well, the parts we choose to look for common ground with the ship is equipped with the latest zircon hypersonic missile system, which has no analogues. a brigitte armed with nuclear capable hydrophone like missiles on combat duty, and the atlantic and the indian ocean with 5 people are killed and 15, more wounded as ukrainian force and strike a residential area in russia is that part all here. region civilians, emergency workers along with k to france. i felt the french

ambassador as i think colonial sentiment strengthens on the african continent, will know who seek to cooperate with countries a, get the decision is the will of our leaders. then i can say that it's good because what the people don't know are leaders do know they want him to leave you to his actions. cutting off relations with france is not a big deal there. all the con, cooperate with a very well welcome from all of our team here in moscow. this is auntie international with the latest world news update is great to have you with us. now i talked story, this, our vladimir putin has attended an online naval ceremony with the admiral gosh, cough ship and to being active combat. do say the frigate is equipped with the latest type on a county ship missile system would be russian president pointing. i think uniqueness, i will show the ship is equipped with the latest zircon hypersonic missile system,

which has no analogues. it is also equipped with other latest generation weapons. as i said, it has no analogues elsewhere in the world. which such powerful weapons will reliably protect russia from potential external threats. it will help to ensure the national interest of our country. according to russia's defense minister for a good will take a long voyage across the atlantic and indian oceans on some mediterranean, like a should also say these con hypersonic missiles impervious to any defenses against such weapons. such missiles are capable of flying, get 9 times the speed of sound with a range of more than $1000.00 kilo mrs. due to its speed and maneuverability, does a con, can carry out highly precise strikes and is very difficult to counter. the corresponding cynthia nunez, takes a closer look at this. new russian weapon president vladimir putin joined the

launch ceremony, or frigate admiral gorski on wednesday. russia's defense minister se gay, chicago, who was also in attendance, announced that the warship that his armed with hypersonic circle and missiles will sail to ins in an atlantic ocean, as well as mediterranean sea, with a goal of a quote countering rushes threads and maintaining peace and stability together with friendly countries. the defense minister also noted dead. the cruel will perform. com, but exercises including a launching circle on you sales at circle and is one of several hypersonic rockets on the development in russia. it can fly at 9 times the speed of sound and can be used against boat shapes and ground targets. in addition to circling his house and when you sent for it, the ship will carry a calibre complex's air defense systems or be to weapons. and artillery was this launch has already caused what seems to be mass panic in the west by this new student have come a surprise,

a dance of december president put in announced that the frigate armed with hypersonic circle. and miss alice will enter service in january 2023. and now is it we discuss the significance of any russian latham with the fence on the less likely company and form a us marine co intelligence offices, coach weiss at the zircon missile. i, especially when projected forwarded to deployment, gives the russians the ability to project destructive fire power, you know, deep into europe, into the united states and anywhere it deploys the bottom line is no matter when the system was going to be deployed. it was going to shake up the balance of power in the world. you know, people who think that the zircon is simply a nuclear weapon or wrong is, or con, missile can carry a 300 pound, a high explosive warhead, which, when delivered with precision, was destroy anything. it touches and there's no air defense system in the world.

right. now there can, it's a counter to this missile. so if the missiles fired, it will hit what it's aimed at. it will destroy what it's aimed at. and there's nothing the west can do. that the deployment of the ship is russia's way, saying that whatever the west thinks it's going to do, it will not come without a significant pass. the chinese have hypersonic missiles. they've weighed them for many years. russia now has a new naval hypersonic missile, and the west has nothing that the that, that, that approaches this capability. most of the western, well, a seized the russian technology as being more advanced and more deployable. exec on is sending one of the most capable any ship missiles in the world, and it has no effective counter measures as of yet, it's going to be symbolic and prestigious for russian navy deployments worldwide. and then i think is the most important factor. i'll this deployment of the eval gosh, cough are coming into the atlantic and into the indian ocean, in other words,

