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it's just turned one of the morning early friday here in moscow good morning in the headline this is breaking news in a former army intelligence analyst and whistleblower chelsea manning has been released from jail the details just coming in it comes just a day after she attempted suicide she's been refusing to testify further in the u.s. government's wiki leaks probe will tell you more. asked president donald trump's decision to suspend all air travel to the u.s. from 26 you ripping countries stressing that the coronavirus pandemic requires a coordinated international response. as europe struggles to find a common approach to tackle the virus outbreak with italy confirming over 15000
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people infected we speak coming up to an emergency room doctor the reap from the end of this the frontline hearing about the challenges he's going through. to the community doesn't follow the restrictions on the numbers continue to rise and a certain point our ability to help people reach its limit. experimented with explosives in britain can be lawful off the supreme court has cleared a man of terror related charges we discussed that ruling that. you know 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 an individual in a shared with explosive being he was also makes initiators and detonates as. either. very good morning bill this is art international live with me kevin though
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in from our world view center here in moscow say just past one o one of the morning or the top story coming in the smalling development about chelsea manning the judge has ordered that the u.s. army whistleblower be released from jail with a judge ruling as far as we know at the moment her detention no longer serves any purpose is the reason given and that's after the attempted suicide on wednesday she's still recovering in hospital she had been due to appear in court later today friday but her appearance in court has been canceled manning's been imprisoned since may for refusing to testify against wiki leaks before a grand jury says could taylor earlier got more developments from our senior 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
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was still breathing they rushed her to the hospital and everything is now 5 there is no danger to her health she she's responsive she's talking to her lawyers so mark just took us through what's happened what's led to this moment has 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 backstory to this i mean what has planted money 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. 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 will do it this is you know this is the government abusing the law in order to go off the whistle blows to go off the 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 chorus me with a grand jury subpoena is 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 they're 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 talks she was led to for
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a few months then ordered back to prison until she talked furthermore 5 as well progressively larger fired every day at this point she's been fined a $1000.00 for standing by her principles censured you talk there about how it's been a kind of tough a few years back now it'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 teen 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. variety of organizations from rights groups from journalists unions and. many organizations have come out and said what is happening is simply unacceptable. we spoke earlier to lawyer and activist kevin zeese who believes chelsea manning is human rights have been violated here. but this whole case is an injustice and
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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 defense lawyer no defendant only hear one side of the story that's what manning is protesting 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 yellow more on that throughout the night but to chelsea manning not having to face trial in the next sharply criticized president trump's decision to suspend most air travel from europe for 30 days in response to the worsening coronavirus crisis the block's leaders on thursday defended the measures that they had taken to tackle the
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pandemic and stressed the need for international coordination reporting from berlin our europe correspondent peter all of. but with the world split over the best way to try and deal with the coronavirus that continues to spread what we're seeing is a spotter merging between your leadership and the u.s. president donald trump this is after the president announced a ban on 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 to coronavirus is a global crisis not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather
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than unilateral action the european union disapproves of the fact that the u.s. decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation with donald trump by an 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 involves of the 26 that make up the shame gained 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 also those married to u.s. citizens or permanent residents the parents or guardians of u.s.
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citizens or permanent residents under the age of $21.00 the same goes for siblings of those that fit that criteria plane crews. ship crews as well arriving in the us 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 putting news that it was announced that's hit the european economy pretty hard we've seen the markets tumble with stocks fall to their lowest in the last 4 years but while e.u. leaders are 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 major concepts and sports events could well be canceled in an effort to stop the spread of the
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corona virus so i think it's a very it's a business that productivity but also limiting travel tourism and large public events new cases reported in europe a huge spike in cases like italy on the last 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 to handle 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 1000000000 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
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europe to rely on the hardest hit in the world for the aid they see. sorely need. after get that italy supported china during the most difficult times of fighting the potomac 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 told us 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 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 beginning of the epidemic and if we take disproportionate measures they will be
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unsustainable in the long run and there's counterproductive i sincerely believe that these are bad decisions european carbonation is much more efficient efforts that 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 until a miracle 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 1st in the us if 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 cost more people will die here too perhaps recognising 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
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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. . does the crisis deepens in italy over 15000 have now been diagnosed with covert 19 with the death toll from the virus at over 1000 is estimated last evening an emergency room doctor there on the front line of this to try to learn more about the difficulties they're up against then other medics.
