in the world corrupted, you need to defend the join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. ah, the russia threatens to block you tube in the country after the video sharing platform permanently deletes are t's german language channels. moscow say the u. s. company wouldn't have acted without approval from bergman ahead on the program and the international criminal court drops approve into a lead us war crimes. in yellowstone the focus solely on the terrorist groups rights organizations condemned the accusing the i. c. c. a paving in to pressure from washing. nato sends extra trips to costco. i made an arm

stand off with serbia over road axis. we'll hear from a journalist of the scene. former cia director mike pump pail refuses to confirm or deny a 2017 murder plot against julian. the phones save up whatever happened. sorry. the current wiki leaks both saved the revelation shows a thumbs. his life would be in danger if he were sent to him or said he was grown would be in the hands of those who were planning to keep ah, just after 3 in the afternoon here in moscow, this wednesday, september the 29th. let's get to a mid week top story. russia, how slum youtube, for deleting our tv, german language channels over a ledge, community guideline violations. the foreign ministry believes the move could not

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 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 correspondence of russian broadcasters, 2 years long, harris met, including the blocking of bank accounts in 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 officials. while the german government has rejected down allegation from moscow spokesmen,

stephanie cybert sees berlin had nothing to do with youtube sections against archie or my colleagues need harvey and constantino ross can discuss the permanent bond on the possible knock on effect. 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. nashville is one of the most credible in the major news outlets in germany and which has been around for decades . so r d, 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 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 or t. joyce 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 torches may need to 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 a 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 journalist. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of rt george, that's debatable. so is he denying any wrong doing it 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 was 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 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 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. are just foreign ministry spokeswoman money is also we'd in by saying that would just happen was an act of aggression and that there's 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 lie, spoke with pet, her best drawn, foreign policy speaker for the alternative for germany party, he sees the youtube banners, overtly political. 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? if they was really closing channels that are spreading, mis and formations about medical information, they must close the government channel and the public television channel and germany, the 5 over globally structures against politicians and media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society a better bit strong. well, it is not the 1st time you tube has targeted our tea. in april this year, the google own platform took done several number channels. the videos relating to

cobit 19 that included an interview with a renowned verola just footage of anti lockdown protests. youtube accused r. t of spreading medical misinformation without giving a specifics. believe miller, from germany, c. d u party. things people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their information. does this in clearly this situation does not with europe in freedom, in a positive light. we have to acknowledge that the time media space has been subject to censorship and manipulation, which reminds me of the worst times in germany. it's in our interest for see to make an even greater contribution to german and european media diversity. as i said before, r t has become an integral component of european press freedom. we are citizens, have the right to be informed, and have access to high quality journalists, regardless of its origin to another headline. stories today, the international criminal court has resuming afghanistan, war crimes, probe,

but from now on the investigation will ignore allegations of us wrong doing and focus solely on taliban isis. k, militants, ortiz, kill us. nothing 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 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 start on crimes allegedly committed by the taliban and the exotic 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 can 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 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. 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 anyway, nate, 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. 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. we spoke with former british labor party and p. chris williamson and human rights lawyer done conflict on this. they think the c c is failing to uphold 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 the 20 years that they've been enough cumbersome, perpetrated absolutely appalling war crimes and the trustees, and nobody's being held to account for it. and it was never held to account that just simply going to carry home. and that's why it's so important, i think that the 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 stop. the 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 i, c. c 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. the punish developing countries, the only leaders successfully prosecuted by the i c. c, have been from african countries. what is this saying to the world of saying to the world? if you are a week country, you can be subject to i. c. c, 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 food between serbia and kosovo over road access shows no sign of abating nato troops in kosovo. have no bolstered their presence on this serbia border on the you

commission, president, towns called on both sides to show restraint the current res intentions between casa one, 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 any kind of de escalation. filmmaker on journalists bar, a smaller, risky, filed us this report from the frontier. while the pen stand off between belgrade in pristina and causal 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 brussels 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, deter any harassment and depression. we don't want to face the same fate 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, of course, also as we know, has been as administered by the united nations. as since 9099 after nato bombed serbia to take control of its southern province of called civil that is 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 cost civil 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 path 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. let's also hear the view of political analysts, nickel markovich. he thinks cost of who's been emboldened by foreign support. this is just one new crisis. as we've seen many every, every in the past 2 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, certainly got afraid. the 2nd muscle that red line has been crossed nato is responsible of the situation. if nato had not on illegally yugoslavia in $1099.00, we would not have the 10 situation we do have in kosovo mentor, and service. so i think the fact that nato had not been capable of managing the

