the night before with actual cell phone national galactic stranded by t.v. . the u.s. army private turned whistleblower chelsea manning has been jailed after refusing to testify to a grand jury what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks co-founder. of this hour islamic state has abandoned their last stronghold in syria in the face of advancing military forces but a top u.s. general says the fight is far from over despite donald trump's claims to the contrary. and his figures show young britons of america for their speculation is the president that's putting them off. i can understand

why people buy cars and then make sense. it's probably not to. prefer to go somewhere get more. culturally. welcome so i think from moscow. thanks for joining us this hour. the u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody that's after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury and what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange that score straight to us correspondent he's got more on the story thanks for coming on just give us some more insight into the story what's the background to this. well chelsea manning who spent seven years behind bars for leaking u.s. military information she apparently is once again locked up now from what we

understand she was called to testify before a closed grand jury now it's being widely reported that the case it was involved with was involving julian assange and wiki leaks they wanted chelsea manning to testify against wiki leaks in this closed grand jury proceeding however it's not confirmed she has come forward and said that she does not know what the case is in regards to. now from what we understand prior to her arrest she did say she would be willing to be arrested for not testifying and that she did not believe in the grand jury process that the the method of centrally detaining people and forcing them to testify favors the government according to her analysis of this is some of what we heard from chelsea manning prior to her recent detention have a history of having to deal with secrecy and a lot of these secret proceedings that they they tend to favor the government they tend to allow things their nefarious goings on to happen so i am i am in general

opposition of that kind of of this kind of proceeding taking place i believe in the grand jury process i don't believe in the the secrecy of this i have no problem explaining what happened and i've done it before why we should go through this in a secret closed hearing with only the prosecutor no lawyer. now chelsea manning as viewers will recall was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for handing over information that was classified related to the u.s. military and its activities in iraq she handed it over to wiki leaks with the leaks published that information her sentence was then commuted by u.s. president barack obama after she had served seven years behind bars now it's important to know what exactly she revealed as she revealed some pretty horrendous stuff that was going on for example u.s.

helicopters that were were laughing as civilians were being shot down torture some other information so let's take a quick review of some of what chelsea manning handed over. to. now manning it's being reported will be over we're also seeing that she could now face charges of contempt of court which is a criminal offense for which she could also receive another sentence. i'm open and thanks for the update. and our nationwide power blackout in venezuela has stretched into a second day adding to the political turmoil in the country the opposition led by

the country's self-proclaimed interim leader who has a blamed venezuelan president nicolas maduro for the poor handling of finances in the country with the roebling washington for what he branded an electric war i mean while the u.s. continues to send an authorized aid in to the colombian venezuelan border town of recruiter one word or has promised to get the aid into the country and to disobey the government's ban on it but you're a fears there it contains weapons and it's a trojan horse to overthrow him two weeks ago an attempted delivery spot clashes between offices and wide or supporters that's despite nicolas maduro allowing aid from the red cross and the u.n. while also saying he's welcome to any from the e.u. crisis stricken venezuela has seen two million people fully amid shortages of food and medicine the u.n. human rights commissioner has said u.s. sanctions are exacerbating the suffering. truthfully that there you rating economic and social conditions this iteration has been excessive baited by sanctions and the

resulting current political economic social institutional crisis is our army there will be more sanctions and financially situations that are carrying out the orders of the immature regime to steal funds from venezuela and hide it all around the world. and we go live to wall to quote from the red cross thanks for joining us in the program so obviously very difficult situation for the venezuelan people regardless of the politics here just tell us about the situation the humanitarian situation on the ground from the perspective of the red cross. thank you very very much and we're here for you in russia and i i will lead to really start by saying that we are presently minutes where that to the minutes when the road crossed at least an astronaut and he goes about two hundred sixty two of the thousand six hundred volunteers and we are we have risen in all of this states because by how many were up there. and now eight holes for the working body well i'm trying to

serve more. with the resources that many commits and this situation in venezuela is of course big demand of this war and you have influence in security for it all relation and we are working on that in the last more than two years together with any event and it is he going to lead and with the communities he's going to be we are you know what your job environment and in the role got. and we understand it was there across has been increasing its presence increasing the work it's there on the ground just tell us more exactly what you've been doing in terms of providing that the medicine the food etc to people in need. we we have brought here the presidency. was just you know is spend it in the last weeks we were working with find million dollars on different and kind

