if you wish and where this is serious we constructed you know ways in which these very powerful russian by the west and by the g.c.c. . the us army private turned whistleblower has been jailed after refusing to testify to a grand jury and what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks co-founder. also this hour the u.s. continues to venezuelan president nicolas maduro to topple him from power even suggesting the possibility of sanctioning other countries for not recognizing the. interim president. as figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for the holidays speculation it's the president that's putting them off. yeah i can

understand why people make sense but it's probably not to. some of the more. culturally appropriate. thanks for joining us tonight international live from moscow. has been taken into custody after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury and what's believed to be a case against the wiki leaks. here's how her lawyer described the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order is certainly a typical term for this kind of proceeding 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 that 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 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. weeks after her sentence she spent seven years locked up before ultimately having her sentence commuted by barack obama in twenty seventeen now 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 to 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. let's go live now to a potential human rights campaign and joining us this peter thanks for joining us tonight obviously many reports indicating this hearing is in connection with we can leaks revelations but of course chelsea manning has a sentence she received the poem she was released what's your take on the story. well of course this does have echoes of mccarthy era in the states in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's where people who were either known or suspected to be so-called communists were brought before grand juries and forced to testify and now in those cases the testimonies were public in this case it's all being done in secret which flies against the fundamental democratic traditional principle that just the should be open and transparent and i think chelsea manning is quite right to shine a spotlight on the secrecy of the grand jury system and the way in which is

weighted towards the prosecution and against defendants and why do you think this case has had such a cloak of secrecy around it obviously lawyers no media allowed at these grand jury hearings why has there been this way to make things public. well that is a very good question what does the u.s. government introduced a system have to hide why can't they conduct these hearings and these charges in open court why can't the media be there why can't chelsea manning have a lawyer present this does show that there are some very fundamental floors with the u.s. justice system and i think in this particular case it is very clear as we have heard many times in the past that the trump administration is out to get drawn in the sand and we get leaks and they will resort to whatever whatever secrecy is required to enable them to do it. yourself has been subject to secret grand

jury hearings since two thousand and ten he's never been allowed to know the charges against him or the evidence he's not being given any kind of information whatsoever and again this is completely contrary to the basic fundamental principle of justice that it should be open transparent and accountable and of course miley is going to stay in custody until the grand jury finishes that case or until she testifies so do you think there is any pressure or there could be pressure from authorities to do that in order to gain a freedom. while this is the big disturbing element the fact that she is going to remain in prison apparently until as you say either she testifies or the grand jury reaches its conclusions. that could be not weeks or months but years already the grand jury the secret grand jury into wiki leaks has been convening for

nine years there is no in the inside and chelsea manning could be facing many many years in prison for standing up for the fundamental principle that justice should be open and transparent she has an app. that hero she didn't have to do this she did not have to go down this road but as a matter of principle and a signal of her integrity and courage she's chosen to do it she is a defender of human rights she's a friend of true and fair justice and i think people all over the world should be supporting her and demanding her immediate release do you think if this case is related to we were lucky to hear anything from julian or sons' on this i don't know but i one certainly does related to ricky leaks i can't speak for doing a song but i'm certain that we could leaks or through the signs at some point make some comment but don't think that's going to help i mean you know it is very clear

whole host of trump administration officials have made it very clear that getting durian songe is our number one priority and they will resort apparently to any means necessary and subpoenaing chelsea manning is just one aspect of their strategy and i suspect they'll be many more to come right peter tatchell human rights campaigner thanks for your take that on that story or not international. a u.s. envoy to venezuela has said it remains a possibility that other countries could be sanctioned for not recognizing the washington backed opposition leader one way door as the venezuelan interim president elliott abrams also reiterated the united states stance about tighten the screws against the incumbent. we are using 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. you know it's always it's out there it's always a possibility we have not done it yet. and i wouldn't want to speculate as to whether the real or what would lead us to make that additional decision the battle over the venezuelan president c. which has struck down 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 rid of him as igor start off explains. the u.s. is back to square one on venezuela and an ambiguous confession by vice president pence how much longer do you have a timeline but there's no timeline now rewind 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. 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 brazil has just issued a note recognizing one we're going to go as venezuela's president one way door. one

go door one in europe where you go you know who and 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 board 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 so 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 resist. the temptation to go

for the favorite tactic of sending a few thousand soldiers to a scored 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 are on the table all options are on the tube 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 ola in the first place. washington has said it won't use force to deliver its humanitarian aid to venezuela alone another batch of unauthorized u.s. aid arrived at the colombian venezuela border town of cooter on thursday when word on has promised to get the aid into the country and to disobey the government's ban on it nicolas maduro does allow aid from the red cross and the united nations he fears the u.s. package is a trojan horse to overthrow him

a crisis stricken venezuela has seen more than two million people flee amid a shortage of food and medicine water caught from the red cross shared his insight earlier into the agency's work in the country. situation in business relies on. security relation we are working on in the last more than two years there with any if it is even going to be and we do the communities in going to let you know what you. end up in the role going to do the work. i know or the lack of resources that we have need to have more engine i will be in the. end it is let me ask for we are there to sarah the human beings regardless any. if you look.

