no i got a lot of. headlines here when our president donald trump says the u.s. is in an uncontrollable with china russia spending levels reached by the. quote. we're going to provide the u.s. military with access to the best technology all the technology we create head of microsoft promises to hand over the company's cutting edge technology to the u.s.

military despite resistance from some of its. russian t.v. reporter is accused of spying in the u.k. by the military and media following. suspicious behavior outside and. u.s. radio stations are banning the christmas classic baby it's cold outside. the program i. think is a lot of outrage i think women are really really angry what's behind it is you know women want relief for a minute change there are a lot of important issues right now and when we we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean we're painting a message that means he has just become unhinged. to some of the fulfill. and just after eight am here in moscow compass hour's top

stories. u.s. president donald trump says that he's confident that at some time in the future talks will be held with china and russia to hold what he describes as an uncontrollable. he's also branded u.s. military spending quote crazy though he himself increased it just a few months ago precisely to count of moscow and beijing i can add more context a closer look. pouring money down the pentagon hole has been one of the donald's few consistent policies and since taking office trump has been serenading the military we took care of the military like it's never been taken care of before and you look what it is coming in but we're going to have the strongest military we've ever had by far and hopefully will be so strong we'll never have to use it i'm talking about tremendous defense capability offensive capability it's in space so we're going to do that to space force. but now he's changing his tune he's singing

i have a dream and he's talking about harmony and peace between russia china and the united states i'm certain that sometime in the future president g. and died together with president putin of russia will still talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable arms race the u.s. spent seven hundred sixteen billion dollars this year crazy. yes why spend so much money on bombs and tanks well this is for a president who just signed a bill in august for a twenty nineteen military budget of seven hundred sixteen billion dollars that's sixteen billion more than in twenty eighteen so why the increase is it to protect our citizens from terror well actually according to the pentagon it's about russia and china but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terror that we're engaged in today but great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of your national security no new arms race nobody wants

a new cold war well if that's the case it might be smart not to pull out of the nuclear arms treaty especially one that was essential in stopping the old cold war right out of here in the agreement that should have been done years ago but still people come to this and we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up until they get this and when they do then we'll know the guard and won't stop and by the way not only will we do it so let's take trumpet his word and assume that he's just trying to steer a sinking ship well arms race may not exactly be the best term to describe it after all the us military budget is bigger than russia and china is combined and this year russia actually decreased its military spending not exactly an aggressive move but yet somehow they are the aggressor.

meanwhile while trump is gushing over his friendship with president xi imposing tariffs and staging military drills in the south. mysti is not exactly a friendly move if u.s. policies are to be some possibilities that are ground it would be very irresponsible and dangerous the united states has seriously violated the basic norms of governing international relations and damaged by no us military relations so no need to prove poor song of peace but as the donald looks brightly into the future and imagines washington moscow and beijing walking down the yellow brick road together you might want to try out a different strategy cable pop art see new york independent political analyst

alessandra bruno told us that trouble unpredictable approached without a foreign policy isn't doing anyone any favors prompts diplomacy as a sort of introduced in his book the art of the deal is this road that he goes he may give you a compliment one day and then completely break you down the next year promise to improve relations with russia greatly and so far i haven't seen any evidence of it and even the. nuclear the nuclear peace with north korea seems to be stalling so everything tells me that military spending will continue as planned if not more trouble will be more for the united states than for the foreign partners because now trump has lost his there goes. advantage because people won't be able to read him much more clearly. never take him at face value

always understand that he's playing some kind of game. with trump calling the u.s. military expenditure crazy the pentagon has found a new way to splash the cash microsoft's president has announced his company will supply the u.s. army with all the latest technologies it needs a decision was taken even though some of the tech giants employees have expressed concerns over well doing this. we are going to provide the us military with access to the best technology to all the technology we create full stop we have to win people's hearts and minds we want silicon valley to know just how ethical an honorable tradition the military has. many microsoft employees don't believe that what we build should be used for waging war when we decided to work at microsoft we would doing so in the hopes of empowering every person on the planet to achieve more not with the intent of ending lives and enhancing lethality

