Manning plea statement: Americans had a right to know 'true cost of war'

After admitting guilt in 10 of the 22 counts, soldier reveals how she came to share classified documents to Wikileaks and speaks of the "bloodlust" U.S. helicopter crew

• Glenn Greenwald: Bradley Manning - the face of heroism

Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of the largest unauthorized disclosure of state secrets in American history, pleaded guilty to being the source of the leak, said a military court which passed the information to a site to denounce because he believed that the American people have the right to know the "real costs of the war."

In a preliminary hearing in a military base in Maryland, Manning, 25, who faces spending the rest of his life in military custody, read a statement on 35 pages realized that his passion for motivations for the transmission of classified documents and videos that were obtained while working as an intelligence analyst in the suburbs of Baghdad.

Sitting on the edge of the defense in a quiet courtyard, Manning said he was disgusted by the apparent "bloodlust" of the helicopter crew involved in the attack group in Baghdad, which resulted Reuters correspondents include children.

thought of Afghanistan and Iraq war logs published by WikiLeaks, first in collaboration with a consortium of international media organizations, including The Guardian, "one of the most important documents of our time reveal the true costs of war. "The decision to transmit classified information to a public website was motivated, he told the court, his depression about the state of the military conflict in which the United States was profound.

Manning said: "We were obsessed with the capture and killing of human targets in lists and ignoring the objectives and missions that I thought if the public, especially the American public could see what which could cause a debate on the army., and our foreign policy in general [which] could cause the company to reconsider the need to engage in the fight against terrorism regardless of the situation of people involved everyday . "

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In a move unusual for an accused in a criminal case serious, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 charges of mischief out of his own free will - not in the context of a plea agreement with prosecutors . He admitted that he had and voluntarily disclosed to an unauthorized person - probably Julian Assange -. All major elements of the revelation of WikiLeaks

covering called "Collateral Murder" video of an Apache attack helicopter in Iraq, some U.S. diplomatic cables as one of the first publications of WikiLeaks cable Reykjavik parts of Iraq and folders the war in Afghanistan, some of the cases of Guantanamo detainees., and two MOUs

The charges he pleaded guilty soldier carries a maximum penalty of two years each, making Manning an upper limit possible 20 years in military prison.

But why not avoid a long and complex process for the soldier, who must start June 3 Manning pleaded not guilty to 12 charges relating to offenses largest alleged by the U.S. government.

Specifically, he denied having been involved in "intelligence with the enemy" - the idea that he knowingly gave aid to Al-Qaeda and caused the secret intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that in doing so, and would be available to the enemy.

• reading his speech, Manning was accompanied by his civilian lawyer, David Coombs, on one side, and two military defense lawyers on the other. Using uniform, the soldier reading a document at high speed, sometimes stumbled over the words and laughing at other points of their own comments.
• He told how he had first become aware of WikiLeaks in 2009. He was particularly impressed by its launch in November this year of more than 500,000 text messages sent on the day of the attacks of 9/11 terrorists.
• He copied the war initially registered as a housekeeping measure for quick access to information. But the more I read in the data, he said, more concerned with what I discovered.

He decided to take a copy of the data in a memory device after returning from Iraq to the United States in January 2010 authorization. There, after losing all interest in the Washington Post and the New York Times in the cache information, turned to WikiLeaks.

his return to Iraq, he found a video that shows an Apache attack helicopter from 2007, in which a group of people in Baghdad was attacked United States. The group was subsequently convicted of included civilians, children and two Reuters correspondents who have died.

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Italy awaits opening of general election polls

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the government's weakness and rising populist former comedian add to the fear that the Italian campaign stops

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Italy were forced to stop the campaign on Saturday, the country was preparing for the general election that is being closely watched in the eurozone amid fears stagnation harmful.

as candidates observed mandatory 24 hours before opening investigations purdah, citizens were asked to vote. The polls are open on Sundays and Mondays. A study published in the period that preceded the vote suggests that the center-left Democratic Party, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, had a five-point lead on a conservative coalition led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Outgoing Prime Minister, Mario Monti, who heads a coalition of center, is also underway. But a lackluster campaign saw his chance melted in recent weeks.

political analysts have suggested that the most likely outcome - which could ensure stability - is a partnership between the government and Monti Bersani. But the campaign Monti decline feared that this win enough seats in the Senate to push the center-left block. From a weak government could raise concerns about the ability of the Italian market to implement measures to implement its ailing economy.

