman called chelsea and says he will request a presidential pardon after being sentenced to thirty five years for leaking america's secrets. government pressure on britain's guardian newspaper over the publishing of n.s.a. leaks causes the european council to ask london exactly why it's resorting to intimidation tactics. and life out of prison egypt's deposed leader hosni mubarak has left jail for house arrest despite facing retrial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters our top stories this.

international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow which now just turned eight pm this is the whistleblower bradley manning his defense will follow requests to the u.s. president to have the former army private pardoned manning has been sentenced to thirty five years behind bars for disclosing the largest amount of classified data in american history meanwhile bradley manning has revealed that he would now like to be known as chelsea manning and live the rest of his life as a woman what he's going to run as the details. he now wants to be referred to as chelsea manning he requested hormone therapy to which the army said no he's going to live in a male prison there's obviously a lot of personal drama involved bradley manning has struggled with his gender identity for a while now in two thousand and ten he wrote to his supervisor that he joined the army to quote unquote to get rid of it of course has been a struggle for him we heard his defense talk about talk about this but his attorney

also said the stress that he was under was never an excuse because that's not woodrow he's actions. he said what drove his actions was a strong moral compas he said that because for most media here personal drama becomes the main story and it overshadows everything bradley manning has actually done and it's easier to talk about his sex than about foreign policy and the human cost of war and that's what grabs the headlines and we see everybody jumping on it and then someone is going to watch the story and say ok this is where it's coming from and that kind of a narrative could be convenient for the government i mean the notion that bradley manning did what he did not out of conviction but out of his personal drama and one way or another the accents get shifted in the story becomes about the personality rather than the issues that he uncovered and bradley manning supporters i mean a base of support of not not just as an individual but mostly for the public's right to know for the public's right to be informed on what their government is

doing on their behalf and they of course see bradley manning sentence of thirty five years in prison as unjust and unfair after all they save many who committed murder got away with less than thirty five years bradley manning has received a prison sentence that was ten years longer than the period of time after which many of the documents that he leads would have been automatically declassified now bradley manning and his defense are submitting the request for a pardon in the present of the united states has the power to pardon him but bradley manning also has supporters who were somewhat relieved by this sentence i mean at least is not going to spend the rest of his life in prison as prosecutors wanted but there's hardly any chance president obama will pardon him really especially in the current environment of the government's crackdown on whistleblowers. well manning could be released on parole but no earlier than twenty twenty one we could leaks is called the sentence he received a strategic victory well just in ruddock from the government accountability project says that manning doesn't deserve thirty five years in jail. limit time served

which of course included nine months in solitary which even the judge found to be torture or unlawful pretrial confinement. but realistically given that the government was seeking ninety and then sixty and defense was around twenty five thirty five seems like a good a good outcome though obviously it's a very steep compared to any other whistleblower on espionage charges to me that it's all about politics and has nothing to do with justice in terms of whether it's spent hurt at least in my office where we represent whistleblowers it has not stemmed the flow of people coming forward and i think edward snowden is a good example of someone who found the manning case and all of these espionage act prosecutions to be instructive. and we want to know what you think about this story

you don't call my website we're asking you what effect bradley manning's sentence could have this is all online poll from page there and altie dot com is the result so far and the majority say that whistle blows will not be scared away about fifteen percent believe the sentence will spark a major backlash and lead to even more leaks a little less say that a public outcry could lead to the sentence being reduced and not many believe that manning is example will actually stop others from blowing the whistle have your say log on to what you don't come to take part in our life poll good to hear from me. right. and i think your. daughter's.

the partner of a guardian newspaper journalist who was detained and questioned under the terrorism act in britain is threatening government with legal action they've been around as long as a demanding the return of his laptop and other equipment with in a week and want to stop any inspection of them the british government being on the far ever since detaining miranda and forcing the guardian newspaper to destroy files containing n.s.a. data on his or smith has more. this is a story that gets more and more bizarre as it unfolds with high level government involvement we now know and now david miranda lawyers who have come out threatening legal action against the government they want his belongings returns they don't want any further searches performed against him he of course was detained at heathrow for nine hours and questioned all his electronic devices taken away his passwords got out to pay him for investigation by the security services we actually have got a small clip of what his lawyer said for example today that in order for the home

