police arrest for antiwar activists in the venezuelan embassy in washington after the month long sit in protest against u.s. support for the opposition leader. the u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is sent to prison for refusing to give evidence on wiki leaks and julian songs. in the philippines recalls its ambassador from canada in a dispute over vast amounts of trash shipped to the southeast asian country years ago. thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. us police have arrested 4 activists staging

a sit in at the venezuelan embassy they were protesting against the expulsion of president president maduro diplomats last month and also u.s. interference in the country more details on the story here's artie's. please enter the building around 930 this morning but it wasn't until about 1115 that we saw those 4 activists being taken away in police transport vehicles now those 4 are from a group of activists who have been occupying the embassy for more than 3 weeks now and they say that their goal is to hold the building for the government of venice on president nicolas maduro despite the fact that the united states has recognized opposition leader one as the country's interim president now on monday we saw that police posted a notice on the door of the building and they said that any of the activists who were still inside would be arrested and charged with trespassing that's when the majority of the activists did leave but those 4 remain and it wasn't until today

that they were officially or brush it now so far they have been charged with interfering with a protective order and it's not clear if they are going to be facing any other charges now i show chew over a lawyer for the activist and she said that this raises a lot of concerns under international law because she argued that it goes directly against the vienna convention which states that the united states can not enter the venezuelan embassy without approval from the feel like to venezuela and government and so as of right now we don't know exactly what the condition inside that building is we do know that we have seen a very heavy police presence here which has included secret service the d.c. metro police and federal agents who have gone inside the building and conducted searches but we're still not sure exactly what the future is for this embassy. for this with and for ministry has branded the police actions illegal well the quad 0.2 buses to the u.s. said the embassy has finally been liberated medea benjamin from the peace group

code pink claims that the arrests are a violation of international. we got an urgent call from the people inside it 19 this morning that the police had broken down the door and that they were going to be arrested we denounce this is a violation of the vienna convention speakers the group has been there with the permission then as well in government i was just at the u.n. yesterday with the ambassador to the u.n. who was calling on the u.s. to sign a protective power green mincha with venezuela so that both the embassy in washington d.c. and the u.s. embassy in caracas would be protected the venezuelan government has said it is not given permission for the opposition representatives to enter that building and that there is still time to negotiate a solution that would be of mutual agreement to both these governments but it will be a tremendous step towards greater conflict with the u.s.

if indeed the representatives are allowed to go into that embassy now they have to gain the attention of some prominent figures on wednesday human rights figurehead jesse jackson arrived at the embassy to give food to the protesters came after reports suggested the authorities were preventing supplies from reaching the embassy we spoke to reverend jackson and i asked him what he thinks about washington's role in venezuela. it is in there so low but then we can direct about international law and human rights and set determination with a nation must be better and people must protest that because. they can vote in the same congress will not accept subpoenas from the same white house of learns that. the congress also will not. treat people at the embassy it was in revenue and the people of venezuela both leaders should be in the commonplace dismas to meet

with. them and so. it was and i am as you know we've. been through there and saw the review all of them been through the 4 days away from some other 3 weeks away we were right every reason and i had to say you know america we are a great nation was one to the bahamas fear to do. this so i'll sit in that number was in the freedom as the good neighbor probably not with a hostile or with a regime wall like the 2. just tanks and charitable and spoke fury from the quite a appointed ambassador to the us he said that the activists should stop supporting human rights violators and support the people of venezuela instead jackson explained to us why he decided to help the protest is. the mother was because america could though and that was not right but it's been reconciled in the sides

in this case no one wins if he's there as kind and disagree with reconcile sides grimmest be a credible convene the us cannot do it alone and replacing one government for another regime change is not an answer for democracy. u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is being sent bank to prison just a week after being released that the ruling comes after the former soldier refused to testify before a grand jury on her contacts with wiki leaks the case doesn't make sense it seems kind of bananas in comparison to the evidence that week that we got out i will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury. in the march of this year manning was jailed for 2 months for refusing to answer the grand jury's questions on wiki leaks and its founder julian assange spending was 1st time back in 2010 sending thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks she was sentenced to 35 years behind bars president barack obama later reduced to 7 years.

