treaty i mean hypersonic missiles hypersonic systems are not covered at all in that i n f treat correct. correct so one as covered by the treaties and after the new start are the missiles and the nuclear warheads and so if russia wants to have. a thousand dollars which is under the treaty for the new start treaty russia is free and i guess it's about is about a hundred missiles strategic missiles land base and if you want to put a normal reentry vehicle as or you want to put hypersonic reentry vehicle i mean that's really up to the national decision making as long as you comply with the other exchanges and fair and verification and so on so they do not need to violate a treaty but if you want to break out of the treaty they would be one means by which you do so but it's really the treaty of trying to limit the number of launchers and nuclear warheads not so much how you get you have them reach the target thought if china has also said that it has successfully tested hypersonic aircraft do we know where things stand in china with regard to any kind of development of hypersonic missile sy

to go hypersonic u.s. and chinese experts are racing to perfect their technology the development of hypersonic weapons is increasing concerns about a new arms race and there's a threat to a cold war treaty which limits existing weapons donald trump accuses russia of repeatedly violating the i.n.f. treaty and is threatening to pull out putin has warned if that happens russia will develop new missile systems but russia has violated the agreement they've been violating it for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate who are full out. and we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bonded to agreement but russia is not unfortunately on to their dream and so we're going to terminate it we're going to pull out. all right let's bring in our guests in vienna thought of clove is former head of the verification and security policy coordination office at the international ato

give us the hypersonics 101. stephen: hypersonics is flying the -- flying five times the speed of sound or more. it is technology that enables not only speed but ranger. if you think about -- but range. if you think about the pacific , standoff is important. hypersonics gives you the capability. we have been the leaders in hypersonics technology. in some areas, we still are. publicized indely the press that our competitors, china and russia, are pursuing the technology with great haste and in some cases, they are ah ead. they are motivated moreso than we have been because they want to have a capability where they can beat our defenses. inhave not been focused countering hypersonics. is the defense against an object moving that fast? stephen: it is hard. that is one of the reasons why .hey are interested in it there are not a lot of good toions, but if you are going defend against something like that, you have to defeat it. and you require some improvements in our sensing capability which we are focused on now wit

give us the hypersonics 101. >> hypersonics is flying five times the sound -- speed of sound or more. it is a technology that enables not only speed because you can fly faster, but with speed, range. so when you think about the pacific theater and the ranges involved in the pacific, especially with a pure competitor like china, you know, standoff is important. and so hypersonics gives you that standoff capability potentially. we have been the leaders in hypersonics technology i think in some areas we still are. however it has been widely publicized in the press that our peer competitors, china and russia are both pursuing the technology with great haste and in some cases probably from a capability standpoint are ahead. and they are motivated to turn it into a capability more so than we have been, because they want to have a capability where they can certainly beat our defenses. and we have not been focused from a defensive standpoint on countering hypersonics in this country. >> what on earth, what would be the defense against an object moving that fast? >> [ laughter ] it's hard. tha

walker headed up research on cyber sonic so i would like for you to explain to the audience what hypersonic technology is all about and it said that this is an area we really are behind. the russian and chinese have stolen a march on us and have been out there building these hypersonic systems. what did you think about that, are we behind or is the world changing military technology give us the hypersonic 101. >> it is flying five times the speed of sound were more. so it's a technology that enables not only speed because you can fly faster but with the speed comes range sick of you think about the specific theater and the range is involved in the pacific especially with a peer competitor like china standoff is important and so hypersonic's gives you the capability potentially. we've been the leaders in some areas we still are however it's been widely publicized in the press that our competitors china and russia are both pursuing the technology with great haste from the capability standpoint and fear motivated because they want a capability where they've not been focused from a defensive st

to be frank, it is not a hypersonic missile, it is a hypersonic weapon thatis missile, it is a hypersonicby a traditional intercontinental ballistic missile. the goes up into orbit and comes down at hypersonic speeds and skirts along the edge of the atmosphere towards the target and dies down to the target. it is a very complex weapon. the design is sophisticated from the standpoint of physics, materials silence will —— science. they have been testing it since 2004. i don't think it is ready for production for. would doubt it was the reality. -- i doubt it is. more than likely this is the weapon they will be using in early 2020s. why do you think vladimir putin is talking about it in the way he is? to be frank, he has put a lot of local emphasis on the achievement, particularly in the last year, year and a half, it is not simply for a domestic audience. early on this year the russians are switched approach to dealing with united states and they brought a decidedly negative agenda. there is an arms race, not a quantitative arms race, a qualitative arms race. a qualitative arms race is real

