The latest news every hour of the day this is national for myself and team welcome to the program and off a story for you is how imprisoned u. S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is recovering in hospital after attempting suicide in jail she was due to appear in court on friday manning has been in prison since may for refusing to testify against wiki leaks before a grand jury now Senior Correspondent mark got stiff is across the story for us so mark just took us through whats happened whats led to this moment allegedly a very very close run thing because the gods when they found her she was hanging by a sheet in her cell and responsive unconscious and blue already blue they got there in time fortunately the they took it down administer 1st aid she was still breathing we rushed her to the hospital and there are things now 5 theres no danger to her health. Response and shes talking to her lawyers and unfortunately for her to appear in Court Tomorrow a day off to you know experience. Ms manning is still scheduled to appear on friday for a previously calendared hearing she remains unwavering in her refusal to participate in a secret grand jury process that she sees as highly susceptible to abuse her actions today evidence the strength of her convictions as well as the profound harm she continues to suffer as a result of her civil confinement. And 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 more to do about it whether to prosecute or whether to let it go and the Court OrderedChelsea Manning to testify before this paddle 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 wont 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 doesnt want to do she further says that this is she has already testified she has said what she had to say earlier on the judge didnt like that at all so he ordered her to be indefinitely detained incarcerated behind bars until she talked she was let go for a few months then ordered back to prison until she talked and this is something remarkable this is something that so many people have an issue with so youd expect this to happen in a totalitarian regime in the middle east for example somebody to be jailed indefinitely incarcerated until they talked until they said what the state wanted to hear and this is happening in the United StatesChelsea Manning is facing a lot of pressure furthermore theres a 5 as well a progressively larger fight every day at this point shes been fined a 1000. 00 for standing by her principles sencha. You talk that. About how its been a kind of tough a few years back thats 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 theres been all sorts of reaction from from avaya ride the variety of organizations from Rights Groups from journalists unions and many Many Organizations have come out and said what is happening is simply unacceptable she herself says she shes done her time she did her time the 1st time around she heard sentence was commuted by barack obama and now shes being ordered to testify. For something that she has already served time for and being incarcerated again for something that she has already said the u. N. Says that what the United States is doing keeping her president till she says whats the what they want to hear is essentially torture the continued detention of manning is not a lawful sanction but an open ended progressively severe coercive measure amounting to torture and should be discontinued and abolished without delay the practice of coercive deprivation of liberty for civil contempt involves the intentional infliction of progressively severe mental and emotional suffering for the purposes of coercion and intimidation and the order of judicial authorities. Just to provide a little bit of background 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 that exposed apparent war crimes attacks by the u. S. Military in iraq that killed many many civilians and that werent known publicly this was hugely embarrassing for the United States is a big investigation they couldnt do anything to the science now yes facing 170 years in jail if hes extradited to the United States from the u. K. Chelsea manning is a central piece in this because a grand jury is now working to establish how far ties went to to weaken leaks with julian songe the sort of relationship the they had the grand juries grand juries which work in complete secrecy by the way no accountability they they are at the center of this they are the root cause of all thats happening out all this prosecution of julian sobs and now Chelsea Manning has sentence initially which is many years over a decade was commuted by barack obama to 7 years and now now that theyre back at it getting trying to get her to spill the beans to give them evidence against the songe. The red line for she says theres no way shes going to do this. Try to attempt to coerce 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 you know in 78 years ago theres nothing new theres not theyre not asking anything new they are out there theres no new information that theyre trying to get from me in fact the questions are very much the same things that ive gone over. She obviously remains adamant that she wont talk shes shes done her time shes said what she had to say and shes not going to be part of a witch hunt against whistleblowers and journalists she she says she would set a precedent by which the United States government can go after whoever exposes apparent war crimes nevertheless obviously she tried to kill herself so the pressure must be getting to her and you know no matter how no matter how strong someone is how or how how set by their principles they are incarcerated in these huge winds and the pressure it all builds up while pressure on the sands and u. K. Pressure on manning in the u. S. Both about health or death not making it easy for them thats for sure thats my outcast have bring us the latest on that many things. While journalist analysts are says there are dangers in pursuing wiki leaks and whistleblower. Chelsea manning attempted suicide shows the highly punitive nature of this entire u. S. Investigation into wiki leaks and. Essentially theyve accused george masonic of attempting to hack. Top secret u. S. Computers which is a very strange thing because he really only functioned as a journalist not as a hacker if they succeeded next year out in july in a songe and and putting a him on trial on the us and then convicted him then essentially any journalist who receives any information from any kind of government source would be in grave danger of being accused of encouraging and thereby abetting the leaking of secret information so essentially