than just words for washington to elbow its way past be. it has done of r.t. . and past here in moscow the british foreign secretary has defended u.k. ties with saudi arabia as after the saudi crown prince his three day visit to london prompted protests outside downing street i don't outing riyadh's deadly three year bombing campaign in yemen britain supports saudi arabia's right to defend its national security against missile attacks from yemen many of which have targeted the kingdom cities including react. any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat roughly four hundred people gathered to protest the royal activists condemn the war in yemen and slam the u.k. arms sales to the kingdom similar concerns were also raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition. the humanitarian disaster is now taking

place in the. millions face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the bloc a germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales of sharply increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be right that her government this is cannot be right that her government is true looting in one of the united nations ses is evidence of war crimes some came out in support of the saudi crown prince was visit and to ensure a warm reception a promotional ad campaign was launched the prince's face adorning the science of black bands and cabs as well as billboards throughout the city center some of those we spoke to saw the movie as well blatant propaganda. but isn't convincing anyone

in the u.k. that the abuses of human rights the saudis are doing good is just propaganda for them back home to say oh look look how look at what this great well it's just a blatant propaganda display say it comes back to reflect badly on saudi arabia and they're trying to manipulate this public opinion on the eve of the visit of saudi arabia's foreign minister tried to ease the concerns of critics saying that the war in yemen had been quote imposed on riyadh he added that it was a justified war backed by international law although unicef calls it the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in history. ethnically motivated hostility and crime against germans in berlin is becoming more commonplace so that's according to the capitol security chief artie's peter all of it takes a closer look. the berlin interior minister has had some pretty unexpected things to say about how native germans trust in the nation's capital i have heard it's not

the norm but it is becoming more common to keep quiet about it would be wrong a recent survey has shown that where is this time last year around two thirds of the said they felt safe in their city that's around just over half these days while those that said they felt very insecure it risen from nine percent a year ago to around sixteen percent right now as for what is fueling fears will sort of pointed toward the influx of refugees and migrants into areas like this. district the local integration officer here says this well refugees don't fear arrest is they know that they'll be instantly released by the police should they be caught breaking the law does is the i don't think crime has decreased on the contrary it's actually increased i'd say ninety five percent of the crimes here are committed by foreigners that's way too much i think in general

. people start to panic way earlier and this is way news spread quite quickly and. i would say that berlin has gotten more dangerous than any pain i think it's just because of all the new stuff like this spread all over and they just make a big deal out of every time the crime that's committed. this is you and so political our politicians should be made to commute using the underground for one week and then made to hang out in this neighborhood that way they would see what the situation is really like it's become very hostile and aggressive not nice at all. some of the politicians who represent the area say the perception of danger could become the new reality. if a majority of the people have the feeling that they don't feel secure anymore then there is some some basics for that and i think one of the problems is that the

figure is that official from the police. but there are many things that are not even declared to the police as crime or as harassment or whatever you can call it because they know well the police cannot do anything about it because our justice system is like that well they come in for maybe five hours and then they let them off again punishment is something that evidently or apparently in berlin context isn't there anymore and perhaps it's the feeling that things could get worse that's driving public opinion to feel that the german capital as. and still to come here on the program to get the dispute over gas supplies between russia and ukraine has certainly come to a head and that story and much more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. under-performing the stock market oh my god blackstone one arbitrage opportunity you have brought a mux just self i suggest you short yourselves a parra lunny into you eviscerate your own corporate balance sheet and then blow your brains out on live t.v. they gave us all a big kind of fund experience for the financial predatory class ah. you conseco that. something is good in kosovo oh but phobos alone all all but fall for crimea. or whatever. either the principle is good or the principle is bad has to be apply equally and that is most being done.

