a local correspondent at the see also in the program for my director mike on peo refuses to confirm or deny the 2017 murder plot against juliet san. but he said that whatever happened, he's not sorry about the current. both of those, the revelation shows i saw just life would be in danger. if he were to be sent to america, said he was ground. would be in the hands of those who were planning to live. ah, it is a busy day for your headlines are not into national as we come to you live 24 hours a day. welcome to the program. one rule research. russia has slammed youtube for deleting ortiz, german language channels, over alleged community guidelines, violations foreign ministry believes the move could not have happened without approval from the german government. and russia's media regulator is now threatening to block the us video sharing platform. 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 actually rejected the allegation from moscow. i speaking just now, a spokesman stefan zibert said berlin had nothing to do with youtube actions against r t. earlier. my colleague, neil harvey discussed the story with arthur correspondent, konstantin scott. you know, the popularity of r t in germany among the germans speaking the audience has been grow. and especially in the recent years. and just to give you some numbers, rti, george had a total of almost 547000000 views. and over 600000 subscribers and not a small you to channel that, placed it among the top german news channels on that platform. you know, in june alone rt george gather over 21000000 views on that platform, which is almost as much as what spiegel tv received. nashville is one of the most credible in the major news outlets in germany and which has been around for decades . so r d george has managed to put up a fight against major german news outlets. and of course, this hasn't gone unnoticed. there are a lot of politicians in germany who have repeatedly called for curves on r t in in the country. and rti has been struggling to study tv broadcast in germany for many years, facing both over it and 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 was the, the potential crime was committed while, as usual, in these cases, the response from a media platform is fake. and youtube send our colleagues in germany message saying that there were, quote repeated violations of community guidelines. so, you know, that's it, you know, get out of the platform. google, which owns youtube, gave us a more detailed response. so let's have a listen. youtube has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. r t. doyce was issued a warning for floating content 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 close, violating youtube tons of service. so to give some context, 1st party george, his main youtube channel was given several co related strikes and that led to a temporary suspension. so because the main page was suspended, its team decided to continue sharing its content on a different page that belongs to one of its shows. it was different content, not that which had been flagged by youtube, of course, but nonetheless, both pages were completely deleted by youtube without any war. and 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 are 2 doors receive strikes for contained criticism of the government's approach of the pandemic voice by other medical experts not by journalist. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of rt george, that's debatable. so is he denying any wrong doing? is it challenging this man? while they're saying that they received an unfair treatment? and actually, 1st to comment on that story in russia with our own editor in chief, i'm going to get to see my now. and then she said that would just happen in germany, the rti george amounts to a declaration of war on russia by germany. let's hear what she actually said. so this time, they deemed it an attempt to circumvent the restrictions when we invited our audience to our 2nd channel. while our 1st channel was serving a sentence for a far fetched violation of community guidelines, which was slapped enough for airing interviews with critics of coven 19 measures, it wasn't the 1st time we invited audience to our 2nd channel. but only today did they decide to ban both at the same time, anti faxes terrorists and fascists. of all kinds of quietly broadcasting on youtube . they have repeatedly said outright that they shadow ban us and don't let us in. but this turned out to be not enough. we grew despite, they're not letting us in. now they've simply deleted us. this is a full fledged declaration of a media war by germany towards russia. russia foreign ministry spokeswoman money is also we'd in by saying that would just happen was inactive aggression. and that there is going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media working in russia. now the message she had didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her through my colleagues working here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we discussed the bonds on the possible motives with martin dolson, a member of germany's left party. it's a clear case of political transition, democratic society with german. he should be able to handle different opinions and you, what you meant. google is american companies, and the companies as well should be able to handle different ideas and not to send law some different opinions. this is some kind of altering behavior and manner, which is not worth for a democracy. it is not the 1st time you tube has targeted r t. in april this year, the google on platform took down several videos relating to cove at 19. they included an interview with a renowned russian virology stand footage of anti lockdown protests. youtube, a tooth fee of spreading medical misinformation without giving specifics on the list of patrick headings and things. that term is just a convenient pretext to sensor content. there's 2 things going on here. one is just this idea of giving strikes for medical misinformation. this is something that you tube has begun doing since the beginning of the pandemic. and they are locked in with various governments, mainly western governments. and they'll sort of use this overarching umbrella. it's just intentionally very vague. r t does media coverage which competes with are outcompetes, other english language channels and competitions. so, you know, this is really a credibility war between russia in the west, in the media space. and despite constant efforts by western countries, nato governments to paint russian outlet says kremlin propaganda or russian disinformation at no time. can they ever demonstrate exactly where the disinformation is in the content which is being broadcast? and i think this situation is more or less a continuation of that past the hour here at moscow, the international criminal court, his resuming, and ask honest on war crimes prob, but from now on the investigation will ignore allegations of any us wrong doing and will focus instead only on the taliban and isis k militants. let's learn a bit more about this from new york. our correspondent kayla block military personnel and top brass who were involved in the 20 years of us operations in afghanistan can now sleep easy because it appears they will not be facing prosecution from the international criminal court. the new chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has said they won't be looking in to us atrocities in afghanistan because of the taliban take over the country and quote, limited resources available to the international criminal court. i have therefore decided to focus my offices investigations enough, going to stop on crimes allegedly committed by the taliban and the exotic state correson province and de prioritize other aspects of this investigation. now this decision to quote de, prioritize as the international criminal court is calling it has upset many human rights organizations. they feel that washington is essentially being let off the hook. 