Whoever comes to power will face the tough task of bringing the longest recession in a generation of Italy faced. The election took place amid public protests deep austerity measures introduced to reduce the national debt. This uncertainty was the comedian Beppe campaign cricket become policy, a character whose anti-establishment movement Five Star is scheduled to interview greatly. The latest surveys of potential voters estimated at about 16%, which would make their move in the third electoral force.

idrew campaign in late Friday night, stole the show in Rome Grillo, attracting approximately 500,000 people listening to his diatribes against corrupt politicians and bankers. The success of "Tsunami Tour" old actor revealed the discontent felt by a majority of Italians against major political parties.

• "Grillo said all the things that ordinary Italians think, is that it gives us hope," said the 41-year-old Luca Pennisi, a pastry chef in a cafe Rome, where many customers still do not know who to vote for. "It is time to change the system, getting rid of old politicians and stop wasting public money," Pennisi said, adding that he had seen Grillo final rally Internet and certain to vote for their group.

others are less sure. A poll released Tuesday found that 28% of Italians had not yet decided who to vote or not to vote considering everything. Saturday, the interior ministry has urged some 47 million eligible voters, adding that he had made preparations for bad weather and even snow in some areas, to ensure that everyone will have the opportunity to express their vote.

"The election is a pivotal moment for democracy and we want all our citizens to live in the best possible way," said Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri in a video posted on the Ministry website.

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Endangered species: how can schools help save the hedgehog?

From building cardboard houses to make holes in the fences, there are many ways simple and fun to teach children how to protect nature thorny best friend

Miss Tiggy Winkle Beatrix Potter Sonic the Hedgehog has been a part of children's imaginations for hundreds of years. The news of the fall rush dramatic but adorable creature in Britain, therefore, be a shock to many. However, schools have the power to help save the humble hedgehog disappear from our countryside and cities forever.

public confidence in Endangered Species (ETP) states hedgehog numbers have fallen by more than a third between 2003 and 2012, leaving only one million left the UK. Habitat loss, poor management of hedgerows and the construction of new roads, housing and other developments tend to blame.

In response, the organization has launched a campaign to get the kid community support. Now, dozens of schools have signed up to become "champions hedgehog, not only contributes to a beloved creature to the brink, but also to educate students about endangered species living at your doorstep.

When the teacher Dawn Clements of San Miguel Church of England Primary School in the quiet village of Steventon, Oxfordshire, has opted for the fate of the hedgehog as a subject in its class six years, not had any idea of ??the impact would be positive for both the children and the community in general.

"When PTES taught a meeting on endangered species, do not even think the hedgehog," he said. "Of course, the children were thinking about exotic animals such as tiger or a panda. So I was surprised to think that they had in common. This makes it more interesting for them.

"The children were very excited and my particular class eager to participate. Then find out everything I could about hedgehogs. Would leave like that.

"But at that time I was teaching persuasive writing and thought, here we have a perfect example of what we need to convince. - The rest of the school and the school community they took all the devices had been learning to write a speech to encourage people to help hedgehogs and show you how. mental maps begin with what they know about hedgehogs, after knowledge of boxing in appropriate sections so that they can make their point and supported by evidence. "

After registering on the site Hedgehog Street, students have taken concrete steps to help animals. While some hedgehog houses designed cardboard and wood, others have encouraged their relatives and neighbors also begin to ensure that their gardens were well hedgehog.

Clements added: "One of the guys is on the same street that I live in the village, we look at our gardens and I realized that we had hedges between our gardens and paid a reflection on if the hedgehog could begin. encourage our entire line of houses to make a small hole in the bottom. And that's what they did back home in their neighborhoods and try to do the same.

"The school is a great way to get everyone involved."

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newsletters and posters to off-site activities Hedgehog street is full of great resources for teachers to download.

The site hedgehog and teaches basic ecology. Children often know they are stories, but perhaps never seen. It helps to understand a bit more about them and relate to animals other than might know and their local environment.

