we reached. full mommy intelligence on the found whistleblower chelsea manning is in hospital often attempting suicide in jail she has been refusing to testify father in the u.s. government's wiki leaks probe. your struggles to find a common approach to talk to the corona virus outbreak which is now tossed out the global pandemic by the world health organization. denying to be. funded me. to experimenting with explosives in britain can be legal after supremes court ruling cleared a man of terror related charges. and

it's just gone 11 am here this morning and must go from the whole team in our newsroom a very warm welcome to the program and off story for you this hour imprisoned to u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is recovering in hospital after attempting suicide in jail she was due to appear in court this friday manning has been in prison since may for refusing to testify against wiki leaks before a grand jury waddy i got more developments on the story from correspondent. well it was allegedly a very very close run thing because the guards when they found her she was hanging by a sheet in her cell unresponsive unconscious and blue already blue they got there in time fortunately the they took her down administer 1st aid she was still breathing lee rushed her to hospital and then i think is now 5 there is no danger

to her health she she's responsive she's talking to her lawyers and unfortunately for her to appear in court tomorrow a day after you know a near death experience ms manning is still scheduled to appear on friday for a previously calendared hearing she remains unwavering in her refusal to participate in a secret grand jury process that she sees as highly susceptible to abuse her actions today evidence the strength of her convictions as well as the profound harm she continues to suffer as a result of her civil confinement and give us a bit of back story i mean what has landed manning behind bars again well over the last she has been a seesaw for chelsea manning a very unpleasant one so last year she was ordered to testify before a grand jury a grand jury is a panel of citizens who have been called by the state to investigate whether

a crime has been committed and more to do about it whether to prosecute or whether to let it go and the court ordered chelsea manning to testify before this panel about her ties to julian assange and wiki leaks about the documents that she had handed over in 2010 something that she says she has already done so she said to the judge no i won't do it this is getting you know this is the government abusing the law in order to go after whistle blows to go after journalists to muzzle them to shut them up which is something that chelsea manning doesn't want to do she for. the says that this is a she has already testified she has said what she had to say earlier or try to talk to chorus me with a grand jury subpoena is just not going to work. i will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury the questions are the same questions that i was asked before the court martial in my you know in 78 years ago there's nothing new there's not

they're not asking anything new they are out there there's no new information that they're trying to get from me in fact that the questions are very much the the same things that i've gone over the judge didn't like that at all so he ordered her to be indefinitely detained incarcerated behind bars until she talked she was let go for a few months then ordered back to prison until she talked furthermore there's a fire as well a progressively larger fired every day at this point she's been fined a $1000.00 for standing by her principles essential and he talks there about how it's been a kind of tough a few years for us probably an understatement i mean we know she spent such a long time in jail 7 years before then back again in march 29th teen i mean i have human rights reacted to their son and what what has been the reaction of those there's been all sorts of reaction from from of variety of organizations from

rights groups from journalists unions and. many organizations have come out and said what is happening is simply unacceptable the u.n. says that what the united states is doing keeping her president till she says what's the what they want to hear is essentially torture continued detention of manning is not a lawful sanction but an open ended progressively severe coercive mentira mounting to torture and should be discontinued and abolished without delay the practice of coercive depreciation of liberty for civil contempt involves the intentional infliction of progressively severe mental and emotional suffering for the purposes of coercion and intimidation and you. so mark just talk us through what's happened what's led to this moment as a sentence initially which is many years over a decade was commuted by barack obama said 7 years so chelsea manning was jailed back in 2010 for providing. for leaking to wiki leaks thousands hundreds of

thousands of classified documents from the pentagon. obviously she tried to kill herself so the pressure must be getting to. you know no matter how no matter how strong someone is how how how set by the principles

they are incarcerated in these huge winds and the pressure it will build john unless daniel says that are dangerous and pursuing wiki leaks and whistleblowers. the chelsea manning's attempted suicide shows the highly punitive nature of this entire u.s. investigation into wiki leaks and they are essentially they've accused julian masonic of attempting to hack. top secret u.s. computers which is a very strange thing because he really only functioned as a journalist not as a hacker if they succeeded next year out in june a songe and and putting on him on trial. and then convicting him then essentially any journalist who receives any information at all from any kind of government source will be in grave danger of being accused of encouraging

