nobody was allowed to make recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals at the military court infebruary but someone did it and the freedom of the press foundation released mr manning's testimony in its entirety in this hour long testimony bradley manning in his own words explains how and why he leaked all those documents many of which revealed how the u.s. government covered up civilian casualties in human rights abuses during the wars in iraq and afghanistan he served as an intelligence analyst in the military and had access to all those documents the biggest leak in history let's take a listen to just one episode where bradley manning explains why he leaked the video of the patchy helicopter gunning down boisterous journalists in baghdad and then targeting those who showed up to rescue the wounded including a van with children and that footage shocked the world. it was i mean that's a. hero. and. it was a very huge. point. for. me . it seems right now is bradley manning who is the and under the magnifying glass of the government very serious charges lined up against him here i

government now soldier bradley manning can be heard in his own words explaining why he sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks in two thousand and ten in new leaked audio recording from his court martial manning accuses the u.s. army of not valuing human life and those who want to provoke a debate about american foreign policy artie's guy in a cheeky man has more. nobody was allowed to make recordings of bradley manning's pretrial tribunals at the military court in february but someone did and the freedom of the press foundation released mr manning's testimony in its entirety in this hour long testimony bradley manning in his own words explains how and why he leaked all those documents many of which revealed how the u.s. government covered up civilian casualties in human rights abuses during the wars in iraq and afghanistan he served as an intelligence analyst in the military and had access to all those documents the biggest leak in history let's take a listen to just one episode where bradley manning explains why he leaked the video of the apache helicopter g

punishment of life in prison and the big question for many remains whether it was the enemy that bradley manningaided or the public which has the right to know what their government is doing in their name in washington i'm finished. will give you exact of his clerks directly things manning's actions couldn't harm national security. bradley manning has just been nominated for his third nobel peace prize meanwhile he's been charged with aiding the enemy but doesn't look very good for the obama administration or the government in the way obviously was not motivated to the enemy to harm the u.s. he made that very clear he chose cables and videos that had no national security concerns and he released them so that we could have this conversation it's a disgrace every day that he is in jail. it's a disgrace to our military it's a disgrace to the promises the obama promised in two thousand and eight on our website r.t. dot com what you think about bradley manning's prosecution and testimony here is how the online vote is stacking up thus far half of you about think bradley manning has become a scapegoat

martin ball recently audio of the thirty five page handwritten statement by whistleblower private bradley manning has been leaked since the first time the public that attends to hear his voice since before his military detention here's a bit of that recording where manning describes the now famous collateral murder video take a listen. to the others did you already know terry balls it was serious about him so even though i'm still the one of the everybody even who remembers early enough for. it so they can have a good.

to boldly say what no one has said before bradley manning is heard claiming he became a whistleblower because of the u.s. army's blood loss on leaked audio from his court hearing. also a new a leader comes to paul in china beijing and washington struggle for dominance in asia and in looks set to heat up. at six pm here in the russian capital you lie with us on r.t. i'm to one with say it's good to have you with us child soldiers are fighting on both sides of the bloody conflict in syria that's according to un investigators and charities as a crisis in syria approaches its second anniversary this week the u.n. is warning that this is not a simple battle between good rebels and an evil regime reporter. has this update from tabasco sauce. the conflict is getting more complicated we have seen many many phenomena regarding the children being involved in this crisis we have seen many children like eighteen and these children in the school ages where their school they were destroyed and they don't have any other thing they've done some time paid for paid for their paid and one of the most im

army whistleblower bradley manning could get twenty years in prison for what he describes as an attempt to reveal the blood lust and disregard for human life in the american military manning pleaded guilty to ten lesser charges out of twenty two he's facing for the biggest leak of state secrets in u.s. history it could help him escape the most serious charge of aiding the enemy which carries a life sentence here's artie's report nine with more in new york. he has accepted guilt but makes no apologies for what he did at a pretrial hearing on a maryland military base u.s. army private bradley manning admitted to sharing u.s. classified documents and videos with weak you leak saying that he believes that the american public have the right to know the true cost of war the twenty five year old pleaded guilty to ten of twenty two charges before reading a thirty five page statement explaining what he did and why he did it now manning said that he leaked instant logs from the wars in iraq and afghanistan hoping that it would start a public debate he also said that he believed the incident invol

