goes after those after those after those and really became his drug dealer was to blame patients doctors manufacturers. the head of ice so was a u.s. prison informant declassified pentagon files reveal quote something like a bird to american interrogators exposing some of the terror group's most effective operators. the white house is run by anti european hoax set on replacing nord stream 2 with dirtier more expensive american gas of germany's foreign affairs committee has told us a. party room on this is come to power in the u.s. this will aggravate the problem on the european continent this fits into biden's concept.

as soyuz spacecraft successfully makes its way to the international space station just days ahead of the 60th anniversary of human spaceflight we speak to industry leaders on the next milestone in the stands extra 50 years we will also see as a 1st man of woman just surface of mars space will be really just another continent for us. very warm welcome and good morning to you it's 9 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me the key erin and our top story this hour the leader of the islamic state was a u.s. military prisoner who quote sunk like a bird in jail revealing secrets on the terror group that allowed western forces to kill quote high value to harvests the revelations come from 53 previously

confidential interrogation reports with more details on what they reveal his artie's for trying. when islamic state was running rampant all over northern iraq a few years ago the indigenous u.c.d. community was bearing the brunt of the jihadi atrocities perhaps more than anyone else is. the only. now some kind of senior figure within eisel ranks must of been behind all this right one of the accused is current islamic state leader. and guess what the released documents reveal the man was once a prisoner of the u.s.

military and provided the pentagon with extensive intelligence before being let go and several reports. u.s. forces are the best time of day to find islamic state in iraq members in different locations around mosul for example describing a specific cafe well prince of smith's daily detainees seems to be more corporate if with every session. what else do we learn from the declassified reports was an absolutely precious asset for the interrogators he revealed the identities of terrorist leaders provided map like directions on how to find them the man even pointed out the phone numbers of 19 jihadi officials as well 1 as pay they got for their jobs to say the current head of eisel once bitrate the group step he commander to american interrogators to then take his place this led to a u.s. military op in which the 2nd in command of the islamic state pretty obsessor group

was killed in 2008 think guantanamo think of plenty of other individuals imprisoned by uncle sam you can't help wondering how the hell malo walked free the point it happened at is unclear too but the last interrogation reports mentioning him are dated july 2008 so what's with the release was it a stupid accident a major system folks or maybe someone thought the guy would never really cause trouble well then the story of ice holes is now dead former boss. dotty should ring a bell the fact 'd that al baghdadi got his start in an american prison isn't unique oh there are many people including this use this current isis leader of the american prisons in iraq you've been described by many as an incubator for an incubator for isis you know she's not

a war in the. area there were hundreds of prisoners thousands of prisoners like many who cooperated who were eventually released i think is part and parcel of the lack of strategic focus that is plagued the united states in terms of its interactions in the middle east since the. very bad decision to invade and occupy iraq back in 2003 we. haven't made a good decision since then all malala turned out to be the media its successor of al but dottie after he was eliminated in a u.s. raid in syria and $29.00 thing today washington has a bounty of $10000000.00 on all malas head well after all it's the us that one spearheaded the war on terror and remains the most successful force in ridding the world of the evil or maybe something has gone wrong with how it's done we've killed isis members by the 10s of thousands if not hundreds of thousands the same

without ita and yet they exist because killing people is not destroying the ideology the ideology is sustained by the continued american presence in the middle east this this unlawful presence in iraq and syria and elsewhere so you know until which time we can diffuse that which motivates these people to support isis isis war always exist no matter who is in charge and how many of their leaders we kill i mean it's a vicious cycle the good the american presence in the middle east creates isis and the continued struggle against isis is used to justify the continued presence of the american military in the middle east which creates isis and it's just a circle that goes on and on and on it will never end until we get out of the middle east. anti e.u. will among us have gained office in america member of germany's foreign affairs

committee has told aussie off the president find a niche to hire a special envoy to kill construction of notes to the m.p. added it's impossible to stop the pipeline to bring billions of key that makes that gas from russia to europe. a party of woman has come to power in the us this will aggravate the problem on the european continent this fits into biden's concept but we have no other choice the project has been approved by all the authorities and it is fully financed if we don't finish it for whatever reason we will lose billions of euros we will also not be able to guarantee our energy security the project will be finished but it's not clear what compromises will have to be made i know that the resistance is also commercial because the us wants the liquefied natural gas market for itself and wants to supply liquefied natural gas to europe even though american liquefied natural gas is much more expensive and environmentally unacceptable it is dirty and expensive but that does not bother our

