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a trip. to the image of a typical. white. morning. to your top stories that the news team has been. the co-founder of online networking site linked in has apologized for funding a. democrat party operation it created more than a thousand fake. designed to look like they backed a republican rival. the operation was in the us with tracking fake. the very create instead details now with.

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 a medicine decisions to perhaps fun projects and i would rejects 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 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 bought swer re tweeting him dirty very very dirty so surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the country's russia but still rather reach a car good question is for you it's pretty alarming when a guy's lives in a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian his russian is everywhere year later it's moving closer into 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 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 data to accuse russian boughts 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 journalist david lindorff believes the secretly staged bought operation reflects broader problems in the electoral system dirty tricks are not illegal there. you know they're part of our. corrupt electoral system you can you can lie and you can make up stories

you can live all people all of these things are are allowed in us the u.s. 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. britain's defense minister has voiced his deep concerns about a possible spying threat from chinese tech giant wild way it's comes amid confrontation between the company and the u.k.'s closest ally the united states. digs into this for more details. they seemed like the best of friends one side with cash to flash the other keen to court chinese investment we have a golden era of u.k.

china relations. we want to see british business british investment coming into trial but also we welcome very strongly welcome try these investment into britain some in europe and elsewhere see the world changing and want to show china behind the bamboo curtain of trade barriers britain wants to tear those trade barriers down. we need china for our economy if you're concerned about climate change you need to engage with china with the u.k. playing bragg's it really with brussels trade ties with china seem as important as ever but there's a bone of contention coming between london and beijing or rather a phone of contention we've got to look at what partners such as australia in the us are doing in order to ensure that they have the maximum security of that five g. network and we've got to recognise the fact there's been recently exposed the

chinese state does sometimes aren't in the maligned way while our way is one of china's most important tech companies that the world's second largest mobile phone producer and it makes the laptops and tablets gadgets that rival apple and samsung but crucially weiwei also sells some of the communications hardware that allows mobile phone and wireless networks to operate and where the u.s. currently embroiled in a tip for tat trade war with beijing the chinese tech giant has come into the spotlight washington says it's concerned that using weiwei hardware will give beijing the ability to spy on foreign countries and exert too much control over western infrastructure weiwei his race serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role. and cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services reportedly used various shell companies to conceal efforts to get

sensitive satellite tech technology from boeing facebook shared the personal information of americans with smart phone manufacturers these included the chinese companies one way n.z. t e z t n y way threaten the security of our networks due to their close ties to the chinese government and now the u.s. is pursuing while ways chief financial officer who was arrested in vancouver at washington's request to now faces extradition to the u.s. over possible violations of sanctions against iran but the case appears more than a little politicized the u.s. president suggested he might use china's tech princess as a bargaining chip with beijing if i think it's good for the country you find i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made which is a very important thing which is good for national security i would certainly intervene

if i thought it was necessary australia or new zealand have followed the u.s. is lead and banned huawei from providing tech for its five g. rollout citing security risks the u.k. has yet to follow although there are moments in that direction what we're witnessing is more kind of security hype something it can. russia for we have an american only sees itself as a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market i think it's leverage i think america wants to get under these markets with expensive lays minerals that china has a monopoly on by denying you know the opportunity to bring through think gee they made a british company or dutch company or european company or an american company to take over the margin or be. talks in the background between the american state department and the british foreign office are trying to pressure raise and put leverage on the british government to come out and support the years sanctions

tires of the one channel but i don't think for one second that britain will own america's foreign policy to dictate to the policy that britain needs to treat through the world after broke so there's little hard evidence of weiwei ever having engaged in any spying or handing over of data the company denies any ties to the chinese government beyond paying its taxes for the u.k. following washington's lead and banning way risk souring up until now fruitful friendship as well as slowing down the rollout of vital new technology for london it will be a tough choice between wa way and the us way. twenty eighteen was a tough year for crypto currency bitcoin experts called it the year it's bubble burst and predicted its complete demise scores of times and top investors has

