i know. i'm here and i'm very good but i. meant to. write. about. how. i'm going. to light up these facts the united states today declares it is then russia in mature breach of the treaty and will suspend the applications as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to full and survival

compliance with the united states to see issues that ultimatum to russia saying moscow has one last chance to show its complying with a key cold war era nuclear treaty before the tea and instead just. all say this out of the case prime minister is feeling the heat as she kickstarts five days of practice it to base in the house of commons looks to secure the backing of m.p.'s for his deal at a crucial votes next week. to nationwide protests in the most violent riots in paris in half a century the french government shields suspending a controversial fuel tax hike for six months. live from moscow you're watching international welcome to the program. the u.s.

secretary of state has given moscow an ultimatum everest's alleged violations of a key nuclear missile treaty my pump has said russia has sixty days to show its complying with i n f before washington pulls out 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 arms hacked up between the united states and russia he's saying do everything possible to keep it intact these are his words so russia non-hospital last chance to come back into compliance with the on their cheating but we must also have to prepare for the world without the treaty. 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 the fence 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 because 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 that would usually be good for 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 that a 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 that will position let's review with some of what the e.u. countries have set regret that withdrawal announced by the u.s. we see this treaty as a very important ohm's control instrument and something that also serves european interests and therefore also german interests to this the announcement by the u.s. that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. a quote is regrettable the i.m.f. agreement has been important pillar of our european security architecture for thirty years for us in europe it's of great importance we call on. us to consider

the possible consequences the u.s. and russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. sure it's 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. to discuss this further we're now joined by

former u.s. diplomats jim jim welcome to the program here naughty now how do you see this situation playing out will will the u.s. withdrawal from the tree thing or other two sides this is deadlock. i think it's quite likely the u.s. will pull out of this treaty i think the the end of the story that has to finish that on the one hand yesterday we have donald trump saying we've done it we don't want to do arms race we're spending too much and then today we have secretary pompei you saying this now look at the best possible spin i could give it would be maybe this is supposed to be a replay of north korea we have all the bluster and threats and little rocket man and all that and then it leads to an agreement if that's their intention there's no real need to go about it this way i'm sure if we stayed in the agreement and we said to the russians look we want to bring the chinese into this is well we have some concerns about this weapon this nine am seven twenty nine which is the bone of contention here which we've never brought to the consultation of mechanism with the

russians under the treaty there are other ways to handle this other than pulling out of the treaty or threatening to do so we just mention china but to what extent is this actually about washington one thing to count to china which isn't signatory to the treaty and a most gays alleged violations then just a convenient pretext for the withdrawal. no i don't just i don't think china has anything to do with the withdrawal from the treaty and there are some concerns that we have and maybe the russians have about chinese capabilities and they would be reasonable to include them into a treaty like this in fact those that should be the stable tripod those three countries of an orderly world that doesn't seem to be what washington's interested especially if you look at secretary pompei a statement where he says that the russian violation which they must admit retreat from or else that we're out of the treaty is part and parcel of everything else we're throwing at them from curt straight to the street balls to meddling our

election and so forth so this is just it seems to me just more open and shut case black and white you are bad and then we're going to do the following i don't see how that's constructive let's look at global stability what sorts of impact with the collapse of the i.n.f. treaty haven't been able stability would it pretty precipitate a major alms race perhaps. i don't know if it'll per person if it's a major arms race or but it could precipitate some kind of an arms race and this is where we get back to the issue of the europeans because if the united states does want to enter into or an arms race with the russians over this those weapons would have to be replaced in europe and this is where you really wonder at what point the europeans instinct for self-preservation takes over and they say wait a minute this doesn't do us any good this doesn't enhance our security this simply makes us a target for russian weapons which they don't need to it's

