u.s. army private turned whistleblower chelsea manning has been jailed after refusing to testify to a grand jury and what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange 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 washington backed opposition leader as interim president. those figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays there's speculation that it's the president that's putting them off. yeah i can

understand why people buy a car and then make sense but it's probably not. preferred to go somewhere a bit more. culturally appropriate. and i welcome to r.t. international live from moscow at eleven pm here in the capsule. the u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in what's believed to be a case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange is her lawyer describe 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 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 have 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 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 that 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. alive know the clocks locally we can leaks activist thanks for joining us so good to have you on today many reports indicating this case does have connections to the weekly leaks revelations of course manning's already served a sentence she was pardoned that part of the chapter stories behind what's next for the whistleblower. well i guess she's either going to have to wait it out or. somehow kind of compromise her. morals and compromise her beliefs. i hope. whatever happens she's not jailed for very long but it. really absurd to me considering the fact that in february two thousand and thirteen she spoke about this and she spoke about it without any kind of provocation she came forward and said specifically that

joining the sun she had not collaborated or. tried to push her to to really use a thing and i don't see why her testimony sworn testimony before her court martial is not good enough and so what will happen i think will ultimately be up to her. i would hope that there is some way that she could testify without having to say anything that she doesn't want to have to say whether that involves invoking her first fourth to sixth amendment rights. i'm not a legal scholar to be able to clarify what would be able to happen but the fact of the merits is the certainty of this grand jury continues to go on nine years later in secrecy is. a travesty to democracy in the united states and in the

case of his being put to a grand jury obviously no lawyers no media etc allowed chelsea manning one even out of a mill in the room with us farzana found why do you think there is such a veil of secrecy. she's not even allowed to take notes as far as i understand when. people were subpoenaed in two thousand and eleven to come and speak before this grand jury they were a lot of lawyers in the room were allowed to take any notes whatsoever. and so the veil of secrecy that continues with this. with this grand jury is. is shocking because you know everything's been published everything's gone through a court martial there's been something saying she's been her sentence has been a commuted that is long past. and. the possibility of

her saying something that could get her in trouble. is not worth it and if you go to the actual root of it. why are we trying to prosecute a publisher that's the real question so it seems to me of the a one isn't contempt of democracy if the prosecutors and the judge it's anyone who is involved in this trial and i i hope that we can come to an end to the soonest possible because this is obviously going to. retry the tides her and it's. doing no good and try to force her to say something. force of the say something different than she's already started.

under oath is ridiculous and i all i can say is that i hope that this can come to him and quickly it seems like an actual political witch hunts. and and what good is to come of it and why and why would they even. still be trying to go after wiki leaks it is beyond me because clearly they don't have a case and yet they're still wasting taxpayer money and they're wasting people's time and now putting putting someone in jail who has fought for the truth and it just shows clearly that the government doesn't care about the truth is the government is only concerned about secrets and it's not regarding national security. it's some kind of came through court it's a whole circus and it doesn't seem to have the ends don't justify the means short

of course if the case is about we can make he'll be interesting to hear from gina songs as well if he comes up with a statement soon clocks that plea wiki leaks activists that feel takes on the story today. thank you. the u.s. envoy to venezuela has said it remains a possibility that countries could be sanctioned for not backing washington's efforts there install the opposition leader. as the interim president elliott abrams also 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. 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 additional decision

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 and it seems washington has no backup plan on how to get out as you go start off explains. the u.s. is back to square one on venezuela and an ambiguous confession by vice president pence how much language 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 the 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 starts in me a week's washington projected a no name. into the international frame one why do 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 when . one goes one way do so in europe where you go you know the one global 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 u.s. trade 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 this. 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 is a poster 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 day all options are on the table all options are on the table 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 although another bout of authorized usaid arrived at the colombia venezuelan border town of kuta on thursday one of the doors promised to get the aid into the country and to disobey the government's ban on it though nicolas maduro allows aid from the red cross and the u.n. he fears the u.s. package is a trojan horse to overthrow him across a stricken venezuela seeing more than two million flee amid shortages of food and medicine all to court from the red cross shared his insight into the agency's work in venezuela. situation. all.

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stronghold in syria appears to be on the verge of falling that says hundreds of its fighters in the village of bag in the at 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 the eisel fight this however many still don't believe it spells the death of the caliphate. despite don't trump repeatedly declaring a final victory over isolette america's top general says the fight is still far from over if the trunk oh brings us the latest. 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 as 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 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. well out 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 ice and see a resurgence 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 and woodley studies professor joshua landis believes further ahead in the battle to defeat islamic. well as general votel testified in congress recently and he said. 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 ed 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. and britons are visiting the united states in decreasing numbers but is it all down to donald trump what he was susan intrigued to investigate further. that transatlantic road trip they used to be most students dream holiday things like with thinks do you think so recreating the journeys of the b. mix from only the road or feminist fugitives like you know we but according to the u.k.'s biggest youth travel operator the kids of today no longer consider the u.s.

