so we come at a fomo, there is any, involve more than that. it's about being sort of envious of something that may not exist. and it is also really tied to the fact that as humans, we want to be part of the crowd. ah, russia threatened to block you tube in the country after that video sharing platform permanently deletes ortiz and german language channels. moscow say the u. s. company wouldn't have acted without approval from a live reaction all not coming up. and also i had the international criminal court drops prob, into a lead us war crimes enough down us down to focus solely on terrorist groups rights organizations condemned. the move accusing the i. c. c of caving in to pressure from washington. nato sends extra troops to cancer poem in an arm

standoff with serbia over road access. will hear from a journalist that the former cia director mike pompeo refuses to confirm or deny at 2017 murder plot against julian assange. but say that whatever happened, he's not sorry it did. the current wiki league ball said the revelation shows his son, his life would be in danger if he were sent to america. its fate when he was ground would be in the hands of those who were planning to kill ah, from moscow to the world. this is our t, thanks for choosing us for your global news update today. i mean, and russia has slammed you too for deleting ortiz,

german language channels, over alleged community guideline violations. the foreign ministry believes the move couldn't have happened without approval from the german government. russia's media regulator is now threatening to block the u. s. video sharing platform. the actions of the video platform youtube against those channels violate the key principles of free distribution of information and unhindered access to it. if the owners of youtube 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 here it's 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 is comfortable for german officials, while the german government has rejected the allegation from moscow spokesmen.

stephanie zibert said berlin had nothing to do with you. choose actions against archie or my colleagues new harvey and konstantin ross. coff, discuss the permanent bond on possible knock on effects. you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the germans speaking the 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. so not a small you to channel that, placed it among the top german news channels on that platform. you know, in june alone rti, george gathered over $21000000.00 views on that platform, which is almost as much as what she goes to be received. spiegel is one of the most credible in the major news outlets in germany, and which has been around for decades. so already, 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 curbs 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 vague 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 you tube, 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. doyle 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 voiced by other medical experts not by journalists. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of archie george, that's debatable. so is he denying any wrong doing? is it challenging this man? while they're saying that they received an unfair treatment? and actually, 1st to comment on that story in russia with our own editor in chief, i'm going to get 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 vaccine terrorists and fascists. of all kinds of quietly broadcasting on youtube. they have repeatedly said outright that they shadow banner 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 should didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her driven colleagues working here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. let's cross live now to berlin and speak to pet. are a bit strong foreign policy speaker for the alternative for germany party. thanks for your time today patter. why do you think you should have taken the extreme step

of removing r t german channels? wow, that's quite easy answer because you are too fast for you. reach out to many people in germany and you are broadcasting the true broadcasting criticism about the chairman government. and this what the german government is defeating. consequently, not only read the german government has denied any involvement in the huge bound. although russia's foreign ministry saved, it couldn't have happened without official approval from berlin. what's your view? well, look at it from this point. you tube phase booked with those all international companies looking for profit. why should the very close very successful channels you've been doing?

profit of it. and there is a really wide range, high number of channels that had been close to imagine the us for my us president donald trump, but the channel was close and the same is happening in germany. many channels are close only because they are very critical about the german government. so of course, there is no proof. there is no hard truth for any involvement, but there is no logic in it. why should capitalistic information on big company close channels with which they're earning money? let me just pick up a point you made their pet, her house slippery slope then is old. if you a popular online channel can be so easily bond should other outlets. even politicians be worried. of course, of course, luca to austria,

to our colleagues from the s p. a data we're already attends to close their channels to fame in check republic, facebook. a close to the channel of my friend. you come when i was a vice president of the parliament and he has the 2nd largest facebook channel in the country after the prime minister. and they just clothing and you know, you see those attend everywhere across europe. and even in the us, the 5 globally structures against politicians and media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society. as you know, over the past year, one of the main reasons youtube has given for banning videos has been quote, medical misinformation the use against

r t earlier this year. or do you think cove it as being used as a pretext to sense or any content they don't like? of course, of course, but if they was really closing channels that are spreading miss and formations about medical misinformation, they must close the government channel and the public kind of vision channel and germany and russia has threatened to restrict or indeed block you choose your pet or do you think that's a proportional response? what's your view? well, this is, this is hard to say because generally i'm a for a free trade. and i was all companies to compete really and to do on the free market what they want. but now we see that there is a damage to that our involvement into this free market. and well,

you have to think about what you can temporarily do to bring those companies back on the right path of neutrality. well, he's very much appreciate your time and thoughts on this issue. thanks today. patter best trauma f t foreign policy speaker life from berlin. good luck. the international criminal court is resuming an afghan stan war crimes probe from novel the investigation will ignore allegations of us wrong doing and focus only until a bomb and isis k militants. ortiz kill moping can tell us more 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 is 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 state correson province and to be prioritized 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 former 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 incidents 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

