cofounder of social media join linked in apologizes for funding a pro-democratic operation that created over a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival. expresses concern over russia's new hypersonic weapon saying that there are no effective countermeasures missiles final test was successfully carried out wednesday. as french judges drop a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former wonder president's plane the case that's long been a thorn in relations. for

joining us this is r.t. internet. co-founder social media giant linked in has apologized for funding a pro democratic party operation which created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year publican candidate roy moore and i'm now really losing the alabama state election incredibly the group behind the fake. hamilton sixty eight was tossed in the us with tracking russian bought operations. well that was embarrassing to say the least and here i thought you could get away with blaming russia for anything nowadays apparently not but it does set a new low for democrats making think russian bullets to win elections is the irony i find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing

for that reason i'm embarrassed by my failure to track the organization i did support more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that i would reject the recap reid hoffman co-founder of linked in contributed wittingly or unwittingly money one hundred thousand dollars to a pro democrat cyber security company called new knowledge which it seems specialized in fraud and fake news lies and this information the company created fake facebook pages to confuse republican voters they created fake russian boats who were tweeted and followed through him all of the republican candidate in alabama's two thousand and seventeen special election they then publicly declared that that proves he had ties to russia because i think russian

boughts were re tweeting him. very very dirty so surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the country's russia but still roughly chick a good question is for you it's pretty alarming when a guy has lips in a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian is everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office interestingly enough the democrats love to mock through him or when he accused them of setting him up last year but he isn't interesting to. bit new knowledge she jonathan morgan was also seemingly one of the masterminds behind hamilton sixty eight which claimed to track russian online influence operations russian bots real russian bots.

ironic again that outlets including new york times washington post c.n.n. all use the hamilton sixty eight its data to accuse russian boards of sowing discord and conspiracies online wonder how much of that was fake but food for thought there was more by luck than not that we found out about this quote the sea

of n.y.t. yet how many more incidents like this could there have been that we don't and never will know anything about food for thought. russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named on guard president limiting called it a big event for the armed forces on the country as a whole that earlier in the program my colleague spoke to our correspondent has done of 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 a very important launch certainly for the security of russia or and as is 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 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 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 apple 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 missiles 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 as put by the russian president vladimir putin have a listen to shows the u.s. is now leaving the iron a treaty was going to happen it's hard to imagine what if the rockets are located in europe what should we do we should of course we will have to ensure our security with some concrete steps. not say later that we are trying to get some advantage and we're not trying to get an advantage of that but merely to seek your balance to ensure our security and this really applies not just to this particular missile or as a matter of fact to any other for weapons unveiled by the russian president and much of this is about the russian military as a whole because the country has been pushing forward its military capability pool yeah 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 i think the u.s. is also working on these types of thanks on the first one to launch one doesn't always get to win the contest as the as we start in the age and also in the space race 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 if start just. 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 government 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 cool or 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 in. 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 is 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. and paid mortgages and dead cats to some of the consequences of hundreds of thousands of u.s. workers not being paid to in the festive period now six days into the current government shutdown more not less costly on the scale of morphisms stateside for as a kid so this shutdown does this spring purely from disagreements over building the mexican border wall or is there more to it well it's been just shy of a week that the u.s. government has been shut down already all over social media you can see just a flood of stories by federal employees about how their lives have been affected many of them have talked about being penniless for the christmas holiday there are even been comparisons of u.s. president donald trump to the grinch that stole christmas let's take a look at some of what's being said whenever i talk about my air traffic control husband working without pay on twitter all i get is hateful remarks about how he

will and won't lose and die i know that but what are we supposed to do about christmas and bills in the meantime feeling so sad for you know not really you destroyed christmas for eight hundred thousand employees no one cares about you well if my husband who works for this day doesn't get paid we won't have money to give our elderly cat his insulin shots so would have to put him down. so now these are pretty sad stories however there doesn't appear to be any end in sight trump says the government is going to stay shut down until he gets his border wall this is the president of the united states to tell you when the girl is going to be open i can tell you it's not going to be over until we. sense what are they going to go whatever the. what it's all the same thing it's a better from people who are going to are the company into are going to. now as the

government shutdown continues it appears that the discourse is getting to be rather hysterical now and recently we saw m s n b c showing video of the us border patrol officers destroying water that had been left for those crossing the u.s. border they showed this clip as pointing to what they said was an example of donald trump's harsh policies let's let's review what m s n b c said everyone in the trump administration has done everything they possibly can to make the trip more dangerous more deadly they destroy water supplies that are left in the desert by the samaritans who are doing what donald trump's bible tells them to do some border patrol dumping water that was meant for desperate migrants being dumped out on the ground this is sort of extravagant cruelty is unusual for any administration

but for this administration they seem to think it's affective for their base. now if you take a closer look at that video that was highlighted on m s n b c of u.s. border patrol officers destroying water that was left for those crossing the border if you take a closer look the time stamp shows it was from twenty eleven that was carried out under the administration of u.s. president barack obama so it's quite difficult to blame what went on in that video on the trumpet administration now as we move forward this is day number six of the u.s. government shutdown there doesn't appear to be any end in sight and the buzz word on capitol hill seems to be division. reporting from new york for as many things killed it. for judges of called off a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former wonder the president's plane which ultimately led to genocide in ninety ninety four there was a stumbling block between the countries it was looking into several london officials close to the current president in connection with the death of the

