the moon ah, us lawmakers aren't pulling their punches as they grilled the american military top for a 2nd day over what some in congress called washington humiliating exit from afghanistan . it was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history is one of the greatest failures of american leadership. russia threatened to block you tube in the country after the video sharing platform, permanently delete r t, that german language channels. moscow says us company wouldn't have acted without approval from berlin. nato sends extra troops to kosovo admit and armed and stand off with serbia overwrote access. we will hear from a journalist at the scene. i

run camping. wanted to read from studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. or, you know, americans withdrawn from afghanistan comes into the spotlight as the u. s. secretary of defense, along with a number of other top ranking military officials answered questions from lawmakers in congress. the topic is something biden administration has received a lot of flack over in recent weeks. here's just some of the barbs lawmakers aimed at biden and his top military commanders. during the latest hearings, 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 law that this, that this was ever going to be successful that we could ever rely on the african 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 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 as 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 i cater will use afghans standards based in as a base to conduct air strikes or strikes against the united states. and that's an acceptable, frankly, after this debacle withdrawal, i don't think anyone contrast anything this president 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 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 a 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 u. s. service members and led to the death of dozens of afghan civilians. mm. in the

extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and sulphur scourge 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 of the biden and restoration will face more consequences for the events that took place and afghanistan other than simply some harsh interrogation. on capitol hill, independent journalist and author, nicholas davies told us the current after the crisis could have been averted. had the us reacted differently in the wake of september 11th for officials on capitol

hill to attribute that so way to the someone chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan is completely absurd. if us official had dealt with the crime on september. the 11th, that's 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, at the pretext, for 20 years of war, what the so called war on terra was doing was healing terrorism and the just armed resistance in country after country the united states has, has actually increased the risk of terrorism.

russia has slammed youtube for deleting r t z german language channels over alleged community guidelines, violations the foreign ministry, believes the move couldn't have happened 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 tacit 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 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 from the german

government has rejected moscow's allegations. a number of journalists pressed berlin's spokesmen on the matter on stephen, this was the one with the german government and its representatives, and i've nothing to do with the decision. anyone who thinks otherwise is in the grid for conspiracy theory miss desired. but i'm a bit confused. i've been a moscow correspondent for 16 years and have carefully been following the development 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 a 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. 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 consider 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 our media and n g o. we criticized out because those measures were taken by the government. if 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, could be listen this. 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 the own policies, we are aware of what's happened. of course, the channel can try to get the decision reversed, but the by wasn't imposed by the german government. and since that's exactly what is being said, i must clearly reject it. that's,

of course the problem has ever too quick question, mr. side. but how did you find out about the band? was it from the media? what did you find out little earlier? my 2nd question is, you tell us that everyone should be judge equally today? there are plenty of conspiracy theories about coven 19 on life. however, the freedom of the press which he defend doesn't why we're all these channels to leave, but not the distributors of fake news. typewriter, for years, 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. on tuesday, youtube deleted 2 of our german language channels. ortiz and popularity among it's german speaking audience has been growing rapidly. in recent years, or deutsch had racked up almost 547000000 views, and over 600000 subscribers. the channel competed with germany's major

news outlets on social media, which led to some german politicians, calling for curbs on r t in the country. this time, the explanation for the band given by youtube is vague, citing alleged to community guideline violations. google, which owns youtube, responded with more details. youtube has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. r t. doyce 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 terms of service. following the suspension of the main page are t deutscher continued sharing content, which had not been flagged by youtube on a different account. youtube does not clearly state that this violated terms of conditions or editor in chief, margaret simonian was the 1st to comment on the story in russia. jim leach,

for several months before channels were banned, the german media had been publishing scare stories about rti, german becoming too influential too significant, according to their own calculations wearing forth in terms of influence, which in germany were bigger than well were bigger than germany's own. giant, 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 be 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 us on the pressured luxembourg, so we couldn't get a license there. and when all that didn't work, they deleted us from using farfetched pretext. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists and this countries, the question is how russia respond. we're looking forward to it. we spoke to peter, boston of foreign policy speaker for the alternative for germany party. he sees the you to ban as 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 rich earning money? if they was really closing channels that are spreading miss information about medic, to miss information, there must close the government channel and the public television 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.

if not the 1st time you tube has targeted our team in april this year, the google owned platform took down several of the channels videos relating to covered 19 that included an interview with a renowned virology test and footage of anti lockdown protest. youtube accused rti of spreading medical misinformation without giving specific willie vilma from germany's c d. u party. things people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their information. doesn't know. clearly the situation does not put european freedom in positive light. we have to acknowledge that the entire media space has been subject to censorship and manipulation, which reminds me of the worst times in germany. it's in our interest for us 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. and coming up after the break following the revelation

that the cia had drawn a plan to kidnap and maybe even assassinate julian of the current, which really said that she would fear for responses life if you were expedited to america for much more coming up shortly. this is our t international. oh, i use join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. as angela merkel makes her exit from german politics, voters have made it clear they were 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 inheritance live in a try now, where we receive so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely related to reality. so think about how i social media filters and they basically present themselves in very unrealistic way. and so we come at a farm out there and be involved more than that, it's about the sort of envious or 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. this is art international. now a feud between serbia and kosovo over road access shows no sign of abating nato troops in kosovo have now bolstered their presence on the serbian border. and the

