made it clear they were looking for new ideas and directions. wrinkles party suffered total defeat with smaller parties in the mix to form a new governing coalition. will this be called the merkel inheritance the, with our top headline here, one off the internet. russia, instructions to block and youtube off the video sharing platform, permanently deleted odds. east german language channels. the russian foreign ministry stepped in. the u. s. company would not have acted without approval from the international criminal court drops approach to us war problems and gotten us on the focus instead on terrorist rights groups condemned to move accusing the fee of caving into pressure. nato sends the extra troops to kosovo and made an om to stand up with serbia over road access. in am i will be hearing from a local correspondent, accuracy and former

d. i a director mike from peo refuses to confirm or deny a 2017 murder slot against julian a thumbs. it says that whatever happened, he's not sorry. although the current wiki league ball does the revelation shows a sanchez life would be in danger. if he was fed into america, faith was ground. the would be in the hands of those who were planning to kill, kill him. ah, noon on wednesday here when the russian capital, this is all the international from all of us here variable. so russia has slammed youtube for deleting ortiz, german language channels, over alleged community guidelines, violations. the foreign ministry believes the move could not have happened without approval from the german government. and russia's media regulator is now

threatening to block the us video sharing platform. the actions of the video platform youtube against those channels violate the key principles of free distribution of information and, and need access to it. if the owners of you to disregard the warning from russ kinetzer russian law allows for the full or partial blocking of access to the platform. there is no doubt that you tube was acting with the open and tacit support of the german government in taking these unjust measures. they have exposed correspondents of russian broadcasters, 2 years long, harris met including the blocking of bank accounts and public slander. the purpose of this aggression against the russian media holdings projects is obvious to drown out sources of information that clash with a media background that it's comfortable for german official. earlier my colleague neal harvey discussed the story with ortiz, that konstantin ross cough. you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the german speaking audience has been growing,

especially in the recent years. and just to give you some numbers, rti doors had a total of almost 547000000 views and over 600000 subscribers. and not a small youtube channel that placed it among the top german news channels on that platform. you know, in june alone, rti george gather over 21000000 views on that platform, which is almost as much as what spiegel tv received spiegel is. one of the most credible in the major news outlets in germany and which has been around for decades . so r t, george has managed to put up a fight against major german news outlets. and of course, this hasn't gone unnoticed. there are a lot of politicians in germany who have repeatedly called for curves on r t in, in the country. and rti has been struggling to study tv broadcast in germany for many years facing both over it and hayden resistance. so all in all its been an extremely harsh environment, hostile environment for our fellow colleagues in germany. so these bands seem like

cause treatment. what was the, the potential crime was committed while, as usual, in these cases, the response from a media platform is fake. and youtube send our colleagues in germany message saying that there were, quote repeated violations of community guidelines. so, you know, that's it, you know, get out of the platform. google, which owns youtube, gave us a more detailed response. so let's have a listen. youtube has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. r t. doyce was issued a warning for uploading 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 close, violating youtube tons of service. so to give some context, 1st party george, his main youtube channel was given several co related strikes and that led to

a temporary suspension. so because the main page was suspended, its team decided to continue sharing its content on a different page that belongs to one of its shows. it was different content, not that which had been flagged by youtube, of course, but nonetheless, both pages were completely deleted by youtube without any war. and now what's interesting is that there are no clear rules saying that you can run a separate page or maybe even start a new page if you are suspended on youtube for whatever reason. besides those 4 videos and question that are 2 doors receive strikes for contained criticism of the government's approach of the pandemic voice by other medical experts not by journalists. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of rt george, that's debatable. so is

a denying any wrong doing that challenging this man. while they are saying that they receive an unfair treatment and will actually 1st comment on that story in russia with our own editor in chief, i'm going to get it to see my now. and then she said that would just happen in germany, the rti george amounts to a declaration of war on russia by germany. let's hear what she actually said. so this time, they deemed it an attempt to circumvent the restrictions when we invited our audience to our 2nd channel. while our 1st channel was serving a sentence for a far fetched violation of community guidelines, which was slapped on us for airing interviews with critics of coven 19 measures, it wasn't the 1st time we invited our audience to our 2nd channel. but only today did they decide to ban both at the same time, anti faxes terrorists and fascists. of all kinds of quietly broadcasting on youtube . they have repeatedly said outright that they shadow been us 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 fledged declaration of a media war by germany towards russia or just foreign ministry spokeswoman money is also we'd in by saying that would just happen was inactive aggression. and that there is going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media working in russia. now the message she had didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her driven colleagues working here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we discussed the bands and the possible motives with modern gold, so a member of germany's left party. it's a clear case of political transition, democratic society which german, he should be able to handle different opinions and youtube and google is american companies. and the companies as well should be able to handle different ideas and not to send law some different opinions. this is

some kind of altering behavior and manner, which is not worth for a democracy. well, it's not the 1st time due to has targeted r t. in april this year, the google own platform took down several videos relating to corporate 19. they included an interview with a renowned russian verola just on footage of anti lockdown protests. a youtube accused of spreading medical misinformation without giving specifics. and we spoke with our geopolitical analysts, patrick kennings, and he thinks that term of this disinformation is just a convenient pretext to sense of content. 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. r t does media coverage which competes with

are outcompetes, other english language channels and competition. so, you know, this is really a credibility war between russia in the west, in the media space. and despite constant efforts by western countries, nato government to paint russian outlet says kremlin propaganda or russian disinformation at no time. can they ever demonstrate exactly where the disinformation is in the content which is being broadcast? and i think this situation is more or less a continuation of that international criminal court is resuming and i'm going to start a war crimes probe. but from now on the investigation will ignore any allegations of us wrong going and said only focus on the taliban. and isis k militants, let's investigate this further from new york, our correspondent caleb mob, 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 the u. s. 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 exotic state correson province and to d. 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 ended up 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. the

