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school students nationwide old joining the wave of protests in the country. a tradition the military. technology used to the. baby it's cold outside. i think it's a lot of. really really. good 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.

top stories for this tuesday live on r.t. international from all of us here welcome to your new. u.s. president donald trump says that he's confident that at some point in the future talks will be held with china and russia to hold what he describes as an uncontrollable arms race he's also branded u.s. military spending 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 will be so strong we'll never have to use it but 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. sometime in the future president g indicts together with president putin of russia will still talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major 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 not terrorism is now the 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 to here to the agreement they should have been done years ago so people come to this that 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 all be barred every. head by the. a 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 time 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 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 if u.s. policies helped 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 moscow and beijing walking down the yellow brick road together he might

want to try out a different strategy cable pop and art see new york independent political analyst alessandro bruno told us trump's unpredictable approach to foreign policy isn't helping anyone from 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 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 nuclear peace with north korea seems to be stalling these days 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 will be able to read him much more clearly. never take him at face value always anderson he's playing some kind of game. as well as seeking talks with russia and china trump wants to talk peace with the taliban and he's just asked pakistan for help with the arranging about it all and that he had a big twitter spat with pakistan's leader just two weeks ago the stories coming up just a bit later in this hour. though and continues to spread across france with the paramedics in paris now high school students nationwide all of them joining in the waves of protests across the country in the french capital the bridge leading to the national assembly was blocked off by demonstrators while across france some one hundred schools staged protests and follows a weekend that witnessed the most violent riots in paris in a half a century.

we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything to be here until the end. of the oh. so you could call it this little. ambulance companies and big corporations will take over 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. lose when house company secretaries come to support ambulance workers because if this all continuous will lose all jobs to.

there is a school express every single day hospitals would have the right to coalesce and give this way the prime minister and the governments will do nothing for us nothing they're leaving us. in the galley without wake the ambulance workers will lose their jobs patients will lose out. what the gun local protests against high fuel prices has turned into a nation wide uprising against emanuel of this presidency. back wrong to work canceled his visit to serbia so he could hold emergency talks with his cabinet is currently considering whether to impose a state of emergency as political rivals have rounded on him over this crisis. we're told the prime minister announced 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 manno micron's five year term only if there must be a ban on taxes before any talks seriously way of making the discussion credible

don't need to 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 the still shed you would for generally the first the so-called yellow vest riots large financial losses in some areas shop profits for instance are down fifty percent protesters road blockades of course transport companies nationwide an estimated four hundred million euros and four million euros worth of damage was done to paris just on saturday 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 have occurred in france they see similarities with the class warfare of the night with the seven hundred eighty nine revolution others are reminded of the student uprising in may nine hundred sixty

eight which led to the venue resignation of the former president shall the goal. and the yellow vests protesters are apparently getting support even from the riot police sent to control the video has emerged from a protest in the southwestern french town of polls showing officers in riot gear removing their helmets demonstrators cheered their action and sang the national anthem some say it was a sign of solidarity with the protest but others claim it was an attempt to pacify the crowd after violent clashes. microsoft's boss has announced his company will supply the u.s. army with all the latest technologies that it needs at 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 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 a microsoft won a four hundred eighty million dollars u.s. army called trying to provide digital simulation or augmenting reality systems they're also bidding for a controversial pentagon deal called jet i. joined the 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 id systems but microsoft is not the only one competing for this lucrative contract. amazon is vying with microsoft for the jet i feel google had also been in the running though it dropped out saying the contract would be quote inconsistent with its principles but we spoke to our roger

kay a technology analyst who says that for microsoft a lucrative contracts military or not are a greater priority than his employer's concerns it is interesting that in silicon valley which is one of the younger culture and sort of all lyme tech on it there's this sort of aren't studiousness sort out at the cold things and certainly some of what smith was saying is directed at existing employees i think that the message to them is pretty much we're going to be in this business it's an important part of our portfolio and we intend to keep on 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 don't hand in hand development technology ever since the dawn of time it's been part of what military activity is all about it's gaining technological edge and your adversaries know

aren't you it's not at all surprising to find the technology industry engaged with the military here and you know if you do well. radio stations across the united states have been dropping the christmas classic and baby it's cold outside from play lists following a backlash from some listeners a critics are complaining that a song in which a man attempts to persuade a woman to spend the night with him is not in keeping with modern valuers and fries in the face of the me too movement. the head looks well no no no i didn't write more very clearly i'm going to say that i tried our sense of humor he might. say i don't know. the truck was first recorded for the one nine hundred forty nine a hollywood film neptune's daughter and it quickly became a hit in fact even winning an oscar for best original song the following year since then it has been covered by many artists but me too activist say the lyrics

normalize 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 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 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 rab music that talks about sex drugs shooting people and cetera these other holiday songs must also be removed as are offensive as well i saw mommy q since son took laws subject to minors the soft core porn white christmas racist send to baby golddigger blackmail. we discussed this topic with legal analyst jennifer braden and former candidate for

a new york city council money. 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 meter 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 takes money 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 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 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 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 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 still in the program a russian journalist branded a spy after filming near a british military base. just as. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go on to be pros this is what

before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the water. we have all the one player in each industry and they're setting prices and there's no more market setting the price market failure what happened to sell you 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 now you've got the current administration moving towards soviet union with behaving more like you know russia.

welcome to choose their stories who are nazi the british army has issued a top level security alert over a russian t.v. journalist who was accused of spying by the u.k. military and media off he was said to have been acting suspiciously outside an army facility and this is how the journalist 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 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 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 we being branded spice where the journalist expressed disappointment about his credentials and personal data being linked to the media. the defense ministry sent out a warning which contains my photograph id number 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. 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 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. 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 we didn't try to penetrate the base or 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 prince said in the mail on sunday you 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 article 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 russian journalist monster a story about one of our bases that's the story did it again no give you sure his credentials yes were his credentials for we know were there your research 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. pakistan says donald trump azhar the country for help in peace talks with. taliban militants in a bid to end the ongoing seventeen year war in neighboring afghanistan it comes just two weeks after trying to engage in a twitter spot with pakistan's leader in which he threatened to cut all foreign aid to islamabad and on quarter takes a closer look 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'll 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 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 because this isn't a three x. then normal august on the i'm not so. much. because you can't invoke a song but. isn't. so when do you. boston how is the sequence but. with. playing good us bad us 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. many more of your news headlines are coming your way at the top of the hour hope to see you that. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would

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