i. the u.s. army private. refusing to testify to a grand jury believed to be the case against. the u.s. continues the pressure on the president nicolas maduro to topple him from power even suggesting the possibility of sanctioning other countries for recognizing the opposition leader as president. and his figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays speculation it's the president putting. my people and their necks terms.

thanks for joining us in the program. a u.s. army private. manning has been taken into custody after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange u.s. correspondent has more. u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is once again locked up we understand that chelsea manning was called to testify before the grand jury it was a closed proceeding it's been widely reported that it was related to wiki leaks

however chelsea manning says she did not know what it was in regards to chelsea manning has refused to testify and has been sent to jail now manning's lawyers have actually requested that she be put on a home consignment essentially in house arrest rather than being taken to jail because of her medical needs now ever the judge apparently came forward and said that actually u.s. marshals could indeed handle her medical needs and that she would be locked up so at this point we understand that chelsea manning has been taken into custody for refusing to testify and now manning was aware that this was a possibility and actually spoke up prior to today's events saying that she was willing to go to jail in order to not be forced to testify and she feels that the grand jury process actually favors the government 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 but believe in the grand jury process i don't believe in the sick 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 viewers will recall that back in two thousand and ten chelsea manning was convicted of handing over u.s. army material to wiki leaks she made public a number of u.s. army classified material documents that then were published by the anti-secrecy website known as wiki leaks after her sentence she spent seven years locked up before ultimately having her sentence commuted by barack obama in twenty seven same . it's important to know what exactly chelsea manning has handed over to wiki leaks the material she handed over related to atrocities being committed by u.s. soldiers including laughing as they gunned down civilians from a helicopter as well as torture and other details we're going to quickly review

some of what chelsea manning brought into the public light but i will warn viewers some of this material can be rather disturbing. it's being reported at this point the chelsea manning could remain in custody until the grand jury finishes its proceedings or until she willingly testifies now at this point we also understand that chelsea manning is facing a charge of contempt of court and that is a new criminal charge for which she could receive an additional sentence if convicted. evans east joins us live she was the activist on the chelsea manning support committee when she was being held for leaking government documents thanks

for joining us the program that i pleasure to have you on many reports are indicating these hearings in connection with the we can leaks revelations specifically but of course shows what he served his sentence he's been pardoned released cetera what do you think this could all be about. well i think that they is an attempt by the u.s. government to prosecute julian assange and undermine freedom of the press in the united states julius songes a publisher and editor who published documents that were all truthful chelsea manning was a source for those documents or something and they published many more documents beyond jealousy manning's but chelsea manning was a source of some very important documents about the iraq war the afghanistan war guantanamo day prison and state department cables this really showed a big light on u.s. activity war crimes and war atrocities and how the state department works for transnational corporations or rather than for the people so she was prosecutor that

she was convicted for that thirty five years in jail was her sentence and thankfully after a lot of public pressure president obama commuted that sounds and i mean obviously chelsea as we had that has no problem with speaking about the case or issues specifically with the you know perceived lack of democracy in that secret grand jury no press the lawyers etc why do you think this is being kept so closely on the reps. this is how grand juries operate i process i practice law and that that this trick the fourth circuit of the of the of the united states and that's how grand juries operate throughout the united states there are secret tribunals. you know chelsea is not a law to have a lawyer in the room with her if she wants to talk to a lawyer she has to go out of the room to talk to or a lawyer if the product out what's said and that's exactly what chelsea manning opposes she's a transparency activist she believes the government should be more transparent and these secret types of legal proceedings favor the government allow for government

abuse and that's what she was afraid of that the government would abuse its power and prosecute someone who's just a publisher an editor who shouldn't be prosecuted you know want any part of that so she's standing on her principles i know for chelsea this is traumatic i've talked to her since she's been out of jail after after her sentence was commuted and dealing with this issue is a traumatic it's almost like a post-traumatic stress disorder situation for bush does she is very brave to stand up on her principle and say no she does not want to participate in the secret process she believes in transparency and she'll be we don't know how long because grand juries can last up to eighteen months we don't know when this grand jury began but she can be held in contempt of court throughout that time period to that grand jury's ended so it's a problem for of course that's bringing us to my next question which i understand she's going to be held in custody until the proceedings to finish or until she

