gauge the trail when so many find themselves worlds apart and we choose to look for common ground in the red line, the platform permanently bounds to have all these german language channels for allegedly violating its community guidelines. these editor in chief schools in a full fledged declaration of media war by germany on russia. the us marines been sent to a military prison after la, busting his country's leadership for the afghan. this done pull out the bar code would have been a series of increasingly popular online videos. the international criminal court says that it will no longer pursue allegations of the us war crimes. scan the furious rice groups to acute the i. c. c. a being cowed by washington sanctions

and hungry cases, ukraine of meddling and his internal affairs by trying to scuffle. and then if you deal with russia gas problem, they will lose out on lucrative transit face. ah, this is joining us here in our teas. you probably heard by headlines, a busy hour of news for you. let's get straight to it and we will start with the story about our system project r t. d r t deutsch. youtube is deleted to german language channels. citing a ledge community guideline violations such bands, nothing new to r t but this time they all said to be permanent, which is media regulators already weighed in and threatening g tubes. parent company, google with a $14000.00 fine. if the r t channels are allowed to broadcast again, constantino's cove jones in the studio with more on this won't cost you 1st. we'll just take you through what a notice of it. look. r t has been crying follower,

unfair treatment, i'm you to for years now. right. and the relationship between the network and the platform has been strained, especially in the recent years. but this is actually the 1st time ever when one of our flag should be to channels has been shut down, permanently, not suspended, not shadow band, but just completely shut down. this is new, this is truly unprecedented. and i guess it's worth mentioning that the popularity of r t among the german speaking audience has been growing, especially in the recent years. just to give you some numbers. here are 2. george had a total of almost $547000000.00 views. and over 600000 subscribers is not a small channel at all. and of course this placed it among the top german news channels on that platform. now, in june alone,

archie george gathered over 21000000 views on the platform. and this is almost as much as she goes to be received. one of countries may news outlets, one of countries, main sources of information which has been around for decades. so all in all our colleagues from r t in germany managed to put up a fight against the major news outlets in, in this country. and of course, this hasn't gone unnoticed. we know that a lot of german politicians have repeatedly called for curbs on r t in the country. and it's no secret that rti has been struggling to open a tv broadcast in the country for for many years now. so it's been, it's been extremely harsh environment for colleagues in germany so far what they supposedly did wrong then why the band. so 1st r t, which is main you to channel was given several co it related strikes,

which culminated in a temporary suspension. now we'll get back to this later, but for now let me tell you how things unfolded later on. so because the main page was suspended, our colleagues decided that they will continue sharing their content on their 2nd page. that is, that is belong, that is belong to one of its shows. it was different content, not that which had been flagged by youtube is inappropriate, but nonetheless, both pages were completed completely deleted by youtube without any warnings. now what's interesting is that there are no clear rules saying that you cannot run a separate page or start a new page if you were suspended on need to for some reason. and again, our to george didn't republish any videos that were that they received strikes for on the 2nd one should know that rti, george has been covering

a lot of protest against coven restrictions in germany, which is a really heated, a topic in the country which you know, not all news outlets they are there are to give you know, balanced and fear coverage. young. the one concern will be, was there legitimate, wrong doing here, by all to do each or is this something else that play? like you said, when you're covering sensitive new stories, there's always a concern. nothing's getting a little political. so this need to transparent and comprehensive explanation coming from new tubal or google, the parent company, what they said, exactly. but as usual, in these cases, the explanation given by youtube is bake. and we know that our colleagues over it, rti, george received a message from you tube, right after they're due to china was spent. and that the message said that there

were, quote repeated violations of community guidelines that said, you know, get out. and we also reached out to google, which owns youtube, and well they gave it a more detailed explanation. so let's have a listen to what they said. you cheap has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. r t deutsch was issued a warning for floating content that violates our rules in relation to coven 19 medical misinformation policy. this resulted in the suspension of their right to upload videos. during the suspension, the channels owners tried to bypass the restrictions by using a different channel. as a result, both channels were closed, violating youtube terms of service. while now, let's get back to those initial shrikes that lead to supposedly, temporarily. suspension of our td's may need to channel, as you just heard from google, they were related to some medical misinformation. well,

we checked with our german colleagues and they said that there are 4 videos in question. and all of them contains criticism of the government's approach of handling the pandemic voiced by other medical experts. and don't forget rti, george didn't republish this videos on this other 2nd page that they have. they just transferred some other regular new stories from a suspended news channel to the one that was still working. there are no rules that clearly state that this is something that is prohibited. so, but we get, we get how has ality responded already turned chief is not somebody usually takes this kind of thing, lying down. yeah, absolutely. well, you know, the 1st comment on that story in russia was our own editor in chief american to see my noun. and well, she said that was just happened amounts to

