thank you bill we will talk to your. washington expresses over russia's new hypersonic weapons saying there are no effective counter measures the add on god missiles final to carry out on wednesday . a wave of protests spreads across the death of a journalist who set themselves on fire protesting the difficulties of being a quarter of the country's economic problems. french judge's decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former rwandan president's

plane a case that's long been told in relation. to donald trump pays a surprise visit to iraq to meet with the country's leadership but ends up holding the meeting by. watching all t. international live from a moscow studio with me. welcome to the program russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named god president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole but earlier in the program my colleague spoke to our correspondent don to find out more. 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 fear this missile and i should say it kind of does carry the same message that we've been that we've been seeing for months really because this evan god missile was one out of five vans two weapons unveiled by vladimir putin back this march and that's when 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 very important. 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 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 before this missile goes into service and now let's just have a look let's enjoy how it unveiled.

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

it travels through it and this is what allows it to go really low and 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 apparently 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 other guard system this is to act as a deterrent this is a defensive system was what he in volved in anyway with the actual final test while he is the commander in chief so he watched this final launch and also it was a bladder putin who announced that this mess the russian military will get the first units of this missile as soon as next year that's why russia kind of made an emphasis this year to world roll out as many new and advanced weapons as possible keeping the country safe you know you've got to talk to me about the balance of power here how does this new guard missile system affect global security well sure

it's a missile so by definition it is designed to destroy things to obliterate them to do damage but so does pose a threat but there are two different sorts of how you can pose a threat one thing is saying look we have this new fancy so we're just going to attack you all now and destroy your countries and then another thing is saying look we have this new advanced weapon so we are ready to defend ourselves but only if we're faced with any aggression and this has really been the case with this message and as put by the russian president vladimir putin have a listen to shows the u.s. is now leaving the iron if treaty was going to happen it's hard to imagine what if the rockets are located in europe what should we do which is of course we will have to ensure our security with some concrete steps. not say later we're trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get an advantage but merely to seek your balance to ensure our security and this really applies not just to this particular message

or as a matter of fact to any other for weapons unveiled by the russian president in march this is about the russian military as a whole because the country has been pushing forward its military capability all year it has been sort of the flavor of the twenty teens so to speak but it hasn't been in the offensive sort of way russia has been maintaining that it is a measure of deterrence and not of aggression we discussed the new weapons implications for global security with a number of experts. well i think the u.s. is also working on these types of thanks and 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 but certainly. the u.s. existing u.s. defenses can't deal with them by existing us and defenses aren't that good against regular missiles so it is stark 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 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 cool 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. clashes have gripes after the death of a porter who set himself on fire he was protesting growing economic problems and the difficulties of earning a living as a journalist the incident has joined comparisons to the events that led to tunisians revelation twenty eleven which also started with a man burning himself an affront to the arab spring.

i've brought people who have no means of subsistence today i started a revolution 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 that's what progress that's been very good to be this transformation to be 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 but who should the reasons for these young men suicide a poll that see isolation and the difficult circumstances journalists face in tunisia and benefit as this tragedy sums up the status of journalists in tunisia he was driven to do it because of possible living costs journalists work with no contract. and earn poverty wages playing a woman in fact a large number of journalists live in a fragile situation both financially and legally i see that with a large number of journalists and she needs you since the arab spring tunisia has

followed the path of liberal reforms advocated by western leaders and poverty is still widespread the overall living situation hasn't improved the teachers among other public employees have been pretty badly affected there 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 had high expectations. uprisings 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 for the elections in tunisia you know. more freedoms enjoyed by the population whole freedom of expression freedom but i 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 woes the amazing transformation seems to have left many unsatisfied kaleb up and artsy new york. judges have called off a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former around and president's plane which ultimately led to the genocide in one thousand nine hundred ninety four the investigation was a stumbling block between the two countries it was looking into several randon 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 bit 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 families we're told they're sorry they will do it again some people believe that i'm not one of them. 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

e were behind the attack they even charged seven people close to the leader for pool could guard me the physical elimination of rwanda's then president was seen as the only means to achieve his political ends a total victory and this at the price 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 roll want to has some nice words for the french i think the president. has. put it takes. different people. but is and i think. has an open mind to things how times have changed the world bank considers rwanda to be more business friendly than much of the developed world and france seems to have an interest macron even back to

