former army intelligence analyst and whistleblower chelsea manning has been released from jail this comes just a day after she attempted suicide she has been refusing to testify further in the u.s. government probe. the leaders of lambaste president donald trump's decision to suspend all air travel to the u.s. from 26 european countries stressing that the coronavirus pandemic requires a coordinated international response. europe struggles to find a common approach to tackle the virus outbreak with italy confirming over 15000 people in fact that we speak to an emergency room doctor about the challenges he faces. the community doesn't follow the restrictions on the numbers continue to

rise and a certain point our ability to help. and experimenting with explosives in britain can be lawful after the u.k. supreme court clears a man of terror related charges we discussed the ruling. it was just experimentation it was just learning as the supreme court said you know i have to create you know we were talking about an individual in the shed with the explosive being he was also make initiators and detonates is. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us we'll start with some breaking news this hour the u.s. led coalition in iraq has struck iranian backed militias science reports citing.

u.s. officials say the operation is said to be in retaliation for the recent attack on a coalition base near baghdad which killed 3 soldiers earlier today u.s. defense secretary mark esper warned that the perpetrators would be held accountable . the judge has ordered us army whistleblower chelsea manning released from jail ruling her detention no longer serves any purpose that comes after she attempted suicide on wednesday. manning's appearance before the grand jury is no longer needed in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose the court further finds that enforcement of the accrued conditional fines would not be punitive but rather necessary to the course of purpose of the court's civil contempt order manning is still recovering in the hospital it is unclear whether manning will be jailed again if she fails to pay the fine she has been in prison since may for refusing to testify against wiki leaks before

a grand jury artie's saskia taylor got more on the developments earlier from correspondent. government 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 there in time fortunately the they took her down administer 1st aid she was still breathing they rushed her to the hospital 'd and then it is now 5 there is no danger to her health she's she's responsive she's talking to lawyers some are just talk us through what's happened what's not 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 we kill leaks for leaking to wiki leaks thousands hundreds of thousands of classified documents from the pentagon.

give us a bit of a box 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 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 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 corus 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 a few months then ordered back to prison until she talked furthermore there's a 5 as well a progressively larger fight every day at this point she's been fined a $1000.00 for standing by her principles sent. you talked there about how it's been a kind of tough a few years back not 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

a via ride the variety of organizations from rights groups from journalists unions and many organizations have come out and said what is happening is simply unacceptable. the e.u. has sharply criticized president trump's decision to suspend most air travel from europe for 30 days in response to the worsening coronavirus crisis the blocks of leaders on thursday defended the measures they have taken to tackle the pandemic and stressed the need for international coordination reporting from berlin whose artie's pretty. 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 spotter merging between the e.u. leadership and the us 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 cases 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 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 counsel. nation with donald trump to ban 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 that make up the shingle and 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. citizens a 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 lowest in the last 4 years but while e.u.

leaders are increasingly unhappy with the actions taken by the u.s. 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 concert over the coronavirus is running at fever pitch in the year right now it's now caught up in the coronavirus panic sweeping the major concepts and sports events could well be canceled in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus something of severe impact on business staff productivity but also limiting travel tourism. it's public about new cases reported in europe a huge spike in cases italy italy on lockdown sweeping quarantine affecting order of the population italy could be justified in promoting a lack of unity from the e.u. 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 date 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 we will step up our efforts to export urgently needed materialis and equipment to italy literally tomes 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 believe good 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 unsustainable in the long run and there's counterproductive because i sincerely believe that these are bad decisions that european carbonation is much more efficient as it confinement. sports are more efficient measures requiring patients to be responsible and stay home quarantine measures are much more efficient. and if you're expecting not 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 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 none 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 too 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 and to be out of the question with the coronavirus in trenching itself in europe so it seems is deficient in how to tackle it peter all of a r.t. . as the coronavirus crisis deepens in italy over 15000 have now been diagnosed

with covered 19 with the death toll from the virus over 1000 our team met an emergency room doctor to learn more about the difficulties facing health workers there. the night was very exhausting just like all nights over the past 2 weeks around. dozens and dozens of people the varying ages that arrive at our emergency room with coronavirus like the ammonia ringback. if the community doesn't fall of the restrictions the numbers continue to rise at a certain point our ability to help people reach its limit. ringback

approximately 40 patients that are waiting to be admitted it will be the same problem which is coronavirus like. in an unprecedented move britain's supreme court has found that experimenting with explosives can be legal it is after a man was cleared of terror related charges 22 year old copeland who is diagnosed 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 was earlier handed a 22 month prison sentence but has now been cleared of the more serious terrorist

charges as a matter of law personal experimentation and self education are lawful objects we discussed of the ruling with david low a former police officer and senior law researcher and human rights lawyer tribe khan. 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 aspect of terrorism this country the u.k. faces a terrorist threat from 3 fronts the islamists the extreme far right the neo nazis that are lessons to give 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 are 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 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 mobley 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. in 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 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 are located could be a defense but with a 2 dissenting judges you need a lawful purpose and that's what they said not agree with them. coming up down but not out bernie sanders vows to continue his presidential campaign despite another loss to joe biden in the democratic primaries more on that after a short break this is international.

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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 we are interconnected on this planet we rely on each other or do around the world to survive as a species. welcome back this is our t. international now usa democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders says that he will continue campaigning despite a fresh loss in the primaries to rival joe biden they go head to head in the next a 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 sanders is lost is being partly blamed on his own target of voters many of whom believe their voices are no longer being heard artie's came up and has commentary 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 sanders 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 the ideological debate. oh this is what. we need the generational. 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 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. navy better believe it 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 the most the the kinds 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 employ. because there so if people are voting or they just. don't 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 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 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 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 this may be 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. 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 if 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 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 which is basically voting is harder for that. while bernie sanders looks at to keep himself in the race to take on donald trump in november supporters of one of his former rivals have been reflecting on the short lived to run for their favorite candidate they have gotten inventive with tattoos of elizabeth warren's campaign slogan but the designs have been causing offense to look.

i. think. if you're thinking of getting a tattoo you know or your favorite politician please don't. look like whatever my grandparents had concentration camps. and it just seems insane that they. weren't supporters. of crypto imagery is not the turn i expected but in retrospect post-modern world system is collapsing.

thanks to all who called me on this i didn't want to evoke for me client of the holocaust i apologize for missing the mark i. am sorry as well and will be making modifications i would recommend for sure are thinking of a similar to 2 please. so you can look at it from 2 perspectives the answer is 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 of beginning to die off and certainly the west look at the 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 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 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 about and we need to find the right the right balance but obviously. no one should be doing things like that. let's go back to our breaking news story this hour the u.s. has struck qatar hezbollah facilities across iraq the pentagon confirms it's now their statement says the strikes were in response to the threat posed by iranian backed shia militia groups yesterday an attack on a coalition base near baghdad killed 3 soldiers has praised the attack but has not taken responsibility as of yet. and that doesn't for me this hour be back in about 31 and a half minutes for another look at your new international. in

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