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no not just that the night was very exhausting just like all night so over the past 2 weeks around here we saw dozens and dozens of people of varying ages that arrive in our emergency room with coronavirus like. ringback 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 you. will continue to track it next and then the president said move britain supreme court has found that experimenting with explosives can be legal it saw for
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a man was cleared of terror related charges he is 22 year old jed's copeland whose dog those with autism was arrested in 2018 after making homemade bombs and conducting 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 has earlier handed a 22 month prison sentence but is now being cleared of the more serious terror charges as a matter of law personal experimentation and self education are lawful objects we talked about in more depth and with david low he's a former police officer and senior research and also human rights lawyer. obviously every case is different and we have to look at the fact of each case and this case the explosive substance that this 22 year old at the 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
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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 the neo nazis and the lessons they would have given this difference 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 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
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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. see in 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 is the legal point of the fact that you have these explosives and
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ok that could be a defense but with the 2 dissenting judges you need to lawful purpose and that's what they said and i agree with them for the race for us democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders says he'll continue campaigning despite a fresh loss in the primaries to rival joe biden the 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 why is it slipping will sunders loss is being partly played by his own voters many of whom believe the voices are no longer being heard kind of maupin's got the story. the last day of democratic primary voting did not go too well for bernie sanders and now many
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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 1 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 larger goal. the generational. change. is one or 2 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 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
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roughly 60 sand 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. navy better believe it yeah why might you not vote. it just doesn't make sense that 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 so those are
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the most the defense of the. people sometimes the lines are really long but. not as long as adults knew that's what younger people just either don't think it's important as are so many people in voting or they just. i know actually i can tell yeah well i feel like a lot of them probably think that their vote doesn't make a difference so he's as i hear from a lot of my friends who can 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 is one of the reasons that 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 i'd go so to. biden i think as i stand right now is leaning more toward sanders now the 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
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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 line is that often. maybe their 1st time voting so registration and voter id laws that number of factors that can influence turnout such as the fact that they might have classes 'd. voting days it's all 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 most people consider those hoops to be in place to depress turnout overall we have election days are working days so that means working class voters students who have classes to go to people who have
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mobility challenges to get to the 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 meantime i will buddy some of his looks to keep himself in the race than to take on donald trump in november supporters of one of his former rivals have been reflecting on a rather short lived run for their favorite candidate the begetting inventive with tattoos of elizabeth warren has complained slogan but the designs of course an offense to judge for yourself. i. think.
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if you're thinking of getting a holocaust style tattoo you know honor of 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 wouldn't think if it weren't supporters brown things they'll call costello and crypto fascist imagery is not the turn i expected but in retrospect post-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 missing the mark i. think. and you all i'm sorry as well and will be making modifications i would recommend for fall short of thinking of
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a similar to 2 please look 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 unless the capital perpetrators have also died and to a young person it's very hard if they haven't stolen steeped in it to really understand the meaning of it and we need. to understand that there have to accept the fact that someone is really don't get it at this point since the historical event it's beginning to fade into a story memories and we need to find ways of making it real 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 is beginning to not to know what this was all the balance and we need to find the right the right balance but obviously. no one should be doing things like that. i'll leave you those thoughts
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want to know in thanks for watching this i can tell you this it was so much more on t. dot com or a social media show on thomas is here in about a half an hour with more more on the chelsea money development have to go and testify later today we'll tell you more about the meantime big thanks for watching i can tell you off there is programs in your part of the world or on and off this break you folks mustn't go here so stand by stand by brace brace he's here in just about 90 seconds. with the coronavirus now officially declare depend amec the world faces the additional burden of an oil market collapse this comes at
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a time when demand for crude was already some for calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all ends but it's against. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability. it's accelerating the transition to sustainable transport sustainability and a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. it does not it didn't isn't the companies want us to feel good about the products while the damage is being done far away and this is something i'll just want any minute i need much. insist on moves in this new medium to me men and strengthen them in the basin and understood.
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budgets we talk about trouble he's gonna demystified this whole political space if you weren't clear before like these folks or are no better than us 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 the day you know i don't see how we move a lot a system where these people get away with you know misrepresenting us why not step up and do it yourself. the i'm. the in the umbrella. and the in the i'm lynn.
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neary. 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 from my study and 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.
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