and thereby abetting the leaking of secret information so essentially it's a it's a it's a direct threat to journalism as we know it and that's if the sodgers convicted then really half of journalism will be shut down so i think it's very serious it's very dangerous. and i think that any journalist worth his salt should be up in arms or your government is doing. corona virus infections have now been registered and 114 a countries needing the world health organization to now classify could have a 1000 as a pandemic the number of affected countries so. we have that for them in the system and that could feed 19 can be kind of as a pundit mix and you're at it even means the biggest concern with more than $10000.00 and cases of coronavirus automat an imagined season doctor to learn more

about the difficulties facing medics. to turn up the rest of the night was very exhausting just like all nights over the past 2 weeks around here we sold dozens and dozens of people of varying ages that arrived at our emergency room with coronavirus like the amount of us. not to clear that if the community doesn't follow the restrictions on the numbers continue to rise at a certain point our ability to help people who reach its limit. approximately

40 patients that are waiting to be admitted it will be the same problem which is coronavirus like you know. what across the e.u. the number of corona virus cases has topped 20000 our europe correspondent put all of our looks into how the block is struggling to establish a joint response. concern over the corona virus is running at fever pitch in the year right now it's now caught up in the corona virus panic sweeping the globe major concepts and sports events could well be canceled in an effort to stop the spread of the corona virus so i think it's a very impactful business staff productivity but also limiting travel tourism a large public event is a new cases reported in europe a huge spike in cases italy italy on lockdown the sweeping quarantine affected

order of the population italy could be justified in moaning a lack of unity from their neighbors earlier this week the italians pleaded with brussels for more help rome should not be left out of this crisis alone this is a crisis that requires a global 1st and foremost a european response we are thankful to the european commission for its positive engagement but it's time now for the e.u. to go beyond engagement and consultations with emergency actions that are quick concrete and effective while the european commission announced a multi-billion euro aid package for member states to help them deal with the crisis there was no specific aid for italy announced leaving the hardest hit in europe to rely on the hardest hit in the world for the aid they sorely need not forget that italy supported china during the most difficult times of fighting the pedantic now we also want to stand by the italian people although china still has a large demand for medical supplies will step up our efforts to export urgently

needed materials and equipment to eataly literally tons of protective clothing facemasks globes and all important lifesaving ventilators from china are expected to be in italy by the weekend meanwhile the e.u. nations can't decide what to do with italy with some fencing themselves off from that beleaguered neighbor it be. what i should focus is what we don't want things to get out of proportion why because it needs to be useful and because this is only the beginning of the epidemic and if we take disproportionate measures they will be unsustainable in the long run and that's counterproductive i sincerely believe that these are bad decisions european carbonation is much more efficient efforts that confinement hotspots are more efficient measures requiring patients to be responsible and stay home quarantine measures are much more efficient. and if you're expecting that powerhouse of european politics anger merkel to bring some

calm to the current situation you'd be disappointed the german chancellor is expecting things to get worse before they get better but a muslim 15 minutes view will start we have to understand that the population have no need to the virus there is no vaccine so far no treatment experts say about 60 to 70 percent of people in germany are likely to be in fact it if the virus continues spreading. but of course more people will die here perhaps recognizing the disjointed response from the european union the chancellor also called for solidarity and unity between the member states but all the e.u. members were left only impressed i don't want to comment on the situation in germany although i believe that such statements rather cause panic in any case we have adopted strong measures for such worst case scenarios to be out of the question with the coronavirus in trenching itself in europe so it seems is

division in how to tackle it peter all of a r.t. . but across the channel an unprecedented move britain supreme court has found that experimenting with explosives can be legal it's after a man was cleared of terror related charges 22 year old charles copeland who was diagnosed with autism was arrested in 20000 after making homemade bombs and conducting experiment explosions and his back yard he was initially charged with 6 counts of possessing information likely to be useful for an act of terrorism copeland was earlier 8 handed a 22 month prison sentence but has now being cleared of the most serious terror charges as a matter of law personal experimentation and self education are lawful objects we discussed the ruling with former police officer and leads back at university law school senior research david gallo as well as human rights lawyer. obviously every

