number you need to remember it was one show you know for two minutes the one and only. the co-founder of social media join linked in apologizes for funding the pro-democrat operation that created over a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they back they've been public about. sheets and expresses concern over russia's new hypersonic weapon saying that there are no effective countermeasures missiles final test was successfully carried out when it's the. us french judges drop a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former wonder president by a case that's long been a thorn in relations. this

is joining us this is r.t. and co-founder of social media giant linked in has apologized for funding a pro-democrat party operation they created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts they were designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year the operation was tast in the us with tracking fake russian accounts but it turned out to be creating the rag as 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 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 cooled 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 he had ties to russia because i 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 take a good question is for you it's pretty alarming when a guy slips into fluent russian or speaks fluent russian and 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 take. bit new knowledge she jonathan morgan was also seemingly one of the mosse the minds 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 boats of sowing discord and conspiracies online wonder how much of that was fake but food for thought 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. political analyst charles little believes that the until republican operation may have violated a whole range of laws lots of like minded thinkers believe that the ends justify the means and whatever you need to do to destroy a potential threat to civilization existence like dollar drop is fair game and republicans that they would believe that they could go this far or they could solicit money from somebody use it of herit violation of the many types of was it's not just campaign finance violations you hear deceptively claim you make claims about somebody they're manifestly not true in this magnitude and think that you're the suffer no consequences of their real damages you're more lost the

election and i had to give credit to doug jones who won for actually calling for an investigation that's that's a one good thing that i've seen. russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named guard president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole i call it very sushi's but are these images donna 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 a world that we've been seeing for months really because this evan god missile was one out of five advanced 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 show certainly for the security of russia 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 wrong 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 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 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 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 talk to me about the. balance of power here how does this new guard missile system affect global security well during 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 him as ours are we 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. us is now leaving the i.n.f. 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 let them not say later that we are trying to get an 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 for extolling. 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. unpaid mortgagees and dead cats 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 caleb maupin explains. but 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 know 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 we'd 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 we. sense what are they going to go 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 the

brutality and the heartlessness on the part of the trumpet ministration everyone in the trumpet ministration 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. video 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 trumpet 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 foods 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. federal government and the buzz word on capitol hill is division. french to just have called off a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former one president's plane we showed some of the lead to the genocide in one thousand nine hundred four investigation was a stumbling block between the two countries it was looking into several the rwandan officials close to the current president in connection with the death of the country's former leader the decision comes after reports that france also rejected

a bid by human rights groups to reopen a separate probe into whether the french military shed any blame for the deaths of hundreds of people they promise to rescue. today we're being asked to leave with the people who killed our panel where it's all there sorry they will do it again some people believe that i'm not one of. the fighting was triggered by the downing of a plane carrying the french back 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 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 this process 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. put it in

a. different. i think. 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 group of french speaking countries. 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 in twenty five years since the genocide justice has never been fully served but for the present it looks like that doesn't have to stand in the way of a little money making donald quarter. eternal colonel jacques oh god was a commander of the french foreign legion in rwanda at the time he says choice of

advise on the issues says it all but look at it but if he does not know africa or its history he was a teenager during the tragic events in rwanda in nineteen ninety four he aligned with sarkozy's stones to befriend kagame is rwanda and there sarkozy is micron's advisor that. the united arab emirates has announced that its reopening its embassy in damascus closed in two thousand and twelve we called the ambassador to syria sank into a civil war looks at the move which some think marks a victory for president assad's government. the united arab emirates is really opening 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 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 league community. will trump and his wife have paid a surprise christmas visit to u.s. troops in iraq come to school today rock star entrance signed autographs and soldiers took selfies with the president. the visit and 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 format of the meeting which ended up being replaced by

a phone call the head of one of the two main blocs in iraq's parliament was not at all the news by trump surprise visit to the country branding it a blatant violation of sovereignty. and it appears trump agrees that u.s. leaders should stop interfering in other countries affairs america should 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 active military personnel in thirty eight countries the biggest contingent is at the german base ramstein where more than one thousand people are reported to be stationed you know berg who's director of the trans national foundation for peace and future research explains how the u.s. might use those bases to stay involved in syria. look at syria where everybody on press now thinks that he's going to or the u.s.

is going to leave syria just as an example now what about the ten to twenty base facilities big and small in syria in northern syria are they going to be dismantled the special operation forces those who train the rebels slash terrorists they will in al count down are they going to be withdrawn too or is just a few soldiers you see again who one day he says we're going to withdraw from syria and everybody's a law that's terrible even the left somewhere says this is terrible i mean i don't understand anything anymore but then he goes on a helter skelter tonally on planned surprise visit to a us isn't iraq where the americans should never have gone and not never set up bases and then he says we're not going to leave iraq because it's still useful from this space we could do things in syria now you know what does that mean to withdraw from syria if you actually think that you can just from the laboring can't you

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crime another. country and already have and i'm with the stuff to. come your way sneak in america with all of this going to prison time going towards want to. die. or is it are going to. be. a shocking new number was released today that deserves our undivided attention one out of every one hundred americans is now behind bars walked up to prison or in jail. the most important thing. as to talk from your heart if you have more than one

child give a like an overall message but then do an individual one to each child throw them a kiss or talk to them about what you do daily the rest should be just you if you've written a poor we've had people pray we've had people saying one guy showed his little boy how to shoot a basket be creative. these are gifts to your children. the families of punished right along with. the have found people don't think so but the collateral consequences of somebodies incarceration affects not just that whole family but it affects the whole community and affects you as an individual or the you know whether or not and whether you know that person or not that's incarcerated. get to inform. you should care. i have a background in film and video as a producer and i thought there's got to be something i can do so why not combine my

career and my experience with the present system and come up with something for these kids and then the parent looks in that camera. and they can look at them and say you know this isn't your fault you did nothing wrong it means a lot and for many of these men and women it's the first time they've really taken responsibility which is huge and that's a first step in recovery if any. any time is to take responsibility for. but even with. this little. episode where you really mean that. i was going to go. i'm going to do the best they can to stay out of this booth. for. good this.

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