Moscow this is International Im sean thomas certainly glad to talk with. A former Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has attempted suicide in her jail cell ahead of a Court Appearance on friday her lawyers say according to reports she was found still breathing by a guard and rushed to the hospital she now said to be fighting for her life Chelsea Manning was being held in detention for refusing to testify before a grand jury regarding wiki leaks and Julian Assange she is still scheduled to appear friday at a hearing on a motion to squash the civil contempt sanctions that landed her in jail she leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks while serving in the u. S. Army and spent 7 years in prison for that manning said last may that she would rather starve to death then give testimony in the investigation we spoke to journalist daniel those are about the possible replications. They Chelsea Mannings attempted suicide shows the highly punitive nature of this entire u. S. Investigation into wiki leaks it says something about the kind of conditions that assad could expect if he is ever if he is extradited to return to the united United States so i think that her attempted suicide certainly dramatizes the punitive nature of this entire investigation and that its all you know is that whats in store for. Their British Court goes along with what the u. S. With the Suicide Attempt at a fairly be interpreted as a as a protest against the increasingly punitive authoritarian d tactics of the u. S. Government which are directly threatened to journalism. The World Health Organization has declared that the corona virus can now be labeled as a pandemic in the past 2 weeks the number of cases of 19 outside china has increases so as to unfold. And the number of affected countries. We have therefore demanded the us system and that could feed 19 can be contacted i used as a pundit meek the number of infections has now topped more than 118000 across the globe with more than 4000 deaths the current virus has spread to 114 countries with numbers of growing up by the day in the race to find a vaccine for the virus scientists in london are on the lookout for human guinea pigs in turn facts for money in the 1st test of its kind. We can announce that we have commenced the development of the worlds 1st commercial human coronavirus challenge study model also known as control human function model we are pleased to be able to try and assist in the battle against coded 19. The study will in fact 24. 00 people with 2 strains of corona virus similar to cope with 19 but causing milder symptoms as scientists try to develop a vaccine against the outbreak volunteers will be paid as much as 3 and a half 1000 pounds but only visits from doctors will break up their 2 weeks in isolation we asked londoners if they would be tempted to take part. The. No alcohol and if i was younger. But im one of those so dont you one second to kick the bucket. You know say i havent looked for months i really need money. I dont know 10000. Too much. So i mean i want to die from it but i hope that im not even tightly complaints to the statistics behind it is true anyway oh why not if i get infected twice to get twice as much at the age of 71. Now because i have hundreds of Health Conditions why would i if you have no. Real thing seriously to kiss now seriously now. I mean you know if you know. It was going to be changed do you think if youre healthy. Then it would be a danger that people here i would. Think. Are safe house for my son whos much younger. I think in the beginning i thought people were over i think something on the stand like how serious it was but when i heard like schools were being closed how many people prospected thats when i realized ok this is actually serious it doesnt serve my fitness scaremongering people for most people to sentence a more like until yesterday i was thinking people were. Today im starting to realize that ive got to take a nice serious state course you have to like. Be taken care of it didnt like wash your hands and stuff but otherwise i feel its. Yeah its just too much i dont know you spoke to viral of just about the chances of finding a vaccine in a timely fashion. And the vaccine or drug that it is recommended by would be special and in the folder to eat globally have to be tested being 1st demanding more and i mean even when were demonstrating that they are safe sort of coronaviruses they dont claim to be tested and eyeing in volunteers the odds may be close to the 19 so this means that this vaccine if it is successful it would have no protection against the cold 90 anything that is tested in a volunteer will convict somebody is however based on the Animal Studies the overall risk would be meaningless and the hope is that that if that state policy is reasonable that this vaccine would be deployed in the next which is a broad scale testing me just face to. A high profile right wing german politician appears to be the latest victim of Violent Attacks on the lawmakers in the country nicholas fast from the alternative for Germany Party had his car destroyed by arson in berlin are these pure all reports on the worrying trend. Greece is the scene of what is potentially the latest in a growing number of politically motivated crimes in germany this time its all the car the politician nicholas faced go up in flames last night a car caught fire in charlotte and borke the firefighters extinguished the blaze but could not save the car because of the suspicion of a possible political motivation we are handing the investigation over to a specialist unit yesterday morning the Police Called told me that my car had been. Set on fire 2 in the morning and there was really damage faced as a member of the European Parliament for the anti