a former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower coleen rowley joins me on the line pleasure to have you on coleen i think this is pretty much the argument being made by chelsea manning isn't it that after such a long time u.s. authorities must have got all the possible information they can from other reasonable augment to say that there's no need to testify again absolutely and in fact she was she was debriefed and taught to and testify during her own court martial over 7 years ago and served 7 years of time which is even longer than most other whistleblowers so they have the information in a way it points to one of 2 things either we tally ation because the current administration did not like the fact that the obama administration pardoned her so this would be in a legal you know punishment a 2nd punishment after already serving time out or the case against julian assange

is just that weak that they absolutely need chelsea manning's testimony in order to firm up those specious charges it's got to be one of the 2 things otherwise it makes no sense and it really does just like that the rate of the venezuelan embassy it it also is reminiscent of illegal actions and no respect at all for international or even constitutional law. it does feel as though things are ratcheting up slowly i'm just reading some of the details of. you know defiance of this latest subpoena after 30 days of imprisonment she's fined $500.00 a day after 60 days it goes into $1000.00 a day so you're talking about a 2nd imprisonment for a 2nd refusal of a subpoena now being hit with huge financial amounts and just come this go on

infinite i'm just putting a buck in prison i know i have never heard of jailing a witness this launch she's already been jailed for $62.00 days for failure to i talk to a grand jury i suppose this jury could even go for 18 months if you do the math that fine would almost be a half a $1000000.00 that is utterly draco nian for trying to get a witness in again maybe they should have charged julian assange if they did not have the evidence already so it's literally making no sense and and chelsea manning should be honored for really being brave on this she's already been tortured in dutch and served time in solitary except drunk and she is really putting on a very brave face in the face of this additional what i would think is illegal punishment to be this draco nian when you said it chelsea manning said the same thing the subpoena is it doesn't make sense he said and called it but no one is do

you think the authorities of handled this in the right way because it doesn't look good to the public i wouldn't hold. well the authorities are unfortunately looks like the country is being led by a couple of the same neo con war harks that lidice into the array our war in iraq and you know bolton being the number one it looks like trump is not even having any any say in this it's just bolton leading the charge and bolton several years ago actually we went on the public record saying that he had no respect for international law he says something like you know the world is anarky can we have to do what we have to do meaning i can even lie to the american people if it's my interpretation of national security and he's on the record saying this in 2010 that's who is leading the charge here and i think again i hope people realize that

this is not really democratic the national security advisor is not supposed to have this kind of power even over the president but it sure looks like from all appearances that he is leading trump by the nose right now colleen many thanks for your time i guess colleen rowley former f.b.i. agent whistleblower thank you. know the news chinese tech giant way has warned that a u.s. trade bomb on the firm will harm americans leaving them behind in 5 g. technology that's up to the u.s. department of commerce place while we're on a trade blacklist overlaid security concerns on the show david reports from a technology conference in paris on the shock waves the dispute is causing. 5 g. is seen as being critical to the development of the digital economy in the next decade one of the major players is china's huawei but its presence in the field is

a contentious issue and something that could force fed the tensions between the e.u. and the u.s. a warning well don't trump has just signed an executive order declaring a national economic emergency the us president has empowered the government to ban the technology and services of foreign adversaries deemed to pose unacceptable risks to national security including from cyber espinosa and sabotage it may not mention whoa wait by name but it's clear who it's a dad meanwhile in europe they seems to be a more open approach to the company the e.u. has demanded strict to security ahead of the road out of 5 g. in a bid to protect privacy and business secrets but it seems that that may not be enough to satisfy the u.s. so what is huawei doing to try and ease the concerns over but its technology we're

