politics, voters have made it clear. they are 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 per headline stories and artsy, russia, threaten to blog. you tube in the country after the video sharing platform permanently deletes ortiz, german language channels, last se, the u. s. company wouldn't buy kid without approval from berlin. also telling us marina sent to military jail after passing his government's handling up the gallop poll lodge in a series of viral videos, something angry accusations over the course of government. censorship from fellow service, members of nato sends extra troops to come to vote. i made an arm stemmed

off with serbia overwrote access. we'll hear from a journalist of this. ah, one minute past 5 in the evening here in the russian capital. you're welcome to the news, our an rti. my name's unit only. russia has slammed you too for deleting our t german language channels over alleged community guidelines, 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 us video sharing service. 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 correspondence 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 is comfortable for german officials. the german government has rejected that allegation from moscow spokesman stephens, i. bert sees berlin had nothing to do with youtube actions against r t earlier. my colleagues need harvey. konstantin ross can discuss the permanent and it's possible knock on effects. 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, george 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 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. 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 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, informational, so is denying any wrong doing it challenging this man. while they are saying that they receive an unfair treatment, and we're actually the 1st to 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 what just happened 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. 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'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. among the reaction i got to the story was from pet her best strong foreign policy speaker. for the alternative for germany party, he sees the huge banners, overtly political. many channels are closed 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 rich earning money? if they was really closing channels that are spreading missed and formations about

medical information, they must close the government channel and the public kind of vision channel and germany, the 5 globally structures against politicians and media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society and we should point to it's not the 1st time you tube has targeted an rti in april . this year, the google own platform took done several of our channel videos relating to cobit 19 that included an interview with a renown for ologist and footage of anti locked on protests. youtube accused r t of spreading medical misinformation without giving specifics. delete them or from germany, c, d, u party. thanks people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their information. does this in clearly this situation does not put european freedom in a positive light. we have to acknowledge that the entire media space has been

subject to censorship and manipulation, which reminds me of the worst times in germany. it's in our interest for our 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 as citizens have the right to be informed and have access to high quality journalists, regardless of its origin. the story we want to keep you in the loop about today, i us marine officer known for his i'd spoken criticism of the u. s. poet from of dallas them has been sent to a military cio dance after he published a series of video saying he couldn't stay silent. after serving in the military for 70 years and losing colleagues in the capital or port suicide bombing. people are upset because they're senior leaders, let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we messed 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 strategic air barriers before we evacuate everyone, i am submitting charges a guest, general mackenzie for his bad assumptions. not because i'm vindictive, but because the senior leaders need to be help. how about the same standard is ah, with the the, the extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of united states,

military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. it was designed to save american lives or one month on no top at u. s. military officials face any action for the afghan, his phone withdrawal tobacco. we spoke to the us marine reservist who believe stuart sheller was punished for speaking up in order to set an example. the will generals in the sector and everybody else. they see him as a threat, so they need it. they need to shut him up. joe, what did they do? they gave him a gag order right now. now he's going to go to the break. now he's facing charges. and i personally think that they're also trying to make an example of him and showing the world. okay. if you're going to do this, if you're going to speak out against us, we're gonna, we're going to hit hard. you're probably going to phase military prison, which is unfortunately, that looks like it's we've been looking what people are saying about the story on

line. and it really does appear that the trend is divided over whether stewart's sheller did the right thing by publicly criticizing america, senior military officials. while top us generals were grilled in congress this week over they, chaotic african withdrawal making. what struck many has per excuses for what happened on the fact that the african 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 and, 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 in enough dentistry in and you know, are we continue to work to try to nobody was manning up to a nobody was on the disaster. they're just trying to make it go away. nobody raised their head hand and said this is on me,

and they're just trying to sweep it under the rug and distract, distract, distract, and move on to the next thing. and nothing was being done about it. so after the whole incident occurred, a week or so passed and nobody said anything. and then now lieutenant colonel sheller made that, made that video on his laptop and all he did, he didn't ask for anything completely unreasonable. all i did was he asked for accountability and he asked for answers. and in the military accountability is a major thing. when you're scheduling a major evacuation of a country you've been in for 20 years, there's no excuse to not be on the same page. there's no excuse to come up with an effective bullet proof plan to evacuate successfully. there's another thing in the military called leave. no man behind the matter. also another thing we did, we left hundreds of americans behind. so since nobody was really stepping up the

plate, the tenant colonel sheller decided to be the 1st one to come public and criticize leadership. i think 140 minutes past the hour where back just after the break with more global world news updates, stay with us. ah, when i would show the wrong, why don't i just don't need you to see out the thing because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves, well the parts we choose to look for common ground live

in a try now, where we received so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely related to reality. so think about how it social media filters and they basically present themselves unrealistic way. and so we come to a fomo and be involved 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 humans we want to be part of the crowd. ah, ah, we're back. former us secretary of state and see a chief mike pompeo has refused to confirm or deny a report that washington plotted to assassinate julian assange in 2017 pump. did

