ah, ah, just in the headlines this our on our t international, at least 12 people are reportedly killed and more than 30 injured in a blast of cobbles. the 2nd biggest mosque, the taliban says it's 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 person that says about afghanistan plus in the top stories of the week just gone us lawmakers lambaste president biden. at this top brass, i bought some in congress called washington's humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we asked though if the whole afghan campaign might be a big failure than just the pull out itself. a bombshell reporter ledges the cia

plan to kidnap or assassinate leaking leaks found a julian a song with former agency chief mike pompei o at the center of the plot. and russia threatened to block youtube after the video sharing platform permanently deletes artes german language channels. moscow believes the u. s. firm wouldn't have acted without approval from berlin 1st. ah. good to happy with us this weekend. it's sunday and our tea. and that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories we've reported on here of the past 7 days. first though, to the violent development in the afghan capital, this sunday, the number of deaths has reportedly climbed to 12 and a blast at a leading cobble mosque building. 30 others are injured ortiz mike as d f, who called the explosion himself, reports from the city. we had the blast club clearly, even though the distance for kilometers till it got mosque where 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 to 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 blas. it is unclear but organization they belong to or what their role in this explosion was. but according to our unconfirmed reports at the time of the blas there was a funeral underway at the most. the funeral of the mother recently deceased mother of the taliban. spokespersons i beulah mage a head. 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,

especially here and couple of we regularly hear and read about fire fights. raids 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 at war for years now. and the taliban is evidently trying to solidify it control over of got to start. there was also another attack yesterday that has been attributed by locals to isis k, whereby they say that of the terrorists drove by, ah taliban taliban members and began firing at them in a drive by attacking the in a vehicle attack were where 4 people were killed and another attack, another part of, of canister an attack on a taliban 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. i'm wanting it back a bit this week. so tough talks in the us. congress says no make us lashed out at joe biden, at his military command. us over the afghan withdrawal. humiliating is just one of the ways to pull out been described. the president said, none of his commanders said that he should keep troops in afghanistan was that of austin by the president. i said, remember, you do not have a duty to cover for the president. what is not telling the truth? i've given you my judgment on it. now we think we all know it was a false state. i have been frustrated by the lack of someone in char, 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 lot. the big lie 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. under oath, we didn't have a president that was so adult. you all would be fired, but it's not just the pull out that's been attacks. the entire afghan campaign is now coming in for increasing criticism. is kellum open explains a testimony before congress was dancing? not only was the pull out of afghanistan 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 airstrikes or strikes against the united states. frankly, after this debacle of withdrawal,

i don't think any one can trust anything. this president says about afghanistan. 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 a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp why 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 the not too distant future, 612182436 months that time the time frame for re constitution about 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 terrace state taliban. even though they may

think that they're trying to govern that place itself to slit and already we're seen isis attacking caliber on. and 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 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 assigned. 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. 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. that's a pretext for 20 years of war. what the so called war on terror was doing was fueling tech terrorism and the jesse armed resistance in country after country the united states has, has actually increased the risk of terrorism. meantime, human rights groups of human over decision by the international criminal court to resume a prob, into war crimes in afghanistan, but to no longer look at allegations of american atrocities that instead the focus will be exclusively on the taliban and ice. his k. i have therefore decided to focus my offices investigations, enough gun histone on crimes allegedly committed by the taliban and the islamic state correson province onto 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 former afghan national security forces, the i c, c prosecutor is shamefully hunting and the get out of jail free card. i. the tribunal set up in 2002 was a cor which could only intervene perpetrators of war crimes. couldn't be brought to justice by countries authorities, investigations spend more than a decade investigative war crimes by all sides in afghanistan. but the u. s. than impose sanctions on 2 officials from the court, which had started a probe into alleged m u. s atrocities. and the i c c, 's decisions particularly disturbing for right organizations as it comes in the wake of august disastrous drone strike by the pentagon. cobble which kills and civilians including 7 children.

oh. busy ringback busy last month, appendix prob admitted the drone attack was a tragic mistake and offered an apology. it back tracked on the targeted initially claimed was linked to isis k sag. it was unlikely, and actually posed any threat to washington to pull out from afghanistan. a relatives of victims say the u. s. official for sponsible, for the attack must be brought to justice. as my canadian, this last i will keep demanding that 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 scapegoat, mozilla, if americans committed a crime, they must be brought to justice. they should be held to account that americans attacked our house. not the taliban. how the taliban will answer for this attack is a logical factor. this is our table ahead pharmacy i bought my compos implicated reports the agency plant of murder, julie in a song. just one of our stories when the weekly returns after the break. oh, if you are expressing the of non government could be in the image or with a c. i'm sorry, this is a wrong expectation be you will have to see of man is non. you want me to go on as, but there will be clearly entities you can't impose the western democratic system

of a plant evolved and then political order. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk with ah hello again. it's been revealed that the c i plotted to kidnap or assassinate the wiki leaks found a julian, a san shwale was in the ecuadorian embassy in london,

a while back. the u. s. media report was based on statements from 30 former u. s. officials and sent it on mike pompei or what he was director of the agency during donald trump presidency from pio denies the accusations. and in fact, once action taken now against the people 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 pompei ions, confirmation of the assange kit, not or kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity, kidnap ariel man, hunt and shootout with russian spies in central london. a new james bond movie. not exactly. in fact, these are the highlights from a reported cia secret plan to silence the journalist already who revealed americans for dirty secrets. location, london,