a declaration of media war on russia by germany. so let's hear more of what she said. so this time they did it an attempt to circumvent the restrictions when we invited our audience to our 2nd channel. well, our 1st channel was serving a sentence for far fetched violation of community guidelines, which was slept in us for airing interviews with critics of covered 19 measures. it wasn't the 1st time when vital to our audience to our 2nd channel, but only today did they decide the band both at the same time and vector is terrorists and spacious of all kinds are quietly broadcasting on youtube. they have repeatedly said, i'll try that. they shadow banners and don't let us in, but this turned out to be not enough. we grew despite, they're not letting us in. now they've simply deleted us. this is a full flesh declaration of media war by germany to worth russia. also rushes internet watch. doc, ross. com nuts or says that what e to did to rti deutsch well,

it deems it has inactive censorship, which is unacceptable. and that the organization has also said that you tube in a rush, you might face a fine the equivalent of $142000.00 us dollars. rush is foreign ministry spokeswoman to mighty as a says, a response to that action by you tube in germany is so be prepared. and she specifically mentioned that during media work in in russia might like it, which of course was set ironically. so we're expecting a tough reaction from russian officials to the story drunk. it sounds like it's escalating quite quickly. thanks for bringing all the details. constantino's, scope with me. what we discuss the bands and the potential motive behind them with geopolitical analyst, patrick headings, and there's 2 things going on here. one is this, this idea of giving strikes for medical misinformation. this is something that you tube has begun doing since the beginning of the pandemic. and there are locked in

with various governments, mainly western governments, and they'll sort of use this overarching umbrella that's just intentionally very vague in order to basically delete channels. this is a tactic, this happened to, to us at the u. k column, they deleted a 9 year old channel because of medical misinformation and they don't give any explanation or any details as to what the offending word or the offending statement is, is just a general arbitrary tactic that's used. and i think if you combine that with the political impetus of these governments, i'm talking mainly about the g 7 countries. ok, then you have it's using cove it as a kind of a opportunistic tactic to delete to sensor rti does media coverage which competes with are outcompetes, other english language channels and competitions. so, you know, this is really

a credibility war between russia in the west and in the media space. and despite constant efforts by western countries, nato governments to paint russian outlet says kremlin propaganda or russian disinformation at no time. can they ever demonstrate exactly where the just information is in the content which is being broadcast? and i think this situation is more or less a continuation of that. a us marine officer recently became known by the public for his criticisms, of washington's handling. as the afghan, as some pullout has not been sent to a military prison, left tenant, colonel stewart shall a junior is currently in pre trial confinement. the time date and location of the proceedings have not been determined less tenant, colonel shallow will be afforded. oh, due process, what you are, charlotte did his polarized many americans because there are those who believe that

he is a hero, that he stood up and spoke out for what he believes. and that is a view shared by many americans at the end of the afghan war, the evacuation that we saw at the end of august was humiliating for the united states. that it was a arctic that had cost the lives of to many american servicemen. and that it could have been avoided if intelligence had been heated. others believe that he spoke out of turn, the should have addressed his grievances through proper channels. but he himself says that off the 17 years in the military that he could no longer stay solid. that he knew one of the 13 american service men that were killed in an ice. his k, tara attack on the 26th of august had capital airport and that he must, that he had to speak out to get the incompetence of senior pentagon leadership. people are upset because their senior leaders let them down and none of them are

raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we mess this up. i'm not saying we've got to be in the in afghanistan forever, but i am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate bob graham airfield, the strategic air various before we evacuate everyone. i am submitting charges a guest general mackenzie for his bad assumptions now because i've been active, but because the senior leaders need to be help how to the same standard is essentially what steward. shallow one sees accountability and he says that he has always been held responsible for those. i bet him and so much senior pentagon leadership be held accountable for those of them, including the 13 american troops killed in the terror attacked by ice case on the 26th of august at the airport of campbell. however, when he went public, he violated all manner of protocols and codes of the us military because officers

and service went off a bid from publicly criticizing their superior officers, as well as speaking with contempt of civilian leadership, both of which he did. he was also issued a gag order, which he willingly violated and which was evidently the final straw for the military. they arrested him and threw him in the military prison for his parents. that was an act of courage. all on sunday is asked the questions that everybody was asking themselves below to get to speak out loud. he was asking for accountability . in fact, i think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn't do that, which is mind blow. there have been little by way of accountability. no one has been fired or resigned either at the white house in the biden administration or at the pentagon over what many american c as a fiasco the final days of american present here in get his thoughts. nevertheless, what we have seen is continued hearings,

continued grilling by especially republic republicans, but as well as, as well as veterans who have criticized the biden administration, which has been on the defensive with excuses after excuses. the fact that the afghan army that we in our partners trained simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise, and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise. i was there a couple times in 2006. i was there in 2011. i was there, but i every time they got worse and get better. so there's going to be a surprise, isn't it true that you've left americans behind on august the 31st. there are americans, there were americans, there was still and enough dentist and, and, you know, are, we can tell you right to work to try to get those americans out. yeah, that's a yes let's, let's not repeat please the, the frankly false so that we didn't leave americans behind. so in august we all witnessed the horror of praises own making for now mister shallow, who,

