part of the route in the us lawmakers aren't pulling their punches as they grilled the american military top brass 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 youtube in the country after the video sharing platform permanently deletes our team. german language channels also says the u. s. company wouldn't have actually helped me approval from berlin and made sense extra troops to kosovo amid and stand off with serbia overwrote access. we'll hear from

a journalist at the scene. ah, i can't see my direct from a studio moscow. this is art international. and sean thomas certainly glad to have with us. now, america was withdrawn from are going to stand, comes into the spotlight as the u. s. secretary of defense, along with a number of other top ranking military officials answered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 the biden administration has received a lot of flack over in recent weeks. here's just some of the barbs lawmakers aimed at button 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 in their senior ranks . that we did not grass damaging effect a 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 what's

fight since late august, the biden administration has been under fire because of the k arctic scenes of the cobble international airport, which were widely observed there was a scramble to leave the country, some green hold. green card holders were turned away at checkpoints, there was a situation where several afghans died hanging off 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. ah, 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 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 in afghan stan, other than simply some harsh interrogation on capitol hill, independent journalist and author,

nicholas davies told us that the current aft and crisis could have been averted, had the u. s reached react differently in the wake of september 11th for official on capitol hill to attribute that solely to the somewhat chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan is completely absurd. if us officials had dealt with these crime on september the 11th as what they were and found out who was responsible and brought them to justice. you know, this 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 tara was doing, was feeling can terrorism and the resistance in

country after country the united states has, has actually increased the risk of terrorism. russia has slammed youtube for deleting ortiz, german language channels, over alleged community guidelines, violations the foreign ministry believes that the move couldn't have happened without approval from the german government and russia. the media regulator is now threatening 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 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 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. german government has rejected moscow's allegations. a number of journalist pressed berlin's spokesmen on the matter on steve, when this leaky, along with the german government and its representatives, have nothing to do with a decision. anyone who thinks otherwise is in the grip for conspiracy theory miss design. 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 of 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 considered it's 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 are taken against our media and n g o. we criticized that 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, for technically, those were private decisions by network operators. for example, would then listen to him. 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 happened. of course, the channel control 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. a course of robin has ever 2 quick questions, mr. side. but how did you find out about the band? was it from the media? what did you find out 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 19 on life. however, the freedom of the press which he defend doesn't know why we're all these channels to leave, but not as the distributors of fake news, right on the news. as 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 t is german language channels. our ts popularity among it's german speaking audience has been growing rapidly in recent years. are g. george had racked up

almost 547000000 viewers 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 been given by youtube is vague, citing alleged community guideline violations. google, which owns you to responded with more details, you chief has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. all 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 to georgia, continued sharing content,

which had not been flagged by youtube on a different account. you tube does not clearly state that this violates its terms and conditions. are she's editor in chief, margareta simonian was the 1st to comment on the story in russia. the gym for several months before a channels were banned. the german media had been publishing scare stories about rti, german becoming too influential too significant, according to their own calculations where ranked forth in terms of influence in germany were bigger than wealth were bigger than germany's own giant. like don't you well, let no one expected that of course we also didn't expect that to happen so quickly . i mean, that would attract so big and 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 farfetched pretext. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. the question is how russia respond?

we're looking forward to it. we spoke to peter by string foreign policy speaker for the alternative for germany party. he sees the youtube ban as 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 rich their earning money? if they was really closing channels that are spreading, mis and formations about medical information, they must close the government channel and the public kind of vision channel and germany. 5 of the global is structures against politicians and

media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society. well, if not the 1st time you tube has targeted rti in april this year, the google own platform took down several of the channels videos relating to covered 1900, that included an interview with a renown virology test and footage of anti lockdown. protests. youtube accused r t of spreading medical misinformation without giving specific really vilma from the germany's c d. u party. things people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their information. does this in, over the 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 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. the feud between serbia and kosovo overwrote access shows no sign of abating nato troops in kosovo have now bolstered their presence on the serbian border. the commission president has 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 attention and to return to the dialogue. so far there is no sign of de escalation, filmmaker and journalist boris. allah! gorski 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 prestige 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 faith subs from central cos, who are expelled and ethnically cleanse, believe me, that the subs and had enough and will no longer take this occupation. and these attacks, of course, 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 stand off different than the stand off in the past? is serbia as a parent readiness to flex its military muscle? they have called on pers tina to remove the license plate band while christina has called them belgrade to ease up on the tensions. however, whether belgrade it's actually ready to use military force to protect the serbs in constable remains. a question heard from political analyst and nicholas markovich, he thinks kosovo has been in bolden by foreign support. just one new crisis as you've seen many every, every day in the past years. and this is not something actually renewed when deeper . what is new is that and we see again that in this situation for the 1st time, serbia got afraid it's muscle. show that