that counter will have to be a hypersonic type of weapon to be able to counter the hypersonic system. that's the technology element of it. underliing that is artificial intelligence, machine learning, cyber, and several other technologies that are coming on the brink of today. morgan: i want to dig into all of that a little bit more. but first, general carlisle, i want to get your thoughts on the arc techture we have in place -- -- architecture we have in place, the challenges, especially on a day when we do have iran, for example, testing a ballistic missile. mr. carlisle: thanks, morgan. it's great to be here. i'm honored to be on the stage with morgan and senator kyl and dr. kennedy. so, i think what s.d.i. did for us, and kind of to start from the theme of this panel, is he really did just as senator kyl said, gave us an organizing construct. i think we're that the inflexion point today. we kind of went lace fair for a -- laze fair for a couple of decades. cold war ended. wall came down. then peace dividend. how did that work out for news is missed it by that much. but if you look

. >>> to moscow now, the kremlin said today it had successfully tested what is known as a hypersonic missile. it travels faster than the speed of sound, can carry a nuclear warhead, and the russians say it can evade u.s. missile defense systems. pentagon correspondent hans nichols has more. >> reporter: president vladimir putin testing a new ntal missile and president donald trump's mettle. from a moscow command center, putin watched the hypersonic missile leave its launch tube and according to the russians, strike a target 700,000 miles away, declaring it invulnerable to intercept. russia says it can be armed with a nuclear weapon and travel up to 20 times the speed of sound. without confirming the results of today's test, the pentagon has acknowledged that america is vulnerable. >> we don't have any defense that could deny the employment the pentagon's own plan to develop an american version. >> the hypersonics is a game changing technology. and that's why it's so important for us to embrace it. >> reporter: and how far are we from actually fielding that technology ourselves? >> i

we're working on hypersonics and dr. kenny can relate to this is we haven't got that cohesive group. we have the army, navy and air force, and we're working on it and we haven't brought that together and if you remember sdi and we have a three-star general, and i think in the hypersonics discussion, that's a strategic technology that we cannot allow ourselves to fall behind in anymore because i think we already are. so i think that the effort that we need to put forward, we need to bring the national labs and we need to bring industry and their expertise which are paramount to success and that and we need to make sure that we're all working together and we're not doing duplicitous work and we're trying to get to one endgame of a hypersonic capability. i do believe, in talking to dr. griffin recently, i do believe that he sees that and he's working hard and i think again, i asked dr. kennedy, but he's reached out to industry. i think industry knows the department's interest in it and the way to move forward and that's one

this is a nuclear—tipped hypersonic glider missile. it's not really a hypersonic missile. intercontinental ballistic missile, which boosts it into the earth's orbit, and then it comes down towards earth and it pulls up, sort of glides, skirts along the edge of the atmosphere at a really high speed, at hypersonic speeds, all the way to a target, and then dives down onto a target with a nuclear warhead on it. from an engineering standpoint, it's very, very sophisticated and complex. the us is working on a similar system, but with a conventional warhead. it's very complicated from a standpoint of material science, because has to survive the entire trip, it has to withstand the temperatures, and so on and so forth. it is quite an engineering feat, in some respects, and they have been working on it for a long time. is russia right when it blames the us for the break down of international arms control? no, although arms control has been breaking down, deteriorating for some years now. in fact, we're very likely going to be living in the nearfuture in a world without arms control

just a few woods about exactly what happened we know that the hypersonic weapon known as ivan guard was launched from the base in the south the neural mountains and successfully heat a training target on the ku rush range and can chuck a pin in slane rushes east some six thousand kilometers away ludmer pulteney was overseen the test launch he was looking at the live pictures that you've just seen on our t.v. and after the launch he said that he was a great success and old so that he was very good a new year present for the entire nation just to remind you of the vanguard glide vehicle was among the. nuclear weapons that were put in had presented earlier in a march on other weapons saying that russia had to develop its military industry in response to america as a development in the same sphere to protect its security cora's so this is why it is important aid looks like widen their putin ones too shrewd by this launch that russia is ready to protect its borders its security and its. population lives just a few words again about the weapon itself it is a booze vehicle that is aloft and hi

this is a nuclear tipped hypersonic glider missile. it is not really a hypersonic missile.l intercontinental ballistic missile which boosts it into the earth's orbit and then it comes down towards earth and it pulls up, sort of glide skirts on the edge of the atmosphere at a really high speed, at hypersonic speeds, all the way to a target and dives with a nuclear head on it. from an engineering standpoint, it is very sophisticated and complex. the us is working on a similar system with a conventional warhead. it has to survive the entire trip, temperatures and so on and so forth. people have been working on it for a long time. is russia right when it blames the us for the break down of arms control internationally? no, it has been breaking down for some years. we still have the principal bilateral arms control treaty but we have lost the treaty banning missile defences and we are likely not to have the intermediate nuclear range forces treaty which russia has violated and many have gone in europe as well. we are going to be living in a world without arms control probably in

