chelsea manning. what was the reaction to the film there were mixed critiques but try back out so it was quite sad actually because the main protagonist couldn't even be there. in chelsea manning is currently back to prison because she is refusing once again to testify to a grand jury against wiki leaks and barry will read about it she's on the rubble but well she still sticks to her guns well it's going to be a lot of sort of attention for this film because of judy in a song being released just about it but i think salute like that krueger thanks very much. now with all the talk in recent times of looted african art here in europe that needs to be returned to its rightful owners it's nice to see museums in your cooperation with african museums for an exhibition of african art in germany southern german city of tubingen as an exhibition featuring congolese art from the nine hundred sixty s. to the present day. designer shoes and the clothes to go with them but this too is africa as reflected by artist

disclosing classified documents related to the national defense all of this is very much linked to chelsea manning who leaked astonished the now notorious iraq war logs and manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison but was then pardoned by then president barack obama back in 2017 she's now been subpoenaed to testify against a songe which she refuses to do so she's actually ended up back in custody as a result of that and this whole saga really entered its new legal phase last month when a songe was dragged out against his will from london's ecuadorian embassy the ecuadorian authorities revoked his claim to political asylum he's now serving out a 50 week sentence in a london prison for skipping bail back in 2012 when he originally entered the embassy he's also wanted in sweden stockholm is about to go through the motions of issuing their own extradition request because they want him to answer questions about an alleged sexual assault dating back to 2010 which is why here originally sought asylum in the embassy fearing he'd be extradited over to the u.s. and i think what's interesting here is that

p again chelsea manning. she was put in gel for her refusal to participate in a grand jury. yy manning launcnched an all-out attack on ththe grand jy system in general, but alalso hs talked about this in the context of a war on press freedom toast of everyone who believes -- "the new york times" and others are saying the ongoing persecution of chelsea manning and immediately be ended and she be released from prison.. lookok what has happened. they're either digging up old cases, trying to further book and anyone who does critical natitional security reporting. this is not about julian assange , 2016 election, sweden. this is a war on press. that newstal mistake organizations rerefuse to standp when they started coming for wikileaks and chelsea manning. they owe some of the responsibility for this. amy: i want to read chelsea manning's statement that she ont released from jail thursday. she said "this administration describes the press as the opposition party and then enemy of the people. today they use the law as a sword and have shown their willingness to bring the full powe

you know the pentagon had no interest in protecting chelsea manning so if they were saying that they got nobody hurt or killed back then it seems ridiculous that they were trying to claim that they did all of sudden now. of course over the years that the information released by wiki leaks has been quite valuable news fodder for a lot of u.s. news outlets do you think that just as culpable and should be held accountable and also why do you think they're not taking a stronger stance in support of a song in the face of all this well honestly i don't want to see them held accountable because they don't think anybody should be persecuted for doing journalism i think that the people who wrote about wiki leaks releases should be protected i think that we should be protected i don't think that attempting to help a source or maintain a friendly friend fleck friendly friendly relationship with the thorson sorry i'm very tired i haven't slept is a crime i think that that's something that any journalist worth their salt should be doing so no i don't want to see any other journalists. prosecuted

to release this material now it's important to note that chelsea manning is currently in jail in the united states for refusing to testify against julian assigned to the federal grand jury and at this point julian assange is also in jail in the united kingdom he has been sentenced and is in prison in jail in the united kingdom for refusing to go to court back in 2012 now he has recently received that sentence after being taken out of the ecuadorian embassy where he was staying for 7 years in order to in a void the charges that he faced in the united kingdom now all of this stems from the fact that wiki leaks has revealed a huge amount of classified information information that was provided to them by leakers this is some of the information that wiki leaks made public money on if you think. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service talks like a hot cocoa server. now it's important to note that julian a son just not an employee of the u.s. federal government he did not leak classified information rather classified information was leaked to him provided by sources and

army whistleblower chelsea manning is sent to prison for refusing to give evidence on wiki leaks and julian songs. in the philippines recalls its ambassador from canada in a dispute over vast amounts of trash shipped to the southeast asian country years ago. thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. us police have arrested 4 activists staging a sit in at the venezuelan embassy they were protesting against the expulsion of president president maduro diplomats last month and also u.s. interference in the country more details on the story here's artie's. please enter the building around 930 this morning but it wasn't until about 1115 that we saw those 4 activists being taken away in police transport vehicles now those 4 are from a group of activists who have been occupying the embassy for more than 3 weeks now and they say that their goal is to hold the building for the government of venice on president nicolas maduro despite the fact that the united states has recognized opposition leader one as the country's interim president now on monday we saw that police posted a notice on

