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a really good to have you with us right now. declassified u.s. military files have revealed that islamic. terrorists. previously spent time in american military custody in iraq. crucial secrets. more details now with our correspondent. when islamic state was running rampant all over northern iraq a few years ago the indigenous community was bearing the brunt of the jihadi atrocities perhaps more than anyone else is. going to believe we're going. 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. 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 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 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 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. president biden is about to appoint a special envoy with the soul of killing off the construction of note stream to a major gas pipeline linking russia to europe and a member of the german parliament foreign affairs committee believes that those efforts at doomed to failure of old of a hood spoke to us here at oncet. 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 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 bother our partners and us had already dubbed the project a bad deal for europe but the secretary of state ready to sanction any and all german companies involved in the project. of the russian foreign ministry has urged washington not to put it legal obstacles in the way of the project and to abide by international law. again i think standing up to u.s. pressure has now become a vital matter of a german sovereignty. the dependence on the us is enormous it is always claimed 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 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. as we gear up for the historic anniversary of the 1st human spaceflight r.t. has special coverage for you over the coming days and it comes as the international space station welcomes a new 3 man crew as the soyuz space ship docked on friday but for now we were

turned to the by word of blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. 2 russians oleg novitsky and peter double awful for us cosmos and american and they have not so all 3 on board they'll remain in orbit at least until october as part of an expedition $65.00 joining the 7 other members already there for the launch came ahead of the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin's historic flight on april the 12th in 1961 of course to become the 1st human in space. and for 2 decades now humans have had a constant pressure presence i should say in orbit traveling 27000 kilometers per hour aboard the i.s.a.'s ultimately braving radiation and high velocity space junk . quest an astronaut and 2 cosmonauts including russia's only female space pilot on the joys and challenges of life in 0 gravity. i went to

baikonur in 2019 and they're 2 kilometers from the launch pad but even there i 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. 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 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 just not the 1st woman since 2016 not a woman hater is there and ross cost was neutral 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 about the time how did understand when is the day and when is the night where the floor is and where the ceiling 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 katia. 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 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 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 satisfy people come there and bring you something that you're really the wanted from earth could 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 a list of things that can be brought to you and it is impossible to take something secret place in the space station yes he thought what about the crumbs if you've been eaten some dried do crumbs fly all over the place then 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 basically is elizabeth a spread has been made this small our american colleagues even call it in the barbie bread like the bread for barbie bread that specifically was made so tiny to be eaten in one bite and avoid the crumbs. while moscow is also pushing ahead with groundbreaking innovations to improve our understanding of the moon. was done off spoke to the scientists behind the brand new lunar lander. this warehouse holds the

next big thing of the russian space exploration program it would add 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 lunar use big and heavy rockets heavy class launch vehicles 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 previous tests 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

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 us 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 whip meant 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 do join us for the special coverage of monday's anniversary of course yuri gagarin's flight ushered in a new era of human space travel and to mark this pivotal moment here at r.t. will be covering more high flying missions for you in the coming days.

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to have you with us today for the program sunday will mock 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 equitable of course the song is wanted in america on multiple espionage child. as for leaking classified military files of us i fathered u.k. has refused to extradite him the un has special reportorial on torture has described the years long hounding of assad as

a war on press freedom we can watch the full interview with meltzer ongoing on the ground right now at dot com. and i'm not sure it's a key event in the war in 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 lee stands for someone she defends 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 givens was published and no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian a sentient cell has been exposed. to for various forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that do amounts 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 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 relent lists. threat scenarios of being extradited to the u.s. 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. one of the world's biggest carriers americas united airlines says it wants women. and people of color to make up half its pilots and they will hire and train applicants with absolutely 0 experience to meet that goal the company says fewer than 7 percent of

its pilots are women and just 13 percent are nonwhite the industry is bracing for a wave of vacancies as large numbers of pilots are approaching the retirement age of 65 however opinions are seriously divided over who should replace them actually united airlines has your customer i'd prefer your 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 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 its academy of the rest from other airlines or even the military we got reaction from an aviation safety consultant who believes diversity is good with skills and safety of the most important things. for safety reasons you cannot use skin color or gender as an excuse to have someone on the flight. who doesn't belong only or because they simply don't have the skills to be there that's not to say that you're prejudice or you're racist it's simply measuring a person's before moments to determine are they the 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 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 battered by the pandemic of the government is not allowing in travelers from other e.u. states as long as they have negative tests and nonessential trips which we know spanish regions still bound 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 in france if you 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. yorka closing autonomous communities and then letting foreigners come seems contradictory to me. world powers got together this week in vienna in a bid to revive the iran nuclear deal and bring back to compliance with the 2015 pact ditched by donald trump is a key policy goal of the biden ministration but there's a snag washington and tehran are still refusing to talk to each other directly as artie's 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 there i mean 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 that's to really screw over the iranians but there was a twist as always the 2 of us present in the elected joe biden says he plans to rejoin the 2015 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 $100.00 tella 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 and 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 where when you fancied someone at school embarrassing 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 on 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 $1600.00 of them as a lot of paperwork 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 modern day cabins were cramped spare a thought for bryan robson he flew from australia to america in 1965 as a stowaway inside a wooden crate and he start releasing a book about his experiences called create escape mr robinson originally from wales was stuck in melbourne at the time when he couldn't afford a home which would have been the equivalent to about 12000 pounds and today's money so he came up with a plan to travel as freight inside a wooden box the size of a fridge go quite as planned the plane was supposed to fly to london but it wound up in los angeles 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. 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 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 i think they're joining us for the program on this saturday here on our international been a pleasure having you with us today my colleague brought us here at the helm in a half an hour's time hope you can join us.