morrises journalists and the traumatized iraqi families pushed the pentagon to find out what had happened in must attack and then can live for years saying that there was no video they couldn't answer they didn't know what had happened so by exposing this bradley manning gave closure gave peace gave answers to these traumatized families that's been lied to repeatedly by the pentagon i think it's also interesting one other aspect around this is that he tried to get information to other mainstream media outlets begin with the washington post the new york times and the politico web site and he was dismissed and in fact in the washington post said that if this was if they were going to follow this information that would need to be vetted there's a senior level i.e. suppressed so what we're seeing is the old model did not respond to this amazingly brave push toward transparency to inform the american people what he's done in the name so he went to wiki leaks and i think that shows very clearly the role he plays it is a publisher of sensitive information and i publishing such sensitive informat

r t now the pentagon wants those fighting us wars from afar to be firmly in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of a distinguished warfare medal it will be handed out to a joystick wielding drone pilots who waste their battles without even setting foot in the combat zones earlier in the program ati's are going to go explain to me what it takes to get the award. so you're sitting here you have a joystick and you point click and they get an award essentially that's all it takes to get it to get a medal which is supposed to rank higher than the bronze medal which is given out to people who actually perform combat duty but according to the pentagon criteria i'm going to cite it here it will be recognizing a single act that directly affects the combat operation does not involve an act of valor and war incident word higher than the bronze medal so instead of having to go to the front line and risk the extreme bloody violence there you can just sit in your recliner with a joystick and maybe a couple for example and just wage war from about a thousand m

facilities and similar attacks against the u.s. would be seen as an act of war by the pentagon's own definition there's a certain game of words going on here when it's against the u.s. it's called a cyber attack when it's the u.s. doing it it's called installing software but there would be no cyber race without spice and the latest development here is that the chinese have reportedly hacked into the pentagon's most sophisticated weapons systems a leaked confidential report by the defense science board intended for pentagon leaders says two dozen system designs were compromised those systems are said to be critical to u.s. missile defense and aircraft you. officials point to trying them u.s. news outlets run articles with headlines like this one china is winning the cyber war because they hacked u.s. plans for real war china traditionally denies the accusations of cyber espionage but if the accusation is true if one still has to ask the u.s. what do you expect when they see your cyber or forces attacking another country's infrastructure or when they hear you say your pivot to asia pac

program and the pentagon announces a brand new medal for those at the remote joysticks the death machine. well the very welcome to you from all of us here at moscow. with your news from around the world. libya's security forces are on high alert fearing provocations and antigovernment protests because some libyans are demanding a second revolution and this comes on the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled colonel qadhafi let's get reaction now from. libya expert. good to see you today thanks for coming on so quickly two years on what is the current situation in libya like it's looking all rosy. today now the situation is very that because they're trying to to you know to push the people down to keep the people in the houses so there is no problem because i think they're afraid of a big big demonstrations like a date with not a worse you know. we're not a was so there are saying to the people if you come out we will be hard with you they are taking people to the prisons airplanes are full eyeing on the you know war airplanes are flying off the air into the pally people

the civilians as the pentagon looks to expand operations in the country's tribal. dramatically widening wealth gap in britain future welfare reforms described just speeded up thatcherism top stories this hour on. live from a studio central moscow this is with you twenty four hours a day is just past ten pm here in the russian capital hackers have the ability to hijack one in every eight mobile phones worldwide with a single hidden text message that alert has come from a leading german cyber security expert and he claims the trick gives criminals instant control over mobile devices and can even provide them with access to personal banking data and explains how. turns out that as many as seven hundred fifty million cell phones around the world could be carrying flawed sim cards that could potentially leave their owners vulnerable to financial fraud and surveillance now sim cards hold key user data and have up until now been generally known to be one of the most secure parts of a mobile phone however the recently discovered bugs could allow hackers to access personal information a

fund the pentagon's war machine when the price of gas continues to go up as it is hitting a record prices in california and other states the pentagon won't be able to afford to fill up their gas their tanks and their other vehicles of destruction so it's a double edged sword so that dollar is going to zero the goal is going much higher germany will ask for their gold and i'll be given a receipt for worthless dollars or a horsemeat burger from findus. there are reports that say a government plane has been shot down in the northern part of syria's capital damascus killing up to twenty people meanwhile activists say at least twenty move people were killed by an omni so in a rebel held area for. you an estimate the death toll in the two year conflict has now reached seventeen thousand on the diplomatic front russia says he's ready to host talks between syrian opposition and the government with indications that the stalemate could be ending. as more. earlier the leader of the three. an opposition for the first time has said that they're ready to negotiate with the government but only on