willing to sign no spy agreements with governments to commit ourselves to making our quitman meet the no spine no back doors standard so as the tech world cap is here in paris our worries at all say about huawei my opinion is that everybody is or is spying on us for our phones and computer so this is going to be an extent i don't know i don't think we can do anything about it really think it's pro-business same with. mobile phone a we are just we don't just know the the different elements of the other companies so i think it's the same so i'm not really scared we just have to be careful as you are going to respect a lot of. in france or in europe it would be ok australia and new zealand already. despite assurances from walk away but with the stroke of a pen trump has seriously ramped up the pressure on european allies to follow suit

and to walk away from 5 g. networks although the dutch and the germans said they will stand steadfast. there is still a question over whether europe as a whole is prepared to truck traffic on the 4 lights if it decides. with china. sea carries. chinese economic expert professor benjamin chalcis where we might actually benefit from america's stance. poly actually has an unblemished record of over 30 years in 170 countries punishing one corporation with those solid springs waves of fear out of the us my luck behind with the using the best equipment available in the world americans are forced to buy spend technologies

and even in few more inferior technologies and in fact in the longer. the americans my choose to go to china to hatch their technologies in china to sell to china how we should do what polly has been doing in the past 30 years that deployed doubts speaks for itself and in fact to some arguably while we could be the biggest winner we've all this free overtightening diplomatic route was broken out between calendar in the philippines over trash disposal details of the after the break. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields

where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. if. i'm going to talk about football not the or else in the sink i was going to do. by the way what is that that's like here. u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders has accused national security adviser john bolton of trying to push the country into war with iran. the author. of the efforts right now to get us into war in iraq is the guy who was the architect for getting us into the war in iraq and that is john bolton busy so you know i worry about provocations

on the part of the united states. in the past few days the u.s. has taken steps to counter what it calls a credible threat from iran the state department has ordered all non-emergency staff to leave iraq be 50. carriers to the region media reports suggest there are intelligence images of missiles on the reigning boats in the persian gulf sparking fears they might be used against u.s. troops or the images haven't been published despite the lack of clear evidence for a heightened threat from tehran washington continues to make loud noises about what . their neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare ran around major destabilizing in influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are record here's world's largest finance year of international terrorism behind every problem is array and we've been trying

to do is to get iran to be him like a normal nation. less for john bolton and his approach to foreign policy and we unearth a 2010 interview where he admits that he would lie in the name of u.s. national security in a moment asks americans what they think about john bolton has a very important job keeping americans safe after all that is the job of the national security adviser and it's very important for americans to trust someone in that position john bolton wasn't always the national security adviser here's something he said before he got the job if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it so considering that john bolton has a pretty important position in terms of influencing the president on international matters you think it might be a concern if he says things consistently that turn out to be false we decided to ask new yorkers. iran continues to seek nuclear weapons and intimidate peaceful

people is that true not. true right yes that's false. so the one year period that we've talked about from the point where north korea makes to strategic decision to denuclearize is something that north and south koreans have already agreed to is that true or false false that sounds like something that's not true doesn't seem to fit right. i'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities well i mean just the other quotes pretty much speak for themselves that john bolton doesn't seem to have a golden record however that doesn't seem to put him in any danger of losing his job at least for now. you would lie in order to preserve the truth if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it bolton is the point man the lead men and the jackal to carry this effort to for it and to

topple the elected government of iran and while we can see the history and record of john bolton as being in favor of the wars from iraq to going as well it's all wrong and he's always in favor of imperial wars abroad so from a political perspective we have to see this as a reflection of the system itself the united states they want the oil in iran and whenever a bully wants to take something out of the year position then they will allege provocations to justify that violence that they're getting ready to perpetuate it seems the top administration has already briefed almost everyone on the drawing of reining in threats apart from apparently the us senate which looks like he's being kept in the dark over the plans. i would urge the state department to come down