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, c. c that it only takes action against politically weak individuals or nations while giving western powers a pass. by d prioritizing, investigating us and former africa national security forces, the icpc prosecutor, it's shamefully hunting him up, get out of jail free card. now, there were plenty of scandals and horrendous incidents over the course of the 20 years of the united states military presence in afghanistan. all culminating in the recent chaotic pullout and we also witnessed the incident recently where there was a drone strike that intended to hit isis k fighters and ended up killing civilians . a family ended up dying at the hands of the united states, but it appears that incident like this will not be investigated by the international criminal court. it's unlikely any individuals involved in such events will face charges in the hague. busy busy now the i c, c tried to probe us activities in afghanistan, and in response, donald trump slap sanctions on officials of the i, c. c. here's how then secretary of state mike, palm pale, commented on it at the time. we cannot, we will not stand by as our people are threatened by a kangaroo court, we have responded any way. the way a responsible nation must, by condemning the investigation by suspending cooperation with the court and denying visa to those most directly responsible for going after our personnel. now, while the international criminal court will be investigating situations in afghanistan, they won't be investigating the role of the united states. they say they simply don't have the resources to do it. they're citing the taliban take over the country . but many observers are looking on and wondering if this is simply due to the fact that the u. s. a has been so harsh and placed sanctions on. i think the officials who did look into them, they're wondering if the new prosecutor simply wants to avoid having his own name on the sanctions list. we spoke with the human rights lawyer, don caballo, who thinks the ccs decision actually makes a mockery of international law. bullying of the international criminal court did what it set out to do, and that was to get the us off the hook here. that's a terrible precedent. the, you know, the job of the i, c. c is to investigate crimes within these theaters. not to favor one party over another, and that's exactly what it's doing. what i and many other, you know, human rights advocates have been saying for years is that the i c. c has been used as a tool by the west to punish developing countries. the only leaders successfully prosecuted by the i c. c, have been from african countries. what is this saying to the world saying to the world? if you are a weak country, you can be subject to i cc prosecution. but if you are a strong economic and military power, like the us who can throw its weight around, you will be exempt from human rights prosecution. basically what we are left with is the law, the jungle, the might makes. right? and that is not what, how international law is supposed to work. it never was supposed to work that way. a feud between serbia and cause of overrode access shows no sign of abating and nato troops in kosovo have both to their presence on the serbia border. and the e u commission president has called on both sides to show restraint. the current res intentions between costs of one serbia is very concerning, is worrying. it is essential to lower the attention and to return to the dialogue of all those i never saw of any de escalation. a local correspondent, boris smothered gorski reports from the frontier. while the pen stand off between belgrade and proceed in 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 band, a ban on serbian license plates, imposed by the prestige 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 emotions are repeated. new people can no longer tolerate, deter any harassment and depression. we don't want to face the same fake the subs from central cost of them who are expelled and ethnically cleanse, believe me, that the subs and had enough and will no longer take this occupation. and these attacks also, as we know, has been as administered by the united nations as since 9099 after nato bomb serbia to take control of its southern province. of course, civil that is, it 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 cost of all an independent country. now, serbia has sent its military forces to the missive crossings, of course. and what makes this stand off different than the stand off in the path is serbia's parent readiness to flex its military muscle. they have called on pers tina to remove the license plate band while christina has called them belgrade to ease up on the tension. however, whether belgrade it's actually ready to use military force to protect the serbs in constable remains a question we heard from political analysts and nicholas markovich, he thinks, because i've always been emboldened by foreign support just one new crisis. as we've seen many every, every these past years and this is not something actually renewed when deeper. what is new is that we see it again. that in this situation for the 1st time, serbia got afraid to flex its muscles and show that a red line has been crossed. nato is responsible of this situation. if nato had not bomb illegally, you've assario in 1099, we would not have pen situation. we do have in coastal mentor. and certainly, so i think the fact that nato had not been capable of managing the situation which he created. so it is definitely not a good idea to have nato forces, again, on the administrative border between central serbia and co, civil and tokyo. but then the western organizations have shown that they have failed, totally failed in the balcony. and they should have a nation staple. and probably maybe let the surgeons and albanians and countries from that region to the situation between themselves for us to come to our here on our tea long i'm costly friendship anti terror operation in molly is unraveling. the 2 nations trading accusations wild russian contractors are stepping in to fill the void. we'll give you the details on that and more in a month. i this is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed what will make you feel safer. type relation or community you going the right way? or are you being that somewhere? which direction? what is truth? what is in a world corrupted. you need to this end. the join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. ah. join me every 1st aid on me, alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world. the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the moment turning 20 minutes past the our former u. s. secretary of state mike pompeo has refused to confirm or deny a report that the u. s. had plotted to kill julian assange, where they can pay a, made it clear that whatever the trump administration was doing at the time, 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 cited in russia or the chinese military. or anyone who was trying to take this information away from us. those reports of a plan to a duck don kill julian assange made headlines earlier in the week after they were corroborated by several former officials. but the story is not new. it was 1st revealed last year by journalists max blumenthal investigation for his website, the grey zone. and he spoke to my colleague mill harvey. 