a whistleblower like daniel ellsberg who revealed the pentagon papers and he is someone who should be a hero because he really did an amazing i mean what i think we can never get our hands on the statement it's a public statement in court that should be a booklet that everybody growing up in my country ought to read because it shows the criminality of the country but it shows what an individual can do to expose it and the u.k. independence party has been in the governing conservatives in the third place in a key byelection liberal democrats held the seat but the vote highlights the ever growing support for those calling for britain to exit the e.u. auntie's has a story. i have. this tiny town in england south is helping to map out the shape of british politics as party scrambles to gauge the nation's political need eastley was swarmed with politicians in a byelection festoon with coasters placards balloons and even a few babies kiss well probably this is politics perhaps not best known for its high drama but here in eastley by election fever as the political candidates by for those

power there is the pentagon and the pentagon in supplying and congress are supplying egypt with one point three billion truly billion dollars emanuel a lot of money that's not readily seen and the most important thing for congress is to keep the gyptian is really peace agreement alive so that egypt never really arms to confront israel and for the pentagon the fact that really has great influence with the egyptian army wants to keep its fascinating how you bring in the regional complications also the global geo strategic complications as well a war correspondent eric margolis truly fascinating thank you very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. today my pleasure. well we're also helping you to keep track of the developments all bowl of this on our website all to you dot com we've got a live feed of the campbell raids and the pictures and reaction from the social media networks as well. live from moscow it's all at sea with me rule resewn israeli jets have carried out an air strike on the gaza strip just hours ahead of the much anticipated resumption of peace talks with the palesti

journalists and the traumatized iraqi families pushed the pentagon to find out what has happened in u.s. attack and then can live for years saying that there was no video they couldn't answer they didn't know what had happened so by exposing this bradley manning gave close p.c.'s answers to these twin with high stanleys that's been lied to repeatedly by the pentagon manning is accused of endangering national security as well as fellow soldiers wives even if his intentions were good as you claim they are his actions sorely can't go completely on punish. well i think he's admitted that by by pleading guilty. certain things he does take responsibility for what he did but in terms of the bigger picture in terms of his duty to his fellow americans he stated very clearly not only in his statement the court but also when he was first in communication with the government snitch atria lamo that his motive to do this was to expose information so that the american people knew what the gulf was doing as i said this is the purest form of whistleblowing and it's a great service to the people of the p

out that the pentagon has hired forty three companies with suspected ties to terrorist networks the data comes from the pentagon's own classified investigative reports and commerce department list of terror connected companies now the list of these forty three companies including a road construction firm presumably owned by a leader of the connie network the network was blamed for an attack on the u.s. embassy in kabul that killed sixteen people two years ago the u.s. army has carried out a classified investigation and said there was evidence of a direct role of both the company and its owners quote in the facilitation and operation of the hakani network and that approximately. from one to two million dollars per month close to the network to finance its activities the inspector general said i've seen the information quote and it made my hair stand on and he said well not just his united states government subsidizing. the taliban al qaeda network those groups that are trying to shoot and kill our soldiers from these specter general members of congress have heard about billions of do

department and the pentagon who will specifically work on the transfers of guantanamo detainees it is not really specify when the transfers will begin or how this will be done but he did say the administration is lifting the ban on transfers to yemen the yemenis are the largest single group of prisoners at guantanamo fifty six out of eighty six detainees who have been cleared for release are from yemen. asked congress to lift restrictions on bringing the detainees to the us to be tried by military commissions here in the states looks like after all these years of inaction indifference and then just this one time of detainees finally got a president obama's attention whether it was just really sad that it took a massive hunger strike and so much physical suffering for them to be heard remember we've heard president obama talk about closing the prison five years ago nothing happened moreover he signed a law that made indefinite detention legal he shut down the office of the state department that was working on the transfers and just two months ago a pentagon official was in congress asking

. mainstream media much less is being said about the pentagon's decision to double down on its cyber war workforce expanding from nine hundred to more than forty five hundred employees experts say the move is indicative of washington's evolving military strategy every commander with whom i have spoken is going to be is the next major war will include is cyber component which is the traditional insurgency bob baer the central ground troops the next floor all certainly will include cyber component and the edge of cyber war france could become foes by the click of a mouse and some say in a very short time relations between the u.s. and china over virtual espionage can resemble the long stalemate that took place at the soviet union during the cold war we're in a port i.r.t. new york. or it will cyber war or cyber hype a former pentagon official michael maloof is with me here to discuss certain do these attacks genuinely present a real and imminent danger as the media and government officials frankly portray. yes i do this is. part of an eight and a form of asymmetrical warfare it preclud

