my groups with federal authorities. have a. glass of. water they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. to be. able to. do with the political political goals of you out those of you with all the. power for a massive wave of nationwide protests and the most violent riots in paris and half a century to french government by suspending a controversial hike in the cost of fuel for six months. to come president from complains about an uncontrollable arms race between the u.s. china and russia branding pentagon spending crazy it comes just

a few months after he hiked washington's military budget precisely to counter and beijing. and u.s. radio stations abandoning the christmas classic baby it's cold outside after a backlash from activists all guests should. think there's a lot of outrage i think women are really really angry what's behind it is you know women want relief from wonder what change there are a lot of important issues right now and when we we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean what we're paying the message that me too has just become unhinged. so i welcome you watching our national four pm here in the russian capital. the french government has said it will suspend the controversial increase in the cost to. if you will in the wake of nationwide protest the utan comes days after paris

witnessed the worst riots in half a century so let's get more details now from charlotte bin species in paris force covering today's developments charlotte do you think this latest move by the french government will satisfy protesters and perhaps stave off further demonstrations. it's really hard to say that the yellow vests movement is a movement without leaders while they have elected some spokespeople so far they yet to comment on those in a sense by the prime minister but we do know that before that announcement took place they had already said that they would be looking to push for more reductions in taxes rather than just fuel as you mentioned there the prime of the said would fully sedate that they would be a moratorium on hikes on a fuel tanks that was due to be implemented in january of two thousand and nineteen so in a month's time and not suspension will take place for six months now he also went

on to announce some of the freezes in tax hikes including increases on utility bills that the cost of electricity and gas bills for people across the country let's take a listen to what else the french prime minister had to say. this is over. for six months and introduce it until it's been discussed with sides no taxes worth putting the nation's unity in danger. well the french prime minister had also said during that press conference that you'd have to be deaf north to hear the wrath of the french people and not something that the government has been accused of as these protests have been engulfed in france over the last two weeks now going into the third week they've been violent particularly here in paris but there has been violence in some of the margins of protests will be taking place across the country and hundreds of thousands of people. in taking part let's take

a look now at some of the protests over the last two and a bit weeks. well

those protests may have started the hikes in few of increased by more than twenty percent for some fields over the last year but they've increased now to also talk about the high cost of living in france but those protests in the chaos that we've seen particularly street paris didn't get close to the economy in france let's take a look at some of the figures the impact of those protests fall well we understand that short profits in some areas as we go in the lead up to christmas one of the biggest shopping times of the year have decreased by up to fifty percent there's also been information from the impact on the blockades that we've seen of transport across the country with some transportation companies saying that they've lost up to four hundred million euros and then of course we've also heard that up to four million euros with damage was caused in paris. with. weekends as

a result of that chaos and there's an even bigger issue many companies are saying that they facing cancelations hotels except for with people deciding that they just won't come to paris to do their christmas shopping it seems that this movement is having a massive cost on the government and that's why the government is trying to make do with this damage control exercise today's announced by the prime minister will it be enough we're not sure and so far it looks like a fourth weekend of protest is still set to go ahead. ok thank you charlotte charlie devinsky there for in paris we're joined now by the political analysts. to talk more about this bruno you're very welcome thanks for staying on the line. the french government has announced these measures today hoping to a page the protesters do you think it's enough. and if you get too late. now it's you know it would have been weeks ago then of course i think.

not have happened as they did but now it's too late and most of the protesters and quite i mean big majority of the french. are now. you know. more especially de don't believe anymore in the government and the president so where do you see crumbs future we know that his sort of ratings have tumbled haven't they over the last month can they recover do you think . i don't think it's finished i mean he will never recover and you know according to the poll a q. has only ten per cent of. society which he's behind him now taking into account during the election. round of the election he had only eighty per cent of all voters and voters so where do you think all this will lead to bruno we

know that more demonstrations are planned for this weekend you expect more riots i mean how will this play out i do think that there will be no more riots and i as a government is playing tension between you know let's say peaceful manifestations and violent ones and it makes people think about who is the reason behind violence and you have different opinions but you have even people saying that violence. saved protesters and youth will test all the mother god so you sort of the olive branch provided by the french government today they were hoping that this will open the way to dialogue is that likely to happen or is it something difficult to happen given that there's no set leadership to these protests you know it's difficult to have and also because. look money is not organized it's quite one time use movement it was not organized

and it's dilute result of a very long policy which aimed at you know discreet discredited and. traditional. you know counterbalance like trade unions and polluted political divide geez you know we created we have in france and in all european union countries structures like the e.u. rabin's church confederation of. thank you on your end or do european parties and then more and more. moderate but do moderate do d. really can turbulence and dutch why we have now the movement which is not organized . big words but if i'm just funny bruno if these protesting continues are suspect they will welcome at crandon just make more concessions yes doug does what