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 sergeant. his associates, inside the ecuadorian embassy in london, that you see global, the spanish security firm. i obtain these filed 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, 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? well, 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. busy of investigative journalism, st. julian, a sorry, 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 size has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the cia which was spying on those meetings. and the key witness in the u. s. indictment seeking that hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case and yet julian sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted. well, a reporters without borders has joined this international outcry over the alleged plot against a song dating back now to 2017. the press freedom organizations said the reports show, the wikileaks found that life is still in danger, and he should be released from a u. k. prison for his own safety. meanwhile, week leagues editor in chief christian thompson discussed the case in our program going on the ground. you can watch that in full of it later in the day. many stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being in the, in the, in the state kits. nothing possibly killing. we had to wind up some of this before through the proceedings in spain, criminal proceedings against members of the security company. you see global who are supposed to be overseeing julian associates curity in the u. s. embassy, and the embassy actually will 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 prevalence material. if julian is expedited to to the states, it will be in the hands of fate. on the ground would be in the hands of those who were planning to kill him. when these discussions were going on, there was no engagement against them. 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 confirmed to be so it is a political persecution and nothing else. fraud has angrily denied that is abandoning molly to spike a partial truth pulled out after an 8 year anti terror campaign. the african nation though, was looking for support elsewhere. and now it's turned to russian contractors. i thought he'd charlotte to mosquito. now investigate it's a situation that going from bad to well disastrous folk and moly, alright, loggerheads, operation ball cain and security in the form a colony marley's prime minister has been clear that the full peroration has failed without the un. he went even further. liability does need to handle the situation arising from the end of operation buck and puts molly in a fee accompli bundling those mid flight to a certain extent. and it forces us to explore alternatives. i mean, to better ensure a security autonomy safely or with other partners so as to fill the gap that will certainly result from the withdrawal of back in the north of the country in montana, particularly that lake a fire under the french armed forces minister us. it's a lot of hypocrisy, it's a lot of bad faith, a lot of indecency, especially because these comments were made on saturday, september 25th, but on friday, september 24th at 52nd. the french soldier gave his life fighting terrorism in the hell. poly has also accused morally or provoking a storm because of an inability to keep a commitment to return power following a military coup to civilians. next year. i have the impression that the date does not see them perfectly. and that they want to prolong the things. but from wanting that to wiping his feet on the blood of french soldiers, it's an acceptable for molly's pulfer is real concerned about the future. earlier this year, president mack on the end, authoration ball came french troops have been engaged on the ground since 2013 in afraid to fight your heart as groups. but now, according to my call, that will be proof. i will lease changed with the closure of french army bases the withdrawal of more than 2000 soldiers that lead to fears molly could see a search into hardest activity. whole situation in this a herald is right now not being addressed because you can't address it simply from a security standpoint. but the worst 1012 years molly is gone to one destabilization after another is not going to be resolved by military deployment by the french or anyone else to say how is suffering a massive economic under development deserts open space. and in the open space is that the terrorist and others live and deploy for my 1st work out how it's going to fight against such threats. it's turning to the idea of using private companies in a big to sure up security. however, the fact that these companies are russian seems to have really looked at problems, but also you certainly could seriously affect you to be in union for relations with molly. so why all the you in front? so concerned about additional security measures. a molly, is this just the case of fearing that they are losing control and you know, but if you could just not a huge way molly has approached russian private military companies. well, nothing to do with this is an activity that has been carried out legitimately where it is killing itself and is now has less and less leverage in africa. they're making africa part of the geo political doctrine of remaining to one number one superpower in the world. and they're attacking russia in china. so they're the ones that are actually preventing development because of their geopolitical view of russia in china. and that's the mistake china. he's never going to be put back in the box. they're all over africa and african countries more and more teresa china because they also. ringback it is ration volcano was supposed to have produced the hardest right across the sol. how region which includes moly, inside the us state department reporters previously suggested that attacks of actually increased 250 percent since 2018 quite simply, it's not working. and frogs is acutely aware of this, hence, to some degree, that's why it's stepping back. but in doing so, it seems incapable of allowing others to fill the void, instead it thrashing out and possibly permanently damaging its african toys. so let's even sky 40 paris. you know, there's a good right off on that story right now. just a few clicks away at r t dot com. well, it's certainly going to be a busy wednesday afternoon with my colleague. you know, neil, he'll be here at the desk in half an hour's time. for the meantime, thank you so much for sharing your time with us here in moscow. i live in a tie now where we would have so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely needed to reality. so think about how in social media filters, and they basically present themselves in every unrealistic way. and so we come to a fomo, there is any involved more than that. it's about being sort of envious of something that may not exist. and it's also really tied to the fact that humans we want to be part of the crowd.