Unsupported URL - rt.com

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youtube-dl -v "https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/434994-trump-mainstream-media-derangement/"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/434994-trump-mainstream-media-derangement/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.08.28
[debug] Python version 2.7.15rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-33-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, ffprobe 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 434994-trump-mainstream-media-derangement: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 434994-trump-mainstream-media-derangement: Downloading webpage
[generic] 434994-trump-mainstream-media-derangement: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/434994-trump-mainstream-media-derangement/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2324, in _real_extract
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2542, in compat_etree_fromstring
doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2531, in _XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1659, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1523, in _raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 46, column 94
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3294, in _real_extract
raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/434994-trump-mainstream-media-derangement/

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