aarti shows unique footage from the russian defense ministry first full public test run of a new hypersonic strategic missile called. britain's times newspaper interviews a chechen fighting against anti-government forces in eastern ukraine he says that there are members of islamic states in its ranks while the leaders battalion earlier admitted being part of a terrorist group committing atrocities in russia. also ahead syria and turkey a gathering forces near the border city of man beach held by u.s. backed kurdish militias off the washington announced the would through all the pentagon troops in the country.

this is our teens in. a major new missile delivery system called god will enter russian service next year r.t. is the first channel to show unique footage from the defense ministries first public test front of the weapon which is capable of firing nuclear missiles. the way. it's picking off to the launch of russia's oven guard ludmer putin who oversaw a live personally from defense ministries control and command center here in moscow explained the importance of wednesday a vent saying it was great success as it was excellent new year's eve to the entire

nation adding a tooling sure russia's security for generations to come and i'm going to. you use the more. vulnerable to any current. defense system of a potential enemy this is a big victory for a country. russia claims a t's a unique equipment and it is better than anything that any country in the world at face moment has let's take a look at some of the best features of a bang guard. as russia's president puts it it's all about protecting the country and its population

in the vanguard sounds indeed like a very powerful weapon if you words about what happened exactly today the weapon that was launched from the virus can military base in russia. as kremlin which has successfully hate the training target on the peninsula can chalk in russia's east six thousand kilometers away of course there were different concerns over the use of the launch of carbon card guard weapon in the west with which it say does not comply with global treaties especially these so-called and after treaty intimated range nuclear treaty requiring the us and back then the u.s.s.r. the treaty was signed thirty years ago in ninety eighty seven all nuclear and conventional weapons with the ranges of up to fifty five hundred kilometer is

but russia says it does not now violate the treaty in any way and putin said today after the launch that vice a versa. it restores the global balance the global security balance just to remind you of and current was among the new nuclear weapons that were to presented earlier in march say that russia had to develop its military industry in response to us says success in this fear and developing their solid ninety missile defenses so definitely putin sees. floor inch and developments of military industry in russia as a response to us is moves but definitely not everybody sees it the same way who we spoke to defend some political commentators a man or woman who believes the sun's a strong message about russian capabilities. the purpose of such weapons is the

terrence they are not intended for actual use of course in a third world war everything will be used but the real purpose is to counter what the americans have in their underground silos in their submarines and in their bombers so there is already sort of an arms race and there are enough weapons in both countries possible and the americans are the reason reported by the general accounting office the g.a.o. the united states government and the forces of the hypersonic. planes or missiles. of russia and of china it's one of the biggest threats five or ten years from now so obviously to get americans with their side whether

they have enough resources to invest in this particular domain and of course there is some concern of an arms race here which was the purpose for all the treaties because he doesn't make sense for the bigger powers to have. ten thousand twenty thousand or so nuclear weapons when two or three thousand will do. britain's times newspaper has printed a highly controversial interview with the church and fighting against anti-government forces in eastern ukraine the head of this his battalion earlier admitted that his fight is a waste she had in syria and the later was even part of a terror group committing atrocities that has more. first of all we have to make it clear who these people are in these volunteer battalions fighting alongside the ukrainian army and the eastern regions of the country they are too ethnic chechens

from a few dozens to possibly more than a hundred who are absolutely frank and open about their background they've been to syria and iraq they've been taught how to kill by jihad is there and this is what the times writes about it some of the potential ians gunman admit to having home their combat skills and islamic state training camps in iraq and syria this horrible background does get a mention however what the times journalists don't bring up is some other elements of the biography of the group's commander for example being a part of the underground movement behind several terrorist attacks in russia that killed hundreds of people earlier another british newspaper reported dads the very same commander disagreed with murdering civilians however he called these acts of terrorism understandable and according to the man the only way to make the russians

