minor offenders. it's a lot watching your children grow up in miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail off the refusing to testify to a grand jury what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks co-founder julian assange. the u.s. continues to pile pressure on president nicolas maduro to topple him from power even suggesting the possibility of sanctioning other countries for not recognizing the washington back its position leader as interim president. and as figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays speculation it's the president that's putting them off. yeah i can understand why people buy cars and that makes sense like he gave but it's probably not to my let's go some

are even more. culturally appropriate. us whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody so after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in what's believed to be a case against the wiki leaks co-founder julian assad's is hollow describe the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order certainly a typical outcome 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 just 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. to have. 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 human rights come by in a potential gave us his take on the story. what does the u.s. government and reduces the system have to hide why can't they conduct these

hearings and these charges in open court in this case it's all being done in secret which flies against the fundamental democratic digital principle that just a 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 during assigned himself 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 . u.s. envoy to venezuela has said it remains a possibility that countries could be sanctioned for not backing washington's efforts to install the opposition leader. as the interim president it is abrams

also reiterated the u.s. stance about tightening the screws are going to the president nicolas maduro we are 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. real or what would lead us to make that additional decision of the battle over the venezuelan presidency which has drug on since january appears stuck in a stalemate president nicolas maduro is still in power and it seems washington has no backup plan to force him out 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 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 or lower. 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 why do as venezuela's president are one way door when. one goes one way do so in europe you know. 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 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 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 where there has been unable to deliver on his promise to allow humanitarian aid in the military has not left side of president maduro can you support him.

looking like a shrinking power and expanding one so this who seems to feel them fortunately in the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up the us talk to. colombia saying no brazil saying no european government to saying no people do not want to see that kind of escalation it's cold is where you go. and so the united states is really in a small box that's shrinking and washington has said it will not use force to deliver humanitarian aid to venezuela although another batch of u.s. aid has arrived at the colombian venezuelan border town in defiance of an official celtic led leader one word or has promised to get the supplies into the country president but there are those refusing to allow u.s. aid calling it a trojan horse and a pretext for an intervention he is though except to help from the red cross and the u.n. while food supplies run low the country's also in the midst of a power blackout the opposition is blaming government corruption and mishandling

but there are those says the u.s. is behind the outage describing it as an electric war we asked walter caught from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. situation it was. lives of. the mind of this war and you have you in the security relation we are working on in the last more than two years there we did any event in d.c. going to eat and we did a community is in going to we are leading nowhere near close in fire and in the role going to be the work of john a new mother by now of course the lack of resources that we have found the need to have more bring engine i'll be in the band in utah and bars are all and it is like i ask for draws we are there to sarah the human beings regardless any. and yes if you let it go already begun really you know there are you know where all of that

is new so you can play in serving the people that are suffering and we respond and increase our overall service economy by working with other actors and our. livelihoods. and really save. lives and improving the security of. islamic states last stronghold in syria appears on the verge of falling that says hundreds of its fighters in the village of baghdad 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 the eisel fighters however they themselves still don't believe it spells the death of the caliphate. well despite dylan trump repeatedly clattering a final victory over isolette america's top general says the find a still far from over and a trucker 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 that will remain in bank who's all the ones brimming with jihadi ideology and the ones for whom 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 aus and nz 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 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 sense the

pullout would have definitely scored mr trump some valuable political points but nothing seems to be certain here especially with this goof thorn in the side you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgent you know they're going out will 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 this believes further ahead in the battle to defeat islamic state. 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 and at some future

date from the 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 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. young britons of visiting the u.s. in and decreasing number but is it down to the strong dollar economic troubles or

home or perhaps something else what he will echo investigates. 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 the road or feminist fugitives like . 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 show on a trip to the u.s. because of trouble yeah i can understand why people boycott and make 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 bald the 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 don't he was maybe i'd like to have me and but i think i think going for a holiday those very different going over to live a life migration and everything and so i really kind of 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 that bastion of hard even here to say. you know coming to. because of political

