me join me every thursday on the alex sermon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me the breaking news and are natural gas prices to an old time record in europe standing currently at $950.00 per 1000 cubic meters, sparking fears of a winter energy crisis. also ahead you know, full especially to be before you don't know if it was an aide worker or an ice is a operative. i can't speak to that and i can't speak to that in the setting in any less. so you don't know or won't tell us. i don't, i don't know because we're reviewing in the us secretary of state admit, he doesn't know whether an aide worker was mistaken. be killed and a drug strike in afghanistan last month. local has gone mad with braces to

overtones. that's just the reaction to a new your professors take all 911 to the academic cobra, terrible atrocity which killed about 3000 people. an attack on the white american capitalism. lots of retired us. army colonel gives us his insights into the motives behind the military interventions that followed $911.00 fear in rate, which was how they made the decisions they made in the aftermath. that's not a good environment in which to make national security ah 247 global stories and international analysis. this is audrey international from moscow. my name is colleen bray. first breaking news prices for natural gas in europe. have hit an old time record currently at $964.00 per 1000 cubic meters is a more than a 20 percent increase on yesterday. is lining up

a triple threat just as when to demands about to kick into with a surging wholesale prices. coinciding with lower levels of stored gas and the specter of rising fuel poverty, charlotte do bench explains where the costs, if you reports and horses was expected. so people may have used more energy. the summer months also locked down across europe, could have impacted the amount. 1 of energy people use at home. we also know that they've seen a problem with wind energy. low winds have not been able to create enough energy to set top up the deficits. and we know that you are paying companies have been tough competition over gas supplies with asian companies. all of it has seen that the energy tank reduced to what it should be pre pandemic capacity was around 84 percent. it's currently standing way down. the 2nd one percent. all of it comes as you continue to argue over the always you think gas supply from russia. as

you may be aware, the news stream to pipeline construction project is completed last week and gas from the russian company has said it is ready to supply you with a gas deficit immediately. it's ready to step up to the plate and do that. however, for that to happen, you have to certify that pipeline, they'll never suggestions that could take some before that's ready to happen. we knew that some countries in europe already trying to take emergency measures to deal with that crisis that there are into painting over the winter months just around the corner. this really could be the start of another crisis. fuel poverty is something the find some things that householders, to a pension is or low income. you often have to make a particularly tough decision to they have to stay warm for themselves,

their families, the children or to the youth. she think supplies, she make food, it's an incredibly difficult position, but many people have to take every year. some figures from the european commission suggests that they're all between 15000000 and a 100 and to 5000000 people across europe who currently in a few properties happens to make those decisions every year. so the idea that once again, we can the prices increase. now the historic price, it really will bring a lot of fear to those families who have been badly struggling to fall life. europe, us a heads into winter is facing this few crisis. we know that the question is now, what will the governments thing we heard? what the spanish government is going through, but what will other governments do and how will be european union react? compounding this

a critical shortage of wind power is also raising questions of over reliance on renewable energy. a former austria forum it is to told us that countries with a broader energy make makes more able to cushion the blow, the fact that the wind is blowing and that the sun is shining less blood that the guts inventory. so very low. all that all together, great stuff mixed. that's on the one hand that led to the increase in power prices. kinetic tricity prices of course also natural gas prices. and on the other hand as although the permanent lessons risk of power electricity, we definitely have to amanda rise. it's on the lines of 40 percent over poland, speaking of 4050 percent. so this effect of countries, other countries which for instance have an tricity based on nuclear like in france. i'm currently living the situation is different than might not be such

a price rise, but we really have to look at it from country to countries. and again in my eyes, it's not only about friday thrive. the real problem for many countries in particular, in germany, where we already had several of the creation of a crappy and near power cut in not in certain regions. this is a tremendous problem when power is also coming under attack from an unlikely source, environmental campaigners in germany, you say that new turbines near berlin will put some 2000 hector as a forest at risk or europe corresponding peter, all of a travel to the area in brandenburg near to the town of dawson campaign. as of fighting against the building of thousands of 200 metre high windmills. the plan would see nearly 2000 hex is a forest at risk of being chopped down to make way. see how and who the solar wind