office and lead to look at the material to be a genuine threat or. believe that they. were rather than make clear they have done today so that's more embarrassment for the government potentially on top of what is turning into really in a very embarrassing situation for them we now know of top level involvement in the government prime minister david cameron was intimately involved in the decision to detain david miranda and also in the decision it now. becomes clear to destroy the files belonging to the guardian that were released by edward snowden a deputy prime minister nick clegg also was made aware of and supported that decision and this has exposed the government's to to a lot of criticism increasing amounts of criticism. they have been criticised by

a german human rights minister he said that he felt that the british government had crossed a line in its destruction of the files and in detaining david miranda at heathrow airport and he said that the actions of the government left him truly appalled we've also heard of a letter from the council of europe which has been addressed to the home secretary which is also criticizing that decision and looking at how europe could be involved in this press freedom is a very very high value across europe and we. apply the same standards to all our member states that you recall the many in the spotlight regarding press freedom especially in eastern europe europe has been commenting the situation and i agree recently but also in turkey and in other states but i think we have to apply the same standards to all our members and these two actually do post certain questions we're asking some background information from the u.k. government and i'm pretty sure we will receive a response there are

a lot of questions in this case and hopefully in an effort to plug some of those holes i'm talking to the chakravarty from the freedom association to thank for being here now we've been talking about the destruction of the information at the guardian newspaper this slashing of hard drives and disks in the basement of the newspaper in the light of the fact that all the copies of this information clearly existed in the editor of the guardian told the authorities that they did it or how to how can the government maintain that this protects lives it does as you just said in your introduction it does get more and more bizarre because as alan rusbridger had also said in his blog this act of destruction this physical destruction of the hardest seems like nothing but a point his piece of symbolism which is his words are just word for it because as you say there are copies of it available elsewhere and we know from since when the . matter snowden controversy broke we know that journalists no longer. exchange data electronically you know so now the other thing that's going to happen

is journalists are going to avoid coming into london to carry out their work or the other explanation could be that the security is our security pass and just don't have any idea how it. how data can be transferred electronically how these things work both of those things are pretty serious concerns so another thing that the guardian those who said that was the newspaper was threatened with legal action if it didn't surrender these files something they're calling prior restraint so shutting down reporting through the courts i mean is there any precedent for this and what would be the point of it straight to something that was white. second world war two to protect the education of military units things like that precedent in terms of precedence we've more recently seen celebrities taking out super injunctions that's another potential example of that now there is there is good reason to use this sort of measure if national security is actually in danger like in the case of a military person or this sort of bruce. bruce attack one person previously which

is of no use to sort of which doesn't have to be public to made public need to know about it but those things have to be very narrative contra's go ahead and use them for any old case we'll be following this story as it unfolds and it comes as we've both said more and more bizarre. after being implicated in world wide surveillance america appears now to be targeting those who help users protect themselves against the n.s.a. spies the owner of a secure email service used. is locked in a court battle with the us government are being forced to shut down but here's a statement that love a bit owner lavar listen made two weeks ago when he took his service offline he indicated that u.s. authorities demanded information about his customers or else but according to him that would amount to a crime against the american people so he took the service offline instead of us and isn't allowed to disclose many details because of ongoing court proceedings but he did explain his decision further to my colleague. if i had continued to operate

i felt like it would have put me in a ethically compromising position. in other words the service no longer would have been what i intended it to be which was a secure and private method of communication for americans so you posted a message on line saying that you were in an impossible situation that either you would quote you here become complicit in crimes against the american people or walk away from a decade over to the think you would have faced if you didn't shut down the service when you say no to the government. they have the ability to take everything they have the ability to take your business take your money and take your freedom and the really isn't all that much you can do about it. i was looking at the very real possibility of an impossible debt and possibly being put in jail and still

not being able to tell people why i was even in jail you wrote on the line that without congressional action or strong judicial precedent that you would advise people users against trusting a company that has physical ties to the us why is that all of the major providers here in the us. have provided. our government with real time access to the private information of their users and they don't really have a choice about it and they don't really have the ability to tell anybody about. it so the fact is if you trust your data to a company even if they they haven't already been approached. and been required to provide access. the simple fact is they could be in the future. from other email providers the n.s.a.

