co-founder of social media john we've been apologizing for funding a pro-democrat operation that created one thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to like they backed a republican right. to express his concern over russia's new hypersonic weapon saying that there are no effective counter measures. the final test was successfully carried wednesday. two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former one president's plane a case that is longer than foreign relations.

good evening thanks for joining us this is r.t. and. first this hour the co-founder of social media on 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 banked a republican rival last year republican candidate roy moore ended up not really losing the alabama state election incredibly the group behind the fake russian border parisian hamilton sixty eight was tasked in the us with tracking russian bot operations against the explains. 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 boughts 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 rooum 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 think russian bullets were retreating him. very very dirty it's no surprise that choppa support him or 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 slipped into fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian is everywhere your later is moving closer into 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. 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 the 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 avant garde president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and country as a whole a bit earlier in the program my colleague spoke to our correspondent who has done us to find out more. 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 vance 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 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. so it's incredibly it's incredibly precise and all. so 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 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 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 what's he in volved 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 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 missiles so we're just going to attack you all now and destroy your countries and 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.

is now leaving the iron a treaty was 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 with some concrete steps not say later that we are trying to get an advantage and we're not trying to get some advantage but merely to seek your balance to ensure our security and 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. and some 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 but 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. they do us existing us the defenses can't deal with them by existing us and defenses aren't that good against regular missiles so it is so far 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 cool or to you know cool off the arms race and you know loggins and 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 negotiate. ations unless military development. mortgages and cas just some of the consequences of hundreds of thousands of u.s. workers not being paid during the festive period now six days into the current government shutdown let's go to new york and speak to us from caleb open kelly be feeling the shutdown for has been as of today. well we're just shy of

a week into the government shutdown and already all over social media we're seeing heart wrenching stories from federal employees in the united states describing their hardships donald trump is being blamed for a lot of the problems taking place as federal employees are not being paid many of them say they were penniless during christmas and there's even been comparisons of u.s. president donald trump to the grinch that stole christmas let's review some of what's being said whenever i talk about my air traffic control has been working without pay on twitter all i get is hateful remarks about how he will and won't lose a guy i know that but were we supposed to do about christmas and bills in the meantime feeling so sad for you no not really you destroyed christmas but 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 now tough times for these federal employees and there's no end in sight us president donald trump is saying that he will keep the government shut down until he gets the money for his border wall this is the us president tell you what the government's going to be but i can tell you it's not going to be until we. fence whatever they'd like to call it whatever the. but it's all the same thing it's a barrier from people who are into our company into our country. now the hysteria is spreading well beyond government workers that we now see m s n b c describing and showing an old clip of film to describe what they're calling brutality and heartlessness on the part of the trumpet ministration let's see what they're showing everyone in the trumpet 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 samaritans who are doing what donald trump's bible tells them to do. now essentially we've got a video here of members of the u.s. border patrol destroying water that's been left for those crossing the border they're pouring out water they're kicking over water jugs just destroying the water well if you look at the time stamp on that video the video was recorded in two thousand and eleven it's well over seven years old however that hasn't stopped m s n b c from running it and showing it on television somehow as an example of the brutality of the trumpet ministration let's review. 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 and severe dehydration which is kemah be don't with food just water. and yet they are out there destroying the water supply as the good samaritans put out there for people who find themselves in the situation now they have played this video supposedly is an example of cruelty on the part of the trumpet ministration regardless of the fact that it's an old video now at this point of the government remains shut down this is day number six of the shutdown of the u.s. federal government and the buzz word on capitol hill is division. and i think sort of take up in new york and thanks thing with us here in an attempt about with updates after this break.

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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. britain's times newspapers printed a highly controversial interview with a church in fighting against anti government forces in eastern ukraine the members of his battalion are frank about the terrorist past and admit their fighters wage jihad in syria some of the battalions gunman admit to having honed their combat skills and islamic state training camps in iraq and syria. the bearded 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 of the battalion's leader even admits being part of a terrorist group committing atrocities in russia under the name muslim he was part

of a terror movement that took hundreds of lives across russia in an interview with another british newspaper the guardian he claimed that although he generally disagreed with massacring civilian sometimes it was the only way they're up to one hundred chechen fighters fighting currently in ukraine they are not officially part of the ukrainian army to tell you the commander said that they share i mean. we have troops we were poems we have weapons that were bought the weaponry that we have is enough for us to act effectively ukrainian soldiers sure i mean mission with us we fight side by side media reports of ukraine's chechen be telling came to prominence in twenty fifteen times the latest story of the church vita for a litany of headlines describing russia as the aggressor at least over the recent naval incident in the cage strait. russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a part of us says it's not surprising that radical elements are fighting in ukraine bleak prolonged military conflicts especially supported by arms and money from

outside have always attracted people differing views you seem happen in a syria we've people who support religious fundamentalism coming from far away and who ows all the time in ukraine on these jihadi fighters help ukraine realise its agenda of suppressing dissent. we've asked the ukrainian government and military to comment on the times report about the working with terror link chechen fighters we also asked the u.s. state department about the possibility of their weaponry getting into the hands of terrorists would let you know if and when we get a response. let's bring in political analyst bruno divest. should the western allies of ukraine be concerned about ammunition being shared with battalions such as this chechen one with terrorist links yesterday should be but in fact you know what is happening in ukraine is exactly the same we have in syria i mean we have a terrorist in syria and we are linked with. the western

