which created thousands of. time in the u.k. . the u.s. government shutdown. the media in the flames of. even using. drive. they just royal water supply are left in the desert everyone. has done everything they possibly can

to make the trip more dangerous. says most likely to be white. welcome to your new year's. eve online networking site linked in has apologized for funding a discredited democratic party. it created more than a thousand fake russian language. designed to look like they backed a republican rival. the operation was in the united states with tracking fake russian accounts but i doubt to be the very one creating. it.

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 pounce fun projects that 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 bullets were retreating him dirty very very dirty so surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still rock critic are good question is for you it's pretty alarming when a guy's lips in a fluent russian or speak fluent russian 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

mosque 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 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 unless the dave lindorff believes the covertly bought operation 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 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 while way this comes amid a confrontation between the company and the u.k.'s closest ally the united states pony boy who has 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 of the relations between britain and china of very good issues in

the past i think we've come to an understanding over. premier li said yesterday this should be an indispensable partnership. we have cemented britain's position as china's best partner in the west 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 the 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 when 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 has raise serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role in cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services and wire way threaten the security of our new. it works due to their close ties to the chinese government and now the u.s. is pursuing well 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 if 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 murmurs in that direction what we're witnessing is more kind of security hope something it can. russia for we have other work in the issues itself and a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market over the margin or having talks in the background between the american state

department and the british foreign office trying to pressure raise or put leverage on the british government to come out and support the years sanctions tree attire for the one channel but i don't think for one second that britain follow america's foreign policy to dictate to the policy that britain needs for a treat through the world after broke so there's little hard evidence of why our way 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. two thousand and eighteen was certainly a tough year for cryptocurrency bitcoin experts called it the year it's bubble bust

and predicted its complete demise ninety times and top investor says a long dark winter is coming from paper bitcoin to its coin and free fall day coin has slumped to its nose level so far this year the price continues to plunge as the claps and cryptocurrency got his pace losing to seventy five percent of its value so far this year are we seeing that death a big point as we know it but call it was the first mass decentralized digital currency that created more comfortable conditions for trading transactions ongoing vast popularity a bit going to things you told us what he expects from the cryptocurrency after its rocky ride this year. if you look at the big coin you know price bubble as you would say yeah you could say that that maybe is has happened but the user adoption merchant adoption advances in the technology of the block tonight sell fed twenty eighteen is actually been

a really good year for big and maybe again not so much for the price but if you're looking at the technological aspect of the blace in underlining because great year . i think that was more like mainstream media's portrayal of the big point is 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 does the queen's block chain work where does the price come from other than speculation the actual technological advancements so i guess for that i could think that 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 incredibility 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 and banks would benefit from banks using open ledgers and giving that you know trust listening specked 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 if we left a bit dumbfounded by blue light blazing across the skyline they posted a video of the blue horizon with some even wondering where there was some kind of alien invasion. by the phenomenon. of police units and fire trucks it turned out the incident had nothing to do with any galaxy far away but rather just the result of a transformer explosion. plenty more stories coming your way here were nazi international we are back and just.

welcome to unique edition of cross talk we answer questions from you the viewers some of the sentiment very interesting question. you know a lot of crazy things lot of people. twitter and somebody pops up with something really really interesting. you know world of big. and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

having with us today while millions celebrate the festive season in the united states the government is in the midst of a shutdown of a cash for trump's border war the president claims the stalemate is not about funding of the anti immigration beriah at all. this isn't above the wall everybody knows that it will work perfectly in israel the wall works ninety nine percent this is only by the democrats now letting donald trump and the republicans have a win 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 we're going to have a wall going to see 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 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 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 open for business until he gets funding for his border wall and the democrats are still resisting that he cannot accept the offer they made to put a billion dollar slush fund for the president to implementing his very wrong immigration policies that would happen 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. old migrant girl m.s. and me sees 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 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 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 when you and yet they are out there destroying the water supply as the good samaritans put out there for people who find themselves in these situations there's

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 to forty 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 in again. a lot of it was people like him personally and therefore we looked at all these types of terrible things where one truck does a day take notice it may be winter but that he didn't washington over donald trump was just keeps getting time. r.t. new york. the common stereotype that we sometimes hold of terrorists is

being challenged by a study in the united states after nine eleven the so called average terrorist was often portrayed as being a muslim or of arab descent with our because the language of choice they were also commonly thought to have beards but a study by a global policy think tank that of the rand corporation has found that the reality may be all too different they claim that the majority of terrorists recruited in the u.s. come from a cook asian or african american background the study also indicates the terrorists can be either black or white also not highlighting any particular attributes of the findings come as a contrast to the stereotype we're all a bit familiar with a professor of sociology at the university of wisconsin. believes that this has led to some dangerous assumptions. attributing any any any issue to

a race basically is intended primarily to result and blanket condemnation and blanket condemnation of the people of the middle east our ups and 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 authentic to be based on a false premise but obviously it was setting up a tickle that's easy and the political strategy required a blanket condemnation and a mass generalization of the notion of 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 justify or to still find out facts about crime or about terrorism is actually highly misleading let alone actually is a very basis it is art international brussels says it's granting french

president emmanuel macron a one time exception after paris admitted it may break euro zone deficit limits next year saving a closer look at the story charlotte devinsky. some strong criticism coming out of brussels towards president of france with the european commissioner with budget responsibility describing much corn as losing his authority this is because of the concessions he's given yellow best protest as after weeks of violent protests that have rocked france now paris has already admit that those concessions costing billions of euros already going to push the two thousand and nineteen budget for two point eight percent of g.d.p. all the way up to three point two percent meaning it breaches the european commission's stated objectives of three percent now brussels is said it will 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 spot 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 for 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. a sharman of ritual has marked the upcoming new year in progress. it's just so. says the seans got that on a beach in the proven capital dba that's where they chanted over the portraits of the leaders of russia the united states and north korea it was an unusual ceremony intended to bring strength and energy to the entire world. is. just there are some of the top stories for this friday live from moscow when r.t. international we are back with much more.

my seven years doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in a prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless number of people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. to

make this manufacturer can be sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. it's not like we can all middle of the room sick. delete rows million more you don't need really following place. to. come to russia no one's ever no one has ever heard of a country never even heard about most school. kids

. play close to. play play. play play play play play. for i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market sock thirty percent was last year some with four hundred to five hundred

trade first circuit first second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. hello welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and for as long as humans can remember themselves they have been trying to push the boundaries of their own

nature and they are now everywhere from south america to siberia people are embarking on a spiritual journey so this is an enduring fantasy i ask a man who has been studying and practicing spiritual practices for the past twenty five years anthropologist author explorer advocate or as he likes to put it david that is you. are of the supernatural has long been irresistible for humanity throughout history people have tried to stretch the limits of their capabilities through meditation and myriad other practices but can anyone really move beyond biological constraints and train them to perform miracles or wrist spirituality and the trends in gentle just an angel. there with their days it's really great to have you with us you're an author you're an anthropologist explorer in my opinion educator worth that i greatly admire so you have been studying for the past thirty

years different people in a mystical row from west to east you've been all around the world what is it that all these people have in common all these different people with different backgrounds different religions different worldviews there's something you told me they all have in common. yes. probably more than one thing first of all that in common that all human beings looking for meaning looking for looking for a story. and a story that will fulfill the meaning of their identity both personal and transpose it seems that whoever choose and goes successfully through a process of transpersonal development using doesn't matter which narrative it ends up to be someone who.