britain's and the times newspaper interviews are fighting against government forces in eastern ukraine it was about having ice in his ranks and early admitted being part of a terror group committing atrocities in russia. with the imminent departure of u.s. defense secretary james mattis fears grow that notorious. water is making a comeback after a full page ad is published in its name warning. and the u.s. congress has criticised a cooperation deal between the associated press and china's newspaper saying beijing might explode for propaganda.

it's. watching all t international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program but first a major new strategic weapon called god will enter russia the russian service already next year is the first channel to show exclusive footage from the russian defense ministry test run of the new weapon the testing was watched by russian president vladimir putin the system was brought back in march twenty eighth by putin himself as one of six new russian strategic weapons when approaching a tall get the glider is capable of sharp high speed invasive maneuvers in flight making it quote absolutely invulnerable for any missile defense system.

but as the times newspaper has printed a highly controversial interview with a chechen find government forces in eastern ukraine the head of the ground so patel and also admitted that his client has wage jihad in syria and that he was even part of a terrorist group committing atrocities in russia live ninety two teens are trying . to do we know why the times is interviewing a south confessed terrorist. that era hello well first of all we have to make it clear who these people are fighting alongside the ukrainian army in these volunteer battalions they are ethnic chechens reportedly from a few dozen two dozen sorry two possibly more than one hundred who are absolutely open and frank about their background there have been to syria and iraq they

have been taught how to shoot and kill by the jihad is there and here's what the times wrote about this specific element of their background some of the timelines gunman admit to having home their combat skills and islamic state training camps in iraq and syria. well this evil element of the background the times' does mention however what is not mentioned by the u.k. newspaper is other parts of their biography for example being part of the underground the hottest movement in russia that was behind several terrorist attacks in russia that resulted in hundreds of deaths earlier another british newspaper reported that the very same commander they interviewed them possibly two years before the times did so called these kind of attacks understandable and the only way for the russians to really.

try to listen to these chechen fighters however he disagreed with murdering civilians specifically. chechen had a simple explanation for fighting for ukraine against kremlin backed separatists who tim is our enemy he said he brings only evil. that was interesting that he what is it that the chechen battalion a doing in ukraine do we know why they're there. well the reason for that is because there are also other ethnic chechens fighting on the other side they are supporting the pro russian forces there the people that were interviewed by the times newspaper are being referred to as those who are supporters of evil vladimir putin and this is perhaps something that you

just heard from them and the other part of the times interview now also what i want to bring up is the coverage that is being given by the british media outlets they are putting this in context of the recent escalation in the hours off in the hours off sea and the current strait where russia is being called an aggressor and also the shooting in courage when a gunman in a school killed more than a dozen people now i've already spoken to the members of the russian foreign ministry that you can see behind me they're saying this is nothing new and this is all part of a trend that's been going on for years when there were people in ukraine being radicalized by some other external forces. and thanks for the update and in a cold sweat go warm up

a chunk of their reporting for us thank you. now the u.s. defense secretary spent his christmas working at the pentagon even or at all times about decision to remove him from office two months time to resign james mattis for this holiday letter to american soldiers. in this womb to washington change you hold the line storm clouds loom because of you you'll fellow citizens live safe at home. james mattis resigned last week after the u.s. president announced his decision to withdraw troops from syria he also advised on trying to keep troops in afghanistan opposing the idea of using private contractors in war there now it seems that's precisely what could happen next as well at castillo explains imagine you're sitting there on your porch reading about guns and huntin and all things good and then you see this as we are coming blackwater judging by the logo the infamous private security group who is trigger

happy and dick's further disgrace the very name mercenary but i know whatever the further. they were dead bodies everywhere and it's the knowledge but it's going to be with you people in society among the dead bodies lying on the street that's which causes the middle of next seven years old.

just last week a former blackwater contractor was charged with first degree murder for his part in that slow thought it was then that things went iffy for the mercenary group which was then rebranded renamed and resold into obscurity but it's presumably back now play states are spent dearly. in blood and treasure in time in afghanistan every prince co-founder of the original blackwater now that everyone's fearful over trumps of ghana's down withdrawal erik prince sees an opportunity the option i was pushing the options that were considered by some in the white house in irregular warfare option that would use a capability of special forces capability some contracted capability to strengthen to give a skeletal support structure to the afghan security forces prince is selling

a new kind of war private war war waged not by governments but by corporations the plan is simple six thousand mercenaries backed up by the few thousand u.s. special forces guys give them a small air force private their force and the glue cost to about five billion dollars a year a year for reference the afghan war has cost on average five billion a month for seventeen years but the pentagon is reluctant you just can't trust national security breach these reputation to merck's the guys willing to kill for money when the american put to put their mission credibility on the line privatizing it is probably not a why it's idea every prince has been absent for years he's been selling this plan since he found out that the president wanted to get out of afghanistan the

