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 exactly why it is resorting to tactics. and life out of prison egypt's deposed leader hosni mubarak has left jail for house arrest despite facing the trial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters our top stories this hour.

international news and common live from our studio center here in moscow which just turned eleven pm this is the whistleblower bradley manning's 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 as the details. early manning 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 what drove his 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 he wants to be referred to as chelsea and he has released a statement saying he is female i think manning has said he wanted to become a woman named chelsea 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 supporter 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 president manning has received a prison sentence that was ten years longer than the period of time after which many of the documents that he released would have been automatically declassified now bradley manning and his defense are submitting. required for. the president 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 there's 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. money could be released on parole but most of the twenty twenty one wiki leaks has called the

sentence he received a strategic victory well just in russia from the government accountability project says that he doesn't deserve thirty five years in jail would limit it to 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 it seems like a good a good outcome though obviously it's a very steep compared to any other whistleblower on espionage charges to me it's all about politics and has nothing to do with justice in terms of whether it's spend heard at least in my office where we represent whistleblowers that has not stemmed the flow of people coming forward and i think edward snowden is a good example of someone who found demanding case and all of these espionage act

prosecutions to be instructive. and of course we want to know what you think about this story on r t dot com where i ask you what effect bradley manning sentence could have well that's what we're asking at the moment on our online poll it's on our home page on our website at r.t. dot com and we can see that the majority of this hour sixty eight percent believe that this will do nothing to deter the whistleblowers then we can see that a lot less fifteen percent think they could be a major backlash with major protests in response to what has happened there to many others think that the sentence could be reduced after a public outcry and here we can see a minority think that whistleblowers will not be deterred from blowing their whistles and the from leaking classified information have your say log on to r.t. dot com be good to hear from you. right to see it. first. and i think you're.

going to. be. a judge has ruled british police won't be able to fully inspect a laptop or other items taken from the partner of a journalist who's involved in publishing n.s.a. spy leaks david miranda was detained and questioned for nine hours under the terrorism act in london where the government has been under fire ever since detaining him as well as forcing the guardian newspaper to destroy files containing n.s.a. data or smith has more for us now from london. 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 returned they don't want any further searches performed against him he of course was detained at heathrow for nine hours and questioned all his it electronic devices taken away his passwords goes out to him for investigation by the security services we actually have got a small clip of what his lawyer said work except today that in order for the home office lead to look at the material to be a genuine threat. to the. rather than make believe they have done today 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 that 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 freedom is a very very high value across europe and we are. apply the same standards to all our member states that you recall that many have been 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 pose certain questions we're asking some background information from the 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 dia chakravarty from the freedom of india thanks for being here now we've been talking about the destruction of the information at the guardian newspaper this slashing of hard drives and discs 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 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 pointless 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 of the 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 got the guardian those who said that was that these paper was threatening to the 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 precedents 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 made public so no need to know about it but those things have to be very narrative contra's go ahead and use them for in your case we'll be following this story as it unfolds and it comes as we've both said more and more bizarre. and after being implicated in worldwide 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 by whistleblower edward snowden is locked in a court battle with the u.s. government after being forced to shop is a statement that love a bit. 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 isn't allowed to disclose many details because of ongoing court proceedings but he did explain his decision further to my colleagues. 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 of your hard work what do you 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 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 and 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. from other email providers the n.s.a. collected fifty six thousand messages annually over three years according to declassified documents none of them had anything to do with terror threats when you go to come to find out more about what the security agency revealed about it so.

he was toppled during the arab spring and is facing life in prison for allegedly ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters but egypt's former leader hosni mubarak has been freed from prison he'll be back in court on sunday but will now be preparing for those proceedings while under house arrest we get expert opinion shortly but first our tease bill true has more from egypt. 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 under house arrest despite the fact that he walks free today because the prime minister said yesterday that basically according to emergency law he 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 august which is in a few days now the reason that has been allowed to walk free today is because he

has served 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 dilution as if you'd never been sentenced and therefore it's almost like he was never tried so he can't keep him in prison for any look much longer however he is still facing trial charges of corruption as well as being involved in the killing of protesters so he will continue his trial but will be kept outside of prison under house arrest. bill true then let's discuss what the release of egypt next president means and what the country is now facing and the moment as a pro-democracy spokesman joins me live now from london hello does the release of really mean anything after all he still has to alter the charges which could land

him in prison for life. after what we've seen last week the bloodiest week in egypt history it comes at all no surprise that mubarak was released at the end of the day it was sisi and the military junta releasing their boss and it's the judges the corrupt judges are releasing the one person and the head of the state that people went out on. twenty fifth of january but listen to talk what we're seeing now is not only the return of the mubarak regime it's actually the return of the head of the american dream as well but if morsi was still in power he still would have been released because it is a legal matter is it not. i wouldn't think so what we as egyptians went on the twenty fifth of january revolution we wanted a free country and we wanted the judiciary to actually be that that represents the people not the one that was appointed by mubarak it's it comes as no surprise at

all that those who oppose where appointed by mubarak are the ones that actually got him released from prison at the end of the day what we are seeing now on the streets of egypt is a continuation of the twenty fifth of january volution because what the military coup came in to do was to actually wipe and destroy all the dreams that we had for a free and better egypt and what we will do now right now is to carry on testing peacefully until we get our democracy back until we get our rights and human rights back again do you think you could get democracy back when after all the muslim brotherhood is a factor being being wiped off the political map do you think without the muslim brotherhood that is possible. at the end of the day what we're seeing is nothing to do with the muslim brotherhood or morsi this is a country this is egypt it's bigger than any faction it's bigger than any political or religious group we have about ninety million egyptians living in egypt and what