a way it's going to be a reach to a whole crisis over the persian deployment of the nineteen eighties we appreciate your thoughts thank you for coming on to him just trust us diplomats good to have you with us thank you thank you. and the same time washington is looking to ease tensions with beijing president trump took to twitter on tuesday to say that's america has begin negotiating a new trade deal with china thing that both he and cheating paying when the talks to be a success it comes two days off the leaders met and went on sarah's where they attempted to lay down the groundwork for a trade will cease fire on the first day of those talks with the chinese president tweeted that beijing how to agree to reduce and remove terrorists on cars imported into china from the u.s. that made it sound as if a deal had already been reached beijing however has not commented on the american presidents claims now david cheered i was joined by jeffrey tucker from the american institute for economic we said to discuss the two countries trade

prospects. judging by what both american and chinese officials have said since. seems no deal has been reached yet let's just before we go into this have a quick lesson. back there are exercises. i can say with specificity but that's got to be part of the deal. sides proposed a series of constructive plans and how to resolve the existing differences and problems the teams of the two sides will consultation and work hard to reach a concrete agreement of mutual benefit. so how do you interpret trying to tweet geoffrey. well trump clearly blinked in his negotiations with china and that's for a reason it's because everything he promised would happen with this trade war stuff has not happened it's actually to seriously harmed american exporters we've 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 itself 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 grew so 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. is the most important week of the british prime minister is tenuous and in fact to say have battle for baghdad has not got off to the best of starts that's off the trees amaze government was found in contempt of parliament for the first

time in its history the pm says parliament's failure to back a deal could see the exit door slammed shut in the country's faith. 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 no bricks it. well it has been an absolutely terrible time in parliament 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 breck said now in theory

the government should be now obliged to produce that legal text on bret's that the government responded saying that it will tell the public and parliament alike 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 in q state december the eleventh now all of that drama has completely overshadowed the fact that was supposed to be the ground old opening of the five days of the breck set to pay for 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 has seen these negotiations only as an exercise in the internal management of the conservative party and that did not work very want to talk prime minister spent much of the two and a half years to deal with her colleagues on the conservative party rather than negotiating with the european union the prime minister's deal seriously undermines

environmental protection in this country she is afraid that that ship would sink one thousand jobs. lost to the european banking authority once. lost from the medicines agency mr speaker that's the project here that's the reality and it's. years and years well it has entirely divided the nation for the last two years and it all boils down to that folk in parliament on december the eleventh and in the last two years we have seen many many difficult stages for the prime minister we've seen resignations from her top team we've had deadlines come in 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 the britain could actually remain within that but it's really been pandemonium in parliament and it's going to be a very difficult uphill five day battle for the prime minister because now it's

make or break for how government we have to remember that this government has been . done to the british people. for a very long time to get to the beginning why we had. for the tories to deal with very many speeds so this government. through all these years ago showed that they cannot deal with the situation but also that they don't really care about. these people you care about being. still to come off two weeks of violent protests the french government has caved into the two months and agreed to suspend fuel tax hikes more on that after the break.

we have all the one player and asian history in there setting prices and there's no more market selling the prize market failure and you have 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 her eisenhower and you've got the current administration moving towards soviet union behaving more like you know russia.

welcome back to. the french governments will suspend a controversial increase in the cost of fuel in the wake of nationwide protests the ten comes off to paris witness three weeks of the west riots inhofe 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 with 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 announced in 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 and many working class british people who say that they just struggling to live with the high costs of living here in france let's take a listen now to water it literally you say post has been this fiscal measure for six months and introduce it onto 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 i move 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 cause buildings smashing in new ching shorts and coups ing millions of euros of

damage to different economy into the city of paris let's have a flavor now and see what's happened over the last few weeks. it was it we were. were her the arabs her. sleep the french prime minister had also said today that jews have to be

day not 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 builds that should come in this protest movement as i mentioned for the moment the ship as you will see that the protest on saturday will still go ahead and even looks like this movement hasn't yet got the concessions from the government that it will it's. the so-called yellow vest riots have inflicted large financial losses on the country in some areas shot profits for instance a down fifty percent protestors very blockades of course transport companies nationwide an estimated four hundred million euros and four million euros worth of damage was done to paris on saturday alone as demonstrators ran riot smashing property across the capital. fiore at the tax hike to mano micron's

