ah, so what was called time breaking news this hour, at least 12 people reportedly killed and more than 30 injured in a blast herself noted cavil's 2nd biggest mask, the taliban saying it is already detained. 3 people allegedly responsible it was an extraordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president, it was so adult, you all would be fired. i don't think anyone control anything this president says about afghanistan. i've told stories from the week us lawmakers lambaste president biden, and his top ross of war, some made congress called washington's humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we are through the whole afghan campaign, might be a big failure than just that followed itself. a form shall report. a ledger,

the c i a plan to kidnap or a satellite wiki leaks found the julie, the surge, but the agencies former chief might pompeo at the center of the clock. was russia threatened to block youtube off to the video sharing platform, permanently deleted artes? german language channels. moscow believes the u. s. company would not have acted without approval from berlin. ah. oh, good afternoon for moscow. just past 5 is to say here now sunday, the 3rd of october low from i will do stage q. this is the weekly with me, kevin, now in as we recap her, the big stories of the last 7 days. but we're starting without breaking news. first of all, a developing story in from the afghan capital, where the death tolls reportedly climb to 12 this afternoon in a blast at a leading cobbled mask. the attacks also left more than 30 injured oxy. senior

correspondent were gazda of who called exposing himself, indeed, reports from the city. we had the blast clod clearly even at this distance 4 kilometers, till it got more square. the explosion took place and it was evidently a powerful blast by the, by the sound that it made even, even at that distance. also, it is not surprising that the number of casualties is being revised upwards. that is the patent of these things. usually the 1st count that we hear is on the low side of things, 3 people, the taliban says have been arrested in connection with this blast. it is unclear, but organisation they belong to or what their role in this explosion was. but according to our unconfirmed reports at the time of the blas those a funeral and away at the most the funeral of the mother recently deceased mother of the taliban spokespersons abiola mage ahead. so perhaps it may have been

isis. it's usually ease them who, who claim responsibility in these latest attacks that have been happening all over all over afghanistan. and especially here in kabul, we regularly hear and read about fire fights, raise carried out by the taliban. them trying to track down crack down and isis k cells here, and i've got to saw the 2 organizations have been add more for years now. and the taliban is evidently trying to solidify it's control over afghanistan. there was also another attack yesterday that has been attributed by local to ice as k, whereby they say that of the terrorists drove by her taliban taliban members and began firing at them in a drive by attacking the in a vehicle attack with where 4 people were killed and another attack, another part of, of canister attack on a telephone convoy which has also been attributed to isis at 17 people was said to

have been killed in that so suddenly violence the spot, the end of the afghan war, the pull out of american and allied troops, violence here in afghanistan, hasn't abated, wanting it back a bit this week. so tough talks in congress is to us lawmakers lashed out a joe biden and his military commanders over the afghan withdrawal. humiliating is just one of the ways the pullouts been described. the president said, none of his commanders said that he should keep troops in afghanistan. was that a false statement by the president? just remember, you do not have a duty to cover for the president when he's not telling the truth. i've given you my judgment on it. now we think we all know it was a false step. i have been frustrated by the lack of someone in charge on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation. there has been 0 accountability, no responsibility from anybody. 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 law, the big law that this, that this was ever going to be successful near. 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 and american history or view have not been fully accurate. underwrote, we didn't have a president that was so adult. you all would be fired, but it's not just the polar discipline attack. the entire afghan campaigns not coming in for increasing criticism. as kayla mo pin explained in the week. a testimony before congress was dancing. not only was the pull out of afghanistan, a fiasco, but the campaign failed to achieve its primary aim. it was an extraordinary disaster. it will go down in history, is one of the greatest failures of american leadership. we have 0 presence in afghanistan. it could be as little as 12 months before al kato will use afghanistan

as a base conduct as a base to conduct air strikes or strikes against the united states. frankly, after this debacle of a withdrawal. i don't think anyone can trust anything. this president says about afghanistan, we need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and nursing your ranks. that we did not grasp a damaging effect. the frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders, and that we fail to fully grasp what there was only so much for which and for home . many of the afghan forces would fight. so after an entire war aimed to eliminate a terrorist threat to america, that threat could now be worse to real possibility in a not too distant future, 612182436 months that time the time frame for re constitutional kite are isis terrorist organizations seek ungoverned spaces so that they can train and equip and