away from his home base in the northern fleet. and this will show the flag and it will be very significant, politically and strategically for russia. so definitely this is the, the pacing, threat for western navies and certainly the deployment now operational deployment of the zurich on any shipment on than you and will go off class figure is going to be very, very significant for a western navies to consider ah, to russia as opposed to region now, where 5 people have been killed in 15 wounded of the ukrainian shilling of a residential area in the city of brotherly africa. as according to local authorities for emergency workers were among those injured in the attack which brought heavy damage to a civilian building. official say the situation remains tense is that he continues to come on. the ukrainian shelling on correspond an area of

a soon in reports from the sea. behind me is a hotel in vesuvius, which was struck twice by high mars. as you can see, the top floors are destroyed. this is the central part of the city. people are now going outside. they were hiding for some time due to the risk of a new strike, an hour after the 1st attack, when emergency services arrived and civilians had gathered at the scene, the craning forces sent another missile. so most of the casualties or civilians, people are now trying to repair the windows that were broken in and around the building. there was still a risk of further attacks. the russians said, he all done yes. came on to a fresh round of ukrainian shelling early on wednesday with at least one civilian casualty reported by local officials. canadian journalists even bought letters on the ground floor in the bustled don. yes, republic. we are in kit up ski, a western district of the city of done yet can in fact were in the very west of kit, off ski, a few kilometers from ukrainian forces. now this house behind me to my left here

was shell by ukrainian forces yesterday has been completely destroyed. the neighbors don't want to talk in my experience when they don't want to speak, it's because they fear appearing on camera and they fear reprisals from ukraine. their house being shelled as a result of them talking to media. what i can say is that this is a completely civilian area. it's a completely residential area. there are no military targets here whatsoever. and this destruction this terror, that the bombings that we hear ongoing in the background. this is what civilians tend to dunbar have been living with since 2014 western journalists raised the alarm about the increasing costs of keeping ukraine's defense is up and running. as ex, expert war, they may not be able to maintain such efforts for long ukrainian military officials claim they've been successfully intercepting a large number of russian drones in just 2 days new year's night. and the day after

84 drones were shut down. all of them by air defenses. it's an unprecedented result . according to the ukrainian consultancy, the country spends much more on defense systems than russia supposedly spends on its drones. the price of $1.00 such you a v is about 7 times less than the cost of a single ukrainian surface to air missile launch. he had spent an estimated $28000000.00 when i said the fences in the 1st 8 months of the conflicts. well, let's discuss this with a pencil and senior security policy analyst in my coma leaf. now, thanks for joining us, michael. always let me see. what's your assessment of these figures and just how cost effective? do you think ukraine's defense is have been so far? well, the, well thanks for having me. ukrainian air defenses are not economic economical at all. and in fact they're, they're, they're shooting missiles at these, at these very, relatively inexpensive drones. and there's,

they just have so many of them and they, they costs so much to shoot where we're talking about some of the $10.00 times as much. and they want, they want the most exotic weapon systems available to shoot a drones. this is becoming more and more a drone war as a, as it evolves here. and, and frankly, you're seeing russia using far less expensive ones at $20000.00, approximately $20000.00 a shot. so compared to $140000.00 per ukrainian missile. so that this, this is a, this cannot, this is unsustainable for all the ukrainian side. so i think that they're either going to probably reassess or re reconnoiter. they're more expensive, round the air systems to protect the most critical infrastructures,

and probably rely on less expensive drones but on their side to shoot down these other drones. well, the, the way the russians counter that, of course, will then be to employ the swarm approach where you ship 1020 missiles at a location and they're the ukranian, their defenses will be unable to cope with that. and then we're seeing this. where were you seeing this in israel now the where the where, where the iron dome itself, which israel is, by the way, have turned down a request by the ukraine for that system. but even though systems can be overwhelmed by the use of the swarm technology, the swarm approach rather. and i think that that's going to be the, the, the way that this is dealt with in the very near future, especially once russia begins it's winter offensive. and i think that's coming up