case is different and we have to look at the facts of each case and this case the explosive substance that this 22 year old at that time perhaps even younger had made in in the unit in the garden shed in his house was just less than 10 grams of that substance my main question is why would anyone want to have explosives in the 1st place you know i look at it from from the the aspect of terrorism this country the u.k. faces a terrorist threat from 3 fronts there's a missed the extreme far right the neo nazis and the lessons to give given this defense of experimentation and and education i think this over use and over expansion expansion of terror offenses i think this is a good at least a good 1st step to say that no not everything where you see explosives or where you see something we don't quite understand what that person is doing or what their motives are it doesn't mean that they're they should be treated as a terrorist suspect the fact is that you know terrorism legislation has to be why

when you're investigating you want to prevent with a small plane you want to prevent an attack from happening just because someone has in their possession you know any amount of any explosive substance doesn't mean that they should be guilty of a criminal offense or a tariff fans because of his condition he might have had you know it does cause a person to become antisocial perhaps he was withdrawn perhaps he was an introvert he was unable to join the army as he wanted to because of this condition you know it was just experimentation it was just learning as the supreme court said you know self learning i mean if anything perhaps it's a benefit but i don't see any harm that came from it i have to disagree you know we were talking about an individual in a shared with explosive when he was also make initiators and detonators and i want to know why would anybody just want to have explosives on their own property because there's no legitimate reason it's like with firearms moby thought issues in the past we've introduced legislation to protect the use of firearms we know why he

was doing what he was doing now of the. another case where someone's trying to hide it we're not quite sure of someone's motives then they would question uninvestigated in different way but the whole point is that it can be an innocent pursuit it can be an innocent hobby it can be just for self learning as that is not impossible to me it's the legal point of the fact that you have these explosives and ok that could be a defense but with the 2 dissenting judges you need to lawful purpose and that's what they said ny agree with them got more stories off the short breaks that type. i was.

going to. hook up. with. girls to see. how to americans and one british soldier have been killed and at least 12 others injured in a rocket attack on an iraqi base near baghdad the coalition has confound the instant but given no further details. 3 coalition personnel were killed during the rocket attack on camp taji iraq on march the 11th the names of the personnel are withheld pended next of kin notification in accordance with national policies is under investigation by the coalition and iraqi security forces petition rockets

were fired on a military base to the north of baghdad that houses american military personnel to american soldiers and one bush servicemen have been killed 12 people have been wounded and are being treated for their injuries now the following video purports to show the moment of the attack but it is and they were fired some are some are some are. not work more. so that it goes with our garden every clear but the vehicle that launched the rockets has been found an investigation has been launched now we are hearing of strikes that are happening in the iraqi province and in the syrian area of book near the border it is not certain whether these are telling a true text for the strikes on the air base but it certainly does seem that way at the moment at the same time we can tell you that tensions in the region and particularly in iraq have been increasing ever since the assassination of a top in rain in general cause some sort of money so short time ago and since then

we've seen these tensions escalate. retired u.s. air force left town and colonel current cost he says u.s. military violations abroad have created postell conditions. you know we have international international law and conditions of international conduct that we honor. that we expect other countries to honor in the united states we don't honor them at all apparently consider that any country can be a target any country can be an enemy and we do not need contrary to our constitution we do not need congressional declarations of war before we bomb industry other countries you know the american people are not well informed on foreign policy in general really are generally one side of it it's not just that we it's not just that we take along your hands that we invade and bomb other countries without warrant without a legal or rational justification for it we also lie about it before during and after. a u.s.

nuclear submarine has been caught on camera breaking through ice in the arctic with critics saying it's a clear sign of an increasing military presence in the far north the vessel was taking part in the u.s. led trail aimed at improving operational capabilities in the region. earlier this week u.s. and canadian fighter jets intercepted 2 russian wreck on a sense of off the coast of alaska the u.s. has been raising concerns over claimed threats in the arctic region last year

congress approved funding for 2 new icebreakers on back to plan for no less than 6 more and $2800.00 thousands of american soldiers took part in a large scale nato drill in norway meanwhile moscow has approved its new arctic state policy through 2035 it sets out the country's main objectives tasks and national interests the plan says russia is primarily focused on economic issues from improving living standards to local russians to fostering development and protecting the environment but u.s. officials remain unconvinced by fielding a long range missiles and expanding its military presence in the region russia has left us with no choice but to improve our homeland defense capability and capacity director of the oxford crisis research institute mark almond believes the potential for conflict in the arctic has reached a dangerous level. i think there is a danger of

