ochs who he believes was julian assange bradley manning says that no one associated with wiki leaksat 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. breasted 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 against him now. once 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 without 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's scared he would have spent the rest of his life in prison because that's what u.s. prosecutors are

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

still remains to be seen but this is a huge development in the case involving bradley manning and wiki leaks and it will be developing for days weeks and months to come reporting from new york marina r.t. . well iraq discussed manning's leaks with the president of the new york center for constitutional rights michael ratner has been pressing. he explained why the whistleblowers decision to make what he had seen public so significant. bradley manning you know the mess of the media or trade is you know this disturbed mixed up week person as it 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 not to wait a minute to prison thing is waiting for life now given the nature of what was explained do you think his potential punishment would be disproportionate you know person a guy is a hero look at he exposed whether it was an

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 led by an enigmatic comedian and now finds itself in the role of king maker the good reloads anti austerity anti corruption rhetoric well even millions of a talent securing him one quarter of the vote but he was still behind the democrats and a coalition led by disgraced former prime minister silvio berlusconi the presiden

charges against 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 tropes of u.s. secrets to the weekly leaks website because quote americans have a right to know the true cost of war and he has the purest form with he had the a very sophisticated now a fifth of why he had to do it as a duty. to expose what their government was doing in the name which within the home and around the world so all credit to him he's. 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 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 and the

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

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 today

secret data to wiki leaks he justified his actions say 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 leaks could have harmed american interest marina portnoy 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 clearly 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 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 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 intelligence ana

and he has already admitted to handing over classified army data to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks are these marina watched the latest developments. guilty but not sorry more than one thousand days after his arrest u.s. army private bradley manning admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history private first class bradley manning has pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty two charges against 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 tropes of u.s. secrets to the wiki leaks website because quote americans have a right to know the true cost of war and he has the purest form with he had the very sophisticated now a fifth of why he had to do it as a duty. to expose what the government was doing in the name which was in the home around the world so all credit to him he's. the former intelligence analyst said he attempted to contact traditional media outlets like the washington post the new york times a

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 then 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 offense of re

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 use very strong words in the manning when describing the material he gave to wiki leaks what exactly did he say hi there on the he did he used emotive language is especially as he worked through this over an hour of all the of his 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. gauge a group of what turned out to be civilians on the ground killing twelve of them including two reuters journalists a van then 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 it was not me that's me is

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 gunning down boisterous journalists in baghdad and

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 trying to attack critics of the chamber of commerce the chamber is also a client of hunts and williams so those are were potentially illegal and they were certainly nefarious deeds being a thought out least in their initial conspiracy stage among the cyber security firms and a cut out for what were their clients were being bank of america and the chamber of commerce all definitely he's just the latest in a long line of people being attacked obama said he doesn't want to look backward to prosecute bush criminals but he's certainly looking backward to dredge up arcane piece of legislation to prosecute whistleblowers thank you so much for coming on would definitely be to pay attention this case christians storch who what why work . this month marks the seventy first anniversary of a very dark chapter in american history page in our history books that is too often glossed over i'm talking about the forced in

terms on behalf of one client their client being baking 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 trying to attack critics of the chamber of commerce the chamber is also a client and williams so those are were potentially illegal and they were certainly nefarious deeds being a thought out least in their initial conspiracy stage among the cyber security firms and a cut out for what were their clients were being bank of america and the chamber of commerce all definitely he's just the latest in a long line of people being attacked obama said he doesn't want to look backward to prosecute bush criminals but he's certainly looking backward to dredge up arcane piece of legislation to prosecute whistleblowers thank you so much for coming i would definitely be paid attention this case christians storch who what why not work. this month marks the seventy first anniversary of a very dark chapter in american history page in our history books that is too often glossed over i'm talking about the forced internment

what the pentagon was doing the pentagon knew what our diplomats were doing in the aftermath of wiki leaks information has been pulled back to some extent it's not as broadly available within government as had been and that's contrary to the psychology that we developed after nine eleven if you remember. there was a failure to connect the dots prior to nine eleven there was a push to share information rather than hold it 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 pretria

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

full audio 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 us army of not valuing human life in iraq and comparing troops to children torturing and with a magnifying glass for more on this now from marty's tom barton. manning of course he's very strong words when he's describing this material what exactly did he say he did indeed and he was he was very descriptive about his own feelings when he saw some of this material the full audio recordings over an hour long we've taken a couple of edited excerpts from one of those relate to this video which was from two thousand and seven taken from the cockpit of an apache attack helicopter over iraq the pilots very impatient on their audience recording they eagerly engaged twelve people on the ground to not to be civilians that were killed by the gunfire two of them were reuters journalists as well as ben pulls up to try and help those killed in the first shooting and the fire on the van as well let's just have a listen to what m

upload those in two thousand and ten so some some time after that and then that was then released by wiki leaks so in two thousand and ten that is when he was arrested in iraq well manning is accused of endangering u.s. forces by his leaks so how did he explain his actions. well you know there are two sides to this so many both in the military and in the public at large in the u.s. consider him a traitor they're very angry by what he did as far as he goes he justifies what he did saying that. he really came to question how it all fitted together he suffered an emotional burden from all the things that he saw and he tried to form a whistleblowing channels within the army to try and complain those didn't work and so he decided to leak this information and actually telling us they were all very well going to be different so jesus. was. decided in the. service. so that was again him justifying his actions he currently faces twenty two charges he's pleaded guilty to ten not guilty to others including some more the more serious charges including aiding the enemy if he's convicted bradley manning coul

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