Skip to main content

tv   News  RT  December 4, 2018 2:00am-2:31am EST

2:00 am
and this is going to. do in. these industries but you have to simply ignore the money that. the mother of. the in this. budget. with.
2:01 am
high school students. joining the wave of protests in the country. just. a tradition the military. christmas. on the program i. think is a lot of women are really really behind it is you know women want relief when there are a lot of important issues right now only we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean we're paying a message that has just become unhinged. welcome
2:02 am
to the program here on oxy international the news team here gathering up this hour's top story. u.s. president donald trump says that he is 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 as quote crazy though he himself increased it just a few months back precisely to counter moscow and beijing. takes 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 new equipment is coming in we're going to have the strongest military we've ever had by far and hopefully we'll be so school we'll never have to use it but i'm talking about tremendous defense capability offensive capability it's in space so we're
2:03 am
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. sometime in the future president jian 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. 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 terrorists that we're engaged in today but great power competition. and not terrorism is now the
2:04 am
primary focus of u.s. 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 should have been done years ago but still people come to this and we have more money than anybody else by far and 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 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.
2:05 am
meanwhile while travis gushing over his friendship with president xi imposing tariffs and staging military drills in the south china sea is not exactly a friendly move the us trade policies have me some possibilities that are ground it would be very irresponsible and dangerous to the united states to seriously violated the basic norms of governing international relations and damaged by no u.s. military relations so no need to prove to a song of peace but as the donald looks brightly into the future and imagines washington mosque allen beijing walking down the yellow brick road together he might want to try out a different strategy caleb mop an artsy new york independent political analyst
2:06 am
alessandra bruno told us the unpredictable approach to foreign policy simply put is not helping anyone. prompts diplomacy as sort of introduced in his book the art of the deal is this road that he goes in 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 travel will be more for the united states than for the foreign partners because now trump has lost his negotiating advantage because people will be able to read him much more clearly. never take him at face value
2:07 am
always understand that he's playing some kind of game. as well as seeking talks with russia and china wants to talk peace with the taliban and he's just starting pakistan for help with the ranging about but a walk with that he had a big put us about with pakistan's leader just two weeks ago the stories coming up just a little bit later in this program. continues to spread in france with paramedics and power and high school students nationwide now all joining in the wave of protests across the country in the french capital the bridge leading to the national assembly was blocked off by demonstrators while all across france some one hundred schools staged protests it follows a weekend that witnessed the most violent riots in nearly a half a century in paris. but
2:08 am
we would always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything to be here until the end of. it oh it was so you could call it this no will kill the small ambulance companies and big corporations will take over the smaller companies locals 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 tell. you a secret that warehouse company secretary swift come to support ambulance workers because if this all continuous will lose all jobs to. there is less work for us every single day hospital stay t.
2:09 am
even have the right to call us and give us way the prime minister the governments will do nothing for us nothing there leaving us in the galley without way can be this way because we lose their jobs patients will lose out. what began as a local protest against high fuel prices has turned into a nationwide uprising against emanuel micron's president's top model led to console his visit to serbia so that he could hold emergency talks with his cabinet he is currently considering whether to impose a state of emergency his political rivals though have taken this opportunity to get on him over the crisis. we're told 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 the manual micron's five year term for years if there must be a ban on taxes before any talks seriously way of making the discussion credible
2:10 am
lead 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 asked that it be the immediate cancellation of the tax increases that are still shed jeweled for generally the first the so-called yellow vests riots have incurred large financial losses in some areas shop profits for instance are down fifty percent of protesters road blockades of cost transport companies nationwide 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 the media and politicians have compared the violent unrest on saturday with historical revolutions that occurred in france's history they see similarities with the class warfare of the seven hundred eighty nine revolution and others are reminded of the student uprising in may in one nine hundred sixty eight which led to the resignation of then president shall dugong.
2:11 am
microsoft's boss has announced his company will supply the u.s. army with all the latest technology it needs the decision was taken even though some of the tech giants employees have expressed concerns we are going to provide the u.s. 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 in our noble 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 dollar contract to provide prototypes of or granted reality systems to the u.s. army they're also bidding for a controversial pentagon deal called jet i
2:12 am
a 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 and microsoft is not the only one competing for the lucrative contract amazon is vying with microsoft for the jet ideal as well and google had also been in the running though it dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles or the u.s. defense department says it strictly adhered to ethical standards when conducting its operations or something that some argue we spoke to were roger kay a technology analyst who says that for microsoft military contracts are a greater priority and as employees concerns it is interesting that in silicon valley which is one of the younger culture or sort of all line tech on that there's this sort of aren't studiousness sort out at the whole seeings and certainly some of what smith was saying is directed at existing employees don't think that
2:13 am
