the big stories this hour declassified pentagon files reveal that the current leader of islamic state was previously a u.s. prison informant and exposed some of the terrorist group's most effective operators . also a german lawmaker tells our t.v. the white house is run by anti european folks set on replacing the north stream to gas pipelines with more expensive american gas. party rule mongers has come to power in the us this will aggravate the problem on the european continent this fits into biden's concepts. from floating breadcrumbs to crying gravity in space travelers talk to us later about the joys and challenges of life in orbit head of the 60th anniversary of the 1st manned cosmic flight.

hello there live from moscow this is our c.n.n. international ready cheating and welcome to the program headlining for you this saturday declassified u.s. military files have revealed that islamic states current terrorist in chief previously spent time in american military custody in iraq and the small while there he apparently revealed crucial secrets on jihadi activities as the story. when islamic state was running rampant all over northern iraq a few years ago the indigenous u.c.d. community was bearing the brunt of the jihadi atrocities perhaps more than anyone else is. the 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 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 1 as pay they got for their jobs to say the current head of ice a once but trait the group step he commander to american interrogators to then take his place this led to a u.s. military operation which the 2nd in command of the islamic state predicts 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 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 in iraq you've been described by many as an incubator for an incubator for isis you know she's not a war in the. area there were hundreds of prisoners thousands of prisoners 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 dottie after he was eliminated in a u.s. raid in syria and $29.00 thing today washington has

a bounty of $10000000.00 on all malas head well after all it's the us that one spearheaded the war on terror and remains the most successful force in ridding the world of the evil or maybe something has gone wrong with how it's done we've killed isis members by the 10s of thousands if not hundreds of thousands the same without ita and yet they exist because killing people is not destroying the ideology the ideology is sustained by the continued american presence in the middle east this this unlawful presence in iraq 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 a 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 sole cost of killing off the construction of an old stream to that major gas pipeline linking russia to europe but a member of the german parliament's foreign affairs committee believes those efforts to fail you have. 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 does not bother our partners. the us had already dubbed the project a bad deal for europe with the secretary of state ready to sanction any german firms involved in the project the russian foreign ministry is urged washington not to put illegal obstacles in the way of the projects and to abide by international law things that stand up to us pressure has become a vital matter of 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 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 but everyone knows that the us has a dilemma if they continue this way europe will shake them off and deal with russia differently. but as we gear up for the historic out of a story of the 1st human spaceflight artie's got special coverage for you over the coming days it comes as the international space station welcomes a new 3 man crew as their soyuz a ship docked on friday for now we're going to return to the moment of the blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan.

2 russians novitsky ampere to the brawl from both cosmos and american modern vande hei from nasa they're now on board and they'll remain in orbit until at least october as part of expedition $65.00 joining the 7 other crew members that are already up there in orange came ahead of the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin's is direct flight on the april 12th 1960 want to become the 1st human in space. and for 2 decades now humans have had a constant presence in orbit traveling at 27000 kilometers per hour on the international space station braving radiation and high velocity space junk saskia taylor's been quizzing an astronaut and 2 cosmonauts on what it's like for life in 0 gravity. i went to baikonur in 2019 i was standing 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. 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 teams how many years has it been that there's just 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 a 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 sioux and 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 up. 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 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 us something that you're really the wanted from earth could you ask 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 with small things because there is a strict a list of things that can be brought in and it is impossible to take something

secretly to the space station for yes he thought what about the crumbs if you've been eaten some brides 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 basically brazil is a spread has been made this small i mean our american colleagues even call it 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. well that interview was supposed to be live streamed on facebook on friday on the r.t. russian language page however the broke up was blocked by the platform with a message saying that the video may contain music over the belongs to someone. nothing responsible for the life drain says that's certainly not the case let's talk about this now life in his an internet law experts say good to have you on the program was quite a big event for this some high profile guests who had plenty of preparation for it

if you can say there's something wrong in the system if you get a big online giants like facebook simply stopping a broadcast consisting of a regional content. suddenly this is the 1st time in human history if you're going to talk about historical moments in the chim and where there's a couple there are a couple of individuals who have so much control over so much information over so many people mugs bergen and darcy of treated their become you know the most powerful people on earth. in dysfunction censorship. is very scary has got 2 elements to retrieve me i mean the 1st part is what we're seeing now is censoring information but this is only the 1st part of it the 2nd part of the secular element of censorship is even more dangerous is tweaking the great term to to ensured that internet users only see certain

information in these agreeable to those people who are in control the she's very very dangerous. you know. it might be 1015 years from today where historical facts such as for example the russians are all in defeating the nazis or even the holocaust could be completely removed from the internet then replaced with new facts depending who will be controlling the information at the time. now do you see any inconsistences here facebook's not alone in this and you can even if we accept that the algorithms have to be automated to a large extent they seem very quick to kick in if any ad revenue or copyright seems to be the threat of infringement also quick when its violent video is there's been live streaming of suicides the christ church terrorist that was lifestream for