and the hypersonic glide vehicle, which he says are not in violation of the inf treaty. >> basicallyave everything. if one tries to scare us, we'll have to respond in a commensurate manner. if we have such air base and sea-based systems, it wouldn't be hard to do research and to deploy them on the ground if needed. >> u.s. officials say despite putin's claims, russia has not deplayed these hypersonic weapons that he speaks of, shep. >> shepard: jennifer, why else do u.s. officials say they want to pull out of this weapons treaty? >> basically because the pentagon says russia has been cheating and china was never a signatory to the treaty. a record says the u.s. lacks to protect against hypersonic weapons from china and russia, that according to a government accountability office report. china and russia a pursuing hypersonic weapons because their speed may defeat most missile systems and may be used to update nuclear strike capabilities. there's no existing counter measures. that's why the pentagon wants money to develop their own hypersonic weapons. >> shepard: thanks, jennifer. tha

officials say these hypersonic's are nothing to worry about because the u.s.itary has its own hypersonic set is working on and it tests them and they are coming. also the same officials say why would the russians or anyone that the chinese or launch a missile when the u.s. military has its own nuclear arsenal, which carry 24 missiles and each of them have multiple independent warheads. these are underwater at all times capable at launching nuclear missiles at hundreds of cities around the world. the u.s. also has hundreds from montana, north dakota, and wyoming. they want the u.s. is falling behind, and "with respect to hypersonic's in particular, the united states finds itself trailing china and perhaps russia as well. all of this raises the possibility that america may find itself at a technological disadvantage. >> we are seeking to remain the preeminent military power in the world which means we have to do five things at once. we have to be able to continue the fight against terrorism, we have to deter iran and north korea. we have to continue to counter r

on wednesday russia successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile called of unguarded president putin called it a major event for the armed forces and the country as a whole the missile flew more than six thousand kilometers across the country striking a test target in russia's far east. the. and fly at twenty seven times the speed of sound and weighs more than forty tons on guard is a unique because of its range and ability to withstand temperatures of up to two thousand degrees celcius the test launch provoked a strong reaction worldwide with the media playing on fears around the development of such missiles u.s. government claimed there are no countermeasures to hypersonic weapons and president putin said that russia is merely guaranteeing its own security. chess the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what if the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with some concrete steps let them not say later that we are trying to get some advantage we're not trying to get some advantag

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and the expression, hypersonic, it is five times the speed of sound.higher. which is an extraordinary obviously, extraordinary thing. >> remarkable technology. >> well, all the more remarkable if we can get caught up and certainly, as you lay it out, there's no choice here. but to get caught up and quickly as the president fully intends. general jack keane, as always, good to see you. thank you so much. >> good talking to you. thank you. lou: stocks sinking in today on concerns the federal reserve might again raise interest rates. we'll find out pretty soon, part of the reason the dow fell 508 points today. it is because the fed begins a two day meeting tomorrow in which it will determine whether or not to raise rates as has been planned for some time. by wednesday. the markets are voting no right now in case anybody wanted. the s&p 500 is down 54 points. the nasdaq down hundred and 57. all three major indexes in negative territory for the year. the dow jones industrial plenty more than 3000 points. since october 3 when the fed chairman, jerome powell,

washington expresses concern over russia's new hypersonic weapons saying there are no active countermeasures missiles that will successfully carry out on wednesday. a wave of protests spread across the death of a journalist who sat himself on fire protesting the difficulties of being a report of the country's economic problems. french and judges drop a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the rwandan president's plane a case that's a long one in relation to. pays a surprise visit to iraq to meet with the country's leadership but ends up holding the meeting by phone. is two o'clock and you're watching all t international live from our moscow studio with me. welcome to the program russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named god president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole a bit earlier in the program my colleague spoke to our correspondent don off to find out more. tell us about the media reaction to this. launch did certainly become a top news story all over the world those analytical pieces that have. it

washington expresses concern over russia's new law hypersonic saying there are no effective counter measures the. final test was successfully carried out on wednesday. the way the protests are spreading across after the death of a journalist who set himself on fire protesting the difficulties of being a reporter the country's economic. judges drop a probe into the deadly attack on the former president's plane it's a case that's long gone into relations. plus donald trump pays a surprise visit to iraq to meet with the country's leadership but ends up only holding a telephone call with his counter it's. thursday december twenty seventh on moments off. here in moscow a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the international russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile cold on god president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole that's delve deeper into the story our correspondent joining us live here in the studio to tell us about the media reaction to this well this launch did certainly become a top news story all ove

