the made china second most popular destination for african students and its military is in africa to last year china opened its first overseas base with a facility in djibouti the same year it held joint drills with tanzania chinese soldiers have already been here for a few years its peacekeepers have been involved in missions across central africa so is it really that much of a surprise that some african nations prefer the chinese way over america's sweet talk the chinese has been front and center in providing us with roads this country has developed. to mock you pass it in this regard so we're working very hard to go over and we believe that walking to gether would bring about the beneficial relationship china has become successful in africa because china tends to favor and tends to stress civilian projects some years ago the first president bush certainly

states that more will than wallet which means it's not offer is not able to offer the kinds of aid that china is so generously providing there is a real fear in washington that china is in the passing lane and that sooner rather than later the chinese economy if it is not already will be larger than the united states economy which will have a monumental 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 beijing it has done of r.t. . the british foreign secretary has defended u.k. ties with saudi arabia after a visit by the saudi crown prince to london problems and protests outside downing street denouncing riyadh's deadly bombing of 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 riyadh. any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat. around four hundred people gathered to protest against the royal visit activists condemned the war in yemen and u.k. arms sales to kingdom similar concerns were also raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition. a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million his 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 war it cannot be right that her governments this is cannot be right that her government is cruel

looting in one of the united nations ses is evidence of war crimes. some though came out in support of the saudi crown prince son to ensure a warm reception a promotional and campaign was launched the prince's face a dog the size of vans and taxis as well as billboards throughout the city center these ads had to contend with a red double decker bus that carried banners branding the prince of war criminal we spoke to people on the streets about what they thought of the pro saudi posters. isn't convincing anyone in the u.k. that the abuses of human rights that the saudis are doing are good it's just propaganda for them back at home to say oh look look look at what this great well it's just a blatant propaganda display say it comes back to reflect badly on saudi arabia. did they're trying to manipulate this public opinion on the eve of the visit saudi arabia's foreign minister trying to ease the concerns of critics saying that the

war in yemen has been quote imposed on riyadh yet it was a justified war that by international law or unicef has called it the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in history. racially motivated hostility and crimes against germans in berlin is becoming more commonplace that's according to the capitol security chief with details is peter all of. the burly interior minister has had some pretty unexpected things to say about how native germans attrit 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 those fears

or 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 as 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 news server like it's spread all over berlin 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 they made to hang out in this neighborhood that way they would see what the situation is really like has 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 simpson basics for that many things that are not even declared to the police as crime or as a rassmann 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 they let them off again punishment is something that evidently or appear in italy in berlin context isn't there anymore and perhaps it's the thing that things could get worse that's driving public opinion to feel that the german capital has become less safe peter all of. those come people in

california are getting irritated by the growing role of robots after a number of incidents story or more after the break. you say that. something is good. or bad for barcelona. or whatever.

the principle is good or the principle is bad has to be apply equally and that is the. people in california seem to be getting more annoyed about automation for example in san francisco there's been a number of attacks on self driving cars with passers by banging on the windows and it's in the same city a robotic dog was actually taken out of service after a public outcry security but was given the job of shooting away homeless people from outside business offices it was vandalized several times during its patrols

and now a new robotic kitchen assistant working in a burger joint has been slammed to. well flipping the robot as it is known has prompted the twitter hash tag rise of the robots some people complain that jobs are being stolen from people see automation as being somewhat inevitable one expert we spoke to said it's no surprise that some folk around green. robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have big impacts 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 are being threatened by the introduction of it

into the economy. fifty percent unemployment ok that is a crisis that is a social political economic crisis and one of the possible outcomes and one of the likely possible. is is massive violence you know a lot of this kind of vandalism and sat with irish i think you'll be seeing you'll be seeing even larger scale disruptions here there aren't 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 from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. the story of a russian and pay he's been accused of harassing female journalists has been making

headlines this week despite denying the accusations thing and pay has decided though to apologize today. as a story. the man in the spotlight is leonid slutsky a member of the russian duma and the scandal actually erupted in mid february when the first accusations of sexual harassment surface by female journalists and since then it has snowballed with more and more women coming forward one of those has been a reporter from the b.b.c.'s russian service and she joined the group saying that she has a recording of an instant worse lidsky made inappropriate advances and also groped her as well at this point that recording has yet to be released in full and throughout all this has denied the claim saying that it's actually just a smear campaign that was until today today is of course international women's day and he used the opportunity to mix in the polje end with a post celebrating the holiday i'd like to use this occasion to apologize to anyone who intentionally old norse and have caused any emotional stress believe me there