turbans consume a lot of resources for they production, they destroy nature. they deprived animals of the habitat and we humans are not happy either one, we have to live near them. on the angle of merkel 10 years. chancellor, germany has become one of the world's leading nations in wind energy. renewables currently generates around 40 percent of the country's electricity, with over a quarter of the nation's power coming from the wind last year. the largest energy agency in germany wants to see it become easier to build more capacity activists. supposing the plan though, say that german mindset south to fixed when it comes to energy is global fuel. i think the many people are afraid of getting labeled of being excluded from society because they have an opinion that doesn't correspond to the mainstream. if we look around the world, we see that other countries are teaching us how to do it. nuclear power plants, coal fired power plants, gas fired power plants are all being built. nobody tries to change their mind

because they are afraid that others will reject them in the end. that's not an opinion. it's popular on the german election campaign trail. green party candidate for chancellor under lena bear bulk wants to see 2 percent of all london. the country made available to wind farms. current front run it to be chancellor oil f sholtes of the social democrats is broadly in favor and dying. a potential coalition with the greens of the real contenders only conservative almond lasha has been moderate when it comes to pushing climate goals. he's also tanked in the polls . i don't know if it was ever possible for you, mrs. bare bark to stand in front of a 1000 miners and say to them, you are going into early retirement. your plans will be closed. that's the social part that you have to think about when you have such big goals. while the cd you candidate for chancellor says his rivals putting green politics ahead of realities like jobs campaign, as he is a dream politics of being pushed ahead of the actual environment itself. they all

use climate protection as a cover and don't realize that wind turbans don't say a single gram of fuel to nature must be protected. following the fukushima disaster in japan, anglo merkel announced that germany's nuclear power would be phased out. as it stands, the last nuclear plant will close next year. cold power is also set to be close down by 2038. as a matter of officially, america will certainly be remembered for her climate policy when we think of her withdrawal from nuclear energy after fukushima. but i think she will be very negatively associated with these policies. no one will forgive her for this decision if it results in failure for germany. we can't produce energy that is 3 times as expensive as in the rest of the world and pretend that we are saving the world. germany share of men made c o 2 emissions is 0.4 percent in relation to the rest of the world. as germany moves away from nuclear and coal,

they have to find solutions to provide the energy that is needed. but us politicians push green energy proposals that going to boom pads with people who aren't so willing to change at any cost. peter, all of a r t brand, the bird germany. more of a headline news in the us secretary of state has claimed he doesn't know who was targeted in a recent american drone strike in afghanistan. antony blank and been grilled by senators over that attack which killed 10 civilians just before the western military polis. let's go live ben, to cobble our senior correspondent, i guess the, the hybrid, 2 days in a row. the blank has been roasted over afghanistan. he doesn't seem to be convincing. many people with his explanations. does he while considering how partisan american politics are, as well as the fact that, you know, arguably it is very difficult to mount a defense of what we saw in the final weeks of american presence. got

a start end allied presence as well. i remember the atmosphere here where as the evacuation the days until the end of the evacuation wound down, it was an atmosphere of, of tension anticipation and even fear. because everybody was in red. let everybody fear intelligence, the taliban, the, the troops here and especially the people here that there would be another terror tied to the put that there would be another escalation. and we reported the drones that were endlessly zig zagging over the skies in the skies over over capitol. and bear in mind that this attack took place very close to capital airport, which is where the evacuation was under way, where surveillance was heavy. it's just 3 kilometers away, where that drone strike, he's that car and killed 10 people. so there is, there is the, even back then there was speculation that these may have been, you know,

a premature attack. because of the fact that everybody in here was on the edge of their nerves. and now that you know questions are being asked hard questions. now that we have more of an idea of what happened. now that there's been surveillance footage released off the side before the incident. well, the, the state department is going to have to answer the guy the biden administration drone. was he an aide worker or an ices k operative? the administration is, of course, reviewing that that strike and i'm sure that a full assessment will be, will be for you don't know if it was an aide worker or an ices k operative. i can't speak to that and i can't speak to that in the setting in any event. so you know, no or tell us. i don't, i don't know because we're reviewing. we'll see you think you'd kinda know before you're off, somebody with a predator drone, you know, among many people in the united states,

