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those that you can burn in 6 hours quite easily. to keep in mind no assets to me into a place of. work. here in moscow in the headlines tonight former army intelligence analyst a whistleblower chelsea manning in the hospital after attempting suicide in jail she'd been refusing to testify further in the u.s. government's wiki leaks probe of bring it to speed the latest as we know it elsewhere coronavirus well we've got here here leaders lambasted president donald trump decision to suspend all air travel to the u.s. from 26 european countries stressing that the virus pandemic requires a coordinated international response and europe meantime struggling to find a common approach to tackle this virus outbreak with italy confirming tonight over 15000 people infected we speak to an emergency room doctor about the challenges
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he's on the very front line of this. it's clear that if the community doesn't follow the restrictions and the numbers continue to rise at a certain point our ability to help people who retreats minute. coming up to experimenting with explosives in britain can be lawful after the supreme court has cleared a man of terror related charges we discussed the ruling than. it was just experimentation it was just learning as the supreme court said you know i have to disagree you know we were talking about a little bit vidual in the show with the explosive being he was also make initiators and detonates as. they gave me very warm welcome for me kevin i mean this is art international life from a world view center here in moscow 1st an imprisoned u.s. army was so blurred chelsea manning is recovering in hospital after attempting suicide in jail she was due to appear in court on friday manning has been in prison
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since may for a future to testify against wiki leaks before a grand jury saskia taylor earlier got more developments from correspondent. but it was allegedly a very very close run thing because the gods when they found her she was hanging by a sheet in her cell unresponsive unconscious and blue already blue they got their entire unfortunately the they took her down administer 1st aid she was still breathing they rushed her to the hospital and then it is now 5 there is no danger to her health she she's responsive she's talking to her lawyers and unfortunately for you 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
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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 simmered just talk us through what happened what led to this moment has 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 weiqi leaks for leaking to wiki leaks thousands hundreds of thousands of classified documents from the pentagon.
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give us a bit of a box story i mean what has landed manning behind again well over the last she has been. 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 the let it go and the court ordered chelsea manning to testify before this parable 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
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judge no i won't do it this is you know this is the government abusing the law in order to go off the whistle blows to go off to journalists to muzzle them to shut them up which is something that chelsea manning doesn't want to do she further says that this is a she has already testified she has said what she had to say earlier on attempting to corus 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. 78 years ago it there's nothing new there's not they're not asking anything new 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
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a few months then ordered back to prison until she talked further more 5 as well progressively larger fired every day at this point she's. find a $1000.00 for standing by her principles essential and you talked there about how it's been a kind of tough a few years back that's probably an understatement i mean we know she spent such a long time in jail 7 years before then back again in march 29th i mean 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 and 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 measure amounting
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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 the order of judicial authorities obviously she tried to kill herself so the pressure must be getting to her and you know no matter how no matter how strong someone is how how how set by their principles they are incarceration in these huge winds and the pressure it all builds up. we're guys have see a correspondent there we spoke to with lawyer and activist kevin zeese he believes the whistleblower will never give in to pressure from u.s. officials. all cases of injustice and a violation of her basic human rights the secret grand jury system in the united states is very unfair it only allows the prosecutor in the room with the jurors no
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defense lawyer no defendant only hear one side of the story that's what manning is protesting so i know her and she's a very strong person but obviously it's a lot of pressure but i think she's more likely go out of their dead then testifying she is not going to change your opinion she's made that clear and that's why this friday the judge should end this injustice and release or this is a violation of u.s. law a violation of international law and needs to come to an end really signals where the trouble illustration is going when it comes to julian assange and wiki leaks they already have an indictment against julius onj they are not supposed to use the grand jury for the purpose of gathering evidence to prove that indictment but it shows to me that the government is not very confident about the evidence they have or about that indictment they want more. the e.u. has sharply criticized president trump's decision to suspend most air travel from
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europe for 30 days in response to the worsening coronavirus crisis the blocks leaders on thursday defended the measures that they've taken to tackle the pandemic and stressed the need for international coordination reporting from berlin painter all over. but what the world splits over the best way to try and deal with the coronavirus that continues to spread what we're seeing is a spot emerging between leadership and the u.s. president donald trump this is after the president announced a lot of travel for foreign nationals from within the zone in europe. to the united states apparently in a move he made well without consulting his allies on this side of the atlantic the president though says it was necessary to keep new creations from entering her sure's we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight the coronavirus
