what you need to remember is what one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only. here and i was. meant to. write. about. the. delight of these facts the united states today declares it is that russia is in material breach of the treaty and will suspend obligations as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to full and certifiable

compliance with the united states issues an ultimatum to russia saying moscow has two months to show its complying with a key cold war era nuclear treaty before the deal is ditched. full service out of you case prime minister is feeling the heat so she kickstarts five days of practice in debates in the house of commons and looks to secure the backing of m.p.'s the head deal at a crucial votes next week. and often nationwide protests in the most violent riots in paris in half a century the french government wields suspending a controversial field tax hike to six months. is just ten five am head in the russian capital this is off the international. the

u.s. secretary of state has given moscow an ultimatum over its alleged violations of a key nuclear missile treaty might compare has said russia has two months to show its complying with the i n f before washington pulls out its. 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 a between 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 chance to come back into compliance with the on that cheating but we must also have to

prepare for the world without the threat of 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 just getting out of control. we did not snip this time the chance is you know there was no 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 i'm asked we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have it would usually be for american time the next greenland's 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 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 pumped a bill position let's review with some of what the e.u. countries have set regret the withdrawal announced by the us 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 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 for me u.s. diplomats jim tatra told us he doesn't believe washington will stick with the

i.n.f. treaty. 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 yes true we have donald trump saying we don't we don't want to do arms race we're spending too much and then today we have secretary pompei you saying this whatever trumps impulses might be to either have an agreement with the russians and as well as with the chinese to have a better relationship that he has a national security team that is entirely composed of the wrong people and what they want to do is to put russia into an untenable security position and this is simply one more iraq they can throw at moscow and they don't really care with the consequences are that is what my fear is here and my fear with guarding the europeans and how it will affect our relationship with them is they simply do not have the courage or the the strength of character to say to the americans no this is bad for us this is bad for europe this in danger is our security we won't go

along with this at the same time washington is looking to ease tensions with beijing president trump took to twitter one choose day to say that's america has begun negotiating a new trade deal with china both he and cheating paying when the talks to be a success it comes to days off to the leaders met and went on ferris where they attempted to lay down the groundwork for the trade will cease fire on the face day of those talks with the chinese president tweeted though that beijing has agrees to reduce and remove terrorists and cause 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 president's claims that they were cheated i was joined by jeffrey tucker from the american institute for economic research to discuss the two countries trade prospects. judging by what both american and chinese officials have said since. the. meeting it seems no deal has been let's just before we go into this have

a quick listen. back there are exercise. i can say with specificity but that's got to be part of the deal. the two sides proposed a series of constructive plans 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 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 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 itself so my fear is that what's really happening here is you want to calm down the financial markets that were there 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 or china and sure enough the markets grew so my worry is that nineteen 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's tenure and it's fatsis a battle for bracks it has not got off to the best of starts that's off to teresa mayes 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 slam shut in the country say. if you reject what the other side have described as the only deal on offer then 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 leaving 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 in 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 text 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 grand old opening of the five days of the brics it 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 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 prime minister spent much of the two and a half years discussing the 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

jaws lost from the european medicines agency mr speaker that's the projects here that's the reality and it's already happened two years you're well breck's 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 no any 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 up. in place saying that britain could actually remain within the age you but 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 government we have to remember that this government has been called them to score tending to the british people and i think for

a very long time we should not forget that the beginning why would hards are afraid of them in that effort and for the tories to deal with very many speeds so this government through all moviestar i'm through all these years to show that we can move to deal with the situation but also that they don't really care about the british people in the care about being. the french governments will suspend the 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 in half 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 see 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 want to really 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 who are into this week and now i know 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

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 a weekly were. going to or her it was her. it was.