president was right to campaign against endless wars that he resented her message to hand he's going after all the maddest for this to happen if we leave decisions on warfare soley to the pentagon we will be at war for well mr prince had been new year to you james mattis u.s. secretary of defense will leave his post on the first of january and john bolton trumps security had. is much more pliable there are always a lot of discussions i find it helpful i'm always open to new ideas the issue here is different it's more about principles about morals we know how blackwater behaved in iraq we know what they did when they had immunity they ran wild they shot and killed with abandon would you trust the same people to run an entire war every princes selling point may not be that he's cheap or it's that trump and

the pentagon will become less accountable gotta start will no longer be entirely their responsibility if blackwater who have alex messes up at the bill in their heads and it will be written off to plausible deniability and corporate bureaucracy so what do you think worth a try letting mercenaries run an entire war. the russian defense ministry says that israeli air strikes on syria that injured three on tuesday night also endangered two passenger jets we're going to cross live now to auntie's paula slip from the information on the story paula what more do we know . well as you mentioned the russian defense ministry criticized the israeli operations in syria overnight israel launched a number of rockets against targets in the damascus area it injured three syrian

soldiers and it also destroyed or extensively damaged an arms depôt now the russian defense ministry pointing out there the israeli operations came as two passenger flights were coming into land in both beirut and damascus and that the civilian lives were potentially endangered we've heard from the syrian side that they were forced to activate their ground to air defense missile systems after the rockets were fired from israel and we're hearing from israel that they were forced to activate their in defense missile systems after rockets were fired from syria now all of this comes as the situation particularly in northern syria is the latest reports suggest that as many as forty pickup trucks two tanks alawi's an armored personnel vehicles belonging to the syrian army have entered the northern syrian province of man because now this is an area that is controlled by the kurds r.t. sources on the ground have confirmed that what we're hearing from syrian sources

are reinforcements have in fact entered the province this follows a request last week by the kurds to the syrian army to come and assist them just the day before the turkish backed syrian for syrian forces sent their own fighters and their own armored vehicles to the front lines in one bridge so we witnessing a potential showdown between the turkish back fighters and the kurds and the syrian forces in fact we're hearing from ankara that it is planning. a major offensive now all of this comes in the wake of the surprise announcement by the american president donald trump that he's withdrawing american troops from syria what we're hearing now too is that the kurds are ready to return the province of one bridge to syria take a listen. we

do not support and we would oppose efforts to move south and engage in activities against the syrian democratic forces the kurdish commanders have made commitments that they will turn over areas to local population as they have been so tremendously successful in liberating those areas from cash we expect them to live up to those commitments. are for moms each and we are fighting against the turkish threat with god's will we are going to fight together with the americans and the coalition against the turkish army until their withdrawal from one bridge and the surrounding villages this is syrian territory. let's assume we noticed more movement from the euphrates shield along the front

line as turkey before its military operation on a free and threatened that manned beach would be the next target. as i said before our relationship is at critical juncture either we must put it back on track or it will further deteriorate we have agreed essentially to normalize our relationship began questioning. is what it is i said is going to be given. already in our joint working earth therefore and this is one of the for measuring it is one of the issues for us to work together. we are a part of syria and two we don't support separatism much who want an agreement to be reached and saw from this trade as part of a free syria. the u.s. congress expresses it. over the developing relationship between the top american

and chinese news agencies more details after this break. you know world of big. lot and it's time. to dig deep to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to point. for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. people feed in new york you know the red apple grocery store uptown have the highest prices in town right in the liquor stores are open and you buy you know more expensive in the ghetto and that's how you build an economy it's always built

on the backs of the poor america was built on the slave market america was built on prison labor and with the good of america the ne'er do wells it's all very well that's over we got to go back to basics. welcome back to the program a major new strategic weapon called the apple god has just been tested in russia we can show you footage from the defense ministry test run and it will be put into service in twenty nineteen altie is the first channel to show the footage from the defense ministry test run. of a kind of weapon will be put into service in twenty nineteen as i just mentioned when approaching a target it's capable of shop high speed face of many is in front making it quite. in fact any missile defense system.

u.s. judge has eluded to pyongyang to pay hof a billion dollars damages to the family of a student who died after being released from north korean custody is a look back at what happened to otto. after a detail to accomplish mark when i arrived in pyongyang on the morning of january first two thousand and sixteen i committed my cry of taking out the important political slogan from the staff. made the worst mistake of my own.