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 visa 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 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. we spoke with former british labor party and pay chris williamson and human rights lawyer done cover like they think i c. c is failing to pull its core duties. i think all countries should be treated equally . there shouldn't be a separate category, a separate status for the united states of america. i mean, this brings the i c, c into disrepute and you know, trust in its deliberations, i think will take a severe hit if they do not reverse this decision and allow the united states to get away scott free lunch. remember, they've spent over 2 trillion dollars in 20 years, that they've been enough cumbersome, perpetrated absolutely appalling war crimes and the trustees and nobody is being held to account for it. and it was never held to account that is just simply going to carry on. and that's why it's so important, i think that the i c c does indeed reverse this decision and actually looks into what the united states got up to in the 20 years that we're not going to start

pulling of the international criminal court. did what it set out to do, and that was to get the us 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 us who can throw its weight around, you will be exempt from human rights prosecution. basically what we are 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. a feud between serbia unclassified over road access shows no sign of abating nato troops in kosovo have not bolstered their presence on the serbian border. the e u. commission president house 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. so far though, there is no sign of a de escalation filmmaker under list bar, a smaller, risky fall this, this report from the frontier. while the pen stand off between belgrade in pristina and cultural has everyone wondering whether the next war in the balkans will start

over a license plate route 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 brussel agreement that was signed in 2013. and the violation of the basic human rights of serbs, the freedom of movement and not addition, images are repeated. new people can no longer tolerate the tyranny, harassment and oppression. we don't want to face the same faith to subs from central cost and who are expelled and ethnically cleanse, believe me that the subs have had enough and will no longer take this occupation and these attacks. and of course, 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 called 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 course, of all. and what makes this stand off 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 tension. however, whether belgrade it's actually ready to use military force to protect the serbs in constable remains a question. we also got a source of political analysts, nicholas markovich, he believes ca, supposed been emboldened by foreign support. just one new crisis, as you've seen many every, every in these past years. and this is not something actually renewed when deeper.

what is new is that and again, that in this situation for the 1st time, serbia got afraid, the 2nd muscle show that a red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of this situation. if nato had not on illegally yugoslavia in 1099, we would not have this situation. we do have in coastal mentor and service. so i think the fact that nato has 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 and here. but then the western organizations have shown that they have failed, totally failed in the balcony and the nation state. and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region, the situation between themselves 1st still ahead this, our mike pompeo is given his response to reports of

a ca plot to kidnap on potentially kill julian. so it's find out what the former american secretary of state, how to say, oh i, i try now where we receive so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely i'm needed to reality. so think about how in social media filters, and they basically present themselves in very unrealistic way. and so we come out of fomo, there is and be involved more than that. it's about being sort of envious of something that may not exist. and it's also really tied to the fact that as humans, we want to be part of the crowd. ah

ah, me the welcome. former us secretary of state c, i a chief mike. pompey has refused to confirm or deny a report that washington plotted to kill julian assange. although palm pale, made it clear that whatever the trump administration did, he's 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 cyber in russia or the chinese military. or anyone who was trying to take this information away from us, the yahoo news report of a plan to abductor and potentially kill julian assange made global headlines this week after it was corroborated by several former officials. but the story isn't news. it was 1st reveal last year by journalist mux blumenthal in an investigation for his website, the gray zone. he spoke to the program earlier. 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, hassan 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 were 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 assigns 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 of investigative journalism st. julian science has nothing to fear, by leaving the embassy, he should just come out. and now we see julian assange was right all along at the the see i was planning to kill him. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian 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 of reporters without borders has joined the international. i cry over the alleged plot against the sounds which dates back to 2017. the press freedom organization said the report show, the wiki likes funder's life is still in danger and that he should be released from

the u. k. prison for his own safety. while what he likes editor in chief christian her robinson discuss the case in our program going underground. you can watch the full episode here in our to later today menu. so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state. so kids, nothing possibly killing. we had to wind up some of this before through the proceedings in that 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 us and the embassy. but actually we're bribe try to ca, to spying on. julian provide it in life feeds from the cameras inside the embassy and through the devices that they implanted on top of that. of course, they were stealing legally payable its material. if julian is expedited to the states, it will be in the hands of the senior fate on the was ground. would be in the hands

of those who were planning to kill him. when these discussions were going on, there was no engagement out against him. 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 on for him to be so it is a political persecution and nothing else. the head of a russian cybersecurity company has been detained in moscow and has no facing charges of stay treason. let's get more on the story now from our correspondence among costs red at room on a big charge. can you tell us about the person? indeed, what he's accused of, i'll tell you as much as we know at this point in time. indeed, the ilia such golf, 35 year old entrepreneur, has been detained by the russian authorities or charges of state. treat treason

that happened just a day after his company offices of the russian capital were search. now we also received the reports that the company's offices in saint petersburg have been as searched as well. now a little bit about the company, the name is group i b, and it makes information. security software also provides internet copyrights protection services, of course is dealing with cyber crime as well. now, back in 2016, the alias side called he was rated by the forbes to be among the 30 most promising russian interpreters and that he has the further accolades from the top 5 consultants. ernst and young, who named them answer printer of the year for 3 times now, if convicted of stay trees and such causes facing up to 20 years behind bars,

criminal spokesperson. dmitri fiscal has reacted to this sylvan earlier saying that this case has nothing to do with a business or investment climate in russia. it has to do with state treason and nothing to do with the economy. now we got a word from the companies spokespeople as well, and they said that the global operations of group i b will not be interrupted and they will continue doing business as usual. ok, keeping across those developments for us ortiz ramon culture ref steve mold burg sits in for scotty now. and next there's another news views hughes gets going in moment and it's a jump back on today. don't ah, join me every thursday and the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guests in the world, the politic sport business and show business.