if, if, if 0 and sky does not help call for a cease fire in place and decide to start serious negotiation, which he, he's giving no indication of that to date the ukraine, as we know it came to have been shooting down most of the russian drones within little actual evidence of this that was your take on the situation. do you think that's legit? oh yeah, it's going to go. they're going to shoot him down. they use the more expensive methods. but i think from the russian standpoint, keep on doing that to, to prompt the ukrainians to use up all of their, all of their supply. they can only get in so many of them. and it really depends upon what's available from, from the nato countries include in the us. and i think what, what given,

given the relatively inexpensive drone that the russians have, they can stand to lose almost all of them but, but the ukrainians cannot stand to lose all of these more expensive missiles. so i think there is a strategy being employed here by russia to continue shooting these far less expensive drones. and if they're, if they're only $20000.00 a piece and they're getting them from the less expensive ones from iran and north korea. as reports indicate, then that is a strategy, it's far less, less expensive than what ukrainians are using in terms of shooting, shooting down these drones with more expensive missile systems. so what do you make of the western media is warnings of the price tag on ukraine. you credit

at defense efforts and i will sort of message. do you think that trying to send to kevin, it's western military sponsors? well, there's a limit. i think the message is there's a limit and, and as long as that the, if the trains are going to continue down this path of using these more expensive weapons, they can only be produced so fast and be able to get in there. and that's going to be one of the other tactics you're going to see russia employ in their and their winter offensive. and that is to target the store, the store houses of, of their, of their weapon system. and make it much more difficult for you running to conduct their activities, knowing that the supply will be limited and the ability to get it into the country will be questionable, particularly as russia picks up the tempo of the, of the, this one to offensive. as you mentioned earlier,

michael ukraine has acute iran of sending of selling myself through all the ring drones to russia both moscow and to ron of denied this. so what about the weapon supplies to ukraine? then why is it not seen as a big issue in western countries? well, it's, it's all part of the do as i do, as i say, not as i do it's, it's a we're, we're constantly providing conflicting and, and conflicting viewpoints with what they can do. what, what the united states wants to do the other side should not do that because it hurts our feelings or something like that. i mean, it's ridiculous, but you've got, you can't, you have to expect that russia is going to conduct its own activities to preserve what they believe is a threat to the, the federation. and i think that this is gonna escalate even further. it was not

insignificant that mister put and visited the president of bella. ruth, very, very recently. and i think what, what is going to be happening here is an effort to get the, the c, s, t o, the, the, the, the security arrangement that they have to in the east to become, in effect, the new war saw pack in order to match up with nato, because natal keeps expanding. i think that that's going to stop. i think the, i think the c s t o effort will, will probably be put forward. they haven't what's called an article for and that article 4 is similar to nato's article 5. that the attack on one is an attack on all. now some of the members of the c s t o will undoubtedly be hesitant to do that

because for fear of western sanctions. but there is such a thing as we saw with nato in, in libya, and in and in afghanistan. the participation of the willing members didn't have to be all data members. and in the, in our, in our history, it doesn't have to be all the c s, t o members. and so i think that this is going to be mr. response to nato in the, in the very near future in addition to the winter offensive. so i just think that this thing could prolong for quite some time as a consequence from a pentagon senior security policy analyst, montgomery life, always a pleasure. many thanks for your time, appreciate him thinking but either fossa has expelled the french ambassador, mid rise in anti french sentiments in the country. a local reporter brings us more

details above her lunch is no longer desire to be transitional authorities who cannot believe that it is called in sending an hour to get well enough fossil flora for melissa and lucretia later last month to present in manuel mccall who asked him to find in new to present pits eve of his country is looking at 5 different operation. well, this decision, some of us government to cut are popular. she, we price. i'm very excited by this decision. i wouldn't complain if this had been done even earlier. we are happy when a slender is expelled, such people must be changed the way. so why wasn't he kicked out sooner? they want him to leave due to his actions. cutting off relations with france is not a big deal. there are other countries with the corporate with not it's not

