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you watching on scene to national thanks for joining america. withdrawal from afghanistan is coming to the spotlights as c, u. s. secretary defense, along with a number of other top ranking military officials, have been answering questions from lawmakers in congress. the topic is something the by the ministration has received a lot of flack over in recent weeks here. some of the barbs lawmakers aimed at biden and his top military commanders. 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 app. can stand 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 and

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. 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, the congressional committee on arms 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 feared 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 counter terrorism operations. now that we have 0 presence in afghanistan according to the latest intelligence assessment, it could be as little as 12 months before our cater will use afghans as a base can do as a base to conduct air strikes or strikes against the united states. and that's unacceptable. frankly, after this debacle of withdrawal, i don't think anyone can trust anything this president 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. and 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 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 and their senior ranks . that we did not grass the 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 . since late august, the biden administration has been under fire because of the k arctic scenes 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 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 the the extraordinary success of this mission

for 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 about the possibility that the country is in danger from terrorist attacks. as a result of the chaos hole out, now the military voices reassured us that that is not the case, but many have their concern. many wonder of the bargaining restoration will place more consequences for the events that took place and afghan, a stan, other than simply some harsh interrogation on capitol hill, kelly spring, informal pentagon security analysts, michael maloof, welcome. as always, michael just asked some of the thoughts that the been out there during this grilling. would you agree with those who say that american face is a big it's higher than it,

than it did even prior to the invasion of canister back in 2001 because that's one of the thoughts is being put out the well, i think, i think that's a valid concern. afghanistan in effect now has become an entire terrorist state tele bond. even though they may think that they're trying to govern that place itself is split. and you have internal factions, which are linked to al qaeda and isis k, or course on. and there's there and already we're seeing isis attacking caliber on and, and there's also the possibility that we could join up with isis as, as more of its fighters come into the country to be a formidable horse against against telephone itself. so television is this phase. it's split, it has its modern faction, and it's has it's, it's more extreme faction with connie connection,

which is attached to, i'll cut more to and isis. so this is, this is still a very, very serious development. and there's no guarantee then that telephone can ensure that attacks will not be planned and launched from that. but from afghanistan it, by any of those militant groups, let alone tell about it. so i know there's always blame being apportioned. this is a really difficult one to apportion blame here, but i mean, where do you spread the responsibility for this scenario? because the us, when didn't to get rid of al qaeda decade later in the talking about the whole thing failed. but when you a portion, the blame is spread throughout the different presidents or anyone in particular. well i, it, you have for presidents who were involved the failures that secretary austin listed . and they didn't account for,

i think are valid as well. we didn't take into account the, particularly the cultural differences that exist in which we try to set up a standing army that's just totally alien to, to the afghan people, culturally and historically, they're, they're good fighters, but they're not, but they make poor soldiers and we try to apply westerns concepts into an eastern system that was totally alien to them. and that's just one of the aspect plus corruption was just totally ramping up. and what we also did was demoralize those very troops that we've been spending 20 years trying to train when we pulled all a contractors who's who service the equipment that they, that the security forces relied on. plus we halted all air power and their training was geared toward air power support on the ground. and we pulled that and, and,

and then on top of that was the combination of the government just giving up and that totally demoralized security forces. and they just basically handed over their weapons. i mean, maybe at the time that seemed like a good idea that the decisions they made hindsight, it's easy to look back and say those mistakes. well, one thing i think, i would say definitely a mistake the by the ministrations military top brass, claiming that that drone strikes of the way forward defend of the threat of terrorism. how personally would agree with that given what we've seen recently, what she will take on it. you know, the over the horizon issue is, is, is, is fatally flawed from the very get go to do that unique boots on the ground. you need intelligence on the ground, we don't have it. and you know, there's talk now that that came up in the discussions yesterday with general milly, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in talking for example,

to his russian counterpart that was important from the standpoint that the issue of cooperation with, between russians and us in counter terrorism was undoubtedly an issue in which us is seeking joy locations and in the central asian countries, just north of afghan stan to, to provide and acquire that intelligence. the problem with that is that there's legislation on the table now. well, there has been past, actually, it's in law that the us cannot undertake military to military cooperation. was russia because the ukraine, except in d. confliction, that is like over syria, talking to the commanders in the field, st. you are about ready to bomb something? can you clear your troops out of the wait type of

b confliction or could you interpret cooperation on the tell isn't sharing on this. as d confliction i could argue, yeah, you could give it a very liberal interpretation and do so. but the law is very explicit. no military to military cooperation, excuse me. and that also included on counterterrorism, according to the interpretation of that legislation. and that was passed in our, in our defense authorization bills in 201520020020172020 as amended. so it's, it's tight, you know, the screws with russia. russia has very serious concerns about that. about what's going on there as we do, and the fact that you have to ask. so the question that, well, what's afghanistan to america? well, if, if they're capable of launching attacks from there and planning those attack on,

