jim leach, 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, which in germany were bigger than well were bigger than germany's own. giant, 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 be 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 using farfetched pretext. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists and this countries, the question is how russia respond. we're looking forward to it. we spoke to peter, boston of foreign policy speaker for the alternative for germany party. he sees the you to ban as overtly political. many channels are close on the because they are ver