partners. the us had already dubbed the project a bad deal for a year and with the secretary of state's ready to sanction any german firms involved in the project i was sure no foreign ministry statement calls on washington not to set legal obstacles blocking completion of the project and to follow international law hurts again notes u.s. strategy is backfiring. the dependence on the u.s. is enormous it is always claim that we are becoming dependent on russia to gas imports but that is only one percent of our dependence on the us biden can do anything he wants with this government which is completely under the influence of the us they have nothing to fear but if it changes and if we trade more with russia it would be the best thing we could do if we can't do that or we don't do it russia will link up with china and then we will be crushed between the 2 blocs we have only one way out of this mess we have to communicate with russia and the sanctions

we must build a free economic zone from the eyes of us thought to lisbon only then can we speak on an equal footing with everyone else on a political and economic level at the moment we are not sovereign only if you say it but everyone knows that the us has a dilemma if they continue this way europe will shake them off and deal with russia differently. as we gear up for the historical of the story of the 1st 7 here when space flight or r.t. has special coverage for you over the coming days it comes as the international space station welcomes that is 3 man crew as their soyuz space it docked on friday will return to the moment of blast off for you from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan if we go. 2 russians i like novitsky and politics but also gross calls muslims american market zonday of nasa all the crew that team will be busy carrying out around 50

types of scientific research out of the station crew is a new addition to the 7 members who already aboard the i assess the launch marks the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin's historic flight on april 12th 961 to become the 1st human space. former director general of the european space agency johann dietrich oh yeah there were no watch to good governance launch as a kid i talked to him earlier and he said the long month flights not only paved the way for the last exploration but also other alien pursuits. when i heard about the launch of fuel leak i got in and his flight their own earth i thought this is incredible and this is opening the future for dreams and 5 are seeing and this is for a young boy i was 7 years old at that time it's of course it's very strong motivation to understand you can have a tree and you can realize that dream there is no boundary for

a tree ims there's no limitations and if i was really really very much fascinated and inspired by you i got to go in and later on when i visited safety and saw his a place and when i visited my canoe and saw his house where he lived before the launch of course all of these emotions came up again and so i'm really i i'm sorry that i never met him personally this is what i can say but he was really a hero office time how important do you think i is your guardian smile he sees no info he's smiling his trademark smile yeah that's right the smile of your guy and shows you that he was really happy about what he was doing and his smile is of course a smile of a create person and therefore i saw it also several times i mean he had really a very special flight test so you know that on his flight home yet to leave the

capsule and come down with a parachute so this was really something very difficult but he was smiling saying you see i did it as a person in the know could you just blow our minds and tell is what we might witness in the next 50 is. oh that's nice i will be dead in the next 50 years that's for sure. what will happen yes and i'm i'm quite sure that faced with become a commodity we will see that normal people that was not being millionaires a 1000000000 is ok and to travel to space i believe we will see that and in the next 50 years we will also see as a 1st man or woman on the surface all from us this is for human spaceflight we will see that space is really used as a daily quote it is done already boss to troy davis said last night vacation telecommunication us observe asian but space will be really just and as a continent for us someone is but also as a as a low as all bit we will see that we will have production facilities in space

because microcredit t. is an excellent basis for several for medicines for materials and so on so we will see that space is really something to be developed and used by industry and by individuals to my 6 year old son who's being adamant he wants to be an astronaut since about the age of 4 what advice would you give him and what should i tell him when he offered me about that life on mars the good thing is if you ask you that this is a very good basis already because that means he is curious and to be curious is very important so my 1st recommendation would be stay curious number 2 is and of course go through an education was school was university and look for whatever you think is interesting for you would on the scientific technological it as spect and then it's time to apply and should i when he has this interest in aliens

and whether there are other people that live in space on different planets how should i answer that. yes i mean there are so many galaxies in each and every galaxy us so many stocks and so many stocks you have so many planets so you have a vast number of planets in our universe and therefore the probability that we have a loan is very very low but the probability that we meet one of those is also very low because of the distance so you can say yes there i yes but so far we did not meet them and maybe we will never meet them. women's rights in space flying breadcrumbs and dancing in 0 gravity see soundscape tale a quiz the industry pros on some of the real issues around flying to the stars. went to baikonur in 2019 and their 2 kilometers from the launch pad but even there

