your manifest file contains an invalid character (and possibly more).
what program did you use to make this manifest? You should try to save your file as utf-8 format... see this topic for details on troubleshooting this problem:
It looks like the dashes in these lines are not really dashes...
G423–041-CN-STR_S41_L001_R1_001.fastq
G423—042-T4-BLB_S42_L001_R1_001.fastq