the co-founder of linked in apologizes for a pro-democrat operation to create a fake russian bots during the alabama state election also this hour. the little. league washington expresses concern over russia's newly tested hypersonic missile saying there are no effective counter measures. and the french are judges drop a long running probe into the downing of the former long the president's plane make the trigger point in the one nine hundred ninety four genocide.

as a lot of direct for shit is moscow this is our to international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right the co-founder of the social media giant linked in has apologized for funding a pro-democrat party operation which created more than of thousands of fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year and on the operation was tasked in the us with tracking fake russian accounts but turned out to be the one creating them as artie's but i guess their comments. 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 think 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 dirty very very dirty it's no surprise that choppa support him

or they both have a deep love. of of country the countries russia but still roughly chick a good question is for you it's pretty alarming when a guy slips into fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian is everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office interestingly enough the democrats love that and mocked roy moore when he accused them of setting him up last year but here's an 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 ball it's 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 journalist david lindorff believes that the bottom parisian reflects broader problems in the us electoral system dirty tricks are not illegal there. you know they're part of our our corrupt electoral system you can you can lie. you can make up stories you can live all people all of these things are. allowed in us the us electoral system and then what what compounds it makes it so corrupting is the vast amount of money that can be poured into these campaigns that allows them to pay for this kind of corruption and then on top of that we have a population that's really not capable of critical thought and so people will buy into the stupidest claims about candidates. russia has

successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named of on guard president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the whole country my colleague earlier research a spoke to r.t.c. was 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 well 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 the world 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. the. mood. 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 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 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. us is now leaving the irony of 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 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 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 it could affect the balance of power with investigative journalists are extremely 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 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. the u.s. government shutdown is set to continue into the new year leaving hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid articulate moffitt comments 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 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 . and there's no end in sight u.s. 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 the . fence what are they going to go with it with 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 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 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 effective for their base and severe dehydration which is cannot be don't with food just water when you can 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 shutdown this is day number six of the shutdown of the u.s. federal government and the buzz word on capitol hill is division. right human rights lawyer dan valek says the misuse of footage by imus and b c reflects widespread double standards in the media. there is folks who are inclined to view trump is this unique evil and he certainly you know does a lot of terrible things including you know having more children being taken from their parents but at the same time people forget how terrible obama was not integration why wasn't there a scandal again when he deported two now million people why wasn't there

a scandal when he was instrumental in the coup in honduras in two thousand and nine which has helped lead to this migration crisis obama got a pass on all of these issues and again a lot of it was his people liked him personally and therefore if you look at all these types of terrible things where one trial does them they take notice. french of judges have called off a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former rwandan president's plane part of a chain of events that led to the one nine hundred ninety four genocide and the investigation was a stumbling block between the two countries it was looking into several rwandan officials close to the current president 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 they had promised to rescue. today we're being asked to leave with the people who killed our families we're told they're sorry they will do together. some people believe that i'm not one of them. but 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 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 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. 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 candidates ahead 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. different six 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 money making donald quarter r t the colonel ho guard was a commander of the french foreign legion in rwanda at the time he says mark ronson

choice of advisor on this issue is revealing what we should look at 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 rwanda and now sarkozy is micron's advisor the. united arab emirates has announced it is reopening its embassy in damascus it was shut down in two thousand and twelve during the early stages of syria's civil war and whose boss clear as more. 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.

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. donald trump and his wife have paid

a surprise christmas a visit to u.s. troops in iraq trump signed autographs and soldiers took selfies with the president . please please. please. please. please. please. please. please. please. during his trip trump did not meet any iraqi officials and one of the main political parties issued a statement condemning it via an announcer visit as a violation of iraqi sovereignty and calling for the complete withdrawal of u.s. forces. however in his speech to troops trump said there are no plans for

a pullout and he suggested that countries should pay for the presence of u.s. soldiers america shouldn't be doing the fighting. for every nation on earth not being reimbursed in many cases at all. 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 personnel in thirty eight countries the biggest contingent is that german base or ramstein where more than nine thousand people are reported to be stationed young oberg 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 the whole process 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 trained the rebels slash terrorists still in our countdown 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 said all that's terrible even the left somewhere says this is terrible i mean i don't understand anything anymore but then he goes on the helter skelter totally unplanned surprise visit to a u.s. base in iraq where the american should never have gone and not never set up bases and then he says that 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 a laboring country your country you can do whatever you please and do thing was in

that country where you would have loss. of donald trump has been accused of revealing classified navy seal deployments during his visit to iraq several mainstream media outlets are claiming that the president may have put special ops forces in danger by posting the following that video on twitter. former marine sniper sergio co-chair again thinks that the media is overreacting to the video. for me the conversation need to start with why are we sending our troops there in the first place and that's the primary thing that we're putting them into danger here now the second thing is i would also say i don't know like it's first of who's assuming that it's

a seal team five they look like regular soldiers so that's just the media hyping things up now we know that the special forces are present in those areas and those are the mainly operating units so and so i don't really see this as this big big deal i see it more as a distraction from what's actually the president has announced last few days and i think they just basically trying to reinforce the fact that his understanding or analysis of foreign policy is not in the place where do the big boys or grown ups consider themselves to be. and from birds on cocaine to operas about prince harry and a newly published waste report by senator rand paul has revealed some of the strange things the u.s. government has been funding here's a look. doesn't

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