a red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of this situation. if nato had not bomb illegally yugoslavia in 1989, we would not have this 10 situation. we do have in coastal med tapia and surgery. 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, on the administrative border between central serbia and co, civil and the 2 year. but definitely, western organizations have shown that they have failed, totally failed in the balcony. and they should that the nation staple were and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region. sort of the situation between themselves, 1st anger over fuel shortages in the u. k. of continuing with violence flooring up at petrol stations. on tuesday, a man in london was seen confronting a driver while holding what appeared to be a knife. and the incident played out at

a pact for court, legibly. the flare up happened because the driver tried to jump the q. no one was injured and those involved had left by the time police arrived. so why is this happening? archie is probably boy attempted to find out while on the hunt for a full tank. i think this is, this is pachel crisis time and the day has come the finally need some petrol in my car. so i am going to go and try and find some. now i'm on a bit less than a quarter of a tank. definitely less than culture. thank close to dangerously low on patch. the 1st thing we're doing, by the way, as a little aside, is picking up from jerry can or from my friend who is pregnant and has run out of petro. this is the find the stuff that is gonna get you beat enough that

a petrol station going to be like red rags to full social media has really fed this christ that there is apex nation ahead of me. me petro station number one. look at, i already know fuel you haven't been able to watch for delivering uber clued? yeah. you're delivering and you've been unable to work from the day because there's been no petra one or a neighbor drive. so i got that. so this is federal station number and it looks like there is absolutely nothing. this is pretty di, and i believe we talked about you guys, if you have your own supplies somewhere,

you know of any places where there might be petro, that was a policeman who just called me at the bp petrol station. it's about 10 minutes drive from here. how did delivery this morning, but apparently it was mental that and where we're going to go now in order to give it a guy. oh my god, like it's rammed me because they've got patch must be there. so this is patch station number 3, and look at the kid i missed 2 days of what ready? monday or tuesday. i'm just kind of what tomorrow, but i noticed people here that's been enough that your talk to terry kendall to it's actually crazy. the amount of people that had to get under the ministry of fuel. i don't think that that there will. no, this is basically blocking off traffic access to the schedule station is blocking off traffic. people actually getting around the round about you did not get to you . and in britain i tell you, this is why i'm just

going to be pulled up. i'm wondering if i'm only my problem with just one way know children. why don't please? yeah. the police, i was like, oh it meant the good luck it looks like we may actually be able to get patch or if it doesn't run out right in front of our noses. yeah. can you tell me what's it been like for the past school day? we don't really go to my room. i spoke with you said oh no problem. so i don't know, full garage is nothing. mama is going to panic by number 3. thank you very much. i also have jerry, which might get me be to not shaving going on. i'm going to get a thing for the jerry. yeah. finally happening. i can only fill up

towns about the petrol because that's the thing possible thing to do. i'm making a real mess. you've never done this before. i haven't done this. didn't tune up for them to tell you what is most companies around when you really want to cover just to fill out the the key, the q 5. sorry, that was exciting. i got into the flat because i feel like i thought i'd be filling up the cherry can if somebody stockpiling petro whereas i was just getting it for a friend. now, about probably an hour and a half ago we started,

i mean, 3 sense of relief. and a little bit of emptiness as well. france has angrily denied that it's abandoning molly, despite the partial true pull out from the western african nation parish, has been engaged in anti terror campaign there for 8 years. but now marco is looking for support elsewhere and has turned to russian contractors. here's our charlotte kapinsky. it's a situation that going from bad to well disastrous for a moly. alright, loggerheads, operation ball cain and security in the form a colony marley's prime minister has been cleared. the peroration has failed, but the un he went even further. he does need to laugh and button the situation arising from the end of operation buck and puts molly in a accompli abandoning those mid flight to

a certain extent. and it forces us to explore alternatives and means to better ensure a security autonomy safely or 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 in montana, particularly that lake fire under the french armed forces minister. yes, 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 at 52nd. the french soldier gave his life fighting terrorism in the hell. paulie 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. is real concerned about the future. earlier

this year, president my call, and now the end, opperation ball came french troops have been engaged on the ground since 2013 in a be to fight your heart is group. 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 hardest activity. whole situation in this, the herald is right now, not being addressed because you can't address it simply from a security standpoint. last 1012 years molly is gone to 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 terrorist and others live and deploy for my 1st work out how it's going to fight against such threats. it's turning the idea of using private companies in a big to sure up security. however, the fact that these companies are russian seems to have really not just problems, but also you. this certainly could seriously affect you to be in union relations 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 and you know, but if you could, could chestnut a huge way molly has approached russian private military companies. we have nothing to do with that. this is an activity that has been carried out legitimately. the

west is killing itself and is now has less and less leverage in africa. they're making africa part of the geo political doctrine, remaining to one number one superpower in the world. and they're attacking russia in china. so they're the ones that are actually veney 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 touring to china because they also. ringback it is ration ball cane was supposed to have produced. the chart is right across the sol how region which includes moly, inside the us state department report as 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 of thrashing out and possibly permanently damaging its african toys show even sky, or t paris. or that doesn't re this, i'll be back in about 30 minutes with another full and fresh look at your news. this is our international stay with us the ah, the ah ah.