party shows unique footage from the russian defense ministry first full public of a new strategic missile called god.

britain's times newspaper. fighting against antigovernment forces in eastern ukraine he says there are members of islamic state in his ranks while the leader of his battalion earlier admitted being part of a terror group we think of trustees in russia. syria reportedly. reinforce its positions near the city held by u.s. backed roberts. thanks for joining us this evening this is. a major new missile delivery system called out on god will enter russian service already next year artie's the first channel to show unique footage from the defense ministries first public test one of the weapons which is capable of firing nuclear missiles.

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. vulnerable to any current or prospective missile defense system of a potential enemy this is a big victory for a country. russia claims it is a unique equipment and it is better than anything that any country in the world at this 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 than. as kremlin reporters successfully heat the training target on the. six thousand kilometers away of course there were different concerns over the use and the launch of ivan gart on guard weapon in the west with critics say it does

not comply with the global treaties especially the so-called treaty intermediate 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 versa. it restores the global balance the global security balance just to remind you of unguarded was among. nuclear weapons that presented earlier in march saying the dresher had to develop its military industry in response to us is success in this fear and developing their

missile the ninety missile defenses so definitely putin sees vanguard floor inch and developments of military industry in russia as a response to you asses moves but definitely not everybody sees it the same way. we discuss this story now with ivan eland defense analyst who joins me on the line good to have you on the u.s. talking about of unguarded says that it might violate the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and washington's pulling out of other green saying that the russians basically all compliant what do you make of that. well this dispute should know certainly trashed the treaty they could negotiate over that they could actually invite other countries to get into the treaty with russia and the u.s. so that the treaty didn't have to be scrapped so there are alternative ways of proceeding

with that scrapping the young enough treaty and i think mainly the u.s. is concerned about chinese ground wants your souls in the south china sea and that's one of the reasons that they want to scrap the n f treaty over says that it is complying with the treaty and it's simply reinstating the the balance of power with this with this weapon if you agree with putin's assessment of that or not. well the matter is i understand the missile that was tested today is a. jeep missile which doesn't really follow. the i.n.f. treaty so there's two different the intermediate range nuclear forces are the i and have missiles and that they are the ones in dispute as far as whether the treaty has been violated. the us made a mistake in the george bush administration and took off the a.b.m.

treaty the anti-ballistic missile treaty and therefore since the us started building defenses other countries like russia and china have an incentive to increase their strategic long range weapons. with the russians introducing this latest missile and a danger this will develop into another andress. well i think the u.s. is also working on these types of things in the first went to launch one doesn't always get to win the contest as the as we saw in the age and also in the space race so but certainly. the u.s. existing u.s. is defenses can't deal with them but existing u.s. and defenses aren't that good against regular missiles so it is stark this did doing away with the a.b.m. treaty is part of the new arms race but we still have the problem of you know nuclear weapons are so destructive now then if we make them more destructive. you

know you just piling on so i think the nuclear downs will still be intact even if. the u.s. also develops these weapons when there's two hypersonic weapons under development in the us as well so but i think you know we're just building more and more nuclear weapons when we should be trying to limit them and the new start treaty is coming which is the arms limitation for the longer range missiles is coming up in two thousand and twenty one so you know that would be a good time to cool you know cool off the arms race and you know lock in some limits on these types of weapons as well and president putin referring to i'm going to school that invulnerable is not likely. well it's involuntarily invulnerable to u.s. defenses but like i say military missile defenses have never been that good the u.s. is the only one that has them but we our system is not really that that good against

even conventional strategic nuclear weapons and this hypersonic certainly can maneuver around and it's so fast it can't the defenses can't deal with it but so weak but ultimately or back to where we were when the cold war started you know we had the one nine hundred seventy two a.b.m. treaty in force and that is that we have a balance of destruction the missiles just keep getting faster and more destructive but you know a nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon and if the defenses can't hold them then well then both sides hold each other hostage to massive destruction which is what we had before which is terrible but i mean that's the way it is and i don't think defenses are going to keep up with they are fence of weapons no matter what weapons are developed so. you know this is a development but the but the balance of power in the nuclear world probably will

not change as a result of it speaking to defense analyst ivan eland ivan thank you thank you. none of the news britain's times newspapers printed a highly controversial interview with the kitchen fighting against and government forces in east ukraine the head of his patel in earlier admitted that his find ways jihad in syria and the leader was even part of a terror group committing atrocities in russia and he has more. so a big piece in the times on chechens on east ukraine front lines from a few dozens to more than one hundred there shoulder to shoulder with kiev's army but technically aren't part of it they're absolutely frank and open about their background saying we've been to syria and iraq we've been taught to kill by jihad it's there here's an extract from the times some of the potential ians gunman admit to having home the combat skills and islamic state training camps in iraq and syria this horrific background does get