last week microsoft won a four hundred eighty million dollars contract to provide prototypes of all commented reality systems to the u.s. army and also bidding for a controversial pentagon deal called jet i jet i the joint enterprise defense infrastructure cloud is expected to cost ten billion dollars it will be a part of the u.s. defense department's efforts to upgrade its i.t. systems microsoft is not the only one competing for the lucrative contract i was on his vying with microsoft for the jet ideal as well google had also been in the running there were dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles of the u.s. defense department says it strictly adhered to ethical standards when conducting its operations something that some argue is contradicted by reality on the ground. we believe this program takes a significant step in fully leveraging commercial products and services to quickly and economically meet our operational needs this another operational improvements

increase lethality and readiness. it is interesting that in silicon valley which is one of the younger culture sort of old line tech. that there is this sort of studiousness it out at the old scenes and you know we want to have at least the impression there were no we're not doing very distinct you could probably find a correlation between important business done with the military finding various to corporations and how the human they are about maintaining.

the british army has a sphere to a top level security a lot of are a russian t.v. journalist who was accused of spying by the u.k. military and media after he was said to have been acting suspiciously outside an army facility and this is how the john left himself explained what happened. well i would very much want to know what exactly happened we're being accused of espionage while we were just doing our job we didn't break in the u.k. laws on november twenty second and i remember that day perfectly well has been mentioned in the mail on sunday article we went to the military base which is one hundred kilometers from london that's location of brigade seventy seven we did a package about it we drove by the base stopped approached the security guards i introduced myself presented my id they took pictures of my documents my car then we recorded my piece to camera we recorded it on a professional video camera we didn't try to get inside the base something claimed by the mail on sunday we made our intentions clear that we wanted to film outside

and that's exactly what we did instead of being branded spice. the credentials the journalist presented to the security guards were later leaked to the media despite a government memo saying quote for internal use only. look at the defense ministry sent out a warning which contains my photograph i.d.'s number and my car plates these are the documents i presented to the security guards at the base that's when they took pictures and these pictures were put in the memo how they got leaked to the press i have no idea but what's important is that in this memo if you look closely there's a note for internal use only despite that this secret memo is now all over the media to mercer as if it is the bureau chief of russia's channel one in london and he was doing a story about the seventy seventh brigade which is sort of the cyber warfare units for the british military and considering that the british government spends quite

a lot of time talking about the so-called russian threat and the threat from hybrid warfare and russian reporters interested in this brigade is pretty much self-explanatory the russian embassy is also upset that the reporters personal details have been published. online it is offensive that the personal data of russian journalists including their ids in the license plate of their car were made public it endangered security of russian citizens let alone the fact that it's a blatant violation of the norms generally recognized in civilized countries and this wasn't an isolated news report in fact the stories really snowballed and now even the defense secretary gavin williamson has made a statement about it he's called on members of the public to report any suspicious activity outside of british military bases and allow me to add a little legal disclaimer strictly speaking and i've just consulted our media

lawyer about this it isn't against the law it's a film on public land even if it is just outside a military base many a journalist has done it certainly i have no one ever leak to my press credentials or accuse me of being a russian spy in the process but there is an important caveat here in terms of the law the military can take action against anyone acting suspiciously outside a british military base and. we sent an inquiry to the defense ministry there's a form on their website but we didn't get any response filming near the base is not illegal it's a public area of public land you don't need permission to film there you need permission to get inside talk to the stuff we didn't record our interaction with the security personnel we didn't try to penetrate the base b.b.c. correspondent did the exact same thing as us it was broadcast and no one thinks that punishing him there's nothing illegal and yet this story printed in the mail

on sunday yesterday had the headline russian t.v. spies a court at top secret army base now first of all it's not top secret you can get to its location pretty much very easily but with two clicks on the internet. at the art school also goes on to feature an academic who warns that all reporters working for russian news channels are potential spies which is a claim that frankly i find absolutely terrifying looking at it from where i am and given how tense relations between the u.k. and russia are at the moment the most suspicious thing about this reporter is that he is a russian citizen working for a russian news channel we discussed of a situation with a reporter with a political commentator john gaunt russian journalist monster a story about one of our bases that's the story did it again no t.v. show his credentials yes were his credentials false no were they you re said he was

obviously is just nonsense i just don't understand why our government want to carry on with this this tit for tat nonsense it's all tied in with the script was isn't it we know this is all tied in with the fire that we haven't got conclusive evidence either way it's just part of the anti or russia rhetoric and i for one as a british citizen and frankly fed up of it frankly fed up to the back teeth of it are one jaw jaw with the russians and i'm sure most people want that rather than war war whether it's for folks cold war like this or whether it's military led is just nonsense. radio stations across the u.s. supreme dropping the christmas classic baby it's cold outside from play lists following a backlash from listeners critics are complaining the song in which a man attempts to persuade a woman to spend the night with him is not in keeping with modern values and flies in the face of the b.