something that surprises me really. regarding the reason deterioration of relations between france and work in a foster, as shown by numerous public demonstrations and speeches by officials are not that surprised at all to get the decision as the will of our leaders. then i can say that it's good because what the people don't know are leaders do know. also perhaps the ambassador realizes what he did and so do the authorities. and they know why they are urging france to recall him. no official committee from the government a book in the past. so yet the communication officer for the in what i contacted today said it's local to 5. so it's love challenging. but the person of luke a lot. but shouldn't parents worry about variable we book, you know, as a 2nd set of decisions to come a couple of weeks ago, the us system called later in looking at fossil was expense. so this is the 2nd diplomatic, made your decision from the government of this as soon, i mean,

never seen that to love the case in looking up and actually called the win is really indifferent embassies in what google, as they don't know, who is the next light we then, we will see what got to looking for my pastors who phones told us. powers must face the new realities in africa. before seeking that, it isn't necessary for the actors of french politics to accept that there has been an evolution in the african states with an increasingly educated youth more and more cultured people who need to assert their autonomy and personality. a little more, our french partners must also take this into account. africans are not naive anymore . they know that russia also defends its interests. it is a g o strategic position to defend, just like france does. what africans are looking for today is

a way to effectively strengthen their autonomy from the great powers, but also to be able to acquire many more advantages for their development. washington pression twitter to find a russian connection to us elections even off the platform, tried and failed to discover any such evidence as, according to the latest batch of lease documents from investigative journalist tybee, the revelations, detail events before ill on most recent takeover. twitter finished with investigation 2500 full manual account reviews. we think this is exhaustive. $32.00 suspicious accounts, and only 17 of those are connected with russia. only 2 of those have significant spend one of which is russia today. you'll recall back in 2016 how there was all this hysteria in american media that somehow russia had meddled in the election that was responsible for donald trump's victory. well,

twitter was in dialogue with the intelligence agencies with the f, b i and others. they were being told about all of this russian meddling, they had to deal with, et cetera. but they came forward with result that did not match the media area years. what they came forward about their own research about their own platform. twitter surge finding only 2 significant accounts, one of which is russia to day was based on the same data that leader inspired. panic headlines like russian influence, reached 126000000 through facebook alone. the failure of the russia task force to produce material worse and the company's p r. crisis, though the u. s. congress responded with the threat of regulation, and there was a lot of pressure placed on twitter in order to find what the intelligence agencies and the american media claimed was there. they were basically being pressed and threatened and, and almost forced to produce results that did not match reality. let's continue

with what's been reveal. as congress threatened costly legislation and twitter was subject to more bad press, fueled by the committees, the company changed its tune about the smallness of its russia problem. the cycle threatened legislation wedded to scare headlines pushed by congressional until sources followed by twitter caving to moderation asks, would later be formalized in partnerships with federal law enforcement set to relax its restrictions on political advertising. now these are restrictions that were put in place amid this hysteria and were expecting to see a change in policy with twitter regarding political advertising and the coming weeks. now, please keep in mind, this is just the latest of so many revelations that com sense ilan mosque to control and twitter. they revealed quite a bit of meddling in the u. s. political process, not by russia, but by us. social media giants in coordination with the u. s. intelligence

corporations, and the intelligence apparatus. quite, quite shocking. what's been revealed so far. let's get some insight and opinions from former c i. a analysts, larry johnson. many thanks for joining us on the program. it's nice to see you as i was able to take on the lakers, twitter files revelation on us congress pushing twitter intake, coughing up something on the rushing. hope that is remarkable, that the amount of psychological projection that's going on here. and what i mean by that is that the united states accuses russia of what the united states is doing . and in fact, russia was not interfering or meddling in the u. s. election. it was the washington d c establishment as caleb just just recorded. and it is that it's pervasive because it was not just isolated with the f. b, i was the cia. so you had intelligence and law enforcement deliberately been trying

