battles on the streets of london to get not julian assange credible. ah, ah, ah, us lawmakers aren't pulling their punches as they grilled the american military's top brass for a 2nd day over what some in congress called washington humiliating exit from afghanistan. it was extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history is one of the greatest failures of american leadership. russia threatens to block you tube in the country after the video sharing platform permanently deletes ortiz, german language channels. moscow says the u. s. company wouldn't have acted without approval from berlin. and nato's extra troops to kosovo amid an armed stand off with serbia overwrote access. you'll hear from a journalist at the scene ah,

broadcasting direct from a studio in moscow. this is art international. i'm sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now, america's withdrawal from african, the 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 the 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 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 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 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 the 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 withdrawal, i don't think anyone can trust anything this present 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 truce that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in 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 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 fight? since late august, the biden administration has been under fire because of the chaos 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 call mon aiding on the terrorist attack. the bombing that killed 13 us service members and led to the death of dozens of afghan civilians. mm. the

extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, gravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomat and intelligence professionals. it was designed to save american roof rack, ganeth dad 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 administration will face more consequences for the events that took place in afghan, a stan, other than simply some harsh interrogation. on capitol hill, independent journalist and author, nicholas davies told us that the current afghan crisis should have been averted. had the us reacted 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 official had dealt with the crime on september the 11th 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, at the pretext, for 20 years of war. what the so called war on terror was steering with healing 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 at german language channels for a legit community guideline violations. the foreign ministry believes the move couldn't have happened without approval from the german government. and the russian media regulator is now threatening to block in 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 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. the german government has rejected moscow's allegations. a number of journalists pressed berlin's spokesmen on the matter on steeple, and this will give them the german government and its representatives have nothing to do with 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 the german government has always condemned it all the same, however, according to a statement that would have been a conspiracy theory, but 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 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 by 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 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 bar wasn't imposed by the german government. and since that's exactly what

is being said, i must clearly reject it. yes, of course, a problem has ever 2 quick questions, mr. side. but how did you find out about the battle? 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 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. february 20 years. as a learned about the bands in the media, my feelings about it does 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 it. 2 of our t is german language channels. r t is that popularity among it's german speaking audience has been growing rapidly in recent years. are 2 torch had racked up almost 547000000 views over 60600000 subscribers. the channel

completed with germany is major news outlets on social media which led to some german politicians, calling for the curbs on r t in the country. this time, the explanation for the band given by youtube is vague, citing alleged community guidelines, violations. google, which owns youtube. responded with more details. youtube has clear community guidelines which explained what is allowed on the platform. r t. doyle was issued a warning for uploading content that violates our rules in relation to covert 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. well, following the suspension of the main page art deutsch continued sharing content, which had not been flagged by youtube on

a different account. youtube does not clearly state that this violates its terms and conditions. are ti editor in chief, margarita simonian, was the 1st to comment on the story in russia. the gym 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 in germany were bigger than well 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 we 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 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 strand foreign policy speaker for the alternative for germany party. he sees the youtube 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 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 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 go about it. try to pushed into the society. it's not the 1st time you tube has targeted r t in april this year, the google own platform took down several of the channels videos relating to covered 19 that included an interview with a renowned vi religous and footage of anti lockdown protests. youtube accused r t. a spreading medical misinformation without giving specifics. willie vilma from germany, cd you party, things people should be able to decide for themselves where they get their information doesn't open. clearly the situation does not put european freedom when it 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. former us secretary of state and c. i a, a chief mike. pomp pale has refused to confirm or deny report that washington plotted to assassinate julian. assumption 2017 pay. oh, did 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 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 or the yahoo news article on the plan to abductor and potentially kill julian songs made 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. you spoke to our team, neil harvey 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 ca 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 use we see 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 the 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 of investigative journalism st. julian science 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. reporters without borders, has joined the international outcry over the alleged plot against assange, the press freedom organization said the reports. sure. the wiki leaks founders life is still in danger, and that he should be released from the u. k. prison for his own safety. meanwhile, current awake helix editor in chief christian reference, and discussed the case in the latest going underground, which you can see the full episode throughout the day here on our international menu. so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state kits. nothing. and then possibly killing. we had to wind up some of this before through the proceedings in that spain criminal proceedings against the members of the security company. you see global who are supposed to be overseen