listen to these chechen groups as to why these chechen militias with a terrorist backgrounds are in the ukraine they say they are there to be a part of the war against the people they call separatists in the dawn and skin lugansk self-proclaimed republics those who have been interviewed by the times newspaper referred to these people asked puppets of the chechen president ramzan kadyrov and the russian leader vladimir putin the be the chechen had a simple explanation for fighting for ukraine against kremlin backed separatists putin is our enemy he said he brings only evil we heard about ethnic chechen groups fighting on both sides of the conflict in east ukraine. a long time ago however if we look at the coverage of the british news out loads of the russia ukraine confrontation recently we can see particularly with the times that they've been

emphasizing russia's role there as an aggressor as they call it one particular example is the coverage of the naval incident and the current strait just a short while ago i had a quick conversation with the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a cloud over and she told me that moscow sees the appearance of ethnic chechen fighters with possible links to islamic state on the east ukraine fighters as part of a wider trend that they've been seeing for years in ukraine now complete prolonged military conflict especially supported by arms and money from outside have always attracted people different world views the same happened in syria we've people who support religious fundamentalism coming from far away and who ows will they find in ukraine these jihadi fighters help ukraine realize this agenda of suppressing dissent. syria has reportedly send reinforcements to the border city of monkey

chilled by u.s. backed kurdish rebels turkey sends troops to northern syria near donald trump last week and asked the withdrawal of pentagon troops from syria an unbeatable that comes amid alleged israeli air strikes in syria on tuesday night they are reported to have injured three people of course one of john's been on the line now brings the latest sleazeball. well tensions also increasing in northern syria as you mentioned we've seen a build up of what we're hearing from a certain sources on the ground reinforcements now reports suggest and this has been confirmed by auti sources that syrian troops have arrived in the province of money which is in northern syria and it is an area that is controlled by the u.s. backed kurdish fighters they've arrived with some forty pickup trucks two tanks alawi's and armored personnel carriers it follows a request that was given last week by the codes to the syrian soldiers to come and

assist them now just the day before turkish backed syrian troops deployed syrian fighters as well as ahmed vehicles to the front line along and we are hearing. that they are planning an offensive so certainly the situation on the ground is intensifying not only between the troops but also between those who support them in other words the united states versus turkey now this comes hot on the heels of the surprise announcement by the american president that the united states will be withdrawing american troops from syria. we do not support and we would oppose efforts to move south and engage in activities against the syrian democratic forces 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 gosh we expect them to live up to those commitments and. i'm from fighting again the talk is threat with costs to find together the americans and the colleges. again the talk is charming until there was trouble from the surrounding this is complicated this is sarah and territory. are. but this year 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 a critical juncture either we must put it back on track or it will further deteriorate we have agreed essentially to normalize our relationship again question a man bush is one that as i said is going to be given priority in our joint working there for him this is one of the four measure of a good one of the issues fresh to work together. we are a part of syria and two we don't support separatism but you want an agreement to be reached and saw from this tradition as part of a free syria. now at the same time tensions are also increasing between israel on the one hand and syria and lebanon on the other the lebanese are drafting and urgent complain to the united nations security council over what they say is

israeli military jets infringement of lebanese airspace it follows his way the strikes overnight tuesday in which israel hit a number of targets in the damascus area this is what the lebanese transport minister has to say. humanitarian disaster which could have affected passengers of two civilian aircraft in lebanon airspace during the israeli air cross invasion force strikes on the south of damascus was narrowly avoided. now at the same time b. russian defense ministry has issued a statement in which it says that when those israeli strikes were happening there were two civilian planes that were coming in to land in beirut and in lebanon and that the israeli operations endangered or could have potentially endangered civilian lives b. is radio operations happened an act and saw the syrians having to activate their ground to air missile defense systems at the same time three syrian soldiers were