it is good to have you with us today ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to russian energy giant gazprom following a long tonne dispute of a gas supplies. picks up the story russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again begun seizing the assets of russia's energy giant gas but a few days ago gasper said it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with kiev however there is something for you to bear in mind no matter what happens in politics all the difficulties between kiev and moscow the ultimate reality has been that ukraine has been relying on gas imports from russia all

along for all these years eastern and central europe to a massive share of these gas supplies is delivered through ukraine if there's jenga tower of contracts for purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapse as staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know could become an issue ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas from have been settling their disputes and a stockholm arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many issues and between these two but just a short while ago one stockholm tribunals decision forced the cranium firm to pay the russians a sum of about two billion u.s. dollars that was basically a gas bill that they hadn't paid but then the latest decision was that russia's gas

brom must pay ukraine's nafta gatt as more than four point six. in u.s. dollars and that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do the math then moscow ends up. more than two point five billion euros dollars and the bosses at gas more extremely unhappy they were saying that the reasoning for that was completely unfair and that they're just bailing out a shattered economy which many times as we've seen just couldn't pay for the gas that they were buying now arbitrates is justified the decision by the sharp deterioration in the ukrainian economy we're categorically against the grain is economic problems been solved expands it's not in any of russia's interests to spoil this reputation as a reliable partner but previously kiev has been caught for illegally siphoning off russia's gas intended for europe so there have been disruptions in gas deliveries

but obviously russia had to protect its political and economic interests in technically it wasn't gas rumsfeld. the head of nato again stoltenberg says the alliance plans to maintain its military presence in iraq as long as it has the approval of the country's government they do all of the wrong if we are invited to the government iraq and the reason why we are planning for scaling up our training is this quest from the iraqi government. the second we have no intentions to stay longer than necessary stoltenberg was speaking during a rare visit to baghdad after the iraqi prime minister authorized further nato operations against terrorists but their premiers willingness to allow foreign troops to remain in the country is in stark contrast to that of the parliament last week lawmakers called on the government to set

a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces now there are currently about fifty two hundred u.s. troops stationed in iraq italy house the second largest contingent with about fifteen hundred posts in l. and then followed by the united kingdom a former u.s. congressman ron paul believes there's no justification for the continued military presence in iraq. our governments whether they are of the democrat party or republican party they're generally indorse the thought i did that we have this moral obligation to straighten everything out and they use it as an excuse but there's always other reasons for doing this there's a group of people who see some secondary gain and there's a lot of profit to be in made in oil is important all these things it's just time to come home we don't mind their own business and we had to save the money and we would be as strong as ever if not a lot stronger with our independence. because

of the disruption and the chaos in iraq al-qaeda has moved in so they weren't a problem and saddam hussein was not friendly with with al qaida it's a reaction to our policies our policies stir up these hatreds in the organizations of the radicals and there's a growing number of people recognize this. flipping burgers is often seen as a pretty mindless job which might be why one tech savvy diner in california decided to give it to a robot. the automation of a book flipping hasn't been welcomed by everyone with people on twitter using the

hash tag rise of the robots. jobs are being stolen from real people. see automation as well. but it's not just a bug flipping robots that have made people unhappy san francisco residents of a driving several times in recent months and their windows. on it's another robot in the same city was fired off. the security robot was tossed with shipping away homeless people from outside business offices it was vandalized numerous times during its patrols and one expert told us it's no surprise people are angry about. robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have big impacts and it's already having big so it's not surprising that you're already seeing these kinds of reactions from people when you start to talk about. of jobs being threatened by the introduction of ai into the economy. fifty

percent unemployment ok that is a crisis that is a social political economic crisis and one of the possible outcomes of it one of the likely possible alternatives is is is massive violence and you know a lot of this kind of vandalism and sabotage i think you'll be seeing you'll be seeing even larger scale disruptions here there are appropriate adjustments in in our political and economic arrangements we need to start redistributing things more fairly we need to start to pay people to take care of people and clean up the communities and to do so many things and we in the end to make sure that people benefit technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. women around the world are mocking international women's day including in madrid where they're suddenly be making some noise. thank you thank

you. thank you. thank you for banging pots and pans and supported women's rights talking slogans such as if we stopped the world stopped meanwhile the p.r. efforts of some men to be in support of women have been branded as patronize ing. and he said something totally. it's a global commemoration of women's rights a child's to right from wrong for some company so it's a shock to some top p.r. by showing their support for women although not way successfully take this french anti harassment campaign showing female passengers on public transport being preyed on by animals instead of people a metaphor which hit the buffers with a few fellow travelers have never been bothered by a shark in the subway stop or a stop in the metaphors the difference between