chooses to testify do you think oleg do you know if there's any pressure from authorities for her to be doing that at all to secure every nice. well i'm sure they're pressuring her and but i don't think she's going to break into that presser she is a very strong willed person she really believes in her principles and will stand on them so i don't think she's going to give in to that pressure the question is how all of this grand jury less grand juries typically last up to eighteen months they can be renewed though and they she can be held in contempt of court in that. in prison until the grand jury is finished so she could be in for quite a while and i'm sure that's a big traumatic experience for her but she is doing what she believes is right and i applaud her for that if this case is related to wiki leaks i'll be looking at the only thing from these you're going to silence on this case. well julian assad has pretty much kept in silence now in the ecuador embassy he's not able to communicate with the outside world the ecuadorian governments received massive loans from the

i.m.f. and other western banking sources and seem to be kowtow ing to the united states when it comes to julian isn't so he'll be silent on this and he may not even know what's going on because of the lack of communication that is resisting now between julian and the out outside world this is about genius ah it's pretty clear that that's what manning was their best testify about this in open court during her criminal proceeding but in the military tribunals so this is stuff the government already knows it seems absurd that she's being put in jail for something he's testified out they have the tranches those says the money they need this testimony so it seems like a very vindictive attempt by the government to pressure manning into doing something she opposes all right kevin zeese activist of the shells the mining support committee thanks for you all for coming on the program today. thank you.

the u.s. envoy to venezuela said it remains a possibility other countries could be sanctioned for not recognizing the washington backed opposition leader as the venezuelan interim president elliott abrams reiterated the u.s. stance about tightening the screws against the incumbent nicolas maduro we're losing sanctions and diplomatic action and to pressure the madeira regime hopeful that other countries will use these and other tools at their disposal to increase the pressure on those inner circle and family members of a battle over the venezuelan president see which has dragged on for more than a month now appears stuck in a stalemate president nicolas maduro is still in power it seems washington has no backup plan on how to get him out of explains the u.s. is back to square one on venezuela and an ambiguous confession by vice president pence how much language do you have

a timeline but there is no timeline now rewind of just a little over a month ago and here's mike pence the same mike pence announcing venezuela was on washington's laundry list in spanish a lot. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one god or the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or and call for the establishment of a transitional government that was the moment washington put itself into regime change gear since then the us heavily invested itself in the crisis so how did it come to this a thinly veiled admission of failure after all it looked so bright at the start in me a week's washington projected a no name mob cheerleader into the international frame one why dole became the

poster boy of the social upheaval has his presidential ambition was quickly backed by america's allies colombia recognizes one as president of venezuela brazil has just issued a note recognizing one we're going to go as venezuela's president. one in your way though. since then though america's plans started to go into a frantic nosedive my duro wasn't going anywhere hadn't still has the army on his side and his supporters showed the opposition didn't own the streets of caracas then a big ruckus with aid the us tried getting into venezuela and which material didn't allow concerned washington was using its old trick to smuggle guns to arm the mob which clearly showed just who's still boss in venezuela the scandal and the brawling on the border he eventually did absolutely nothing to move america's

regime change train forward everything the u.s. brings to the border piles up there why do is a post a president with no real power in the country he himself is shuttling to and from venezuela with. little effect washington seems to have resisted the temptation to go for the favorite tactic of sending a few thousand soldiers to a school or to the undesirable leader out of office at least for now and when confronted with the what's next question resorts to the same boilerplate platitude over and over again all options are on the job all options or on the table all options are on the all options are on the table which all things considered sounds more like no options are on the table and actually things didn't go much further than all are in the first place. a nationwide power blackout in venezuela stretched into a second day now adding to the political turmoil in the country one word or has blamed

venezuelan president nicolas maduro for the poor hired labor phyliss in the country were blamed washington for what he branded an electric war i mean while the united states continues to send out authorized aid to the colombian venezuelan border town of. one word or has promised to get the aid into the country to dissipate the government's ban on it but there are fears that aid contains weapons and is a trojan horse to overthrow him. a few weeks ago an attempt to delivery sparked clashes between officers and white or supporters at the spike nicolas maduro allowing aid from the red cross as well as the un while also saying he's welcome to any from the e.u. crisis trip in venezuela seem to million people flee i mean shortages of food and medicine the u.n. human rights high commissioner has said the u.s. sanctions are exacerbating the suffering. truthfully that there you rating economic and social conditions this situation has been excessive baited by sanctions and the

resulting current political economic social institutional crisis is an army. from the red cross shared his insight into the humanitarian situation. we were working with five billion dollars on you for the kind of services first aid. and. especially now we are finding for you british and to thirteen helio's i know where you order what is going on or sometimes on the. outside as well. and also of course. with other action that i don't. really focus on. the piece is find the. first step by doing that. and we will focus on that source.