reporter: one di one day after christmas, russia launch the a hypersonic missile, flying 4,000 miles,itting target on near kazakhstan. and president putin witnessed it first hand, called that lunch an excellent new year's gift to his nation. >> m new missile defense. this is a big success. and a big victory. reporter: putin said his new missile will be deployed next year and will put united states iin its cross hairs. hyper sonic missiles have travel more than 20 times speed of sound, a challenge for current u.s. missile defenses, a report from national defense strategy commission, a group of military expert and retired senior u.s. military officers warned, america has reached a point of a full flown national security crisis, any future battles with russia or china, due to years of pentagon budget cuts during obama administration. and said that u.s. military is falling behind in developing new weapons, with respect to hypersonics in particular, united states finds its trailing china and perhapses russia as well. all this raises a positiveo possibility that america may fine itself at a

washington expresses concern over russia's new hypersonic weapon saying there are no effective countermeasures god missiles the final test will successfully carried out on wednesday. and a wave of protests spreads across. all the journalists. protesting the difficulties of being a reporter of the country's economic. it's seven o'clock and you're watching all to live from moscow studio with me. welcome to the program. the co-founder of social media giant linked in has apologized a pro democratic party operation which created over a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year republican candidate roy moore ended up losing the election but in this story fake russian is a company that tracks russian bots reports. embarrassing to say the least and here i thought you could get away with. any. thing nowadays apparently not but it does set a new loo for democrats making think russian boats to win the elections here's the irony i find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing for that reason i'm embarrassed by my fa

russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named guard president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole i call it very sushi's but are these images donna 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 a world that we've been seeing for months really because this evan god missile was one out of five advanced weapons unveiled by vladimir putin back this march and that's when 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 show certainly for the security of russia and as i said by the russian president vladimir putin he was. talking about this system

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

unique footage from the russian defense ministry is first full public test run of a new hypersonic strategic missile called. the times newspaper interviews a. government forces in eastern ukraine he says there are members of islamic state in his ranks while the leader of his battalion admitted to being part of a terrorist group committing atrocities in russia. and with the imminent departure of u.s. defense secretary james mattis fears grow that notorious blackwater is making a comeback after a full page on his published in its name warning that we are coming. here in moscow and you're watching international live from last year with. welcome to the program a major new strategic weapon called god will enter russian service already next year and altie is the first channel to show unique footage from the defense ministry is first public test run. maria phenomena to tell us all about why this is a significant moment. well speaking off to the launch of russia's vladimir putin who oversaw a live personally from defense ministries control and command center here in moscow explain to the importance

washington expresses concern of the russia's newly tested hypersonic missile saying they're wrong no effective counter missed. a long running probe into the downing of the former one of the president's plane tickets trigger points in the nine hundred ninety four genocide. very good evening to you this is r.t. and tonight. the co-founder of social media giant linked in has apologized for funding a pro democrat party operation which created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed republican rival last year the operation was fast in the u.s. with tracking fake russian accounts but turned out to be the one creating them instead i guess the air force. 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 bullets 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 suppo

if it can maneuver, which that's what we are trying to do with all these hypersonic weapons, get themeed, then the trajectory becomes unpredictable and the problem is to shoot that down, it gets a lot more difficult. blake: if russia has this capability, if you were to take them at their word, they beat the u.s. to the punch here? >> they could. that's one of the issues with these hypersonic weapons, it increases or decreases your decision time to a response to a nuclear strike. so the danger of miscalculation by either side starts to become magnified, because it takes -- so hypersonic is considered mach5 up to mach20, really fast. mach 5, we are talking one mile per second. mach 20, four miles per second. so you can cover a lot of ground very quickly with these things. and catch somebody by surprise. blake: not that it is expected russia would fire something like this any time soon, but if they have the capability, does the united states at this point stand to be able to defend itself from something like this? >> not right now. we have seen our antiballistic missile programs, you saw

government claimed further that there are no countermeasures to hypersonic weapons as for president putin he says that russia just needs to guarantee its own security . shares the the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen is hard to imagine what if the rockets are located in europe what should we do and of course we will have to insure our security with some concrete steps let them not say later that we are trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get an advantage but merely to seek your balance to ensure our security. we asked investigative journalist rick stirling how these new weapons could affect the balance of power. 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 mil