were no bad intentions amid the wave of accusations against the speaker of the duma came out casting doubt on the claims and also making a suggestion to women that infuriated many is something to consider what if this was all just a provocation if you have someone you should apologize but if you provoke you should be held accountable is it dangerous for you to work in the duma if so then change your jobs all this has prompted outcry especially among journalists who are demanding the appropriate steps be taken and today a protest was even held outside of the state duma where many of those participating were members of the media at this point the ethics committee has already opened an investigation into the situation and will be required to submit answers to all official accusations and if those are found to be lacking he could eventually lose his immunity now the one good thing coming out of this we have seen from another member of the duma that's on the push she's promised a fast track in all bill enforcing gender equality and targeting sexual harassment

in the government. and women around the world of him are commune to national women's day to day including in madrid where they've been making lots of noise. people there were banging pots and pans in support of women's rights chanting slogans such as if we stopped the world stops people in south korea the streets of seoul in support of the me too movement calling for sex offenders to be brought to justice also the p.r. efforts of some firms meant to be in support of women have been branded as being. aunties and he said he takes a closer look. it's a global commemoration of women's rights and child right from wrong to some company if the shops at the top p.r. by showing that the book the women although successfully take this french anti

harassment campaign showing female passengers on public transport being preyed on by animals instead of a matter for which the buffaloes the few fellow travelers. have never been shark in itself soccer is still pretty much. the difference between a rule and dissent. that i have never been harassed. and it's about the people behind the retailers. who felt it be a great idea to make the civically for women so you know they could be more dainty and they'd like women. and they don't. and they don't like to poor little broken pieces and the flavor into them are tense out there judging by the reaction online most women. just like with the company who expected to flock to them he's here even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping that. if you have to explain the joke

maybe it's not a very good. gluten free to otherwise we're really a drink now. the blue one is for boys. it seems that it's a marketing minefield when fans try winning at the women take the save the matching bottle for politicising. battling out today is in full swing so perhaps a mistake when 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 to change the pattern i think peg dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political correctness doesn't wash with women in these times to. join in reading.

it and the culture these brands are trying to become an activist in this culture of these and it depends on how well the stunt you sure the these companies have their horse financial motives. for at least for marketing their product in certain ways that. back to consumers and make them more interested and. brings us right up to date all see with the latest news headlines in half an hour. from world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question by the way he's going to be our coach. guys i know you're one of us he's a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure come out you have to be the

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a. church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the do graphic 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 scandal is not the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that end of that so that as the i and then i included use this out in. this. case felt. that this. was you

know. thank you. so much. 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 for the morning but most u.s. citizens may never directly. 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 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's fleet of eleven 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 but let's break out some rolaids and disrupt this sunday brunch and start watching the hawks. you. want to. get the. real thing with. the plot of. what it looks like you know that i got.

this. week six oh. well good morning all the water in the dark so i am sort of open to and i'm out 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 the search 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's drone program that's killed hundreds of thousands of people no no no i'm not because there's one e right of course and that's probably one of the main reasons that they're doing i mean i'm sure thoughts 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 at how they're what technology they give or used to provide to the military how it's you so interested. interesting whether or not that will continue when the dollar signs become enough and in this situation it's that dollar side and that's that pressure right blood you wanted if you want to turn a c.e.o. it's like a look at this juicy government contractor we can get you that we can you know build and propriety 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 need you know we talk about welfare welfare you welfare queen you know

that i could see through it is that tempting thing for google i want to get into that what's also interesting about this though is is this a i and military and the use of artificial intelligence in the military which is really i think many are feeling is kind of like this generation's nuclear program yeah oh including on that level that this is 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 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 leave fang at 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 he has no technical superiority and is just there to cause here's a limited man. 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 business is the set up in bed with the pentagon the develop the atom bomb and did all that you know then basically develop weaponry that could end the world a hundred times over are we going to see that same 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 is. i just don't think that 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 whoever uses it first. you know it's like when we drop the ball sarky right let me use a belt one time the other groups a good point to other groups are good for. the army marketing and research group or a.m.r. g.e. is the more recruiting 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 thirteen 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 and investigation began and what were tears has been. signed and berkeley has left her job at mccann there some of the 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 to your i was asleep you're here now is this is a 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 and then to find out your you spent years in the marketing industry hollywood even if it would mean you know that in the street for the service of what do they promise the world but do they really deliver but you know there i just it just blows my mind the i mean there's

a lot to cover four billion dollars spent over ten years of the there was little to no return on investment no 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 army 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 good sleep disaster because it had it was like there's a warrior if you remember the ads i was like a war there's like battle over here and you know one guy like walking or whatever it is it's road troops it was terrible like you know not make the cut you know we

can was behind army strong again army strong is not been good at recruitment and 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 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 show 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 stuff all the commercials in the world won't make someone put their life on the line and remember the. mill.