soldier bradley manning pleads guilty to leaking secret data to wiki leaks but the prosecution's ready to jail him for life for what they say was aiding the enemy. and it's bye bye benedict the pope becomes the first catholic leader to quit in six hundred years leaving behind a turd mired in child abuse and corruption scandals. live from our studios in moscow you're watching r t how many of them now way with the weekly this sunday we start with egypt has given the visiting u.s. secretary of state a fiery reception with a show of public anger against american support for the muslim brotherhood the opposition accuses the ruling islamists of stifling to mock recy and seize the u.s. role as unwelcome interference in their country's affairs as artie's bell true reports. there was a lot of anger from the people here in egypt we saw with protests outside the foreign ministry and people actually burning pictures of john kerry saying that he was supporting the muslim brotherhood and u.s. interests here in the egypt on a friend on a formal political level opposition leaders including hamdeen sab

private bradley manning pleads guilty to handing military data to wiki leaks to show the public the true cost of war but u.s. authorities will pursue the more serious charges of aiding the enemy possibly lending him behind bars for life. so the catholic world becomes a leader standing down for the first time in six hundred years leaving the church is reputation spiralling. taking a chainsaw to america's economy with eighty five billion dollars and potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs to be cut thanks to republican and democrat bickering . in broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with the week we are now america's top diplomat john kerry has faced a wall of criticism and public protest during his visit to egypt some of the country's opposition leaders accuse washington of interfering in the country's domestic politics to see whether the sentiment is being echoed on the streets i'm now joined by our cairo correspondent bill true now could you tell us a little bit more about john kerry's visit in the reaction there on the streets. history of peop

called ochs who he believes was julian a songe bradley manning says that no one associated with wiki leaks at any point pushed him to disclose information now bradley manning is admitting to all of this for the first time publicly more than a thousand days after he was arrested now he pled guilty to are unauthorized possession and willful communication of sensitive material including the state department cables and other material provided to wiki leaks but according to manning's attorney he pled not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge against him now. manning was arrested in two thousand and ten we should remind our viewers that he was held in solitary confinement for ten months that means twenty three hours a day he was in a six by eight foot windowless cell he was forced to sleep naked out of bed sheets and was put on suicide watch many experts believe that the way in which manning has been treated by u.s. authorities has forced him to go into a plea because otherwise many believe that he stared he would have spent the rest of his life in prison because that's what u

secret data to wiki leaks he justified his actions stating they were intended to shed light on the uglier side of washington's foreign policy and to spark a public debate manning fell short of admitting to tougher charges of aiding the enemy denying that his leaks could have harmed american interests when the point now now reports. 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 we few leaks saying 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 a thirty five page statement explaining what he did and why he did it now manning said that he leaked incident logs from the wars in iraq and afghanistan hoping that it would start a public debate he also said that he believed that the incidents involving the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks would not damage the u.s. but instead just embarrass the u.s. now the former intell

military data to wiki leaks to show the public the true cost of war u.s. authorities will pursue the more serious charges of aiding the enemy possibly landing him behind bars for life. for the first time in six hundred years with reputation spiraling and. taking a chainsaw to america's economy with eighty five billion dollars and potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs. thanks to republican democrat politicking. broadcasting live from our studios in. with the weekly recapping our week's top stories. now america's top diplomat john kerry was faced face excuse me a wall of criticism and public protest during his visit to egypt some of the country's opposition leaders accuse washington of interfering in the country's domestic politics that sentiment is being echoed by their supporters on the streets now reports on kerry's intentions in the region. 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 retry him the criticism is coming from liberal and

military data and turning it over to wiki leaks saying he had to show the public the true cost of war but u.s. authorities will pursue the more serious charges of aiding the enemy. leader lives with a hope standing down for the first time in six hundred years leaving the church's reputation spiralling amid. accusations. and the sequester kicks in taking a chainsaw to america's economy with eighty five billion dollars potentially hundreds of thousands of job cuts thanks to republican. from our studio in. recapping the week's top stories glad to have you with us america's top diplomat john kerry has faced a wall of criticism and public protests during his visit to egypt some of the country's opposition leaders accuse washington of interfering in the country's domestic politics that sentiment is being echoed by their supporters on the streets as parties correspondent bill true reports. and egypt's. foreign minister. carry. supporting the muslim brotherhood and u.s. interests in the egypt on a plane on a formal political level opposition leader is creating a hamdeen sabbahi i'm really so