the year 2017 starting. julian, a saw a 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 the cia with break every possible law to silence independent journalist stay tune. the upcoming details may surprise you. we are rewarding chapter one assassination. mike compared wanted the cia to be creates instructors, 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 discussed in the whiteness on 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 c. i. a 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's 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 filed charges against the wikileaks found them. 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. you could possibly spoil the fun russians of course, chapter 3, fighting russians. what if vladimir putin intelligence gets there? first of dumps a sound 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. the 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's 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 a cia, it's pretty much the same thing. the rule of law may not surprise you, but for now, gillian assange remained said a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite the british judge ruling against his ex tradition to the united states over fears for his mental health, he faces a 175 years in prison in america, if he's convicted of hacking and espionage charges and 2019 a science was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london of the country terminated his 7 year asylum there. of following the recent developments we heard from a former c, i analyst em whistleblower, and also from wiki leaks, current editor in chief. when you so stunning revelation is quite shocking.

conseula, this was being conquered in the states, so the kidnapping them possibly killing. 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 kill, kill 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 entire case, it is now on for him to be so it is a political persecution and nothing else. the world 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 serves the external intelligence service. and my sex was apparently involved, you know, where they were talking about, shoot out the potential for shootouts in front of the, at, with dorian embassy. that was the british that were supposed to be doing the shooting when they talk about shooting out the, the tires of a russian plane that we 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 courts finally say enough is enough. there is no way that julianna's son should or could be extradited to the united states, and he should be free to go rushes threatening to block you tube, have to leave video sharing service. deleted ortiz, german language channels in the week for allegedly breaching community guidelines. moscow described the move as an active, unprecedented information,

aggression where the russian foreign ministry, noting that the measures against doughty couldn't have been taken without berlin's approval. there is no doubt that youtube was acting with the open and tacit support of the german government and taking these unjust measures. they have exposed correspondence, the russian bro cost as to years long harassment, including the blocking of bank accounts and publics. london, 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. on the german government denies those allegations and they'll have a talk to correspond constantino's. gov about the band and the possible ramifications are, you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the germans speaking audience has been growing, especially in the recent years. and just to give you some numbers. artie doors had a total of almost $547000000.00 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 dodge has managed to put up a fight against major german news outlets. and of course this hasn't gone unnoticed . odd, there are a lot of politicians in germany who have repeatedly called for curves on r t in a in the country. and rti has been struggling to start a t broadcast in germany for many years. are facing both overton hayden resistance . so all in all its been an extremely harsh environment, hostile environment for our fellow colleagues in germany. so these bands seem like cost 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 guideline. so, you know, that's it. you get out of the platform, google, which owns you tube i gave as a more detailed response. so let's have

a listen. ye cheap has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. i'll t doyce was issued a warning for incontinent 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 for violating you cheap terms of service. so to give us 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 a 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 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 strikes 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 as anti denying in the wrong doings it challenging this phone while they're saying that they receive an unfair treatment. and actually the 1st to common on that story in russia was our own editor in chief museum co deletes for several months before a chance were man. if the german media had been publishing the care stories about r t, german becoming influential to significantly according to their own calculations wearing to forth in terms of a lens that for in germany where a bigger than well were bigger than germany's own, shines like,

don't you ala right, no one expected that of course, we also didn't expect that to happen so quickly. i mean, that would attract. so beacon odeon have so much success. if they meet us out to be a bogeyman, they refused to give us a license. would. they forbade banks for working with its own them. they pressured luxembourg, so we couldn't get a license merrily. bond when all that didn't warrant thee deleted us from you till none using the far fetched breed accidental. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. the question is how we rush respond i we're looking forward to it or should foreign ministry spokeswoman muddy as a hot dog also we'd in by saying that would just happen. ah, was an act of aggression and that there was going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media working in russia. now the message should, didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her driven colleagues working here should be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we call the faults of alexander neu, from germany's the left party, and also believe of herself,

a politician for germany's ruling christian democrat. they both said that it's a step backwards for press freedom in europe. does this thing? oh, clearly this situation does not with european freedom in a positive light home. we have to acknowledge that deny media space has been subject to censorship 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. hodge, as i've 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 journalist regardless of its origin, others fitness. i considered it a 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 our tea 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 journals 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. ok, that's the weekly for this hour. thanks for watching more great l t programs on the way for you that sunday. i'll be back here in just have off and out. i have to say that ah, managers finance is a viable guy. liquid assets are those that you can convert into cash quite easily. but keep in mind, no as a watch guys report ah, come with me is we'll work with

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mm hm. hello, welcome to was a part the most international formulating that reaction to use the throne from a gas that is quite a challenge to many pros and cons to tightly intertwine. there is no exception. while the india cried as the worst possible outcome and an actual bending before terrorist, pakistani celebrated as an indication of that strategy and a recognition of the reality on the ground. last week we brought you from the valley. so let's now root is lot to speak to a lot my county director general of the institute of strategic studies is lama former foreign secretary of pakistan and the countries 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 recently that pakistan and afghanistan for the last 20 years has been proven accurate. what makes you believe that? because by this donald is 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 did not believe it decided to engage in docs with the but and her there. well, it was, we actually want that you wouldn't be gone, come into the fractions. would also be associated because an inclusive piece is.