those unhappy with how the evacuation and the u. s. withdraw, how it pattened out? well they've, they've found the state departments and the biden administration's arguments entirely and convincing they say, what they heard at these hearings was an exercise in diversion and sidestepping sidestepping questions. look at what he is here on the ground, in the immediate aftermath of that drone strike on the, on the 29th of august, which followed of course, the deadly terror attack. on the 26th of august, which claimed the lives of up to 200 people, there was indication that that drug strike in the immediate aftermath that it may have gone wrong. because we have, we saw initially, you know, the wrecked car, the vehicle that was hit, and that we've, we've seen before. what a car bomb does, it isn't a suicide, but it is much, much more deadly, much more destructive. we, we saw that a suicide van and in syria level, take down

a 5 story building yet. here you have a car on the united states. they said they belong to the, to isis k. and that the, they destroyed and had a wall standing right next to it was, was virtually untouched. so there was indication that, you know, there were new explosives in, in that car at the time. and initially then we heard about the, the reports of the dead children 1st it was wide and then 2 and then half a dozen. so certainly it will be very difficult for the state department to defend its actions. it's final days in of gotten a start and of course, account for what happens in the future given that many he america's mission here. and i've gotten his thought as being a failure. and the thing is, is there is blow back to that. i mean, i don't know if it's true, but i see these pictures of these beautiful children that were killed in the attack . if that's true and not propaganda, if that's true, guess what?

maybe you've created hundreds or thousands of new potential terrorists from bombing the wrong people. yes, more than that. these hearings will continue. undoubtedly, the pressure is on the biden administration. the republicans and those upset again with america the final, the final days here. and if gotten to stop, they will likely pass it they, they, they, they will let up on the biden administration until it offers a proper account and accountability for the actions of troops as well as politicians over of god has done in the final days of august. while there's often the case that they said it hearings more, isn't it, that it was not verbalize to really telling. okay, so now a couple more, i guess the a thank you. last weekend's 911 anniversary is exposed and enduring divide over the core american values. the,

the terrorists were supposedly targeting and now one new york professor has sparked outraged by calling it an attack on the quote hetero patriarchal capitalistic system. the white americans fight to protect comments of spoke a fierce backlash with many calling it woken has gone mad. caleb open report $911.00, brought the country together. it was a day of shock and terror and fear and americans clung to each other and was followed by massive public displays of patriotism. after 20 years, the taboo about how to discuss these events seems to be fading. and some rather interesting viewpoints have surfaced on social media. we have to be more honest about what $911.00 was and what it was. and it was an attack on the header about react capitalistic systems that america relies upon to wrangle other countries into vicinity. it was an attack on the systems many what americans fight to protect. the author of this tweet, assistant professor gen m jackson of syracuse university has done what has never

been done before. she framed 911 in a racial context, saying that americans with different backgrounds were effected by different like white americans might not have really found true fear before 911 because they never felt one man to be accessible, vulnerable, and on the receiving side of military violence at home, but what americans experiences are not as standing for america. one can imagine that such comments were not universally embraced. i don't really think you're intelligent enough to know what you're seeing. so i'll ask, is that an endorsement of the 911 attacks? because it sure sounds like it. this is the kind of disturbing rubbish people spout when they see the world through a lens of identity politics. pretty sure al qaeda was an attacking us over a hetero patriarchy issue. i am also pretty sure that it's too easy to get a ph d if this lady has one. first of all,

number one is the header of patriarchal and capitalist as well. so i don't know why they would want to attack the us of those kinds of ideological grounds. us is a powerful secular state which is saw as. ringback therefore, oppressive to muslims and raised doesn't really add to the picture at all. in america, america is race upset. so americans assume that race is a factor everywhere and everything. but in this case, it was not really any significant factor. there are always silly people everywhere who want to us to give novel interpretation to, to, to certain events. and to want to interpret devon, barry assess the self serving ways. the university of syracuse has defended these words, saying that they are a legitimate part of the discourse. some have asked the university to condemn the professor's comments and others have demanded the professor's dismissal. neither of