private bradley manning please guilty to handing military data to wiki leaks saying he had to show the public the true cost of war but u.s. authorities will pursue the more serious charges of aiding the enemy possibly landing him behind bars for life. also the catholic world becomes leaderless with the pope standing down for the first time in six hundred years leaving the church is reputation spiraling amid child abuse and corruption accusations. and the sequester kicks in taking a chainsaw to america's economy with eighty five billion dollars and potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs to be caught thanks to republican and democrat politics. welcome to the weekly this sunday here in our new sonali with a look at the week's top stories plus the latest news from around the world good to have you with us we begin though with america's top diplomat john kerry he's faced a wall of criticism in public protest during his visit to egypt some of the country's opposition leaders accuse washington of interfering in the country's domestic politics that sentiment is being echoed by their support

soldier bradley manning pleads guilty to leaking secret data to wiki leaks but the prosecution is ready to jail him for life for what they say was aiding the enemy. and it was by benedict pope becomes the first catholic leader to put in six hundred years we've gone to church why child abuse and corruption scam. i am. i am. a low this is the weekly on r.t. around but the big stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen and first egypt has given the visiting u.s. secretary of state a fiery reception with a show of public anger against american support for the muslim brotherhood the opposition accuses the ruling is amiss of stifling democracy and sees the u.s. role as unwelcome interference in their country's affairs is artie's bell true. there was a lot of anger from the people here in egypt but we saw with protests outside the foreign ministry and people actually burning pictures of john kerry saying that he was supporting the muslim brotherhood and u.s. interests here in egypt on a full political level opposition leaders including hamdeen sabbahi mohamed el baradei failed to attend

a public debate he also said that he believed the incident involving the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks would not damage the u.s. but instead just embarrass the u.s. now the former intelligence analyst said he attempted to contact her additional u.s. media outlets first such as the washington post the new york times politico but he said he wasn't able to get through to them later on deciding to leak the classified information to wiki leaks now according to mcnamee he engaged in prolonged internet conversations with the we can leaks member called ox what he believes was julian a songe bradley manning says that no one associated with wiki leaks at any point pushed him to disclose information now bradley manning is admitting to all of this for the first time publicly more than a thousand days after he was arrested now he pled guilty to unauthorized possession and willful communication of sensitive material including the state department cables and other material provided to wiki leaks but according to manning's attorney he pled not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge a

days now bradley manning tells his story the army private pleads guilty to giving classified info to wiki leaks but denies helping the enemy a report from manning's day on the witness stand straight ahead. and as millions of americans are made out of work wall street is that is again living the good life in fact bonuses for wall street executives are up eight percent as the u.s. economy struggles r.t.l. looks inside the profits of the big banks and wall street coming up. and they are one of the largest banks in the u.s. but did bank of america hire security firms to monitor hackers an activist group associated with anonymous says they did will dive into the story in a few minutes. it's thursday february twenty eighth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching. live again today with significant new details in the case of bradley manning the young man accused of the biggest breach of classified documents in u.s. history pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty two charges against him he pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy and that is the most serious charge against him

history claiming he wanted the public to know the truth the military prosecution is pushing to put the wiki leaks source behind bars for life accusing him of aiding terrorists. and is by by benedict becomes the first catholic leader to quit in six hundred years leaving behind a church mired in child abuse and corruption scandals. the latest news and the week's top stories this is the weekly here on our c with me . and a very warm welcome to the program. hundreds have been injured and at least one policeman has been killed after fierce clashes erupted in the egyptian city of port demonstrators took to the streets after authorities chose to move prisoners jailed over their alleged role in last year's deadly riots that left over seventy dead and this comes while the u.s. secretary of state isn't kyrie president morsi for talks with president morsi. boettcher who has more. well we've having a quite dramatic reports from port sorry the coastal city this started so off to thirty nine defendants in this ports are you trying which the pilot this said what's going to happen in february of this this