the military coup in the military junta did they came and wiped away all our democratically elected institutions the people in power they're the ones that were ousted by the military rule were chosen by the people though some themselves what we are witnessing today is people who lost in elections coming back to to power on the back of tanks and anyone who came out to oppose them and say no this is not the right thing to do and this is not the. egypt we want ultimate to put in jail or kill look at life everyday life projections at the moment economy is already in the shambles it got far worse when morsi was in power how can the country survive economically now. the main problem facing egypt right now the biggest disease in the egyptian body right now is this military junta and the minute you call for egypt to move forward for things to get better for the economy to actually recover again we need to fix the problem the problem is the military coup and the military

junta these people need to leave power but they are all they know you. do not believe that this is an interim government and of course that means that this is a transitional process. why not we are seeing. because what we're seeing is basically a civilian face to the military those people appointed by the military are there as puppets they have absolutely no power whatsoever they're there just to make the military look better and what we see in the vice president mohamed el baradei actually resigning in protest to the killing of egyptians and this is a biggest blow to the legitimacy of this government and this military junta and the government that what we're seeing there is really the facade the civilian facade these people have absolutely no power whatsoever and they cannot change egypt they will not change egypt the only ones who will change egypt are the free egyptian people protesting every single day on the streets peacefully until we go egypt.

live in london thank you very much indeed for your thoughts your analogy. well still ahead here in r.t. react with force france wants the international community to take serious action if allegations that the syrian government uses chemical gas against civilians and for more on that of this break. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or structural standards of living.

continues here on the u.s. says the alleged chemical attack in syria would be outrageous and a flagrant escalation by if these reports are confirmed with still no evidence of the government's involvement in the attack or any confirmation about the number of

victims the pressure on the syrian government is growing let's get the details now from artie's porter so marina we been hearing. for a thorough investigation into the attack from different sides now so what are the allegations then from the u.s. . well the u.s. is saying a variety of different things during our press briefing thursday afternoon u.s. state department spokesperson jen psaki said that the u.s. has been unable to conclusively determine chemical weapon use and that washington is working urgently to gather that information however in the same breath sackey also said that there's no possible way that the syrian rebels who washington supports could have been behind the latest round of allegedly chemical weapon use because. we still believe that they don't have the capability to use chemical weapons that has not changed again we're looking into the facts on the ground but

there's no reason if there's nothing to hide for the regime not to let the investigative team do you know if the u.n. team is upgrading them to the same assumptions that position doesn't have the ability to use these kinds of weapons yes they are. so marina where do those assumptions that the rebels can't be blamed for the attacks where those assumptions are coming from. i'm not sure where those assumptions are coming from because so far we have not heard any u.n. official make any statements to support what misaki just said during her press we know the precise reason it's one of the u.n. investigators are in damascus at the. rounding the alleged use of chemical weapons and who would be responsible for administering administrating those weapons as a matter of fact back in may carla del ponte a she's the lead investigator of the

un's independent commission of inquiry syria she said her evidence that rebel fighters are the ones that may have used nerve agent the nerve agent sarin in syria and that it was not used by the syrian government. our investigators have been in syria and in neighboring countries interview victims doctors and food hospitals and in the latest reports we got last week i saw that although there is still no incontrovertibly prove there are very strong suspicions judging by the kind of medical help the victims received the sarin gas has been used by the opposition rebels and not the country's authority but it's not surprising because militants and people from outside have already infiltrated the opposition. and of course that was. from may we don't know how much worse the situation may have gotten in syria now as of today russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that

russia wants a fair investigation and has denied reports that moscow blocked any type of u.n. security council statement on wednesday when the council gathered together to discuss the use of the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria in the meantime france is reportedly urging a quote reaction of force unquote if reports of mass chemical attacks near damascus are confirmed moscow says it's the united nations that decides on the use of force and so far no country can confirm any were or it's about the it's happened victims of any chemical weapon use so there's a lot of sides to this circumstantial even reporting and a lot of investigations that are still ongoing. thanks very much indeed for that that's a reporter. in new york. now for some news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day two russian cosmonauts give you that space one of the upgrade the international space station they successfully added

a new optical laser camera despite working with twenty equipment the camera has a flaw in another space what will you need to fix the problem this is the fourth of six out of the planet to see it for the russian team. the french capital was invested in smoke for fun not far from the eiffel tower and the firefighters according to battle the blaze the story we're told upon the same spot by a nearby motorcycle accident claims the two could almost a high column of smoke over the capitol hill as it was put out. so that brings up the for a moment with more news with the news team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime the war lords of money and global bank manipulation it's the latest edition of the cause report next here a multi after the break. they

see geopolitics is a lot like a schoolyard and what obama snubbing a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stoughton incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel a date just to show you how much her feelings are hurt let's not mistake this cancel 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 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 of 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 ship cocktail whatever here's a russian accent one could argue that to appease. republicans 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 boss 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 warned that given a heads up for being treated like a common criminal today j.p. morgan is still around it be laving raking in monopolizing but we have a trust enabler in chief no trust busting trust enabler trust enabler stacy that's right j.p. morgan was of course outraged that he was treated like a common criminal of course nowadays it's impossible to treat them like a criminal no matter what they do whether they're reading energy markets whether they're bribing chinese officials whether they're reading also.