governing coalition, will this be called the merkel inherited the ah, us lawmakers on pulling that punches as a grill, american military top brass for a 2nd straight day over what some in congress is called washington's humiliating exit from afghanistan. there was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of american leadership. russia threatens to block youtube in the country up to the video sharing platform permanently deletes on page german language channels. that the u. s. company wouldn't of acted without approval from berlin. nato sends x to change to kosovo and they didn't on stand off with serbia over road access. will hear from a journalist to the st. ah,

good evening. thanks for joining us. this is our internet. this is our, the sex truce defense, along with a number of, of the top ranking military officials right now. answering questions from lawmakers in congress. the topic is america's exit from afghanistan. something beat by the ministrations received. the flag over in recent weeks has come on the snap from our correspondent kelly morgan is in new york for us. kelly, welcome. as i understand the u. s. secretary defense lloyd austin has been getting quite a grilling how things proceeded. it's certainly been a tough couple days for us. secretary defense lloyd austin as well as some of the top pentagon brass, they've been answering a barrage of questions about the pull out of afghanistan and the chaos that went

down. now, the biden administration has attempted to portray those advances somehow being a success, but it's pretty clear a lot of the american public and a lot of the law makers do not by it. i fear the president is delusional. this was an extraordinary success. it was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history, is one of the greatest failures of american leadership. i expect our witnesses to give us an honest accounting of exactly what went wrong. i also want answers on how we're going to conduct counterterrorism operations. now that we have 0 presence in f pianist and according to the latest intelligence assessment, it could be as little as 12 months before. okay, to will use afghans standards based in as a base to conduct air strikes or strikes against united states. and that's an acceptable, frankly, after this debacle withdrawal, i don't think anyone contrast anything this present says about ghana. stan, now one of the major concerns as you just heard, is that once again,

america could be in the cross hairs from terrorist groups based in afghanistan, some intelligent sources say that out kind of could soon be setting up shop in afghanistan once again. and could have the capacity from afghanistan to carry out attacks on us soil. however, we were reassured that the united states has over the horizon capabilities to strike against al qaeda and retaliate against such attacks and keep american safe. however, we then heard other claims that america's tele intelligence capacities in the region have been significantly diminished and that may not be the case. furthermore, questions are being raised about the accuracy of american intelligence, especially in the aftermath of a drone strike that was aimed at iso and ended up killing a family of afghan civilians. and so we have a situation where the generals and lloyd austin actually acknowledged that the

united states does not have basses from which to launch drone strikes against afghanistan at this time. so a lot of questions are being asked. there seems to be a lot of confusion, lloyd austin did admit that the current administration, the leadership of joe biden, failed to take into account some key factors when assessing the region. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in their senior ranks. that we did not grasp damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president gunny of his commanders. that we did not anticipate the snowball effect caused by the the deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in the wake of the high agreement. that the agreement itself had a demoralizing effect on the afghan soldiers. and that we fail to fully grasp that

there was only so much for which and for whom many of the afghan forces would fight . now, the biden administration has been under fire since august when the world observed the key arctic scenes at the cobble international airport. there was apparently some green hard green card holders that returned away. there were people who died hanging from airplanes trying to flee afghanistan. all of this then culminated in the deadly bombing at the airport that killed 13 u. s. service personnel, as well as dozens of afghan civilians. mm. i with 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. now the binding ministration continues to describe these events as somehow being a success, but in many lawmakers and many among the american public. don't see it that way. now questions are being asked about how the events damaged the reputation of the united states on the global stage. and furthermore, how safe americans are, does this once again put americans into danger? now, the outrage and frustration with the bio ministration is pretty wide spread. but beyond seeing some tough questions being asked in some grilling in congress,

what consequences will there be on the ground? was appreciated from my new york kellum open. okay, i sent you another story. now russia has slammed youtube for deleting ortiz, german language channels, over alleged community guideline. violations for a ministry believes that the move couldn't have happened without approval from the german government. and rushes media regulator is threatening to block the u. s. 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 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 is comfortable for german official. german government has rejected moscow's allegations. number of journalists, pressed berlin spokesmen on the matter was called miss desire, but i'm a bit confused. i've been a moscow correspondent for 16 years when it's presumed russia takes action against german media outlets, including most recently, it's actually always private companies that are taking the action that the german government has always condemned this or the same earlier. you claim that connecting the german government to the youtube decision was a conspiracy theory. what's the difference then? why in russia, you conflate the state with private companies, but not in germany. mister righteous to, i must confess. i don't understand your question. i'm happy to explain it once again. when russia takes action against german media outlets. russia says it's not