to boldly say what no one has said before bradley manning is heard claiming he became a whistleblower because of the u.s. army's a block lost on leaked audio from his court hearing. there's more rage in the europa of the day of action aimed at stopping all the budget cuts but of blame for an epidemic of unemployment. right now this is china's a new president ray being sworn in more coming up. in a national news analysis and a report so this is all. child soldiers fighting on both sides of the bloody conflict in syria that's according to un investigators and charities as the crisis in syria approaches its second anniversary this week the un is warning that this is not a simple battle between good rebels and an evil regime reporter xeni has this update from to mask. the conflict is getting more complicated we have seen many many phenomena regarding the children being involved in this crisis we have seen many children eighteen and these children in the school ages where their school day were destroyed and they don't have any other thing that we can get through today and sometimes paid fo

government of the grading treatment towards bradley manning including but not limited to keeping him locked up for twenty three hours a day in solitary confinement for eleven months in a row bradley many pleaded guilty to ten out of twenty two charges brought against him just under those churches he faces twenty years in jail but the prosecution may still pursue the twelve remaining charges including the most serious one one of aiding the enemy and that one carries a punishment of life in prison and the big question for many remains whether it was the enemy that bradley manning aided or the public which has the right to know what their government is doing in their name in washington i'm going to check on. russian experts are planning to intercept dimitrios before they smash into earth they hope to have the blueprints of bustelo rocket defense system in place by the end of this year than have it up and running with an. answer the u.k. is showing signs of a dearth of or more russian gas pumps a high level delegations from the two countries met to discuss of the possibility of opening th

government of call the grating treatment towards bradley manning including but not limited to keeping him locked up for twenty three hours a day in solitary confinement for eleven months in a row bradley many pleaded guilty to ten out of twenty two charges brought against him just one of those churches he faces twenty years in jail but the prosecution may still pursue the twelve remaining charges including the most serious one one of aiding the enemy and that one carries a punishment of life in prison and the big question for many remains whether it was the enemy that bradley manning aided or the public which has the right to know what their government is doing in their name in washington i'm finished. paying has been formally confirmed as the new president completing a lengthy transition process he's already announced his first priorities as leader tackling corruption the wealth gap at home and boosting the military budget plans come amid u.s. efforts to gain a stronger foothold in asia tend to see that as put beijing all in washington has been expanding its military reach in the reg

a couple of weeks ago i think for many people it will be the first time they will have heard bradley manning's voice and they'll hear a little bit of the man behind all of this controversy perhaps help to make up their mind about him a bit many people in the u.s. do not take kindly to what he is didn't quite frankly consider him a traitor as for him he has said that when seeing videos like. like we saw and seeing many other things like the covering up of human rights abuses and civilian casualties he really started to question what the wars in afghanistan and iraq were all about and that helped to push him to this decision he tried official whistle blowing through the army he was rebuffed he says and then he decided to go and leak this information as he explains. this. is was. so it should just be said as far as his trial goes at the moment he is has twenty two charges against him he's pleaded guilty to ten of those not guilty to the others some of those others include more serious charges such as aiding the enemy if he is convicted bradley manning could face up to twenty years in prison. all

the bradley manning tapes out. he's on tape explaining his own case and we have those tapes for you tonight. >> come on, fire. cenk: last night, there was a riot in brooklyn. was it in any way justified? >> up like a tornado just came, all them ran in here. my kid wouldn't have been outside. cenk: why were they so angry? we'll talk about that, and speaking of angry another terrible injustice in a sexual assault case in the military. >> my heart is beating fast right now, i am so upset with this. >> mccaskill is asking the air force to consider removing the general from his post. cenk: we'll tell you why. another huge show tonight. it is go time. ♪ theme ♪ cenk: most of you know bradley manning is face be a court martial. he leaked information to wikileaks. we know that now because he has admitted some of those charges the smaller charges in his court martial. what we never got to hear from is bradley manning itself, because this trial is shrouded in secrecy ironic given the case and no video is loud. you're not eve

