good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together . ah, in the headlines this our on our, to international, the offshore assets of hundreds of the world's most powerful and riches people are revealed in the biggest ever leak of such data called the pandora papers. and one, it confirms the u. s. as a top global tax haven, no well known american people all firms have mentioned, despite president biden's pledge to clamp down on tax evasion. also this sunday, at least 12 people are reportedly killed in more than 30 others injured and blasted cobbles, a 2nd to biggest mot. the taliban says it's detained. 3 people allegedly responsible it was an extraordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president, there was so adult. you all would be fired. i don't think any one control anything

this prisoner says about afghanistan. plus of the top stories of a week just gone us lawmakers lambaste president biden, and his top bras hope of what some in congress call washington's humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we are slow if the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the pull out itself. and the bombshell reporter ledges. the cia plan to kidnap or assassinate, wickedly expounded julian songs before my agency. chief mike pompeo at the center of the plot. ah, i there live for moscow. this is alta international, it's sunday, which means we're going to take you through some of the biggest storage we've covered here over the past 7 days. but we've got the weekend developments to get you up to speed on 1st. in fact, in the past few hours, millions of documents have shed light on the hidden assets of global billionaires

world leaders and public officials and the biggest ever league of off shore data called the pandora papers. i dropped a couple of hours ago released some of them did. anyway, our correspondence, donald court is across this forest. luckily not all. 12 medium falls. it won't go otherwise you pay for it busied. i would need of a of what we've got so far as explosives, they would build to be. we'll call on people. surely we're waiting for this for these leaks with baited breath. i mean, there were remembering what happened, the kind of shock waves that went across the earth. so when the panama, the panama papers were released back in 2016. but so far i have to say this round of leaks has not been that has not made as much noise as its predecessor. i mean, the guardian sure had a click baby picture at the front of its article of vladimir putin's face on the front of it. but actually vladimir putin wasn't specifically even mentioned by name in the papers, in, in these papers that are talking about the offshore accounts of some of the world leaders. and,

but what's interesting enough is that the investigation actually primarily deals with quite obscure names. it goes over the offshore houses of the king of jordan, for example, it talks about how a property was bought through offshore companies by the prime minister of the czech republic. one higher, higher profile mentioned though, was the president of ukraine vladimir zalinski. he was elected in 2019, let's not forget on mostly on his promise to combat corruption in ukraine, which is, you know, this country specifically has a, a big problem with corruption. and he was mentioned in the report, according to the investigation, he transferred 25 percent of his stake in an offshore company to his friend several years ago. who is now the presidential top adviser. so i will zalinski hasn't commented on this yet, but surely seems at least like a shady dealing. but now going on to the idea of a tax haven usually when people think of tax havens right. they think of maybe, i don't know hong kong or, or some obscure island in the caribbean. but actually,

according to these pandora papers, there's actually a bit of a different picture. south dakota has actually become the new hotspot for tens of millions of offshore dollars, which used to be in the caribbean and europe. and that's despite us present, jo biden's promise earlier this year that he was going to fight corruption to day, i'm issued a national security study memorandum on the fly against corruption to establish competent corruption as a core us national security interest. the united states will lead by example, and in partnership with allies, civil society and in the private sector to far this courage of corruption. so even if biden's central tenet was to try and clamped down on tax evasion and so many people didn't consider the u. s. as a tax haven, even though so much do as i say not as i do the i r s wants to know all the details . america doesn't say what's going on within its own borders, where the american firms in this report then, well, that's

a good question. they're not there really. i mean, there we did see 2 very obscure american billionaires who are mentioned that mean i've never seen the names of them. i didn't even recognize their company. but it seems like we, lately we've been seeing report after report about how american billionaires are somehow, you know, cutting corners on taxes, getting around them and whatnot. but we didn't see any major american name there. there wasn't any donald trump, any joe biden. there wasn't any jeff bezos, i mean, seems kind of fishy to me when this all these other people from across the planet there. yeah, i mean it's not as though they've necessarily done anything particularly illegal. it's just sending that profit on a well talk. right? certainly leaves those companies. there's companies a bit conspicuous by their absence, isn't it okay? well, there's a lot to get through and it's all going to come out dribbling in the next few days and weeks for now though, the local to, thanks for that right now to the middle east of the developments this weekend, a violent development in the afghan capital this sunday, the number of deaths has reportedly climb to 12 and a blast at

a leading cobble mosque more than 30 other people have been injured. ortiz murat as dave, who call the explosion himself, reports next from the city. we heard 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 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 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 are beulah 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 couple of we regularly here 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 are 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 galveston. an attacker taliban convoy,

which has also been attributed to isis at 17 people, was said to have been killed in that. so suddenly that violence, the spot, the end of the afghan war, the pull out of american and allied troops at violence here in afghanistan hasn't abated. and we're wanting it back a bit this week. so tough talks in the u. s. congress as lawmakers lashed out at joe biden and his military commanders 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 on a false statement by the president as remembered. you do not have a duty to cover for the president when he's not telling the truth. i've given him 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 cache and blood and credibility

into a ghani government. that was a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying into the big lot, 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 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, but it's not just the pull out that's been attacked. the entire afghan campaign is now coming in for increasing criticism. as kind of open explains 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 qaeda will use afghanistan as a base conduct as a base to conduct airstrikes or strikes against 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 truce 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 of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we failed 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 the 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 back 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 slit and already we're 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 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. 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 few ally tech terrorism and the adjacent armed resistance in country after country the united states has, has actually increased risk of terrorism in a separate development human rights groups of fuming over a decision by the international criminal court to resume a probe 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 ices 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 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 de prioritizing, investigating u. s. and fullness 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 intervene if the perpetrators of war crimes could not be brought to justice by a country's authorities. i spent more than a decade investigating war crimes by all sides in afghanistan. but the u. s. imposed sanctions on 2 officials from the court which had started

a probe into alleged us atrocities. yeah, i see see decisions particularly disturbing for rights organizations because it comes in the wake of august's disastrous drone strike by the pentagon. cobble which killed 10 civilians including 7 children. oh. ringback busy last month, the pentagon probe emitted the drone attack was a tragic mistake and offered an apology. it back tracked on the targeted it initially claimed was linked to ices, k saying it was unlikely, it actually posed any threat to washington's pull out from afghanistan. relatives of the victims say the u. s. officials responsible for the attack must be brought to justice birthmark on the on the 4th,