after 17 years of service, says he, he walked away from a $2000000.00 pension. he has had it in his resignation. he has also been relieved of command, but he remains an active serviceman. as these resignations can take a while to go through and for discharge to officially be confirmed, he remains a detention pre trial detention and awaits the most likely face military charges. in the meantime, the international criminal course is resuming a prob, into war crimes in afghanistan, but the investigation will no longer look at allegations of us atrocities. instead, the focus will be exclusively on the taliban. an ice s k l m. open picks of the story, military personnel and top brass who were involved in the 20 years of us operations in afghanistan can now sleep easy because it appears they will not be facing prosecution from the international criminal court. the new chief prosecutor of the

international criminal court has said they won't be looking in to us atrocities in afghanistan because of the taliban take over the country and quote, limited resources available to the international criminal court. i have therefore decided to focus my offices investigations enough, going to stop on crimes allegedly committed by the taliban and the stomach state correson province and to de prioritize other aspects of this investigation. now this decision to quote de, prioritize as the international criminal court is calling it has upset many human rights organizations. they feel that washington is essentially being let off the hook. the prosecutors telling war criminals around the world that the u. s. playbook of delay and intimidation works. it also validates one of the cool criticisms of the i, c. c that it only takes action against politically we could, individuals or nations while giving western powers a pass. by d. prioritizing,

investigating us and format africa, national security forces, the icpc prosecutor, it's shamefully hunting him up, get out of jail free card. now, there were plenty of scandals and horrendous incidents over the course of the 20 years of the united states military presence in afghanistan. all culminating in the recent chaotic pullout and we also witnessed the incident recently where there was a drone strike that intended to hit isis k fighters and killing civilians. a family ended up dying at the hands of the united states, but it appears that incident like this will not be investigated by the international criminal court. it's unlikely any individuals involved in such events will face charges in the hague. busy busy

now the i c, c tried to probe us activities in afghanistan, and in response, donald trump slap sanctions on officials of the i c c years. how then secretary of state mike, palm pale, commented on it at the time, we cannot, we will not stand by. as our people are threatened by a kangaroo court, we have responded any way. the way a responsible nation must, by condemning the investigation by suspending cooperation with the court and denying basis to those most directly responsible for going after our personnel. now, while the international criminal court will be investigating situations in afghanistan, they won't be investigating the role of the united states. they say they simply don't have the resources to do it. they're citing the taliban take over the country . but many observers are looking on and wondering if this isn't simply due to the

fact that the u. s. a has been so harsh and placed sanctions on. i think the officials who did look into them, they're wondering if the new prosecutor simply wants to avoid having his own name on the sanctions list. hungary has slammed ukraine, accusing care of trying to sink a natural gas deal between budapest and rushes gas. prom gary and foreign minister says that know about the political maneuvering is more important than keeping people's homes. will it? well, your side one for hungary energy safety is a matter of security, sovereignty and economy rather than a political matter. you cannot heed homes with political statements today. the reality is that energy supplies in hungary can be guaranteed most securely through a long term agreement with gas from you guys. all of the new 15 year deal will supply hungry with nearly 5000000 cubic meters of gas. every year navy, using an undersea pipeline called to extreme, which is routed through ukraine. the boobs angered kid because it said to lose

money from the fees it takes to allow the gas to pass through the territory. both countries already, some of each other on baset, over the deal. ukraine claims the agreement stands to favor russia and not its own national interest. we consider this to be a purely political economically unreasonable decision taken in favor of the kremlin, unto the detriment of ukraine's national interests and ukrainian hungarian relations. for his part, the crime then says said the gas was made purely for economic purposes and there is no reason for what it calls an extreme reaction coming from ukraine. i spoke with dr. pier emmanuel, to man geopolitical expert, who says the current engines are actually being driven from across the atlantic. from the guy and point of view, they won secure, or a supply of gods on for most of european countries varies. no, i cannot achieve to russia gas because isa geography cardi quite or near near in the neighborhood and also is cheaper true or. busy gas

pipelines, but we know, but behind this dispute ukraine is playing the american game because you couldn't consider as a pilot geopolitical pilot from united states to try to we couldn't russia and the united states to push ukraine against russia, policies and also to promote its own no or own shale gas and we would like to connect ukraine to. we are reorientation the infrastructure, which would, would be nuts, more east, west about north south and to supply reef, american shade guys. so i think there is a much bigger game behind this communication. all new videos emerged casting doubt on the recent media claims. the us border guards whipped haitian migrants of the texas mexico border. politicians has expressed the