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. here's 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 is simply due to the fact that the u. s. a has been so harsh and placed sanctions on icpc 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. human rights lawyer don kovachick things . the fcc decision naturally makes a mockery of international law. bullying of the international criminal court did what it set out to do, and that was to get the u. s. off the hook here. miss, that's a terrible precedent. you know, the job of the icpc is to investigate crimes within these theaters. not to favor one party over another, and that's exactly what it's doing. what i and many other, you know, human rights advocates have been saying for years is that the i c. c has been used as a tool by the west to punish developing countries. the only leaders successfully prosecuted

by the i c. c, have been from african countries. what is the saying to the world saying to the world, if you are a weak country, you can be subject to i cc prosecution. but if you are a strong economic and military power, like the u. s, who can throw its weight around, you will be exempt from human rights prosecution. basically what we're left with is the law, the jungle, the might makes. right? and that is not what, how international law is supposed to work. it never was supposed to work that way. what about the valley here in moscow? a feud between serbia and cause of of a road access shows no sign of abating nato troops in kosovo have bolstered their presence on the soviet border. and the commission president has called on both sides to show restraint. the current res intentions between possible and

serbia is very concerning, is worrying. it is essential to lower the tension and to return to the dialogue. well, so far there is no sign of any de escalation short time ago. i spoke with a local correspondent and barbara muller goodesky. he reports from the frontier. well, the pen stand off between belgrade and pristina and causal has everyone wondering whether the next war in the balkans will start over a license plate rao. serves here have been protesting for the past 10 days against this license played band, a ban on serbian license plates, imposed by the prestige authorities that call it reciprocal measures. but belgrade actually calls it a violation of the brussels agreement that was signed in 2013 and the violation of the basic human rights of serbs. the freedom of movement also, as we know, has been as administered by the united nations. as since 9099 after nato bomb

serbia to take control of its southern province. of course, civil that has cleared independence in 2008. something that has not been recognized by about half of the world countries, including russia and china, but much of the western countries consider constable an independent country. now, serbia has sent its military forces to the administrative crossings of costs. and what makes this standoff different than the stand off in the past is serbia, is a parent readiness to flex its military muscle. they have called on pers tina to remove the license plate band while christina has called them belgrade to ease up on the tensions. however, whether belgrade it's actually ready to use military force to protect the serbs in constable remains a question we heard from a political analyst and nichol america where she things cause of always been emboldened by foreign support. just one new crisis. as you see many, every,

every these past years and this is not something actually renewed when deeper, what is new, is that, and you see the again, that in this situation for the 1st time serve you got afraid. the 2nd muscle that red line has been crossed nato is responsible of the situation. if nato had not on illegally in 1989, we would not have penetration. we do have in coastal mentor and service. so i think the fact that nato had not been capable of managing the situation which he created . so it is definitely not a good idea to have nato forces, again, on, on, on the administrative border between central serbia and co civil antonia. but definitely, western organizations have shown that they have failed, totally failed in the balcony. and they should let the nation state over and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region. the situation between themselves. first,

i'm still the come for this hour here. on our team optional a long and costly french anti terror operation in molly is unraveling. the 2 nations trading accusations, as while russian contractors stepping to fill the void story and i i joined me every thursday on the alex summon, show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics, small business and show business. i'll see you then me ah

ah ah, i use the the the, the ah, just on the 20 parts down here in moscow. the former us secretary of state mike, palm paid, has refused to confirm or deny a report that the us plotted to kill julian assange. compare made it clear that

whatever the trumpet administration did, do mister pon peo is not sorry. i couldn't tell you who they have is their sources, but the sources didn't know what we were doing. i make no apologies for the fact that we and the administration were working diligently to make sure we were able to protect this important sensitive information from whether it was cited in russia or the chinese military. or anyone who was trying to take this information away from us. those reports of a plan to a duct, an kill julian assange made headlines earlier in the week off. they were corroborated by several former officials. for the story isn't new. it was 1st revealed last year by journalists max bloomin, told in an investigation for his website, the gray zone. he then spoke to my colleague niel harvey. what i reported relied on not just the testimony of intelligence officers who often lie, but on internal documents from the spanish contractor that the ca appears to have