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 al blaming it on something called the trump. slump they say that socially conscious millennial is an generation's ias a shining america because that 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 boycott and that makes sense would you they should work on holiday would it be kind of top of the 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 it's not like i don't know you prefer to go somewhere a bit more. culturally appropriate. would you want to go to america or just donald trump but you're not. so you're not bald the i'll go america which you.

do you go to trip you have the opportunity to go to america you still go yeah yeah like i wouldn't care about don i mean i i don't like what he does but like i like to go but it's probably not to my list but he just said we moneywise maybe i'd like to have me on to trump but i think i think going for a holiday that is very different going over there to live all i see is migration and everything and so i don't think i would choose to live that i think that everything going on is quite intense and i think i want to but then again you know with the whole thing like bricks and stuff you know it's already great very very fast and if even here to say people are not coming to the u.k. because of the political situation so i don't think that there really should have an impact on people choosing the 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 want you 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 hard on advertising. like you know that you. ok i'm going to america. now the headlines one palestinian has been killed and scores more injured in the latest clashes with israeli defense forces that according to the local health ministry the violence came during the fiftieth week of a great march of return on the gaza border the ministry also claims for medics were among those wounded israeli authorities claim they used standard operating procedures in response to the protests hold explosives on rocks at soldiers demonstrations on the water began in march last year israel has been accusing the hamas militant organization of staging the rallies in an attempt to bridge the frontier. italian prime minister

giuseppe conti has confirmed to rome's likely to sign the framework agreement with chinese president xi jinping on the belt and the road initiative calling it an opportunity for the country. with all the necessary precautions italy's succession to a new silk route represents an opportunity for our country the coming meeting with the chinese president will be an opportunity to sign the framework agreement it won't mean that the next day we will be forced to do anything it will allow us to enter into this project and have dialogue the belton road initiative s come in for criticism from the us washington has been piling pressure on italy not to jump aboard the project we view build and road initiatives as the made by china for china initiative we are skeptical the italian government's indorsement will bring any sustained economic benefits to the italian people and it may end up harming italy's global reputation in the long run this position taken by the u.s. side is lawful as

a major country italy knows exactly what policies serve its own interests and it can make its decisions independently. the belt and road initiative spans three continents stretching from china to europe and africa is designed to connect a nearly two thirds of the world's population by linking key cities via roads railways and ports beijing's pledged one trillion dollars in infrastructure development over the course of the next decade where the u.s. has expressed security concerns and questioned china's motives sociologist paolo burden that he believes it's a he has much to gain from taking part. clearly there is a strong and quiet is going on the last numbers they are thinking of then there will be surprises to act in this particular as in going to. the little i mean. nobody can be. we have to do. all the cool the but i have. also been of the man america you think will be a great that. you will be leaving their lives in the mideast they were.

well. the both of. you. see and they are always. all you there will be a new link in the same great continent all the way and i don't see it. on the spines and. hundreds of thousands of protesters have really rallied the algerian against plans by the country's president to seek a fifth term in x. months election some reports suggest around one million people amassed in the algerian capital alone with other cities also taking part in the protests are the biggest the country seen in almost three decades while there were many peaceful media reports say police used tear gas to prevent demonstrators breaching the presidential palace the country's president has been in power for twenty years but it's rarely been seen in public since he suffered

a stroke in twenty thirteen on thursday president a but as he's praised the demonstrators for peacefully expressing their opinions as more looks others may try to infiltrate the rallies. oh. those are the headlines for this hour just coming up to eleven thirty now here in the capital join us again and often l. for the latest news updates. it's a religious thing to do all between two dystopian nightmares brave new world in a few any form as they say you know you're in heaven there and that's like a brave new world where the song is essentially you're clicking on discrediting yourself and then recreating your soft through video. that would be more like but i

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a welcome to sophie i'm going sophie shevardnadze tensions are running high between india and pakistan over a deadly terrorist attack in kashmir with artillery and mortar fire from both sides and indian jet downed is this a random uptick in violence or a war in the making on this edition of the show will hear both sides out. the two nuclear powers of south asia one small on the brink of war with pakistani based. terrorists attacking indian soldiers and the indian gaging pakistani fighters cam cool heads prevail and prevent escalation managing to say face kind of election pressure in india and military influence in pakistan push the leaders towards radical decisions and will the cycle of violence in kashmir continue to threaten peace in the region. and will start whether indian perspective ambassador

a shark that former indian envoy to china and accept which are referred to at the ministry of external cyrus he joins us to help shed some light on the conflict and master mr cantor the most recent escalation between india and pakistan since there have been contained now with pakistan releasing the captured indian pilot and returning its commissioner to new delhi the situation is still to hands in kashmir is there risk of violence breaking out again. the question has been continue as you mentioned when all what has happened there tension has been binding down there happy to see that under pressure pakistan has taken some steps against operating from a spoil but would like to be convinced that what pakistan is doing is not merely medic in nature that they are willing to break the long habit of the sponsoring activities against india a look not that problem is not i'm afraid.