its a its a its a direct threat to journalism as we know it and that if assad is convicted. Then really half of journalism we shut down so i think its very serious its very dangerous in radio. And i think that any journalist worth his salt should be up in arms when he works government is doing. Or that continues to dominate headlines corona virus infections have now been ratcheted in 114 countries meeting to the World Health Organization to now classify kovac 1000 as a pandemic. The number of affected countries. We have that for many of the system and that could feed 19 can be kind of. A pundit mique and europe italy remains the biggest concern with more than 10000 known cases of corona virus welty met an emergency room doctor to learn more about the difficulties faced by my tics. Turn up the rest of the night was very exhausting just like all nights over the past 2 weeks around here we sold dozens and dozens of people of varying ages that arrived at our emergency room with coronavirus like the amount of. Ringback clear that if the community doesnt fall of the restrictions on the numbers continue to rise at a certain point our ability to help people who reach its limit. Ringback approximately 40 patients that are waiting to be admitted over the same problem which is coronavirus like you know. Thats whats happening in italy but all across the e. U. The number of coronavirus cases has topped 20000 so our europe correspondent peter all of us took a look into how the block is struggling to establish a joint response. Concern over the coronavirus is running at fever pitch in the year right now its now caught up in the coronavirus panic sweeping the globe major concepts and Sports Events could well be canceled in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus i think its a very impactful business staff productivity but also limiting travel tourism a large public event as new cases reported in europe a huge spike in cases italy italy on lockdown the sweeping quarantine back to the order of the population italy could be justified in moaning 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 toggle 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 its 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 aid they sorely need. For good 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 will step up our efforts to export urgently needed materials and equipment to eataly literally told means 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 cant decide what to do with italy with some fencing themselves off from their beleaguered neighbor it. What i should focus is what we dont want things to get out of proportion why 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 theres counterproductive i sincerely believe that these are bad decisions european carbonation is much more efficient efforts that confinement post boats are more efficient measures requiring patients to be responsible and stay home quarantine measures are much more efficient. And if youre expecting that powerhouse of european politics uncle or merkel to bring some calm to the Current Situation youd be disappointed the german chancellor is expecting things to get worse before they get better by the muslim 1st in the us 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. Of course more people will die here too 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 dont 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 to be out of the question with the coronavirus and trenching itself in europe so it seems is division in how to tackle it peter all of a r. T. In an unprecedented move Britain Supreme Court has found that experimenting with explosives can be legal but after a man was cleared of terror related charges 22 year old Charles Copeland who is diagnosed with autism was arrested in 2018 after making homemade bombs and conducting experimental explosions in his back yard 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 most serious terror charges as a matter of law personal experimentation and self education are lawful objects we discussed the ruling with former Police Officer leans back University LawSchool Senior researcher thats david low as well as human rights. 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 the aspect of terrorism this country the u. K. Faces a terrorist threat from 3 fronts theres a missed the extreme far right than the own nazis and the 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 dont quite understand what that person is doing or what their motives are it doesnt mean that theyre they should be treated as a terrorist suspect the fact is that you know terrorism legislation has to be why when youre 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 doesnt 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 its a benefit but i dont see any harm that came from it i have to disagree you know we were talking about an individual in a shared with explosive when he was also make initiators and detonators and i want to know why would anybody just want to have explosives on their own property theres no legitimate reason its like with firearms moby thought issues in the past weve introduced legislation to curtail use of firearms we know why he was doing what he was doing now of the. In another case where someones trying to hide it were not quite sure of someones motives then they would be questioned on investigated in different way but the whole point is that it can be an innocent pursuit it can be an innocent hobby it can be just for self learning that is not impossible for me its 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 lawful ringback purpose and thats what they said not agree with them. To the United States military expansion and molten iraq while a deadly rocket attack has seen Coalition Troops killed. A much more in just a moment. The financial survival. Of the Money Laundering 1st to visit this industry different. This is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something over the Cayman Islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the tough talk or soon we just have to deal with all thats a need to do some serious wounds ok lets see how we did well weve got a national dream. Jewelry. Again you know what Money Laundering is highly illegal. Much as record. We have to realize we are all living on a small fragile space ship together and its 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 everywhere around the world to survive as a species. Oclock tomorrow british soldier have been killed and at least 12 of those injured in a rocket attack on an iraqi base near baghdad the coalition has confab the incident but gave no father details. 