thrive. and there is clearly a possibility that that can happen here. going forward. afghanistan, in effect now has become an entire terrorist state taliban. even though they may think that they're trying to govern that place itself to split and already were seen isis attacking caliber on an, there's no guarantee then that taliban can ensure that attacks will not be planned . and launched from that from afghanistan, thought there were more revelations in the testimony, apparently behind closed doors. the biden administration was more divided on afghanistan. i think a while we've, it is conceivable that you could stay there. my view was that you would have had to deploy more forces in order to protect ourselves and accomplish any mission that we would have been assign. it appears that the department of defense was not fully on board with pulling out of afghanistan. and they are arguing for maintaining some

presence in the country. my view was that we needed to maintain about 2500. and that we also needed to work with our coalition partners. we had about 6000 troops and their nato and other core countries that would, that would remain there. this flies in the face of the biden administration's claim that pulling out was the unanimous decision. it's unclear what would really change if the united states stayed in the country. it has been 20 years after all, and the security situation in afghanistan has not improved. so maybe the mistake wasn't pulling out in 2021, but rather going in in 2001. now that's a discussion you won't hear on capitol hill, but it's probably taking place in many american minds for officials on capitol hill to attribute that. so way to the somewhat chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan is completely absurd. if the u. s. 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. ah, 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 as a pretext for 20 years of war. what the so called war on terror was doing was hugely tech terrorism. and the adjacent armed resistance in country after country the united states has, has actually increased the risk of terrors. meantime, parallel to the human rights groups as who reported in the week of fuming over a decision by the in to longer look at allegations of american atrocities. there. instead, the focus will big sc lucidly on the taliban in ices k. i have therefore decided to focus my offices investigations,

enough gun histone on crimes allegedly committed by the taliban and the exotic state chorus on province on to de prioritize other aspects of this investigation. the prosecutors telling war criminals around the world that the u. s. playbook of delay and intimidation works. it also validates one of the cool criticisms of the i see, see that it only takes action against politically weaker individuals or nations while giving western powers a pass by d. prioritizing investigating us and for the afghan national security forces, the i c. c prosecutor, is shamefully hunting and get out of jail free card. the tribunal was set up in 2002 as a court, which could only interfere of perpetrators of war crimes, could not be brought to justice by a country's authorities. it's been over a decade investigating war crumbs by all sides in afghanistan. but last year, the u. s imposed sanctions on 2 officials from the court which had started a probe into us war atrocities. and this office that i

owe. busy busy busy us, i earlier in september pentagon pro admitted the drone attack was a tragic mistake and offered an apology. it back tracked on the target that initially claimed to so linked choices k saying it was unlikely that actually posed any threat to washington's polo from afghanistan. relatives of the victim said the u. s. officials responsible for the attack must be held to justice. as my country, the only horse i will keep demanding the each person who has committed a crime here must be convicted and punished with the due process of law. it's unfair if a person commits a crime and then a different person is brought to court to answer, the criminal must be punished,

no scapegoats. if americans committed a crime, they must be brought to justice. they should be held to account americans attack our house, not the taliban. how the taliban will answer for this attack is a logical pharmacy. i pass my pompei. i was implicated in the reports the agency planned to murder, julius sanchez on the big stories we brought you in the week as the weekly continues our wrap of the headlines of the last 7 days blue. ah ah ah ah ah

ah ah. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race in his own offence, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk. oh hi. so it was revealed in the weakness i plotted to kidnap or assassinate the wiki

league side of the julian, the sons, when he was in ecuador, and embassy london, a while back. the u. s. media report was based on statements from 30 former u. s. officials and sent it on mike pompeo. while he was director of the agency during the time donald trump was empower, pompei was denied the accusations, and indeed, now once action taken against those who made the claims or they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the central intelligence agency, maybe they didn't maybe as the cap just made it up, but you should, i take seriously my responsibilities to protect that information. this can be seen as pompoms confirmation of the assange kit, not or kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity kidnapped ariel man hunt and shootout with russian spies in central london. the new james bond movie. not exactly. in fact, these are the highlights from a reported cia secret plan will silence the journalist already who revealed