country's former leader this is in comes after reports that france also rejected a bid by human rights groups to reopen a separate probe into whether the french military shared any of the blame for the deaths of hundreds of people that they promised to rescue. today we're being asked to leave with the people who killed our families were told they're sorry they will do it again and 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 french 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 who were behind the attack they even charged seven people close to the leader for pul 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 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 and roh want to has some nice words for the french i think the president. has

some freshness and of put it ticks. bidding with different people. i think. does 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 as pick for the head of francophonie group of french speaking countries. he said if there were to be an african candidate to head the francophonie that would make a lot of senates i think that the rwandan foreign minister has all the expertise for that role sure france and rwanda have had their differences and 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 moneymaking donald quarter. iraq and peace surprise donald trump with

there in gratitude for his announced visit to the country we'll bring you details after the break. you know world big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart or we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's taught. for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

when we all make this manufactured consensus instant to the public well. when the room in clusters project themselves. in the frame of merry go round lifts only the one percent. nor middle of the room signal. room in the real news room. brussels is alone president michael in a one time exception of two fronts admitted its twenty nine hundred budget deficit could top the news limit. in paris for a shortage president today what do we know. well some strong criticism

coming out of brussels for president he's been described by the european commission with responsibility for the budget as losing his authority and this comes after president gave in concessions to the yellow vest protesters and this followed a wave of violent protests that rocked paris and other parts of the country for most of the last part of november and roy throughout december now paris it already admitted that these concessions are going to add billions of euros to the budget the two thousand nine hundred budget pushing it from being two point eight percent of g.d.p. all the way up to three point two percent of g.d.p. so over the limits that is set by the european commission now brussels or said that it won't tolerate this being breached beyond two thousand and nineteen. under this condition move tolerates a national debt it's higher than three percent as

a one time exception however it must not continue beyond twenty nineteen well well it's not the first time that front's is actually breached these limits in fact over the last ten years it's been over the limits more times than it's actually been under the limits and there are meant to be penalties for countries that don't reach this three percent of g.d.p. as being the budget deficit but france is seen as been able to escape those penalties over the last few years and will again in two thousand and nineteen is not the only country that's been able to escape those penalties germany was also able to escape such a penalty when it went over that budget back in two thousand and three but spare a thought for italy who this year presented their budget for two thousand and nineteen it was outright rejected by the european. nation at first that was when they wanted to have a budget that was only two point four percent of g.d.p. so far lower than what france has said it's now going to have now it's only part

the reason for that is because it does have huge debts over the last few years and there has since been an agreement between the two but it has led some people to say we still living in a. european union where some countries i'm not penalised for crossing the barriers breaking the rules everyone else has to play right the way to the book and thanks sure as our correspondent in paris. the united arab emirates has announced that its reopening its embassy in damascus closed in two hundred twelve on recall the ambassador is serious and conclusive a war has details. the united arab emirates is reopening its embassy in damascus now this is a diplomatic boost for the syrian president bashar al assad not least of all because the u.a.e. was one of those countries that supported opposition slash rebel fighters against

his syrian soldiers over the past few years of conflict it was back in two thousand and twelve that the u.a.e. closed its office in damascus and at that time all gulf countries closed their missions as well with the exception of a mine in protest against the ensuing violence. certainly the fact that the u.a.e. is now opening an embassy does suggest that this is an opportunity for improved

relations between syria and the arab league and many are suggesting that really this is the first step that we'll see so we're being really involved and we united as part of the arab community. long trump and his wife paid a surprise christmas visit to u.s. troops in iraq come to the school to take rockstar entrances trump signed autographs and soldiers took selfies with the president. the visit didn't all go to plan though also on the agenda was

a meeting with the iraqi leadership but the two sides couldn't agree on the former to the meeting which then ended up being replaced by a phone conversation there one of two main blocks in iraq's parliament was not at all amused by trump's surprise visit to the country branding it a blatant violation of sovereignty and it appears chump agrees that u.s. leadership stop interfering in other countries affairs. america shouldn't be doing the fighting. for every nation on earth not being reimbursed in many cases. if they want us to do the fighting they also have to pay a price and sometimes that's also a monetary price. the pentagon has active military personally thirty eight countries the biggest continent is so big as contingent is the german base of ramstein that's where more than one thousand people are reported to be stationed political analyst chris bambery believes a shift in u.s.

military policy is underway but only for the middle east. i think what he is seeing is is that he is in favor of pulling out no of from the middle east and from that region he's basically come to the conclusion that american intervention in the middle east in the way the region has been a bit of a catastrophe is not going to pay off and is not that central to his concerns which are more in the far east more lewisham ship to china and the developing trade war and i think for a sense the american military who don't like this are under the military's but they have to recognize that their priorities in europe were incidentally i think the americans will stay in militarily because really it's a one hundred forty five the very keen to have a military presence in europe in order to secure the domination of the region and keep our eyes in wine. thanks for staying with our team to national updates coming your way in half an hour.

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 about the environment and in d.c. he is 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 and you're damned if you don't.

where does that come to call russia no one's ever no one has ever heard of a country never even heard about most.

greetings 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 astrology at the attention of europe back in sixteen zero six but it was it was james cook in seven hundred seventy who truly brought us trillions 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 in the conquest of what is now the united states.