immigration alternative that Germany Party hes pretty adamant of who he thinks is behind this not the 1st of this kind of arson attacks this is really the signature. Of the anti far and therefore its pretty clear although they havent really up to no they havent claimed this arson attack yet but its clear that theres a stance and a. F. D. As a party have a polarizing effect on german Public Opinion their anti immigrant stance and deliberately provocative statements from so members has seen them rising in the polls and slammed by their rivals party which tolerates far right extremists and lets call a spade a spade not since in monitoring. The a. F. D. Is a racist and nationalist a military state party. Party which is openly nationalist they are against foreigners and they have members who are close to being fascists the cochairman of the even appealed to all journalists and politicians to tone down their rhetoric against the party after a rise in the number of violent incidents. Whenever a car set on fire or the apartment or house of. Attacked you can be sure this is an attack against a of. They tried to they tried to bully not only us but also people of whom. You know who are letting their apartments to members of the in a democracy you have to. Come to terms even with members of parties which you do not support its not just politicians from controversial parties that are facing up to the prospect of attack in germany 2019 so well over a 1000 politically motivated attacks on politicians with a recent poll of as in the country saying a large number of them had been insulted assaulted or simply threatened with quite a few saying they being beaten. In 2015 independent mayor of cologne henrietta reckons now really survived an assassination attempt by is then a full of extremists who stabbed her in the neck the day before the election the attack was motivated by wreckers pro refugee stance last june seeing it see the politician fall to live was shot dead at his home in central germany a far right nationalist with possible links to a. F. He is facing trial for his murder the government has called for an increase in security for politicians serving the public who are increasingly finding themselves in the line of fire. To believe. 2 americans and one british soldier have been killed and at least 12 injured in iraq attack on iraq base near baghdad it is also reported that American Forces have retaliated with a strike on a rocky militia near the Syrian Border there has more. We are hearing from the u. S. Coalition forces in iraq that at least 15 katyusha rockets were fired on a military base to the north of baghdad that houses American Military personnel 2 american soldiers and one bush servicemen have been killed we are hearing that between 10 and 12 people have been wounded and are being treated for their injuries now the following video purports to show the moment of the attack but it is and they were fired from our summer resort off the market or. What it got of our garden and now the attack happened at 7 50 in the evening local time when stay as of yet no one has claimed responsibility for the attack on the military base which is north of baghdad and which houses the u. S. Led Coalition Forces the vehicle that launched the rockets has been found an investigation has been launched now we are hearing of strikes that are happening in the iraqi province and in the syrian area of camel near the border it is not certain whether these are telling a tree tax for the strikes on the air base but it certainly does seem that way at the moment at the same time this is the latest attack after a series of attacks in recent months to hit you and coalition sites in iraq just this past tuesday the americans announce that they were deploying Missile Defense systems for the bench ality of such occurrences. Happening at the same time we can tell you the tensions in the region and particularly in iraq have been increasing ever since the assassination of a top in reining in general because some saudi money so a short time ago and since then weve seen these tensions escalate. The turkish president has courted controversy after comparing the approaches to the migrant crisis by greek authorities to the mounties. There is no difference between what the nazis did and these images from the greek. Greece has taken steps to reinforce its border with turkey installing barbed wire as migrants have continued to try and cross the frontier despite a tear gas being fired from both sides over the weekend and once nazi comparison comes as turkey and the e. U. Have been talking about reviewing a 4 year old deal in dad stemming the refugee flow to europe meanwhile the austrian chancellor has had some tough words for turkey. Because. I would like to thank greece for doing everything to defend europes external borders this is an attack by turkey that the turkish prison at one is abusing refugees is abusing money grants exploiting this suffering and using them as a weapon against the European Union middle east expert sharma loom believes the turkish leader is using the migrants as leverage. Turkey is left alone in this region why because turkey wants to have its say in the middle east and. Part of. Africa but turkey has not not ally with him turkey is part of nato and it wants the nato countries to support him but the nato countries said were never going to support you because you are giving tension everywhere so he knows that that the nato countries and the European Countries will not support him so he has the one big leverage of the European Union its that crisis and he wants to put the poor so the. Advantage in order to lead. To europe in order to get the european backs confronting russia and confronting other countries and specially greece. Joe biden heads the pack in the