of course a lot still remains to be seen but this is a huge development in the case involving bradley manningand wiki leaks and it will be developing for days weeks and months to come reporting from new york marina r.t. . the u.s. prosecutors are pursuing a man who instead should be praised as a hero that's according to michael ratner president of the center for constitutional rights my colleague carrie johnson spoke to him earlier. bradley manning you know the mess of the media or trade is you know this is the stir mixed up week person turns out to be a very strong person turns out to lead guilty to a number of important. disclosures to wiki leaks one of the videos he admitted to me which i should warn viewers is very disturbing shows u.s. troops firing and on and killing unarmed civilians now manning exposed this but yet he faces charges that could see him and looked away in a minute to prison for years or even for life now given the nature of what was explained do you think his potential punishment would be disproportionate. a person god is a hero look at he exposed whether it was an iraqi

let's go to the bradley manning case.re, of course, they not only arrested him they actually didn't even charge him for months on end. they tortured him. now the court has ruled that it was torture and they will reduce his sentence because of that. that's what happens when you release information the government doesn't want you to release. in fact, of course, bob woodward is the government's stenographer and releases information that helps the different administrations. bradley manning did something unusual today. he pled guilty to 10 different charges in a naked plea. he did not get a plea deal, he's doing it on his own pled guilty to. >> each of the 10 charges carries two years maximum sentence so he could actually face 20 years in prison on just the stuff that he admitted to. he said on 12 other charges on higher offenses, he pleads not guilty, because he didn't do them. for example, aiding the enemy which carries a life sentence, of course is absurd. he didn't do this to aid the enemy, as he explained today: cenk: he

army whistleblower bradley manning could get twenty years in prison for it described as an attempt to reveal the blood lust and disregard for human life in the american military manning pleaded guilty to ten lesser charges out of twenty two he's facing for the biggest leak of state secrets in u.s. history it could help him escape the most serious charge of aiding the enemy that carries a life sentence america's andrew blake was in the courtroom. there's been over one thousand days of detainment since he was first picked up in may two thousand and ten and charged with releasing all this material and since then he's had to undergo so much just completely agree just treatment nonetheless yesterday there he was is a small man only five foot two you know of one hundred and some odd pounds sitting very calm very collectively very cool right in front of the judge and read a thirty five page statement pretty much owning up to every single fact that the government has accused him of for the last three years and it was people expected him to go ahead and plead guilty but the way in which he act

now a full audio recording of bradley manning's testimony before a military court has been leaked despite a ban on recordings in it manning says he leaked classified data to expose the harsh realities of u.s. foreign policy he accuses the army of not valuing human life and compares troops to children. with a magnifying glass well earlier artie's tom barton gave me some details on the case . he used emotive languages especially as he worked through this over an hour of audiophiles statement to the court describing his feelings we've taken a couple of edited excerpts of that one of them concerns this video from the cockpit of an apache attack helicopter over iraq the two pilots very eager to engage a group of what turned out to be civilians on the ground killing twelve of them including two reuters journalists a van men comes to try and help those shot in the first burst of firing and the helicopter then engages that van as well let's have a listen to what he said about that does that mean that. this was the only. way. for. me this is. bradley manning was shocked by what he saw in the video

and bradley manning's biographer denver nix believes that manning's experience within the mainstream media highlights the need for new ways to inform the public isn't it ironic that if you went to the new york times the north of them and they gave this information which you leaks and it ultimately ended up at the new york times this is this this may be a good example of the need for going to zation it's like wiki leaks if not we do leaks it so that they need to realisations like it not necessarily for some kind of sophisticated leaking technology but just because they'll pay attention to it a young army private who who had access to important information and who had something he wanted to say. he was probably ignored because he was relatively powerless he's not part of the great power structure of american politics not a not a power player in washington he was just an army private at a forward operating base in baghdad. and we can sense elections italy and its senate to remain in limbo with parties across the political spectrum so far refusing any talks on coalitions and one party le

administration after making comments regarding the military detention of whistleblower private bradley manning and in open form crowley said that manning streetman was quote ridiculous counterproductive and stupid and since his resignation crowley has been outspoken not only about bradley manning but also about the effects of the u.s. drone program in countries like pakistan and yemen well earlier today i had the chance to speak with p.j. crowley and self i first asked him about what he saw that made him want to speak out about manning and here's what he had to say. the last thing that the united states needed was another story a negative story about detention policy particularly one involving our own soldiers . it was creating a significant international controversy that was point of contention between the united states and the united nations over access to bradley manning and i thought that this dynamic was actually undercutting the credibility of where the other wise and important prosecution bradley manning stands accused of of damaging united states national interest by. providing to wiki