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is a global crisis not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action the european union disapproves of the fact that the us decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation with donald trump comes after the world health organization declared coronavirus to be a global pandemic but the more you look at it the more it seems well pretty arbitrary really those nations that it involves of the $26.00 that make up the shame game so it doesn't include the united kingdom it doesn't include ireland there's absolutely nothing to stop somebody say flying from here where i am in berlin over to london and then on to the united states saying somebody can fly from paris to dublin then on to the united states then when you look exactly who it involves it only involves foreign nationals so u.s. citizens and those with permanent residence can still travel from these countries
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also those married to u.s. citizens or permanent residents the parents or guardians of u.s. citizens of permanent residence under the age of $21.00 the same goes for siblings of those that fit that criteria plane crews also ship crews as well arriving in the u.s. they're not covered nor on them because of foreign governments it does seem incredibly convoluted it does seem like it's going to be a bit of a nightmare to enforce if it's actually even enforceable bought the news that it was announced that's hit the european economy pretty hard we've seen the markets tumble with stocks fall to their low. in the last 4 years but while. increasingly unhappy with the actions taken by the us president there's also infighting within the e.u. over the best way to handle coronavirus and also how to handle those member states hardest hit by this virus concern over the coronavirus is running at fever pitch in the e.u. right now it's now caught up in the corona virus panic sweeping the globe major
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concerts 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 that productivity but also limiting travel tourism and large public events is a new cases reported in europe a huge spike in cases italy italy on lockdown the sweeping quarantine back to the order of the population italy could be justified in promoting 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
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a multi-billion euro aid package for member states to help them deal with the crisis there was no specific aid for italy 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 facemask. 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 their beleaguered neighbor if we focus what we don't want things to get out of proportion as you fly because it needs to be useful and because this is only the
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beginning of the epidemic and if we take disproportionate measures they will be unsustainable in the long run and there's counterproductive because i sincerely believe that these are bad decisions if european carbonation is much more efficient deficit confinement postcodes 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 uncle or 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 by the muslim 1st in the us you 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. the truth of course more people will die here too perhaps recognising the disjointed
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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 and trenching itself in europe so it seems is division in how to tackle it peter all of a r.t. . news in from italy but it's not the crisis the deepening over 15000 have now been diagnosed with covert 19 with the death toll from the virus over a 1000. 1 emergency room doctor who spoke to us to learn about the difficulties facing medics there on the very front line of it.
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going up the rest of the night was very exhausting just like all nights over the past 2 weeks around here we saw dozens and dozens of people of varying ages that arrive at our emergency room with coronavirus like you many of us. to it it's clear that if the community doesn't fall of the restrictions on the numbers continue to rise at a certain point our ability to help people will reach its limit. ringback approximately 40 patients that are waiting to be admitted will be the same problem which is coronavirus like.
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other news tonight in an unprecedented move britain supreme court has found that experimenting with explosives can be legal itself for a man who was cleared of terrorism charges he's 22 year old chaz copeland who was diagnosed with autism and was arrested in 2018 of to making homemade bombs and conduct the experimental explosions in his backyard he was initially charged with 6 counts of possessing information likely to be useful for an act of terrorism copeland was early 122 month prison sentence but has now been cleared of the most serious tera charges. as a matter of law personal experimentation and self education are lawful objects well we discussed the ruling with david low he's a former police officer and senior low researcher and also with human rights lawyer sure can. 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
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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 aspect of terrorism this country the u.k. faces a terrorist threat from 3 fronts there's a missed the extreme far right than the 0 nazis i don't lessons to give give give in this defense of experimentation and and education but 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 the small plate 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
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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 there's no legitimate reason it's like with firearms moby thought issues in the past we've introduced legislation to curtail 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 and investigated in a different way but the whole point is that it can be an innocent pursuit it can be
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an innocent hobby it can be just for self learning as that is not impossible to meet the legal points 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 ringback purpose and that's what they said and i agree with the. race for the white house was to mccraney presidential candidate bernie sanders says he'll continue campaigning despite a fresh loss in the primaries to rival joe biden they said to go head to head in the next t.v. debate on sunday donald trump must be defeated and i will do everything in my power to make that happens on sunday night in the 1st one on one debate of this campaign the american people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal so sunday's loss has been partly blamed on target voters many of whom believe the voices are no longer being heard kellam
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opens across if we tonight the last day of democratic primary voting did not go too well for bernie sanders and now many voices are calling for him to drop out of the race and clear the road for joe biden however sander says he is not willing to give up just yet now sanders says his campaign actually has the upper hand over his rival when it comes to the youth but it is not just behind your logical debate. oh this is what. we need the generational. change. in the future you need to. preserve the future oh country now the polls confirm what bernie sanders says young people like him more than they like joe biden and one of the goals of the bernie sanders campaign is to get them more involved in the electoral process but it's not
