by the way ways of the. u.s. army whistleblowers show. off the refusing to testify to a grand jury in what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange and. the u.s. continues to pile pressure on 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. and as figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for the holidays speculation it's the president putting them off. yeah i can understand why people make sense. for me not to. go somewhere.

thanks for joining us live in or to international hawkins revue author you're very welcome with us this hour. a 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. describe the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order certainly a typical 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 was a closed proceeding it's been widely reported that it was. lated 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 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 leaks after her sentence she spent seven years locked up before ultimately having her sentence commuted by barack obama in twenty seven same 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 deep. tale's 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 human rights come by in a potential gave us his views on the story. what does the u.s.

government 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 traditional principle but 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 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 should be open transparent and accountable. the 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 one way door as the interim president and it was also reiterated the u.s. stance about tightening the screws against president nicolas maduro. we're losing sanctions and diplomatic action and to pressure the moorer 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 the battle over the venezuelan presidency which has dragged on since january appears stuck in a stalemate president nicolas maduro is still in power it seems washington has no backup plan to force him out egos down 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 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. 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 start in me a week's washington projected a no name obed 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 one way door when. one goes one way do so in europe where you go you know to 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. 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 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 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 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 the side of president maduro can you support him and is looking like a shrinking power and expanding and so this who seems to feel them watching the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the u.s. talks about. colombia saying brazil saying no european governments are saying no people do not want to see that kind of escalation its coalition is where you go. to the united states is really in a small box that shrinking 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 one official ban so to clear leader one where gore has promised to get the supplies into the country president maduro there is refusing to allow u.s. aid calling it a trojan horse and a pretext for an intervention. he is there accepting help from the red cross and the united nations 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 though says the u.s. is behind the outage describing it as an electric war we asked will to quote from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. situation. security relation we are working on in the last more than two years there will be even going plea and with the communities in going to let you know what. their role in the war there by now or the lack of resources that we. need to have more engine i will be in the. last laws we are there human beings regardless any. and

yet. we are there you know we're all in. syria that we are in and we respond. we're. going to be working with other actors in our. lives including the security. islamic states last stronghold in syria appears on the verge of falling that says hundreds of its fighters in the village of by guus near the iraqi border surrendered to the this week to u.s. backed forces many women and children have also fled the village some of them are the wives of myself fighters however they themselves still don't believe this spells the death of the caliphate.

from repeatedly declaring a final victory over i sell america's top general says the fight to still far from over and it franco 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 bank who's of the ones brimming with the ideology and the ones who is not an option. indeed we've seen crowds of escaping civilians and even jihad 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 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 losing 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 this 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'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 special forces obviously 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. the white house is saying it's a not to join beijing's belt on road infrastructure projects because the strong

reaction from china some of those stories that i had to sell. is absolutely no doubt but he's done as i said a certain. proven track record off sponsoring terrorism interleaving something so that's your evidence of that we have not received any evidence then we are going to bring then we are for investigation of any kind we have more toward anything about . you know as a real. interesting duel between two dystopian nightmares brave new world in a few before they say you know you're in heaven there and that's like a brave new world where the soma is essentially you're clicking on discrediting yourself and then re crediting your soft through video games that would be more like i think brave new world is so much. digital. and then the us has more of

a ninety four when it comes to an actual cellphone natural google ad with stranded by t.v. cameras. to the program young britons are visiting the united states in decreasing numbers but is it all down to the strong dollar economic troubles at home or perhaps something else. 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 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 but packing 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 there's your marker 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 going to 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 there to live a life that seems migration and everything and so i really kind of 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 parts and stuff so you know it's already great i mean really 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 the whole this nation so it's 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 much if you aren't from the u.s. would you go to the us on holiday probably not really why don't. 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 don't come to america. teenager has been shot dead by an israeli soldier during the latest clashes on the border dozens more protestors were injured including four medics that's according to the palestinian health ministry israeli military says soldiers opened fire in response to rioters hurling rocks and explosives been gathering at the gaza israel border fence every friday for the past year for the. return israel accuses the militant group hamas of using the rallies as a means of reaching the frontier. italian prime minister

