Obama faces the music at $35,800 breakfast

US President Barack Obama faced a singing protest over the detention of Bradley Manning, a US soldier held for allegedly passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.

On the campaign trail in San Francisco, Obama was headlining a fundraising breakfast where tickets cost $35,800 when a woman rose to interrupt him, saying she and her friends had written him a song.

The woman, who stripped off her jacket to reveal a black t-shirt that said Free Bradley Manning, and others at a table for 10 then sang a song that noted they had just contributed to Obama’s 2012 re-election bid and went on to criticise his detention.