the moon the whole mike is on pulling any punches as a grill, the american military top brush for 2nd day was something called aggressive cold, washington, humiliating exit from us. it was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of american leaders. russia threatened to block youtube in the country after the video sharing platform permanently deleted on his german language channels. as a us company would've acted without approval from berlin cents extra to the cost of an arm standoff with serbia river road access school. here from a german aah!

very good evening to thanks for joining me here on out. first is our american withdrawal from afghanistan comes into the spotlight with the u. s. sex 2 defense along with a number of other top ranking military officials answering questions from though mike is in congress. the topic, something the body to ministrations received a lot of flack over in recent weeks. here are some of the barbs that lawmakers have aimed at biden, and his top military commands 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 lie 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. 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, 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 u. s. a 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 in afghanistan according to the latest intelligence assessment, it could be as little as 12 months before. okay, to will use afghans standards based in the 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 cry 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 described 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 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 . 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 us service members and led to the death of dozens of afghan civilians. mm. the the extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of united states,

military and our diplomat 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 to pull out. now the military voices reassured us that that is not the case, but many have their concern. many wonder if the biden administration will face more consequences for the events that took place and afghanistan than simply some harsh interrogation on capitol hill. okay, can speak now to independent journalist and also nicholas davis. pleasure to have you on nicholas. if we look back to when american 1st moved into afghanistan, that was to defeat our kite to remove that threat of terrorism, where we are now,

there's talk of all kinds of regaining prominence and certainly you have isis k. you've shown the displeasure for us troops killing several of them in a recent attack. so is the us any safe enough from terrorist threats and it was when it began of all of this military campaign? no, it is not. and the reason for that is because because the us military response to the crime on september, the 11th, if, if us official, had dealt with these crimes as what they were and found out who was responsible and brought them to justice. you know, they would have been, you know, at this point something that just something that happened 20 years ago that was dealt with. instead, they used september the 11th as a pretext for 20 years of war in country after country after country

around the world. most of whom had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with september. the 11th millions of people have died and 99.999 percent. it has nothing whatsoever to do with $1011.00. within a few years. within about 4 years of september, the 11th the secretary of state, at the time con, to lisa right discontinued the state department's annual report on global terrorism. because it clearly showed that what the so called war on terra was doing with healing tech terrorism. and the gist of armed resistance in country after country where ever, you know, the us used to it's misbegotten military force.

and i'm so yes, the united states has, has actually increased the risk of terrorism. now, for, for officials on capitol hill to attribute that so way to the somewhat chaotic withdraw from afghanistan is completely absurd because for the last 15 years, the least actually the last 20 years. you know, they have never complained the u. s. aggression in country after country that has fewer terrorism. general the crystal who led us forces in afghanistan for several years, talked about insurgent math. and he used the benchmark that every innocent person, the united states killed and it's war on that would produce 10 new in

search. and you know, he, he, he certainly was a position to, to make that judgement. and he was probably pretty well correct. george bush took the men, but subsequent president obama didn't do anything to get them out from, talks about it, but he didn't do it. does that mean that joe biden as much as clearly his administration made a real pigs ear of taking the us out? does he deserve credit for being the one who actually put an end to that? yes, he does. and i mean the, i mean the chaos of the withdrawal. you know, ryan grid wrote an excellent article for the intercept in washington. and he said,

you know, how, how can most was end with a peaceful transfer power, an orderly trans they, they the, the side that has lost the war. in this case, the united states actually admit to feed and surrender and comes to the table to meet the fixtures, in this case, the tower, and they work out how you piece really and you have transfer power. you know, that that didn't happen in the united states. never admit that they have lost award . you know, we saw this and yet now with the helicopters from the, from the embassy roof. you know, so i mean to push all that joe biden's door. you know, i don't think, i don't think anyone in the ca or american intelligence expected the

public government in capital to collapse so quickly. but, you know, i mean, there has been reports after report reports, you know, for at least the last 5 or 10 years about the fact that this government was absolutely corrupt. and, and, you know, i mean why, why would any ask and what fight for that government? many of them did and many of them lost their lives. but i mean, as dogs 202010, anthony cor discipline is a big thing. kinda guy and washington who was a former pentagon official in the, in the reagan administration, he wrote to report entitled how america corrupted afghanistan. now most of those people sitting on capitol hill when they hear about the corruption. in fact,

they probably think that, you know, that's, that's the, probably the way ask, understand, always one. that is not the case. it is america that corrupt to install these absolutely hopeless, corrupt warlords to try and run the country for 20 years. you know, many americans think, oh, you know, this is terrible. all but you know, we, we, we, we, we were educating africa and go while after 20 years. only a 3rd of afghan girls were attending the elementary school. i mean, this is, you know, that the u. s. wasted trillions of dollars, but not on helping the people that can stand. they wasted over 2 trillion dollars on this war to drop $80000.00 plus bombs on the people to had to reduce the abject poverty. you

know, the will, polls conducted asking afghans about the condition between 282018 the number of africa and she said they could get by on their current salary. deteriorated from 40 percent to 10 percent of this. this was, you know, this was but here, benjamin us code think, and i read an article and we said this should spell the end of america as empire of war, corruption and poverty. because that is all that america brought to the people of nicholas. really appreciate it's on nicholas davis, and i guess independent journalist and author welk, russia slammed youtube for deleting ortiz, german language channels,