collected fifty six thousand messages annually over three years and according to the classified documents none of them had anything to do with terror threats dot com to find out more about what the security agency revealed about it so. he was toppled journey arab spring and is facing life in prison for allegedly ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters but egypt's former leader has been freed from prison and be back in court on sunday but will now be preparing for those proceedings while under house arrest bill true as more. egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak has left tora prison where he's been held for the last few years in undisclosed location where he will be under house arrest now he's been put under house arrest despite the fact that he walks free today because the prime minister said yesterday that basically according to emergency law needs to be under house arrest and we're not sure what will happen to him after that but he is due for his

retrial to start again on the twenty fifth of which is in a few days now the reason that barak has been allowed to walk free today is because he is his maximum amount of time that someone can spend in detention without being charged he was sentenced in june last year to guilty for being responsible for the deaths of protesters however the appeals court found that trial to be. procedural grounds and therefore all the organized the retrial this means that basically the clock turns back to the end of the journey was divided volution as if he'd never been sentenced and therefore it's almost like he was never tried so he could they can't keep him in prison and he looked much longer however he is still facing trudges charges of corruption as well as being involved in the killing of protesters so he will continue his trial but it will be kept outside a prison under house arrest. who's calling for a firm and professional investigation into an alleged massacre. because more

schools are denies early reports that blocked a u.n. statement on the use of toxic weapons in syria well for more on the allegations of chemical attacks in syria and the repercussions talking to his story mark allman who's been closely following the conflict well mark are you the. yes i'm here and i can't see you but i can i can see you know and i can hear you thanks very much indeed. there hasn't been any firm evidence of this attack or indeed of who is behind it so why all we seeing such a harsh condemnation of assad's government. well i think in part it's because the key western governments america britain and france want to say culture they have been demanding the fall of assad for more than two and a half years now and it's become increasingly frustrating that his regime has shown much more resilience than they had expected despite the resources that they in the gulf kingdoms are thrown into the war on the other side it's also

a distraction from the embarrassment of egypt where we see the european and u.s. governments are basically these words to avoid any kind of combination of a massacre in the streets of cairo so there are those both the specifics of egypt so this is a bit of syria and the context of what's going on elsewhere in the arab world especially in egypt so you say here's an excuse for many countries to say to a sad but is it really likely that he would launch such a brutal attack at a time that u.n. investigators are visiting syria and of course the consequences of a chemical attack anyway. would you have to ask with any crime scene whose benefit is the crime and the syrian government would have to be not only very brutal but very stupid to have done this in a period when u.n. chemical weapons inspectors are just down the road in damascus will be you'd have to say if they had done this if they had launched a very large scale for effect surely they would have sent in special troops under

the cover of the chaos caused by such act occupy the area in order precisely to prevent kind of films and pictures of merging politically sent around the world by the opposition this after all this american trial by the opposition so a further problem arises with the demands of syrian government permit experts to visit to see syrian government doesn't control the scene of the crime if this crimes were committed it's up to the rebels yet we see no attempt to press for the rebels to cooperate so in fact it seems to be probably designed to embarrass the syrian government so why don't you let the experts go to the scene where in fact they don't control the scene for couldn't guarantee their security or even possibly and. when to enter the areas where these attacks were supposed to have taken place of course that they're all suspicions that the rebels are responsible for this do you think that really it's likely that they would sacrifice those people use chemical weapons for their gain what would they gain from this. work of course to normal people it's very difficult to imagine somebody willingly sacrificing people

they claim to be fighting in the defense of the claim to be fighting for their liberty but we do of course have some very radical groups who would say they have when they've been challenged about using suicide bombers to kill innocent people who are called who recognizes only when the dad had died they are the people saved i haven't justified victims and just said to hell the political aside so it's not impossible that somebody has staged this one thing we have to remember is there are amongst chemical weapons experts considerable suspicions about what exactly the weapon or the substance has been if it is sarin gas which was supposed to be one of the most deadly nerve gases why do we see such various symptoms why do we see so many people who don't seem to be affected by the weapon why do we see people operating in the area without using protective clothing this is a nerve gas it's not just something that kills you if you breathe it in it enters through your pulls through the skin. so there's that basic question that the most advertize source of the deaths that we seem to see on pictures doesn't seem likely

to be the weapon secondly if it is a poor low grade version of sarin then probably it's not made by the syrian government is functioning in peace and security until very recently but possibly by people using. the elements that you find in cheek dick in in various insecticides used on us which contain some of the precursors for sorry that after all is how nazi scientists invented sarin in the first place they were making a insect pesticide and then discovered that they had found something very good which could be used on people so we don't know exactly what the weapon is and unfortunately because of where it's been used we can't really certain who. might have used it because we there's no independent observation at the scene of the incident life from oxford in the u.k. thank you very much indeed. had this. contract means zero guarantees over a million brits face being left penniless despite having. the economic crisis and

excuse to employ people with no promise of payment other stories after this break. wealthy british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. the global financial headlines kaiser report.