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 scapegoats. if americans committed a crime, they must be brought to justice. they should be held to account. americans attacked our house. not the taliban. how the taliban will answer for this attack is a logical reco. it's been reveal the c i plotted to kidnap or assassinate the wiki. next found a julian a sound when he 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 while he was director of the agency during donald trump's presidency. how payout 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 a cap, just made it up. but you should,

i take seriously, my responsibility is 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, kid never. 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 to silence the journalist already who revealed americans for dirty secrets. location london, the year 2017 starting julian, a sorry, a man of interest. heidi ecuadorian embassy might compare, then c, i achieve evil mastermind behind the operation. the russkies. the essential ingredient for any good spice dory. doubtless ya would break every possible law to silence independent journalist stay tune. the upcoming details may surprise you. we

are rewarding chapter one. assassination, my campaign wanted the cia to be create instructors. these subordinates not to self center themselves. when it comes to dealing wiki links. 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 a sound, reportedly with disgust in the whiteness on the highest possible level. why would a cia chief 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 secret c i a 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 sentence 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. you 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, see i any offices thought?

brace yourself. the plans accounts 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 on the runway by shooting its tires. as well as anything and anybody else wait? the plane takes off with a flat tire. the c i a hovers a helicopter over, it still manages to leave the ground. they demanded the european countries close their raspberries. we are still talking when captain julian assange, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american government's path, the cia, it's pretty much the same thing. the rule of law may not advise you. but for now,

jill innocent remains in a maximum security prison in the u. k. as despite the british judge ruling against his extradition to the united states over his fears for his mental health, and he faces a 175 years in prison and america. if he is convicted of the hacking and espionage charges he faces in 2019 assange was forcibly removed by police him. i remember from the ecuadorian embassy in london after the country terminated the 70 or asylum that he had that following the recent developments we heard from a former c i a analyst em whistleblower than or so from wiki leaks, current editor in chief menu. so stunning revolution is quite shocking. conseula. this was being conquered, cousins in the states, so the kidnapping them, graham, possibly killing. if julian is expedited to to the other states, it will be in the hands of the seo his fades on the was ground. it would be in the hands of those who were planning to kill helium. when these discussions were going on, there was no guide meant 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 creational, did i went on 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 service, the external intelligence service, and my sex was apparently involved, you know, where they were talking about, shoot out the potential, pursued out in front of the ecuadorian 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 courts finally say enough is enough. there's no way that julianna's sons should or could be extradited to the united states and he should be free to go. russia is threatening to block you tube after the video sharing service, deleted out his german language channels in the wait for allegedly breeching community guidelines. moscow describe the move as an act of unprecedented information, aggression, where the russian foreign ministry, noting that the measures against r t could not 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 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 the media background that is comfortable for german officialdom. the german government denies those allegations, so they'll have a talk to correspond constantine raj. gov about the ban and the possible ramifications are, you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the germans speaking audience has been grow in, especially in the recent years. and just to give you some numbers. artie doors had a total of almost $547000000.00 views and over 600000 subscribers and not a small youtube channel that placed it among the top german news channels on that platform. so already doors has managed to put up a fight against major german news outlet. and of course, this 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 bands seem like cost treatment. what, what was the, the potential crime that was committed? well, as usual, in these cases, the response from a media platform is vague and youtube 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. 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. i'll t deutsch was issued a warning for uploading content that violates our rules in relation to cov, at 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 you cheap times 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 r 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 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 miss information,

misinterpretation. well, in the eyes of archie george that saw debatable so his auntie denying in the wrong doings it challenging this boy. 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 leads for several months before channels were banned. the german media had been publishing care stories about r t, german becoming too influential to significant according to their own calculations . where ranked forth in terms of influence in germany were bigger than, well were bigger than germany's own. shines. like, don't you, well, no one expected that of course we also didn't expect that to happen so quickly. i mean that would attract so big an audience, have so much success. they made us out to be a boogeyman. they refused to give us a license. they forbade banks 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 the far fetched pretext that was predictable

because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. the question is how a rush response. we're looking forward to it. or just foreign ministry spokeswoman muddy is a hot while also wait in by saying that would just happen. ah, was an act of aggression and that there is going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media work in, in russia. now the message she 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 go. the faults of alexander neu, from germany's the left part in also very them a who's a politician for germany's ruling christie and democrats. they both said that it says step backwards for press. freedom in europe does isn't. oh, clearly this situation does not with european freedom in a positive light. we have to acknowledge the 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'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 journalists, regardless of its origin fitness. i considered it a challenging situation that now the russian point of view, public, or political, is being more and more suppressed. 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 and journalists who practice journalism that praises the authorities. instead of critical journalists do not like such competition. 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 as the weekly for this hour. thanks for watching unclean brian moscow love you. next addition alpha now. ah.

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