race to clinch the Democratic Party nomination after the former u. S. Vice president chalked a big wins in the latest round of primaries. For all those who have been knocked down all those have been counted lets be sure this is your campaign. Just over a week ago many of the pundits declared this kansas used to. Now are very much alive. Biden won in mississippi michigan missouri and idaho 3 of these are delegate rich states which rival Bernie Sanders picked up in 2016 that has led to biden being presented by much of the media as the candidate best placed to be donald trump in november despite some notable gaffes along the way arties came up and has unique commentary. The race for the democratic nomination is down to 2 horses and its pretty clear where the bets are going there on joe biden the good guy its time for us to beat donald trump and it became very clear to me that joe biden is the right person to do that hes the nicest person i think ive ever met but he is just a good guy and why not have a good guy in the white house after all for the past 3 years the media has been working very hard to convince everyone that pure evil has overtaken the u. S. Presidency but it doesnt take very deep digging to discover that you can rub off joe bidens good guy shine take a look at how he insulted Detroit Assembly plant worker who questioned his views on gun rights. He also has hinted that he believes that race and intellectual ability are somehow connected to your kids you just as brady just as towns white kids on top of that hes known to just make things up and say things on the fly that have absolutely no connection to reality we choose unity over division we choose science over fiction we choose truth over facts and a lot of ways joe biden sounds an awful lot like donald trump lets see if americans can tell them apart i bet youre as bright as you are good looking. Thats actually joe biden surprise we choose truth over facts. I was actually joe biden also poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids by the way without actually biden and youre a lying dog faced pony soldier. Thats got to be true and actually biden also the narrative is supposed to be that donald trump is a big mean bully and joe biden is a lovable adorable grandpa with good intentions and hes supposed to be way better than that wild eyed radical Bernie Sanders except dont you remember how recently everyone was bashing joe biden i just think by. In his declining i dont think he has the energy and he has been a skilled debater we saw him with sarah palin weve seen him in the past the question is does he still have his job and destroy native and is he how sure are busy can you imagine that man in a president ial did buy we dont trump theres not enough popcorn in the world to do is how subtly biden inserts obama into every possible answer having significant mental faculties issues is everyone ok with biden being president of the United States when hes having difficulty remembering the name of you know politicians that hed be dealing with on a regular basis but now we are told that opposition to joe biden is a russian plot the kremlins interest language media aim to influence americans on the home tough activity promotes conspiracy theories targeting biden one lording trumps efforts to investigate a political opponent predicted detroit will win a 2nd term claimed that biden is called to be unraveling on some eyes that allegations of corruption are doing real damage to his president ial bid now the race is getting heated as the field has narrowed so the question is now will joe biden be able to keep that good guy image when its time to start taking shots at Bernie Sanders caleb r. T. New york former new York City Council candidate marni a whole also believes biden success may not be as spontaneous as it seems. In the beginning of this whole race i mean biden was coming for then you know you know the Democratic Party says everybody youre going to do this everybody obeys the Corporate Media also starts to say all this negative noise about perry i think whats happening now is very interesting this is usually what the Democratic Party does is they pick theyre annoying to one and they do everything to rig the entire environment. Theyre underway to get it it gets all the support and looks like there is sort of a white horse that coming to save the American People to see this kind of work is treated we are close to jet blue or everybody kinds of thought ok everybody falls in line to support biden whos kind of the chosen one i think when you when you have so much of that norways its very hard for the American Public to kind of see through that. America amsterdam is considering a ban on tourists buying marijuana despite the fact it is said to be one of the Main Attractions for visitors or to struggle bensky reports now from the city. The dutch are often hailed as being progressive particular when it comes to soft drugs now amsterdam is a hot spot for kind of base 2 or ists with significant numbers coming here to try the drug vending coffee shops as a tourist coming to the city what do you think this city is famous for the coffee shops. I think for most tourists its like well known things like. We dont stuff like that wait wait its hash. More than 17000000 visits every year putting a huge strain on the city of around a 1000000 people this iteration is so bad that the mayor of amsterdam is actually considering banning tourists from buying kernis this briefing from the highlights the issues it says 65 percent of Foreign Tourists come to amsterdam to use cannabis and visit the coffee shops and almost hof would be less likely to visit again if bart if the mayor bans it what sort of impact do you think that will have will they come up with a not come from the people still. But often as many people now its one of the main reasons people do come people who come will enjoy their time a little less so maybe they wont come back everybodys coming here for the coffee shops if the murder is going to stop the coffee shops juries would stop coming to answer but the survey also showed a more worrying impact the to ban could have some 40 percent of respondents said that if they were put britain they would find another way to buy the drug this should be perhaps a major concern for a city that is already struggling to deal with the darker side of the drug industry and point a recent report called attention to the citys problems with hard drugs Violent Crime and hume. Trafficking based on sewage research cocaine consumption must represent a turnover value of at least 75000000. 