russian diplomatic team that is in syria at the moment pentagon veteran michael maloof is among the group of u.s. intelligence insiders who claim there are strong indicators educations that the rebels carried out the damascus sarin attack he says chemical weapons have been smuggled to al qaeda linked extremists in syria from neighboring turkey. i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with two to classified information it's one one page i mean expecting others it's classified secret no foreign it's from the n.g.i. sea or the national ground intelligence center the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators and clandestine interviews that the sourcing siren originated out of iraq into turkey before some of it was confiscated in may in turkey and that there has actually been a more significant amount of crn production both in iraq and in turkey going to the going to the opposition principally al-qaeda and we've had separate reports now that al qaeda elements are rather significant numbers. and have and now have permeated into the opposition so the ability t

journalists and traumatized iraqi families pushed the pentagon to find out what had happened in the last attack and attempt to live to see it saying that there was no video taken outside they didn't know what had happened so by exposing this bradley manning gave a close case he says are said to be traumatized families that's been lied to the city by pentagon i think it's also interesting one other aspect around this is that he tried to get information with other mainstream media outlets to begin with the washington post the new york times and the political left right and he was dismissed and in fact the promotion who posted that if this was if they were going to politicization it would need to be their criticism level i use the press so what we're seeing is the old model did not respond to this push toward transparency to inform the american people what is done in the name so he went weekly and i think that shows very clearly this is an amazing service he's done to people and i really hope that he doesn't pay too high a penalty for it. disturbing pictures there while human rights activis

chemical weapons but a former pentagon official says they do show doughty what he said was a classified u.s. intelligence document detailing how they kind of taint sarin gas michael. revealed where this compound was produced and you can see sign gasser allegedly manufactured in iraq and taken to turkey before going on to syria where the documents obtained by also statements on was confiscated from the. front radicals auntie's paul scott has more on these claims now. in may there were reports coming out from suggesting that a two kilogram cylinder of sarin gas was discovered in the homes of syrian opposition rebels connected with al-qaeda through the al nusra front now at the time russia called for an investigation into the reports but. actually denied that the reports were true and said that no such weapons had been found and laced michael maloof explains that that is indeed a possibility i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with. classified information and he basically told me that the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators and cland

in fact it seems to have been quite a big operation the cia the f.b.i. and the pentagon even had to reportedly create a special d confliction group in order to stop all the spies from spying on each other or effectively playing one massive washington network game of world of warcraft and perhaps most embarrassing really what we know from the leaked documents is that none of this buying has led to any successful counterterrorism operations which has led to some suggestions online that it could have been an elaborate florrie by board employees that you see h.q. in the n.s.a. to simply play computer games at work but certainly the n.s.a. have said that they can't comment on this said that they can't confirm or deny it but it raises questions once again about the online privacy of game is doesn't come at a good time either today is the day that facebook microsoft google and other large tech companies have written an open letter to the u.s. government asking them to dramatically change their surveillance operations so no matter how you spin it it just doesn't look good when you find out

five victims of u.s. . civilians as the pentagon looks to expand operations in the country's tribal zone . the lawyer representing edward snowden says the n.s.a. whistleblower wants to settle down in russia. one month since landing at the moscow airport where he's still waiting for his asylum papers. and the think tank of a dramatically wide gap in britain due to welfare reforms described. naturism. this is r.t. with the twenty four hour a day hackers have the ability to hijack one in every eight. with a single text message that alert has come from a leading german cyber security expert he claims the trick gives criminals instant control over mobile devices and can even provide them with access to personal banking data. explains how. turns out that as many as seven hundred fifty million cell phones around the world could be carrying flawed sim cards that could potentially leave their owners vulnerable to financial fraud and surveillance now sim cards hold key user data and have up until now been generally known to be one of the most secure parts of a mobile phone however the recentl

manning case take a listen you know for forgetting to leave the pentagon had to walk out of the rand corporation with the hospital documents. seventy two hours and. hours of documents on a lot of bradley manning underground and not loading the computer. you know presumably did something similar just wanting to you believe documents it was a bit of a person and there's a secrecy and a person who just these two sources are bound to collide it's interesting poll show that the majority of americans think of edward snowden as a whistle blower not a traitor whereas the majority of americans think bradley manning is a traitor to a certain extent the public support for this or that whistleblower depends on the subject of their revelations bradley manning revealed the u.s. governments were crimes abroad. perhaps not surprisingly many generates more sympathy abroad than at home but one can argue that americans are more sympathetic to snowden because his revelations are about their rights their civil liberties so they care more when it's iraqis rights they apparently care less and on the web si