in wave and say by day as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. washington expresses concern over russia's new law hypersonic saying there are no effective counter measures the. final test was successfully carried out on wednesday. the way the protests are spreading across after the death of a journalist who set himself on fire protesting the difficulties of being a reporter the country's economic. judges drop a probe into the deadly attack on the former president's plane it's a case that's long gone into relations. plus donald trump pays a surprise visit to iraq to meet with the country's leadership but ends up only

holding a telephone call with his counter it's. thursday december twenty seventh on moments off. here in moscow a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the international russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile cold on god president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole that's delve deeper into the story our correspondent joining us live here in the studio to tell us about the media reaction to this well this launch did certainly become a top news story all over the world those analytical pieces that have had a chance to come out there were more along the lines of why the united states should feel this missile and i should say it kind of does carry the. same messages

that we've been that we've been seeing for months really because this evan god missile was one out of five vance two weapons unveiled by vladimir putin back this march and that's when the world just everybody went bonkers and everybody should feel scared even though it has been since the message of the russian government that it is purely defensive that these weapons they are meant to defend russia not to attack any other country obviously a very important launch certainly for the security of russia or and as i said by the russian president vladimir putin he was talking about this system back in march the first of this year but what exactly is god well first i would like to stop as to why exactly this new inch is important it is important because it is the final test be food this missile goes into service and now let's just have a look let's enjoy how it unveiled.

well as for what exactly happened god is well it's just one of the most advanced weapons and missiles in the world is a quick preview of what it's capable of really. so it's incredibly incredibly precise and also it is classified as sort of a glider missile what it means is that it doesn't go beyond the atmosphere it travels through it and this is what allows it to go really low like

a prone sort of thing and to maneuver very unpredictably that's why everybody is so concerned that's why even the united states is saying that it doesn't have any means of intercepting it because of its unpredictability and maneuverability but as putin has been saying since day one with the god system this is to act as a deterrent this is a defensive system was was he involved in any way with the actual final test although he is the commander in chief so he watched this final launch and also it was a bladder putin who announced that. the russian military will get the first units of this missile as soon as next year well to keep to keep the country safe of course that's why russia kind of made an emphasis this year to will roll out as many new and advanced weapons as possible keeping the country safe you know but so when it comes to the issue of global security how does one god the fact that there's a tip up the balance as a rock the boat well it's. so it's kind. of it is designed to pose

a threat but it's very very different how does it because russia doesn't have this whole offensive thing in its military doctrine like for example the one that the united states they do have that russia russia's military does doctrine is all about defense and this it's not. just about the haven't got missed really it's only part of it yes it is very very advanced and in but in fact it was announced it was unveiled by vladimir putin in response to the united states developing their own and to political missile so it wasn't russia just going out and saying look we have this new found limits should better pay attention and listen to us and be scared. just be scared no it was in response to something that the united states have done and it is really all stems from the one same story that russia has felt intimidated for

a long long time starting with nato expanding towards russia and russian diplomats spending countless hours trying to convince them not to do so with the i.n.f. treaty as. russia feels that if the united states pull out and it looks very very likely this deal russia will be dragged into another arms race and nobody really wants that so glad i'm a putin has really emphasized that this is a defensive thing listen. the u.s. is now leaving the i.m.f. treaty going to happen it's hard to imagine what is the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security will. not say later that we are trying to get an advantage and we're not trying to get an advantage with this but merely to see if your pilots to ensure our security allow to correspondent joining us live here on our international talking about this new app on guard system the final successful test carried out on wednesday thank you.

we did discuss the new weapons implications for global security with a number of experts but i think the u.s. is also working on these types of things first want to watch one doesn't always get to win the contest as the as we start in the age and also the space race so but certainly. u.s. existing u.s. defenses can't deal with them but existing u.s. and defenses aren't that good against regular missiles so if 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 and the new start treaty is coming which is the arms limitation for the longer range missiles is coming up in twenty twenty one so you know that would be a good time to coeur to you know cool off the arms race and you know lock in