powers so what does the situation in ukraine needs quite the same you know all the tradition of the desk word used already in latin america in the middle east and. so it's not very very surprising even if it looks really a minority of it so it's not surprising it is that it's an american tradition to use. different. paramilitary groups in afghanistan iraq and syria and now when you create this story about i saw a link to chechens fighting in ukraine as i understand it's quite an old one about three years old in fact first reported what is in the times of dragging this out now i don't know why did it wait appearing now because it was no longer ready from from quite it was already long it's should have been

a scandal in the western world thirteen if in fact we we had on human neo nazi group and we have still in your now the group in ukraine they don't they don't really bother about them so whether to deplane we did we knew or loudly. or terrorist you know more or less they are not going to say no more ality i would say and there are tensions fighting that's been clear about this on both sides of this civil war in ukraine why the mainstream media are only into being the ones on the anti russia side. because western media are russian so they criticize everything coming linked more or less or appearing to be linked with russia but of course they just they just don't want to tell about things happening with supposedly western allies and ukraine is operationally an ally of western powers even if the ukraine is not at war with russia even if you don't buy us you

have paramilitary organization and not only to ukrainian army but in fact we have decided on his union ukraine we have in syria against illegal syrian government and in ukraine. in favor of the of the official kier of government is an ethical concern hair interfering in everything the views of fighters are linked to terrorist battalions. it is you know it's so every you know people who know what's happening what's happening in ukraine they know about it but the problem is that mainstream media don't don't don't talk about dr doug's the only problem because the information is no one force if specially if the information is known. even all over ukraine but you know it's not it's not. inform does information doesn't doesn't go to the

let's say of information wall of the mainstream media's. bruno great to have you on appreciate it time political analyst bruno dress skeet like. french judges of called off a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former rwandan president's plane which ultimately led to the genocide in one thousand nine hundred 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 a decision 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 they'd promise 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 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 who were behind the attack they even charged seven people close to the leader for 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 at the price of the massacre of the tutsis from the so-called interior of the rwandan government flatly denied the allegations and cut diplomatic ties with france fast forward and roll want to has some nice words for the french i think the president. has. put it in. different. i think. has an open mind to. 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. if there were to be an african candidate and had 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 moneymaking donald quarter r t. i stay with our dates coming your way in half an hour.

welcome to the alex salmond show and for the last of two festive programs we thought we'd ask back a couple of our guests over the people made quite a stir but you know it's christmas time for wishes so my first wish to talk to some of the people i have my least interview in the show for now though so to make alex's wish come to we've invited a man of many voices start of stage and screen clyde welcome to the exams you thanks for inviting me i know how this christmas feeling i think is just beyond. if you like a genie i will make your wish come true oftentimes we'd better believe interviewed a number of people in the us and over the year on the show with the many people who

we would like to have interviewed and i wonder if you might suggest some some people for the future that we should get on the set that alex can speak to but i think maybe the president of the united states we've had a lot of differences over the. and i think you know repealing the paris club i would agree with has been really good for scotland i mean think about it blazing sun bigly sunshine on leith forest fires and then b. and those two ph d. so it shows the proclaimers going to look like julio and then ricky inglis yes so just to present a use admitting i was collect and pursuing my all sure wouldn't follow the sage of golf course i think hairdryers or the beach is a bad idea. i haven't been allowed to interview but i did nicely coming up in your you lot of look at this clip that was i say use and i never even got so much as offered

a cup of tea suspension alan said i stay to home i didn't invite him. it's a long walk to my front door i don't think he's fit enough he might have been ok in a golf cart or something but you know they're all for a doctor the secret service now tell me what to get malaria for christmas. what it impeachment but that's another story. you know really misspent did you buy a nice gift and what about these red christmas trees in the white house what was facts about you know i just blended in the slight hint of oranges at our brew for where we come from having well we'll do our best to to get on one issue you know of face the republican. how does that fit well. it's a little bit. just blended in a little bit less detail of present trunk and in about how does how does it going down and if you adapted i mean he changes every day comes up with something new i

get that doing what you do when you're you know once a day i mean just before christmas you know there's no smoking gun i mean it's like you know the seems to be you feel how many of these kind of model of propositions is he going to do before he becomes like ok we've done that or we have to do something else but the smoking gun made me laugh before chris you know you don't think donald trump people ask what does drives donald trump a. part of the six to seven of course but is that perhaps he's trying to provide material for for your career well it will be are related he is in the cloud let's not forget when his mom scotish in his home was made of a clothes substitute from ohio and from stornoway i think she got a better reception as an economic migrant into the united states of america could make the twenty six than they seem to be getting numbers that's a pretty i've never been good at figures but you know all the other green that were there yes amazing that we go away we got this fantastic company called alex rose providers with us kind of amazing donald trump sort of you peron and do the you

know get the expressions.