• PTES According to official disclosure, Emily Jones, practical ways that teachers can get children include the creation of suitable sites for resting and nesting. Whether to build a pile of wood, leaves, or make a wildlife area which are not cut by the ground staff or school gardeners. Hedgehogs should also be able to enter and leave the school grounds and in the neighboring gardens. One way to help is to make small holes in the fence or under doors. Schools can also work with the local community, encouraging people to do the same in their gardens.
However, being a champion hedgehog comes with certain responsibilities and there are some things that you should encourage your students to avoid.

Milk is bad for them. Hedgehogs are lactose intolerant. This can become very sick and can even kill young urchins. Pan can also be very evil and has no real nutritional value. So do not. Just give them meat cat or dog food and water.

Then there are several dangers in the garden environment that can come from a culture. The first is the use of chemicals and slugs, of course. It can poison them. They can also often fall into the pond and drown, so if your school has a wildlife area with a pond, make sure that the edges or shallow ramps so they can enter and exit the water.

If your school is surrounded by green fields and hedges, do not despair. Hedgehogs are also found in cities.
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Gay asylum seekers feeling increased pressure to prove sexuality, say experts

assessment of changes to the Canada Border UK has led immigrants fleeing persecution to show even films themselves having sex

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never go to extremes to satisfy the demands of immigration officials to prove their sexual identity for fear of being returned to a country where they face persecution.

At a conference this week to deliver the bar, S Chelvan, a lawyer specializing in asylum and collaborates with the UK Border Agency (UKBA), indicating the extraordinary methods to use private - including themselves having sex shoot - to justify asylum

UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG), supporting up to 1000 requests per year, according to official guidelines are modified considerably improved, but that lead to an escalation of the sex of individual applicants.

changes introduced by UKBA after a judgment of the Supreme Court in 2010 changed history, the focus of formal assessments to determine if the applicants are in fact lesbian or gay, according to experts at the immigration.

Prior to 2010, asylum seekers because they were in danger if he returned to the States where homosexuality is illegal - such as Iran, Uganda and Cameroon - permission denied mainly on the basis that they could be totally discreet.

negatives are now more often on the basis that the plaintiffs are not, or can not prove they are gays, lesbians and transgender Chelvan said, explaining that the new approach has strange consequences and inhuman.

"I know at least two cases in the past six weeks during which they were asylum seekers themselves to prove they are shooting gays. Now is to show if you are gay or lesbian. "

A Ugandan woman who has finally received temporary residence permit in the UK, but wishes to remain anonymous, told the Guardian: "The UKBA officials wanted to prove that I was a lesbian, but would not tell me how I can. "

The woman, who has spent months in detention awaiting deportation Yarlswood said copies of a Ugandan newspaper that called for the assassination, she must return to the capital, Kampala, been taken into account by a first immigration court in the United Kingdom.

• Erin Power, UKLGIG CEO, said. "Many others have their claims processed by a fast time held by the UKBA We have argued that whatever you do make proper sexual identity.
• "When [customers] tell us that they have photos or videos ... they say it is not the way to establish their sexuality. "

Approximately 75% of asylum seekers who claim they are gays and will be in danger if returned to the United Kingdom does not meet their demands, said Power. The failure rate has decreased since the new guidelines were introduced. From time to time, he acknowledged, had met said she had not considered credible.

Jonathan Cooper, a human rights lawyer who is the executive director of the Human Dignity Foundation, which is campaigning to decriminalize homosexuality in 80 countries, said the asylum procedure was often "incredibly demoralizing" and has resulted in many people being sent abroad, where they were attacked.

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Bolshoi ballet artistic director forgives acid attacker

Sergei Filin

says that God will judge those responsible for the attack that left doctors struggling to save the sight

The artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet of Russia said the attacker acid thrown on her face was probably motivated by ambition and resentment, but forgiven.

Sergei Filin

, shaved head and a bandage around his neck during a Russian television from his hospital room, he was determined to return to work despite his injuries.

Filin, 42, suffered severe burns in the attack on his house in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on January 18. The doctors performed two operations on each eye and the hope of saving his sight.

"I will not lie. Course, it is very difficult for me and very difficult, "said Filin grainy images on a video link with the NTV television Sunday night.

"I tell myself every morning when I wake up:" Sergio is healthy, everything is in place - arms, legs ".... And I will do everything to become the same than it was before Sergei. "

Filin

not wearing thick bands had wrapped his head and face in cellular images taken one day after the attack, but his eyes were half closed and we did not know if he could see.

