we. declassified pentagon files reveal that the. u.s. prison informant and exposed some of the terrorist groups most. european whole place in the north pipeline with more. come to power in the us. on the european continent. about the joys of life. just ahead of the 60th anniversary of the 1st.

flight. welcome to the program. the current leader of. u.s. military prison. revealing secrets on the terror group that allowed western forces to kill. the revelations come from 53 declassified interrogation reports let's get some more details now correspondent. 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. it would be when you go. to war with you.

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. to u.s. forces of 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 cooper as 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 as pay they got for their jobs to say the current head of ice a once betrayed the group step p.t. 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 previous us or 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 i'll mala 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 caused

trouble well then the story of eisel 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 there are many people including this use this current isis leader of the american prisons and iraq has been described by many as an incubator for an incubator for isis you know she's not a want to. marry there were hundreds of prisoners thousands of prisoners like him many of whom cooperated all who were eventually released i think is part and parcel of the lack of strategic focus that as 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 it 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 and yet they exist because killing people is not destroying the ideology the idea. ology a 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 will always

exist no matter who is in charge and how many of their leaders we kill i mean it's a vicious cycle that 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 e.u. warmongers have gained office in america a member of germany's foreign affairs committee told us here at ati 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 to europe. a party of rule 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 will also not be able to guarantee our energy security deposit 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 bode upon his. the u.s. had already dubbed the project a bad deal for europe with the secretary of state ready to sanction any and old german firms involved in this project the russian foreign ministry statement called on washington not to step in legal obstacles blocking completion of the project and to alternately follow international law mr hurd again notes that the u.s. strategy is actually 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 u.s. 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 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 historic anniversary of the 1st human spaceflight r.t. has special coverage for you over the coming days it comes as the international

space station welcomes a new 3 man crew is there soyuz space ship docked on friday but for now we return to the moment of blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. 2 russians are going to read ski and peter the cosmos and american magandang have not so all 3 on board will remain in orbit until well at least october as part of expedition 65 joining the 7 other members already there and the launch came ahead of the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin's historic flight on april the 12th 1961 to become the 1st human in space. of course now for what 2 decades humans have had a constant presence in orbit traveling at 27000 kilometers per hour aboard the international space station ultimately braving radiation and high for most of the space junk but artie's saskia taylor quizzed him after norton 2 cosmonauts

including russia's only woman space pilot on the joys and challenges of life in 0 gravity. yeah. i went to baikonur in 2019 i was there 2 kilometers from the launch pad but even there was so nervous and sweat 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 i assess where do the tears float. do 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 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 other women haters there and ross course 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 floor is and where the silliness. picone keep track of the summer we see

16 sunrises and sunsets so we check our watches to see if it is day or night. what excuse can you use if 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 you say i was just looking up at the air 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 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 you assess your favor to bring you 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 list of things that can be brought 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 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 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. or moscow is also pushing ahead with groundbreaking innovations to improve our

understanding of the moon so wattis that you go stand off spoke to scientists behind the next brand new lunar lander. this warehouse holds the next big thing of the russian space exploration program it would add a p.r. slogan and 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 sawyer's 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 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 of a rule 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 been done before is going to land on the south pole 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 overall 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 . well if you can do try to join us for the coverage of monday's anniversary now of course darren's flight ushered in a whole new era of human space travel and to mark this pivotal moment he will be covering more high flying missions for you in the coming days.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. yes tim naive a misguided believe by many of them 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 possess. the high risk pool of people they trust in the us we are. now over half a 1000000 deaths most little of people there was a complete failure just saying that these last dance would actually pertain to all the high risk people. thanks for joining us for the program here on r t so sunday will mark 2 years since wiki leaks founder julian assange was dragged from the ecuadorian embassy in london and ultimately arrested he spent 7 years trapped inside that building after being granted asylum by ecuador songe is wanted

in the u.s. on multiple espionage charges for leaking classified military files although so far the u.k. has refused to extradite him but un special rapporteur on torture has described the years long holidaying of a songe as a war on press freedom and you can watch the full interview with ideals meltzer on going underground over dot com. but 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 lee stands for someone she 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 a given instance published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of

torture secondly julian essential self has been exposed. to various forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that do amount to psychological torture well 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 isolation in india quit or in embassy but. specially she has been exposed to relent. question arias would be 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 super max prison for the rest of his life. it is our international

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 they will hire and train applicants with 0 row x. perience to meet that goal the company says fewer than 7 percent of its pilots are women and just 13 percent are not white or the industry is bracing for a wave of vacancies as large numbers of pilots are approaching the retirement age of 65 but opinions are heavily divided over who should replace them actually united airlines has your customer i'd prefer you mission to always be to employ the very best and talented pilots for goodness 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 on my

flight was chosen because they were the most qualified not because of their skin color or gender. or overall the company expects to hire 10000 pilots by 2030 half of which will come through as academy and the rest from other airlines all the military we've got reaction from an aviation safety consultant who believes diversity is important but skills unsafety have to come. for safety reasons you cannot use skin color or gender as an excuse to have someone on the flight. who doesn't belong here because they simply don't have the skill sets to be there that's not to say that you're prejudice or your race is it's simply measuring a person's performance to determine are they the best to be in their position i have no issue with diversity i have no problem with anybody wanting to become

a pilot there was a time. as a young man i wanted to become a pilot and i don't think there should be any obstructions to somebody doing 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 diverse as flying 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 tourist economy back to by the pandemic the government is now allowing in travelers from other e.u. states as long as they have a negative covert test in contrast non-essential trips between spanish regions are still banned and people on the streets of madrid told us the new rules just make no sense. 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 $500.00 it is the contradiction if europe the same thing is happening throughout europe and france cannot travel between region side there but you can travel to spain 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 community. and then letting foreigners come seems contradictory to me. well powers got together this weekend in a bid to revive the iran nuclear deal bringing tehran back to compliance with the 2015 pact ditched by donald trump is a key policy goal of the by the administration however there's a snag washington and tehran are still refusing to talk to each other directly as r.t. is someone right explains 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 in 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 trying 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 after release grew over the iranian but there was a twist as always the 2 of us president elect to joe biden says he plans to rejoin the 2015 the clear deal course as 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 they'll only just kind of stand near each other in the europeans becoming kind of living metaphors for their true standing in the world and being used as messenger boys and girls literally running notes across the road between the 2 camps when you fancy someone at school and barassi 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 actions to be fair to the u.s. lifting sanctions won't be that easy washington's put in place 1600 of them that's a lot of paperwork a strange quirk of this deal is a lot of attention is put on 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 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 is. now if you thought that modern day cap in this was cramped 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 experiences called create escape now mr robson who's from wales was stuck in melbourne and at the time he couldn't afford a home in today's money that would be the equivalent of about 12000 pounds so he came up with a plan to travel as freight inside a wooden box the size of a fridge there were difficult quite as planned the plane was supposed to fly to london but wound up. earlier i spoke to the man himself. 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 and an expected 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 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. out 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 oh well i tried initially to contact them and i couldn't and i'd like to contact them and yes sam come and buy him a drink go 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. you know are there are some you're south of stories here on international now just about half past 6 in the evening on saturday we are back in about 25 minutes with more of your storms.

we are segregated in the air by social class lower middle class people also in poverty by 1st name if you're born into a poor family off your born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years younger if you're born into generational poverty. it's a fight every day so you meet your needs and the needs of your family.