a mention what the times journalists don't mention is other elements of the commander's biography like being part of an underground movement behind past terrorist attacks in russia which took hundreds of lives earlier another british newspaper reported that the very same commander was against murdering civilians however he said those bloodbaths were understandable and were the only way to make moscow hear something as to why he and his fighters are in donbass now here's what it says in the times report be it a church and had a simple explanation for fighting for ukraine against kremlin backed separatists putin is our enemy he said he brings a really evil we did hear about ethnic chechen groups fighting on both sides of the front line a long time ago so why would the times bring it up now the peace follows plenty of articles on ukraine versus russia that came out late the here are some of the

headlines moscow's always been described as an aggressor think the current straight naval clashes first of all yet when it comes to this report on chechen militias ukraine's deputy minister of information policy is thinking putin's propaganda on purpose or maybe not people who home the ukrainian media space and play along to prove. propaganda recruitment agents some are just useful idiots what i asked russian diplomats about i saw a linked fighters siding with kiev's forces i was told after years of various external attempts to radicalize ukraine there isn't really much of a surprise that you could prolong military conflicts especially supported by arms and money from outside have always attracted people of different worldviews the same happened in syria reviewable who support religious fundamentalism coming from far away and who ows will they find in ukraine these jihadi fighters help ukraine

realise its agenda of suppressing dissent all parts of quite a familiar story with a couple of new twists. and we've asked the government and military to comment on the times report about the working with terrorising chechen fighters will let you know if we get any response. tensions are growing in the northern syrian city of man be held by u.s. backed kurdish rebels the syrian army is gathering there according to latest reports while turkey also sends forces to the area the man bridge built up comes amid alleged israeli air strikes on syria on tuesday night that reported to have injured three people fall asleep as the story. tensions also increasing in northern syria as you mentioned we've seen a buildup of what we're hearing from a syrian sources on the ground reinforcements now reports suggest and this has been confirmed by r.t. 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 and now just the day before turkish backed syrian troops deployed syrian fighters as well as on their 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 populations as they have been so tremendously successful in liberating those areas from dash we expect them to live up to those commitments. that i'm from my fighting again their track is threat. to find together the americans and the collison again they talk to charm me until there was trouble from this around. this is complicated this is sara and territory.

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 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 one as i said is going to be given priority in our joint working there for him this is one of the four measure a good one of the issues fresh to work together with. we are a part of syria and we don't support separatism what 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 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 a humanitarian disaster which could have affected passengers of two civilian aircraft in lebanon's airspace during the israeli air cross invasion force strikes on the south of damascus was narrowly avoided now at the same time being rushed. 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 be israeli operations happened and act and saw the syrians having to

activate their ground to air missile defense systems at the same time syrian soldiers were injured and an arms depot was badly damaged now 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 hizbollah or iran but it doesn't actually confirm or deny that it carried out those attacks israel's loads and actions are not the only serious escalation in the region turkey's warning fronts against backing kurdish militias in syria insisting that the french soldiers there are no benefit to anyone to france pledged to keep troops in syria despite the u.s. announcing it's pulling pentagon forces out. if front's is doing to contribute to

syria's future great but if you're doing this to protect the militia this will bring no benefit to anyone mcraney doesn't want to leave right after trump because if he leaves 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 it's 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 us france has neither the money to finance the 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. u.s. congress frets over the developing relationship between top american and chinese

news agencies for details on that story and plenty more after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to use east i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. more people feed the economy because they buy scratch tickets scratch off lottery tickets you know when i was living in the ghetto in new york you know the red apple grocery store uptown had the highest prices in town and the liquor stores are open and you'd buy you know more expensive in the ghetto and that's how you build an

economy it's almost built on the backs of the poor america was built on the slave market america was built on prison labor to give them a look at the good times of america the ne'er do wells it's all very swishy and swell that's over we got to go back to basics. u.s. congress has expressed concern over a new cooperation deal between the associated press and chinese news agency why it's worried that china might exploit the american outlet as an instrument of propaganda is done of explains 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. seeing who are serves 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 grissom and women who signed the letter seem to be a bit out of the loop though because here's a news flash 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's ruthless you know 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. but christmas is past now and the end of the year is near across the stories that twenty eight is our quirky media analyst lionel this is a personal look back. believe . that what i think. maybe you could read a little please stop it you know we're talking about. mars as zucker berg is testimony regarding facebook social media and the loss of data

his appearance before face of before congress was a disaster nothing short of a disaster net mainstream media news in general took a hit from every conceivable angle and i believe that one of the reasons might have been. the jim acosta moment next. marco and globalist in general the book did this. and it was a template and a learning lesson for i think most of the world. our own senator elizabeth warren also called liaquat our focal hondas a woman whose native american ancestry was completely unraveled and disproved via d.n.a. . it was

anything short of miraculous considering the fact that everybody in the world of politics both democrat or republican everybody the media print otherwise everybody was against him his family his legacy name and how he even survived is another story but he was no rock eula. there is a revolution going on in the world right now we guarding the new platforms and new bases for information 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 president trump 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 so it does thanks thing with us for the truth it's a national of the it's coming your way and how. 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 d.c. he's you know i hate to see these laws work toxic but that's exactly what it is and i think it's in a way you know you're damned if you do in your down the film. where does that come to cool russia no one's ever no one has ever heard of and never even heard about most.

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