• Filin work gave him the power to make or break a career in ballet, which is an enduring symbol of Russian culture. He said that after the attack he had received threats.

"A priest came to me, and I told him. 'You know, I forgive you all, and God will be his judge because people are weak." "I forgive all those who are involved in this field. "

said he did not know who was behind the attack, but said he believed related to his work.

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Sophiya Haque

dynamic player who succeeded in Bollywood films, musicals in the West End and Coronation Street

Sophiya Haque performance in Peter Nichols Privates on Parade, which opened last month at Noel Coward Theatre, marked a turning point in the career of British actor West End Asian beautiful, launched for 10 years with the introduction of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams. As the brilliant Welsh Eurasia Sylvia Morgan, Haque took place between the knobbly knees soldiers, led by Simon Russell Beale Captain Terri Dennis outrageous. However, illness forced her to withdraw from the production before the end of the year who died of cancer at the age of 41.

Born in Portsmouth, Haque was the youngest of three daughters. She was raised by her mother, Thelma, a professor divorced. Priory Comprehensive School attended and took dance lessons at the age of two years at the school of Mary Forrester arc dance before going to the age of 13 in London (where he lived with his father, Amirul Haque a restaurateur, and his second wife), full-time training at the School of Arts education. At night, she wrote and recorded songs with the band as a vocalist Akasa which led to a contract with WEA Records in the United Kingdom in 1988.

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Akasa One Night In My Life, directed by the great cinematographer Jack Cardiff, has attracted the attention of MTV Asia and Haque was hired as a presenter at Star TV in Hong Kong 1992, reaching to be known as the first lady of television music shows broadcast daily in 53 countries.

since 1994, began to appear on television in India and in 1997 he moved to Mumbai to work full time on Channel V India service. His first Bollywood film was Khoobsurat (1999), starring Sanjay Dutt Indian, and later made several others, including The Rising (2005), with Aamir Khan as a hero of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

She was a big star when he returned to the UK in 2002 to appear in Bombay Dreams - first in a small part, understudying the lead role, Rani, knowing she would s' care for six months. The program uses music by AR Rahman, with a book by Meera Syal and Don Black's words. Everyone had their favorite scenes: the sequence exciting higher education, dancing around the main sources of growth wet saris or the overwhelming number Shakalaka baby

Bombay dreams suggests a new direction for British Asian music dynamic, but this initiative was a setback in the vehicle Haque featuring next. In an adaptation of the British Raj bestselling novel The Far Pavilions MM Kaye at Shaftesbury in 2005, played a wicked stepmother who seduces a maharaja with his dance routine.

• Haque chained in Coronation Street in 2008, appearing for six months as Poppy Morales, a waitress at the Rovers Return, which was responsible for cooking one of the most popular characters in the series, veteran Betty Williams (Betty Driver). She also had a small role in the movie Wanted (2008), starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy.
• His musical career has been the scene back on track in Britain Got Bhanghra (2010) by Pravesh Kumar and Sumeet Chopra at Theatre Royal Stratford East, which traced the fate of a Indian immigrant and grew kind of Punjabi music in Britain over the last 30 years. She played a ruthless businessman bhangra realize that means a lot of money that Michael Billington described as a "blood transfusion" for British music.

Later that year, she appeared in Gandhi and coconut by Bettina Gracias, one of the last productions of the ancient theater Arcola in Dalston, east London. She played a housewife depressed and lonely, fleeing to India from your imagination when Mahatma Gandhi and the Hindu gods Shiva and Kali pop up unexpectedly for tea.

In 2012, he returned to the forefront of Wah! Wah! Girls by Tanika Gupta (book and lyrics) and Niraj Chag (music), a show lush, colorful dance, produced by the Theatre Royal Stratford East, with Sadler Wells, directed by Emma Rice, Kneehigh Theatre at the Peacock in the world stage London festival. Recorded music and feminist evolution of social dynamics in India as refracted through End of London is the argument. Haque was nothing sensational as Soraya, owner of a dance club whose own is an act of intense sensuality and erotic challenge incredibly proud. The choreography was left on Bombay Dreams, the development of a new language stage show routines and kathak disco.

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