washington expresses concern over russia's new hypersonic weapon saying there are no effective countermeasures of the album dog missiles final test was successfully carried out on wednesday. the way the protests are spreading across to new after the death of a journalist who set himself on fire protesting the difficulties of being a reporter and that of the country's economic problems. french judges drop a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the form over one didn't president's plane it's a case that's long been a goal in a village. the top stories for this hour live on r.t. international from the entire news team here welcome to the program russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile named got president vladimir putin called it a big event for the armed forces and the country as a whole a bit earlier in the program i spoke with our correspondent down off to find out more tell us about the media reaction to this well 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 a

to go hypersonic u.s. and chinese experts are racing to perfect their technology the development of hypersonic weapons is increasing concerns about a new arms race and there's a threat to a cold war treaty which limits existing weapons donald trump accuses russia of repeatedly violating the i.n.f. treaty and is threatening to pull out putin has warned if that happens russia will develop new missile systems but russia has violated the agreement they've been violating it for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate who are full out. and we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we've done it a great bit but russia is not unfortunately on to their dream and so we're going to terminate it we're going to pull out. all right let's bring in our guests in vienna thought of is former head of the verification and security policy coordination office at the international atomic

where they just go russia successfully tested a new hypersonic to miss are called god president putin called it a big event for the armed forces in the country as a whole the missile flew six thousand one hundred kilometers across the country eventually striking a test target in can chat care over russia's far east the. i . i well the missile can fly around twenty seven times the speed asserted it weighs more than forty two. and so the experts guard is unique because of its range and ability to withstand temperatures of up to two thousand degrees celcius tesla's provoked strong reaction worldwide the media playing on fears around the development of missiles like this as for the u.k. the u.s. government rather they claim that there are no countermeasures to these hypersonic sonic weapons and president putin says simply russia just needs to guarantee its own security shows. the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty going to happen it's hard to imagine what if the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to insure our security with some concrete steps that y

give us the hypersonics 101. >> hypersonics is flying five times the speed of sound or more. so it's a technology that enables not only speed because you can fly faster but with speed comes range. so if you think about the pacific theater and the ranges involved in the pacific, especially with a pure competitor like china, you know, standoff is important. and so hypersonics gives you that standoff capability potentially. we have been the leaders in hypersonic technology. i think in some areas we still are. however, it's been widely publicized in the press that our peer competitors, china and russia, are both pursuing the technology with great haste and in some places probably from a capability standpoint are ahead. and they are motivated to turn it into a capability more so than we have been because they want to have a capability where they can certainly beat our defenses. and we have not been focused from a defensive standpoint on countering hypersonics in this country. >> what would be the defense against an object moving that fast? >> it's hard. and that's one of the reaso

washington expresses concern over russia's new hypersonic weapon saying that no effective countermeasures have a goal missile final tests were successfully carried out wednesday. and french should just drop a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former one the president's plane a case that has long been a thorn in relations. for joining us this is r.t. and that the co-founder of social media john linked in has apologized for finding a pro democratic party operation is critical in the thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year republican candidate roy moore ended up now really losing the alabama state elections you to the operation by a group called i will turn sixty eight it was tasked in the us with tracking fake russian accounts but turned out to be the one creating them instead. of it's like. 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

on wednesday last russia successfully tested a new hypersonics to missile called ever guard president putin called it a big event for the armed forces and for the country as a whole that missile flew six thousand one hundred kilometers right across the country striking a test target income chat care in russia's far east. the. i . i close my deal thing that missile can fly it twenty seven times the speed of sound the boffins say it weighs more than forty tons if you can think of a guard is unique because of its range in ability to withstand temperatures of up to two thousand degrees celsius the test laws provokes a strong reaction worldwide to media play of fears around the development of such missiles the u.s. government claims there are no countermeasures to hypersonic weapons right now as far as they're concerned as for president putin he says that russia simply needs to guarantee its own security. yes the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what if the rockets are like a seat in europe what should we do of course we will have to insure

washington expresses concern new hypersonic weapon saying there are no effective counter measures the. final test was successfully carried out on wednesday. protests spreading across after the death of a journalist who set himself on fire protesting the difficulties of being a reporter at the country's economic problems. judges drop a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former president's plane it's a case that's long been a thorn in the relations. pays a surprise visit to iraq to meet with the country's leadership but that meeting only getting held over the phone. it is just after ten am on thursday here in moscow of course this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to here. russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic strategic missile cold af on god and president vladimir putin called it a big event for the forces and the country as a whole let's get more details on this now. joining us live in the studio here got any reaction in the western media to this well it certainly did grab the headlines it did become one of the major news stories all over the world a