impact on the balance of forces globally right now china has run the united states in africa on every front and it will take more than just words for washington to elbow its way past bridging it was done of r.t. . the british foreign secretary has defended u.k. ties with saudi arabia that after the saudi crown prince's three day visit to london prompted protests near downing street denouncing riyadh's deadly three year bombing of yemen britain supports the reviews right to defend its national security against missile attacks from yemen many of which have targeted the kingdom cities including riyadh. any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat well roughly four hundred people gathered to protest the royal visit activists condemn the war in yemen and slammed u.k. arms sales to the kingdom to a similar concerns were also raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition.

a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million is face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the block 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 trying looting in one of the united nations is evidence of war crimes well some did come out in support of the saudi crown prince and to ensure a warm reception to a promotional ad campaign was launched the prince's face and on the sides of black vans and cabs to as well as billboards throughout the city center these ads had to

contend with the red double decker bus carrying banners branding the saudi crown prince a war criminal some of those we spoke to see the prayer saudi advertising is blatant propaganda. but is it convincing anyone in the u.k. that the abuses of human rights the saudis are doing good is just propaganda for them back at home to say oh look look how look at what this great well it's just a blatant propaganda display so it comes back to reflect badly on saudi arabia. that they're trying to manipulate this public opinion on the eve of the visit of saudi arabia's foreign minister here to try to ease the concerns of critics saying the war in yemen had been quote imposed on riyadh and he added that it was a justified war to backed by international law or the unicef does call it the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in history. so ethnically motivated hostility and crime against germans in berlin is becoming more commonplace that's

according to the country's security chief with more details his patron of. 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 both fears are sort of pointed towards 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. this is why 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 news. like spread all over and they just make a big deal out of every time the crime that's committed. this is even so political our politicians should be made to commute using the underground for one week and they 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 and there is some some some basics for that and i think one of the problems is that the that the figure is sort of official from the police. and you cleared 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 you 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 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 has become less safe peter all of a. just gone a quarter past three here in moscow still to come for you this hour the dispute over gas supplies between russia and ukraine has come to a head again we'll have a look at the details just after this break.

you can say that. something is good. but for. whatever. the principle is good though the principle is but has to be apply equally and that is.

welcome back now ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to the russian energy giant gazprom following a long term dispute over gas supplies spiked though an appeal case still being heard by a court in stock has any prank russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again kiev speak 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 ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas from have been settling

their disputes. a stockholm arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many issues between these two but just a short while ago one stockholm tribunals decision forced the 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 from must pay ukraine's nafta gatt as more than four point six billion u.s. dollars that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do the math then moscow and kiev more than two point five billion euros dollars and the bosses at gas were 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 betrayed says justified the decision by the show of deterioration in the economy we're categorically against the economic problems been solved. if there's jenga tower of contracts for purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapses staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know kids become an issue it's not in any of russia's interest 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 how to protect its political and economic interests and technically it wasn't gas rahm's fault. that women around the world marking

international women's day at the moment including in madrid where they have been making some noise. people there banging pots and pans in support of women's rights chanting slogans such as if we start and then in south korea so people came to the streets there in support of the movement calling for sex offenders to be brought to justice meanwhile the p.r. efforts of some to be in support of women being branded. parties for mr sethi takes a look at the. it's a global commemoration of women's rights and child to right from wrong to some companies it's a shot at the top p.r. by showing their support for women although 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 of the few fellow travellers. have never been. stuck in the much of. the difference between a rule and then dissent. is that i have never been harassed. and what about the people behind the retailers. who thought it be a great idea to make the civic leave for women so you know they could be more dainty and played like women. and they don't. and they don't like to poor little broken pieces into the. tens out judging by the reaction online most women. just like with the company who expected to flock to them. even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping it felt that. if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not. good. to otherwise we're really

trying not to. luan it's for boys. it seems that it's a marketing minefield when fans try winning a few women take the same path for matching different politicising. backfilling after they are in full swing so perhaps the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated maybe the p.r. guys let's face it they probably are guys should take some time out pitching the patch and i think paying. pigeonholed and remember that political correctness doesn't wash with women. meanwhile to mark women's day activists in various countries have also been giving out flowers as part of the russian campaign this was launched online and has been picked up globally and in russia itself of course

men today are trying to make the leading ladies in their life smile i know hawkins reports from moscow biggest clown are. you basing this is black friday or perhaps a cue for the latest phone or some kind of sanction product but no this is the eighth of march international women's day here in russia no self-respect will be seen dead without a boat. and we flower market the best and the busiest place to get up ok. but look at what the. up. to do. i need is a slew of routes to do you know voice. it's. his nine year. old that if you. study years.

