u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail after refusing to testify to a grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. the u.s. threatens to impose sanctions on countries that refused to recognize the venezuelan opposition leader as interim president. those figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays we find out what could be putting them off. yeah i can understand why people blink and then make sense and i think it's probably not the. case. culturally appropriate.

broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is r t international john thomas glad to have you with us all right u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody that is after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in a case against the weak you leaks co founder julian assange here's how her lawyer 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 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 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 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 on.

it's been 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 human rights campaigner peter tatchell gave us his views on the story what does the u.s. government introduces 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 the signs 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 it should be open transparent and accountable. u.s. special envoy to venezuela has said that countries could be sanctioned for refusing to recognize the country's opposition leader won kwaito as interim president elliott abrams also threatened new measures against president nicolas maduro. we are using sanctions and diplomatic actions to pressure the madeira regime

are hopeful that other countries will use these and other tools at their disposal to secondary sanctions 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. 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 as r.t.c. was out of comments the us 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 of 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 is 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 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 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 why do as venezuela's president one way door when. one goes one way do so in europe where you go you know. since then though america's

plans started to go into a frantic nosedive my duro wasn't going anywhere in 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 aids. 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 was 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 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 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 can you support him and is looking like a shrinking power expanding one so this crew seems to feel the import of it means the united states will try other attempts are not going to give up as the u.s. talks about. colombia saying no brazil thing the european governments are saying no

people do not want to through that kind of escalation it's cold is the way those of us aid has arrived at the colombian venezuelan border in defiance of an official ban itself the 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 un while food supplies run low countries also in the midst of a power blackout the opposition is blaming government corruption and mishandling but says that 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. the situation but as well as a big demand all. you have. to secure.

we are working on in the last more than two years that we did in any event in d.c. going to lead and we do the communities in going to let you know what you have. in the road going to the border john and you and mother i know of course the lack of resources that we. need to have more engine up all of the. growth and it's like i asked for the laws we are there to stare human beings regardless any. and if you look. there are you know where all of that is in the. city to people that it's over in that we respond. we're. going to be working with other actors in our. lives on improving the security. slotnick states last stronghold in syria appears

on the verge of falling hundreds of its fighters in the village of 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 not do not believe it's. belle's the death of the caliphate. just by donald trump repeatedly declaring a final victory over ice on the top u.s. general says the fight is still far from over on to sleep trying to 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 all the ones brimming with the few 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 but 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 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 but goofs thorn in the side you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgent 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 middle eastern studies professor joshua landis believes that further setbacks lie ahead in the battle to defeat eisel. well as general votel testified in congress recently it was 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 a farm's sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know and 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 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. media commentator in the u.s. is claiming russia could try to kill paul metaphor why they have after a short break stay with us. is absolutely no doubt that pakistan has a certain. proven track record off sponsoring terrorism interlink doing something so that's your evidence of that we have not received any evidence then we also are going to blame then we are for investigation of any kind we have martyred anything

about. western countries. a reluctance to recognize the fact that is that is why i like formally and also to make that they were strong. in the early stages of the war so. undermined the reconstruction process by the prolongation of sanctions i think it was in countries. as you ation where this is serious we can start. our russia by the west and by the g.c.c. . international now a media commentator in the us suggested that russia could try to assassinate paul

mann afford the jailed former campaign manager for donald trump. made that claim in this tweet. manifold may be headed to white collar jail but that just means russia can more easily than him that was after metaphor it was sentenced to four years in prison for tax and bank fraud he was originally indicted in the trump russia probe 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 political analyst alexandra bruno believes the us media has a vested interest in keeping the russian clues and story going. amount of food scandals have nothing to do with russia so i really don't see why anyone in the russian government or secret service should be concerned with what he has to say left right and center and also it doesn't surprise to me that it's a mess and b. c.

one of the most russian gate if not the most russia gate prone network of them all they've 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 so they're going to keep pushing this notion in every single source possible . young britons are visiting the us in decreasing numbers but it is down to the strong dollar economic troubles at home or or perhaps something else go to the streets to find out. the transatlantic road trip me used to be most students dream day things like route sixty six or recreating the journeys of the big mix from on the road or feminist fugitives like belmar and we 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 as are blaming it on something called the trump slump they say that socially conscious millennial is an generation zia's are shunning america because their perch off by none other than the president himself would you share and would you shun a trip to the u.s. because trump yeah i can understand why people boycott and that makes would you go to record holiday would it be kind of top of your list of where you want to go not the top of my worth why not. i don't know it's just never really appealed to me and especially with all the polls that's going on as well. it's not like i don't know yeah i'd prefer to go somewhere but. would you want to go to america just donald trump but you know. so you know all that 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. i i don't like what he does but like i'd like to go but it's probably not to. the major seventy what maybe i'd like to have me and migration and everything and i don't think i would choose to live that i think that thing going on is quite time and i think i would want to but then again you know it would be like that stuff if i were to grade them every day that i had passed and if anything here to say was you know coming to the u.k. because of political situations that really should have an impact on people choosing a whole day this nation so you still still travel. i don't know about in denver colorado where we're where we're from but i don't like. if you want from the u.s. would you go to the u.s. on a holiday probably not really well you know. i 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 ok but. it palestinian teenager has been shot and killed by an israeli soldier during the latest clashes on the border dozens more protesters were injured including four medics putting to the palestinian health ministry and the israeli military says soldiers opened fire in response to rioters hurling rocks and explosives crowds have been gathering at the gaza israel border fence every friday for the past year the so-called great march of return is really cute as the militant group hamas of using the rallies as a means of breaching the frontier. you telling him prime minister just stepping. has it 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 it's a lease 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 the belt and road initiative has come in for criticism from the u.s. washington has been piling pressure on italy not to jump aboard the project. we view belts and road initiatives as a made by china for china and they should see if 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 of the belton road initiative spans three continents stretching from china to europe and africa it is designed to connect nearly two thirds of the world's population by linking key cities through roads railways and ports beijing's pledged one trillion dollars in infrastructure

development over the course sociologist bernardine believes that italy has much to gain from taking part. in the last numbers they are thinking about that of these allies to act in this particular not as in going to frankly. i mean not what it would be. telling us what we have to do things for the poor the benefit. for the benefit of the environment i'm an american i think will be a great that we. will be. there at. the bottom. and they are always. oh you. mean it's a great continent. and i don't see any damage. on the sponsor

and who joined an international women's day march in central istanbul despite a police ban officers also scuffled with the women driving them back from the street a water cannon was brought in for support although was not used the authorities have banned all demonstrations in recent years citing security. earlier hundreds protested in istanbul against of 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 this according to the national security service protests erupted two weeks ago after the president decided to run for a fifth term algeria's government is also under pressure due to swine 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. excuse me.

sorry about that is eighty two years old and has been in power for two decades he has really been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in two thousand and thirteen. but doesn't from a need to give a tongue wrestle i can pronounce those hard names international stay with us i'll be back in about thirty three minutes. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. different clubs. it is logical to go home fields everything is familiar. i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. if you think. i'm going to talk about football not. going to.

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was a religious thing duel between two dystopian nightmares brave new world in one thousand and four 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 the soma. digital. and then the us has more of a ninety four when it comes to an actual cell phone national google ad with stranded by t.v. cameras. the welcome to cross talk we're all things to consider 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 rogue presidency or a gentleman crossed rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime and i always appreciate it steve let me go to you first here i mean poll after poll. indicate that there is a growing appreciation even wanting of so.