private bradley manning pleads guilty to handing military data to wiki leaks saying the public the true cost of war still the u.s. authorities want to pursue the more serious charges of the enemy possibly landing him behind bars for life. also the catholic world becomes a leaderless with a pope standing down for the first time in six hundred years with the church's reputation spiraling child abuse and corruption accusations. and the sequester kicks in taking a chainsaw to america's economy with eighty five billion dollars and potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs to be god thanks to republican and democrat politicking. and live from our studios in moscow this is our teeth with a recap of the week's top stories i'm john thomas glad to have you with us america's top diplomat john kerry has faced a wall of criticism and public protests during his visit to egypt some of the country's opposition leaders accuse washington of interfering in the country's domestic politics that sentiment is being echoed by their supporters on the streets . now reports on kerry's intentions in the region. he

leaks manning said he engaged in a prolonged internet conversation with the wiki leaks member called cox 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 than the risks brought by whistleblowers and leaks like this one manning pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy the most serious charge which washington is determined to prove the u.s. government is reportedly planning to call a key witness to testify that osama bin laden actively sought to access material manning passed along to wiki leaks some reports suggest the unknown individual could reportedly be one of the navy seals involved in the about about raid that killed bin laden the fear here i think is that you would be sensationalizing the proceedings and it would it would make it nearly impossible for manning to have. a fair trial in a just because we now be talking about terrorism terrorism and terrorism will get away from the fact that he is charged with the offen

dozen different federal charges for disseminating information associated with the stratford intel wiki leaks release so what threat does brown really pose to the government to merit a potential sentence of over one hundred years in federal prison and should distributing damning information from the clutches of shady corporations be a crime at all to discuss this and more i'm joined now by christian stork of who what why dot org from our new york studio thanks so much for coming on christian thank you for having me so talk about the charges brought against brown why is he facing more than a life time in prison. well barbara was indicted three separate times as you mentioned in your lead up one of those times was for copying and pasting a chat room link or a link between chat rooms from an anonymous internet relay chat to a project pm relay chat project pm being barrett brown's initiative that he had interest in so he was first raided by the f.b.i. on march sixth two thousand and twelve in looking for information related to the hack of strat for a private intelligence firm with significa

still project is a crowd sourced distributed think tank it's essentially a wiki where readers can be editors and those started in two thousand and nine and it really gains its own purpose after they hack a cyber security firm known as h.p. gary in february of two thousand and eleven h.p. gary their h.p. gary federal c.e.o. aaron barr at the time he was. ordered in the financial times pieces outing the top three members of anonymous anonymous in retaliation hacked his servers obtained all sorts of e-mails seventy five thousand plus emails from his account and that was the project's pm research effort was going through those emails now in those emails were a number of extremely shady deals or excuse me potential deals that were pitches between these cyber security firms and the law firm and lobbying firm hunton and williams and hunt and williams was soliciting pitches in efforts to destroy wiki leaks in terms on behalf of one client their client being big bank of america they were worried that wiki leaks was sitting on a cache of documents from bank of america and also in another case

charges against him private bradley manning now admits 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 at 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 the very sophisticated now a fifth of why he had to do it as a duty to spread americans to expose what their government with doing in their name which with illegal uncouth home around the world so all credit to him he's a right the 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 weeks member called cox 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 go

heard in his own words bradley manning explains he gave classified documents to wiki leaks to provoke debate on u.s. foreign policy in a recording leaked despite a court back. in the spotlight once again oscar winning movie argo has outraged iran which is planning to sue over hollywood fear mongering. change in china is the new party chief prepares to take control all eyes are on whether the revamped leadership can keep the growth going to surpass america's economy in a few years. and a contentious referendum that saw the four can dial and choose to remain british brings to light the story of another island whose residents had no say when britain deprived them of their land. and i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow now a full already a recording of bradley manning telling a military court why he gave classified data to wiki leaks has itself been leaked despite a court ban manning is heard accusing the u.s. army of not valuing human life in iraq and comparing troops to children torturing and with a magnifying glass more on this now from artie's tom barton. he did