some limits on these types of weapons as well i think that is a motive i think it's in the interests of the russian people the american people in the whole world to not see an increase in a new arms race the danger here is that the u.s. military establishment is going to react to this by saying well we need to poorer ever more money into developing our own hypersonic missile systems and we have a new new escalated arms race of course right now the united states is spending seven hundred billion dollars a year on its military which is more than the next nine countries combined so we know who's leading the way in the in the military arms race but i think russia i would assume they're hoping that this can be a reality check and bring and promote more negotiations and less military development. violent clashes have crypt tunis yeah after the death of

a reporter who set himself on fire he was protesting a growing economic problems in the difficulties of earning a living as a journalist that the incident is drawing comparisons to the events that led to to his years revolution in twenty eleven which of course not also started with the man burning himself and then eventually led to that of the arab spring. for all people who have no means of subsystems today i started a revolution which i did i'm going to set myself on fire eight years after the arab

spring and tunisia is still in turmoil with protests over the economic situation and the high unemployment rate in january of two thousand and eleven the old school dictator ben ali was forced to step down the democratic transition gave way to a new constitution and for free elections that paved the way for pro western secular forces to dominate the new government back then u.s. president barack obama hailed the progress toward democracy and called it an amazing transformation musial was the first country to undergo the transformation we know as the arab spring and given it is now the first to have elections we thought it was appropriate that tunisia would be the first to visit the white house excellent progress it's been very good to be this transformation truly inclusive and for. there were very high hopes as well but the recent round of protests sparked by the journalist suicide show that many feel that things haven't really

improved and that stability is fragile human but who should the reasons for these young men suicide pull that see isolation and the difficult circumstances journalists face in tunisia and better than and so this tragedy sums up the status of journalists in tunisia he was driven to do it because of the impossible living costs journalist work with no contract. and poverty wages and laying on the facts and large number of journalists live in a fragile situation both financially in legally and i see that with a large number of journalists and chinese yeah in the sense the arab spring to nisha has followed the path of liberal reforms advocated by western leaders and poverty is still widespread the overall living situation has been improved teachers among other public employees have been pretty badly affected there have been calls for mass protests and when it comes to the european union back then the e.u. demonstrated its support for the transition to democracy by implementing the three

m's money mobility and markets however the high hopes have been widely disappointed and now it seems that the clout of the european union has declined in the countries that had revolutions many people have lost hope. probably some of them have high expectations for the uprising in two thousand and eleven but their government has not been able to deliver on the high hopes on the economic situation has deteriorated. and unemployment is really. sky high and in some areas that have been some improvements we've had elections in tunisia you know. more freedoms enjoyed by the popular patient polls here freedom of expression freedom but i had to protest but at the same time social and economic problems the basic infrastructure of problems that

existed at that time are still there that whether we will see similar. results this time i think it's truly have. many similarities but also many differences at the same time. we're seeing as tunisia streets once again fill up with protesters in response to another public suicide it seems that western style free markets and free elections haven't solved the country's whoa the amazing transformation seems to have left many on satisfied cable mop and r.t. new york. french judges have called off a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former president's plane which ultimately led to the genocide of nine hundred ninety four investigation was a stumbling block between the two countries it was looking into several rwandan

officials close to the current president in connection with the death of the country's former leader the decision comes after reports that france also rejected a bid by human rights groups to reopen a separate probe into whether the french military shed any of the blame for the deaths of hundreds of people they had promised to rescue. today we're being asked to leave with the people who killed our family where it's all there sorry they will do it again some people believe that i'm not one of.

the fighting was triggered by the downing of a plane carrying the french backed president in one thousand nine hundred ninety four hutu extremists blamed the rebels and the rebels denied involvement for the past twenty years paris has pursued those responsible for the assassination but not anymore the inquiry has reportedly been dropped over insufficient evidence. we have to interpret this decision by friend judges as a form of resignation faced with a political context which prosecutors did not know how to fight over the years france suggested the tutsi rebels headed by the current president paul kagame they were behind the attack they even charged seven people close to the leader pull could be the physical elimination of rwanda's then president was seen as the only means to achieve his political ends a total victory and this process of the massacre of the tutsis from the so-called interior the rwandan government flatly denied the allegations and cut diplomatic

ties with france fast forward and roh want to has some nice words for the french. president. precious put it. different. i think. changed the world bank considers rwanda to be more business friendly than much of the developed world and france seems to have an interest. group of french speaking countries. that would make. the rwandan foreign minister has. twenty five years since the genocide justice has never been fully served but for

the present it looks like that doesn't have to stand in the way of a little money making. of an ice soul linked. to be fighting alongside. what address those issues.