and see how we got. in each other over what we were to believe him we. were just going to leave it. there and understand it really might be that this was about even inspirations and it is with. the i saw last stronghold in syria appears on the verge of falling that says hundreds of its fighters in the village of beit goose near the iraqi border surrendered this week to get us back forces many women and children have also fled the village some of them other wives of myself i says however they themselves still don't believe it spells the death of the kind of. despite don't front recently repeated declaring a final victory over isolette america's top general says the fight is still far from over in a patrol brings us this report. 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 u.s. backed kurdish troops we expect a fierce battle later at the end of the civilian evacuation given the will remain in bag who's of the ones brimming with the few jihadi 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 a good study says 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 goose thorn in the side you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgent you know they're running out we'll come back if we have to anyway whatever happens next depends on what ignites in this small but vital strip of land known as booze middle east studies professor just what landis believes further setbacks lie ahead in the battle to defeat islamic state. well as general votel testified in congress recently and he said that. yes this is the end of the territorial state which is very important but it is not by any means the end devices there are a lot of fighters that have gone to ground and that have formed we believe a farm's sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know and 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 one hundred ways to count troops and that may not include a lot of the regular soldiers perhaps special forces 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. young britons of defense in the u.s. in decreasing numbers but is it all down to donald trump what he boyko was secretly intrigued through 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 only the road or feminist fugitives like bella and 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 would you shun would you shun a trip to the u.s. because of trouble yeah i can understand why people think so would you go on holiday would it be kind of top of your list of where you want to go not the top of 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 all too personally so you're not bothered i'll go america which you do you go to trip you have the opportunity to go to america you still go you know like i wouldn't care but don't try to i don't like what he does but like i like to go but it's probably not to my lists for me just so we moneywise maybe i'd like to try but i think i think going for a holiday those very different going over that's live all i see is migration and everything and so i really got to choose to live i think that everything 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 i mean really that bastion of even here to say. you know coming to the. because of political situations that

really should have an impact on people choosing a whole day this nation so still still travel. america's great i don't know about in denver colorado where we're from but i can tell you i don't like don't try very much if you aren't from the u.s. would you go to the us on holiday probably not really well i know. i'd 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 if. you don't come to america. five palestinians have reportedly been injured during clashes with israeli forces in a west bank village near the city of ramallah. oh . media reports say these value authorities were forced to respond with tear gas and rubber bullets after the palestinians thought of throwing stones at them the violence erupted after hundreds gathered to protest against the killing of two

palestinians by the i.d.f. on monday israel claimed the incident was a calling attack targeting its soldiers provoking them to open fire. and the migration crisis that rocked europe is all but over and that's the claim of e.u. officials at least but it seems not everyone is singing the same tune prime minister says the very future of the blocks in doubts if it continues with immigration policies it's all over as more. 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 but structural 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 arm 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 we have to understand that european people have come to a historic crossroads. his government has launched an information campaign criticizing what he sees as brussels plan to encourage immigration that everyone has the right to know the proposals that fundamentally being hungry security in his mind or 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 payments 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 still coming just. to europe no. problem continue coming in we can't let. me you can pretend it's really over but what's wrong deny any of the things do or the poverty of the country etc. it has been worse but but. it isn't fixed that's not i don't think it's over and i don't think it will be over for a while we took a lot of people in 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 ple believe because the problems are already here peter all of r.t. . northern russian city of more months care has been treated to a spectacular light show of nature the northern lights were on full display as captured in this time lapse footage. last week northern parts of the united states canada and finland also enjoyed similar displays spring is the best time to catch a furor abroad us in the arctic circle because of a boost to solar activity the colors and patterns are dependent on the weather in space. those are the headlines for this hour that's it from the team of myself for now thanks for staying tune join us again at ten pm moscow time for the latest global news updates.

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