those actions will happen at the home of the maxwell, school of citizenship, and public affairs free speech for all people across the political spectrum within the limits of the law. and the university's anti harassment policy is one of our key values. speech can be offensive, hurtful, or provocative. still, syracuse university will stand by the principles of free speech and by our commitment to keeping our community safe in the face of threats and harassment. professor jackson is not alone. educators in florida are being advised to avoid some of the gruesome details about $911.00, for fear it could inflame anthea illogic, bigotry. it seems like the attacks have become yet another crucial issue and an already divided america. questions like why did 911 happen? what were the hijackers motivations, and how was the populace affected while they seemed like automatic assumptions 20 years ago? not anymore. so we hear about truth and integrity. i would love it going to america

in academia, and government run public schools that we taught our kids the truth about $911.00 that we got rid of this mid of american exceptionalism. the drives so much imperialist policy. but this curriculum is determined by government. and while we have a government of losers, by any definition of that word, losers, the victors, right the history. and in this case the u. s. federal government is still winning as term and in terms of maintaining its authority in the united states, it writes the textbooks, it runs the schools, the government will not without a narrative that makes itself weaker. so government schools in america for many years to come will continue to be used as tools for propaganda to reinforce the government narrative about $911.00. what are you going underground next hour?

we hear from a former chief of staff, the secretary of state, colin powell, who reflects on america post 911 policy and where it might have gone wrong. fear and rage was how they made the decisions they made in the aftermath. that's not a good environment in which to make national security decisions for fear, as i indicated was they will get rid of us. but then there was a quick realization really coming after the debrief out, and the megaphone in new york, where the president said, and the people who did this will hear from us that is, polls would skyrocket and they did. so they quickly became motivated by political considerations. the poll numbers of the 911 mix up the rhetoric with a strategy involving defense companies on k street. and how this can be manipulated into a, into a money spinning idea off the bodies of those who are killed as an hours warning in january 1960, about the military industrial complex we just put on steroids. the complex became

desirous of analysts war analysts war that would feed them like a cash cow and keep them alive and breathing, and their ceo is making enormous salaries and their company solver. that's why we expanded nato to a certain extent to so we could bring the poles and others into buying these equipments made by our arms merchants. so this complex was largely responsible for the military staying in afghanistan for 20 some odd years. it was only august. you didn't believe biden was going to withdraw troops and of course some people say that may well have been advisors to have a chaotic withdrawal. to show presidents. this is what happens when you overrule those kinds of defense company. yeah, you said it did a sama been not and when i mean you've talked so eloquently about the corruption that torture the heroine,

the relations between the cia and the i s i and pakistan. and now the united states has lost so much so much in this world since the $911.00 attacks. i think when we're looking at those been lines projections directly in that one fought why they are in 1998. i think he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. i think our empire is going down pretty fast right now. i'm beginning to believe that it's on salvageable or what's more american intelligence services, a warning that al qaeda could regroup and attacked us again within just a couple of years. and phase of a resurgence had been fueled by a video appearing to show the terror groups leader. i'm and i was i my hearing was until now presumed dead. the click was posted online on the anniversary of $911.00 . i'm on l. a. harry's fronted l. k. of a 10 years since taking over for some of enlarge, it was killed in 2011 nickels. the us state department suffering a $25000000.00 bounty for information leading up to his capture. house over here is

ro about sto remain a mystery. 2 months ago, her un sanctions monitoring team reported that if the terrorist and alive he'd like, he'd be hiding in afghanistan, probably in poor health. a previous video, released by alco to remark, showed some on dated clips of ours that were harry, but no direct evidence of him being alive. let's go live now to my son who's a former my 5 intelligence officer. welcome back to all t and your thoughts on this video. it does seem like a rather boston taishan reveal if they will provide evidence that algebra here is still drawing breath. so is it proved for just being provocative, releasing it on the $911.00 anniversary. i think it could be either. i mean, it's just reminding us that when we enter the world of you know, the war in terra and intelligence, it is a world of smoke and mirrors. i have to say though, i think it is proof that he was suddenly alive around the beginning of this year. despite american intelligence report saying that my died in november last year.