of services first a hell of. a woods especially now we are finally on the bridge and to thirteen millions and now waiting for this order or word on or signs on the . outside and as well that order also of course trying to go in anywhere and with other actions that are up in. obviously the difficulties have been hitting headlines around the world the difficulties faced by people in what is why has it got more challenging your work as the time has gone on. in the world john and your mother by now or the lack of resources that we have found the need to have more engine i'll be in the new clothes and bars are all and it is like aspirin draws we are better human beings regardless any kind of.

in your league out. there you know we're all in. play in syria that people are suffering and we respond and increase our overall service economy by working with other actors and our. livelihoods nutrition and really save. lives on improving the security. and just finally what will be the next steps the red cross is planning to take in venezuela to provide that day that is needed to people. you there live it's our only not we are really focus on creating more by sleaze is finding our love wasn't it we did it first step by doing that thirty million dollars and all that idea we'll and we will focus on that first who go for it and on and see how we can believe in each other over that we will be worthy baited him we spawn more a water resistant going to be following that he says that are there understanding

the problem i think that lisa goes about evil inspirations in that it's well if we are going to be there and some board in the nationals who live in celebrity gossip or indeed it will be days for a much. longer time we are not withdrawing our presence in general about who we are is funding and growing our presence in venezuela and we are able to do more we have the space the resources and the. comprehension of the role of the locals. to quote from the red cross thanks so much for updates on the work you're going to say she's been doing across the country thanks for coming on the program. actually you. know i sill is the last stronghold in syria of falling that says hundreds of its fight many women and children have also fled the village some of them all the wives of the i still find as over they themselves still don't believe it spells the death of the kind of.

despite i don't trump repeated in the final victory over isolette americans to have a look at but who's right there near the border with iraq we didn't really hear about it in the course of syria's civil war misery now's the time it is really being called the last remaining eyelet of territory in syria about to be stormed by us backed kurdish troops we expect a fierce battle later at the end of the civilian evacuation given those that will remain in bank who's of the ones brimming with the ideology and the ones who is not an option. indeed we've seen crowds of escaping civilians and even jihad is who did choose to surrender the current say they want to make sure all innocent people make it out of the goos before the guns go off but the main still be trapped

in there either not able or not keen to escape just a short while ago though donald trump was bragging about his army and allies crushing islamic state completely we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over ever since then however we've kept hearing absolutely different takes from those who are actually responsible for what's happening on the ground the head of u.s. central command is sure i still hasn't surrendered he's confident it's not been defeated instead the terrorists after some tactical thinking have chosen to lay low and wait for the right time to make a comeback reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment but the fight against isis and violent

extremism is far from over we have won against isis now we've won and at least for now president trumps proud announcement that the american soldiers were pulling out makes less and less sense the pullout would have definitely scored mr trump some valuable political points but nothing seems to be certain here especially with this big goof thorn in the side. you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence you know where we're doing our work come back if we have to anyway whatever happens next depends on what ignites and this small but vital strip of land known as booze middle east studies professor joshua landis believes further general votel testified in congress recently and just today he said that. yes this is the end of the territorial state which is very important but it's not by any means the end devices there are a lot of sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know edge at some

future date trying to later clarify that this is the territorial state and that's why he's reversed his opinion on u.s. troops remaining in syria you know there's a there's a hundred ways to count troops and that may not include a lot of the regular soldiers perhaps national forces you see advisers diplomats and an aid organization so there's likely to be a lot more americans there there's going to still be a lot of isis trouble and we're seeing bomb attacks being carried out in iraq on a weekly basis and there have been isis attacks in northern syria as well so isis is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. dozens of ultra-orthodox jews have been arrested in jerusalem this comes as part of a crackdown against and to conscription demonstrations.

i am i i was i am security forces used horses and water cannon to break up the protest which brought profit for gridlock. according to israeli law ultra-orthodox jews are exempt from monitoring military service but they still need to receive a deferral like this from the army otherwise they risk being arrested for draft dodger. hungary's prime minister look swarms with european officials over immigration we'll have more on that story and others after the short break. thank you. someone they. thought they are quite there.