commission president has called on both sides to show restraint. the current res intentions between possible in serbia is very concerning, is worrying. it is essential to lower attention and to return to the dialogue. so far though, there is no sign of de escalation. filmmaker and journalist boris alegretky sent us this report from the border while the pen stand off between belgrade and prestige 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 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,

emotions are repeated. new people can no longer tolerate the tyranny, harassment and oppression. 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. 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 is 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 constable 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 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 pristina has called them belgrade to ease up on the tensions. however, whether belgrade is actually ready to use military force to protect the serbs in constable remains a question we heard from political analyst, nicola medical, which he thinks kosovo has been emboldened by foreign support. just one new crisis. as we've seen many every, every in these past years and this is not a thing actually renewed when deeper. what is new is that we see the again, that in this situation for the 1st time, serbia is not afraid to muscle and show that a red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of this situation. if nato had bomb illegally yugoslavia in 1099, we would not have these 10 situation. we do have in coastal metal gear and surgeon . so i think the fact that nato has 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 fail totally failed in the balcony. and they should a nation state over and probably maybe let prisons in albany and countries from that region settled the situation between themselves for his former us secretary of state and ca, chief mike upon peo has refused to confirm or deny a report that washington plotted to assassinate julian, sancha in 2017, from peo did it make it clear though that whatever the trumpet team hatched, he is not sorry. i couldn't tell you who they have is their sources, but the sources didn't know what we were doing. i make no apologies for the fact that we and administration were working diligently to make sure we were able to protect this important sensitive information from whether it was cited in russia or

the chinese military. or anyone who was trying to take this information away from us, the yahoo news article on the plan to abductor and potentially kill julian assange made a global headlines this week after it was corroborated by several former officials . but the story isn't new. it was 1st revealed last year by journalist max blumenthal in an investigation for his website, the gray zone he spoke to the program earlier. what i reported relied on not just the testimony of intelligence officers who often lie, but on internal documents from the spanish contractor that the cia appears to have been relying on to spy on julian assange and his associates inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. that's 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, and torment, and rob his associates. it just pulls back the curtain, doesn't it? on, on this? what has to be a lie that things like the rule of law, that the truth, morality and decency, they mean nothing. when it comes to your own personal political interests, where you see what julian assigned was up against, he was up against the most powerful intelligence agencies. and when he said, even to his own lawyers were being spied on, everyone around us is working for the cia at the time. they didn't even believe him . and you had figures like james ball, former wiki weeks associate. now at the bureau. busy of investigative journalism st julian assange has nothing to fear, by leaving the embassy, he should just come out. and now we see julian assange was right all along at this

the cia was planning to kill him. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian, his size, has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the ca, which was spying on those meetings. and the key witness in the u. s. indictment seeking, the hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case. and yet julian sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted report is without borders, has joined the international outcry of the alleged plot against assange. the press freedom organization said to the reports, show the wiki league. founder's life is still in danger and that he should be released from prison for his own safety. meanwhile, current awakened leaks editor in chief christian preference and discussed the case in the latest going underground. you can watch the full episode throughout the day . here are 2 international media. so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state. so kids,

nothing and then possibly killing. we had to wind up some of this before through the proceedings in that spain criminal proceedings against members of the security company. you see global who are supposed to be overseeing julian science. it's curity in the u. s. embassy, and the embassy. but actually, we're bribe try to ca, to spying on. julian, provide it in light feeds from the cameras inside the embassy and through the devices that they implanted on top of that, of course, they were stealing legally payable its material. if julian is expedited to to the states, it will be in the hands of the senior fate on the was ground. would be in the hands of those who were planning to live. when these discussions were going on, there was no guide meant out against them. he hadn't been charged with entity. so if there was any doubt about the political nature of the indictment and the

creation of the entire case, it is now confirmed to be so it is a political persecution and nothing else in the parent bed to stand apart in the era of fake news. cnn presenters have started referring to their channel as reality based media. the only problem being, of course, that cnn's own relationship with the truth is at best 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 will confirm to see an end that russian officers put bounties on american and british troops serving in afghanistan . and i can confirm it 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. ah, there is no intelligence that supports that $100.00 bytes. laptop is part of some russian disinformation campaign. it's simply not true. i in that as a for me, i'll be back in about 32 minutes and 15 seconds with another full fresh look at your news. this is our to international. stay with us.

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x from here. so he's looking for up to point $55.00 and about a coin. the top generals are drilled by members of both parties regarding the car to gas canister. next, we will bring you all of the fire as well as it the testimony will result in accountability either in the bio ministration or over the pentagon. also in the hill, congress has a difficult job of voting on a $3.00 trillion dollar budget, with the military budget being the largest portion of federal spending. but instead of spending every moment possible finding ways to tighten a belt, congress has decided to go play baseball. literally, we will give you the 360 view on the u. s. budget crisis, which will result in a 1000 the federal workers will be far load if an agreement is not reached by thursday. and debate as to if the judicial branch is the most dominant branch in

the us, government continues. as a recent cases have redefined the laws, passed by legislatures and executive orders. however, what is the law was not the basis for those rulings. rather, the judges undisclosed financial interest. we're going to bring you the shocking story involving over $100.00 judges who broke the same laws. it was sworn to uphold . and around the world online platforms are finding themselves conflicting with the government and australia where freedom is under fire. australians are being denied access to comment on a very popular media page. after a court ruling, we will see we will bring you why this can be setting a precedent for other countries to follow up on. so i know you the stories are more on today's news views right here on our to america. let's get started. ah.