rwanda's pick for the head of francophonie a group of french speaking countries. if there were to be an african candidate to head the francophonie that would make a lot of sense i think that the rwandan foreign minister has all the expertise for that role but sure france and rwanda have had their differences and twenty five years since the genocide to 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 donald quarter r.t. . coming up next the times newspaper interviews a member of an isolated chechen battalion fighting alongside ukraine's military and to stay with us. you know world big partisan group has a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the

stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic they're probably the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back to the program yes president and his wife have paid a surprise christmas visit to troops stationed in iraq and what looked like a rock star entrance hall so just taking selfies while trump signed over twelve. being able. to. secure. it. the visit didn't all go to plan though also on the agenda was

a meeting with the iraqi leadership power the two sides couldn't agree on the format of the meeting which then ended up being replaced by a phone conversation they had of one of the two main blocs in iraq's parliament was not at all amused by charm surprise visit to the country branding it a blatant phylicia violation of sovereignty middle east expert says the failure to meet suggests a brit. president of the us goes to a country and doesn't meet with its leaders and the fact that there is a only a phone call all this points to something you know a strange which has taken place you know there could be various explosions trump is quite on orthodoxy in his approach to international affairs and today's visit i think indicates for the time being that going to stay at the same time you know as i said with trump you can reassure you know you could hear or see a twenty two in twenty four hours but i was thinking stand as they are there doesn't seem to be any intentions of the americans to leave or from iraq also you

have to bear in mind that the iraqi that this saw is american troops in iraq it is a lot more a lot bigger than the size of all american troops in syria. britain's the times newspaper has printed a highly controversial interview with the chechen fighting against anti-government forces in eastern ukraine they had to pay his battalion nearly admitted that his fighters wage jihad in syria and that the leader was even part of a terror group committing atrocities in russia it has multi tells. 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 and on bass now here's what it says in the times report be it a church and have

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 kurds 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 literal 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 comfy career long military conflicts especially supported by arms and money from outside have always attracted people different movies the same happened in syria people who support religious fundamentalism are coming from far away and who ows will they find in ukraine these jihadi fighters help ukraine realise 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 in 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'll 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 linked chechen fighters and we'll let you know if we get any response. and from other birds on cocaine to operas about prince harry a newly published waste report by senator rand paul has revealed some of the oddest things the u.s. government's been spending tax dollars on here's

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be back in thirty minutes time that. holds which is up next. well i think it certainly makes sense for for moscow to think strong in its contacts with the united states i just fear that the dominant view in this city is that it isn't nearly impossible until the united states kind of settle this domestic divide of the environment and in these seas you know i hate to see these bonds 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 in your down the film.

when lawmakers manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. doing all middle of the room signals. to leave the room green real news is really low. ratings and salutation. the history of nations is bathed in the blood of the conquered and the sweat of the indenture from south africa to india to the united

states all the way down here to australia where the genocide and subjugation of its indigenous people was still etched in the outback and coastal cities of this great continent to this day it was a dutch navigator who first brought to the attention of europe back in sixteen zero six but it was it was james cook in seven hundred seventy who truly brought a stray into the crosshairs of european colonization and seven hundred eighty eight here in sydney then botany bay the first permanent british colony took hold and the conquering of australia by the white man began like the massacre of the native american nations and the conquest of what is now the united states the indigenous people of australia whose population is estimated to number over seven hundred thousand saw the british colonisers bring subjugation pestilence and genocide and massive numbers that historians ratio could be as high as forty four to one indigenous to european history may well indeed be written by the victors but the pages and bindings of that book are made through the resilient spirit of those who

were lost in history that seek to win the future which is why today hawk watchers we will not only examine the beautiful but tragic history of the indigenous nations of australia but we will also look to the road ahead as they continue their fight for equality and their right to decide not only their own future history that australia is as well so let us learn from the past in order create a better future as watching the hawks finds the beauty in the struggle of australia's first nation. you want to. get the. real truth is with. the bottom sit. with me like you got. three.

for those without you know knowledge you know from the outside looking in and who haven't studied that history what do you think is the most misunderstood aspect of the relationship between the aboriginal people here in the australian government and society almost everything it's it's a straight is dirty a secret unlike the united states which has in many respects come to terms not always successfully but come to terms with let's say the sovereignty of its native peoples. now there are many in the us would say whoa wait a minute that hasn't really happened but i have to say compared with a straight it has this straight it was the scene of the greatest theft of land in history. and it happened all at once.