why can't we accept that possibility in the 20 percent. day here in moscow in the headlines chinese telecom giant says it's ready to sell a key element of its high speed mobile internet 5 g. tech to any prospective western buyer aiming to address concerns it's a quick look poses a security risk. future south korea and japan casts a shadow over the upcoming 2020 summer olympics in tokyo souls angered over the use of a japanese military flag they say recalls japanese war crimes against koreans. and british army moles a switch to eco friendly technology to try to would environmentally conscious generation of new recruits coming up as well we asked people in london what they thought of the plan. at the end of the years do you want to be put in

a foreign line and get killed you know does it matter which. is going to go inside and that's what we need to. not worry about. this is out international weekend very good afternoon for me kevin i would as i say just to midday here now and i'm here with our half hour world news round up this saturday starting with this chinese telecom giant says it's prepared to sell the core code of its 5 g. technology to any prospective western buyer so that they could reconfigure it and prevent any possibility of a security breach it comes amid continued claims by washington that well i works in cahoots with the chinese government and therefore its equipment could be used to spy on uses then you hawkins takes a closer look at the company's offer this weekend. it's one of this year's biggest

spy scandals hallway the chinese telecoms giant accused of using cutting edge 5 to technology not for the good of humanity but for spying for beijing the united states has also been very clear with our security partners on the threat posed by the way as chinese law requires them to provide beijing's vast security apparatus with access to any data that touches their network or equipment so grave was the threat real apparently the risk that american citizens privacy could be in danger the president trump declared a national emergency then like wildfire concerns spread around the world courtesy of u.s. officials that any country cooperating with huawei on building phone or computer networks would jeopardize their security so how real is this danger but not at all who always c.e.o. shore's us but he would say that right well here's the deal the company has come up with an unexpected offer to reassure its western clients when we transfer the tac

they can modify codes on top of my tech once that's through it's not only shielded from me it's shielded from everybody else in the world u.s. 5 g. will be their own thing there's no security concern the concern will only be the us keeping the american companies who bought it in check so what does it all mean well who are we would sell its blueprints codes peyton's everything needed for the client to rewrite the code and thus prevent anyone being able to get back to iraq cess keyword anyone once you open the source code you can actually make changes to it that are actually going to keep you with all teach and make sure that even if there were that tools it would be very difficult i think wanted to persist with obviously absent there is that they exist and i think we're going to see continued patching with all the abilities that we as people continually seeking. to take it

won't. but if they don't open source code it's. going to be that the hackers are going to be at a massive disadvantage to the fact. if that's not enough always chairman even offered to sign a no surveillance pact with the countries in which the company operates no spying no back doors so with this unprecedented offer of compromise from the telecoms giant while the panic and harsh rhetoric well remember when we said anyone spying what access the source codes will hamper beijing spying it will be an equal blow for other countries as well the united states for example who are really who are going to blow it all and whoever's take it all to their license who are the source . you need to be able to trust the organisation and there are any number of man of the actual result they owe on it working at this moment in time all of them have had vulnerabilities in the glass that existed and they've been patched to different elements many of them still have got rebuilt is out there that they haven't yet and

possibly haven't been discovered but the question is are they actively government entities that have engineered that goes into this equipment will remember all those times washington got caught in the act by whistleblower edward snowden revealed years of interceptions by the national security agency of servers routers and other network a quick mint made by cisco things were so out of control the company's management even went to the u.s. president to complain we simply cannot operate this way our customers trust us to be able to deliver to their doorsteps products that meet the highest standards of integrity and security so who always seems to have made an offer that's hard to refuse and no spine full control for the companies involved and seemingly no more security concerns the ball is now firmly in their critics court. the british army is mulling replacing its fossil fuel goes laying equipment with eco friendly versions according to the country chief of general staff and is

