co-founder of social media giant in the public eyes is for funding a pro-democratic operation that created more thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they had backed a republican rival. washington expresses concern over russia's new hypersonic weapon saying that no effective countermeasures have a goal missile final tests were successfully carried out wednesday. and french should just drop a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former one the president's plane a case that has long been a thorn in relations. for

joining us this is r.t. and that the co-founder of social media john linked in has apologized for finding a pro democratic party operation is critical in the thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year republican candidate roy moore ended up now really losing the alabama state elections you to the operation by a group called i will turn sixty eight it was tasked in the us with tracking fake russian accounts but turned out to be the one creating them instead. of it's like. 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 try 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 or the republican candidate in alabama's two thousand and seventeen special election they then publicly declared that that was proof that he had ties to russia because i think russian

bullets were retreating him. very very dirty so surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the country's russia but still rather good question 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 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 tidbit new knowledge she jonathan morgan was also seemingly one of the mosques the minds 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. to political analyst charles or. charles this campaign revealed a week ago do you think anyone will be indicted for it is it legal. it certainly doesn't sound legal but it comes as no surprise if we look back over the two thousand and fifteen sixteen cycle what do we know that's in the public domain we know that hillary clinton colluded a better word might be conspired with operatives in the democratic party to rig the democratic primaries to ensure that she would be the victor with minimal effort on her part and she broke i think i believe there are numerous lawsuits actually in

the in the making she did break and her team did break i believe campaign campaign finance laws rigging the primaries they then i think history will show in time when we really dig into this if we do that the clinton team was probably ecstatic at the idea that donald trump might be the republican nominee believing falsely that they would have a dirt in october and an october surprise and knock him out of the general election so if anybody was conspiring in the two thousand and fifteen and sixteen election it wasn't so much any part of our political system with foreign powers it was the hillary clinton campaign with a whole raft of dirty tricks hers and you know she frankly definitely deserved to lose the election but that doesn't mean because she lost we should investigate and get to the bottom of what really happened and the idea of falsely accusing candidates of having supposedly illicit ties with one day sure or another nation it happens that russia is a convenient convenient for the moment bet more. and then have it turn out to be

false there's no excuse for methought mr hoffman not to know that his money might be you know go and be involved in an able in finance that dirty trick the people who run his campaign cool that the bought up aeration and experiment that it's not fair is something a bit of a cop out. i think it's horrific i mean it it speaks to the issue of no one in this country is mad enough yet to think you know rationally about the immense power that these unregulated globalist tech giants have twitter and facebook and google and you can go on and on and on what is their effective ability to control real life outcomes elections job hiring incomes health care all this kind of stuff we have created these unregulated very powerful monopolistic energies that need to be brought to heel there needs to be these incidents like this show that the system of regulations at least in the

united states and certainly there really isn't a global one are not up to the task of fairly administering these unregulated monopolies and their monopoly is that needs to change it's been what two years now do you think we'll ever see evidence to prove any kind of russian meddling fill in such a lengthy investigation. well i think actually the reverse is the case i mean you see in the prosecutions that mohler who by the way i should add i believe has been illegally selected in finance when you look at when wars i speak to tell me you know what the real laws are. you know a lot of money has been wasted on this thing if they had found something compelling they would have been able to come forward a long time ago with compelling information what they found so far and i don't see anything that's overly compelling and in fact i see after all this time reversed science this morning i believe our time rudy giuliani the former mayor of new york

and one of the trumps top lawyers has called for mohler to be fired and investigated over destroying as many as nineteen thousand text messages which i think could prove to be highly relevant to the case so i hope we we have to get to the bottom this is justice run amok and a lot of people but hard or i would argue relations between our two countries have been harmed and who knows how many other countries relations will be harmed by this kind of dirty tricks tourism in this into the political analyst charles hotel thinking. russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named of on god as the vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole the believe in the show my colleague will receive correspondent he's done the details. 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 to 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 is 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 guard system this is to act as a deterrent this is a defensive system was was he involved in any way with the outs will 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 message 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 apple guard missile system affect global security well during its 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 what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what is 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 that we are trying to get some advantage we're not trying to get an advantage but merely to seek your balance to ensure our security 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 how the new weapon

could affect the balance of power with investigative journalist we're extending 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. and paid mortgages and dead cats to some of the

consequences of hundreds of thousands of u.s. workers not being paged during the festive period now six days into the current government shutdown and more pedophiles. 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 there's even been comparisons of u.s. president donald trump to the grinch that stole christmas 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 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 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 i can tell you it's not going to be over until. then what are they going to put it with the hysteria is spreading well beyond government workers 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 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 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. the video was recorded in two thousand and eleven it's well over seventy 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 trial that ministration 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 cannot be dealt with with just water. and yet they are out there destroying the water supplies the good samaritans put out there for people who find themselves in the situation now at this point of the government remains shut down this is day number six of the shutdown of the u.s.