because he is referring to an attack on a russian based on syria. and he's referring to the fact that the taliban would win in afghanistan. he doesn't refer to the fact, no taliban resurgence happening so quickly. so it might be an indication for something that was filmed at the beginning of the year. and that l. carter has just been keeping up cleaves that reveal it on 911. that said again, that might be blocking double block perhaps easter life. he's been the head of al qaeda. as has been mentioned to the 25000000 dollar bounty on his head for 10 years . and yet the formica intelligence infrastructure cannot track this man down. it's astonishing and the same thing, of course 3 says what happened with been lot. i mean, you know, if you believe the fact he was taken out in 2011 with the navy seal rate in pakistan and then then he was, you know, literally on the wrong with huge bound fees. and i wanted man in the planet and ally for another 10 years after $911.00 to expect the taliban takeover of

afghanistan to have any effects on al qaeda will provide a boost for their activities. now, i think that some doubted. there will be competitive interests, of course the taliban is in power has government. but yes, it's going to be a boost to all sorts of flavors of islamic jihad isn't most notably, of course, i mean we've already seen the appearance of ice k, which carried out the bombings, apparently, when people tried to flee the country as the telephone advanced on the forward but of course we know as well that a number of extremists were released from background and port as the taliban took that over. and i think the estimation was about 1000 suspected terrorist, isis and al qaeda had been released at that time. so they're all there in the mix. again, we have a hard line government to try to face haven as it did to been lawton, and to harry as well as the one thing as well. i would point out is that there was

a scandal. i think a couple of months ago asking is rainy corporate security company called and i so the produced a program called pegasus. and the scandal at the time is all about, oh, $50000.00 diplomats and politicians and journalists and human rights activists. being targeted, father smart phones, fire back doors, into popular apps on their phones. one of the little reported aspects pegasus with the fact that it can be used to cover an entire nation. so can install is one of those 5 nations that was targeted. the other 4 were in the caribbean, and we're being told by the d a. but that means that the entire has kind of gone, has probably been the most of a country on the planet for the last 20 years. by, by the official intelligence agency, by corporate speech. and yet they still contract down, been locked in for 10 years. so we're here for another 10 years. and if the new afghanistan with the taliban $2.00 is going to become a haven for the likes of al qaeda?

or is it no eve to assume that it's just going to stop at al qaeda, that there will be other groups and that the taliban might be able to use that as a bargaining chip to say you'll have to deal with this on the diplomatic world stage so that we can keep these guys back. yes, will be the new allies with west. you can see that happening. exactly. and even if they do try and do that in good faith, it doesn't mean that the inspiration will go away for millison around the world. mean we saw this with, i said when it took a few people are flocking from across the planet, joined isis. so the fact that america has retreated in objects defeated. the fact that the taliban is research and talk to 20th the fact that other groups and other organizes has not been released from prison, represents a major threat to western interest. and in fact, i think the current head of m, i 5, can mccallum made a public thinking about this in the last week, saying that this is going to be a major threat that the u. k. and other allies across nature, going to have to face, and it's not just going to be a problem. so nato is going to problem to sections of russia. it's going to be

a problem for sections of china. africa, of course, going to be his. yeah. so it's a major, major mistake. the americans made head pulling a lot of ations going to be looking over their shoulders and go to georgia again. thanks for joining us on our team. space x will launch for tourists into orbit later this wednesday. it's the latest milestone in a technological path, stretching back more than 6 decades and few if any hold a greater place in that history than soviet space engineer. so get coral office space ex found a musk is repeatedly cited him as a key source of inspiration. now ti talked to cory, loves grandson about his recent meeting with musk. although many ocean and i will really like that, everything is in practically the same space and everyone sees the results of their work and what's happening around them. it's an enormous hanger about the size of a football field where they assemble the engines, carrier rocket, and landing module nearby. there's

a glass partition and then 4 or 5 floors of engineers offices. so they can look out onto the production area and see everything that actually many of the engineers work remotely, even from other state. but the engineers developed things in group with like 3 of them working remotely. and 2 in the space sects, office who can go down and look at everything, check and configure things, and then discuss them and make changes in the computer. millions. and we actually put in a form was a fantastic person to talk to that became clear during our phone conversation, we talked a lot, listen attentively and laughs a lot. he's the same way in person. totally, not arrogant, understandably, he could have behaved in a different way because of the sheer volume of his responsibility. so idea where scottsdale him, when i told him, is similar to sir gay cut off in his approach organizing the project. he has the same sense of purpose. many details are internally arranged as design elements. that's what must can come to your.