two movement. their hair looks well they know no no i didn't write more very clearly i'm going to say that i can understand something or he might. say i don't haul. truck was first recorded for the nine hundred forty nine hollywood film neptune's daughter and quickly became a hit winning an oscar for best original song the following year since then it has been covered by many artists but me too activists say the lyrics normalise manipulative and coercive behavior others claim though that critics misunderstand the song and argue that to be consistent lots of others would also have to be dropped from various radio play lists maybe it's cold outside is basically date rape song i'm glad people are finally realizing this here is your annual reminder that baby it's cold outside is basically a date rape song they want to play baby it's cold outside because it implies rape

but they can play this horrible rag music that talks about sex drugs shooting people and cetera these other holiday songs must also be removed as offensive as well i saw mommy kissin santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist send to baby golddigger blackmail we discussed the topic with our legal analyst jennifer britain and lawyer and former candidate for the new york city council money hasa. if this is something that is creating such an uproar we can't ignore it and also maybe it's reflecting that things need to change and that. maybe maybe things have maybe christmas carols also. has to evolve with our society there are a lot of important issues right now and when we focus on songs like this and trying to get it out i mean we're painting a message that mates who has just become unhinged in going after these christmas songs from the one nine hundred forty s.

which yes was a different era but frankly nobody nobody has cared about and so the meta movement wants to stay wants to stay current and relevant and i think that we need to focus on the main issues the biggest issues and stay away maybe from some of the lesser things like some of these christmas songs i think there's a lot of outrage i think women are really really angry the argument that maybe this is a little bit overkill. i think you have to look at that and see kind of what is behind that and what's behind it is you know women want relief women who want change women want their voices heard reading into the lyrics of the song and also some of. it is have been i've been reading about this it's very interesting to see the different as you said it's really a question of interpretation is that it could be taken in different ways i mean i think if you're. a survivor of rape you're going to interpret it that way as a date rape song i think most people are going to study that it's from the one nine hundred forty s. and you know you could make an argument this is that this is

a woman who several to celebrating for the actuality and it's really a flirting again and i missed it and i understand and i do understand both sides of this argument i just see really the need to focus on on some of the bigger issues i understand that they're women that are survivors of rape and i do understand the argument i understand the side where we have to look at everything we have to understand because some way if women are truly angry about this and then there must be something to it but at the same time you know i. want to see a woman who can who can stand strong who can look at the song and say you know what that's not going to bother me i know what my boundaries are i know when to leave for me i feel like it's almost a step back to see all this rage and anger over that i want to see women going you know what we recognize the cultural differences are back then in those in that time that that kind of sucks for back then but think of where we are now and we're going to have a voice coming up here on the program on the ongoing wave of protests in france now . and students across the country adjoining the yellow vests movement details until

after the price. of all the one player in each industry and they're setting prices and there's no more market setting the price market failure and yet what happens to sell is that you know you ironically the soviet union now russia is moving toward where america

was the one nine hundred fifty s. with more like an hour and you've got the current administration moving towards soviet union with behaving more like you know russia. twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow pakistan says donald trump has asked the country for help in peace talks with taliban militants in a bid to end the ongoing seventeen year war in neighboring afghanistan comes just two weeks after trumping gazed with pakistan's leader in which he threatened to cut foreign aid to islamabad but on quarter looks more closely now at the u.s. pakistan relationship. if you only listen to what president trump says about

pakistan you might think the country is a haven for terrorists one that at the same time is soaking up aid money from uncle sam we can no longer be silent about pakistan safe havens for terrorist organizations anybody know anything about it for taking the law they will do anything for us to do a good damn thing for us but no longer paying one point three billion the fact is that what paying them nothing because that's what they've done to help us nothing so it comes as a bit of a surprise that it's now the us asking for help from his lama bod but it's not the kind of help that comes in the form of a check but help in resolving the us is seventeen year war on terror in neighboring afghanistan now trump already sent a letter to the prime minister which judging by pakistan's reaction was very cordial he's emphasized that pakistan and the usa should explore opportunities to wood together and renew their partnership and now the u.s. envoy responsible for bringing the war to a close is taking