a pleasure to have you with us here today. he continues her naughty desperate for any kind of job low paid workers in the u.k. have been caught in the trap of what's become known as zero. looks in a world where employment doesn't mean there's any work or any money. you have a job but you don't know when you'll work or if you'll be paid that's the reality for a million brits employed on zero hours contracts donalds has admitted that it employs

ninety percent of its u.k. workforce in this way stuff are expected to be ready for work in the mornings in case best summoned by their bosses they also have the right to refuse shifts crucially though there's no guaranteed minimum set of working hours per week hence the zero in the title of this man in his twenty's is almost zero hours contract with a well known restaurant chain every morning he waits for the call telling him whether or not he'll have work really in charge of your own destiny as it were while you're working there to be able to. make that much profit this week so actually we're trying to stuff as we can you guys can all be cut and we'll just do and three stuff this week is completely unfair the government has promised to investigate the controversial employment amidst concerns that leaving an increasing number of brits in financial limbo with few rights low pay and no stability or no guarantee of

other jobs i wasn't making enough money to pay the rent was falling behind the number of zero hours contracts and during the recession some economists forecasts that employers will return to hiring workers on better terms when the economy recovers the trade unions buying it in recent months and years we have start to see a growth of say around particularly amongst public sector workers no longer are these small groups of workers who are employed on temporary employment now in some sights is this type of employment lation chip is becoming the norm macdonald sports direct domino's and even buckingham palace zero hours employees they've been accused of exploiting people desperate for any kind of work it's part of the race to drive down the terms and conditions the pay. working people i've brought from a big business to use in the us they're in measures from the government economic crisis as an excuse to use these contracts but business representatives say that

the financial crisis is forcing companies to use zero hours contracts so those people that criticize contracts have got to recognize the impact that that would have on unemployment levels it's actually the flexibility that offers wasn't available to employers i don't think it would be acting as the kind of employment stabilizer we're seeing it work out but terms of these contracts may see the bosses but many of the young people on them say that while they're on zero hours they've got zero chance of any financial stability i think they're the wrong no i think they should i think they should shouldn't be less extreme than they are because it was it doesn't happen that you don't have. the can sort of expect that at some point you made. arty london. and now for some news making headlines around the world in our world now what you're seeing here are the most recent pictures of a space under way outside the international space station russian cosmonauts you

know we can try to add a new optical laser camera now this is the fourth of six outings planned this year the russian team that recently broke the country's record for the longest space walk but it doesn't always go as planned italian astronauts narrowly escaped drowning after water leaked into his helmet during an outing back in july. the french capital was envelops in smoke after a far not far from the eiffel tower one hundred firefighters were called in to battle the blaze near the historic hotel the condor and they say it was sparked by a nearby motorcycle accident the flames left two kilometer high column of smoke hanging over the capital for hours after it was put in. a storage tank has leaked three hundred tons of contaminated water into the ground at japan's fukushima nuclear. plant site workers are currently inspecting hundreds of other tanks kept there tepco the company leading cleanup operations has warned that toxic liquid may have already reached the ocean nuclear watchdog has classed as the most

serious crisis hit that devastated area since the post tsunami meltdown in two thousand and eleven. that brings up today for a moment with a news team with more for you in just over half an hour from now in the meantime the water money and global bank manipulation in the latest edition of the cards report coming up after the break. they say geo politics is a lot like a schoolyard and what obama snubbing a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stone incident sounds kind of a mature that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel date just to show you how much your feelings are hurt let's not mistake this

cancelled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really isn't a bold and possibly dangerous but a call message but obama did was more like a minor annoyance he knows that he will talk to putin again in the near future i mean how are they not going to talk in the next g. eight summit what is he just going to have to hide behind merkel the whole time and hope it works out or ducked behind the shrimp cocktail whatever here's a russian accent one could argue that to appease republicans he had to do something to look strong after the student but this grandstanding just comes across as silly passing something like a new jackson verda commandment yeah that is how you could shows people that you're really mad even if your anger is irrational because stone pretty much did the right thing but that's just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser you know an eight hundred ninety congress passed the sherman antitrust act at first of course those modest at the supreme court refused to enforce the law always siding with the monopolist unless it was to break up a union but then in one thousand to two teddy the trust bus to roosevelt went after john pierpont morgan j.p. morgan who controlled the bulk of the railroad shipping across the northern united states to his northern securities of course j.p. morgan was raised that he had not been awarded given a heads up for being treated.