the government's taking action. it's a private network operator, yet the german government still considered it a political step. now we have a similar situation here. you say it's the decision of a private network operator youtube, what's the difference under disease? so in this case, the decision was taken by youtube. it justified to move with reference to his own platform rules in russia, measures were taken against by media and n g o. we criticized out because those measures were taken by the government. and i know in many cases those measures were imposed by private entities. i agree that the government was behind them, for technically those were private decisions by network operators. for example. good. listen, just let's talk specifically about this case. we're talking about action that you took against artie, and as far as i understand the 2nd channel in accordance with youtube own policies, we are aware of what's happened. of course, the channel control to get the decision reversed, but the bond was imposed by the german government. and since that's exactly what is

being said, i must clearly reject it. yes, of course, a problem has ever 2 quick questions, mr. side. but how did you find out about the batter? was it from the media? what did you find out a little earlier? my 2nd question is, you tell us that everyone should be judged equally today. there are plenty of conspiracy theories about 19 on life. however, the freedom of the press which he defend doesn't why we're all these channels deleted, but not with these distributors of fake news. as i learned about the band from the media, my feelings about it don't matter. we are aware of the decision youtube explained it and i have nothing else to say about it. it was not the decision of the german government. well, i spoke with our correspondent constantino's cough about the permanent ban. impossible knock on effects. you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the germans speaking the audience has been grow. and 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 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 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 our 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 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 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 deutsch 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 closed, 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 rt george, that's debatable. so is denying any wrong doing it challenging this man. while they're saying that they received an unfair treatment. and actually the 1st comment

on that story in russia with our own editor in chief gym for several months before channels were banned. the german media had been publishing care stories about rti, german becoming too influential to significant according to their own calculations wearing forth in terms of influence in germany were bigger than wealth grew bigger than germany's own giant. like don't you well, let no one expected that of course we also didn't expect that to happen so quickly . i mean, that would attract, so beacon audience have so much success. they made us out to be a boogeyman. they refused to give us a license. the forbade bangs for working with us. they pressured luxembourg, so we couldn't get a license there. and when all that didn't work, they deleted us from youtube using farfetched pretext. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. the question is how russia respond? we're looking forward to it was just foreign ministry spokeswoman money of the heart. also, we didn't by saying that would just happen was inactive aggression and that there's

going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media work in, in russia. now the message she had didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her through my colleagues working here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we spoke to pet advice and who's the foreign policy speak for the alternative for germany party. he sees the band is being 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 prove 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 kind of vision channel in germany. it's a 5 global is structures against politicians and media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society and some 1st time youtube tags did our tape. in april of this year, the google on platform took down several of the channels videos relating to covey. 19, i included an interview with a renown of our ologist and footage of anti lockdown. protests. youtube, a key study of spreading medical misinformation without giving any specifics. delivery from germany, c, d u policy thinks that people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their information. does this in the old? clearly, this situation does not with europe and 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,

see to make an even greater contribution to german and european media diversity. as i've 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 journalism regardless of its origin. lots more news to come for you after the short break. ah . join me every thursday, alex summon 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 ah

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assassinate julian assault in 2000. and 17. bumpo did make it clear that whatever the team hashed 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 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. but yahoo news article on the plan to abducted potentially killed in the science and global headlines this week after it was corroborated by several former officials. but the story is nothing new. it was 1st revealed life last year by journalist mike blumenthal, an investigation, but his website, the grazer, and i spoke to him 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 cia 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, a sorry, 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 internal attorney, client privilege has been violated by the ca, 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. the port us at our borders has joined the international outcry over the ledge plots against the songs the press. freedom organization said the report show the wikileaks found, as life is still in danger,

that he should be released from prison presented safety. meanwhile, current wikileaks, editor in chief, tristan her office, and discuss the case in the latest episode of going underground. he can watch that in full throughout the day here on our international menu. so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state. so kids, nothing, and then 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 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 through the devices that they implanted on top of that, of course, they were stealing legally payable its material. if julian is expedited to 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 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 a political persecution and nothing else. the feud between service and crossover over road access shows no sound of abating nato troops in kosovo now bolstered their presence on the serbian border. the commission president cooled 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, the has been no sign of deescalate and filmmaker journalists for a smaller gorski centers this report from the board. 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, emotionally, the 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. 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 is declared 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 of all an independent country. now, serbia has sent its military forces to the administrative crossings. of course civil 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 for stina 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 heard from political analysts and nichol markovich who thinks that 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 again, that in this situation for the 1st time, serbia got afraid to flex it's muscle and show that a red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of this situation. if nato had not on illegally yugoslavia in 1999, we would not have pen situation. we do have in coastal mentor and surgery. so i think that the fact that nato had not been capable of managing the situation which he created it. 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 it took here . but then the western organizations have shown that they have failed,

totally failed in the balcony. and they should have a nation staple, and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region to the situation between themselves. first, just a quick reminder for you are c, as always, has plenty more content waiting for you and our social media channels on instagram . for example, you can find out from a man in london boot she, davy, and his latest video post as explorers, with artificial intelligence might lead to the end of humanity. as we note, i hope not. the all you all 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 a warning letter look that's right. clued in the in default. sure. it has so much in areas like speech recognition, language, decision making, among others that we should start getting

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