churchill project is a crowd sourced distributed think tank it's essentially a wiki where readers can be editors and those started in two thousand and nine and it really gains its own purpose after they hack a cyber security firm known as h.p. gary in february of two thousand and eleven h.p. gary their h.p. gary federal c.e.o. aaron barr at the time he was. ordered in the financial times pieces outing the top three members of anonymous anonymous in retaliation hacked his servers obtained all sorts of e-mails seventy five thousand plus emails from his account and that was the project's pm research effort was going through those emails now in those emails were a number of extremely shady deals or excuse me potential deals that were pitches between these cyber security firms and the law firm and lobbying firm hunton and williams and hunt and williams was soliciting pitches in efforts to destroy wiki leaks in terms on behalf of one client their client being big bank of america they were worried that wiki leaks was sitting on a cache of documents from bank of america and also in another ca

secret data to wiki leaks he justified his actions stating they were intended to shed light on the uglier side of washington's foreign policy and to spark public debate manning though fell short of admitting to tougher charges of aiding the enemy denying that his lease could have harmed american interest in important reports. 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 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

classified documents to wiki leaks we take a look at how his case could affect whistle blowing. china's new leader officially takes the reins of power with priorities to boost defense spending and make the country one of the world's military giant. eleven am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the catholic church has itself a new leader argentine cardinal jorge mario bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the americas and the first from outside europe in more than a thousand years his election greeted by tens of thousands cheering in st peter's square in the vatican. white smoke finally seen from the rafters as the cardinals voted for a fifth time during the second day of the conclave that will be marked as one of the fastest in years the group had to choose a new leader for more than a billion catholics after the previous pope benedict the sixteenth step down or he's peter all over has more on the new pontiff and what his leadership might bring for the church. seventy six year old told him out he. wasn't one of the main names that w

within you know organizational silos that now that dynamic is threatened by what occurred through wiki leaks you did come forward and speak out as you had mentioned against the treatment the pretrial treatment of bradley manning is that a statement that you stand by today absolutely and i'm sure the validation from the judge that in the trial kind of i mean it's thankfully it's a moot point at this case the aftermath of the controversy bradley manning was you was moved from quantico which was a facility that was ill philip inappropriate and ill suited for his case to move into the normal prison population in a different military brig that has not became an issue in pretrial but but hopefully the trial that's forthcoming will be about what he did not about what the government did to him i guess what i have to wait and see that's what what we have we have learned a lot of china lie a lot a lot it's on some of the foreign policy issues things that were happening overseas that we learned through these documents that were released i want to turn now to the situation now in syria because it

ivan manning that's what wiki leaks founder julian assange is trying to do before the army privates court martial more secrets revealed are keeping tight lipped we'll tell you asunder strategy next. and u.s. troops fighting wars overseas never leave a man behind so why were so many of their families being abandoned by the nation's biggest banks many of them facing a wrongful foreclosures. and could the keystone pipeline create thousands of jobs like many supporters have argued one largely publicized study says no way in fact the study concludes it will actually kill more jobs we'll have more on this straight ahead. it's tuesday march fifth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. we are going to start off today with some breaking news from venezuela we just got word that venezuelan president hugo chavez has died according to our spanish sister station he passed away for twenty five pm but it's well a time the fifty eight year old socialist leader has been battling an unspecified cancer since two thousand and eleven questions have been surrounding the state

prosecutors who intend to prove the wiki leaks whistleblower aided terrorists by leaking classified documents. and why britain's brightest are bailing out for better lives elsewhere we examine what's making them patched up and the damage it could cost to u.k. . live from our studios in moscow you're watching are two with me and he said now our top story this hour egypt's opposition has lashed out at washington for meddling in the country's affairs its leaders are refusing to meet secretary of state john kerry has arrived in cairo they accuse america of siding with the ruling muslim brotherhood despite egypt's sharp political divisions paul the slayer looks at what the u.s. chief difficulty mass intentions could be. 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 essentially stepping into