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silicon valley to know just how. the tradition the military. technology. on the program i. think is a lot of women are really really angry behind it is you know women want relief. there are a lot of important issues right now and we focus on this and try to get a. message that.

welcome to the program. u.s. president says that he's. in the future talks will be held with china russia to hold what he describes. u.s. military spending as quote crazy though he himself increased interest a few months. for any money down the 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 know what it is coming in and 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 the 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 some time in the future president g. indicts a good with president putin of russia will stop talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable arms race the u.s. spend 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 now that here in the agreement they 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 come to this and when they do then we'll old guard and won't stop and by the way not only will we do 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 u.s. 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 helped me some possibilities that are granted it would be very irresponsible and dangerous the united states has seriously violated the basic norms of governing international relations and damage sino us military relations so no need to prove to a song of teeth but as the donald looks brightly into the future and imagines washington moscow and beijing walking down the yellow brick road together he might want to try out a different strategy cable pop an artsy new york independent political analyst alessandra bruno told us that trump's unpredictable approach to foreign policy

isn't helping anyone. prompts diplomacy as sort of introduced in his book the art of the deal is this rope that he goes in he may give you a compliment one day and then completely break you down the next year promises to improve relations with russia greatly so far i haven't seen any evidence of it and even the. nuclear the nuclear peace with the 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 our foreign partners because now trump has lost his negotiating advantage because people won't be able to read him much more clearly. never take him at face value always understand he's playing some kind of game. anger is spreading in france

with paramedics and paris and high school students nationwide now they're all joining the wave of protests in the country and the french capital the bridge leading to the national assembly was blocked off by demonstrators all across france some hundred schools staged protests it follows a weekend that witnessed the most violent riots in paris in half a century. we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything will be here until the end was. it was. so you could call it this law will kill all small ambulance companies and big corporations will take over smaller companies like cause 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. i. used to create that warehouse company secretaries would come to support ambulance workers because if this all continuous we'll lose all jobs to. there is less work for us every single day hospitals duty even have the right to call us and give us work the prime minister the governments will do nothing for us nothing there leaving us in the galley without wake the ambulance workers will lose their jobs patients will lose out. and what began as local protests against high fuel prices now turned into a nationwide uprising ultimately against emanuel presidency tomoya led back wrong

to cancel his visit to serbia so that he could hold emergency talks with his cabinet he's currently considering whether to impose a state of emergency his political rivals have a round on him over the crisis. we're told the prime minister to announce 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 only if there must be a ban on taxes before any talks see any way of making the discussion credible but only people devote the time for debate is over it is time for action for concrete measures an immediate gesture of appeasement is required and this gesture of appeasement we are ask that it be the immediate cancellation of the tax increases for the still shy jeweled for generally the first the so-called yellow vast riots have incurred large financial losses in some areas shop profits for example are down fifty percent protesters road blockades have cost transport companies

reportedly millions of euros four million euros worth of damage. 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 the past in france they see similarities with the class warfare of the seven hundred eighty nine revolution others are reminded of the student uprising in maine one nine hundred sixty eight which led to the resignation of then president shall the goal now there are reports that yellow vest representatives have refused to attend talks with the prime minister that words judgeable for tuesday associate professor in french studies at nottingham university of paul smith believes macro initially underestimated the problem of the protests. hoping. will be on the protests to the moderate for all would not support the general protests in the way that they have and there's been a public opinion poll this morning that says seventy two percent of french people

actually support the movement the volunteers call knows that there is a general malaise that needs to be addressed that goes far deeper than the violent top level as it were that we're seeing in impera so we've seen that today with destroyed spoil ambulance drivers that sort of studies people with what they regard as a legitimate grievance a legitimate problem so my call has has misjudged i think the movement but now he's trying to do something about it. microsoft's boss has announced as company will supply the u.s. army with all the latest technologies it needs the decision was taken even though some of the tech giants employees have expressed concern. 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 well last week marks off one a four hundred eighty million dollars contract to provide prototypes of all commented reality systems to the u.s. military and they are also bidding for a controversial pentagon deal called jet i jet either joint enterprise defense infrastructure cloud is expected to cost ten billion dollars will be a part of the u.s. defense department's efforts to upgrade its i.t. systems but microsoft not the only one competing for this lucrative contract is on its vying with microsoft for the jet ideal as well google had been in the running

though it dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles . now the u.s. defense department says it strictly adhered to ethical standards when conducting its operations it's something that some people disagree with and we spoke to roger kay a technology analyst. it is interesting that you know you know one of the younger cultures are all lying on the doses. so studiousness the all seems. you know we want to have at least you pression there were actually no we're not doing various things you probably for any correlation between forty years use done with the knowledge you're really firing various to corporations and how the they are of their own. radio stations across the u.s. have been dropping the christmas classic baby it's cold outside from play lists

following a backlash from listeners critics are complaining that 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 me too movement their hair looks well they know no nine there i'm all very carefully going to say that i try to understand something or if he might be reading then i don't hold up with. the truck was first recorded for the one nine hundred forty nine a hollywood film neptune's daughter and quickly became a hit in fact winning an oscar for best original song the following year since then that has been covered by many artists but me too activist say the lyrics normalize manipulative and coercive behavior others claim though that critics mishandled misunderstand the song and argue that to be consistent lots of others would also have to be dropped from various radio play lists baby it's cold outside is basically a date rape song i'm glad people are finally realizing this. here's your annual

reminder that baby it's cold outside is basically a date rape song they won't play baby it's cold outside because it implies rape but they can play this horrible rab 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 case in santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist send to baby golddigger blackmail we discuss the topic with legal analyst jennifer braden and form a car that if a new york city council monny harasser. 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 news 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 understand 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 it's 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 sun 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 of that where 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 your program continues in just. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something wanted. to be close it's like the korean people are. interested in the why. did.

you say stories welcome to them the british army has issued a top level security alert for 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 journalist himself explains what happened. i would very much want to know what exactly happens we're being accused of espionage

we were just doing our job we didn't break any laws on november the twenty second and i remember that day perfectly well has been mentioned in the mail on sunday we went to the military base which is one hundred kilometers from london that's led cation brigade seventy seven we did a package about it we drove by the baby. 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 we being branded spies the credentials the journalists presented to the security guards were later leaked to the media despite a government memo saying 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. robyn williams and 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 hair 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 formal no website but we didn't get any response from near the police 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 prince said 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 its location pretty much very easily but with two clicks on the internet 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 the journalist position with a political commentator john goodman. russian journalist monster a story about one of our bases that's the story did he gave in no good he sure is credentials yes were his credentials folks know were they who we 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 this cripples isn't it we know this is all tied in with the fact that we haven't got conclusive evidence either way and it's just part of the anti war russia rhetoric and i for one as

a british citizen i'm frankly fed up of it frankly fed up to the back teeth of it i 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. pakistan says donald trump has asked the country for help in peace talks with taliban militants in a bid to win and the ongoing seventeen year war in neighboring afghanistan it comes just two weeks after trumping gazed in a twitter spot with pakistan's leader in which he threatened to cut foreign aid to islamabad at one quarter takes a closer look. 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 anything anything about it for taking down the law they'll do anything for us to do a damn thing for us but no longer paying one point three billion to pakistan we're

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 islamic 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 work 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 you can't box on but. so when do you. box somehow in sequence but. i have. to do with. playing good u.s. bad u.s. hasn't done much for peace in afghanistan where the taliban 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 those your stories for this hour here on this tuesday on r.t. international we are back with more. desponding

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