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welcome back to the program young britons of visiting the us in decreasing numbers but it's also donald trump forty boyko was intrigued to investigate further. that transatlantic road trip they used to be most students dream holiday things like route sixty six or recreating the journeys of the beatniks from old the road or feminist fugitives like louis s. but according to the u.k.'s biggest youth travel operator the kids of today no longer consider the us a cool destination backpacking trips and holidays over to america are down twenty three percent from the start of the year and the travel operators are blaming it on something called the trump slump they say that socially conscious millennial is an generation's ias a shining america because their perch off by none other than the president himself

are my people boycott and make sense would you there's a record holiday would it be kind of top of your list of where you want to go not the top from a line on him i don't know she's never really appealed to me and especially with all the poses going on and so it's not like there's a no you prefer to go some are a bit more. culturally appropriate. would you want to go to america or just donald trump but you're not personally so you're not bothered i'll go america which you. don't try to i don't like what he does but like i like to go but it's probably not to my list for major surgery money wise maybe i'd like to have me and. i think i think going for a holiday those very different going over there to live a life actually migration and everything and suddenly going to choose to live i think the best thing going on is quite intense and i think i want to but then again you know the whole thing is like parts and stuff so you know it's already great

very very fast and of hard even here to say. you know coming to the u.k. because of political situations that really should have an impact on people choosing a whole day this nation so it's still still travel. i don't know about in denver colorado or where we're from but i can tell you i don't like don't try very much if you aren't from the us would you go to the us on holiday probably not really why don't. i probably just want to stay here where where i know what's going on where there's no chaos whatsoever and it's still very very calm on advertising. like you know they. don't come to america. immigration crisis that rocked europe is all but over the claim of e.u. officials but it seems that everyone is singing the same she continues with pro immigration policies it's all of the reports. great news from the european

commission this week the migrant crisis is over over the past four years the e.u. has made significant progress with tangible results in addressing the challenge of migration europe is no longer experiencing the migration crisis we lived through in twenty fifteen strike sure problems remain it's a statement that's backed up by figures from the un refugee agency that show that one hundred twenty thousand people tried to cross the mediterranean last year and that is down almost ninety percent from the high in twenty fifteen but that doesn't mean that everything is sorted though crime statistics across europe show migrants are overrepresented in many countries the italian interior ministry say that while foreigners in the country represent only eight percent of the population they make up over thirty percent of suspects in criminal cases. job and my colleagues jobs are to ensure security and it can be provided without supporting the smugglers and

n.g.o.s or accomplices to these criminals but by supporting those who actually protect the borders here in berlin three quarters of those in pretrial detention came from outside of germany while in norway a journalistic investigation revealed it to out of three people convicted of a violent crime were migrants those that work closely with refugees and migrants say it's no surprise that they feature so prominently in crime figures the m. are vulnerable they have experienced more trauma some of them come from violent cultures and they take it with that among those against the e.u. commission statement on gary and prime minister viktor orban has been the most vocal that migration increases crime especially criminal acts against women and introduces the virus of terrorism in our midst but we cannot get stuck in our fears his government has launched an information campaign criticizing. what he sees as

brussels plan to encourage immigration that everyone has a curity in his mike. claims are dismissed as pure politics by the e.u. commission he says he's trying to create a baseless narrative of a shadowy constant received the commission has. about our opinion of the guardian government come thing that distort the truth and six and seek to paint a dark picture of a secret brought to drive more migration to europe allegedly so what the europeans think about claims the migrant crisis is over totally disagree i don't think it's over now that other people are succumbing chance to europe blows up and continue coming in we can't let. me you can pretend it's really over with what's on the any of the things do or the poverty of the country it's

a trap. it has been worse but but. it isn't fixed that's enough i don't think it's over and i don't think it will be over for a while which took a lot of people and only if you have work only if you are in training or education and i think they should be integrated into society better while european chiefs may be claiming the refugee crisis is no longer a problem at the border others plea believe because the problems already here peter all about. as their lines for this hour join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news update. my son is doing drugs my nephews were still in drugs my sister just were doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse. sort of going after the users in the prison

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a percent less growth for the eurozone from one point seven to one point one percent this year and a press conference e.c.b. .