the message for them is pretty much we're going to be used in important part of our portfolio and we in turn you bond with it and if you have an issue with that we may need to decide to do something about that but i also think it's important to understand that knowledge terry and technology and that development technology the ever since tyrant was part of what knowledge your early activity is all about gaining more local energy and you're out there it's no. it's no surprise you find the technology industry engage with the military here and you know the countries it's not. radio stations across the united states have been dropping. the christmas classic baby it's cold outside from play lists following a backlash from some listeners critics are complaining that the song in which a man attempts to persuade
2:14 am
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 no i didn't write more very clearly that i'm going to say that i can understand something or they might. say i don't know. the 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 is being covered by many artists but me too activist say the lyrics normalised manipulative and coercive behavior others claim though that critics misunderstand the song and argue that to be consistent lots of other songs would also have to be dropped for various radio play lists baby it's cold outside is basically a date rape song i'm glad people are finally realizing this here is your annual reminder that baby it's cold outside is basically
2:15 am
a date rape song they want to 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 it's true these other holiday songs must also be removed as are fanciful as well i saw mommy q since santa claus subjecting minors the soft core porn white christmas racist send to baby golddigger blackmail. we discussed the topic with legal analyst jennifer bruton and former candidate for the new york city council mani. 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
2:16 am
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
2:17 am
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 am here today 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 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. to see a woman who can and 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 of that i want to see women going you know what we recognize the cultural differences are back that in those in that time that could that kind of sucks for back then but thank god we are where we are now and we're going to have a voice coming up here on the program on r t a russian journalist was branded
2:18 am
a spy after filming near a british military base of all of that just. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class
2:19 am
is protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real news is really. glad to have you with us today the british army has issued a top level security alert of her 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 happened we're being accused of
2:20 am
espionage while we were just doing our job that we didn't break in the u.k. last november the 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 led cation 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 we being branded spice the way the credentials or the journalist presented to the security guards were later leaked to the media despite a government memo saying that for internal use only. the defense ministry sent out a warning which contains my photograph id number plates these are the documents i
2:21 am
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. it is the bureau chief for russia's channel one in london and he was doing a story about the seventy seventh brigade which is sort of the cyber warfare unit 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
2:22 am
public it in danger 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 rush. inspiron the process but there is an important caveat hair in terms of the law the military can take action against anyone acting suspiciously we didn't try
2:23 am
to penetrate the base b.b.c. correspondent did the exact same thing as us it was broadcast and no one thinks of punishing him there's nothing illegal and yet this story printed in the mail on sunday 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 with 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 as a russian citizen working for a russian news channel russian journalist once through
2:24 am
a story about one of our bases that's the story did again no t.v. show his credentials yes were his credentials for we know were there 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 this cripples 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 further 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. like a stone says donald trump has asked the country for help in peace talks. the taliban in a bid to end the ongoing seventeen year war in neighboring afghanistan it comes
2:25 am
just two weeks after trumping gate in a twitter spat with pakistan's leader in which he threatened to cut all foreign aid to islamabad i don't quarter now looks more closely at the us pakistan relationship . if you only listen to what president 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 damned 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 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
2:26 am
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 is a three x.
2:27 am
then normal august and i know all this. much. because intel going by its own but. isn't. so when do you. start boston how is the sequence but. with. playing good u.s. bad u.s. hasn't done much for peace in afghanistan where the taliban washington's 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. that is the program for this hour here on oxy international there are plenty more of your world wide headlines for you at the top
2:28 am
of the hour hope you can join us that. is finding this out the need. to. get our eyes out the powder but i again gaghan down which island. yes this time i did you. know i'm going to tell is going to go to the bridge. but then when i got older it was the other side the most almost the whole cd i mean look if you get the ok you know has a funny but it was you know i love it when you. get out. and write down the bank call for the work on the bayswater of chemical lights and as our business is going through that he would get out and you teach them and their
2:29 am
international market know that these industries out of polluting your dissenting ignore the money that most of them love even those and the mother of them like means we lost even this. greetings and sally. welcome back from the weekend hawk watchers and there were certainly lots of in last weeks and that is definitely definitely without. the biggest here in the west of course is obviously the end of the president the united
2:30 am
states george herbert walker bush which of all sure you're all aware of by now given the almost constant reverence and historical legacy white washing that's been pretty much on display around the clock since the former director of the central intelligence agency passed away on friday nov thirtieth clearly clearly all of the political pundits talking heads and political leaders here in the washington they yearn for those better days when our president wasn't just controlled by the intelligence and military communities but was literally a former member but the end of forty one the political dynasties of yesteryear wasn't the only ends we saw this weekend in politics as we we also witnessed this year's g twenty summit come to a close on saturday december the first going in this year's g twenty was a doozy on the international intrigue front with many questions awaiting to be answered like with the trade war between the united states and china as later cooled down after u.s. president donald trump got into.

25 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on