a trip to pakistan now this politics of flip flopping might seem strange but it's not the first time u.s. foreign policy has contradicted itself when it comes to pakistan washington already tried to mend ties back in september when secretary of state mike pompei o flew to islam a bud i hope we can turn the page and begin to make progress even proclaimed the u.s. needs pakistan we need pakistan to seriously engaged to help us to get the reconciliation we need in afghanistan but that statement came amidst u.s. threats to yet again cancel aides to the country confused well you're not alone i do the americans from both distance this isn't a three x. then normal baucus and i know all this. much. because intel can buy its own but. isn't. so when do you. see starbucks

somehow in sequence but. i have. a settlement with the i'm done playing good us bad us hasn't done much for peace in afghanistan where the taliban in washington sworn enemy is on the rise despite talks and peace conferences in moscow in geneva this year no concrete solutions have surfaced neither with the u.s. the afghanistan government or the taliban coming to the same table mistrust and inconsistency is the name of the game in this conflict and the u.s. a stance on pakistan is no exception. anger and discontent are spreading in france with paramedics from paris and high school students across the country joining the yellow vest protest movement in the french capital the bridge leading to the national assembly was blocked off by demonstrators while nationwide some one hundred schools staged protests in follows

a weekend that witnesses witnessed rather the most violent riots and powers in approximately half a century. but we would always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything could be here until the end of the law oh it was so you could call it this law will kill the small i'm jealous companies and big corporations will take over to me with companies like calls have invested a lot of money will disappear overnight and no one will help us we're staying here as long as necessary we have nothing to lose anymore. but let me cut loose a quick that warehouse company secretary swift come to support ambulance workers

because this all continuous will lose all jobs to. there is a squid for us every single day hospitals do t. even have the right to coalesce and give us what the prime minister in the government will do nothing for us nothing there leaving us in the galley without way pm to this way because we lose their jobs patients will lose out. but. what we got as local protests against high fuel prices was talked into a nationwide uprising against emanuel backcross presidency a charm or lead to micron to council has visited so that he could hold emergency talks with his cabinet party considering whether to impose a state of emergency as political rivals have rounded on him over the crisis such as you call from point tell the prime minister ten asked medically the cancellation of fuel tax increases not only of those already ply but also those to come in

january in june and so on until the end of a man no micron's five year term on. if there must be a ban on taxes before any talks that's the only way of making the discussion credit who only people devote the time for debate is over it is time for action for concrete measures and amid a gesture of peace and it is required and these gesture of appeasement will ask that it be the emitted consolation of the tax increases there are still shared goals for the first of january that yellow vest riots have incurred large financial losses in some areas shot profits for example down fifty percent of protesters road blockades of cost transport companies an estimated four hundred million euros and four million euros worth of damage was done to paris on saturday alone as demonstrators run riot smashing property across the capital now the media and politicians have compared the violent unrest on saturday with historical revolutions that occurred in france they see similarities with the class warfare of

the seven hundred eighty nine revolution others are reminded of the student uprising of may nine hundred sixty eight which led to the resignation of then president shall go. other all reports that yellow fest representatives have refused to attend talks with the prime minister that was shut you off for tuesday and french parliamentarian and former presidential candidate. things that the government needs to negotiate with the protesters as soon as possible. the answer is that you have to be able to talks the protesters they want taxes to be imposed that was the reason for the protest the way out is to drop them. holding talks conflicts may happen and you have to know how to manage them the government has to make immediately the necessary steps to get talks with. thanks for joining us with your program are tons of the top of the hour.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. during his years serving his regime is chief executioner gerry wood here in the swear they were innocent. when you hear a person going to be sticking out that he was innocent to the last serene's going to his body he's taken out that he was innocent on his last words. give

me something that think about as execution and it place some doubt there there was one young man in particular washington jr. he was trying to tell society back then that he was innocent to get no one really paid no attention. in one thousand nine hundred three earl was arrested in cole pepper virginia and brought in for questioning he thought it was for a burglary he had committed to so i old question they are the by different. and they use it as datum. and they then know i want to quote rape murder which call kept myrtle. the death penalty.