the. declassified files reveal that the current leader of islamic state was previously a us prison informant and exposed to some of the terrorist groups the most effective. a german. that the white house is run by. replacing the. pipeline with more expensive american liquefied natural gas. has come to power in the us the problem on the european continent this fits into biden's concepts. from floating. 0 gravity space travel to speak about the joys and challenges of life and just ahead of the

60th anniversary of the 1st calls to make flight. this is the international live from moscow i'm rule from all of us here welcome to your new. the current leader of islamic state was a u.s. military person who quote signed like a. revealing secrets on the terror group that allowed western forces to kill. revelations come from 53 declassified interrogation reports let's get more details now here's our correspondent. when islamic state was running rampant olver northern iraq a few years ago the indigenous community was bearing the brunt of the jihadi atrocities perhaps more than anyone else.

you're the one. 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 well parts 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 life many of whom cooperated all 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 on lawful 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

was always exists 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 see wall mungo's have gained office in america a member of germany's foreign affairs committee has told us here. it's off to president biden move to hire a special envoy for the sole purpose of killing the construction of the north stream to gas pipeline the m.p.i. that it's impossible to stop the pipeline from bringing billions of cubic meters of gas from russia into europe. a party of war mongers 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 to see an expensive but that is not both partners. the us had already dubbed the project as a deal for europe the secretary of state ready to sanction any german companies involved in the project. the russian foreign ministry statement calls on washington not to set illegal obstacles blocking completion of the gas pipeline project and to follow international law mr hurd again notes that u.s.

strategy seems to be backfiring. the dependence on the us 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 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. it is our international we're gearing up for the historic out of her story of the 1st human spaceflight and r.t.

how special coverage for you over the coming days it all comes as the international space station just welcome to new 3 man crew with their soyuz space ship docked on friday so just for an hour we'll return for the moment of blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. so to russians oleg novitsky and peter cosmos and american magandang have no other 3 about a crew on board they'll be remaining in orbit a least until october as part of the expedition $65.00 crew joining the other members already the other launch coming ahead of the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin's historic flight on april the 12th 961 to become the 1st human in space. but despite radiation void the vacuum around of course the eye assess debris flying around faster than a bullet humans somehow have managed to live aboard the space outpost for more than

20 years. taylor quit and after knowlton 2 cosmonauts including russia's only woman space pilot some of the real issues of being in space. did not think i went to by canoe or in 2019 i was still in there 2 kilometers from the launch pad but even there i was so nervous and sweaty and so much i can't even imagine what you feel when you're right there waiting for the launch you're seeing a good sources 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. 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 reading. no your your tears just form and stay on your eyeball like like i don't know jelly or something where they did they 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 does medical conditions are not given them chance to complete would not have a question of all the time how did understand when is the day and when is the night

where the floor is and where the silliness. of the cone keep track of the sun that 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 up 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 real to wanted from earth could you assess your favor to bring in something that was after that but we. ask people to bring something and the guys will do if the mission control allows them but small things because there is a restricted list of things that can be brought and it is impossible to take something secretly to the space station people but what about the crumbs if you have been eaten some dried do crimes fly all over the place where they get the oh clear legends about crumbs they can cause some problems but actually they are sucked up by the filters very fast this makes good lives deals based bread 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. from moscow is also pushing ahead with groundbreaking innovations

term prove our understanding of the moon r.t.c. could have done or spoke to scientists who are now working on the next 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 you 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 so 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 little not 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 $25.00 are said to fly into space on the 1st of october this year already and it's going to do something that. has never been done before is going to land on the south pole of the moon why is it so important well because scientists are expecting to find ice in the craters there and hence water possibly the most precious resource overall for humanity out there in space this manipulator will be grabbing samples and putting it into a compartment above it that's where they quit meant installed on this machine will be heating it up and analyzing it and beaming results back to earth and potentially paving way for the 1st lunar base because that's what russia has its sights on. but if you can do it join us for 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.o. be covering more high flying missions for you in the coming days.

in the evening misguided believed by many of them by locking down the whole society if you somehow put the old high risk people we're seeing now is the wrong here is that wasn't the case did not reject. the high risk pool of people because the in the u.s. . over half a 1000000 deaths mostly older people there was a complete failure to sustain these lockdowns would actually pertain to all the high risk people.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. good to have you with us today for the program sunday will mark 2 years since wiki leaks founder julian assange was dragged from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested he spent 7 years trapped in that building after being granted asylum by

ecuador songes wanted in america on multiple the espionage charges for making classified military files although so far the u.k. has refused to extradite him to the un a special reportorial on torture has described the years long hounding of a songe as a war on press freedom and you can watch the full interview with on going on the ground or over at ati dot com. i'm not sure it's a key event in the war on terror i think it's a cheap event and what might be trying to call a war on on the press from press freedom. because joining us andrea the stance 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 you evidence was published no one has ever been prosecuted for those

acts of torture secondly julian assange should sell the house then expose to. various forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that do amounts 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 it was under a lot of stress he already had that time physically present me in a good physical shape she had suffered through 6 years of isolation in india quit or an embassy but. specially he has been exposed to relent. fraction aryans be extradited to the us into a jury 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. so one of the world's biggest carriers america's united airlines says it wants women and people