a wolf and then distant looking watch french dude is that i have never been harassed by a wolf and what about the people behind to retire as told to chit who thought it be a great idea to make snap specifically for women so you know they could be more dainty and ladylike women don't like to crunch too loudly in public and they don't think their fingers generously and they don't like to poor little broken pieces in the flavor into their mouths tends out that's judging by the reaction online most women found that. just like with edgy big company britto who expected fame outrage because to flock to them for pink beer even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping it fell flat if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not very good joke hope rudolph's girl beer is gluten free too otherwise would be a real drink not the blue one it's for boys. it seems that it's a marketing minefield when fans try winning and the women take cepat for matching

both tools to different body size. it's as baffling as the day is insulting so perhaps a mistake when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated as maybe the guys let's face it they probably all guys should take some time out to change the pattern i think paying dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political correctness doesn't wash with women. this is also international boxer with more world wide headlines.

well. it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a real a lot of excitement. greetings

and salutations today the united states of america exists in a perpetual state of war and you and telling you otherwise is probably running for office or selling you a bald eagle silver dollar on television about three four morning the most us citizens may never directly confront or be forced to confront the results of this twenty four hours a day seven days a week neverending red white and blue war machine. that doesn't mean that it hasn't already embedded itself into the very fabric of our day to day experience take this week's revelation of the pentagon's cozy new partner of all things drone internet search giant google is moto kick things off reporting that google is helping the

defense department develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage a move that set up a firestorm among employees i guess for some folks working over a google the idea of helping the pentagon with the next evolution of drone surveillance just didn't quite sit well with them you know because google's standards of decency are just so high. leap bag of the intercept illuminated just what the new ai will be doing writing that google is working to develop deep learning technology to help drone analysts interpret the bast image data vacuumed up from the military lead to the left one hundred drones to better target bombing strikes against the islamic state and that essentially the idea is to provide recommendation tools so that the ai program can quickly single out points of interest around a type of event or target so that drone analysts can work more efficiently so basically they're giving them the dr evil version of google maps. you know you get

you get that warm fuzzy feeling in the pity your stomach when you when you see silicon valley in the pentagon getting together for a good old surveillance barbecue sunday brunch. well. let's break out some rolaids and disrupt this sunday brunch and start watching the hawks. if that's. what they like you know that i got. well good morning all the water in the hearts i am so open to and i'm south of the lalas and today we're talking about

a lot of things about the military and the armed services and this imam google doing where you're surprised but google went evil well i'm going to surprise a google what do you mean google in their search engine has already been alleged numerous times of what you know readjusting the search to kind of push certain sites down and elevate other sites that they believe are better than others and some of my surprise when i hear news that google was suddenly helping develop. you know the military's drone program that's killed hundreds of thousands of people no no no i'm not because there's money right of course and that's probably one of the main reasons that they're doing i mean i'm sure it's awesome you know google is just sitting around going how you can we make more war i'm sure they're saying look you've got amazon you've got microsoft they're making tons of money with their cloud computing services with the the armed services and with the pentagon good point so it makes sense for them to try to to wrest control of a little bit of that business but the one thing that's noted in the industry

a lot even from google's detractors is that they are they have up until this point been very careful how they're what technology they give or used to provide to the military how it's used it's interesting interesting whether or not that will continue when the dollar signs become enough and in this situation that dollar side of that's that pressure right let me want to if you want to turn a c.e.o. it's like well look at this juicy government contract we can get you that we can you know build in for a program really good like you know we give so much of our tax dollars away to corporations and what yeah essentially is like you know military industrial welfare though we may not be talking about well who are well child welfare aquariums. it's that tempting thing for google i want to get into that what's also interesting about this those is this a i am military and the use of artificial intelligence in military which is really i think many are feeling is kind of like this generation's nuclear program yeah on

that level you know there's you can really change the face of the planet. because we've all seen we've all seen the movie trailer exactly the terminator and the on iran and the other one and the other one and the other one and recites fiction certain you know about how the government has not been timid or they haven't hidden their desire to kind of utilize ai and the gypsies the silicon valley them and courting them for years you know take the defense innovation board oh sorry didn't twenty sixteen this was designed to encourage military adoption of breakthrough technology according to leaf airing of the intercept he wrote that the board released a set of recommendations that stressed the importance of adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning stressing that technological superiority with ai is as important as nuclear weapons in the one nine hundred forty s. and with persuasion guided weapons and stealth technology afterwords wow so it has