3 Coalition Personnel were killed during the rocket attack on camp taji iraq on march the 11th the names of the personnel are withheld bended next of kin notification in accordance with National Policies the attack is under investigation by the coalition and Iraqi Security forces petition 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 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 some are some are some are. Not work more. So without it cause of our garden every cubic 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 book near the border it is not certain whether these are telling a true text for the strikes on the air base but it certainly does seem that way at the moment at the same time we can tell you that tensions in the region and particularly in iraq have been increasing ever since the assassination of a top in rain in general because some sort of money so short time ago and since then weve seen these tensions escalate. We spoke to retired u. S. Air force left handed colonel conquered costly and she says but u. S. Military violations abroad have created hostile conditions. You know we have International International law and conditions of international conduct that we honor. That we expect other countries to honor in the United States we dont honor them at all apparently consider that any country can be a target any country can be an enemy and we do not need contrary to our constitution we do not need congressional declarations of war before we bombing the story of the country you know the American People are not well informed on Foreign Policy in general really are generally one side of it its not just that we its not just that we take along your hands that we invade and bomb other countries without warrant without a legal or rational justification for it we also lie about it before during and after. A u. S. Nuclear submarine has been caught on camera breaking through ice in the arctic with critics saying its a clear sign of an increasing military presence in the far north the vessel was taking part in the u. S. Led trail improving operational capabilities in the region. Earlier this week u. S. On canadian fighter jets intercepted 2 russian recognisance craft off the coast of alaska the u. S. Has been raising concerns over claimed threats in the arctic region last Year Congress approved funding the 2 new icebreakers on back to plan for medicine 6 more in 2018 thousands of american soldiers took part in a large scale nature drill in norway meanwhile moscow has approved its new arctic state policy all the way through to 2035 it sets out the countrys main objectives tosk National Interests the plan says russia is primarily focused on Economic Issues from improving Living Standards for local russians to fostering development and even protecting the environment but u. S. Officials from a nun convinced by fielding advance a long range missiles and expanding its military presence in the region russia has left us with no choice but to improve our Homeland Defense capability and capacity director of the Oxford Crisis Research Institute mark almond 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 of security for everybody concerned because weve got used in a sense to this grassed area being a relatively low tension area but now if youre going to have Nuclear Submarines 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 in maybe talk to mr. Hope that is too optimistic. And finally for this hour for many nations colonialism might be seen as a dirty word but apparently not so in britain a survey that has found that a 3rd of brits hanker for the long lost days of empire as artist Kate Partridge explains. It was deemed the empire on which the some never set such was its past size but for those on the receiving end of britains imperial ambitions it was often a dark chapter in the history. Yet the colonial crimes of the British Empire seem to be fading from modern memory a recent poll in the u. K. Suggests this nostalgia for the old days with almost a 3rd of britains proud of the empire and its achievements i think we did a lot of good just well for other people for the other countries britain isnt alone over a quarter of the french approve of their old empire and hauffe of the dutch are proud of them as imperialists claim literacy infrastructure such as well ways and Democratic Values as positive effects on the conquered nations but others think its a brutal system that was inherently unfair but depends very side of the fence you sit on obviously if you were saying it is a good idea if youre on the other side of that it was i guess it was good for us im not sure hes good for the people of the empire necessarily while the sun has set on most of the old empire there are still pockets of dispute london is currently involved in an ongoing drought with militias which condemns the u. K. For controlling the che goes archipelago in the indian ocean mauritians has called britain an illegal colonial occupier and is backed by the un but the u. K. Disagrees the u. K. Has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian ocean territory which has been under continuous British Government least since 814. 00 there are 6 other vestiges of empire which still cause. Offense such as the on rich song massacre in india in 1919 colonial troops killed around 600 on armed people in what was incorrectly believed to be an uprising the British Government has never formally apologized while the current Prime Minister has his own view of colonialism the best fate for africa would be if the colonial powers or their citizens scrambled once again in her direction on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty Boris Johnson later apologized for his comments here to cording to the latest poll the sentiments are why do you felt in britain and across europe at a time when britain is searching for its place in the world after practice it someone looking to the past to forge an idea of its future take partridge ot longer thats it for the sa if you still want more though r. T. Dot com is the place feels to take a peak and have a good day. And were going to fulfil the repeated promises apologise to the people and come out you know weve all pots the truth really. Really really. Really really. If you want to work. For. A car link. But as we talk about trump hes gonna demystified to hold political space if you werent clear before like these folks are no better than us so you know i you know you can reach out to friends say you know take responsibility maybe run for office at the end of the day you know i dont see how we move a lot of system where these people get away with