there you know we're all. serving the people that are suffering then we respond. we're. going to be working with other actors that are. really save. lives and proving this is. i soul's last stronghold in syria appears to be on the verge of collapsing that says hundreds of its fighters in the village of by guus near the iraqi border surrendered this week to u.s. backed forces many women and children have also fled the village some of them other wives of myself fight is over they themselves still don't believe this spells the death of the caliphate. despite donald trump repeatedly littering a final victory over eisel america's top general says the fight is still far from

over brings us more. 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 ideology and the ones who is not an option indeed we've seen crowds of escaping civilians and even jihad as who did choose to surrender the current say they want to make sure all innocent people make it out of the good news 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 eisel 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 goose thorn in the side. you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of ice and see a resurgence you know where we're doing out we'll 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 for the setbacks lie ahead in the battle to defeat islamic state. well as a 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's not by any means the end devices there are a lot of fighters that have gone to ground and that have formed we believe that forms sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know 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 i says is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. young britons of visiting the united states in ever decreasing number but is it all down to don't trump was really trying to

investigate. the 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 would you shun would you share on a trip to the u.s. because of trouble yeah i can understand why people think so would you very sure merican 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 as well. as i know 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 going to personally so you're not bothered i'll go america which you do you go to church 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 probably not to my list but mr seventy was maybe i'd like to try but i think i think going for a holiday the is very different going over there to live a life actually migration and everything and so i really got to choose to live i think with everything going on is quite intense and i think i want to but then again you know the whole thing is like bricks and stuff so you know it's already great there either as a bastion of anything here to say. you know coming to. because of political

situations i don't think 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 u.s. on holiday probably not really well i don't know. i probably just want to stay here where i know what's going on where there's no chaos whatsoever and it's still very very calm on advertising if you like you know. you don't come to america. and the migration crisis that rocked europe is all but over that's the claim of e.u. officials it seems that everyone knows singing the same tune in prime minister says the very future of the blocks in belt if it continues with pro immigration policies to all of our ports. 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 perlin 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 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 them among 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 change a hungry security in his mind or barnes 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. 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.

to new coming in we can't let. me can pretend it's really all over with what's wrong and i need everything is new all the policy 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. . one palestinian has been killed and scores injured in the latest clashes with israeli defense forces that's according to the local health ministry the violence came during the fiftieth week of the great march overturned on the gaza border ministry also claims four medics were among those wounded israeli authorities. they

used standard operating procedures in response to the protesters who held explosives and rocks at soldiers demonstrations along the border began in march last year israel has been accusing the hamas militant organization of staging the rallies an attempt to reach the front. of the northern russian city of more months cares been treated to a spectacular light show courtesy of nature the northern lights were on full display as captured in this time lapse footage just last week northern parts of the us canada and finland also enjoyed similar displays spring is the best time to catch the all of us in the arctic circle because of a boost of solar activity the colors and patterns are dependent on the weather in space. it's coming up through at ten thirty pm here in moscow thanks for staying tuned audience the national are back in about thirty five minutes with the latest global news updates.

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. it's a really interesting duel between two dystopian nightmares brave new world the next ninety four as they say you know you're in heaven there and that's like a brave new world the soma is essentially you're clicking on discrediting yourself and and then recruiting your stuff through video games that would be more like i think brave new world is so much. digital. and then the us has more of the night before the place when it actual sound the actual bill that would strengthen my t.v. .

ratings and salutation. even though hala we are still about a half a year away today hawk watchers we should begin by looking at two modern day monsters wearing masks of celebrity wealth and power i'm speaking of course about world famous singer r. kelly and billionaire hedge fund or jeffery up steam this week while r. kelly has been getting angry and jumping out of chairs during prime time news interviews to professed his innocence after chicago police finally saw one too many sex tapes and lifetime documentary series as featuring the singer's predation the wonder age girls there's strangely been barely a whisper out of u.s. law enforcement or even a brief interview on mainstream media for mr epstein even after a federal judge recently ruled that federal prosecutors under former miami u.s. attorney alex acosta broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement for more than thirty underage victims who had been sexually abused

by the wealthy new york hedge fund manager. to. very powerful men in their respective fields both accused of the most heinous of crimes but while kelly is finally being forced to face the consequences of his actions under the harsh glare of the media spotlight mr jeffery have seen and stayed hidden in the shadows and it would appear that both the media and police are fine with that this comes despite epstein being accused of very similar crimes as kelly even though i guess one could argue epstein worked on an even grander scale than kelly could ever dream of involving everything from secret islands private jets and actual royalty in his crimes one could only wonder if this could not only be due to the sphere of influence that has surrounded the support of the protected epstein's predation of underage women being far higher up the hollywood b.c. political food chain than r. kelly's but also because of the color of their skin as well because as history has

shown us here in the united states we often tragically prefer our monsters to be dark.