on the u. s. homeland the u. s. homeland is less secure than it was and the, and that also would apply to other countries in the region, including the, all the peripheral countries around afghanistan, which would include russia, china, even pakistan, iran in india. so it's, this is quite a serious development and there's gotta be a way to deal with what, what we've seen here is that in the last 2 days of hearings, nobody took responsibility or accounted for accountability. there was no accountability by anyone. everyone was pointing and was to the state department to somebody else. and that's why you kept hearing repeatedly yesterday, especially during the senate hearings of senators, asking general milly and secretary austin to resign. why haven't you resigned yet? this is a, you know, you're, you're, you, are, you failed and they refuse to do so. so, but this is this,

this also showed a way where they made recommendations of keeping some troops and but the president, in a interview with on with a b, c. a recently basically said he was never given such advice. well, the, there's the pros and the president has never been held accountable. he has since that episode, he has never been, he has not killed any news conferences in which he has been asked that question. my co insurance in terms in terms of accountability. yeah, it's a total mess and it's, and it's going to go on and this is going to have a major impact on our $22022.00 elections when we have our mid term elections coming up for who's going to be the majority in this, in the house and the senate, so stay tuned. well, we will, i mean, sad to say that it does sound like a mess from top to bottom. really appreciate as always,

your insights in your common sense observations, montgomery, my guess for pentagon security. thank you. now doesn't use russia is slammed youtube for deleting onto java language channels over list community guideline 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 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 you to disregard the warning from ross kinetzer russian law allows for the full or partial blocking of excess 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 official, legitimate govern times rejected moscow's allegations. several journalists press berlin spokesmen on the matter on steve, when this will give them, the german government and its representatives have nothing to do with 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 60 years and have carefully been following development even though it's russia that it takes action against german media outlets about including most recently, it's actually always private company, private businesses that are taking the action of a 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 difference mr writers 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 out of it. actually russia says it's not the government taken action. it's a private network operator, yet the german government still considered 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 youtube justified to move with reference to his own platform. role in russia, measures are taken against bar and n g o. we criticized that because those measures are taken by the government. and i know in many cases those measures wherein opposed by private entities. i agree that the government has behind them. but technically those were private decisions by network operators. for example, we listen to 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 buy wasn't imposed by the german government. and since that's exactly what is being said, i must clearly reject sentiments. that's what the problem has ever to question but aside how did you find out about the patio? was it from the media? what did you find down little early? my 2nd question is, when you tell us that everyone should be a judge equally today, there are plenty of conspiracy theories about 119 on life. however, the freedom of the press which he defend doesn't know why we're all these channels to leave, but not with these extra bits of fake news. right? on the news about the bands in the media. my feelings about it doesn't matter who 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. i spoke with a correspondent, constantino rush cough about the permanent bond and the possible knock on effects. you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the germans speaking the audience has been growing,

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 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 done a noticed. 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 you tube, 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 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 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 voice by other medical experts not by journalist. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of rt george, that's debatable. so is he denying any wrong doing? is it challenging this man?

while they're saying that they received an unfair treatment? and actually, 1st to 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 significantly according to their own calculations wearing before us in terms of invalid but in germany were bigger than well were bigger than germany own giant 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 attract 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 bangs for working with them at the brochure. and 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 rush respond. we're looking forward to it. 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 working here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we saw to best buy student who's a foreign policy speaker for the alternative, the germany party in t c. c. h u pan 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,

mis and formations about american misinformation, they must close the government channel and the public television channel and germany that the 5 over globally structures against politicians and media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society feud between serbia and kosovo of a road access has shown no sign of abating nato troops in kosovo now bolstered the presence on the serbian border. the commission president called on both sides to show restraint the current res intentions between causal one serbia, is very concerning, is worrying. it is essential to lower the tension and to return to the dialogue with no sign of de escalation as yet filled my crew journalist for

a smaller gorski sent this report from the border. 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 on you can no longer tolerate or anything correct in and, and the pressure. and we don't want to face the same face from central cost with another plan. and believe me that i have not and will move on to take patients. and these are all cost cost. so 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 called 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 costs. and what makes this standoff different than the stand off in the past is, serbia, is a parent readiness to flex its military muscle. they have called unforeseen 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, endless nickel markovich, who thinks that cost of owes been emboldened by foreign support. just one new

crisis. as you see 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 red line has been cross nato is responsible of this situation if nato had not bomb 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 has 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 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

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