the. declassified pentagon files reveal that the current leader of islamic state was previously a us prison informant and exposed some of the terrorist groups most effective operators. a german lawmaker tells our team that the white house is run by anti european hawks said on replacing the nord stream to gas pipeline with dirtier more expensive american gas. has come to power in the u.s. this will aggravate the problem on the european currency this fits into biden's concept . and from flooding to crying in the 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. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. 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 more. 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. 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 in several reports. u.s. forces are the best time of day to find islamic state in iraq members in different locations around mosul for example describing a specific cafe well parts of smith's daily. detainees seems to be more with every session what else do we learn from the declassified reports was an absolutely

precious asset for the interrogators he revealed the identities of terrorist leaders provided map like directions on how to find them the man even pointed out the phone numbers of 19 jihadi officials as well as pay they got for their jobs so to say the current head of eisel once bitrate the group step he commander to american interrogators to then take his place this led to a u.s. military op in which the 2nd in command of the islamic state pretty obsessor group was killed in 2008 think guantanamo think of plenty of other individuals imprisoned by uncle sam you can't help wondering how the hell malo walked free the point it happened at is unclear too but the last interrogation reports mentioning him are dated july 2008 so what's with the release was it a stupid accident a major system full or maybe someone thought the guy would never really cause trouble well then the story of ice holes now dead former boss. dottie should ring

a bell the fact 'd that al baghdadi got his start in an american prison isn't unique there are many people including this use this current isis leader of the american prisons and iraq you've been described by many as an incubator for an incubator for isis you know she's not a war in the. area there were hundreds of prisoners thousands of prisoners life many of whom cooperated all who were eventually released i think is part and parcel of the lack of strategic focus that 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 mala 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 task of killing off the construction of nord stream to a major gas pipeline linking russia to europe but a member of the german parliament's foreign affairs committee believes those efforts are doomed to failure waldemar hurt spoke to r.t. . 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

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 an expensive but that is not both 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 has urged washington not to put illegal obstacles in the way of the project and to abide by international law waldemar hurt thinks standing up to u.s. pressure has become a vital matter of german sovereignty. the dependence on the us is enormous it is always claim that we are becoming dependent on russia to gas imports but that is only one percent of our dependence on the us biden can do anything he wants with

this government which is completely under the influence of the us they have nothing to fear but if it changes and if we trade move with russia it would be the best thing we could do if we can't do that or we don't do it russia will link up with china and then we will be crushed between the 2 blocs we have only one way out of this mess we have to communicate with russia and end the sanctions we must build a free economic zone from the eyes of us thought to lisbon only then can we speak on an equal footing with everyone else on a political and economic level at the moment we are not sovereign only if you say but everyone knows that the us has a dilemma if they continue this way europe will shake them off and deal with russia differently. well as we gear up for monday's historic anniversary of the 1st human spaceflight r.t. has special coverage for you and i have to say space is cool but this comes as the international space station welcomes a new 3 man crew who soyuz space ship docked on friday here is the moment they thundered towards the heavens from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan.

2 russians i like novitsky and dobro of cosmos and american market vanda hey of nasa are now on board the orbiter they will remain there at least until october as part of expedition $65.00 joining the 7 other members working up there the latest launch came ahead of the 60th anniversary of cosmonaut yuri gagarin's historic flight on april 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 high velocity space junk. to taylor quizzed an astronaut and 2 cosmonauts including russia's only woman space pilot on the joys and challenges of life in 0 g. . i went to baikonur in 2019 and there are 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 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 team how many years has it been that this is not the 1st woman since 2016. a woman hater is there and ross cost was considerable don't know if it was not 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 what 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 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 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 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 we 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. moscow is also pushing ahead with groundbreaking innovations to improve our understanding of the moon r.t.c. go to don i 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 it 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 of the main difference is 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 technology minimizing mass therefore of old lunar used 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 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 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. done before it's going to land on the south all of the moon why is it so important

because scientists are expecting to find 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 . from moon bases to the search for life on mars russia's space horizons are still expanding 60 years on from that 1st flight into the unknown and throughout monday we will be bringing you our special coverage of the anniversary right here on our 2 international.