according to polls more than half of men of buying flowers for their loved ones today was so. shooting up by ten times to put that into perspective over thirty million dollars a fly was registered on the moscow customs alone just in february. how do you say i mean he does does he studied the medal don't know the movie idea and that i want to time vehicle and he was a tease that was dollars when you look at what's at stake you know. just how it all today is of russia all got nothing left to do puts a boy some clothes as well. i found a. bit of us but i was because. we did so we're going to see the civil you to proceed. to go bust if you've used that audience about this. i see but. some of us some of.

you cannot run at night because it was that i was surprised that the most amount of people that he took a bunch of. ice much to the side see russia is a good guys and i don't you hawkins that's how the news is looking so far today with that morphy and thirty five minutes. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. to go on to be press the slightly before three of the people. i'm interested always in the waters about how. i should.

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. and it is a. church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it literally i like to call this the

geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot where the previous standard was not known the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that that's not the that's the i don't think that if you look at it just it's out and. it's. it's it's. greetings and salutations today the united states of america exists in a perpetual state of war anyone telling you otherwise is probably running for

office or selling you a bald eagle silver dollar. on television about three four in the 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 because moto kicked 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 did and 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 vast 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 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. what is. it with. religion. as it relates

to the plot of. what it looks like you know what i got. this. week so. well good morning all the water in the hearts i am sort of open to and i'm south of the wallace and today we're talking about a lot of things about the military and the armed services and this a man google doing where you're surprised that 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 research to kind of push certain sites down and elevate other sites that they believe are better than others in my

surprise when i hear news that google was suddenly helping develop a i you know the military 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 odds and 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 that 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 it's 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. world in perpetuity and 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 welfare welfare your child welfare queen that i could see through it is that tempting thing for google i want to get into that what's also interesting about this those is this a i and military and the use of artificial intelligence in military which is really i think many are feeling this kind of way this generation's nuclear program yeah oh and clinton on that level there's going to really change the face of the planet. because we've all seen we've all seen the movie trailer exactly the terminator and the other arm and the other one and the other one and the other one and resign inspections are you know what i got and that has not been timid or they haven't hidden their desire to utilize ai and the genteelest silicon valley them 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 lead fang 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 or words 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 the table is going to come back and bite us like those same groups of scientists and businesses the sutton bed with the pentagon the belle of 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 and 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 to move 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 gives a good point to other groups or group or. the army marketing and research group or am argy 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 in the air in addition the a.m.r. jihad only bought 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 this year i was like there you're now is this is a private i mean it's i mean the 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 even if it would mean you know that in the street for a service of what do they promise the world but do they really deliver but you know that it just it just blows my mind the i mean there's a lot of coverage four billion dollars spent over ten years of that there was little to no return on investment you know 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 and joining the team what ended up happening next was if

you're a member there was the army of want army of one of your people hated it was a complete disaster because it had it was like there was a war of your 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. troops it was terrible like you know not make the cut you know the camp was behind army strong again army's 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 i 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 your 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

code that 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 all the commercials in the world won't make someone put their life on the line and remember the military like the military of the pentagon have gotten caught in propaganda advertising issues all over the place because we were there and i don't know exactly i was just thinking about that another mccain fabulous you know them by the. stone pointed out in his in his documentary and hollywood do you see that they've been trying to generate something to you know paint this image that we being a perpetual war is a good thing in today's day and age but twenty i mean when you look at this audit twenty different programs cost a collective thirty six point eight million in twelve sixteen alone the air margy response to all of this is that the auto ignores that marketing recruiting are separate activities and that they have a lack of marketing and. standing or criteria for performance assessment lack of understanding to. this is rich super rich so what they're

trying to say is that although their job is to increase recruiting the fact that recruiting has gone down should not affect our just our opinion about their job performance good poit. speak go to break our watchers told her good to let us know what your pick of the topics would cover the base for good twitter see our poll shows at r t v dot com coming up we are joined once again by retired brigadier general and best selling author toni tate a to discuss the best ways for veterans to reintegrate back into society after their service and then we take a trip around the sun with our good friends and now so stay tuned to watch in the.