over alleged community guideline violations. the foreign ministry believes that these couldn't have happened without approval from the german government. russia's media regulators now spreading to block the us video sharing service. the actions of the video platform youtube against those channels violate the key principles of free distribution of information and unhindered access to it. if the owners of youtube disregard the warning from russ kinetzer russian law allows for the full or partial blocking of 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. the german government has rejected moscow's allegations and

a number of journals press berlin spokesman on the matter on steve, on this, we get along with the german government and its representatives have nothing to do with the decision. anyone who thinks otherwise is in the grid for conspiracy theory miss designed, but i'm a bit confused. i've been a moscow correspondent for 16 years and have carefully been following the developments when it's russia that takes action against german media outlets, including most recently, it's actually always private companies or private businesses that are taking the action of the german government has always condemned it all the same, however, according to a statement that would have been a conspiracy theory about why in russia, these are not private companies or private network operators, but in germany it's difference, mr. rochester, 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 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? yeah, 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 our 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, but technically, those were private decisions by network operators. for example. good. listen. let's talk specifically about this case. we're talking about action not youtube took against archie. and as far as i understand the 2nd channel in accordance with youtube own policies, we are aware of what's up. and of course, the channel control to get the decision reversed. but the bond wasn't imposed by the german government. and since that's exactly what is being said, i must clearly reject it. of course, if robin has ever 2 quick questions mister site,

but how did you find out about the band? 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 code 19 on life. however, the freedom of the press which he defend doesn't why we're all these channels deleted, but not 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. i spoke with our correspondent, constantino or scarf about the permanent bannon possible knock on effects. you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the german speaking audience has been growing, especially in the recent years. and just to give you some numbers, rti doors had a total of almost 547000000 views. and over 600000 subscribers and not a small youtube channel that placed it among the top german news channels on that

platform. you know, in june alone rti george gather over 21000000 views on that platform, which is almost as much as what spiegel tv received. nashville is one of the most credible and major news outlets in germany and which has been around for decades. so r t, george has managed to put up a fight against major german news outlet. 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, it's 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. i'll t deutsch was issued a warning for uploading content that violates our rules in relation to coven 19 medical misinformation policy. this results 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 archie 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 contents,

not that which had been flagged by youtube, of course, but nonetheless, both pages were completely deleted by youtube without any warning. 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 in 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 anti denying any wrong doing it challenging this man. while they are saying that they receive an unfair treatment and will actually 1st comment on that story in russia with our own editor in chief, the gym for several months before channels were advanced,

the german media had been publishing scare 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 well were bigger than germany's own giants. like, don't you? well, 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 far fetched pretext. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. is how russia respond. we're looking forward to it. just foreign ministry spokeswoman money of the heart of also we didn't by saying that would just happen was an active aggression and that there's going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media work in, in russia. now the message should didn't clarify what exactly that means,

but i guess her through my colleagues working here to be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we spoke to petabytes to foreign policy speaker for the alternate for germany party, he sees the youtube banners being overtly political. many channels are close on the because they are very critical about the german government. so of course there is no proved. 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 medical misinformation, 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 feud between serbia and cost of overrode accesses, so no son of abating nato troops in kosovo now bolstered the presence on the border . you commission president schools 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 attention and to return to the dialog. the nice on a desk, elation filmmaker journalist for a smaller goes, he sent this report from the board while the pen stand off between belgrade and pristina and call. so 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 plate ban. a ban on serbian license plates imposed by the pristina 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 the tyranny, harassment, and depression. we don't want to face the same fate to subs from central cost, 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 many administered by the united nations as since 9099 after nato bomb serbia to take control of its southern province. of course, civil that has 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 constable an independent country. now, serbia has sent its military forces to the administrative crossings, of course, of all. and what makes this standoff 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 tensions. however, whether belgrade it's actually ready to use military force to protect the serbs in constable remains a question. this i heard from political monolithic le markovich, he thinks that costs 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 see the again, that in this situation for the 1st time? certainly as our afraid,

the 2nd muscle show that red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of this situation. if nato had not bomb illegally in $1099.00, we would not have the 10 situation. we do have in kosovo, med, tapia, and surgeon. 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 co civil antonia. but definitely western organizations have shown that they have failed, totally failed in the balcony. and should the nation state over and probably maybe let the surgeons and obedience and countries from that region. the contrition between themselves 1st for us, 2nd state and c, i a chief my palm page has refused to confirm or deny report. washington had plotted to assassinate still in the songs back in 2017. bumpo did make it clear

that whatever the trump team had hatched, he's 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 the administration were working diligently to make sure we were able to protect this important sensitive information from whether it was cyber in russia or the chinese military. or anyone who was trying to take this information away from us. the yahoo news article on the planned to abduct and potentially kill julian songs made global headlines this week after it was corroborated by several former officials. but the story isn't even new. it was 1st revealed last year i journalist, mac blumenthal, an investigation for his website, the grades, and he spoke to me. 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 u suite c 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 he, 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 that truth morality and decency, they mean nothing. when it comes to your own personal political interests, where you see what julian assigns was up against, he was up against the most powerful intelligence agencies. and when he said, even to his own lawyers were being spied on, everyone around us is working for the cia at the time. they didn't even believe him

. and you had figures like james ball, former wiki weeks associate. now at the bureau. busy of investigative journalism st julian assign has nothing to fear by leaving the embassy, he should just come out. and now we see julian assange was right all along at the, the see i was planning to kill him. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian, his size, has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the cia which was spying on those meetings. and the key witness in the us indictment seeking the hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case. and yet julian sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted. the porters at our borders as joined the international outcry over the ledge plot against the songs the press. freedom organization said that.