no technical superiority and is just there to cause here's a limited range. is this push by the pentagon to harness the power of artificial intelligence and you know that's the biggest question on the table is it going to come back and bite us like those same groups of scientists and businesses the sutton bed with the pentagon the develop the atom bomb and did all that you know and basically develop weaponry that could end the world a hundred times over are we going to see that same mess twenty thirty years from now we'll look back and say what were we thinking i think it's fifty fifty i think fifty percent of it what were you thinking in the other fifty percent when you really look look at things and sort of see the perspective is that the. i just don't think they're just like nuclear weapons yeah they were but it's not like we used them a bunch after that we just keep making them but we don't use them but the fear is right the overuse of first you know it's like when we drop the bomb the right let me use it the one time that's

a good point to other groups or group or. the army marketing and research group or a.m.r. g.e. is the marketing and branding arm of the u.s. army they get help from some of the top advertising executives in the country from b. all you can be army strong billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to enhance the perceptions of the u.s. army here and around the globe however when the army began to review its contract from the incumbent agency mccann and accept competing offers something strange became clear to everyone first in october of twenty seventeen the army auditing agency's analysis showed that only three percent of tore through only three of twenty three about thirty percent of the marketing programs generated a positive impact are in the air in addition the a.m.r. g. had only about one of its six established performance schools the second revelation really was that the gave their current agency mccann an advertising direction sheet in which they laid out plans to take business from other contractors and move it to

make can see this violates federal acquisition regulations by creating a conflict of interest according to the guidelines it is developing or approving any contractual documents to include documents defining requirements incentive plans and evaluation criteria during the bidding process is forbidden. finally one of the competing contractors found that mccann was getting special treatment and being allowed to steal their business in violation of those regulations and the reason behind it is as old as time the director of the a.m.r. gene was james ortiz and on october fourth twenty seventeen in the midst of being investigated for waste and abuse the mary james or tease was filmed in alexandria virginia bar having a romantic evening with mechanics of molly berkeley when pictures emerged an investigation began in what were tears has been reassigned and berkeley has left her job at mccann there are some major problem within government agencies like the

a.m.r. g lack of oversight clear guidelines for performance and a seriously compromised executive level staff why when you brought this story earlier today i was like there you're now if this is private i mean it's i mean that kind of money and they would it would be a very different issue there's nobody that we keep their job with those kind of performance ratings and that kind of spending i'm going to find out you're you spent years in the marketing industry hollywood movie being you know that in the street for churches of what. they promise the world but do they really deliver but you know that just blows my mind the i mean there's a lot of cupboard four billion dollars spent over ten years and there was little to no return on investment no a little below four billion tax dollars taxpayer dollars taxpayer dollars whoa you know when you look at there are the all of the campaigns the truth is none of the

very expensive campaigns marketing campaigns of this like half century have really been that successful as as if you look at something from a real return on investment ok so be all you can be was somewhat successful and that was because of one thing because we went from a draft army to an all volunteer own arm. and so it gave people this idea of like it's you you your identity in joining the team and what ended up happening next was your remember there was the army of want army of one people i hated it was a complete disaster because it had it was like there's a warrior if you remember the ads i was like a war going to there's like battle over here and you have one guy like walking away from. its road troops it was terrible like you're not make the cut you know the can was behind army strong again army strong is not been good at recruitment it hasn't gotten people in the door and i think what you're looking at here is when you look through the numbers is that there's something really crucial and that's a big secret that marketers won't tell you is on the let it out it's like

a militia it is more money does not equal a better return for your investment i swear in marketing more money isn't the answer people will tell you that because they get a cut you're advertising agency is going to say you got to spend twenty twenty million on t.v. ads you want to know why because they get a percentage of the t.v. . so that's kind of where it is when you're talking about people army stronger this has a you have to get people to put their life on the line what they need to do is focus on word of mouth and actual on the ground staff to all the commercials in the world won't make someone put their life on the line and remember the look the military of the pentagon have gotten caught in propaganda advertising issues all over the boys were there and i don't know exactly i was just thinking about that either mccain or the fabulous you know them by the. stone pointed out in this documentary and hollywood do you see that they've been trying to generate some.