a militarization of the arctic region and. that in turn raises questions of security for everybody concerned because we've got used in a sense to this grassed area being a relatively low tension area but now if you're going to have nuclear submarines perhaps sensible minds in moscow and washington could talk through this and come to some arrangement to regulate the presence of military forces and the use of them but sadly in recent years we've seen the united states withdrawing from arms control agreements so having a new one for the arctic region is maybe too optimistic. hope that is too optimistic. for many nations colonialism might be seen as a dirty word but not so in britain a survey that has found that a 3rd of bret's hanker for the long lost days of empire as artie's k. partridge explains. it was deemed the empire on which the some never set such was its past size but for those on the receiving end of britain's imperial ambitions it

was often a dark chapter in the history. yet the colonial crimes of the british empire seem to be fading from modern memory a recent poll in the u.k. suggests this nostalgia for the old days with almost a 3rd of britain's proud of the empire and its achievements i think we did a lot of good just well for other people to the other countries britain isn't alone over a quarter of the french approve of their old empire and hauffe of the dutch are proud of that as imperialists claim literacy infrastructure such as well ways and

democratic values as positive effects on the conquered nations but others think it's a brutal system that was inherently unfair but depends very side of the fence he said on obviously if you were late saying it is a good idea if you're on the other side it was this i guess it was good for us i'm not sure he's good for the people of the empire necessarily while the sun has set on most of the old empire there are still pockets of dispute london is currently involved in an ongoing drought with militia switch condemns the u.k. for controlling the chain goes archipelago in the indian ocean mauritians has called britain an illegal colonial occupier and is backed by the un but the u.k. disagrees the u.k. has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the british indian ocean territory which has been under continuous british government least since $814.00 there are other vestiges of empire which still cause. fence such as the amritsar massacre in india in 1919 colonial troops killed around 600 armed people in what was incorrectly

believed to be an uprising the british government has never formally apologized while the current prime minister has his own view of colonialism the best fate for africa would be if the colonial powers or their citizens scrambled once again in her direction on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty boris johnson later apologized for his comments yet according to the latest poll the sentiments are widely felt in britain and across europe at a time when britain is searching for its place in the world after practice it someone looking to the past to forge an idea of its future take partridge ot london . and finally supporters of one u.s. election county who dropped out of the race have given themselves a permanent reminder of their efforts by getting to 2 is reflecting elizabeth warren's campaign slogan but the designs are causing offense let's take a look. if

you're thinking of getting the whole kill style tattoo you know on or off your favorite politician please don't. make him look like or whatever but my grandparents had concentration come to tucson and it just seems insane that they wouldn't think if it weren't supporters branding themselves with holocaust and crypto fascist imagery it was not the turn i expected but in retrospect the post-modern world system is collapsing so.

thanks to all who called me on this i do not want to or make light of the holocaust i apologize for missing the mark. hey y'all i'm sorry as well and i will be making modifications i would recommend for folks who are thinking of a similar tattoo please look for alternatives so you can look at it from 2 perspectives the answer is on 1st level no you shouldn't be you should not be spared because of ignorance on the other hand we need to come to grips with the fact also that we're in an age where the last of the survivors are beginning to die off and so on the west look at the perpetrators have also died and to a young person it's very hard if they haven't start steeped in it to really understand the meaning of it and we need. to stand that they have to accept the

fact that some really don't get it at this point it's an historic event that's beginning to fade into historic memories and we need to find ways of making it real quick to these people so i don't think they can be totally forgiven on the other hand we need to keep in mind the fact that you know we do the generation that the getting to not to know what this was all the bounty and we need to find the right the right balance but obviously. no one should be doing things like that. but that's coming away now the. markets bleed again at the world health organization labeled the coronavirus

a pandemic this is the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm going to bore and i'm lucky i'm in washington trying to. get that down as much as 5 per cent in the u.s. after that i'll be expelled announcement one thing done to ease the pain. and other factors taking up the market. plus we've discussed the breakdown of supply chain for the kind we now turn our attention to the pain being felt in europe we'll go in depth with expert analysis we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and as corona virus continues to spread around the globe the world health organization has officially labeled it a pandemic. husband i'm still seeing this outbreak around the cloak and we're deeply concerned by the i'm not a mean levels of spread and see very easy and by the unknown to me live it was an option. we have that for.