the. deal with the bullshit political. of you out of a few of the. subscribe to read people also get a rookie coach just twelve euros fifty per month. in the light of these facts the united states today declares it is very much in material breach of the treaty. obligations as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to. compliance and ultimatum to russia the us presence today called the cold war era nuclear treaty

giving moscow two months to rectify what it calls multiple violations. the prime minister is feeling the heat stalled five days of debates in the house of commons to secure the backing all of them peaceful good deal crucial vote next week . and after nationwide protests on the most violent riots in paris in half a century the french government by suspending a controversial hike in the cost of fuel for six months. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. the u.s. secretary of state has issued an ultimatum to russia over its alleged violation of

the i.m.f. a key nuclear missile treaty has set moscow a two month deadline to comply. in the light of these facts the united states today declares it has been russia in material breach of the treaty and will suspend our obligations as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to full and verifiable compliance well it's a two month ultimatum now in the aftermath of this announcement we have heard from the chief of nato he is saying that russia should not miss this opportunity to preserve a historic treaty and arms act of a tween the united states and russia he's saying do everything possible to keep it intact these are his words so russia not only possible last chaunce to come back into compliance with the on that cheating but we must also have to prepare for the world without the treaty now the united states is pulling out of this historic treaty they accuse russia of having violated however russia says they

haven't violated the treaty they've been in compliance with the document all along let's review the arms race is getting out of control. we did not snip this time difference as you know it was not we pulled out of the antiballistic missile treaty russia has developed and developing the stabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations with the good to be sure we respond to the threats that confronted us we're moving forward to modernize our nuclear arsenal and ensure their capability to remain on match we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have. before american time is next. we will give an immediate and reciprocal response. now the i.m.f. that's intermediate nuclear forces treaty was key and decisive in ending the cold

war it's an agreement that bans both short range and intermediate range nuclear weapons now it's been pointed out. out that a short range or intermediate range nuclear weapon could not reach russia from the united states or the united states from russia they're both not within range however the european union countries feel that the possible terminations of this treaty puts them in point on pump of a position let's review with some of what the e.u. countries have said regret the withdrawal announced by the us we see this treaty as very important ohm's control instrument and something that also serves european interests and therefore also german interest. the announcement by the us that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.n.f. agreement has been an important pillar of our european security architecture for thirty years for us in europe it's of great importance we call on the u.s. to consider the possible consequences if u.s.

and russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. to ensure its cool and verifiable implementation which of course is crucial for europe's and global security now at this point people are reflecting on the fact that just previously roughly twenty four hours before this announcement from the secretary of state we heard donald trump where we saw him on twitter saying that he did not want a new arms race and be moaning that a large amount of military spending that the united states has been engaging in however it seems that with this recent announcement and the threat to withdraw from this vitally important treaty that the trumpet ministration overall and the white house are giving mixed messages. at the same time washington is looking to tensions with beijing president took to twitter on tuesday to say that america has begun negotiating a new trade deal with china. one talks to be

a success and comes two days after the latest message. where they attempt to put that. the country's ongoing trade war on the first day of those talks with the chinese president trying to attend. beijing had agreed to reduce and remove tariffs on cars imported into china from the u.s. made it sound as if a deal had already been reached well we're going to bring in jeffrey tucker vice president editorial director of the american institute for economic research jeffrey thanks for coming on to the program judging by what both american and chinese officials have said since. the. seams no deal has been reached yet let's just before we go into this have a quick listen. back there are exercises. all the way back. but that's an assumption i can't say with specificity but that's got to be part of

the deal. to sides proposed a series of constructive currents and how to resolve the existing differences and problems the teams of the two sides will set up consultation and work hard to reach a concrete agreement of mutual benefit. so how do you interpret trying tweet geoffrey. well trump clearly blinked in his negotiations with china and that's for a reason this because everything he promised would happen with this trade war stuff has not happened it's actually seriously harmed american exporters were seen american car plants actually shut down that sent a lot of panic and shock waves through the white house especially concerning the u.s. auto industry so. i think this is a kind of a propaganda move basically on the u.s. president to claim that he was somehow pulling a victory here but i don't think it's i don't think it's true i mean i like to think that he's he's pulling back on the trade war but it doesn't seem true you

know he sent a tweet just about four hours ago from when i'm speaking to you right now in which he called himself the hair of lamb and that's a little off again tiger right now. well that's right it's a tariff rant of trending well over twitter and if you want to see some funny cartoon and just check it out. and he seems to be under the impression that foreign nations pay us tariffs which obviously is incredibly untrue and he seems to think that tariffs are a cause of economic growth which every economist knows to be untrue so you know he's it's baffling this guy you know he's got this funny ideology that's almost medieval and murky and that's mercantilism there's really nothing to do with the modern world so my fear is that what's really happening here is he wanted to calm down the financial markets that were that were very much punishing these trade wars

