our. unique footage from the russian defense ministry first public test run hypersonic strategic missile called. britain's times newspaper interviews it should fighting against anti-government forces in ukraine he says there are members of islamic state in his ranks all the leader of the battalion earlier admitted being part of a terror group committing atrocities in russia. tensions grow in syria reportedly masses troops in the northern city also reports positions in the

area held by u.s. backed kurdish rebels. and called on god will enter russian service next year i'll tell you the first channel to show unique footage from the defense ministry first public test run of the weapon that is capable of firing euclide missiles. speaking after the launch of russia's guard ludmer putin who oversaw 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 ending a twirling sure russia's security for generations to come i wonder what. you use the more. vulnerable to any current or perspective missile 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 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 were to buy what happened exactly today the weapon that was launched from the virus could 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 unguarded guard weapon in the west with critics say it does not comply with the global treaties especially the so-called 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 kilometers

but russia says it does not now violate the treaty in any way and putin said today after the launch that vice versa. restore is the global balance the global security balance just to remind you of unguarded was a month due to nuclear weapons that putin presented earlier in march say in the dry shahad to develop its military industry in response to us says success in this fear and developing their own anti missile defenses so definitely putin sees. lloyd and developments all military industry in russia as a response to us says moves but definitely not everybody sees it the same way. we discussed this issue with defense honest ivan eland two believes the current political climate could spark a new arms race but i think the u.s.

is also working on these types of things in the first one 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. has defenses can't deal with them but existing u.s. defenses aren't that good against regular missiles so it is start this. doing away with the a.b.m. treaty is start a new arms race 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. britain's times newspapers printed

a highly controversial interview with the chechen fighting government forces in east ukraine the head of the battalion earlier admitted his fighters had wasted hand in syria and that the leader was even part of a terror group committing atrocities in russia in particular explains. 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 the bichon 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 vs russia that came out lately 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 little people who home the ukrainian media space and play along to prove . it is propaganda or crimean 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 prolong 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 realise its agenda of suppressing dissent all parts of quite a familiar story with

a couple of new twists we have us the government and military to comment on the times report about the working with terror links or to vitus we'll let you know if we get a response. tensions are growing in the northern syrian city of hold by u.s. backed kurdish rebels the syrian army's gathering according to latest reports turkey also sends forces to the area of bird of comes amid alleged israeli air strikes on syria tuesday night that reportedly left three people injured fall asleep as details. this has been confirmed by r.t. sources that syrian troops have arrived in the province of 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 kurds to the syrian soldiers to come and assist them 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 says successful in liberating those areas from dash.

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 move further deteriorate . is one that as i said is going to be given priority in our joint work you're there for him this is one of his vision for measuring the good one of the issues of work together with. we are a part of syria and we don't support. what you want an agreement to be reached and soften nutrition as part of a free syria 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 complained to the united nations security council over what they say is israeli

military jets infringement of lebanese airspace it follows his waiting 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's airspace during the israeli air cross invasion force strikes on the south of damascus was there we 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 he is radio operations happened and act and saw the syrians having to activate their ground to air missile defense systems at the same time we syrian soldiers were injured and an arms depot was badly damaged israel's alleged actions

on the only serious escalation in the region turkey's warning fronts against backing kurdish militias that are insisting that the french soldiers by the fighting know what parts of the fronts pledged to keep troops in syria despite the u.s. announcing it was pulling its 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 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 u.s. 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 strange and in the name of blackwater suggests the notorious missionary group is making a comeback details after the break.

they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want to. thank you i could be it's like the fourth tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water our. president. made a surprise to iraq his first since taking office on announce that he won't reduce the u.s. military presence that will the five thousand u.s.

troops still in the country they've been funding islamic terrorists since twenty fourteen trumps trip comes amid critical changes to middle east policy including pulling pentagon troops out of syria as well as talks of slashing the military presence in afghanistan. the policy shifts come right after u.s. defense secretary james mattis resigned last week he also advised on trying to keep troops in afghanistan opposing the idea of using private contractors and now it seems that specifically what could happen next as rug as the 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 antics further disgrace the very name mercenary but i never heard that.

there were dead bodies everywhere in the city arguments going about even with the people inside among the dead bodies ministry and some which was in 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 slaughter it was then that things went easy for the mercenary group which was then rebranded renamed and resold into obscurity but it's presumably back now i states is 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 of the. white house an irregular warfare option that would use a 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 the few

thousand u.s. special forces guys give them a small air force private their force and the blue 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 priest 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 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 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 the trumps security advisor is much more pliable there are always a lot of discussions and i find them helpful i'm always open to new ideas but 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 prince's 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 or whoever al smetters up

at the beyond 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. christmas has passed on the end of the year is near across the stories that made twenty eight tina we have our quirky media analyst lionel this is personal look back. believe. that what i think. all maybe you could read it all please stop it you know we're talking about.

mars as zucker berg his 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 next mainstream media news in general took a hit from every conceivable angle and i believe that one of the readers might have been. the jim acosta moment next. marco and globalist in general good did this sastre and it was a template and a learning lesson for i think most of the world. our own senator elizabeth warren also called liaquat are foca 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 it how even survives is another story but he was no regular. there is a revolution going on in the world right now we guarding the new platforms the new bases rupert 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 president drum 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 e.u. in a polar type of concretization of the world that changes. the truth hurts. it was lionel and thanks staying with us this evening i'll be back with updates in half an hour. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy even foundation let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic development the only silly and dangerous business i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

just does. not. make it. thank. you lou your local superman film he can see as you know if you buy the fact. that you're in the form of the media. i'm with you more then with the baby one was

in the mud almost nothing to do with many bosses in this bomoh in the most overt defense. join me every thursday on the alex salmon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport lessness i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the a. was. by the way bankrupt pres but we bother to back up what all that is there is about him save us see them as institutions completely divorced from him and 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 thing. too many inmates not enough space. in their crime another. country and already have and i'm with the start of what. was a. combination of an american with all of this going to prison time going or just want to. know i'm. going to prison are going to get. a shocking new number was released today and it deserves our undivided attention one out of every one hundred americans is now behind bars walked up to prison or in jail.

the most important thing. as to talk from your heart if you have more than one child given like an overall message but then do an individual one to each child throw them a kiss talk to them about what you do daily the rest should be just you if you've written a poor we've had people pray we've had people saying one guy showed his little boy how to shoot a basket the creative. these are gifts to your children. the families of punished right along with. the people don't think so but the collateral consequences of somebodies incarceration affects not just the whole family but it affects the whole community and affects you as an individual or the you know

whether or not and whether you know that person or not that's incarcerated. get to inform. you should care. i have a background in film and video as a producer and i thought there's got to be something i can do so why not combine my career and my experience with the present system and come up with something for these kids. in that camera. and that they can look at them and say. you know this isn't your fault you did nothing wrong it means . many of these men and women it's the first time they've really taken responsibility which is huge and that's a first step in recovery of any kind anytime is to take responsibility for. this.