americans for dirty secrets. location, london, the year 2017 starting. julian, a sorry man of interest hiding, ecuadorian embassy might compare. then c, i achieve evil mastermind behind the operation. the russkies. the essential ingredient for any good spice dory down cia would break every possible law to silence independent journalist stay to the upcoming details. may surprise you. we are rewarding chapter one assassination. my compared wanted the cia to be create. the instructor, subordinates not to self sense of themselves when it comes to dealing wikileaks, sometimes, oh tricks work best they might have thought and came up with a good old assassination plot. detailed sketches options on how to murder sounds. reportedly we discussed in the white, the highest possible level. why would

a cia achieve plots of the killing of an independent journalist? well, it was an act of personal vendetta. back in march 2017, the newly appointed cia chief found himself in a very difficult position. when wikileaks released top secrets yay papers. they were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about vault 7. they were seen blood chapter to kidnapping. but somebody in the white house might have thought tape, no killings where a civilized nation that kidnapped this journalist and sentenced him to death by american law. the plan was simply break into the embassy drag assange out and bring him to where we want one small issue. the u. s. justice department failed to keep up with cia fantasies. they were still processing the case and didn't file charges against the wikileaks founda. so the cia was going to kidnap

a foreign citizen from the capital of washington's closest ally with no legal basis tool. a perfect master black deed do could possibly spoil the fun russians of course, chapter 3, fighting russians. what if vladimir putin intelligence gets there 1st, a dunce assange, and then flies him to moscow? that's a possibility. the paranoid ca offices thought brace yourself. the plan to counts of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance. the sand gets into the car with the russian operatives. a cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks, it's on the runway by shooting its tires. as well as anything and anybody else in the way the plane takes off with a flat tire, the c i a hovers a helicopter over,

it still manages to leave the ground. they demand that the european countries closed, their rasping. we're still talking about catching julian assange, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american governments pass cia, it's pretty much the same thing. rule of law may not apply you. but for now, gillian assange remains in a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite a british judge ruling against his expedition to the united states over face about his mental health, he faces 175 years in prison in america, where he's wanted on charge is still of hacking and espionage back in 20. 19. is sanchez forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london after the country terminated his 70 or asylum? they're following the recent developments we heard from a former c i a analyst and whistle blower, and also we colleagues,

editor in chief when you so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the states. so the kidnapping them. graham also please kill him if julian is expedited to to the other states, it will be in the hands of the seo his faith on you as ground. it would be in the hands of those who were planning to kick, not killing him. when these discussions were going on, there was no indictment out against julia. he hadn't been charged with anything. so if there was any doubt about the political nature of the indictment and the creation of the day when an entire case, it is now on for him to be so it is of political persecution and nothing else. the world to understand that the united states is trying to criminalize journalism. they refused to accept the fact that julian assange is a journalist, that the american people own this information and they have the right to know what

it is. and that the government behind their backs, the backs of the american people, is trying to assassinate someone who has not been kid victim of a crime. in one of the things that we learned in this article was dad, the british intelligence service, the external intelligence service, and my sex was apparently involved, you know, where they were talking about, shoot out the potential pursued outs in front of the, at, with dorian embassy. that was the british that were supposed to be doing this shooting when they talk about shooting out the, the tires of a russian plane that might have been taking jillian assigned to, to russia. and that was the british that were supposed to be doing the shooting. so i would certainly hope that the british court finally say enough is enough. there's no way that julian assigned should or could be extradited to the united states, and he should be free to go rushes threatening to block you tube off the video sharing service deleted our tease german language channels in the week for

allegedly bridging community guidelines. masika described the move as an active, unprecedented information, aggression with rushes for a ministry, noting that the measures against our tea couldn't have been taken without berlin's approval. there is no doubt that unity was acting with the open and tacit support of the german government in taking these unjust measures. they've exposed correspondence, the russian broadcasters to years long harassment 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 officialdom. while the german government denied the allegations, neil harvey spoke to corresponding constantly rose coff about the barn and the possible ramifications. or, you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the germans speaking the audience has been grow in, especially in the recent years. and just to give you some numbers, artie 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. so artie, doris has managed to put up a fight against major german news outlets. and of course that hasn't gone unnoticed . odd, there are a lot of politicians in germany who have repeatedly called for curves on our tea in a in the country. and rti has been struggling to start a teeny broadcast in germany for many years, facing both overton hayden resistance. so all in all is been an extremely harsh environment. hostile environment for our fellow colleagues in germany. so these been, seem like kosh treatment what, what was the, the potential crime that was committed while, as usual, in these cases, the response from a media platform is vague and ye tube send our colleagues in germany message saying that there were, quote repeated violations of community guidelines so you know, that's it, you get out of the platform. google, which owns you tube. a gave us