was so nervous and sweat and so much i can't even imagine what you feel when you're right there waiting for the launch. actually we feel pretty calm because i've been preparing for ages and finally it's the moment i've been waiting for for so long it is like waiting for a birthday cake and here you get your piece of the cake rocket launch and you get to do what you've prepared for for years i thought because one of them sneaks what kind of dreams do have while in space and if you cry on the i assess where do the tears float. if you watch the movie gravity which is a it's visually beautiful but it's factually terrible they have the actress sandra bullock cry and her tears come squirting out of her eyes and and fly across the spaceship and i'm thinking when i cry on earth my tears don't come squirting out of my eyes and fly across the room it's ridiculous. your tears just form and

stay on your eyeball like like i don't know jelly or something where they did just stay there permanently in space your tears don't fall. right now you are the only woman in the russian team how many years has it been that this is not the 1st woman since 2016 not a woman hater is there and ross cost most of all that no of course not all women always participate in the selection process and there are women who almost make it almost to the end and usually does medical conditions are not given them a chance to complete i have a question of all the time how did understand when is the day and when is the night where the. florists and where the soon if. the cone keep track of the summer we see 16 sunrises and sunsets so we check our watches to see if it is day or night which up to what excuse can use of you're late for work here on earth we always say i'm in a traffic jam but if you're late for work at the station what would you say i was just

looking up at the end of this and i just drifted away in my mind when you're living on board the space station there is not just mr and control there in correlative just on the outskirts of moscow at super but there's also mission control in houston and in montreal and in munich and in tokyo and all of those mission controls are telling you what to do and they put it on this computer screen and this red line is moving across your life and it tells you what you're doing every 5 minutes for the whole 6 months that you're on the space station but i think the standard excuse of there is there are 6 people and only 2 bathrooms so that's probably the best excuse we have if. it's going to get to full run when you're weightless admitted i understand that all of you all professionals your reputation won't be compromised but for example do you pretend that you're swimming in the sea i would do it for sure. you can dance in

a very funny way and 0 gravity we are all adults serious people but still we like to joke around so once i flew in a costume of a big hairy ape don't ask how i managed to bring an ape costume on to the space station and that was fun we all dressed up but there was a superman and a spider-man to me and a costume and real fun. above all a thought has ever happened that while you are as the eyes sas people come there and bring you something that you're really the wanted from earth could have such a favor to bring you something after that but we can ask people to bring something and the guys will. if the mission control allows them but small things because there is a strict list of things that can be brought in and it is impossible to take something secretly to the space station people but what about the crumbs if you've been eaten some dried do crumbs fly all over the place they get the oh clear legends about

crumbs they can cause some problems but actually they are sucked up by the filters very fast. they spread has been made this small our american colleagues even call it barbie bread like the bread for barbie bread that specifically was made so tiny to be eaten in one bite and avoid the crumbs a bit but it's just not it takes you 16 times to go round the earth in 24 hours right so you get to see 16 sound says and sunrises do get used to it does it become a routine to you or does it feel magical every time you go from the absolute darkness to then suddenly the the horizon seems to start to catch fire and then the sun starts to appear and it's as if somebody poured a rainbow on the edge of the world and just gushes around the world and then bam comes the sun through the middle of it and you feel through the window the intense instant sheets of thermal nuclear explosions of our sun through the editor do

believe in al and yes i do believe you could meet extraterrestrial life during a mission in orbit what would you say to them. speaking seriously extra terrestrials must be somewhere because life can be very small a small molecule and that is already a life and i'm sure it does exist somewhere out there i have no doubts if we could discover it's no solar system that would be a fantastic discovery and the 1st thing i would say i would say hello. garlands flight and i knew air off human space travel and some of these pivotal moments on sci will become for a more high flying missions in the coming days fly this route with us on that.

yes to my event misguided believe by many of that by locking down the whole society can somehow protect the old high risk people we're seeing now is so obvious that that wasn't the case it did not change. the high risk pool of people they trust in the us we have over half a 1000000 deaths mostly older people so there was a complete failure of just saying that these last dance would actually protect all the high risk people.

welcome back to this sunday will mark 2 years since wiki leaks founder julian assange she was forcibly dragged from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested by police to briefly remind you a song had been granted asylum by ecuador and had spent all my 7 years in the embassy after publishing a series of classified military files allegedly allegedly revealing u.s. war crimes when asked before he was torn from a building and sentenced to a prison term during which he reportedly suffered psychological torture the u.s.

