now on bbc news it is time for her talk. there will be a lot of blood in the land and it will be a lot of refugees. we expected that it s going to be a pretty, well, long timely operation, and it absolutely goes as planned. this has become much bigger than ukraine versus russia. l we can succeed only and only if we stay united. let me tell you a secret. i had possession of all the chelsea manning information. any method that was made available, i would have taken. there was nothing that was going to stop me. | you give clinton a pass and you go after trump forjust mishandling classified information, you ll have a real problem in america. welcome to hardtalk s look back at another year of compelling interviews. i m stephen sackur. when historians review 2022, they will surely begin with a simple, grim observation. this year saw the first all out invasion of a european country since world war ii. as the year began, vladimir putin was preparing the biggest geopolitical gamble
eastern town of soledar near bakhmut. a spokesman said ukrainian forces were fighting what he described as the best prepared units of russian wagner mercenaries. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. signing up for military service is a big deal. soldiers put their lives on the line for their country no questions asked. but what if the soldier has questions, doubts, doesn t believe in the mission? should personal morality ever trump the military code? well, my guest today thought so. former us army intelligence analyst chelsea manning was responsible for one of the biggest leaks of classified information in history and spent seven years in prison as a result. is transparency a justification for spilling state secrets? chelsea manning, welcome to hardtalk. good evening. thanks for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you. if i may, i want to begin with the decision that really changed, transformed your life. that is the decision to sign
sunshine will compensate, six to 11 degrees the high but as we go into friday night, here is that wet weather and in areas where we are already seeing those flood warnings out, so across parts of south west england, wales, across the majority of england as that system drifts steadily east and behind it we will see a cost of shop showers continuing through the day. a wet start to saturday however you look at it and the rain eases away, plenty of showers, some wintry through the tops of higher ground in scotland, a breezy afternoon but milder in the south east, i2 scotland, a breezy afternoon but milder in the south east, 12 degrees but noticeably cooler into the far north of scotland. that is worth bearing in mind because once we have saturday out of the way, north westerly wind takes over, look at this, blue tones and yes, those white blobs, any showers could turn wintry so be careful what you wish for because next week will turn colder, some night time frosts around and yes,
bbc.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bbc.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
fundamental line in essence, to steal secrets and send them, notjust to anybody but to wikileaks, where you knew they would be exposed to the whole world? well, i mean, itried to reach out to the new york times and the washington post as well, so this was a. one of the things that i envisioned was a sort of a physical hand off to, like, a journalist and, like, a kind of a woodward and bernstein style hand off in parking garage or something along those lines, so that s why i came, that s why i went to the us during my leave and tried to contact more conventionaljournalists. right. in the end, you used the a computer in a book shop, i believe. yes. ..to dispatch this information and we should say vast, vast amounts of information. well, the so called iraq war logs and the afghan war diaries amounted to hundreds of thousands of separate pieces of information, right? right. but, i mean, like i worked with tens of millions of records every single day. so this is a.