a more detailed response. so let's have a listen. ye cheap has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. all t deutsche was issued a warning for uploading content that violates our rules in relation to cov, at 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 closed for violating you cheaper times of service. so to give you some context, our 1st artie george, his main youtube channel law, was given several code related strikes and that led to a temporary suspension. so because the main page was suspended, its team decided to continue sharing his content on different page that belongs to one of its, ah shows. ah, it was different content. ah, 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 a run a separate page, or maybe even start a new page if you are suspended on youtube for whatever reason. besides those 4 videos and question that rti doors receive stripes for are contained criticism of the government's approach of the pandemic voiced by other medical experts not by journalists. so, ah, to claim that this was medical a mis information, misinterpretation well, in the eyes of archie george that saw debatable so his aunty denying in the wrong doings it challenging this boy. while they were saying that they received an unfair treatment. and actually the 1st to common on that story in russia was our own editor in chief museum cook, who the leads for several months before channels were mans. if the german media had been publishing care stories about r t, german becoming so influential to significantly according to their own calculations

wearing before us in terms of being the ones i feel in germany were bigger than well, you were bigger than germany's own. shines. like, don't you, ella? had no one expected that of course i also didn't expect that to happen so quickly. i mean, that would attract so big an audience. i'll have so much success. if they made us out to be a bogeyman, they refused to give us a license. so did they forbade banks for working with that? tell them if they pressured luxembourg, that we couldn't get a license narrowly bond when all that in the word that he deleted us from you till now. he's using far fetched brita example. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. the question is how we rush respond i am we're looking forward to it was just foreign ministry spokeswoman muddy. the hot dog also weighed in by saying that would just happen. ah, was an act of aggression and that there is going to be a symmetrical response to directed at german media work and in russia. now the message shed didn't clarify what exactly that means. but i guess her, our german colleagues working here should be bracing for

a bumpy road ahead. we got more thoughts on what might come in from alex and the noise from germany's the left part in. oh, so what a woman who's a politician for germany's ruling christian democrats, the both said, it's a step backwards in their view of press freedom in europe. does isn't oh clearly this situation does not with european freedom in a positive light. we have to acknowledge to deny mediaspace has been subject to seth a ship and manipulation which reminds me of the worst times in germany. it's in our interests for our see 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 as citizens have the right to be informed and have access to high quality journalists, regardless of its origin, others fitness. i considered it challenging situations and now the russian point of view, public or political, is being more and more surprised. archie deutsch does not have a particularly good reputation in germany, not with readers,

but rather among their colleagues. they don't like cartoon deutsche because it has broken their monopoly and the dictate of opinion in german journalist journalists who practice journalism. the praises do authorities instead of critical journalist do not like such competition or they don't like it that a mirror has been put in front of them in which they can see what they really should be doing. i wonder what the next week of news will bring little after today and say, i'll be here, but thanks for being with us for a rough of what happened for the last 7 days, are now to international check and everything else is going on as well, including that to terror attack they believes to be confirmed in cobble of their own at r t dot com for now have a good evening. ah, both, these are the 4 people who pulled the trigger and survive something on survival.

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me. hello, welcome to all the bars. the most international players formulating that reaction to use withdrawal from a gas that is quite a challenge to many profit cons to tightly intertwined. it's use notable exception while the india decry as the worst possible outcome of bending before terrorists. pakistani celebrated as an indication of that on strategy and a recognition of the reality on the ground last week we brought you from the valley . so let's now root is i'm about to speak to a dot, calgary director general of the institute of strategic status is a former foreign secretary of pakistan and the former ambassador to the united states. and that's, it is great privilege to talk to you. thank you very much for finding the time.

thank you for having me. now, you know, last week i spoke to your colleague from n, predictably, he's reaction to what's going on in afghanistan was very, very bitter. but as far as i can gather on your side, it's quite the opposite. you wrote based on b a, the last 20 years has been proven accurate. what makes you believe that? because focused on always indicated that there should be a political solution. because we talk military ripley was not possible, not desirable for 17 and a half years. and i just, it did not believe until it decided to engage in box with the taliban. and her, there will it was. we actually want and then even the afghan come and, and of the factions would also be associated because an inclusive.