been relying on to spy on julian assange and his associates. inside the ecuadorian embassy in london that you see global, the spanish security firm. i obtain these files. testimonies by former business associates of the use we see global chief to be morales through spanish, through the spanish court, where morales has been on trial. and those files also tell the story, these are text messages, emails of plans to kidnap assassinate assange and, and torment, and rob his associates. it just pulls back the curtain, doesn't it? on, on this? what has to be a lie that things like the rule of law, that the truth, morality and decency, they mean nothing. when it comes to your own personal political interests? well, you see what julian assigned was up against. he was up against the most powerful intelligence agencies and when he said, even to his own lawyers were being spied on everyone around us is working for the

cia at the time. they didn't even believe him. and you had figures like james ball, former wiki weeks associate now at the bureau. busy of investigative journalism st julian assault has nothing to fear by leaving the embassy, he should just come out. and now we see julian assange was right all along at this the cia was planning to kill him. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian, his size, has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the cia which was spying on those meetings. and the key witness in the u. s. indictment, seeking that hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case. and yet julian sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted reporters without borders, has joined the international outcry over the alleged plot against us on dating back to 2017 press freedom organization said the report show the wicked he found his

life is still in danger and he should be released from a u. k. prison for his own safety. meanwhile, wikileaks editor in chief, a christian samson, discussed the case in our program going underground. you can watch the full episode just a bit later in the day. many stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state kits. nothing possibly killing. we had to wind up some of this before through the proceedings in spain, criminal proceedings against members of the security company. you see global who are supposed to be overseeing julian science. it's curity in the u. s. embassy, and the embassy. but actually we're bribe try to ca, to spying on. julian provide it in light feeds from the cameras inside the embassy and 2 devices that they implanted on top of that. of course, they were stealing legally prevalence material. if julian is expedited to the

states, it will be in the hands of fate on the ground would be in the hands of those who were planning to kill. when these discussions were going on, there was no engagement out against them. he hadn't been charged with anything. so if there was any doubt about the political nature of the indictment and the creation of the entire case, it is now confirmed to be so. it is of political persecution and nothing else. prawns has angrily denied that is abandoning marley despite a partial truth pullout after an 8 year anti terror campaign. the african nation, though, is now looking for support elsewhere. it's turning now to russian contractors is art, is charlotte? do? whisky now investigates? it's a situation that's going from bad to well disastrous for a moly. alright,

loggerheads, a operation ball cane and security in the form a colony marley's prime minister has been clear that the full peroration has failed without the you. when he went even further, he does need the left hand to button the situation arising from the end of operation buck and puts molly in a fake accompli bundling nose mid flight to a certain extent. and it forces us to explore alternatives and means to better ensure a security autonomy safely or with other partners. so as to fill the gap that will certainly result from the withdrawal of back on in the north of the country. monkey up, i decree. that lake of fire and the french armed forces minister. it's a lot of hypocrisy. it's a lot of bad faith, a lot of indecency, especially because these comments were made on saturday, september 25th, but on friday, september 24th at 52nd. the french soldier gave his life fighting terrorism in this hell. holly has also accused morally of provoking

a storm because of an inability to keep a commitment to return power following a military coup to civilians. next year. i have the impression that the date does not see them perfectly, and that they want to prolong the things. but from wanting that to wiping his feet on the blood of french soldiers, it's unacceptable for molly's pulfer is real concerned about the future. earlier this year, president mac, on the end of operation ball came french troops have been engaged on the ground since 2013 in afraid to fight your heart as groups. but now, according to my call, that will be prof. i will be changed with the closure of french army bases, the withdrawal of more than 2000 soldiers that lead to fears molly could see a search into hardest activity. whole situation in the herald is right

now, not being addressed because you can't address it simply from a security standpoint. but aware, 1012 years molly is gone to one destabilization after another is not going to be resolved by military deployment by the french or anyone else to say how is suffering a massive economic under development deserts open space. and in the open space is that the terrorist and others live 0. if you think private companies and have been to fargo work out how it's going to fight against such threats. it's turning to the idea of using private companies in a been to sure up security. however, the fact that these companies or russian seems to have really looked at problems, but also you the certainly could seriously

affect you to be in union relations with molly. so why all the you in front, so concerned about international security measures. a molly, is this jeff the case of figuring that they are losing control and you know, but if you could, could chestnut a huge way, mother has approached rush and private military companies. we have nothing to do with this. this is an activity that has been carried out legitimately. the west is killing itself and is now heavy. less and less leverage in africa. they're making africa part of the geo political doctrine, remaining to one number one superpower in the world. and they're attacking washington, china. so they're the ones that are actually danny development because of their geopolitical view of russia in china. and that's the mistake china. he's never going to be put back in the box. they're all over africa and african countries more

and more jury to china because they also. ringback ration volcano was supposed to have reduced the hardest right across the sol. how region which includes molly inside the us state department report is previously suggested that attacks of actually increased 250 percent since 2018 quite simply, it's not working. and frogs is acutely aware of this, hence to some degree, that's why it's stepping back. but in doing so, it seems incapable of allowing others to fill the void instead it thrashing out and possibly permanently damaging its african toys. show it to you. ben ski ot harris. the story continues in the world news section of our website, r t dot com or more of your went to headlines dot com. when we return in about half an hour's time. ah

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