disgust as a recap of the initial reactions how boys with their rains again, with things like patients into the water. what, how are we doing here? what we witness takes us back hundreds of years. what we witness was worse than what we witnessed slavery. the image of one agent appearing to use hoarse reins potentially as a whip. we saw that image of at least one border patrol agent using a with him was effectively trying to last. so some of the migrants see that picture . their border patrol agents allegedly whipping haitian migrants as they tried to get into the united states were you see children ducking out of the way horses charging migrants rains being used. so here's our newly emerged video again shows the input from a different angle. you can see an agent grabbing

a migrant turning them round back towards the river. from this perspective, elated doesn't like anybody's being width. and that's something corroborated by photographer who's on the ground that the time for russia have too many photos of what was transpiring. says he saw nobody being hit with right. some of the men are running, running, go around the horses and that's kind of when the whole thing happened, i didn't number them with anybody with the thing he was swinging it, but i didn't see him actually take, you know, with someone who knows something they can easily miss concert when you're looking at a picture, a number of news, alas of now corrected the version of events in new york times. now says that the board regents were quote, waving the reins while pushing migrants back into the rio grande river. and here's the clarification. from the passive times, our reporting team witnessed at least one agents on horseback swing his reins like

a whip. we've updated the story to clarify that fact, since it was not an actual wip bonus now from legal media analysts line. oh, great. so if you want you to enjoy some think, maybe it was the nun with things. so i just want to start before, before you get into this by saying that when i was us media and it's stories about migrants, it feels as though the story is just twisted to suit where there's political benefit, whether it's those, those channels on the left or the, the wall, obviously folks on the right they, they switched it to the narrative. my being them for well, i think i want to, i don't watch enough of the left to say it, but yes, but it was even simpler than that. let's create an image. horseback, whip lash larue, birth of

a nation. the clan, just the maxine waters, was off on her. her right hemisphere was kicking in. she was thinking of every historical and there they were marching upon was with lightning bulbs in machine guy. the women that didn't happen. and then the next person, as you know, who's trying to get a gig for fox or cnn. hasta wrapped, but up a little bit for their audition real. so they're not terror are real good. these people merely trying to ask for free. it never happened. and then it went from and by the way, words mean a lot, i'm a lawyer, i can tell you wip rains. then they were saying, strapping they were strapped, and in the chest. no, let me explain or be they use horses. they used horses in national park a t v. 's may be a problem. what they do now, let me also to, to,

to speak of you are, you are excellent queried as to whether people of the scale to truth. do you remember when cnn and there was a fellow named don, a lemon, it's the there wretched and particle physicists who said that when he saw rioting and people burning burning buildings and throwing bricks through plate glass windows, he said looks just like regular protests to me this was during the george boy case . now one more thing. speaking of george floyd, do you know that the i don't want to bring that up again please. but the particular maneuver that everyone shaw whether it was misapplied, i'm not going to relocate that, but that maneuver of the knee or the leg on the neck is taught at police academies all over the country. each done all the time. why the red

shooter shouldn't? so i guess what i'm saying is when you see something for the 1st time, and it's explained to you as with cindy, when i never though we see black people running from white police, you're missing the context. it's like when, when, when there's a police shooting and up and they always ask, why does the police shoot 17 times? that's what you're trained to do you know, way. so it's, so it's a, it's a beautiful admixture of ignorance and political opportunism. but this thing went nowhere, and there was no correction, there was no, we made a mistake. all the media did, and biden is still calling for their censure. prosecute, and i hope nothing's going to happen. they didn't do anything wrong. what you just described, call it by journalism. we don't provide that context because because because it's crucial, but i suppose the that leads me to the next question in those cases. and in this one, is it deliberate or is it, is it in common?

well it, yes, yes, yes, it is a mindset. look, you've been in the business long enough to know that sometimes if you're in a particular shop, you get a feel for what works. and if you are a line producer working for c n n, and you put together a package and you have it would be terrible music and you know, bail falls, cries, and you are a news director said, let me put that on your emmy, real wonderful. you are basically told this is where we're going. so it's, yes, it's in competence to an extent, but it's what you're told to do. let me maybe even more clear, the american mainstream media are wholly owned subsidiaries of a. i don't know why they're shadow government or something. who knows? they have no interest in conveying the truth. they are aparadh checks,

they're not reporters, they're repeaters, and they're there to push a narrative, whatever the narrative is. and also a very important point. there is mis information, but there's also era and negligence, and perhaps malfeasance by omission by not clarified by not explaining by not explain how many in this country we have mounted police. we loved them children, they're always in parades and in one fell swoop in one moment, the mounted police officer friendly when to these ghouls and these, these, you know, the, these terror masters on their steeds. i mean, it's just, it's but it, par for the course is what we're used to american news media. in particular case b, the rest of the world is gag.