the classified field of the current leader of islamic state was previously a us prison informant and exposed some of the terrorist groups most effective operators. the german. white house is run by european hawks set on replacing the gas pipeline with more expensive american gas. come to power in the us the problem on the european continent this fits into biden's concept. floating breadcrumbs to crying and 0 gravity veteran space travelers talk to us about the joys and challenges of life in orbit ahead of the 60th anniversary of the 1st manned flight.

to have you with us this weekend live from moscow this is our international welcome to the program 1st for you this hour declassified u.s. military files have revealed that islamic states current terrorist in chief previously spent time in american military custody in iraq and 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. it would be when you go. to war with ringback 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 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 cool for us 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 1 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 focus or maybe someone thought the guy would never really cause 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 is 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 as 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 does not destroy 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's about to appoint a special envoy with the sultan of killing off the construction of north stream to a major gas pipeline linking russia to europe but a member of the german pollens foreign affairs committee believes those efforts a doomed to fail yet it's been speaking to. a party of woman 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 dirty and expensive but that does not bother our partners the united states that 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 surged washington not to put illegal obstacles in the way of the project and to abide by international law heard things that standing up to us pressures become a vital matter for 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 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 not to lisbon and 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. 3 gear up for monday's historic anniversary of the 1st human spaceflight r.t. has got special coverage for you and it comes as the international space station welcomes a new 3 man crew who saw a space ship docked of friday here's the moment they thunder towards the heavens from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. to russians all of novitzky dubrow from ross cosmos and american mark vande hei from nasa now on board the orbiter they'll remain there until at least october as

part of expedition 65 joining the 7 other members working up there right now the latest launch came ahead of the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin say historic flight on april the 12th 1961 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 also high velocity space junk saskia taylor quizzed astronauts and 2 cosmonauts including russia's only woman space pilot on the joys and challenges of life in 0 gravity. motives of the knots that i went to by canoe or in 2019 i was still in there 2 kilometers from the launch pad but even there 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 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 a rocket launch and you get to do what you've prepared for for years thought kuzma nothing sweet what kind of dreams do have while in space and if you cry on the i assess where do the tears float. if 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 if you think 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. a woman hater is there and ross cos most of all don't know if there's not a 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 do 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 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 his 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 satisfy people come there and bring you something that you're really the wanted from earth could such a favor to bring is something that was after that but we can ask people to bring something and the gods 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 secrets of the space station yes he thought what about the crumbs if you've been eaten some dried do crumbs fly all over the place they get the oh there are legends

about crumbs they can cause some problems but actually they are sucked up by the filters very fast this basically is 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 to improve our understanding of the moon he spoke to the scientists behind a 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 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 24 or moon 24 the direct predecessor of the probe that is set to fly to the moon this fall the 2 decades apart and this 1 may not look like much of 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. done before it's 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 put 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 earth from moon bases to the search for life on mars russian space horizons are still expanding 60 years on from that 1st flight into the unknown and from monday we'll be bringing you special coverage of that anniversary right here on r.t. . in the evening misguided believed by a man of god by locking down the whole society you can somehow protect the all high

risk people who we're seeing now is sort of on here is that wasn't the case did not present. the high risk pool of people because in the us. 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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic development the only move we. will be successful. to sit down and talk.

well again sunday marks 2 years since wiki leaks founder julian assange and was dragged from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested he spent 70 years stuck in that building after being granted asylum by ecuador a sound is wanted in the united states on multiple espionage charges for leaking classified military files although so far the u.k. has refused to extradite him to the un special rapporteur on torture has described the gear as long hounding of a sound as a bore on press freedom he featured on the latest edition of going underground which is great right now on r.t. dot com. board. 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 lee 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 givens was published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian ascension self has been exposed. to for various forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that due 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 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 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 super much the rest of his life. one of the world's biggest air carriers united airlines plans to diversify its pool of pilots the company says it will train 10000 more plans for half of them to be women or people of color the u.s. company says that 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 your 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 we go reaction from an aviation safety consultant who believes diversity is necessary but that skills and safety should always come 1st. for safety reasons you can use skin color or gender as an excuse to have someone on the flight. 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 you're racist it's simply measuring a person's performance 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 pirate 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 get the job properly so diversifying for the sake of diversification and coming up with numbers. out of nowhere. 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 negative covert tests in contrast non-essential trips between spanish regions are still banned the 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. it is the contradiction if europe the same thing is happening throughout europe and 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. look at some other stories making headlines around the world now starting with anti lock down unrest in austria. b.n. or in the eastern states have extended tough coded restrictions for a week causing fury in the capital more than 400 people rallied in the city center earlier in the day leading to some ugly scenes riot police used pepper spray to push back the crowds and several arrests were made. london and dublin a calling for calm in northern ireland after 8 nights of rioting violence erupted

in a pro u.k. loyalist area belfast amid anger of a post breaks a trade barriers between the north and the republic police have struggled to contain fighting between gangs armed with bricks and petrol bombs it's the worst flare up the region seen in decades and threatens to shatter the peace deal signed there exactly 23 years ago. cities across britain have the late prince philip with a 41 gun salute the husband of queen elizabeth the 2nd died on friday just 2 months short of his 100th birthday his funeral these next saturday at windsor castle what will be a smaller ceremonial rather than a grand state event. now if you thought the modern day 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 creative scape mr robson who's originally from wales got stuck in melbourne at the time when he couldn't afford a home because it would have cost him the equivalent of 12000 pounds today so he came up with a plan to travel his freight inside a wooden box the size of a fridge unfortunately that still didn't go as planned because the plane although it was supposed to fly to london and did up in los angeles. spoke to brian about his airborne adventure. 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 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 irishman 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 i tried initially to contact them and i couldn't and i'd like to contact them and yes sanker and but i'm a drinker 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 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. never complain about the leg room again that's it from us and i was 27 minutes past the hour the next i'll see international news as we stroll in just over 33 minutes time. the world is driven by a dream shaped by those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

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what athletes are told to picture making the shot before they take the shot and i think that the same thing is true for the rest of us we have to picture what our goal is is looking like and not just pick an arbitrary goal but what do we want our life to look like and then create a plan to get there and we can help kids do better but it's in their own hands it's in their hands that's a lesson every kid should learn and those sort of step the responsibility i can make sure that i never will be poverty and my kids and i will live in poverty if i do the right thing.