people die, so what kind of motivation is i give them when i start crying about them dying? that's usually what it's about. i just the sheer unfairness of it all. the us lawmakers pulling no punches as a grill america military top brass for a 2nd day or something congress has called washington humiliating exit from i'm gonna stop. there was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history. is one of the greatest failures of american leadership. russia threatened to block youtube in the country, have to the video sharing platform permanently deleted these german language channels. this is the american company would've acted without the approval from a nato, sends extra trees to kosovo and stand off with serbia river road access from here from germany.

ah, welcome. thanks for joining us. this evening you are watching on tv internet. now let's start with some news on russia's rushes slammed youtube for deleting on his german language channels. this is over alleged to community guidelines, violations. the foreign ministry believes that the move couldn't develop and without approval from the german government. and russia's media regulator is now 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 passive support of the german government in taking these unjust measures they have exposed correspondents of russian broadcasters, 2 years long, harris met, including the blocking of bank accounts 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. the german government has rejected moscow's allegations. a number of journalists pressed berlin spokesman on the matter was called miss design, 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. the german government is 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 its 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. 9 know, in many cases those measures were imposed by private entities. i agree that the government was behind them, but technically, those were private decisions by network operators, for example, would be listen,

just let's talk specifically about this case. we're talking about action that you took against archie. 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 battle? was it from the media? what did you find out a little earlier? my 2nd question is, you tell us that everyone should be judge 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. so bright as i learned about the bands in 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. earlier i spoke with our correspondent constantino's call about the

permanent bond and possible knock on effects. you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the german speaking audience has been grow. and especially in the recent years. and just to give you some numbers, rti, george had a total of almost $547000000.00 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 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 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 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 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 he denying any wrong doing that challenging this man? while they're saying that they received an unfair treatment and actually 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 2 influential. 2 significant, according to their own calculations wearing forth in terms of influence in germany were bigger than wealth were 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 we can 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 the 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 how do 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 work in here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we so it's a bit advice to foreign policy speaker. for the alternative 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 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 miss information about medical information, they must close the government channel and the public 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 1st on youtube, targeted r t. in april this year, the google and platform took down several of the channels videos related to coven 19 and included an interview with the renounce verola just footage of anti lockdown . protests. youtube accused are splitting medical misinformation without giving any specifics live in the, from germany, cd policy, things that people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their

information. does this in the old? clearly this situation does not put european 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'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 journalists, regardless of its origin. america withdrawal from afghanistan comes into the spotlight as the us 6 through defense, along with a number of other top ranking military officials right now. answering questions from lawmakers in congress and topic is something the by the ministration has received a lot of flack over recent weeks. just some of the bob's lawmakers aimed at biden, and his top military commanders. today. we have poured cash and blood and credibility into a gunny government. that was

a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying into the big lie, the big law that this, that this was going to be successful that we could ever rely on the afghan stan government for anything at all. here's the thing. there's only 3 possibilities here . either the president lied to the american people, or he legitimately cannot remember the counsel of his top military advisors in winding down the longest war in american history. or you have not been fully accurate under oath. we didn't have a president that was so adult. you all would be fired because that is what you deserve. you of let down the people who wear the uniform in my district and all around this country. correspondent in new york, kelly morgan jones. we live on the line now. welcome. caleb. sounds like quite a grilling going on there in congress. sure, it's been a tough couple days for lloyd austin, the u. s. secretary of defense as well as the top pentagon brass who oversaw the

drawing down of forces by the united states in afghanistan. now they've answered quite a few questions, kind of been facing kind of a grilling interrogation on the floor of the u. s. congress. congressional committee, the congressional committee on armed services, asked them a lot of tough questions, many of them revolving around a recurring theme. that it could be possible that the united states is actually less safe today from terrorism than it was 20 years ago. when the usa 1st invaded afghanistan. 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, an app pianist and according to the latest intelligence assessment, it could be as little as 12 months before l cater will use f ganna standards based

and 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 afghanistan. lawmakers are asking if america could once again be in the terrorists cross hairs. because some intelligence sources have estimated that it could only be a matter of months before al qaeda sets up shop in afghanistan. once again, however, we heard from lloyd austin and from the generals, that they say the united states has over the horizon capabilities that could prevent such a threat from emerging. however, there were other american intelligence sources that argued that america's intelligence capabilities in that region have been drastically diminished. and furthermore, there were questions last about the ability of the united states to launch drones.

i was admitted that the united states does not have bases that could launch drones against afghanistan and target afghanistan with drones strikes. now. general milly admitted that the united states exit out of afghanistan was what he referred to as a strategic failure. saying that it will be much harder to protect america's national security threats. protect the country from national security threats that are coming out of afghanistan and secretary of defense, austin, he basically describes the by did ministration as miscalculating a number of factors. 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 doha agreement itself had a demoralizing effect on afghan soldiers. and that we failed to fully grasp that there was only so much for which and for whom many of the afghan forces would fight . now it's important to point out that sense late august, the biden administration has been under fire because of the k arctic scenes of the cobble international airport, which were widely observed. there was a scramble to leave the country. some green hold. green card holders were turned away at checkpoints, there was a situation where several afghans died hanging off or plains, trying to get out of the country all culminating on the terrorist attack. the bombing that killed 13 u. s. service members and led to the death of dozens of afghan civilians.