situations that really should have an impact on people choosing to hold 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 very much if you aren't from the us would you go to the us on holiday probably not really want to know. i'd 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 don't come to america. a palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an israeli soldier during the latest clashes on the border dozens more protestors were injured including four medics according to the palestinian health ministry israeli military says soldiers opened fire in response to rioters hurling rocks and its close of

crowds have been gathering at the gaza israeli border fence every friday for the past year for the so-called great march of return israel accuses the militant group hamas of using the rallies as a means of breaching the front. of the italian prime minister has confirmed rome's likely to sign the framework agreement with chinese president xi jinping on the belt and road initiative calling it an opportunity for the country. with all the necessary precautions italy's accession to a new silk route represents an opportunity for a country the coming meeting with the chinese president will be an opportunity to sign the framework agreement it won't mean that the next days will be forced to do anything it will allow us to enter into this project and have dialogue of the belt and road initiative fast come in for criticism from the united states washington has been piling pressure on italy not to jump aboard the project. we view belts and road initiatives as the made by china for china and initiative we're 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 its 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 they built on a road initiative spiers three conference stretching from china to europe and africa is designed to connect me to infer 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 or over the u.s. has expressed security concerns and questioned china's motives sociologist power better than the me believes it's only has much to gain from taking part. in the last numbers if they are thinking about this of this allows us to act in this pattern as in the. little i mean not of what it will be.

telling us what we have to do at all you are acting for the poor the benefit also for the benefit of the environment the man america i think will be a great advantage for. you will be really as intimately they were. both of their names but. when you see and they are always beneficial for you there will be a new in the same great continent of your way and i don't see any damage. on the spine and. turkish riot police have used tear gas against thousands of people who join in this national women's day march in central is tumbled despite a police officers also scuffled with the women driving them. from the street to kind of most brought in for support although it wasn't used. by and all

demonstrations in recent years citing security concerns earlier hundreds protested in istanbul against the imprisonment of women and children in syria. migration a crisis that rocked europe is all but over that's the claim of e.u. officials it seems that everyone knows singing to the same tune the hunger in prime minister says the very future of the blocks in doubt if it continues with pro immigration policies peace 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 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 m.

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 his story 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 or hungry security in his my. 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. been of the

guardian government complaints but 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 still coming just. to europe. to new coming in because i think when you can pretend it's really all over with what's wrong the any of the things do or the poverty of the country it's a trap. it has been worse for it 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 clee believe because the problems are already here peter all of r.t. . over one hundred officers injured and two hundred people arrested in a mass protest in algeria against plans by the country's president to seek a fifth term in next month's election some reports of just around a million people amassed in the algerian capital alone while the city's also took part in a protest as the biggest the country's. in almost three decades while it was mainly peaceful media reports say police used tear gas to prevent demonstrators reaching the presidential palace the country's president has been in power for twenty years but has rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in twenty thirty on thursday president of the disease with a flick of praise the demonstrators for peaceful expressing their opinions has warned that others may try to infiltrate the rallies. as their plans for this hour thanks for staying on the from team and myself in thirty minutes.

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no doubt that pakistan has a certain. proven track record of sponsoring terrorism influence on think so yes sure. we have not received any evidence then we are poor then we are for investigation of any kind we have mortared anything about. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle can social sort of bring about a radiant future a growing number of voters seem to think so what do these voters and some members of congress mean by socialism free stuff for all the state controlling the means of

production no borders. why are so many falling out of love with capitalism. cross talking socialism i'm joined by my guest steve malzberg in new york he is a conservative political commentator and in washington we have i been ill and he is the senior fellow at the independent institute and author of the forthcoming book war and the road presidency or a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime it now always appreciate it steve let me go to you first here i mean poll after poll. indicate that there's a growing appreciation even wanting of something that's called socialism now at the outset i'm not particularly sure they know what socialism is ok maybe like i said.