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. 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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 o