some of the terrorist groups most of. the north. come to power in the u.s. . special speaking with.

u.s. military personnel. revealing secrets on the terror group that allowed forces to kill. 53. 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 has. to do with. the old.

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 in 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 prince of smith's daily. detainees seems to be more 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 as pay they got for their jobs so 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 full or maybe someone thought the guy would never really cause

trouble well then the story of ice holes now dead former boss. dottie should ring a bell the fact 'd that al baghdadi got his start in an american prison isn't unique there are many people including this use this current isis leader of the american prisons and 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 you many of whom 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. 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 daddy 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 in syria and elsewhere so you know until which time we can diffuse that which motivates these people to support isis isis was always exist no matter who is in charge and how many of their leaders we kill i

mean it's a vicious cycle the 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 the circle that goes on and on and on it will never end until we get out of the middle east. and wall mongers have gained office in america a member of germany's foreign affairs committee told us here. it's off the president biden moved to hire a special envoy for the sole purpose of killing the construction of the north stream to gas pipeline the m.p. added it's impossible to stop the pipeline from bringing billions of cubic meters of gas from russia so you directly. a party rule mongooses 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 to see an expensive but that does not bother our partners the us had already double the project a bad deal for europe the secretary of state ready to sanction any german companies involved in the project. the russian foreign minister statement called on washington not to set illegal obstacles blocking completion of the project and to alternately follow international law mr hood again notes u.s. strategy is actually 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 move 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 end 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 the political and economic level at the moment we are not sovereign only if you say but everyone knows that the us has a dilemma if they continue this way europe will shake them off and deal with russia differently. it's good to have you with us today as we gear up for the historic anniversary of the 1st ever human spaceflight party has special coverage for you over the coming days this comes as the international space station has just welcome

the new 3 man crew the soyuz space ship docked on friday so for the meantime though we return to the i would of lost off for you from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan here we go. so there were 2 russians a bold. and peter the prof cosmos an american mock van day of nasa that's the 3 man crew the team will be busy carrying out around 50 types of scientific research of the station the crew is a new addition to the 7 members already aboard the i assess and the launch marks the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin's historic flight on april the 12th 1961 to become the 1st human in space. now yun von a former head of the european space agency watched their gardens launch when he was a child he spoke about it with my colleague nicky air. when i heard about the

launch of a fuel leak i got in and his flight around our 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 there is no boundary for a tree ems 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 a fist time 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 was not not being 1000000 is a 1000000000 is can 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 bostich davis said let navigation telecommunication us observe ation but space will be really just and as a continent fos. moon is but also as a as 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 to my 6 year old son has been 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 spec and then it's time to apply. and should die 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 lone is very very low but the probability that we need one of those is also very low

because of the distance so you can say yes there are but so far we did not meet them and maybe we will never meet them when it comes to issues of space travel what about that of women's rights in space or flying breadcrumbs all sharing the toilet . quizzed industry pros on some of the real issues flying in spain. i went to baikonur in 2019 i was standing there 2 kilometers from the launch pad but even there was so nervous and sweaty and so much i can it 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 a 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 eye assess where do the tears float. 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 was neutral that no of course not the women always participate in the selection process and there are women who almost make it

almost to the end and usually it is medical conditions are not given them chance to complete will not have a question of all the time how did to stand when is the day and when is the night where the floor is and where the syrian if you will tell us all to pick on 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 do you. what excuse can you 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 earth 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 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 such a favor to bring is something that was after that but we can ask people to bring something and the guys will do if the mission control allows them but small things because there is a strict a list of things that can be brought in and it is impossible to take something secret place of the space station yes we thought what about the crumbs if you've been eaten some dried do crumbs fly all over the place then they get the oh legends about crumbs they can cause some problems but actually they are sucked up by the filters very fast this makes good clips deals 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. moscow is also pushing ahead with groundbreaking innovations to improve our understanding of the moon artie's even if done off spoke to the scientists who are working now on a brand new lunar lander. this warehouse holds the next big thing of the russian space exploration program if it had a p.r. slogan it probably be back to the future because by this it's called moon 25 russia aims to return to the earth's only proper natural satellite well the moon building up on the legacy and the lunar program of the soviet union at the bus are the main differences luna $25.00 was created with modern technology standards of course the machines that flew in the previous century were big and bulky and since space is an expensive pleasure all the engineering and development of space technologies are

aimed at minimizing mass there for it old luna used big and heavy rockets heavy class loads rickles for our projects we shifted to medium close launch vehicles which are cheaper like soyuz or still used to and of course the approaches to construction used for designing the machines are in line with the modern technology . this is what's left of 24 or moon 24 the direct predecessor of the probe that is set to fly to the moon this fall the 2 are decades apart and this 1 may not look like much after all the descend hasn't been easy for it but it was the last time the soviet union got lunar samples in a container exactly like this one. the

assembly here barely stops after all moon $25.00 is set to fly into space on the 1st of october this year already and it's going to do something that has never. done before is going to land on the south all of the moon why is it so important because scientists are expecting to find ice in the craters there and hence water possibly the most precious resource of all for humanity out there in space this manipulator will be grabbing samples and putting it into a compartment above it that's where the equipment installed on this machine will be heating it up and analyzing it and beaming results back to earth and potentially paving the way for the 1st lunar base because that's what russia has its sights on

if you can't do join us for our special coverage of monday's anniversary of course yuri gagarin's flight ushered in a whole new era of human space travel and to mark this pivotal moment r.t. will be covering more high flying missions in the coming days. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race based on often scary dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to

sit down and talk.