and all of this also came out in the trial of chelsea manning as well so i could i could also comment on the specific allegations as well. is that perhaps it elements of the united states is trying to say look you know sweden is way you want to but all charges a much more serious you know you need to be extra it was not a possibility you certainly they've they've stacked them up to sort of expedite this is a priority but you have to remember being indicted by the department of just. this doesn't necessarily mean that you're guilty of any crimes and it doesn't necessarily mean that the d.o.j. will be able to make those charges stick this is the same department of justice that indicted 13 supposedly russian trolls for allegedly interfering in the us democracy but none of this is actually been proven and on closer inspection it looks like many of this these sort of charges could be bogus so the d.o.j. doesn't have a lot of credibility when it comes to politicized indictments and this is clearly a politicized indictment and based on the comments that been made about the saw and so

been made of 100 and some 75 years in prison but there is an element there that the fact that chelsea manning the private bradley manning has become because a transsexual who has become chelsea manning in jail. has been condemned to 35 years in prison though he was in the american army and he served only 7 so it's hopeful for for. the heroes to story that if you could do us a song that you would be condemned to many years in prison but that you would be freed growth if you quickly. journalists oh over the world have called washington's move an attack on free press to what extent can be called a journalist as you're saying he is viewed differently by different people. well it is indeed a question he's you journalist on artie's not officially a journalist he's clearly a whistleblower his revelations the 750000 documents that were revealed thanks to manning and assault have been used by the press all over the world and death had repercussions of course at the highest level in the u.s. and then the american army so it was really the impact was huge was enormous and it's a journalistic impact so y

history of the united states the superseding indictment alleges that a songe was complicit with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army in unlawfully obtaining a disclosing classified documents related to the national defense if convicted he faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison on each count except for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for which he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison now one of the federal statutes used against him julian assange in this indictment is the nineteen seventeen espionage act which was passed during the first world war and is known for its rather vague language and this is the first time the espionage act of one nine hundred seventeen has been leveled against a journalist for publishing classified material now in addition to that the indictment basically alleges that that chelsea manning who leaked information was doing so in conspiracy with julian assigns that now it's important to note the chelsea manning is currently in jail in the united states for refusing to testify against julian a songe to the federal grand ju

history of the united states the superseding indictment alleges that astonish was complicit with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army in unlawfully obtaining a disclosing classified documents related to the national defense now one of the federal statutes used against julian assange in this indictment is the 1917 espionage act which was passed during the 1st world war and is known for its rather vague language and this is the 1st time the espionage act of 1917 has been leveled against a journalist for publishing classified material now in addition to that the indictment basically alleges that that chelsea manning who leaked information was doing so in conspiracy with julian assad now it's important to note that chelsea manning is currently in jail in the united states for refusing to testify against julian assigned to the federal grand jury and at this point julian assange is also in jail in the united kingdom he has been sentenced and is in prison in jail in the united kingdom for refusing to go to court back in 2012 now he has recently received that sentence after being

publishing the names of classified sources of conspiring with former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to obtain classified information in 2010 wiki leaks published thousands of secret diplomatic cables from the state department swedish prosecutors account to try to actually write a song from the u.k. to face a rape charge heidi jocasta reports from washington. the federal indictment of juliana songe cover a sweeping 18 charges 70 of them are counts that he violated the espionage act and there's an additional hacking charge and altogether if convicted back to back they carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison now the indictment alleges that a songe in 2010 worked with former intelligence analyst chelsea manning to unlawfully obtain classified information and then publish it on wiki leaks it says that these documents were hundreds of thousands of pages of war logs and diplomatic papers that revealed the names of classified sources inside iraq and afghanistan these were people who were helping u.s. military in their efforts there and their lives were put at risk because of this di

welcome to news from the world of arts and culture the whistleblower chelsea manning has a documentary film all about her that's just how it's well we'll be talking about that also coming up. works by stars of the congolese art scene on show in a museum in southern germany. and we visit a company that's made shoes out of coffee fish and now. we began to try back a film festival in new york for showing cutting edge independent films they just tell the world premiere of x y chelsea a documentary about whistleblower an activist chelsea manning the director tim travers hawkins got incredibly close to the complex carries the walls u.s. soldier bradley manning who leaked a huge amount of testified documents to wiki leaks was sent to jail and there started transitioning to a woman quite a story.

welcome to news from the world of arts and culture the whistleblower chelsea manning has a documentary film all about her that's just how its world premiere we'll be talking about that also coming up. spies stars of the congolese are seen on show in a museum in southern germany. and we visit a company that's made shoes out of coffee fish and now. we began to try back a film festival in new york for showing cutting edge independent films they just tell the world premiere of x y chelsea a documentary about whistleblower and activist chelsea manning the director tim travers hawkins got incredibly close to the complex character the walls u.s. soldier bradley manning who leaked a huge amount of classified documents to wiki leaks was sent to jail and then started transitioning to a woman quite a story. what story.