so when you want to be president. wanted. to go on the ropes this is what the four three in the morning people. interested in the war. stories say welcome to them the u.s. president donald trump and his wife paid a surprise christmas visit to u.s.

troops in iraq and what looked like a bit of a rock star entrance so all soldiers taking selfies on signing autographs. but. the visit didn't ole go to plan also on the agenda was a meeting with the iraqi leadership however the two sides couldn't agree on the basic format of the meetings that old one wanted up as just a simple phone call ahead though of one of the two main blocs in iraq's parliament was not amused by trump's surprise visit even calling it

a violation of sovereignty. britain's at the times newspaper has printed a highly controversial interview with fighting against government forces in eastern ukraine the head of his battalion earlier admitted that his fighters waged in syria and that their leader was. committing atrocities in russia. 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 their 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 bid to 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 lately here are some of the headlines moscow's always been described as an aggressor think the current straight naval classes first. 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 the real people who home the ukrainian media space and play along to putin's propaganda recruitment agents some are just useful idiots when i asked russian diplomats about ice 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 complete through long military conflicts especially supported by arms and money from outside have always attracted people different the same happened in syria we've easily support religious fundamentalism is coming from far away and who ows will do fine in ukraine these jihadi fighters how pure crane realize its agenda of suppressing dissent think it's intentional try to whitewash the connection of the ukrainian government to these groups while knowing that they are their core cooperating with the ukrainian government supposedly the jihad as are the biggest threat to the western world for the last how many a couple decades now but the government of britain and for that matter the deep state of the united states they surely don't look at it that way they look at these groups as useful i don't know how many readers when they see a story like this really know what the background is for example let's take of the look at the relationship that m i six the british intelligence agency has with the

white helmets who are essentially a public relations group for al qaida and it live province and elsewhere in syria does anybody how many people put two and two together and say wait a minute this doesn't smell right why is our government why is the british government which is a close ally of the united states working with these terrorist groups i thought we were against terrorism and it is i think very hard for a lot of people to look at this and say wait a minute maybe we're not as against the terrorists as we pretend to be. we have asked the ukrainian government and military to comment on the times report about them working with terror chechen fighters we'll let you know if any response. and finally. to operators about prince harry i knew he published waste report by the poll has revealed some of the oddest things the u.s. government's been spending tax dollars on have a look. what's

the day dreaming. i want to know who comes up with this crap. that. i'm a professional daydream.

now there are some top stories for this hour here on this thursday when i see international we're back soon with.

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 always built on the backs of the poor in 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. is that country called russia nor was it no one has ever heard of a country never even heard about most.

this is both broadcasting around the world as you can see from washington d.c. where important policy and money decisions are made there on capitol hill i'm bart chilton and thanks for joining us for what is the first installment of our infrastructure deficit special we're glad you're on board what will focus on the

u.s. this time we'll have a few comparisons with other places around the world there's so much to cover much of the things that you would expect like roads bridges airports and rail but we also take a more complete and comprehensive look at other important infrastructure critical to not only commerce but to national security will look at energy including pipelines and the electrical grid and communications including broadbent and even specifically how trucking fits into our deeply textor transportation network there's so much that we couldn't do it all justice in one program and i'm pleased that will be doing so with a little help from our friends some of the arctic correspondents and others who are lending their expertise to it for most of all i'm really looking forward to it and i hope you are too.

so we're going to jump right in and start with a bit of an infrastructure place setting and then look at rail for that we turn to our to correspondent manila chan. president try to campaign for months and months on repairing america's crumbling infrastructure from the roadways to waterways railways to the airways and has recently unveiled a plan to bring america up to speed we're here today to discuss the critical need to rebuild america's crumbling infrastructure. and one understands and the people in this room really understand better than most probably hopefully better than anybody. that the problem the states have in local leaders half with funding the infrastructure is horrendous and we will build we will maintain and the vast majority of americans want to see us take care of our infrastructure.