that's harming so many people going into the holiday season he wanted to see some optimism so he pulled back on who was aggressive stance which china and sure enough the markets group but being a man with a sizable ego he decided to make it clear that he still. very much believes in protectionism and as tweed today calling themselves the terror. shows that my worry is that ninety days from now we're going to be back at it again and the terror of war with china is going to pick up all over again you know i mean this i definitely with that tweet so possibly we're reading a bit too much into it but how likely do you think it is it that washington in beijing when i have to manage to strike a comprehensive trade deal. i don't think it's likely i mean from my read of the situation is that washington has been

hawkish and beijing it's been dubbed ish and i think beijing might be willing to dramatically lower tariffs for u.s. car imports but i don't think it's going to make a bit of sub stand to difference in the amount of american cars that chinese people are going to buy from washington ninety eight percent of ford's cars that are being driven by chinese today are are built in china that's the way the world is working in the same sense that german cars are made in america most american cars that are marketed to china are built in china so i don't think it's going to make any difference even if the tariff once when it goes to zero so i can make a difference is maybe from trump's point of view there's going to be a political propaganda victory here but. substantively it's not going to it's ok jeffrey tuck in a vice president of the american institute for economic thanks for sharing your

thoughts with us thanks. which. is the most important week of the british prime minister's tenure and it's fair to say her battle for briggs it has not got off to the best of starts starts after tres amaze government was found in contempt of parliament for the first time in its history the pm says parliament's failure to back her deal can see the exit door slam shut in the country's face. if you reject what the other side have described as the only deal on offer whatever you say to the contrary you put this country on course for no deal the e.u. twenty seven member states have made it clear that this is the best deal available and that there is neither the time nor the inclination to reopen negotiations and ensure we leave in good order on the twenty ninth of march next year the choice the choice before parliament is clear this deal no deal or the risk of.

the edwards dust in our london studio sharia what a day it's been for to raise a may and what can we expect ahead. well it has been an absolutely turbulent time in parliament and today the house has spoken in the most unprecedented of fashions and that's as the government has been found in contempt of parliament now that comes following the common supporting a motion demanding full disclosure of the legal texts on frex it now in theory the government should be now obliged to produce that legal text on bret's that by the government today responded saying that it will tell the public and parliament to like exactly what it intends to do in due course though many say it would be absolutely unimaginable if m.p.'s did not get a copy of that tax ahead of the meaningful vote in parliament next week on tuesday december the eleventh now all of that drama has completely overshadowed the fact

that today was supposed to be the ground old opening of the five days of the brics that debates but when the prime minister theresa may finally managed to speak she was shut down by an avalanche of m.p.'s criticism. the prime minister was seen in these negotiations only as an exercise in the internal management of the conservative party and that did not work very well at all on minister spent much of the two and a half years. colleagues on the conservative party rather than negotiating with. the prime minister's deal seriously undermines environmental protection in this country she is afraid that. it would sink. well it has entirely divided the nation for the last two years and it all boils down to that next week in parliament on december the eleventh and in the last two years we've seen nenni many difficult stages for the prime minister we've seen

resignations from her top team we've had deadlines come and go we've had calls for breakfast to even be reversed and ideas and notions that a second referendum could be on the cards and even the e.u. has put options in place saying that britain could actually remain within the e.u. but today it's really been pandemonium in parliament and it's going to be a very difficult five day battle for the prime minister because now it's make or break for her government and certainly is turbulent times ahead shadier edwards dashti thank you very much for the update. on the french government will suspend a controversial increase in the cost of fuel in the wake of nationwide protests turned comes off to paris witness three weeks of the worst riots in hof a century. well it seems that opinion polls show that most people are favorable to those concessions given by the government and announced by the french prime minister today but as. many of them have said this is not enough and they will push

for that tax reductions and it looks like the protests that was planned for this saturday will still go ahead so what did the prime minister seem total well first of all he announced a moratorium on fuel tax hike that was due to take place in a month's time in january and said that that will be suspended for six months he also announced that there would be no increases to utility bills so that's gas and electricity in the hope that will help many working class british people who say that they just struggling to live with the high costs of living here wrong let's take a listen now to what else it would be to say both has been this fiscal measure for six months and introduce it into has been discussed with. no taxes worth putting the nation's unity in danger well these protests have been going on for france for the last few weeks or into the week now and over the last two weekends there has

been a lot of violence moring those protests particularly in the saturday just go on hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets and people on saturday burning cars and buildings smashing in new ching shorts and coups ng millions of euros of damage different economy into the city of paris let's have a flavor now and see what's happened over the last few weeks.