it would it lead to the french prime minister had also said today but you'd 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 he 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 short profits for instance a down fifty percent protestors very blockades have cost transport companies nationwide an estimated four hundred million euros four million euros worth of

damage was done to paris on saturday alone as demonstrators run riot smashing property across the capital fury at the tax hike has sentimental micron's approval rating plummeting twist lowest ever level fewer than one in four now approve of the french president a six percent drop in just a month she backed collards the secretary general of a right 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 they won't see in any case to the government risk of entering into conflict with the e.u. will be obliged to recuperate their tax money not only by implementing it freezes 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 or thorough terry majority that does whatever the president says. yes protesters are already being charged in court with one man in the city of non-si detentions to appeal his guilty sentence during a protest he had streamed 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. like as aspiration was 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 that why i explained i was just filming nothing else and was

there for just about fifteen minutes one placement had his knees and my back the other one held my legs down and the third pin 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 like i wrote just story to try to explain everything that they prefer to trust their colleagues and norse or regular citizens 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 facebook video can say no verifiable date.

the boss of microsoft says his company will supply the u.s. army with all the technology it needs the decision was taken may been there some of the tech giants employees have expressed can set. 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 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 mark a soft one of four hundred eighty million dollars u.s. army contract to provide to augment and reality systems is also begging for a controversial pence can deal called chad. the joint enterprise defense

infrastructure cloud is expected to cost ten billion dollars it will be part of the u.s. defense department's efforts to upgrade its i.t. systems but its microsoft is not the only one competing for the lucrative contracts amazon also has its sights set on the jet diageo google was in the running but dropped out saying the contract would be inconsistent with its principles technology analyst logic a believes lucrative contracts for microsoft outweigh the consents of its employees. it is interesting that in silicon valley which is sort of the younger culture or sort of old line terror on that there's this sort of studiousness about the cold things and certainly some of what misses 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 you bond with it and if you have an issue with that we may decide to do something about that but i also think it's important to understand that knowledge terry and technology go hand in hand. technology ever since the dawn of time as part of what military activity is all about instigating technological edge and your adversaries know. it's not at all surprising to find the technology industry engaged with the military here and in other countries as well. the u.k. employment tribunal is set to decide whether ethical veganism is a philosophical belief that should be protected by law afforded the same status as a religion it comes after a man in a lunch legal proceedings against his former employer claiming he was fired because of his commitment to veganism jordi cuz i'm a china says he was sacked by the league against cruel sports of he disclosed to colleagues that it was investing pension funds into companies that carry out animal

testing despite being told not to say he believes that a that he was unfairly punished and discriminated against on the basis of his family how beliefs his former employer however denies that allegation saying instead that he was sacked for gross misconduct we were joined for 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 want to pick him i mean firstly and most obviously has no religion and it's not philosophical belief it's a crowbar and 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 and 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 gets 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 on 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 of all. you know today it's with the global news have our naughty up next is watching the whole. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich to . have to like to be prosperous what the fuck three of them or ten people.

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cornucopia of blue said red high paid think tank posing as influencers and politicians mugging for the cameras but underneath all of that pomp and circumstance of daily politics here in the red white and blue the gears of never ending war well they keep it up turning. because these days the war on terrorism rarely discussed them prime time news hours beyond the usual cheerleading of the latest bombs being dropped or the feel good pieces of veterans returning home to their families and cute pets as graeme smith observes on antiwar dot com a single common theme emerges from most public discussions of u.s. foreign policy no matter how widespread the carnage devastating the financial impact or enormous the opportunity cost of the war the united states is always presumed to have met well this is because politicians and journalists here rarely discuss the war in terms of should we or shouldn't we still be fighting it and just

what are the long term impacts of fighting in financing a war with no exit strategy and no discernible long term battle plan like the war on terror according to the latest report from brown university is cost of war project currently the war on terror is cost the u.s. more than six trillion dollars and conservatively caused almost half a million deaths around the world with the american public kept in the dark about these current cost casualties in the facts what happens when the citizens are properly informed on the actual real costs of war well recently when pollsters informed about a thousand americans of those brown university numbers i just spoke of and asked first if u.s. elites improperly exploited nine eleven for game more than thirty four percent said they most certainly dead and when the pollsters palos up and asked us leaders and asked of us leaders who backed the global war on terror should be prosecuted thirty four percent once again said yes they should be now imagine imagine just how

those percentages might actually climb a pyre if the rest of the.