has since sought to songes extradition despite complaints from human rights activists un special rapporteur on taught in those novels or has referred to the asylum song as a war on press freedom you can watch the full interview with mel's are ongoing on the ground here on r.t. international still out there day. 2 years since. police dragged julian assange out of the embassy in knightsbridge why do you think it was a key event in the so-called war on terror i'm not sure it's a key event in the war on terror i think it. might be true and require a warrant on the pressure on press freedom. because. really. someone. to write this to public actions. why is it. relevant to your remit as un's eyes were up with their own torture to the journey

in assad's case to innocent has exposed evidence for systematic state sponsored torture and this these crimes that she provided evidence for have never been prosecuted even after givens was published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian ascension self has been exposed. to farias forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that do amount to psychological torture just remind us of what it was like when you visited during a songe and belmarsh prison in london while i visited him out but for weeks after he had been arrested on the 9th of may 2019 and he was obviously was under a lot of stress he already had that time physically blocking the good physical shape she had suffered through 6 years of of isolation in india quit or an embassy but. he specially he has been exposed to relentless. threats

scenarios of being extradited to the us into a jurisdiction where he cannot expect to be treated according to the rule of law and we are he has to expect to disappear basically in a burial alive in some kind of a supermax prison for the rest of his life i intervened immediately after my visit to a sonder but the following day i intervened with that already and told them that it was very urgent for them to take measures to protect his health and to stress human rights and it took the british government 5 months to respond and in that response which was about half a page long beach just rejected all allegations and since then they refused to respond to any further communication and to him getting in a dialogue. the

white house border coordinator known as biden's border thaw is leaving her post at the end of the month as clashes that of a migrant policy gain ground adding to fear eous republican opposition rising numbers in biden's own policy have hans enough he's kind of moping of course al even many democrats are frustrated with the apparent inability of the biden administration to deal with the crisis on the border as more and more migrants pour in each day if you don't stop this flow like i told the fox at the white house when i was with them what's your end game they don't know 40 percent of americans say they blame joe biden for the crisis on the border and they don't blame the previous administration joe biden has only been president for 3 months he campaigned against donald trump and his policies at the border which he labeled as cruel now that joe biden is in office the flow of migrants is the highest it's been in 15 years many

were shocked to see that among those trying to get in were to yemenis who are on the f.b.i.'s terrorism watch list. now amid all of this nancy pelosi assures us things are getting better we are on a good hand at the border under the leadership of joe biden president fighting to sit there restructuring how we do what is happening there because we were not very bad situation under the chump that ministration 300 sheriffs from around the cause . 3 have signed a letter calling for immediate action saying that joe biden's policies put

communities in danger the borders don't work in their expose your citizens to more transnational gangs violence in our communities more drugs pouring into our communities cherishing to be trafficking out of control but change does not seem to be in order to department of homeland security chief has gone to the border and met with local officials but the policies remain the same now vice president connelly harris has been assigned to handle the crisis at the border however many were shocked when she took a detour went to chicago for some photo ops the democratic party leaders are assuring everyone that the situation is improving they're also continuing the blame game on trump however many among the u.s. public are getting impatient they want answers not excuses their purpose is long term importation of an economic underclass voting majority 1st they get the bin then they give them citizenship and the vote and then democrats never lose another national election they will try to mollify the critics because the public is

getting so upset about it they're going to lose votes on their own side and not just on this issue they're going to end up being opposed to what they're doing is not for the benefit of the people that are coming across the border they're being mistreated and abused at an almost criminal level. thanks for keeping us company here on r.t. international this saturday morning what can a great day we'll be back in 30 minutes. because the banks are getting so much free money from the government they don't want to take even any risk on any small to medium sized enterprise or anyone looking to buy a house because why take any risk at all if the government just going to stuff trillions of dollars on your balance sheet.

i'm actually at times when you're watching the $1000.00 episode of going underground which also falls on the eve of the 2 year anniversary of julian assange of wiki leaks being dragged out of political asylum at the ecuadorian embassy in london by police in part 2 we'll talk to an ecuadorian diplomat about the global significance of tomorrow's presidential runoff in that south american country but now as julian assange continues his detention without trial in london i'm joined from geneva by the united nations special report or torture meals special roger thank you so much for coming back on i hope you're recovered from coronavirus tomorrow marks 2 years since president expendable and police dragged julian assange out of the embassy in knightsbridge why do you think it was a key event in the so-called war on terror i'm not sure it's even to the war in

terror i think it's. what might be termed a call of war on all.