so but the original act of the theft of those disks was in itself a crime but sometimes like chelsea manning a crime has to be committed to reveal a big our crime in the public interest no i don't believe that ellsberg would been cleared in the courts of the united states in twenty nineteen not least because the supreme court of the. united states has been stuffed for bush republican trump nominees who are stewardess for the prevailing orthodoxy much the same way the members of the courts across the world have been it's always been a conservative institution the judiciary in the past did have a an appreciation of the fourth how that valuable role to play you know it is i'm afraid the fourth has become a sink estate ok michael george mentioned the phrase public interest here and we had the guardian the washington post the new york times c.n.n. b.b.c. guy could go on and on they were they were publishing or showing the work of we and they in the leaks was it was heralded for its investigative work so why isn't the washington post in the new york times why aren't they in the dock as well becaus

history of the united states the superseding indictment alleges that a songe was complicit with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army in unlawfully obtaining a disclosing classified documents related to the national defense if convicted he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on each count except for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for which he faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison now one of the federal statutes used against him julian assange in this indictment is the 1917 espionage act which was passed during the 1st world war and is known for its rather vague language and this is the 1st time the espionage act of 1917 has been leveled against a journalist for publishing classified material now in addition to that the indictment basically alleges that that chelsea manning who leaked information was doing so in conspiracy with julian assad is that now it's important to note that chelsea manning is currently in jail in the united states for refusing to testify against julian a songe to the federal grand jury and at this point jew. innocent is also

well you heard there all of this is very much linked to chelsea manning and of course chess chelsea manning is the former u.s. marine who leaked astonish the now notorious iraq war logs and manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison but was then pardoned by then president barack obama back in 2017 but she's now been subpoenaed to testify against a son which she apparently refused to do saying she accepts full responsibility for the leaks herself so she's back in custody for refusing to testify against a son and this whole saga really kind of entered its new very convoluted legal phase last month when it was dragged out against his will from london's ecuadorian embassy the ecuadorian also it is revoked his claim to political asylum and they allowed british police to go in quite an unprecedented move really and arrest him and he's now serving out the week a sentence in the london prison he's also wanted in sweden stockholm is about to go through the motions of issuing their own extradition request to get him to sweden because they want him to answer questions about an alleged sexual assault

the american whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail for again refusing to testify against wiki leaks we thought we were not after the short break. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when we all make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room. the real news is. we return with some big energy news the nord stream to project a gas pipeline that's attended the pump russian gas to europe by way of the baltic sea this past an important milestone with over 50 percent of the construction work now is completed we got exclusive access to one of the vessels laying the pipeline . love the sea somewhere bet

features in these charges to chelsea manning obviously that former u.s. marine who leaked the now notorious iraq war logs and manning was sentenced to 35 years behind bars before being pardoned by then president barack obama back in 2017 and she's now been subpoenaed to testify against a son which she was. uses to do so she's actually ended up back in custody as a result of that now just as a quick reminder this is solemn saugus entered its new very convoluted legal phase earlier in april when the ecuadorian authorities evicted dishonors they revoked his political asylum allowed the british authorities to come in and arrest him he's now serving out a 50 week sentence in a london prison the skipping bail back in 2012 when he originally entered the embassy and he's also wanted in sweden to stop homes on the edge of a lodging and official extradition request because they want him there in order to quote on some questions about a potential sexual assault case dating back to 2010 which is why he originally sought asylum in the embassy fearing he'd be extradite

court system when it comes to this issue just look at what's happening to chelsea manning look at what they're doing to her they're trying to coerce this answer that they want to get out of her because what they really want is they want they want her to say that julian assange helped hack or something like that because you know all the things that they're putting on. on julian assange and wiki leaks these are just basic things that investigative journalist do you have a source you protect them oh if you have a source you say hey where can i get more of this that's just stuff investigative journalists do but if he participated in akko well then it's something different so they're trying to get chelsea manning to say that that happened she won't say it probably has it didn't happen and they're just treating her the way they're treating or a wedding or indefinite length people are in solitary confinement it's i mean it seems to me that they're holding her because they know they have a weak case and that's why they need to squeeze her i have to wonder and i can't be this kind of rhetorical

the law by taking in soliciting they say classified information from then bradley manning now chelsea manning miss manning was sentenced to jail for 35 years before being pardoned by the former u.s. president barack obama she herself has been subpoenaed again to testify in this case and has refused to do so the portably telling the judge that she would rather starve to death than testify she would argue as would mr signs and others that their journalists merely. acting in the public interest where is the u.s. government argument is that this was a case that national security and as a result of that and miss manning's resulting decision not to testify she remains in prison and it will remain to be seen exactly what happens to mr science as a result of these indictments. yeah spinout act on the witches songs was charged dates back to the days of the 1st world war and so far has been used against government officials who disclose secret information but never before to charge journalists publishing such materials the justice department argues that a scientist publications reveal the names of mili