sunday marks 2 years since wiki leaks founder julian assange was dragged from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested he spent 7 years stuck in that building after being granted asylum by ecuador is wanted in the u.s. on multiple espionage charges for leaking classified military files although so far u.k. has refused to extradite him the u.n. special repertoire on torture has described the years long hounding of his sons' as a war on press freedom he features on the latest edition of going underground streaming now on r.t. dot com. i'm not sure it's a key event in the war on terror i think it's bent and what might be trying to call a war on on the press some press freedom. because joining us andre the stance for someone. defense to write us to public to have access to the troops john innocent has exposed evidence for systematic state sponsored torture

and this these crimes that she provided evidence for have never been prosecuted even after you have it instils published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian assange should self has been exposed to. various forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment do amounts to psychological torture well i visited him out for weeks after he had been arrested on the 9th of may 2019 and. he was obviously was under a lot of stress already at the time physically belong in the good physical shape she had suffered through 6 years of isolation in india quit or in embassy but. he specially he has been exposed to relent. threats scenarios being extradited to the us and 2 of 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. one of the world's biggest air carriers united airlines plans to diversify its a pool of pilots the company says it will train 10000 more and plans for half of them to be women or people of color and the u.s. 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 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 pos never 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 we got reaction from an aviation safety consultant who believes diversity is necessary but 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 deck who doesn't belong there because they simply don't have the skill sets 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 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 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 is 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 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 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 take a swing around the globe and look at other stories making headlines this hour starting with anti-lock down unrest in austria. vienna and 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 as well. london and dublin are calling for calm in northern ireland after 8 nights of rioting the violence

erupted in a pro u.k. loyalist area of belfast amid anger over post bragg's a trade barriers between the north and the republic. police have struggled to contain fighting between gangs armed with bricks and petrol bombs it is the worst flare up of the region has seen in decades and threatens to shatter the peace deal signed exactly 23 years ago. cities across britain have honored 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 is set for next saturday at windsor castle in what will be a smaller ceremonial rather than a grand stand. for something completely different if you thought modern day air cabins were. cramped spare

a thought for bryan robson he flew from australia to the us in 1965 as a stowaway inside a wooden crate and he is now releasing a book about his experience called the crate escape mr robson who is 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 as freight inside a wooden box the size of a fridge unfortunately it did not go as planned the plane was supposed to fly to london but ended 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 do to survive to be honest i'd like to know that it was absolute dollar general i didn't expect it to be and it was really painful. lack of oxygen no oxygen no air pressure in the old. no heating it was absolutely freezing

or it was absolutely boiling nothing in between oh it wasn't a very nice experience but as as i understand it you have actually issued now a public call to track down the 2 irishmen who helped you get into that crate 56 years ago what would you do when you find 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 a while 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 found 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. what a way to spend 4 days you want your arch international i'm glad to have you with us i'll be back in about 34 minutes with another full and fresh look. because the banks are getting so much free money from the government they don't want to take even any restaurant any small to medium sized enterprise or anyone looking to buy a house because why take any risk at all if the government's just going to stuff trillions of dollars on your balance sheet.

welcome to redacted denies this is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents let's go back a bit shall we november 11th 1620 the mayflower landed at plymouth rock

but it was not 7 all jubilation merrill's american festive snow cones in fact snow cones would be around for another 300 years who knew but the 100 of the 102 people aboard the mayflower half of them had been brought along as indentured servants and they weren't pleased about it as john curl details in his book for all the people of the day before landing the servants stage to insurrection and declared they were seizing their freedom the bulk of the pilgrims free workers sided with the servants the masters had no choice but to agree to the demands all adult males signed the mayflower compact affirming that all were now free and establishing a government in which all males had equal voice and vote even in the 1st days america was founded on workers and the oppressed standing

up against their oppressors against the ruling class because the rulers will always be and they will always try to get away with everything the dignity that fight started on day one of this country they want to when the white people got here and it continues today amazon has recently announced that delivery drivers are now forced to sign by all metric consent forms or lose their jobs the form says amazon can collect biometric data facial recognition location movement and other info 1st of all. just because amazon is a private company does not actually mean they get to collect any data they want on employee we americans have already decided that employees have certain levels of privacy in some states employers can't ask you if you have

a criminal record and sometimes they're not allowed to ask if the person has plans to get pregnant say or if they smoke pot in the past although biden recently for some staff to resign if they revealed they had one smoked weed but even if you're all of the mind that employers should be able to ask about say criminal record etc do you really believe and employees should have no privacy what if a boss wants to keep track of the employee's bowel movements or how often they wax their we when we maybe the company would say well we don't want employees stopping to take too many so we like to monitor that type of thing and also we find that if employees did a lot at home then they don't want to be at work because holmes seems a lot more fun so we only hire the sexually downtrodden you know.