us army whistleblower chelsea manning is a back in jail after refusing to testify to a grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. u.s. threatens to impose sanctions on countries that refused to recognize the venezuelan opposition leader as interim president. and as figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays we find out what could be putting them all. yeah i can understand why people make sense. if you.

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our t.v. international incheon thomas glad to have you with. us army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody that is after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange here's how her lawyer described the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order clue 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 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 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 campaigner peter tatchell gave us his views on the story. what does the u.s. government and reduces 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 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 the silence 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 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. u.s. special envoy to venezuela has said of the countries that could be sanctioned for refusing to recognize the country's opposition leader one guard or as interim president elliott abrams also threatened new measures against president nicolas maduro we're using sanctions and diplomatic action 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. the battle over the venezuelan presidency which has dragged 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 that he could have done of comets 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. 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 do so in your way though 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 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. 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 for 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 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 they continue to support him and is looking like a shrinking power expanding one so this coup seems to fortune that means the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the u.s.

talks about toward militarism colombia saying no brazil saying no european governments are saying no people do not want to see that kind of escalation its coalition is the way those and so the united states is really in a small box shrinking washington has said it will not use force to deliver humanitarian aid to them as well although another batch of u.s. aid has arrived at the colombian venezuelan border town in defiance of an official ban subsequent leader has promised to get the supplies into the country but president maduro is refusing to allow u.s. aid calling it a trojan horse and a pretext for an intervention he is though accepting help from the red cross and the u.n. while food supplies run low the country is also in the midst of a power blackout the opposition is blaming government corruption and mishandling but but says the u.s. is behind the outage describing it as electric war we asked walter costa from the red cross about the agency's work in venezuela. situation but as relies on. the

money. you have. to secure relation we are one of. us more than two years there we did anything if it isn't going to be easy and we do the communities in going to let you know what you have. in the road going to war john a new mother i know or the lack of resources that we. need to have more over the engine of both the. and he's let us for we are there to separate human beings regardless any. if you look at. their you know what. that is the. city the people that it's over in them we respond . we're. going to be working with other actors that are.

save. lives on this it. so i think states last stronghold in syria appears on the verge of falling hundreds of its fighters in the village of babus near the iraqi border surrendered this week to u.s. backed forces many women and children have also fled the village some of them are the wives of the isis fighters however they themselves still do not believe it spells the death of the caliphate. despite donald trump repeatedly declaring a final victory over eisel america's top general says the fight is still far from over he said to try to go comment. 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 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 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 a professor joshua landis believes further setbacks lie ahead in the battle to defeat axel 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 edge 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 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. the media commentator in the u.s. is claiming russia could try to kill paul metaphor more than after a break or watching out international.

can socialism bring about a radian 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 orders. why are so many falling out of love with capitalism. it's a religious thing duel between two dystopian nightmares a brave new world in eighty four they say you know you're in heaven there and that's like a brave new world of the soma is essentially you're clicking on discrediting yourself and then re crediting your software to video games that would be more like i think brave new world the soma. digital. and then the us has more of a ninety four when it comes to an actual cell phone natural google ad lib surrounded by t.v. cameras.

this is our two international media commentator in the us. suggested sarcastically that russia could try to assassinate palm and afford the jailed former campaign manager for donald trump never semi sees made that claim in a tweet take a look. manifold may be headed to white collar jail but that just means russia can more easily could shank in him. it was after metaphor was sentenced to four years in prison for tax and bank fraud he was originally indicted in the trump russia pro but during thursday's sentencing the judge stressed that metaphor was not before the court for anything having to do with colluding with the russian government. it's a cross live to independent political analyst alessandro bruno metaphor it was convicted

of hiding fifty five million dollars from the tax authorities lying about his income from political consulting in ukraine he was also expected to get at least nineteen years for those crimes but only got forty seven months for that. the judge also seemed to show some disdain during the entire process why do you think the judge was so lenient on paul metaphor. well the judge explained the leniency because minor four was apparently clean in the sense he didn't commit any other crimes in the previous. in his life or than this one which is really tax evasion when it comes down to it so he suggested that the prosecutors were way too harsh the prosecutors had asked for i believe anything from nineteen to twenty five years of very heavy sentence so the judge