00 euros but there are limitations to that research subversive crime can take many forms such as Human Trafficking and labor exploitation environmental crime arms trafficking illegal gambling and Health Care Fraud its believed im saddams coffee shops are aiding and abetting the ugliest side of the citys drug business now there are allegations that the coffee shops and sells deal back door with organized crime gangs and some being used to launder criminal money that has cooled for a crackdown cleese oppression of mockers between hard drugs and some drugs has a greater urgency because of the trade and hard drugs while many cities around the world are looking to coffee this dutch citys torrent model im so damn itself may move away from its long standing policy questioning whether the experiment has only contributed to drug and crime problems so lets even ski out c. In amsterdam. The u. S. Nuclear submarine has been captured on film breaking through ice in the arctic with critics saying its a clear sign of an increasing military presence in the far north vessels taking part in a u. S. Led drill and at improving operational capabilities in the frozen region. Earlier this week u. S. And canadian fighter jets intercepted 2 russian Reconnaissance Aircraft off the alaskan coast the u. S. Has been raising concern over claimed threats in the arctic region last Year Congress approved funding for 2 new ice breakers while backing a plan for no less than 6 more back in 2018 thousands of american soldiers took part in a large scale nato drill in norway meanwhile moscow has approved its new arctica state policy through 2035 it sets out countrys main objectives and tasks a National Interests there according to the document russia is primarily focused on Economic Issues from improving the Living Standards of local russians to fostering development and protecting the environment but u. S. Officials remain unconvinced by fielding a long range missiles and expanding its military presence in the region russia has left us with no choice but to improve on Homeland Defense capability and capacity director of the Oxford Crisis Research Institute mark all and believes the potential for conflict in the arctic has reached a dangerous level. I think there is a danger of a militarization of the arctic region and. That in turn raises questions over security for everybody concerned because weve got used in a sense to this area being a relatively low tension area but now if youre going to have Nuclear Submarines perhaps approach each others territory and also craft as well as new systems being introduced i think this produces an instability that really is all necessary perhaps sensible minds in moscow and washington could talk through this and come to some arrangement to regulate the presence of military forces and the use of them but sadly in recent years weve seen the United States withdrawing from arms control agreements so having a new one for the arctic region is maybe too optimistic. Hope that is too optimistic. That as a female be back with headlines in about 32. 00 and a half minutes stay with us this starts international. As budget we talk about trump hes gonna demystified so political space if you werent 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 dont 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 theres a month for for the for the of the troika for. My peace guys have to try to accomplish the project for. The. Purpose. It was because of global was d going to have to close to speed so that in your voice you. Must have looked just a little bit in this part of the family when youre fighting with the left or the left. Something left. Us photos of so much because of the south. I mention are times you were going underground as amid an International Coronavirus crisis the u. K. Government unveils a budget just weeks after pm Boris Johnson fired his own finance minister coming up on the show is it too late to pump money into Health Infrastructure devastated by the tory austerity that followed the 2008 western economic crash or is britains new liberal epidemic of inequality killing off the poorest too quickly we speak to economist guy standing who is set to advise a Jeremy Corbin government if we did one that decembers general election and we are asking the author of why nations fail british economists James Robinson if the u. K. Chancellor should today be looking to communist china for tips on reviving britains economy plus we ask a former u. K. Home Office Minister why a pandemic hasnt yet been declared in britain and who really stands to gain from Vaccine Research funded by taxpayers money all the support coming up in todays going underground 1st today marks britains 1st budget since leaving the Worlds Largest trading bloc the e. U. The headlines are awash with government funding to deal with the u. K. s recent flooding and soaring rates of coronavirus but what about the poorest in our society 14000000 of whom live in poverty including 4000000 children