mm. the the, the extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, gravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. it was designed to save american lives. now on capital hill, we heard reassurances from top us military leaders that the country could successfully deal with any emerging terrorist threat. but from what we heard from

lawmakers and many voices among the u. s. public there is doubt about those claims . many look on the situation and the chaotic pull out of the united states from afghan, a stand and wonder if the biden administration will face any consequences any more than some tough questioning before the us armed services committee. when things are corresponding kellum, open their life from new york, and appreciate you staying with us. we'll be talking, you can, if you shortages after the break. 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 total defeat with smaller parties in the mix to form

a new governing coalition. will this be called the merkel inherit live in a tri now, where we receive so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely i'm when needed to reality. so think about how and social media filters. and they basically were present themselves very unrealistic way. and so we come to a farm out there and be involved more than that. it's about the sort of envious or 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. join me as the 1st day on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then in the anger

over fuel shortages in the u. k continues with violence flooring up at some petrol station. on tuesday, a man in london was seen confronting into the drive a while holding what appeared to be a knife incident played out the packed full court. allegedly, the flirt happened because the driver tried to jump the que. nobody was injured in those involved tad left by the time police arrived. so why is it happening? and he's fully voice, attempted to find out while on the hunt for a full tank. i think this is patch or crisis time and the day has come the i finally need some petrol in my car, so i am going to go and try and find some now i'm on a bit less than a quarter of a tank. definitely less than quarter of a tank close to kind of dangerously low on patch. the 1st thing we're doing, by the way, as a little aside,

is picking up from jerry can or from my friend who is pregnant and has run out of petro. this is the find the stuff that's going to get you beat enough that a petrol station going to be like read rags to both social media has really fed this crisis. so there is a nation ahead of me, me petro station number one. look at, i'm sorry, no fuel. you haven't been able to watch for delivering fluid. yeah. you're delivering and you've been unable to work from the day because there's been no petra, one or near the neighbor drive. so i got that. so this is federal station number and it looks like there is absolutely nothing. this is pretty di and i believe we talked about you guys,

you have your own supplies somewhere. you know of any places where there might be patch. oh, that was a policeman. just told me that the b p petrol station. it's about 10 minutes drive from here. how did delivery this morning? but apparently it was mental that and where we're going to go now in order to give it a guy. oh my god, like it's rammed because they've got patch all, it must be there. so this is patch station number 3, and look at the key to the of was already monday and tuesday. i'll just kind of what tomorrow that i noticed people here that's been enough that fuel plus the jerry kendall to it's actually crazy. the amount of people that don't fuel. i don't think that that there will be no. this is basically blocking off traffic access to the schedule station is blocking off traffic. people actually getting around the

round about you did not get to you and in britain, i tell you, this is quite that much. you pulled up. i'm wondering, i'm phone late. my just one way know children. why don't please? yeah. the police i was like, oh it meant love. it looks like we may actually be able to get patch or if it doesn't run out right in front of our noses. yeah. can you tell me what's it been like for the past school day? we don't we're going to cancel my drug rating and warm. i spoke to thank you very much. if you don't know any problem, so i don't know, full garage is nothing more money going to be worth in the benefit of

number 3. thank you very much. i also have jerry cat, which might get me be to not shaving going on. i'm going to get a thing for the jerry. yeah. finally happening. i can only fill up the petrol because that seems possible thing to do. i'm making a real mess. you've never done this before. i haven't done this. the didn't tune up so that so well, if you tell you what companies are around when you want to just fill out the the key, the q 5. sorry, that was excited. i got into a bit of a flat because i feel like i thought i'd be filling up the jerry can if somebody

stockpiling petro whereas i was just getting it for a friend. now about an hour and a half after we started, i mean the street said release a little bit of emptiness as well. a few between serbia and cos of overrode access shows, no son of abating native trips and cost of, of now both the presence on the serbian border, the commission president 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 there's been no sign of disc, elation filmmaker and journalist for a smaller gorski center. 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 brussel 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, deter any harassment and depression. we don't want to face the same fate to subs from central cos, who are expelled and ethnically cleansed, 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 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 civil and what makes this stand off different than the stand off in the past is serbia as 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 have from political analysts. nicola markovich, she thinks that cost of has 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 that again,

that in this situation for the 1st time serve, you got to pay the 2nd muscle. that red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of the situation. if nato had not bomb illegally yugoslavia in $999.00, we would not have pen situation. 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 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 albanians and countries from that region to the situation between themselves for as in an apparent bid to stand the part in the era of fake news cnn presented have started referring to the channel as reality based

media. the only problem, of course, being cnn's relationship with a true sometimes been complicated me and you say there are some cowards out there that don't want to talk about it. what are the folks in the reality based media do in the coming weeks? what's your advice for the press corps? me details from intelligence officials in europe of confirm to see an end that russian officers put boundaries on american and british troops serving in afghanistan. i can confirm with you right now that there is no consensus within the intelligence community. on these allegations, the intelligence community was so concerned about this that they told the white

house that any information that rudy giuliani brought to him could be contaminated by russia. me. there's no intelligence that supports that, that 100 by the laptop is part of some russian disinformation campaign. it's simply not true. mm. i. in gap of out with updates for you in half an hour. ah, ah, let me work in a little bit.