a long dark winter is coming from day for big oil pits coinage in freefall the court has slumped to its lowest level so far this year the price continues to plunge as the collapse in crypto currency is gathers pace losing to seventy five percent of its value so far this year are we seeing that death the big question as we know it bitcoin was the first mass decentralized digital currency it created more comfortable conditions for trade and transactions and gave white popularity a bit coin enthusiastic ken broadside told us what he expects from the cryptocurrency after its rocky ride this year. if you look at that point you know great ball boys you would say yeah you could say that that baby is has happened but the user adoption merchant adoption advances in the technology of the box in itself had twenty thousand has actually been a really good year for before and maybe again not so much for the price but if you're looking at the technological aspect of the blace an underlining because

great year. i think that was more like mainstream media's portrayal of big going as like you know the get rich quick aspect of it during the boron of twenty team but i think that's kind of segue to into the mainstream more so moving into the the interest in the technology like how to block chain work where does the price come from other than speculation the actual technological advancements so i guess for that i could think the mainstream media. i don't think it's much more of a risk than it was when they incorporated the internet into their business model what i think is it provides in credibility it may overpower any kind of security flaws there's a lot of things that happened behind the scenes in banks i think that you know a lot of end users and customers of banks would benefit from banks using open ledgers and giving that you know trust listeners specht of

a try when it comes to banking. just don't put more in than you're willing to lose and you won't have to worry too much about trading with emotional money. people in new york have been left shocked and surprised by a flickering neon blue light on the skyline they posted videos of the bluish horizon with some even wondering whether it was some sort of alien invasion. by the phenomenon. of police units on fire trucks to the scene. nothing to do with any galaxy far away but it was simply the result of a transformer explosion. the programmer interest.

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of cross talk we can answer questions from you the viewers some of the sentiment very interesting. good to have you with us today while millions celebrate the festive season in the united states the government is in the midst of a shutdown over a cash for trump's border the president though claims the stalemate is not in any way about funding the anti immigration diarrhea. this isn't above the wall everybody knows that a wall will work perfectly in israel the wall works ninety nine percent this is only by the democrats not letting donald trump and the republicans have a when they may have the town senate votes but we have the shoe border security two thousand and twenty if you thought there would be a christmas truce in the washington wars then you were wrong christmas is over and new year's is coming and the government has already been shut down for

a week and it's all because of the wall we have a little bit of a shutdown because we believe in walls and we believe in borders and we believe in barriers the american public is demanding if we have to close down the country over border security i actually like that in terms of an issue federal workers are furious they're telling horror stories on social media about a penniless christmas they're blaming it all on the man in the white house 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 a di i know that but we're supposed to buy 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

would have to put him down it seems that the hysteria is not going to trump says the government won't be all. but for business until he gets funding for his border wall and the democrats are still resisting that i can tell you it's not going to be over until we. will all fence whatever they'd like to go over the code whatever that he cannot accept the offer they made to put a billion dollar slush fund for the president to implementing his very wrong immigration policy and that happened to trump temper tantrum may produce a government shutdown it will not get him his will moreover the mainstream media is turning up the heat during the discussion of the recent death of a seven year old migrant girl m s n b c you've got a heart wrenching clip of border patrol agents dumping out water left for undocumented immigrants who illegally cross the border 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 the samaritans who are doing what donald trump's bible tells them to do yes that means spiritedness is put squarely on the shoulders of donald trump except if you look at the clip it's from way back in two thousand and eleven the border patrol agents in that clip were actually accountable to the obama administration when they took those actions not to trump that fact however didn't stop m s n b c from playing the clip 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 with this cannot be dealt with with just water of wind and yet they are out there destroying the water supply as the good

samaritans put out there for people who find themselves in the situ. 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 children being taken from their parents but at the same time people forget how terrible obama was not integration why was there a scandal again when he did forty two now million people why was 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 in again a lot of it was people like him personally and therefore overlooked all these types of terrible things where one truck does them they take notice it may be winter but that he didn't washington over donald trump was just keeps getting time table r.t.

