very nice to told you. last of the show will be like a saturday ahead of the conservative party conferences, lawrence johnson, still writing in the polls is quite an energy crisis. fuel charges, and a level of child poverty. it is costing written 38000000 a year, all in one of which is countries in the world until then keep in touch with social media and let us know of using revelations of us plans for gun battles on the streets of london to get an junior assange credible, i use the us little make his own pulling the punches as a grill, the american military top for us for 2nd day of the southern congress of cold washington humiliating exits from us government. it was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of american leadership threatens to block youtube in the country after the video sharing platform permanently deleted. the german language channels says that the u. s. companies

wouldn't have access without approval from berlin. and they said cents extra troops because of the mid to nom standoff with serbia. is all over the road. access. little hear from a journalist at the same ah, what he meant to be here. he just got lost looking through the channels and am i know the way you always welcome to america, the jewels montgomery sun comes into the spot. light is the 62 defense along with a number of other top ranking military officials right now. answering questions from lawmakers in congress. the topic is something the bud administrations received a lot of flack over in recent weeks. here is just some of the barbs law makers aimed at biden. and his top military commanders today. we have poured cash

and blood and credibility into a ghani government. that was a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying into the big lie, the big lie that this, that this was ever going to be successful that we could ever rely on the afghanistan 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 addled. you all would be fired because that is what you deserve. you of the let down the people who wear the uniform in my district and all around this country. 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 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 and pianist and according to the latest intelligence assessment, it could be as little as 12 months before i cater will use afghans as a base conduct 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 f canister. 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. so i was admitted that the united states does not have bases that could launch drones against afghanistan and target afghanistan withdrawn strikes. now, general mili 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 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 truce that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and their senior ranks . that we did not grass so 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 fail 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 at the cobble international airport, which were widely observed. there was a scramble to leave the country, some green hold. cock green card holders were turned away at checkpoints. there was a situation where several afghans died hanging off of 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 number with 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 while the world looks on the events that took place as the usa withdrew from afghanistan and says, it doesn't really look like a success. many are now concerned to be able to pick up the country is in danger from terrorist attacks as a result of the chaos to pull out. now the military voices reassured us that that is not the case, but many have their concerns. many wonder of the buying and restoration will place more consequences for the events that took place and afghan, a stan other than simply some harsh interrogation on capitol hill.

russia has slammed youtube, thor deleting out these german language channels were alleged community guideline violations. the foreign ministry believes that the move couldn't have happened though without approval from the german government. rushes media regulators 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 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 down and government

though, has rejected moscow's allegations. under number of journalists press, berlin spokesmen on the matter on steve, and this will get along with the german government and its representative. and i've nothing to do with a decision. anyone who thinks otherwise is in the conspiracy theory miss design. but i'm a bit confused. i've been a moscow correspondent for 6 years, and i can't believe in following development, even though it's against the german media outlets about including most recently actually always be privately company, private businesses that are taking action. also, german government has always condemned, told the thing. however, according to a statement that would have been a conspiracy theory about why in russia, these are not private companies of private network operators, but in germany it's different, mister, right? it's just a, 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. and russia says it's not the government 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 decisions? so in this case, the decision was taken by you to justify the move with wrestling own platform route in russia. measures are taken against bar and n g o. we criticized that because those are taken by the government 9 know in many cases those measures were imposed by private entities. i agree that the government has behind them, but technically, those were private to say by network operators for example, would be listen, this. talk specifically about this case. we're talking about action that you took again. and as far as i understand the 2nd channel in accordance with your own goals, we are aware of what's happened or of course, the channel can try to get the decision reversed, but the bar wasn't imposed by the german government. and since that's exactly what is being said, i must clearly reject it and that's a course a problem has ever to quick question that mr. sidebottom,

how did you find out about the was it from the media? what did you find down little earlier? my 2nd question is, when you tell us everyone should be a judge equally today, there are plenty of theories about hope in life. however, the freedom of the press is what she does and why we're all these channels to leave, but not as tribute as a fake news for bright from the feelings about it. don't matter where incision youtube explained it, and i have nothing else to say about it. it was not the decision of the german government. i spoke with a correspondent consenting, rash cough about the permanent ban and possible 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. 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 floating 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 terms of service. so to give some context, 1st archie george, his main need of 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 voice by other medical experts not by journalists. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of archie george, that's debatable. so is he denying any wrong doing? is it challenging this man? while they are saying that they received an unfair treatment and actually 1st comment on that story in russia with our own editor in chief food stamp for several