has confirmed rome's lottery to sign the framework agreement with chinese president xi jinping on the belton road initiative calling it an opportunity for the country the necessary precautions it's an easy access into 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 now the belton road initiative has come in for criticism from the united states so washington spend part of pressure on italy not to jump onboard the project. we view bilton road initiative as a 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 of its own interests and it can

make its decisions independently the belt and road initiative spans three confidence stretching from china to europe and africa is designed to connect nearly two thirds of the world's population by linking key cities via roads railways and ports beijing has pledged one trillion dollars in infrastructure development over the course of the next decade however the u.s. has expressed security concerns and question china's motives socialist pollo better than any believes italy has much to gain from participating. the last numbers they are thinking about. in this particular. frankly. i mean not russian would even be. cool but i'm. also. married will be a great that we. knew. they were.

both. yes. and they are always. there will be a new thing it's a great company. and i don't see any damage. on the sponsors and. turkish riot police have used tear gas against thousands of people who join an international women's day march in central istanbul despite a police officers also scuffled with the women driving them from the street. was brought in for support although it wasn't used. demonstrations in recent years security concerns earlier hundreds protest that i missed against the imprisonment of women and children in syria. more than one hundred police officers have been injured in algeria in an ongoing wave of civil unrest according to the national

security service the protests erupted two weeks ago after the president decided to run for a fifth algeria's government is also under pressure due to soaring inflation and unemployment since the movement started more than a million people have taken to the streets and at least two hundred have been arrested president abilities would have eighty two years old and he's been in power for two decades is ready been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in twenty thirty. that's it from myself and the team thanks. things you know well teens at arsenal sean thomas will be taking you through that lines tonight. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope about different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit on fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

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an economic slowdown in china what are the implications for the u.s. economy and the green new deal is it a winning platform for democrats in two thousand and twenty president obama's former deputy secretary of labor joins us for a look on this edition of college. welcome to politicking i mean homes in for larry king china is suffering. and economic slowdown and its number two leader warns that the country faces a tough struggle so what are the implications for the u.s. economy and does this mean donald trump's china policies are winning and the green new deal there's been lots of talk about it and the g.o.p. is already using it to scare voters ahead of the two thousand and twenty election but what is it and can the democratic party win with it as a platform we begin with these as i'm joined by chris lew former deputy secretary

of labor during the obama administration he's now a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center and he joins us in washington d.c. chris thank you so much for joining us by pleasure amy great so let's start with china and the chinese economy china is suffering an economic slowdown and its number two leader warns the country faces a tough struggle so chris i want to ask you what are the implications for the u.s. economy. well look we live increasingly in a global economy right now and what happens in china and frankly what happens in europe affects what's happened united states we've seen a slowdown in the u.s. economy in the fourth quarter and many economists believe that all will continue slow in twenty nine hundred so i think it certainly behooves both countries the united states and china to resolve their trade differences that's complicated though because the they're based on serious issues regarding obviously the tariffs that the president has imposed as walls of intellectual property rights opening up

of markets and so i know that the economic slowdown will certainly probably a hasten china looking for the deal but they're not going to do that unless it's in their own interest so you think that this slowdown does give president trump more leverage to get these concessions out of the chinese government well look i think on the domestic side as well you see increasingly farmer suffering losses here in the united states the trade deficit figures came out in the united states this week it's the highest on record which is notable since the president said this was an issue that he would solve if elected president so i think frankly both president xi and president trump both face domestic pressures to try to resolve these differences so chris are you optimistic about this summit the date that's being tossed around reported by the wall street journal is march twenty seventh just in a couple of weeks that president xi will join president trump mara lago are you

optimistic that they'll be able to come to a deal or may we see another repeat of north korea and things falling apart well i look i hopefully i hope it gets resolved i'm not incredibly optimistic these negotiations have gone in fits and starts and we've had many indications false indications that they were close to a deal so i think with any of these kinds of. complicated trade deals are really the devil is in the details and these are issues that really have vexed both countries for not for not just the last couple of years for really for decades certainly in particular when it comes to intellectual property and i want to turn it to domestic politics and the democratic side of the aisle and talk with you about the green new deal chris what exactly is it what's in it i mean it had kind of a rocky rollout we heard about wanting to stop cows from farting if i could say that on television trying to get.