julian associates maturity 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 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 engagement against julia, hadn't been charged with anything. so if there was any doubt about the political nature of the indictment and the creation of the entire case, it is now on for him to be so it is a political persecution and nothing else. reminder, our team has always plenty more content waiting for you on our social channels. on

our instagram, for example, you can find our men in london, bocce davy. in his latest video post explores whether artificial intelligence could lead it to the end of humanity. as we know, the all got a 100 year study, artificial intelligence determined that machines did not pose a threat to human college, but they've updated it to send out the warning light. several of us clued in the in default. sure. it has so much in areas like speech recognition, language, decision making, among others that we should start getting a little bit worried across the field of artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress in the past 5 years and is having real world impact on people, institutions, and culture. on the left of, of the $15.00 more pock kabbage and they can predict disease in the human body or

even happen problems. i think for themselves we will start to trust them even by most, by the front of a close. and i really like the big study says i always dr. busy nick, information, even discrimination against people who actually lead to some of them coming to home . what you're going to do a phone and tell me you can really get food by this. i even mosque. yes. was never to vote. i always wanted to be contained. i always forget that much for the most tenfold in the mix, bought weapons after that, when you do a 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

and serbia is very concerning, is worrying. it is essential to lower the attention and to return to the dialogue. and so far though, there has been no sign of de escalation. filmmaker and journalist force molig gorski sent us this report from the border while the pen standoff between belgrade and 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 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 brussel 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 therapy to new people can no longer tolerate

determining harassment and depression. we don't want to face the same fate to subs from central cost of all who were 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 ban while christina 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, nicholas markovich, he thinks kosovo has been emboldened by foreign support. this is 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, certainly as are afraid to flex its muscle and show that a red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of this situation if nato had not bomb illegally yugoslavia in $1089.00, we would not have these 10 situation we do have in coastal middle and surgery. so i think the fact that nato has not been capable of managing the situation which it created itself. it is definitely not a good idea to have nato forces, again, on,

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 they should the nation state and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region. the situation between themselves, 1st thing is swing around the globe. now look at some other stories in greece, police, you tear gas to break up violent clashes between rival student groups at a high school in the test alone and in the north of the country. on wednesday, you backed by extreme right wing political group, golden dawn through petrol bombs and rocks at protest and organized by left wing students against university reform. 6 people were arrested, around 60 detained police in the capital on a water cannon to disperse crowds of people. protesting against the introduction of

coven passes, round one, a 10000 excuse me. people are believed to have taken part in the event. they are attempting to block a highway to the north of the capitol when police intervene is the 2nd such protest in a month in the civilian government. recently introduced a compulsory vaccination for government workers. meanwhile, the german capital berlin, dozens of health care workers. it took part in a walk for care march. the protesters could be seen dancing, carrying banners, and pushing hospital structures. in the 1st demonstration, since the federal elections, they were demanding better treatment of patients and working conditions for medical staff in an a per 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 that best complicated

me. and you say there are some cowards out there that i want to talk about it. what are 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 of confirm to see an end that russian officers put boundaries on american and british troops serving in afghanistan. and i can confirm with you right now that there is no consensus within the intelligence community on these allegations. ready 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's no

intelligence that supports that, that 100 by the laptop is part of some russian disinformation campaign. it's simply not true. ah, in right that does it for me. i'll be back your headlines and let's say 30 minutes. you're watching our international there with us. i oh, when i went to the wrong, why don't i just don't the room. yes, to see out the scene because after an engagement equal betrayal,

when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground. as angela merkel makes her exit from german politics, voters have made it clear. they are 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 imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century. what other chapters called gun violence school shootings, homelessness. first, it was my job then it was my name was my siblings. i have nothing. i have nothing and it's not like i don't try. i look for resources, i look for jobs. i.