but only thieves. can say for me. he was. he was dead he had a large scar on his right foot north korea is now. their terrorist hate today's droid hate they purposely and intentionally injured i think you need to define torture the fact that he has an ox ache in several up at the brain damage caused by the lack of oxygen to brain we don't know what the request was and that is i mean could that have been torture at the time we don't know we don't have enough information about what happened. at that initial insult to. draw any concrete. following the death of otto one beer washington lit it

relisted north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism in the twenty seventeen rejects the allegation it tortured the student prior to his death. well we're going to cause live to william allison a professor at yale. university welcome to the program william. what's your opinion on this do you think the u.s. judge ordering north korea to pay a higher five billion dollars is it reasonable and how likely is it that pyongyang will pay. look this is a pseudo diplomatic sas from what i can see as a former diplomat is half a billion is utterly ridiculous and the people i feel most sorry for and i must say these are the parents of the boy now i don't go into the details of who did what because nobody knows. the fact that he was jewish may have meant that the parents didn't allow a problem autopsy which makes sense so we don't actually know what we do know is

that there is already political interference in the life of an individual and that political interference i think is coming probably more from the united states military industrial congressional complex than from the rather harsh regime in north korea this boy. may go to being tortured but he may have been badly mistreated and that does happen i'm afraid in a lot of countries including america and we don't know what medical conditions he had before so that's in the end nobody knows but the half a billion is absolutely absurd he's being used i think possibly by both sides now as a bargaining chip bargaining chip like some kind of poker game. that's my national response to your question but fire away with more questions now in the chair he added that north korea is the longest as a porn into your political gains. how surprising is this kind of

political charge allowance from an official court ruling. it. should be surprising but. given the lack of consistency at the moment within the american stablish mint it's not surprising there's no consistency there are people like trump who tend to shoot from the ship emotionally but also in a business sense and then you've got the deep military industrial congressional complex whose essential objective is actually we need to look at the background of those two to eventually surround the china and russia and that's why the korean peninsula is so important to them and you find a case like this which has been just pulled out of the bag because they have in several cases they could have grabbed. and they're using it and let's not forget

that the poor chap was released i think at exactly the same time as trump was meeting the north korean leader it was june i think the same day actually judoon you know two thousand and seventeen we tells us a lot was told us that this this life this human life is simply being used. in diplomacy which frankly i find quite medieval yeah i am an when you're talking about the case being is a huge amount of money being demanded and at the first came meeting trying to say that without the tail the summit would not have happened why would he in that case then come out with a statement like that. because well this is let's remember that modern diplomacy is now called tweeting diplomacy i call it tweeting diplomacy does it and it's the tweets frankly i'm sorry to say that's not all of you are on tweet but i'm afraid

i'm. not and never shall be is good because people can make what they want out of these suddenly emotional statements. of course you must undoubtedly have discussed the case and as i said the poor student was relieved at the same time as the meeting so that's why tom said it he must have gotten a grievance. as the days preceding the summit this chap would be released and of course in a sense it was a. burden off the shoulders of the north koreans because i the soon mistreatment or whatever i doubt it was basic torture and they were already really had another hot potato you know in their hands and so they were really happy in a sense to get rid of this poor human being back to the states so that makes sense i think that's why trump would have said it

a spot of emotion was involved ok well leave it there william and sir and professor at rose go gala marconi university thanks very much for coming on to r.t. thank you lou welcome bill glasson happy christmas friends here which isn't your christmas you've got another twelve days i think. my vote. now in the u.s. congress has expressed concern ever any corporation tail between the associated press and chinese news agency and somewhere in china lie to exploit the american outlet as an instrument of propaganda. explaining. the u.s. government is on red alert this time quite literally after the a.p. news agencies signed a memorandum of understanding with the chinese counterparts who are the letter lawmakers sent to the boss of associated press explains that senior journalists are well basically all spies and shouldn't be dealt with at all. singh who

are serve some of the functions of an intelligence agency by gathering information and producing classified reports for the chinese leadership on both domestic and international events because the grisman and women who signed the letter seem to be a bit out of the loop though because here's a newsflash a.p. and seeing who are have been partners since nineteen seventy two this memorandum is something of an official pinky promise to stay friends and make each other's jobs easier the reason them all of understanding updates a relationship that has been consistently the same since one thousand nine hundred two and opens the possibility for future commercial interactions it does not include or invision any sharing for its official intelligence information or any other technology and normally this indeed would be way under the radar of the us government but this time the chinese are involved democrats and republicans often

seem like they're ready to rip each other's heads off but as soon as breaching gets in the picture oh they sing in tune nine is effort over take the united states as oral preeminent superpower china is totally eating our lunch they intend not just to supply america but all countries on earth and the west china is ruthless in how they go after us we're in a fight with china we have to ride to china tyler earlier this year the wall street journal reported that washington was mewling branding seen who are as a nasty foreign agent this is what happened without seeing the us this is what al-jazeera has so far been avoiding the letter to the a.p. chief seems to continue the trend when the american government tries to sketch over the media landscape the mighty still stand for now at least but the foreign agent label begins to loom over the horizon. and maybe a new strategic weapon called our guard has just been tested in russia. it will be

put into service in twenty nineteen altie is the first channel to show the footage from the defense test. showing. g.'s shooting where you. have. one of a kind weapon will be put into service in twenty nineteen when approaching a target is capable of sharp high speed invasive maneuvers in flight making it quote absolutely invulnerable to any missile defense system. news round up this hour i'll be back in about thirty minutes time but do stay tuned now for documentary and cost writing us firsthand accounts. and shocking

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