situation which it created. so it is definitely not a good idea to have nato forces, again, 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 staple. and probably maybe let the surgeons and veins and countries from that region. the contrition between themselves 1st ahead in the program, a law and costly french and the terror operation. molly is gone, ruffling with the 2 nations creating accusations while russian contractors step in to fill the void. that story and more few up to the ah, i

as angela merkel makes her exit from german politics, voters have made it clear. they are looking for new ideas and directions. wrinkles party suffered a total defeat with smaller parties in the mix to form a new governing coalition. will this be called the merkel inheritance? join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me a try. now we have so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely related to reality. so think about how in social media filters and they basically present themselves very unrealistic way. and so we come out of fomo, there is and be involved more than that. it's about the sort of envious or something that may not exist. and it is also really tied to the fact that humans we

want to be part of the crowd. ah, 21 minutes into the program. welcome back. former us secretary of state ca chief mike pompeo has refused to confirm or deny a report that washington plotted to assassinate julian. a such pompeo did make it clear, though, that whatever the trump administration hushed, 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 the 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 new. it was 1st revealed last year by journalist max blumenthal in an investigation for his website. the great, so 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 assange and his associates. inside the ecuadorian embassy in london that you see global, the spanish security firm. i obtain these filed 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. busy of investigative journalism st julian assigned 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 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. just a reaction, reporters rely, 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 leaks, founders life is still in danger and that he should be released from the u. k. prison for his own safety. in the current wiki league editor in chief as chris in her office and discuss the case and the latest going underground. you can watch that in full today in our tea. here's a snippet many so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see, let this be in confidence in the, in the, in the state kits. nothing and possibly killing. we had to wind up some of this before. the proceedings in that spain criminal proceedings against members of the

security company. you see global who are supposed to be overseeing julian associates, curity in the u. s. embassy embassy, but actually will bribe try to ca, to spying on. julian provide live feeds from the cameras inside the embassy and 2 devices that they implanted on top of that. of course, they were stealing legally privileged 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 girls who were planning tool kit. when these discussions were going on, there was no engagement against julia. 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

a political persecution, and nothing else from says angrily denied its abandoning molly, despite a partial trip, polite from the western african nation, paris has been engaged in anti terror campaign there for 8 years, but no bama co is looking for support elsewhere and has turned to russian contractors. here's our t charlotte duping scheme. it's the situation that's going from bad to well disastrous folk and moly alright, loggerheads, operation ball cain and security in the form a colony marley's prime minister has been clear that the full peroration has failed . but the un he went even further. he does need to send to button the situation arising from the end of operation buck and puts molly in accompli abandoning those mid flight to a certain extent. and it forces to say for alternative means better ensure

a security autonomy, li, or with other partners. so as to fill the gap that will certainly result from the withdrawal of back and in the north of the country, mounted up a decree that lake fire under the french armed forces minister. yes, 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. and 5th to 2nd. the french soldier gave his life fighting terrorism in the hell. poly has also accused morally 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 an acceptable for molly's paul. is real concerned about the future. earlier

this year, president my call now the end of opperation ball came french troops have been engaged on the ground since 2013 in a be to fight your heart is groups. but now, according to my call, that will be prof. i will be changed with the closure of french omi bases the withdrawal of more than 2000 soldiers that lead to fears molly could see a search into a hardest activity. whole situation in this, the herald is right now, not being addressed because you can't address it simply from a security standpoint. last 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 spaces that the terrorist and others live and deploy for my 1st also work out how it's going to fight against such threats. it's turning the idea of using private companies in a been to sure up security. however, the fact that these companies are 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 additional security measures. a molly, is this the case of fearing that they are losing control and you know, but if you could show that a huge way mother has approached rush and private military companies, we have nothing to do with that. this is an activity that has been carried out legitimately where it is killing itself and is now has less and less leverage in

africa. they're making africa part of the geo political doctrine of remaining to one number one superpower in the world. and they're attacking welsh in 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 more. teresa china because they also. ringback it is ration ball cane was supposed to have produced that your hardest right across the saw how the region which includes moly, 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.