he will be pushed to do and i think dived even with. you not leading it it's now they are thinking about. new election and even. you know a resigning from he's probably not sure but i don't think that it's impossible. that we'll have to leave it there but we appreciate your insights afternoon as political analyst thank you. you'll have. to use don't trump says he's confident that sometime in the future talks will be held with china and russia to hold what he called the uncontrollable arms race he also described u.s. military spending as crazy despite being the very person increased it just a few months ago precisely the kind to moscow and beijing kind of martin has been trying to make sense of trust me it's. 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 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 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 and 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. spent seven hundred sixteen billion dollars this year crazy yes why spend so much money on bombs and tanks well this is for a president who just signed a bill in august for a twenty nineteen military budget of seven hundred sixteen billion dollars that's

sixteen billion more than in twenty eighteen so why the increase is it to protect our citizens from terror well actually according to the pentagon it's about russia and china but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against 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 to hear that 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 it 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. 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 us trade policies to pay 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 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 last gallon beijing walking down the yellow brick road together he might want to try out a different strategy kaleb up an artsy new york but independent political analyst out of san bruno believes that trump's unpredicted approach predictable the price. sorry to foreign policy could backfire on the us drops diplomacy as sort of introduced in his book the art of the deal is this rock 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 the north korea seems to be

stalling so everything does me that military spending will continue as planned if not more trouble will be more for the united states than for the foreign partners because now trump has forces that go shearing 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. now as well as seeking talks with russia and china trump wants to talk peace with the taliban and the american president has asked pakistan for help with the ranging that it is a bit awkward though as trump did have a big spat on twitter with pakistan's leader a few weeks ago well have a look at this story more detail later on. now seems the classic christmas to baby it is cold outside is finding itself left out in the cold when it comes to festive play lists on u.s.

radio stations because it follows a backlash from some listeners over the lyrics about a man attempting to persuade a woman to spend the night with him critics say it flies in the face of the me too movement. looks well no no no. i'm going to say that i can i assume some person might already have it on of. the truck was first recorded for the nine hundred forty nine hollywood film that daughter quickly became a hit winning an oscar the following year scores of artists have covered it since meta activists say the lyrics though normalize manipulative and worse his behavior however others to point out of those rules are applied many other songs would have to be dropped. 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 fanciful as well i saw mummy case in santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist santa baby golddigger black male. we put the issue up for debate. 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 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 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 they're my. something to it but at the same time you know i want 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 that kind of sucks for back then but thank god we are where we are now and we're going to have a voice so had to take china microsoft admits it is all in when it comes to supplying the pentagon with technology. we want silicon valley to know just how

ethical and honorable a tradition the military. the president of the most national is pledging to hand over his latest know how to the u.s. military despite resistance from employees but have a look at this story because of the take just off the press. you know world of big partisan. conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that make the stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

nor make manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. not one person. nor middle of the room. welcome back to r.t. and i pakistan says donald trump is asking it to help in page talks with taliban militants in a bid to end the ongoing seventeen year war in neighboring afghanistan it does come

just two weeks after trump engaged in a twitter spat with pakistan's leader where he threatened to cut aid to the country with more his court. 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's safe havens for terrorist organizations because they don't do anything for us to do a damn thing for us but no longer paying one point three billion the fact is that what 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 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 would 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 baucus and i know all this. much.

because you can't post on but if. so when do you. buxom hell in sequence but. 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. the boss of microsoft says his company will supply the u.s. army with all the technology 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 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 augmenting reality systems it's also bidding for a controversial controversial pentagon deal called jed i will the john joint enterprise defense infrastructure cloud is expected to cost ten billion dollars it will be part of the u.s. defense department efforts to upgrade its i.t.

systems but microsoft is not the only one competing for the lucrative contract amazon or source said it wants a part of the jed ideal google was in the running but dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles or technology analyst roger cable leaves that lucrative contracts for microsoft to outweigh the concerns of its employees. it is interesting that in silicon valley which is somewhat of a younger culture or sort of old line tech. that there's this sort of studiousness sort out at the whole thing and certainly some of what smith is saying is directed at existing employees i think the message for 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 go hand in hand development technology the ever since the top time it's been part of what military activity is all about it's gaining technological edge on your adversaries so. it's not at all surprising to find the technology industry engaged with the military here and in other countries as well as how the news they can say fossett i hear an outing don't forget you can also keep yourself updated take on our social media pages and it's a challenge. is finding this out anybody leave again. in our eyes how the tiger but i again gag and gather talent. because this stuff i can write a lot

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