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a controversial hike in the cost of fuel for six months. president trump warns there is an uncontrollable arms race between the u.s. china and russia it comes just a few months after he pushed the pentagon's budget precisely to counter moscow and beijing. so it can valley to know just how ethical and honorable a tradition the military. head of microsoft promises to hand over the company's company's cutting edge technologies to the pentagon despite resistance from some of his employees at. u.s. radio stations that banning the christmas classic baby it's cold outside after a backlash from me to activists guests to buy the issue. think there's a lot of outrage i think women are really really angry what's behind it is you know women want relief for one. like change there are

a lot of important issues right now only we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean what we're paying a message that means he has just become unhinged. hello there she is gone three pm this tuesday afternoon here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the french prime minister says that he will suspend the controversial increase in the cost of fuel for half a year in the wake of nationwide protests utan comes just days after the government insisted the hike was necessary to fund public services and reduce pollution and after the most violent riots in paris in half a century over three weeks the so-called yellow vests to vent their anger over the planned hike the protests have become more general too with paramedics in paris and high school students nationwide also joining in to air their grievances.

we will always be here even if it means losing our company or losing everything could be here until the end. oh oh she could call it this law will kill the small ambulance companies and big corporations will take over 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. oh. yeah look loser quit their warehouse company secretaries would come to support ambulance workers because if this all continue this will lose all jobs to.

there is less work for us every single day hospitals do it even have the right to coalesce and give us work the prime minister the governments will do nothing for us nothing there leaving us in the galley without work the ambulance workers will lose their jobs patients will lose out. well what began as a local protest against high fuel prices has turned into a nationwide uprising against a manuma presidency the turmoil led him to cancel his visit to serbia so that he could hold emergency talks with his cabinet that he's currently considering whether to impose a state of emergency his political rivals meanwhile have rounded on him over the crisis. we told the prime minister ten hours medically the cancellation of feel tax increases that our way of those already ply but also those to come in january in june and so on until the end of a man all micron's five year term there must be

a ban on taxes before any talks seriously way of making the discussion credible. 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 shy jeweled for generally the first the so-called yellow vest riots of large financial losses in some areas shop profits for instance are down fifty percent protests isro blockades have cost transport companies to nationwide an estimated four hundred million euros and four million euros worth of damage was done to paris on saturday alone as demonstrators ran riot smashing property across the capital the media and politicians have compared the violent unrest on saturday with historic revolutions that occurred in france they do see similarities with the class warfare of the seven hundred eighty nine revolution there's

a reminded of the student uprising in may of one nine hundred sixty eight which led to the resignation of the then president charles de gaulle. and the best protesters are apparently getting support from the riot police and control and a video has emerged here from a protest in the southwestern french town of showing officers in riot gear removing their helmets demonstrators cheer their action and sang the national anthem some say though it was a sign of solidarity with the protest of this kind it was an attempt to pacify the crowd after a violent clash it's. never nice today president donald trump says he is confident that some time 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 is crazy though he himself increased it just a few months back precisely to counter moscow and beijing. reports pouring

money down the pentagon always 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 and 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 till 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 jiang died together with president putin of russia will start talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major 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 it 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 us 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's 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 china sea is not exactly a friendly move but u.s.

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 us military relations so no need to prove poor song apiece but as the donald looks brightly into the future and imagines washington last gallon 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 alexandru bruno told us that trump's unpredictable approach to foreign policy isn't helping anybody. prompts the plumber see as sort of introduced in his book the art of the deal is this rope 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 so far i haven't seen any evidence of it and

even. look at the year 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 foreign partners because now. is the. advantage because people will be able to read him much more clearly. never take him at face value always understand that he's playing some kind of game. well as well as seeking talks with russia and china trump also wants to talk peace with the taliban and he's just asked pakistan for help with the arranging that it all could then that he did have a big twitter spat with pakistan's leader just two weeks ago but have a look at this story a bit later on. let's go back to our top story then because the french government will suspend the controversial increase in the cost of fuel in the wake of

nationwide protests newton comes days after paris witnessed the worst riots in half a century so let's get more details now from child been ski he's actually at a student protest. paris as we speak good afternoon to charlotte do you think this latest announcement by the french government is likely to satisfy protests and the perhaps stave off further demonstrations. yet to be seen as they were still waiting for a reaction from. that announcement by the french prime minister go through what edward felipe has announced today he's in a suspension or moratorium on a fuel tax hike that was due to take place in january so that's just in a month's time that will now be suspended for six months he also went on to say that utility bills will also be frozen and that means that they'll be no increases in these such as gas and electricity all of this in an attempt to appease the movement of people just saying that the price of living the cost of living here in

france is too high and that they just couldn't take anymore let's take a listen to what else the french prime minister had to say. more i will suspend this measure for a generation of six months and look reintroduced to that is being discussed with all sides justifies putting the nation's unity in danger. well the french prime minister also went on to say that you'd have to be deaf not to hear the wrath of the french and that's because france has been rocked by three weeks of protests this is the third week of protests particularly with violence marring this protest in paris over the last three weekends let's take a flavor now of some of that chaotic scenes that we have witnessed in paris over the. oh