make it clear though, that whatever the trump team hushed, he's not sorry, 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 is trying to take this information away from us or the yahoo news article on the plan to a doctor and potentially kill julie. nathan's maid global headlines this week after it was corroborated by several former officials. but the story is not new. it was fresh for the last year by journalist mux blumenthal and an invitation for his website. the great on he spoke to this program a little 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, 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 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 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 reporters without borders, has joined the international outcry over the alleged plot against this on the press . freedom organization said the report show the wiki leaks funders. life is still

in danger and that he should be released from a u. k. prison for his own safety. involve current wiki leaks editor in chief, kristen her robinson discussed the case and the latest going underground. you can watch the full episode throughout the day here on our t many so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state kits. nothing and 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 overseen julian associates curity in the us embassy 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 to bagging 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 the fate on the ground would be in the hands of those who were planning to kill him. when these discussions were going on, there was no engagement 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. a feud between serbia, unconscious of overrode, success shows no sign of abating nato troops in kosovo have not bolstered their presence on the serbian border. the e u commission president has 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 attention and to return to the dialogue. so far though, there is no sign of the escalation. filmmaker journalist, for a smaller grispy filed us this report from the frontier while the pen stand off between belgrade and proceed in causal. has everyone wondering whether the next war in the balkans will start over a license plate ro 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 emotion. the repeated new people can no longer tolerate the tyranny, harassment and oppression. we don't want to face the same fate to subs from central

cos, 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 999 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 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 offs in the past? is serbia as a parent readiness to flex its military muscle. they have called on christina 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. so let's just stay with the story a little bit longer because we heard from political analyst, nickel markovich, he thinks cost of those been emboldened by foreign support. just one new crisis, as we've seen 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. hence degeneration, 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 the administrative border between central serbia and kosovo. antonia,

but definitely western organizations have shown that they have failed, totally failed in the balcony, and they should let the nation stake over and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region. the situation between themselves for as a reminder, our t is always has plenty more content waiting few on our social channels on instagram you can find her mom in london, but she devi great name and his latest video post. he explores whether artificial intelligence could lead to the end of humanity, as we know it. the got a 100 year study, artificial intelligence determined that machines did not pose a threat to human college, but they've updated it to send out the warning several that's right, that's a good of us. the conclude is the, in this far short, it has become so much in areas like speech recognition language,

probably decision making among others that we should start getting a little bit worried o'clock on. the field of artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress in the past 5 years. and is having real world impact on people, institutions, and culture. on the last 5 digits, they can predict disease in the human body for even happen real problem. they think for themselves we will start to trust them even by mostly by the front of a close. i really like the big study says i always driving make information, even discrimination against people which will actually lead to some of them coming to home or on a phone and you can get food. i even mosque. yes. it's never too old. i always little to be contained, and if i'll regret that much for the low tempo in the next to that when you do that,

one more story to bring you this news, our, the head of a russian cyber security company has been detained in moscow. and it's not facing charges of trees and i spoke with my culture of what's known 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 in the russian capital were search. now a little bit about the company, the name is group i b, and that makes information. security software also provides internet copyrights protection services, of course, is dealing with cyber crime as well. now back in 2016, it is sad because he was rated by the forbes to be among the 30 most promising russian interpreters and that he has

a further accolades from the top 5 consultants, ernst and young, who named them and the 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 meet group is called has reacted to this little bit earlier, saying that this case has nothing to do with a business or investment climate in russia. it has to do with a state treason and nothing to do with the economy. now we got a word from the companies, folks, people 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. will the departure of uncle merkel a chancellor mean a significant change in direction for germany and indeed europe as a whole cross talk debates. next, oh,

i use join me every thursday on the alex sermon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. when i would show the wrong one, i'll just don't rule out the scene because after an engagement equal betrayal, when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground in the

ah ah ah ah hello and welcome to cross top where all things considered, i'm peter live l, as angle a merkel makes or exit from german politics. voters have made it clear they were looking for new ideas and directions. wrinkles party suffered electoral defeat with smaller parties in the mix to form a new governing coalition. will this be called the merkel inheritance the, the cross talking the german elections. i'm joined by my guess mag quarter up in london. he's

a professor of political science and international relations and coventry university, as well as the author of the book angler merkel. europe's most influential leader in frankfort. we have like book now. he is a political analyst and professor of political science at stanford university in berlin. and in princeton we cross the harold james. he's a professor of history and international affairs at princeton university. his latest book is the war of ideas, a glossary of globalization, right? tillman cross talk rules and effect. that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate it. go to you 1st in frankfurt, you're in germany here, before we talk about the, the election and what comes next. what is the legacy of anglo merkel? i mean, she is a towering figure in european politics has been for a very long time. she weathered quite a few crisis. these people have praised her of others have criticized her. but.