clearly showed a certain displeasure. practically marked the prosecutor's. suggestions so and it was very clear to emphasize that the sentence is nothing to do with any russian alleged russian collusion in the two thousand and sixteen election only that he got forty eight months but here already served i believe a year at least so a lot of mothers are so yeah and. yes so he will serve only thirty nine months or thirty eight months or something like that. in it is imported know that in these specific charges there are two different cases that paul metaphor facing against two different judges he will face sentencing again next week in front of a different judge but in none of these charges neither of these two cases were there any russian coalition charges some people believe that that might be further

down the line because this did come from the the russian investigators malcolm nancy though who is a former navy cryptologist and now an m b m s n b c commentator who's also written books about russian hacking in russia inclusion into the u.s. election says that russia could try to kill metaphor. pretty harsh suggestion when you think he's getting this idea from. i think he's been watching a bit that italian series called gomorrah about the nepal and could become more and the richest that the mafia has in jails because and also it doesn't surprise to me that it's m s n b c one of the most russian gate if not the most russia gate prone network of them all they probably made millions in advertising because of russia gate and they're not going to let this go to c.n.n. as well in fact i think russia gate has been the gift that keeps on giving to us media mainstream media if you take away russia gate what will that media look like

. i can't imagine it's like a shell without it so they're going to keep pushing this notion in every single source possible the latest the that the idea that russia will. try to kill man of ford in jail is it is probable as the one that russia caused the blackout in the united states you remember that from a few weeks ago that was rachel maddow also at the same network who suggested as much so these pundits have become famous they've become rich and the networks themselves have gathered a lot perhaps. experienced a spring of their own a new life because of russia gate so just like so sorry when i was just going to say unfortunately we're going to have to let it go very well because we're running out of time but this is just the middle if you will of paul maeder

fourth story we know there's another sensing next week and possibly more charges to drop i hope you can help us sort through it as more information becomes available. with pleasure all right also under bruno independent political analyst for us or two international. switching gears now young britons are visiting the u.s. decreasing numbers but it is down to the strong dollar economic troubles at home or perhaps something else boyko investigates the transatlantic road trip we 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 backpacking trips and holidays over to america are down twenty three percent from the start of the year and the travel

operators are blaming it on something called the trump slump they say that socially conscious millennial is an generation's ias a shining america because their perch off by none other than the president himself would you shun would you shun a trip to the u.s. because trump 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 or. 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 somewhere 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 have me on to train but i think i'd be going for a. and it is very different going to that to live a life like ration and everything and so i don't think i would choose to live that i think that thing going on is quite intense and i think i want to but then again you know with the whole thing like price and stuff so yeah it's already great the marybeth has passed and if even here to say it was people not coming to the u.k. because of political situations i don't think that's a really should have an impact on people choosing the whole day the situation say still still travel. try we america is great i don't know about in denver colorado or where we're from but i can tell you i don't like don't very much if you went from the u.s. would you go to the u.s. on holiday probably not really right now. i'd probably just want to stay here where where i know what's going on where there's no chaos whatsoever and it's still very

very calm on advertising. to that you know that you can come to america. more news in about thirty four minutes this is our team international i'm from thomas back in a bit. is absolutely no doubt that pakistan has said a certain. proven track record off sponsoring terrorism insurance agent something so good this year and we do this all started we have not received any evidence then we also are trying to prove that we are for investigation of any kind that we have more card anything about. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the

world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. western countries are very reluctant to recognize the fact that is that is why mike formally and also to admit that they were perhaps wrong and cad condemning him or siding against him so with glee in the early stages of the war so their entire family is i mean to undermine the reconstruction process by the prolongation of sanctions i think it was in countries with one as the jewish one where syria's reconstructed but in you know ways in which he started by a third power not russia and iran not by the west and by the g.c.c. or by china.

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