army private bradley manning admitted to sharing u.s. classified documents and videos with we say that he believes the american public have the right to know the true cost of war the twenty five year old pleaded guilty to ten of twenty two charges before reading

army private bradley manning's decision to confess he intentionally leaked classified material supporters of the prosecution to prove the revelations helped terrorists. and massive austerity hits the u.s. as president obama is forced to order eighty five billion dollars of budget cuts after lawmakers failed to agree on alternative. live from our studios here in moscow this is kerry. the opposition in egypt has criticized washington for allegedly meddling in the country's affairs it comes ahead of a trip to cairo by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry. has more on the diplomats intentions. he says that the purpose of his visit is essentially to discuss regional and international issues have a wide spectrum of egyptian leadership that is refusing to meet with him the criticism is coming from liberal and secular leaders and they accuse kerry and the united states of siding with the muslim brotherhood and they accuse its leader mohamed morsi of the same should be stepping into the same role as the ousted dictator hosni mubarak now it is true that the united states has maintained close ties

him private bradley manning minutes he gave thousands of secret document to the wiki leaks website manning gave his first detailed explanation of why he did it manning said he uploaded troops of u.s. secrets to the weeks and weeks website because quote americans have a right to know the true cost of war with the purest form with he had be a very sophisticated analysis of why he had to do it as a duty to spread americans to expose what their government was doing in their name which was in the home around the world so all credit to him he's a. former intelligence analyst said he attempted to contact traditional media outlets like the washington post the new york times and politico but failed to get through to them later deciding to pass the documents on to wiki leaks manning said he engaged in a prolonged internet conversation with the wiki leaks member called ox who he assumes was julian a songe i think it's very clear that the risks of street government secrecy are much graver and have already done much more serious damage to the united states and god knows other countries and the risks wr

make it clear to intimidate people around the world who would do the kind of heroic things that bradley manning did to try and it's through them from doing that manning himself said he believed to do move it would only embarrassed but not damage to the u.s. and eventually kick start the public to be the result the u.s. was shamed in front page headlines around the world a nervous superpower launched a witch hunt against whistleblowers and wiki leaks became a household name the cost i own private may spend between twenty years and a lifetime behind bars for an important i.r.t. new york. italy's locked in limbo a week after parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear winner parties across the political spectrum so far refusing any talk of coalitions form a comedian that agreement has become an unlikely kane maker after his party came third but his suggesting they may leave the euro and return to the lira that raised eyebrows across the euro zone which was cautiously abortion how the deadlock will grow democrats and the coalition led by disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi both

army was bradley manning could get twenty years in prison for what he describes as an attempt to reveal the blood lust and disregard for human life in the american military manning pleaded guilty to ten lesser charges out of twenty two he's facing for the biggest leak of state secrets in u.s. history now andrew blake is from the american newsroom and revealing to you you saw the young soldier in the courtroom the weight of the world on his shoulders describe. you know for that for the conditions that private manning is had to suffer during the last almost three years what he did yesterday is his statement his testimony his admission was something way more powerful than i think most people would have expected given what he's had to endure it's been over one thousand days it was detainment since he was first picked up in may two thousand and ten and charged with releasing all this material and since then he's had to undergo so much just completely agree just treatment nonetheless yesterday there he was is a small man only five foot two you know off one hundred some odd pounds sitting very

make it clear to intimidate people around the world who would do the kind of heroic things that bradley manning did to try and it's through them from doing that manning himself said he believed the move would only embarrass but not damage to the u.s. and eventually kick start a public debate the results the u.s. was shamed in front page headlines around the world a nervous superpower launched a witch hunt against whistleblowers and wiki leaks became a household name the cost for young private they spend between twenty years and a lifetime behind bars for an important i.r.t. new york. it has been a week since elections italy and its senate remain in limbo with parties across the political spectrum so far refusing any talk of coalitions and one party led by enigmatic comedian now finds itself in the role of king maker but go to lowe's anti austerity anti corruption rhetoric a rally to millions of italians securing him a quarter of the vote but he was still behind democrats and a coalition led by disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi the president is now calling on all sides to work to