. french judges of course of a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former one president's plane which ultimately led to genocide in nine hundred ninety four investigation was a stumbling block between the two countries and it was looking into several rwandan officials close to the current president in connection with the death of the country's former leader this is and comes after reports that friends also rejected the bid by human rights groups to reopen a separate probe into whether the french military shed any 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 we're told

they're sorry they want to be together some people believe that i'm not one of them . 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 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. so-called interior

the rwandan government flatly denied the allegations and cut diplomatic ties with france fast forward and rolonda has some nice words for the french i think the president. has. put it takes. different people. but. 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's pick for the head of francophonie a group of french speaking countries. if they 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 justice has never been fully served. but for the present it looks like that doesn't have the standard the way of a little money making donald quarter our team. britain's times newspapers printed a highly controversial interview with a chechen fighting it anti government forces in eastern ukraine the members of his battalion a frank about their terrorist past and admit that their fighters wage jihad in syria. some of the petroleum's gunman admit to having home their combat skills and islamic state training camps in iraq and syria the bearded churchill had a simple explanation for fighting for ukraine against kremlin backed separatists putin is our enemy he said he brings a really evil but island leader even admits being part of a terrorist group committing atrocities in russia going under the name muslim he was part of a terror movement that took hundreds of lives across russia and into than of the

british newspaper the guardian he claimed that although he generally disagreed with massacring civilians sometimes it was the only way. they're up to one hundred chechen fighters operating in ukraine though they're not officially part of the ukrainian army battalion commander said that they share ammunition. but. we have troops we were poems we have weapons that we 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 and media reports of ukraine's chechen battalion came to prominence in twenty fifteen the times latest story of the church of fighter for the litany of headlines describing russia as the aggressor not least over the recent naval incident in the caird straight. foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a chorus says it is not surprising that radical elements are fighting in ukraine. but you could prolong military conflicts especially supported by arms and money from outside have always attracted people of different views the same happened in

syria we've people who support religious fundamentalism coming from far away and who ows will do fine in ukraine these jihadi fighters help ukraine realise its agenda of suppressing dissent we've asked the government the military to comment on the times report about the marking with terror link from fighters who are serious state department about the possibility of their weaponry getting into the hands of terrorists will let you know the response when it comes. ok let's go live to. the charles she returns from the line good evening charles keating the western allies of ukraine should be concerned about ammunition being shared with battalions like this chechen war linked to nearest terrorist atrocities. yes absolutely should be. concerned about this and even if they're not their populations should be after all isis and other groups in which chechen extremists figure probably for example in syria. in front and other groups linked to al-qaeda. have

again particular isis case of course of threaten the west with attacks and indeed attacks have been carried out on the in the capsized of western europe and elsewhere and so i think there would be a lot more poor about this if of course this fact was war more widely known it's reported in the times newspaper as you say but it isn't the headline of the article isn't that one of britain's and america's allies the ukrainians. working alongside people who absolutely everybody by the standard definitions used in the world in the prescriptions that have been made by bodies like the un and so on it's fair to describe them as terrorists and yet here they are not just operating freely without being arrested or being controlled or contained in any way but actually empowered and that's not just by the ukrainians after all because we've got to situation as your question really employs we've got coming up in the next twelve

months america has promised quite considerable sums of quite advanced weaponry in some cases anti-tank missiles and so on to go to ukrainian army and as the chechen leader that you quoted himself correctly said on the battlefield. it's going to be very difficult to control who maintains which weapons and indeed in the battlefield scenario on the battlefield it would be impossible to keep track of those weapons and of course that was found in syria in iraq. and many other places over history and so yes there should be concerns first of all of these weapons are going to fall into the hands of groups effectively who still are a part of isis even though they're still out now actually joined other patel units and fighting in a different war but also the training especially the combat training that they're continuing to get in that field which could then of course put them in good stead were they in the future to turn their weapons and their skills once more against the west. is the only reason why we're hearing this story now because as i understand i saw a link chechens fountain ukraine that's

a three year old story one of the times dragging it up again. yes that we have seen in the past but it's not been attracted prominence and it still doesn't attract a real prominence in the west media and certainly not from the perspective that this is some kind of threat to the west i suspect this journalist himself has put some work into actually spending some time with this group or at least spending some time researching them and that's his story. he's printed probably no but of course it says it's a double edged dory from the west perspective because. organizations like r.t. realize the implications of that story for the west itself which is why we're talking about it now of course that we know from the past six years of what's been going on in syria and what happened in libya before that and what happened in iraq before that that these kind of these actions have consequences for the west in terms of blowback and the west turning a blind eye or perhaps even facilitating by transferring weapons for example to the ukraine it means who then can either willing wittingly or unwittingly transferred

into groups like this are complicit in then the blowback that takes place after blowback is a word that in how an indeterminate back is that it self-inflicted and i think that many in the security stablished in particular those who are concerned not with foreign policy but with domestic issues for example in the u.k. m i five rather than m i six that m i five and the police for example in the u.k. who are responsible for counter-terrorism will be viewing these reports with renewed concern. great to have you on pre-show you're talking former u.k. army officer charles bridge my guest. the united united arab emirates has announced that it's reopening its embassy in damascus closed in two thousand and twelve and recalled the ambassador to syria sank into civil war looks at the move which some think marks a victory for president assad's government. 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 betty 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 month in potest against the ensuing violence.

certainly the fact that the u.a.e. is now opening and 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 syria being really involved and we united as part of the arab community. but with a base we would often. financials i don't buy any i'm on if you. think. that's the sort of buy it from the future cracker watch guys are.

welcome to worlds apart announcement of the impending pullout of syria has been mad in moscow with a tinge of excitement and a bucket of disbelief later gave way to the anxious guessing game on how it may shift the regional balance is that yet another reminder of having to be careful what it wishes for to discuss that i'm now joined by my. associate professor at the most. international relations and the editor of all monitors russian media coverage max it's good to finally.