months before channels were banned, the german media had been publishing care stories about r t, german becoming so influential to significantly, according to their own calculations, wearing the 4th in terms of english one, but she in germany were bigger than well were bigger than germany own shines. like, don't you? well, no one expected that of course, but you also didn't expect that to happen so quickly. i mean that would have triggered so because ody and have so much success, they made us out to be a bogeyman, refused to give us a license to be forbade. banks for working with that, so none of the luxembourg, so we couldn't get a license there. and the one that didn't work deleted us from using the 3 tech model that was predictable because no normal person's belief that freedom of speech exists in this country. question is how we rush respond. we're looking forward to it was just foreign ministry spokeswoman money of the heart of 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 working 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 a bi street who's a foreign policy speaker for the alternative germany party. he sees the youtube band is being overtly political. many channels are close on the 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 information about medic don't mis 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. first time youtube targeted artsy in april this year, the google platform took down several channels, videos relating to cove at 19 included an interview with a renowned verola just an footage of anti lockdown. protests. youtube accused of spreading medical misinformation that didn't give any specifics. live in there from germany, cd party thinks that people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their information. does this in a whole? clearly this situation does not put your appeal 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 time germany is in our interest to make it 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 have the right to be informed that have access to high quality journalists regardless of its origin. okay, morning. can you after the short break? oh i use ah ah,

me a try now where we received so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely unrelated to reality. so think about how in social media filters and they basically were present themselves in very unrealistic way. and so we come out of fomo, there is and be involved more than that. it's about being sort of envious of something that may not exist and is also really tied to the fact that humans we want to be part of the crowd. ah, welcome back. a feud between serbia and kosovo of road access. assume no son of a basic nato troops in kosovo of now bolstered that presence on the serbian border . the commission president called on both sides to show restraint the current res

intentions between possible and serbia is very concerning, is worrying. it is essential to lower the tension and to return to the dialogue. so far though, there is no sign of desk elation. so my current journalist for a smaller gorski sent 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 band on serbian license plates, imposed by the prestige authorities that call it reciprocal measures. but belgrade actually calls it a violation of the brussel agreement that was signed in 2013 and the violation of the basic human rights of serbs. the freedom of movement and not addition, images are repeated. new people can no longer tolerate the tyranny, harassment,

and depression. and we don't want to face the same fatal 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 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 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 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. so heard from political analyst nicholas markovich, who thinks that cost of has been emboldened by foreign and support. this is just one new crisis. as we've seen many every, every in 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, serbia got afraid to muscle and show that a 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 surgery. so i think the fact that nato had not been capable of managing the situation which they created. so it is definitely not a good idea to have nato forces, again, on the administrative border between central serbia and co civil antonia. but then

the western organizations have shown that they have fail totally failed in the balcony, and should a nation state, and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region. the contrition between themselves, 1st frances angrily denied that its abandoning molly despite a partial troop pull out from the western african nation. paris has been engaged in an anti terror campaign there for 8 years. but now obama co is looking for support elsewhere. understood to russian contractors with his art is charlotte davis. k. it's a situation that going from bad to well disastrous for a moly. alright, loggerheads operation ball cain and security in the former colony marley's prime minister has been clear that the authoration has failed without the you and he went

even further move it if you guys need the last and button the situation arising from the end of operation buck and puts molly in a face accompli abandoning those mid flight to a certain extent. and it forces us to explore alternative means to better ensure a security autonomy asleep with other partners. so as to fill the gap, that will certainly results from the withdrawal of back and in the north of the country, mounted up a decree that lake a fire under the french armed forces minister us. 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. if, if the 2nd french soldier gave his life fighting terrorism in this 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 for is it real concern about the future? earlier this year, president mark on the end, authoration ball came french troops have been engaged on the ground since 2013 in afraid to fight your heart as groups. but now, according to my call, that will be prof. i will be changed with the closure of french army bases, the withdrawal of more than 2000 soldiers that lead to fears molly could see a search into the hardest activity. whole situation in this, the herald is right now, not being addressed because you can't address, it's simply from a security standpoint. or last 1012 years molly has gone through one

destabilization after another is not going to be resolved by military deployment by the french or anyone else to say how is suffering massive economic under development deserts open space. and in the open space is that the terrorists and others live and deploy for my work and how it's going to fight against such threats. it's turning the idea of using private companies in a big to sure security. however, the fact that these companies or russian seems to have really looked at chrome, but also you the certainly could seriously affect you to be a new inflation with molly. so why all the you in front so concerned about additional security measures. a molly,

is this just the case of fearing that they are losing control on you? but if you could just not a huge good way molly has approached russian private military companies. well, nothing to do with 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. remaining this to the one number one superpower in the world. and they're attacking russia in china. so they're the ones that are actually preventing 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 and more terrain to china because they also real. ringback it is ration volcano was supposed to have reduced the hardest right across the sol. how 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 frog is acutely aware of this, hence to some degree. that's why it's stepping back, but in doing so, it seems incapable of allowing others to fill the void instead it thrashing out and possibly permanently damaging. its african toys show that you've been ski party paris, in a power bid to stand a part in the error of fake news cnn present as a started referring to that journalist, reality based media. the only problem, of course being that's in relation to the truth is sometimes complicated me and you say there are some cowards out there that i 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 intelligent officials in europe with confirm to see an end that russian officers put boundaries on american and british troops serving in afghanistan. and i can confirm with you right now that there is no consensus within the intelligence community. on these allegations the, 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. mm. there's no intelligence that supports that, that 100 by the laptop is part of some russian disinformation campaign. it's simply not true.

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