Good morning and welcome to our live blog coverage of the anticipated sentencing of Bradley Manning, the American army private who gave hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to Wikileaks. The documents lifted a veil on the US conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and on global diplomacy operations – and secrets – of the US and allies.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/bradley-manning-sentencing-wikileaks-live