cofounder of linked in apologized for a pro-democrat oppression to create fake russian. data that also this hour. washington expresses concern of the russia's newly tested hypersonic missile saying they're wrong no effective counter missed. a long running probe into the downing of the former one of the president's plane tickets trigger points in the nine hundred ninety four genocide.

very good evening to you this is r.t. and tonight. the co-founder of social media giant linked in has apologized for funding a pro democrat party operation which created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed republican rival last year the operation was fast in the u.s. with tracking fake russian accounts but turned out to be the one creating them instead i guess the air force. 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 rooum all of 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 so surprised 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 his 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 here's an interesting take. bit new knowledge she jonathan morgan was also seemingly one of the must 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 boats 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 this clown this chance will tell believes the anti 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 donald trump is fair game and republicans that they would believe that they could go this far they could solicit money from somebody and use it of herit violation of then the many types of laws it's not just campaign finance violations you can't deceptively claim you. make claims about somebody they're manifestly not true in this magnitude and think that you're going to suffer no consequence as i mean their real damages here 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 got the blame imputing called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole likely. easy he's done off 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 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 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 goal 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 but as putin has been saying since day one with the armed 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 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. us 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 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 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 rick sterling 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 in the festive period now six days into the current government shutdown in the bullpen 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 what are 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 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. then 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 brutality and 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 the 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 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 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 supply as 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. ok a human rights lawyer and peace activist dan great to have you on down we've heard the background to this story we saw the video it's a major news network using for two thousand and eleven and the reason they used it was to suggest the trip administration is trying to deprive illegal migrants of water in the desert as we know this was all this is wasn't wasn't real news these fake news this donald trump himself would say what the big question is was it accidentally misused someone just made

a big screw up or do you think this was deliberate. i tend to think it was deliberate. you know there is folks who are inclined to view trump is this unique evil. in the world and he certainly you know does a lot of terrible things that can't be questioned and he's doing terrible things on immigration including you know having more children being taken from their parents but at the same time people forget how terrible obama was not integration in fact i just read yesterday that trump has yet. to even come close to matching obama's deportation rate at this time in his administration we know that trump deported over two now million people during his terms in office so i think there is a singular nation to try to pay trump as again uniquely terrible and try to ignore

the crimes of people like obama or george h.w. bush just ask the way. even though when it's clear the video was old single know about it by now because we've pointed out among others why they're not issued an apology they know they're in the wrong about they said they really went to town on this story really you know pontificating and holier than thou attitude from the presenters want to just say you know we got it wrong with sorry. well maybe they will but my guess is if they do they're going to do it it's time that no one sees right because they're horribly they'll be horribly embarrassed by this and it's not the first time the way this sort of thing has happened they were also a democrat earlier had. posted some photos of children in cages again to try to show out terrible trauma was to immigrants and it turned out that photo of children in cages was from the obama era so this isn't the first time

that this is happening and i believe it will now be the last as a side effect of the this is the fake news that everybody talks about in the us they're all hunting down and they've accused our t. of it sometimes but never found any proof it's right there on your own doorstep is a common practice. well i didn't believe it was until now but now it appears to be . a fairly common practice and it is quite concerning and what i think is concerning is that what is happening in the us is that again liberal decent hearted people. have decided that as long as we get rid of trump and put in some you know manila flavored. democrat in the next election that all will be right with the world and these types of new kit newscasts that we're mentioning perpetrate that idea but in fact.

if we don't keep it in mind what obama did what end up with a president just as bad as trump the maybe better spoken so this video came from two thousand. came from the obama administration's time circa two thousand and eleven why was there no big scandal erupting then when the footage first came to light. well that's a good question why was there a skinned or again when he deported to now nine people why was there a scandal when he was instrumental in the two and under arrest in two thousand and nine which has helped lead to this migration crisis obama got a pass on all of these issues in again a lot of it was people like him personally and therefore overlooked all these types of terrible things whereas one truck doesn't. take notice i mean it's going to take no risk as these are terrible things lead to the start but there certainly are

certainly is a double standard be being applied here no question would you know just to top that off i was in new york recently to put a picture of a bomber up on a big screen everybody in the theater cheered and when i put donald trump up everybody booed there's the double standard for you there are many thanks good to speak to human rights lawyer and peace activist dan. for instance is of course of a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former one president's plane which ultimately led to the genocide in one thousand nine hundred four the investigation was a stumbling block between the two countries looking into several 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 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 where it's all there 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 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 they 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 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 roh want to has some nice words for the french i think the president. has. 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 sense 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 r t. turning colonel jacques hogarth was a commander of the french foreign legion and wonder at the time he says my choice of adviser on this issue says it all but we should work or 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 the. united. states reopening its embassy in damascus closed in twenty twelve and recalled the ambassador a serious and good to 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 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 protest against the ensuing violence.

was. certainly the fact that the u.a.e. is now opening and embassy suggests 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. and his wife have paid a surprise christmas visit to u.s. troops in iraq commentators called today rock star and strip signed autographs and

soldiers to sophy's with the president. the visit didn't all go to plan though also on the agenda was a meeting with the iraqi leadership for the two sides can to green on the format of the meeting which then ended up being replaced by a phone conversation at one of the two main blocks in iraq's parliament was not at all news by trump's surprise visit to the country branding it a blatant violation of sovereignty and it appears that trump agrees that u.s. leaders should 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 also a monetary price. the pentagon has active military personnel in thirty eight countries the biggest contingent is the german base ramstein the nine thousand people reported to be stationed there you know berg 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 cross now thinks that he's going to or that the u.s. is going to leave syria just as an example now what about the ten to twenty basis facilities big and small in syria northern syria are they going to be dismantled the special operation forces those who trained the rebels slash terrorists still in

town are they going to be withdrawn too or is just a few soldiers you see again 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 totally unplanned surprise visit to a u.s. base in iraq where the americans should never have gone and i never set up bases and then he says we're not going to leave iraq because it's still useful from the 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 for littering can't you country you can do whatever you please and do thing was in that country where you would have lost. from birds on cocaine to operas about prince harry

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