headlining this hour syrian forces say they've entered the northern town of the move comes at the request of civilians and kurds in the area. troops for an offensive. co-founder of networking site linked in apologizes for funding a pro democratic party operation in the us which created thousands of fake russian . huawei is the focus of spy on occasions again this time though in the u.k. . the u.s. government shutdown continues over funding. projects with the media fanning the flames of discontent and even using outdated video to drive its agenda a destroyer water supplies that are left in the desert everyone in the trumpet

ministration has done everything possible. to make the trip more dangerous. to. welcome to the update from the first starting in syria where according to the military government forces have entered the northern city of beach at the request of civilians and kurdish fighters in the area it comes as an offensive against the kids that considers them to be terrorists. and certainly tensions are increasing on the ground syrian government forces have ever entered the province of mondays and they've raised the syrian flag there now this comes after a request from the locals this is an area that is in the hands of kurds and those kurdish both the fighters and both the civilians are now fleeing this is what the y.p. the syrian kurdish fighters had to say we invited the syrian government which we

belong to to send its armed forces to take over these positions and protect man beach and the freeze of turkish threats and what the same people flee because of an impending likely to be turkish offensive and we've heard such threats coming from the turkish side in fact turkish bet syrian fighters and armored vehicles have also been deployed to the area all of this follows the surprise announcement by the americans and they are withdrawing troops from syria so on the ground what we witnessing is people afraid over the past couple of years americans the best safety and stability for the north of syria this region and north syria entirely are going to be destabilized the people shall flee and terrorism will prevail the american withdrawal will destabilize the security we have had for a couple of years in this region. the american withdrawal from unleashed by don't trump was disappointing for the city as i said all men because residents are afraid

that armies might come to loot just as it happened during the era we want to say situation the impending showdown doesn't only put fighters on the ground at each other's throats but it also could potentially see the united states squaring up against turkey although comes a turkish delegation is said to visit moscow this saturday to discuss the situation with syria's ally russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is also commented on the situation in the region warning that allied forces will have to bear the brunt of the u.s. withdrawal. so. it seems like washington wants to shift responsibility to its coalition partners in syria and put additional financial burden on its allies in the region. the co-founder of the online networking site linked in has apologized for funding a discredited pro democratic party operation it created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter account designed to look like they backed

a republican rival last year the operation was tasked in the us with tracking fake russian occams but to be the very one creating them instead one against the of report. 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 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 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 dirty 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 chick a 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 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 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 journalist dave lindorff believes the cover bottle peroration reflects broader problems in the us electoral system. dirty tricks are not illegal they're. 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. alas in u.s. 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 the chinese tech giant wall way it comes amid a confrontation between the company in the u.k.'s closest ally the united states and he has the 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. 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 act 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 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. 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 kayne of security hope something that can. russia for real other word you know sees itself in

a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market over the margin having talks in the back room 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 tyrus of the haven't shown but i don't think for one second that britain. america's foreign policy to dictate to the policy that britain needs for true truth 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. french

interior ministry is planning to boost its riot control arsenal purchasing more weapons that fire rubber bullets despite a number of serious injuries among the yellow vests protesters caused by the non-lethal ammunition and numerous warnings from human rights groups over their use as well as france correspondent. is in paris high that there's been quite an outcry over this one of the dangers. well the dangers zogby fact that these are rubber bullets they may not look like very much but the launches that the french government has just put this tender out to by almost one thousand three hundred will launch these little guys into the crowd as part of the roy control we've seen them being deployed over the last few weeks in the yellow vests protests now the reality is these can cause a huge amount of damage everything from cracked. to even facial injuries including some of the injuries three sort of some of our colleagues at r.t.

one of our correspondents got hit in the face and actually smashed in his skin another correspondent was hit in the leg and caused severe bruising but the dangers are even more than not take a look at this woman and her injury from a rubber bullets. well thirty five thousand euros has been launched to help that woman who lost his sighted one eye as a result of one of these. bullets so why has that tend to be pulled out when it's been put out to troy and the. french boy police as the some of the worst riots he was in moved in half a century yellow bus protests and we're going on since november seventeenth and

over the. weeks we've seen this protest of these protests growing in things the pilots we've seen the police resort to using these were bullets many many times. well civil liberties groups are outraged by the idea that the french government wants to boost its arsenal even more and there is research which shows how dangerous these were bullets can be u.s. troops of academics in december two thousand and seventeen did a whole new search actually published i may said fifteen percent of the people who were injured by one of the let's injured permanently the majority of them lose the

sight in their eye as we saw from one victim for the gallows best protest and three percent of people who were injured ended up dying as a result of the injuries and those researchers concluded that rubber bullets like they said the launches that the french government wants to buy to utilize them absolutely inappropriate food trying to control protests so the question is why is the french government still insistent on following more launches for rubber bullets like this at a cost of almost two million euros. in paris thanks very much for that. here without see the thousands of u.s. workers are out of pocket over the festive season off the u.s. government shutdown over donald trump's border war funding we'll bring you up to speed on that after the break. welcome to unique edition of crosstalk we answer questions from you the viewers

some of you sent me very interesting question. you know twitter's callout of crazy things going up a lot of people you know. twitter arising and occasionally somebody pops up with something really really interesting. you know world of big partisan movies. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

now while millions celebrate the festive season in the united states the governments in the midst of a shutdown over cash but donald trump foldable the president though claims the stalemate is not about funding the anti immigration barrier at all. 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 shut down because we believe in walls and we believe in borders and we believe in barriers and we're going to have a wall over there 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 adonai 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 it seems that the hysteria is not going to end 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 year 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 trunk of administration has done everything they possibly can to make that 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 this situation 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 money to poor to 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 it again a lot of it was his people like him personally and therefore we looked at all of these types of terrible things where as one truck does them they take notice it may be winter but the heat in washington over donald trump's wall just keeps getting time table mop and artsy new york. twenty eighteen was a tough year for the cryptocurrency bit coing experts called it the year its bubble bust and predicted its complete to my knees nineteen times.

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uncomfortable conditions for trade and transactions and game boy popularity the code enthusiastic and bows act told us what he expects from the cryptocurrency office rocky right this year. if you look at the big queen 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 itself had twenty eight years actually been a really good year for big maybe again not so much for that price but if you're looking at the technological aspect of the blotching underlining because great year . i think that was more like mainstream media's portrayal of the big point 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 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 in credibility it may overpower any kind of security falls 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 at banks would benefit from banks using open ledgers and giving that you know trust listeners specht of the try when it comes to banking. just don't put more in than you're willing to lose and you don't have to worry too much about trading with emotional money. honey for now people in new york have been left dumbfounded by a neon blue light blazing across the skyline. they posted videos of the bluish

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