quite some time before anything was taken down is there some inconsistency in the priorities here. well you see the argument is now turning to whether the tweaking of the old green aware of the judgments that are made by by tools free individuals is the right judgment is the right call this should not really be the argument the argument should be is it trite to our to apply censorship in the 1st place to information you might disagree with the information you might want to dispute information but to remove this information from public domain. and not not not not let people know all our people to learn about this information and make their own judgment this should really be the argument these really should be defray name of our conversation no this is certainly where facebook has been consistently inconsistent because by asking whether facebook has been consistent all drip has

been consistent we're actually accepting their. they're all a sheep of of that information in their role is information controllers and more recently of course a year ago those blocking filters kicked in when people were trying to share information about covert at the time we were all hungry for facts and we didn't really know what was going on are these companies just too big to be able to police the volume of content that's going through their system it's not just they're too big or too too to police they're not qualified they have no qualification. into to to decide what information should be in the public domain are they not even qualified to decide there has been in the election fraud a not qualified to be silent anything they're just they're just normal people who are interested in computers and created a fantastic plot form but but from here to 2 to the level where we say that these

individuals who rounders social media companies are experts in everything and they are the people the right individuals to tell us what scientific facts are correct what it what he story called facts we should be be be be exposed to. this ridiculous. people didn't get to see it live last night our space event on facebook but it's up there now for people to watch again in space because of all right and. thanks for joining us r.t. . still to come today america's biggest airline is promising to diversify its cabin crews but critics say that will have to mean knowing the qualification requirements of the pilots it's among all stories still ahead after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for indication let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

hello again sunday will mark a 2 years since wiki leaks founder julian assange was dragged from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested he spent 7 years stuck in a building after being granted asylum by ecuador assad is wanted in the u.s. on multiple espionage charges for leaking classified military files though so far the u.k. has refused to extradite him of the united nations special rapporteur on torture has described the game as long hounding of a sound as of her own press afraid of that you can watch the full interview with knowlton alsa on going on the ground on r.t. 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 andre li

stands for someone. defense 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 given its was published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian ascension self has been exposed. to farias forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that do amount to psychological torture well 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 of isolation in india quit or an embassy but. specially he has been exposed to relent.

threats 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're he has to expect to disappear basically in a burial a lie in some kind of a super much the rest of your life. and it's one of the world's biggest air carriers united airlines says it wants women and people of color to make up half its pilots or hire and train applicants with no experience to meet that goal the u.s. company says fewer than 7 percent of its pilots are women and just 13 percent nonwhite industry is bracing for a wave of vacancies as large numbers of pilots are approaching the retirement age of $65.00 but opinions are 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 god less 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 walk 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 overall the company expects to hire 10000 pilots by 2030 half of which will come through its academy and the rest from other airlines or the u.s. military we got reaction from an aviation safety consultant who believes diversity is necessary but skills and safety should always come 1st. for the safety reasons you can 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 set to

be there that's not to say that you're prejudice or you're racist 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 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. that doesn't it doesn't mean anything. spain is doing its best to revive a tourist economy battered by the pandemic the government's now allowing in

travelers from other e.u. states as long as they have a negative code test in contrast non-essential trips between spanish regions still banned or people on the streets of madrid told us the new rules 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 to 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 communities and then letting foreigners come seems contradictory to me. now if you thought the modern day air cabins were cramped spare a thought for bryan robson he flew from australia to the united states in 1965 as a stowaway inside a wooden crate well now he's releasing

a book about his experience called the crater scape mr robson who's from wales was stuck in melbourne at the time and couldn't afford his airfare home which would have cost the equivalent of $12000.00 pounds so he came up with a plan to travel his freight inside a wooden box the size of a fridge and fortunately it didn't quite go as planned the plane was supposed to fly to london but it ended up in los angeles rory susi spoke to him. 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 in expect it to be and it was really painful. lack of oxygen no oxygen nowhere pressuring. no eating it was absolutely freezing or it was absolutely boiling in between oh it wasn't a very nice experience but as i understand it you you've actually issued now a public call to track down the 2 irish men 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 couldn't and i'd like to contact them and yes sank and but i'm a drink go have a nice time you 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 its founders. passages were concerned it was very expensive there was no terrorism or no nothing so there was very little security and 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 see as obviously you are. never complain about leg room again that's it from us for now your next news update is in 32 minutes. problem drugs don't do is 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 invited to 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 after dose and really became his drug dealer soon is to blame patients don't use manufacturers all the

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dollar and drill it impacts their currencies worldwide plot by 10 ministration confirmed it is blacklisting 7 more chinese companies own. downslope security concerns as it appears biden made even tougher on the aging than trump was that you're 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 from 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 come.