here and explain to us what's going on i've come to the fore in the law. and to demand answers by this administration about a wrong about its policy we need to understand what we're doing the hearings that are done in secret do not for inform the american people of what's going on i demand to know why we have deployed. the american military assets we do not need another iraq weapons of mass destruction moment that tender box of the middle east is no place to operate on impulse or whim. that's the appearance this administration has created by lacking a clearly articulated strategy for the american people to know and it's that is the president this behavior is not acceptable. the feud between the

philippines and canada over waste disposal as to with another recalling it some of their own consuls this is up to canada has refused to take tons of garbage shipped to the philippines several years ago. that the recall shows that we are. very serious in asking them to get back there otherwise they're in a severe relationships with them now this dispute began back in 2013 when a private canadian company sent more than 100 containers of trash to the philippines they troops discovered they'd been falsely labeled as containing recyclable plastic in fact they contain household waste in 2016 the philippines court ordered the company to take the shipment back but that hasn't happened last month the philippines president threatened drastic action against canada. will

declare war against canada we can take them down i'll return the trash just wait and see i will advise canada that your garbage is on the way prepare grant reception eat it if you want to it is now theoretically possible to get it back but there's still a number of questions around who will pay for it where the financial responsibility is where the consequences are. the move comes months after chinese or thora t. said refuse to accept recyclable waste from the us forcing it along with other western countries to rethink what they do with their trash which darian foreign affairs analyst the miller says that just in to do has failed to fulfill a promise he made 2 years ago to take back the shipments. well for a very long time to be unfortunately a recipient of toxic waste including nuclear waste of some of the united states in so far west reallocates so this issue has been lingering for quite long science fiction a day in one of those however i was

a summer of 0.4 for the philippines for your president to go to target because with no plans or just introduced us here in the uk 2 years ago for the audience saw me promise that they were going to take back the trash garbage. was left you're a little girl it's a $1032.00 your skin does not mean every comedian going to say that this was a friday that deal between the media conversely if syllabi the functor the 1st get it is also say that you know it's not only can they get all these also whoever it was able to accept this back in 2000 in the philippines but clearly this is the greatest diplomatic prize this could get. to launch or lace philippines or canada. a dispute about the building of a new church in a russian city that's collated into a standoff the spin going on now for several days following clashes between the opposing sides on the number of arrests even putin got involved he's more if

a national has the details. this has been going on for some time already off to the authorities in russia as c.t.o. if you could in the east of moscow decided to build a new tour of st catharines cathedral on the city's main central square to marketing works 300th anniversary some people get really upset saying this will need to destroy one of the city's few green areas and on monday for the 1st time this discontent took to the streets following a call on social media some several 100 people gathered around a temporary fence marking the sport where the church is supposed to be build chanting we want to square. apparently at some point it went wild according to the region's governor the protesters managed to throw this fence they were arguing with the police and security on the ground. refusing to leave the area and there were clashes between these people and those who support the construction of the church

the government decided to have an emergency meeting inviting both sides but as a result decision was made to go on with the construction and this is why on tuesday the protests continued with 26 people arrested at the end of the day with 3 taking to the hospital including one with a broken rib according to local police reports it went on on wednesday as well. another 21 protester is detained by local police and earlier on thursday russia's president vladimir putin was asked to comment on this situation during a media forum that is currently happening in russia's southern city of sochi and was met putin has said that when he 1st learned about this situation indicated in what he was rather surprised because there is only one and very easy way to resolve this issue to know the opinion of the majority of the people living in this area and to go on with their decision and this should be done through local referendum.

everyone has the right to express opinion if this is the opinion of local inhabitants the opinion has certainly to be taken into account there is a simple method to conduct the poll and minority must all be majority but the interests of this minority should be taken into account as well the investors ensure there will be another forest nearby and that there will be more rather than less trees and shortly after vladimir putin's comments on the situation in you considering what we've heard from local authorities that they support the idea of local referendum. this is our international thanks for staying with us this evening do stick around if you can michael thomas as all the latest for you in half of them .

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