to manipulate the results of this action is getting exposed. and the reaction, unfortunately in the united states is almost like a big yard. nobody cares. according to these lakes, as of 2500 accounts investigated by twitter, only 2 had any ag tool influence, one of them belong to r t. however, no links to the us electron meddling were actually found. so what do you make of these results? o r t got caught telling the truth, so i mean r t r t was at least a reliable news outlet that would actually do some real reporting on issues. and you know, that shouldn't surprise people, but it certainly was seen the truthful reporting is seen by a threat. what, you know, you're not old enough to remember the old days of the soviet union. i am. and what we're seeing now take place in the united states is what we used to accuse the

soviets of doing, in terms of controlling information, limiting information available to the public and punishing political opponents. that is, the united states has become what the soviet union once was. and the real irony here is russia is appearing to be more free, more open and not involved without trying to overthrow every single government to disagree with the. yet, like even amid all these revelations and lake washington has refused to admit that its claims of russian meddling in the us elections were false. what do you think it would take for american officials to own up to their mistakes? that's impossible, because to do that, you have to have a conscience. you have to have a moral center, they have neither. this is the, the corruption that has infected washington is, is vast. it's enormous. and we saw that with the hunter biden laptop as an example

. you saw the amount of money that hunter biden was getting paid with a bite influence with his father, who was in charge of ukraine policy at the time. you saw other prominent 4 members of the ca, that were also sitting on the board. recently. you've got the sons and daughters of politicians that are profiting. so there's the money that's at stake. and this is, is these people get rich when they go into politics over here. it is a level of corruption that i have never seen in my life. and, you know, i hope it can be cleaned up, but there is no desire to clean it up. anybody that threatens that rice ball is going to get shot down. shudder quieted. now we know that people in positions of power, pressuring twitter, do you think any of those us officials will be held accountable for their actions? no, no, they should. but though the, we've seen a complete breakdown and the justice system in this country, i mean as an example,

you have the sat, samuel bagman freed, who, defrauded people of billions of dollars. he's allowed to walk free, whereas they take people who protested those of the theft of the election from donald trump and 2020 people who's merely walked into the u. s. capital. they're still being held in prison without bond, without access to a good legal defense. so it is just the disparity, the injustice at some point, i think it's going to create some real problems and blow back here in the united states. unfortunately. and to what extent do you think these new revelations have undermined the image of the democratic party, including the president? well, you can't undermine something that doesn't exist. i mean, the, the democrat party has no credibility and it has become again, it's just, it's good at taking care of its own and making sure that everybody who plays with them gets rewarded. they get

a pay off. the republicans have been less less adept at this and that was, that's the speaks of is there are still some principal people within the republican party and you're seeing some of them today who are opposing the election of the kevin mccarthy is the speaker of the house so this is this concept of accountability. it needs to take place, but that's the problem with washington. there is no accountability for miss deeds. i before we go, laurie, i'd love to know your thoughts on it on us. what do you think of him and his efforts to clean up towards us so far it is drive to cleanse the platform if you like. of us government meddling. well, he's taking a real risk and i applauding for his courage. because if you know, if he was just about making money, he wouldn't be doing what he's doing because it's hurting his brand with tesla. but i think he's got enough of a moral conscience himself that he's been shocked by what he see. because you've heard the, the lies repeated that it was russia doing this and russia doing that. and,

you know, i've got to thinking maybe at the, at the root of it ill on musket least has some measure of respect for russia in terms of rushes prowess. and maintaining of a viable space program because the united states certainly no longer has the technological ability to do that. so musk is that he's putting his money where his mouth is and i are plotting for that. so my see, i analyze larry johnson, many thanks taking the time speak to us, they really appreciate your thoughts. thank you. thank you, nicky. thank you for joining. if they were naughty international, as always, plenty more of the day just to be found on our website, r t dot com and we're back at the top of the i what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have is crazy foundation, let it.