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as easy as it sounds how we've been as successful as i would hope in brigham young people and the answer is no but why young people aged 20 to 35 approximately adds up to roughly 60 samant 1000000 people if they all signed up to vote sanders would have quite the edge but they haven't done that turnout among younger voters remains comparatively low some blame the procedure for registering to vote for the 1st time for students who are going to school in another state registering to vote can get quite complicated some said that the electoral college and the party primary process is very confusing and complicated and the quality of education on civic matters is quite low we decided to talk to some younger people here in new york city and find out why the numbers of young people going out to vote is so low did you vote in the last election now do you plan to vote in the upcoming primary vote maybe. maybe better believe it yeah why might you not vote. that just doesn't make
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sense at the public's opinion doesn't even matter when it comes to a presidential election now why do you think a lot of young americans don't vote. because it doesn't make any sense to close the most the defense of the. people sometimes the lines are really long but. not as long as adults do that's what younger people just see there it don't think it's important as are so if people voting or they just. i don't know actually i can tell you why i feel like a lot of them probably think that their vote doesn't make a difference so he's as what i hear from a lot of my friends who can't vote so that's probably the devil is what happened last election as well i don't think they feel that their voices heard it as one of their reasons and i don't think that they really understand what a difference it makes in our democracy today are you going to vote for sanders or biden. sanders like to keep that to myself i guess i like both of them or go to. buy them i think as i stand right now is leaning more toward sanders now the
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sanders campaign has been reaching out to younger voters with catchy slogans and internet memes some say this could hurt him with older voters who don't like the resentful towner radicalism coming from the sanders campaign on the other hand it's the younger generation struggling with historic levels of debt and lack of health care who have the most to gain or lose you know there are so many factors involved with young voters that are unique to that demographic one is that often it may be their 1st time voting so registration and voter id laws that number of factors that can influence turnout such as the fact they might have classes. voting days its own typically skewed to turn out for young voters to be lower in the united states you have to go through a few hoops to be able to vote. you know if most people consider those hoops to be in place to depress turnout overall we have election days are working days so that
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means working class voters students who have classes to go to people who have mobility challenges to get to polling places maybe because of on places really far from their home all of those voters are going to turn out at a lower rate because physically voting is harder for that. while bernie sanders looks to keep himself in the race to take on donald trump in november supporters of one of his former rivals have been reflecting on a short lived run for their favorite candidate they've been even getting inventive with tattoos of elizabeth warren's campaign slogan no less but the designs have been causing offense take a look. i . think.
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if you're thinking of getting the whole tattoo you know and or your favorite politician please don't. look like or whatever but my grandparents had concentration camps to sing now and it just seems insane that they would think if it weren't supporters branding sales a holocaust and crypto fascist imagery is not the turn i expected but in retrospect most modern world system is collapsing so. thanks to all who called me on this i didn't want to evoke a very meek light of the holocaust so i apologize for a mission to mars. and
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you all i'm sorry as well and will be making modifications i would recommend for frank sure thinking of a similar to to please luke filter 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 the capital 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. the stand that there is to accept the fact that some really don't get it at this point it's an historic event it's beginning to fade into historic memories and we need to find ways of making it real to 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
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know what this was all a balance and we need to find the right the right balance but obviously. no one should be doing things like that. and still 8 months ago to the big vote of course . much more know the story. of the track of the latest on coronavirus 2 and other social media just 28 minutes past 11 the evening here in moscow thank you for watching if you run the world i'm kevin i went out with more in just over half an hour the next programs and your part of the world or on and off this break in. just a couple of minutes from the. budget we talk about he's going to demystified so political space if you weren't clear before like these folks are no better so you know i you know you can reach out to friends say you know take responsibility maybe run for office at the end of
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the day you know i don't see how we've got a system where these people get away with you know misrepresenting us why not step up and do it yourself. we have to realize we are all living on a small fragile spaceship together and it's really no different than a bunch of people in a harsh environment trying to rely on each other to survive we are interconnected on this planet we rely on each other everywhere around the world to survive as a species.
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i am asked kaiser this is the kaiser report let's start off with a quote from our board einstein here who once said that compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world he who understands it earns it he who doesn't pays it this is a remarkable quote for most i mean it has so much to do with today's stock market volatility and the coronavirus all working at the same time and showing what compound interest is all about or what exponential algorithmic expediency is of yet stacy with up max we're thinking exponentially in this episode a kaiser report during the exponential spread of the pandemic coronavirus we're looking at the 2nd half of the chessboard as it is called and i want might want to add that today is my birthday so.

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