approval rating plummeting to its lowest ever level fewer than one in four now approve of the french president a six percent drop in just a month she bear collards the secretary general of white's wing think tank told us the government is showing a total disregard for the people. if you will when. they're taking the fringe people for fools they want to gain some time to subdue the beast before the european parliamentary elections are held this is their thing that the yellow vests won't see that they're trying to gain time so they won't see in any case to the government or risk of entering into conflict with the e.u. will be obliged to recuperate their tax money they'll lose by implementing it freezes it sounds like they're mocking everybody it is in some sense the same is telling us that will be deceived and they're happy about it we're talking about french democracy it doesn't exist there is no parliament there is

a disciplined autoroute terry majority that does whatever the president says. he had a vast protest is already being charged in court with one man in the city of north sea determines to appeal his guilty sentence during a protest he had stream to exchange with place 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 one placement had his knees in my back the other one held my

legs down and the third put my head to the ground with his knee. they didn't really let me just speak 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 the norse or regular citizen like me. certainly 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 contained no verifiable date. will. be a k employment tribunal is set to decide whether ethical vagueness and is a philosophical belief that should be protected by law and afforded the same status

as a religion it comes after a man once legal proceedings against his former employer claiming he was fired because of his commitments have begun isn't george a cousin of china says he was sacked by the league against cruel sports after hate disclosed to colleagues that it was investing pension funds in companies that carried out animal testing despite being told not to say he believes. that he was unfairly punished and discriminated against on the basis of his family held beliefs his former employer however denies that saying instead that he was sacked for gross misconduct we were joined for a reaction by people on both sides of the debate. big it is a refers to the philosophy that we should not be using animals and so i think that for the individuals who want to say hey this industry of animal agriculture which is just an ethical in so many levels that doesn't even need to exist i think to say

that those individuals should have that perspective respected is actually extremely modest and so many reasons why this is a stupid idea and i went to pick him i mean firstly and most obviously has no religion and it's not philosophical belief so crow barring into that category i think is insulting to religious people frankly the vague and who are speaking up for the billions of animals who this very moment are suffering horrifically but let's look at this on a more practical level the employment tribunal currently deals with around sixteen thousand cases every year involving race gender and disability real things that really affect people up and down the country in the context of their employment look at what mr guitar said referring to you know real real issues about about race and in discrimination and so on and it's extremely dismissive of the literally billions of living feeling individuals what is being suggested here is that you would open up the equalities act to a category of people for which there was zero evidence that they experience any

discrimination in the workplace whatsoever and future generations are going to look back on individuals like mr good toss the same with a load back on these people who who decades ago were generations ago were saying oh you think that people of color should have equal rights what's next women should have equal rights what's next gay couples should have equal rights and the bottom line is animals are living feeling individuals and they deserve just like our dogs just like our cats and just like each of us to have their right to live and the right to be free that they desire respected just as we would respect in each of us i think we need to make priorities when we're dealing with laws and tribunals and i think in this country it's hard enough to deal with those genuine claims involving discrimination against people without this new green. this is a really imagined problem it's come out of nowhere it's been invented by lawyers in order to generate a new way of suing people and again we hear you know just dismissal of the underlying cause it's not genuine it's mad this sort of thing and again the bottom

line it isn't actually about the humans it's about the billions of animals what we're talking about is trying to display an internal state and when it comes to a religion or a genuinely consistently held philosophical belief that's easier to do than when you have something like veganism where people practice the same thing but don't necessarily mirror the same internal belief system to save it is that it is complex to solve doesn't mean that it's not worth solving i dismiss it out in terms of oh this is what's practical or we can't we don't have the time we don't have we have to get down to real issues is extremely insulting and it's just because the animals voices are so thoroughly silence that they're not even considered victims at all but if you can accept. time for gav for more details on any of those stories is just a click away i'll be back in fifty minutes time we don't play when you. would

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