breaking news this hour the u.s. strikes iranian backed militia facilities across iraq the operation reportedly comes in retaliation for wednesday's attack on a coalition base that killed 3 soldiers. former army intelligence analyst and whistleblower chelsea manning has been released from jail it comes just a day after she attempted suicide she has been refusing to testify further in the u.s. government's leaks probe. e.u. leaders lambaste president decision to suspend all air travel to the u.s. from 26 european countries stressing that the coronavirus pandemic requires a coordinated international response.

certainly glad to have you with us the u.s. has struck hezbollah facilities across iraq the pentagon says in their statement they say that the strikes were in response to the threat posed by iranian backed shia militia groups some arabic language media earlier reported that in the iranian revolutionary guard general may have been killed in that strike what you're seeing now are unverified pictures of the attack now the pentagon is supposed to be holding a briefing on today's events later we are following the situation of course and we'll keep you posted as we get more information and as it develops. just to remind you on wednesday an attack on a u.s. led coalition base near the iraqi capital baghdad killed 3 soldiers has praised the attack but has not taken responsibility as of yet. a judge has

ordered u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning be released from jail ruling her detention no longer serves any purpose this 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 banning 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 saskia taylor got more on the developments from our 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 and everything is now 5 there is no danger to her health she she's responsive she's talking to lawyers some are just talk 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 we can leaks for leaking to wiki leaks thousands hundreds of thousands of classified documents from the pentagon.

give us a bit of backstory 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 what 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 won't do it this is 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 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 talks she was led to for a few months then ordered back to prison until she talked furthermore. as well progressively larger fired every day at this point she's been fined a $1000.00 for standing by her principles censured and you talk there about how it's been a kind of tough 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 and 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. 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 chronic virus crisis the block's leaders on thursday defended the measures they have taken to tackle the pandemic and stressed the need for international coordination reporting from berlin here's artie's bureau of. well 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 need to 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 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 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 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 us they're not covered nor on members 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 corona virus so i think it's a very it's a business that productivity but also limiting travel tourism and large public event as new cases reported in europe a huge spike in cases like italy on lockdown the sweeping quarantine affected 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 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 europe to rely on the hardest hit in the world for the 8. sorely need. after good that we 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 we will step up our efforts to export urgently needed materials and equipment to italy literally told us of protective clothing face masks gloves 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 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 can farm and 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 of 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 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 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 other members were left only impressed i don't want to comment on the city. 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 it's deficient in how to tackle it peter all of. 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 r.t. met an emergency room doctor to learn more about the difficulties facing health workers there.

are not just that 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 arrived in our emergency room with corona virus like the ammonia. 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 reach its limit. ringback approximately 40 patients that are waiting to be admitted will be the same problem which is coronavirus like.

in an unprecedented move britain's supreme court has found that experimenting with explosives can actually be illegal it is after a man was cleared of terror related charges 22 year old chaz 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 sentence but has now been cleared of the more serious terror targets. as a matter of law personal experimentation and self education are lawful objects we discussed the ruling with david lowy former police officer and senior law researcher and 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 aspect of terrorism this country the u.k. faces of serious threats from 3 fronts there's a mist 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'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 wasn't able 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 the individual in a shared with exploded when he was also make initiators and detonators and i want to know why would any. 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 potential use of firearms we know why he was doing what he was doing now obviously in another case where someone's trying to hide it and

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 planning as that is not impossible to me is 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 a little full purpose and that's what they said and i agree with the. us a 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 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 losses being partly blamed on his own target voters many of whom believe their voices are no longer being heard artie's. comments 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 behind your logical. 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 ok do you plan to vote in the upcoming primary vote maybe. maybe 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. cause it doesn't make any sense to close the most to the kinds of the. people sometimes the lines are really long but. not as long as adults do that's what younger people just either don't think it's important as or so when people voting or they just. i 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 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 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 i'd go so to. buy them 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. 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. 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 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. well bernie sanders looks to keep himself in the race to take on donald trump in november. orders of one of his former rivals have been reflecting on the short lived to run for their favorite candidate they've gotten inventive with tattoos of elizabeth warren's campaign slogan at the designs have been causing offense take a look. if

you're thinking of getting the tattoo you know on or off your favorite politician please don't. look like or whatever but my grandparents had concentration camps. and it just seems insane that they would think if it weren't supporters branding themselves with holocaust and crypto fascist imagery it's 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 didn't want to evoke light of the holocaust so i apologize for missing the mark. and 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. 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 of beginning to die off and so in the west the perpetrator or perpetrators have also die 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 that's

beginning to fade into historic memories and we need to find ways of making it real for 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. and that doesn't for me this i'll be back in about 34 minutes with a look at your headlines this is art international. 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. you are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi. i'm aware of that. leverage all you like. and you can never forget maybe you can now auschwitz was really like to be inhaled because you would never believe it but it still matter. you know too as an operating cost for 3 years i'm open to be very bad at all seems so a lot over the years i know you will make it all right when i get out on the fine saw you know you take my son to their next deal so he can listen and hopefully bless her experience. as

a budget we talk about trump he's gonna demystified so political space if you weren't clear before like these folks are no better deny 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 really are a lot of system where these people get away with you know misrepresenting us why not step up and do it yourself. to stand up as a nation from which to do yes and. i think there's a month for the full forward of the troika 1st for. guys left to try to accomplish. the. purpose.

it was because the global world was going to have to use these is it in your voice you. have looks like a must move in this part of the family and you're fighting with the left and that's . something left for china that's focus of so much because of the south. was.

greetings and salutation. while my friends cope maintain is now officially a pandemic according to the world health organization and in response on the rising number of cases crisscrossing the united states as you would imagine our fearless leaders on capitol hill reacted in the only way they know how political finger pointing and big money corporate donors bootlicking us president donald trump took to the airwaves looking quite pickett i might add to announce that yes we finally have to take this threat seriously and that keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to d.n.a. and it states for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at

midnight.