of color to make up half its pilots and will hire and train applicants with 0 experience to meet that goal the company says fewer than 7 percent of its pilots are women and just 13 percent are nonwhite and the industry is bracing for a wave of vacancy is as large numbers of pilots are approaching the retirement age of $65.00 but opinions are certainly divided over who should replace them. actually the united airlines has your customer i'd prefer your mission to always be to employ the very best and talented pilots for a good list of race color or gender why would they not be qualified diversifying the job doesn't mean lowering standards it means ending the practice of passing over qualified women and minorities in favor of white men one of the ratios of qualified pilots are you going to hire less qualified pilots just to be woke when i fly i want to be confident the pilot of my flight was chosen because they were the

most qualified not because of their skin color or gender overall the company expects to hire 10000 pilots by 2030 half of which will come through as academy and the rest from other airlines or the u.s. military we got a reaction from aviation safety consultant one of them who believes diversity is necessary but skills and safety have to come 1st. safety reasons you cannot use skin color or gender as an excuse to have someone on the flight deck who doesn't belong there because they simply don't have the skills to be there that's not to say that you're prejudice or your race is it's simply measuring a person's before moments to determine why they would best fit to be in their position i have no issue with diversity i have no problem with anybody wanting to become a pilot it was a time. as a young man i wanted to become

a pilot and i don't think there should be any obstruction to somebody do we what they want to do however that said they have to have the training they have to have the professional skills necessary to do the job properly so diversifying for the sake of diversification and coming up with numbers out of nowhere. it doesn't it doesn't mean anything. spain is doing its best to revive a tourism economy heavily damaged by the pandemic the government is now allowing interests from other states as long as they have a negative test in contrast nonessential trips between spanish regions are still banned people on the streets of madrid told us the new rules make no sense. in math we are all human beings and we should have the same privileges you can go to a restaurant with several people and then you go to the subway and hang out with 500

it is the contradiction if europe the same thing is happening throughout europe in france if you cannot travel between region sithe or but you can travel to supreme well the truth is really that bad it doesn't seem right to me right now i could go to france and catch a flight to majorca closing autonomous communities and then letting film. seems contradictory to me. if you thought modern day cabins were a crime but spare a thought for bryan robson he flew from australia to america in 1965 as a stowaway inside a wooden crate and he's now releasing a book about his experience called the crate escape mr robson who's originally from wales was stuck in melbourne at the time and simply couldn't afford a home which would have cost the equivalent today of $12000.00 pounds so he came up with a plan to travel as freight inside a wooden box the size of

a fridge however it didn't go quite as planned the plane was supposed to fly to london but ended up in los angeles and i spoke to the man in question. you know i understand you spent 4 days in that box 56 years ago i mean it's sounds like absolute torture how did you survive to be honest i'd like to know that it was absolute dollar general i didn't expect it to be and it was really painful. lack of oxygen no oxygen no air pressure in the old. no heating it was absolutely freezing or it was absolutely boiling nothing in between oh it wasn't a very nice experience but as as i understand it you have actually issued now a public call to track down the 2 irishmen who helped you get into that crate 56 years ago what would you do when you find i'll let them buy me a beer. well perhaps i'll buy them one i just want to make sure they're all right i have tried for i tried initially to contact them and i couldn't and i'd like to

contact them and yes sam and buy him a drink. have a nice time have a reunion what about what about modern day that if you try to do this today with modern day airport security do you think it will be possible no absolutely not in those days there was no security it was very lax. aviation was fairly in its infancy as far as passengers were concerned it was very expensive there was no terrorism or oh no nothing so there was very little security actually after i did it they introduced what they considered to be a secure method and most countries then started spraying crates with sneezing so if somebody was in there the they would seize obviously you know. now that's the program for this half hour here on the international pre-show you joining us on this saturday we are back soon at the top of the hour with more of your news still

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geysers financial survival guide. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's guys report. time after a time when you're watching the $1000.00 episode of going underground which also for the on the eve of the 2 year anniversary of julius onj 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 assad continues his detention without trial in london i'm joined from geneva by the united nations special report or torture niels melts a special thank you so much for coming back on i hope you're recovered from

coronaviruses worst of all but tomorrow marks 2 years since president nixon metropolitan police dragged julian a songe 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's a cheap event in what might be termed a core a war on on the press from press freedom. because joining us sundry stands for someone. defense the right of the public to have access to the truth and soon as you all know to richie leaks he published very sensitive information that governments try to keep secrets on you know providing evidence for war crimes and corruption and essentially what we see and feel are playing out in the 11th of april 2019 this kind of. a peak event in his

persecution that had already lasted since 2010 and where. it peaked in mice is really the way he has been persecuted for a decade in the way he was expelled from the embassy but then he without any. legal counsel without a legal remedy and due process his asylum status was revoked history as a korean nationality was revoked because it would or in constitution does not allow extradition of actual dorian's to other countries and all of this was done without any due process and obviously but then you know an hour or 2 he was then brought to the police station and from there on works to a court where a criminal trial hearing had already been scheduled for and for so he and he was convicted within about 15 minutes for a alleged crime of bail isolations which was a.