new york. a study in the united states says shocked at the stereotype that we sometimes hold of terrorists here or the conclusions reached by the global policy think tank the rand corporation although it's claimed that the majority of terrorists come from a caucasian or african american background the study also indicates that terrorists can be either black or white but also not highlighting any particular attributes that's quite a contrast to the stereotype that we are familiar with for example after nine eleven the so-called average terrorist was often portrayed as being a muslim or of arab descent with arabic the language of choice and they were also commonly thought to have beards a professor of sociology at the university of wisconsin have done a believes that this has led to some dangerous assumptions. but tribute inc n e n e n e issue two race basically is intended primarily to result and blanket condemnation

and blanket condemnation of the people of the middle east are up some muslims and all the people of the middle east was actually necessary for the for the us policy in the region although it was from day one understood by most social scientists to be based on a false premise but obviously it was serving up political strategy and the political strategy required a blanket condemnation and a mass generalization or the notion after to apply to any person coming from the region or the middle east region north africa and southeast asia and the study that uses race as a primary viable to explain or to just default to to find out facts about crime or about terrorism is actually highly misleading let alone actually is a very racist. brussels says it's granting the french president a manual macro on a one time exception after paris admitted it may break euro zone deficit limits

next year taking a closer look at the story short of two points. some strong criticism coming out of brussels to woods president matt korn of france with the european commission and with budget responsibility describing matt corn as losing his authority this is because of the concessions he's given to yellen best protest as of two weeks of final protest that of france now paris has already made those concessions costing billions of us over at the going to push the two thousand and nineteen budget film two point eight percent of g.d.p. all the way up to three point two percent meaning it breaches the european commission stated objectives of three percent now brussels is said it will last. not tolerate any breaching of these rules post two thousand and nineteen under this condition move tolerates a national debt higher than three percent as

a one time exception however it must not continue beyond twenty nine team and it's not the first time that france has actually breached these limits in fact when we look over the last ten years they've reached the limits more than they've been within them and spike the fact that penalties are supposed to be applied to a country that breached these rules so far none have been of plight france that's also the same for germany which breached the three percent barrier back in two thousand and three but spare a thought that italy that's been struggling to try and get its two thousand and nineteen budget approved this year past the allies the eagle eyes of the european commission and that's when their budget was only going to be two point four percent of g.d.p. now of course italy has huge debts and it's been trying to tighten its belt but it was well below that three percent and even then that wasn't good enough for the european commission and that's led some people to suggest that the european union remains to be

a two tier system where some of the big guns can get away with anything without being penalized and everybody else countries like italy have to play according to the rulebook. rather unusual sharman ritual has marked the upcoming new year in progress. it's just so. says the shaman's gathered on a beach in the perth un cafe au lait must have a new content over the portraits of the leader of russia the us on the north korea it was an annual ceremony intended to upbring the strength and energy to be in taiwan. this. stage she says just some of the program for this hour here on r.t. international there are many more stories for this friday coming your way we were ton at the top of the hour.

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clone of welcome to worlds apart chunks announcement of the impending pullout of syria has been mad in moscow with a change of excitement and a bucket of disbelief both of reach 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 well to discuss that i'm now joined by my cough associate professor at the moscow state institute of international relations and the editor of monitors russian media coverage max it's good to finally see here in our studio thanks for coming over thanks for having me it's a pleasure now back in september you wrote that the americans are unlikely to withdraw from syria until the end of trump's term. despite all the recent

developments do you think you can still be proven right well you know i think i think i was coming from from from the belief that the u.s. military presence was a factor that enabled the united states to convert its military presence into pull . people live rich over some of the you know syria russia and iran in particular and to a certain degree i think i was accurate in the back then it was a reflection and i think it still is the reflection of this perspective and washington you know the announcements of forces came came as a surprise to many a in in washington in its. intentions can still be realized in a way it's been communicated dot is that democrats would actually leave. part of syria that they they will not be let's say substituted by let's say the british forces or

that they won't increase special forces capacity on the ground to compensate for the military well i think in a way we still are uncertain about the very most delegates of the military pullout but i believe the two thousand two hundred troops that the pentagon claims that there are there will be pull out sometime within the next one hundred days at the same time you know there are forces that are not on the official record but the special forces operatives military trainers i believe that these. personnel will stay and see you know we're not sure yet because we're getting some conflicting reports on whether the united states will be applying an air force so that's a big factor in the third one i think third uncertainty is the degree of the support for the kurdish groups on the ground that the u.s. may be willing or may not be.