thanks for sharing your saturday with us. sunday will mark 2 years since wiki leaks founder julian assange was dragged from the ecuadorian embassy in london and promptly arrested he spent 7 years trapped in that building after being granted asylum by a. songe is wanted in america on multiple espionage charges for leaking classified military files although so far the u.k. has refused to extradite him the un special rapporteur on torture has described the years long hounding of us songes a war on press freedom you can watch the full interview with. ongoing on the ground anytime you feel like as well online at. i'm not sure it's a key event in the war on terror i think it's a cheap event in what might be trying to call a war on on the press from press freedom. because joining us andrea stands for someone. defends to the right of the public to have access to the

truth julian assange has exposed evidence for systematic state sponsored torture and this these crimes that she provided evidence for have never been prosecuted even after 11 insoles published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian assange himself has been exposed. to farias forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that do amount to psychological torture 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 belonging to good physical shape she had suffered through 6 years of of isolation in india quit or an embassy but. specially he has been exposed to relentless. threats scenarios of being extradited to the u.s. into a dura stiction 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. it is as the international talks have resumed on a key international issue that joe biden's administration has said to resolve the iran nuclear deal was donald trump left in 2018 it brings us signatories together in vienna to find a way out of diplomatic deadlock but the u.s. and iran will not be talking directly as ati's simon right explain. there are many jobs for life in this day and age unless you're a diplomat working in u.s. iran relations because that never ends yes they're on it all over again in vienna again washington and tehran are taking steps to revive the iran nuclear deal in 2015 they signed the joint comprehensive plan of action despite iran agreeing to scale back its nuclear program making it harder to build

a bomb it says it doesn't want to build anyway 3 years later try this i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran's nuclear deal clearly felt he was being deprived of the birthright of all american presidents and that's to release grew over the iranians but there was a twist as always are to assist us president elected joe biden says he plans to rejoin the 2015 clear deal course immigrant children from central america just because boyd says it's going to happen doesn't mean it actually will. too much so that brings us to the new talks in vienna this week of course as it is the u.s. and iran there has to be an element of fast about the whole proceedings and one hotel of the diplomats from around the e.u. russia china and the you carry the u.s. delegation is across the road in another hotel the 2 sides won't hold direct talks only just kind of stand near each other and the europeans becoming kind of living

metaphors for their true standing in the world are being used as a messenger boys and girls literally running notes across the road between the 2 camps when you fancied someone at school and balancing the main sticking point is the u.s. wants this to be a step by step process to get the deal back up and running. quite reasonably you have to say things that the u.s. was the one to pull out this should be a deal which will see the fall removal of sanctions to be fair to the u.s. lifting sanctions won't be that easy washington's put in place 1600 of them as a lot of paperwork a strange quirk of this deal is a lot of attention is born how long it would take iran to actually build a bomb the original deal about a year the west since iran started enriching uranium after the collapse of the deal is now down to a few months but the real pressure seems to be coming from the election cycle because iran's president rouhani wants to get something in the bag before elections in june because the conservatives he's facing are not big on the deal and president

biden worry needs to live up to his election promises because what he's not getting any younger izzie. joining us here in our international on this saturday nearly half past 4 now we are back with more of your weekends. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies too in every state in the united states we've seen the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids invaded america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose if your dose and really became

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quizzes them bust one business show you can't afford the best i'm a tough love and then washington coming up russia announces new plans for its 1st digital currency so what does that mean for the u.s. dollar and will it impact their currencies worldwide flood. ministration confirmed it is blacklisting 7 more chinese companies over national security concerns as it appears by it it made me even tougher on these things then trump was that popular. a year of record losses the airline industry is now looking to hire thousands of new pilots so will there be enough to fill the gap for those who are leaving the workforce well discuss it all next we have a lot to get to so let's get started. russia is moving forward with plans to create its own digital currency that could be ready for use by 2023 the country's central

bank confirmed that the prototype of the digital ruble is expected to be created by december it also confirmed that the currency will live in a hybrid technological platform combining distributive ledger technology and centralized control by the bank of russia this announcement also comes as china rolls out its own digital currency sparking new questions about how these central bank players will impact the world of crypto but instead of focusing on that some are claiming we should be focused on bitcoin and its role as a chinese financial weapon that's according to billionaire and pay pal founder peter thiel who talked about the world's most popular crypto currency during a recent round table with former secretary of state mike pompei oh he suggested that coins could pose a threat to the u.s. dollars reserve currency status playing upon fear that china could gain control over the crypto and use it to threaten the u.s. .