oh oh oh oh oh oh . well hundreds of thousands of people have been taking part in protests of course from old and though there was that extreme violence that we steamed paris there's

also been violence moring some of the other protests in the french cities for the moment those protests seem to be continuing a blockade olva few in the south of france name all say continues today and students are out in protest trying to take over the university buildings again and the protest that was planned for saturday by this in asia alone here in paris and other places of course france looks set to be going ahead we're still waiting for reaction from that movement. today the french prime minister. ok thank you. force him parish. boss says he will make all of the company's latest technology available to the u.s. army the decision comes despite concerns among the tech giants employees. 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 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 were 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 microsoft won a four hundred eighty million dollars u.s. army contract to provide or good men to reality systems and it's also bidding for a controversial pentagon deal to court jet guy which i is a ten billion dollar project to please the military's i.t. systems with cloud computing a microsoft isn't the any tech giant that he's interested amazon to wants to get in on the action a google though dropped its tender saying that the contract would be inconsistent with its principles we spoke to roger k. a technology analyst and he says the likes of microsoft are more interested in

lucrative deals than their employees concerns it is interesting that silicon valley which is one of the younger culture or sort of all line tech on the doses are so studiousness it out at the cold things and certainly some of what misses a is directed at existing employees don't think that the message for them is pretty much we're going to be an 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 the technology the recent top tyrant has been part of what knowledge mary actually is all about it's game. no logical edge on your adversaries no. it's not all surprising to find the technology industry

engaged with the military here and in other countries as well you're watching us international we're back with morning since it. seemed wrong but we're all just all. the all to get to shape out just to. active. and engaged with. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. in the. all the while player in egypt history they're setting prices and there's no more market saying the prize market failure and you what happened to sell you

a ironically the soviet union now russia is moving toward where america was the one nine hundred fifty s. with more like a car eisenhower you've got the current administration moving towards soviet union where. you know russia. welcome back you with r.t. and i radiate stations across the us have been dropping the christmas classic baby it's cold outside from playlist following a backlash from listeners critics are complaining that the song in which a man does attempt to persuade a woman to spend the night with him is not in keeping with modern values and flies in the face of the meeting movement. their hair looks well known known line

very clearly going to say that i. really don't. know what the truck was first recorded for the nine hundred forty nine hollywood film that changed daughter and quickly became a hit to winning an oscar for best original song the following year since then it's been covered by tens of artists but me too activist to say now that the lyrics normalize manipulative and coercive behavior others claimed that critics misunderstand the song and argue that to be consistent lots of others would also have to be dropped from 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 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 q. since santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist sent a baby golddigger blackmail. but we discuss this topic with the legal analysts jennifer breeden and also former candidate for the new york city council marnie. 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 a 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 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 this 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 that i want to see women going you know what we recognize the cultural differences are back that in those in that time that that kind of sucks for back then but then we are we are now and we're going to have a voice. pakistan says that donald trump is asked the country for help in peace talks with the taliban militants in a bid to end the only getting seventeen year war in neighboring afghanistan it

comes though just two weeks after trumping the twitter spat pakistan's leader in which he threatened to cut foreign aid to islam a bad with the story his normal court 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 don't even know anything about it for taking the law they'll do anything for us to do good damned thing for us but no longer paying one point three billion the fact is that we're paying them not 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 trumper he 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 all. reddy 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 us 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 on i know all this. much. because you can't invoke a song but if. so when do you. box them how is the sequence but. i have. to live. with. 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 us a stance on pakistan is no exception. most of the course reporting to you watching us internationally thanks

to the company is often a mile from us in just over half of. what holds his hands to you so. i put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or something i want to be honest i. have to do i have to be cross that's what i'm up for three of them or can't be good but. i'm interested always in the waters of our last. question. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would

prefer and it be no in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no really hasn't been that we're even many of the dems families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

plan my studies or this is the kaiser report to show you simply can't look away. how do you of course not look the way for the past few years you would have known this long before bloomberg wrote this headline from jonathan tepper competition is dying and taking capitalism with it we need a revolution to cast off monopolies and restore entrepreneurial freedom first of two excerpts from the myth of capitalism so this guy jonathan tapper starts with that story of remember that guy who got dragged off that united airlines flight and it was a huge scandal in the news and tabloid press and everybody thinks like me the new yorker did a cover story on it and they showed the guy being dragged up in his face it looks exactly like me look it up on search the story on the new yorker magazine you'll see my face but in the olden days that would have caused the shares of the company to fall. in fact research analysts dismissed the incident saying quote

consumers might not have much choice but to fly united airlines due to airline consolidation which has reduced competition over most routes on my new sites healthfully explained what had happened with headlines like quote airlines can treat you like garbage because they are an old galbally once investors started focusing on unite as dominant market position the stock price in fact went up so that's true i mean you have concentration in the corporate. like robber baron like concentration that we haven't seen in over a hundred years in america and it was brought about as we've been saying on the show for a while but the ease of money from the fed that allows you to buy up your competition for no money when jeff bezos bought a whole foods it was a multi-billion dollar acquisition his stock price went up because his cost of funding was zero so as a creative everything that whole foods is making went right to the bottom line there was no cost whatsoever associated with that so there is no cost for mergers and acquisitions and a zero interest rate.