the french prime minister also said today you'd have to be day north to hear the wrath of the french people and he says the government has been listening to them although many of the protesters feel that this is probably too little too late and they feel that this concessions that we know that she did come in this protest movement as i mentioned for the moment they say that the protest on saturday will still go ahead and it looks like this movement hasn't yet got the concessions from the government that it will. the so-called yellow vest or riots have incurred large financial losses in some areas shot profits for instance are down fifty

percent protestors road blockades have cost transport companies nationwide an estimated four hundred million euro and four million euro worth of damage was done to paris on saturday alone as demonstrators run riots smashing property across the capital. therion the fuel price hike has sentimental i called approval ratings to their lowest ever less than one in four now approve of the french president sharply down in just a month because the regional council of france's national valley party says my calls for sponsors horrified protesters. was actually out with the usual asian with yellow vests listening to the announcement made by the prime minister and they were appalled when they heard it they say what did it think we are throwing some peanuts and arse and thinking this is going to commerce basically what the prime minister announced was the fact that they were only he was only going to temporarily halt their prized prices in fuel and this is not but they've asked hoarding they know

very well when it said it was a temporary measure that he said after six months of decide what to do that for six months they will probably implement it six months from now we have the european elections so it would actually mean that straight after the european elections micro-grid actually make the decision whether or not to reinstill these taxes yes or no just is just not enough and not a strong enough commitment made to the huge outcry from the french people is first of all got to do with this with the terrible arrogance of my car what he didn't realise is actually what the yellow vests stood up for in france were very legitimate cases and that more than eighty percent listen to this more than eighty percent of the french people actually support what the yellow vests are claiming today the second problem is his great ignorance mccaw is totally not aware what is going on in real trusts outside the big cities he and his government

have no elected people don't know anybody and don't know what's going on the french people are dead desperate their purchasing power has plummeted they're being over text everywhere there is harmon unemployment and things are getting cheaper they're spending power is going down. and taxes are going. yellow vests protesters are already being charged in court with one man in the city of non-si determined to appeal his guilty sentence during a protest he had streamed his exchange with police live on social media and says it clearly shows he did not commit the crimes he's accused of here's his story. you. know. what. it's. saying i should be detained they ordered me to turn around so i did i didn't think they would beat me and i thought they would just push me against the wall now you can see the placement here he's beating me i was hit twice

in my ribs why i explained i was just filming nothing else and was there for just about fifteen minutes from placement it is nice that my back the other one held my legs down and the third put my head to the ground with his knee. they didn't. they gave me a lawyer parachute to me was like i was already a criminal. i tried to explain everything but they prefer to trust their colleagues and norse or regular citizens like me. is accused of throwing rocks at police and remaining in the crowd despite two orders to leave his argument that he couldn't have thrown the stones as he was busy filming was dismissed as the court ruled the first video contains. date.

it seems a classic christmas change baby it's cold outside is finding itself left out in the cold when it comes to a festive pliable song us right there stations it follows a backlash from the lyrics and attempting to persuade a woman to spend their life with it critics say it flies in the face of the new went head looks well saying no no no i didn't write very clearly i'm going to say that i want to have some supper rating they don't all. the track was first recorded for the nine hundred forty nine hollywood film neptune's daughter and quickly became a hit winning an oscar the following year scores of artists have covered it since we had to the activists say the lyrics normalizer manipulative and coercive behavior however others point out of those rules are applied when the other songs would 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 offensive as well i saw mommy q. since santa claus subjecting minors to soft core porn white christmas racist santa baby golddigger black male. my colleague daniel hawkins put the issue of the debate whether classic culture is incompatible with modern values 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 try to get it out i mean we're painting a message that made 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 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 her sexuality and it's really a flirting again and i am here today and i understand our diets 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. understand because it's way if women are truly angry about this and then there must be something to it but at the same time you know i want to see a woman who can who can stand strong who can look at the sun and say you know 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 where i want to see women going you know what we recognize the cultural differences are back then in those in

that time that that kind of sucks for back then but think of where we are now and we're going to have a voice. the balsa of the microsoft says his company will supply the u.s. army with all the technology it needs the decision was taken even though some of the tech giants employees have expressed concern. 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 and honorable a 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 dollars u.s.

on the contrary to provide or granted reality systems it's also bidding for a controversial pentagon to a cold and jet die the joint enterprise defense infrastructure klatt is expected to cost ten billion dollars it was part of the u.s. defense department fs to upgrade its i.t. systems but microsoft as are the only one competing for the lucrative contract amazon also hasn't signed songane jet ideal or was in the running but dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles technology analyst roger case leaves a lucrative contract for microsoft ad way the concerns of its employees. it is interesting that silicon valley which is one of the younger culture or sort of old line terror on the jurors is sort of studiousness it out at the old sayings and certainly some of what mrs say is directed at existing employees i think the message for them is pretty much we're going to be in

this business important part of our portfolio and we intend to you bond with 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 nocere and technology go hand in hand with all the technology the ever since the dawn of time as part of what military activity is all downstream technological edge and your adversaries know. it's not at all surprising to find the technology industry engage with the military generals and countries as well. news this hour i'll be back in around thirty minutes time but you can check us out on our web site that's all t. dot com next up is a documentary in the execution is shutting. join

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