injured and an arms depot was badly damaged not israel for its side says that it had to activate its missile defense systems over what it says was serbian rockets that were fired from syria now that hasn't been any israeli acknowledgment that it did in fact strike in syria but this is part and parcel of the israeli policy for the past five years or so it's almost an open secret that israel launches attacks against what it says as targets in syria whether it's his below or iran but it doesn't actually confirm or deny that it carried out those attacks. so our correspondent paula slade bring us up to date many thanks paul. sanctions are not the only serious escalation in the region turkey's warning fronts against backing kurdish militias in syria insisting that the french so just no benefit to anyone that's after france pledged to keep troops in syria despite the u.s. announcing that it's pulling pentagon forces out. if fronts

a string to contribute to syria's future great but if you're doing this to protect the militia this will bring no benefit to anyone macross doesn't want to leave right after trump because if he's right after trump left he's going to look like he's going to look like he's playing follow the leader he's going to look like an american puppet he's going look like he's on the bad side of a ventriloquist act with president trump and he doesn't want to look like that he wants to look strong when we look at french the french role and basically been non-existent they've played second fiddle to the united states if they think they can fill in the shoes of the united states and continue the coalition fight against isis without the u.s. france has neither the money to finance this operation they don't have the boots on the ground to support the operation so it's basically a lose lose situation with france right now. but that was more useful after this short break.

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the body responsible. for. the u.s. defense secretary spent his christmas working at the pentagon even after donald trump's abrupt decision to remove him from office two months earlier than he had planned to resign james mattis wrote this holiday letter to u.s. soldiers in this world awash in change you hold the line storm clouds loom because of you your 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 more than now it seems that's precisely what could happen next as my guess the it explains. imagine you're sitting there on your porch reading about guns and huntin and all things good and then you see this ad 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. under whatever the further. they were dead bodies everywhere and the arguments going to be with you people in society among the dead bodies lying in the street that's a rich course in the middle of seventy years old.

just last week a former blackwater contractor was charged with first degree murder for his part in that slaw 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 a states a spent deal. 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 stan

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 capability 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 a 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 to guys willing to

kill for money when the american put put their mission credibility on the line privatizing it is probably not a why it's our dia 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 and he resented her message to him 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. advise is much more pliable there are always a lot of discussions i find 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 cheaper it's that trump and the pentagon will become less accountable gotta start will no longer be entirely their responsibility if blackwater whoever al smetters up at the be on their heads and it'll all be written off to plausible deniability and corporate bureaucracy so what do you think worth a try letting mercenaries run an entire war. christmases past on the end of the he's near across the stories that made twenty eighteen is our quirky media analyst lionel his is personal look back.

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there was a revolution going on in the world right now we guarding the new platforms the new bases river mation delivery and platforms such as this are proving that this is the best source of new again why the ability to not be limited by a commercial the ability to speak freely the ability to question more. you saw the president in control with chuck schumer dissolve being in the. sofa or the couch or the settee whatever you were just being lectured to with nancy pelosi saying i think we should maybe take this elsewhere and it was a chance for people to see what politicians sound like when they're really

getting into it. the initial screech and clamor of revolution. we saw with the yellow vests we saw it elsewhere we saw different beginnings of what will be a cataclysm a change in the structure of the world in what was intended to be this global even up polar type of concretization of the world that changes. the truth hurts yeah to vote it to you right up to that open vote with the latest and often are.

well i think it certainly makes sense for for moscow to think full strong in its contacts with the united states i just fear that the dominant view in this city is that it is merely impossible until the united states kind of settle this domestic divide the environment and in these seas you know i hate to see these laws work toxic but that's exactly what it is and then i think it's in a way you know you're damned if you do if you're down to film.

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by the way bankrupt person or bother to back up what all that is or is about them save us a of them assess the situation is completely divorced from human so. the justice department said today the inmate population of federal and state prisons in this country is at an all time high. the public sees a need for more prisons because crime is the number one concern of the people in this state. too many inmates in not enough space. another crime another calling in a country that already fed up with the stuff to. harm him a snake in america what all of this. since boy george want to. start.