probably boyko explains there's a wider trend of western armies trying to track minority and green conscious new recruits these days. they might be in the business of killing but they don't want to kill the environment while they're at it the british army is going green general so mark colton smith has said that british forces are going to be phasing out the use of thirsty gas guzzling military vehicles and equipment in favor of plugging in take cleaner technologies it's all in a bid to attract younger and more environmentally conscious recruits not only will it give us considerable operational benefits reducing logistic grab but it will also get the army on the right side of the environmental argument especially in the eyes of our next generation of recruits who increasingly might career decisions based on

a prospective employer is environmental credentials earlier this year the british army launched a new recruitment drive targeted at young people the campaign emphasise that the army could use the compassion of snowflakes the self belief of millennial zz the confidence of selfie take is and the focus of phone zombies and the push for a greener and more inclusive army isn't limited to the u.k. if u.s. democratic party presidential candidate elizabeth warren gets her way the american army will be adding fighting climate change to its to do list we don't have to choose between a green military and then a factor one why plan. servicemembers readiness and safety and the chief cost savings for american taxpayers together we can fight climate change and

doing military exercises are notoriously bad for the environment munitions can take hundreds of years to degrade and toxic materials like lead. can spill out and pollute ground water back in 2017 the u.s. government put out a request for the development of environmentally friendly training bullets both the u.s. and u.k. militaries seem determined to put the eco into warrior and recruit some of them at the same time that's great brilliant good for them i don't know if that's necessarily a thing that's going to attract young people necessarily i think they i don't i maybe we were some people pronouncement i would be it's hard for. sure it would be better for some people. i've never thought about. but i don't consider that likely but i think to be honest or seems to be door. what do we very.

well going green. or entirely sure how young people at the end of the years do you want to be put in a foreign war and get killed you know it doesn't matter where you drink your coffee or over what you got this money out of. our eco friendly ending to the scene of an art of that but personally the fact of drain army doesn't kind of speak to me in theory it sounds like a good idea but whether it would actually work you know really money who's going to go and fight and that's what we need to know. not where you have a cold. so career his father complaint for the international olympic committee over japan's plan to use the rising sun flood during next year's games in tokyo seoul insists it's no better than the nazi swastika represents japanese colonial rule and atrocities associated with it

tokyo's top official in charge of the 2020 lympics though sees no problem with the imperial colors he goes down off looks at the decades long feud between sold in tokyo. this flag is the thing setting apart south korea and japan for almost the whole past decade you might not see anything wrong with it but for more than a 1000000000 korean and chinese people it's no different to a swastika during the 2nd world war the japanese empire made this image of the banner for atrocities which rival the darkest crimes of adult hitler. the row over the flag largely dates back to 2011 when the nation's football teams

met on the pitch to witness the image being literally waved in their faces and since then so has repeatedly asked tokyo to abandon the symbol the latest being their request for the 2020 olympics which japan rubbished the flag itself is not considered to be a political statement so it is not viewed as a prohibited item so now so has reached out to the international olympic committee directly we emphasized that the use of the rising sun flag during the tokyo lympics would be a direct violation of the olympic spirit promoting world peace and love for humanity and that the international olympic committee should have the tokyo organizing committee prepare strict measures to prevent it from being brought to stadiums just last week tokyo snubbed an international fleet review in south korea over the demands to abandon any hoisting of the controversial image symbols of nazi germany

have been outlawed and to this day on solemn occasions berlin speaks of its continued repent at the same time the japanese flag on. korean and chinese rooms repeatedly according to a lesser by south korea. * and plenty of south koreans agree with the official line one of the reason for doing olympics is he's so if you or anyone of his use the flex it's to save or whatever doesn't like that i think. they own the once so rebuild

the relationship because they deny our forecasts i suppose. governments opinion i so for. you says that. you know little or other or. inferior out there to feel heard. the only one to. receive a polish they should apologize sincerely to not only koreans but. to. the countries. which they affect or concords i think 1st of all the japanese people have to know about the history and that the abbott government had made their forwards. and maybe we can. get better relations another big story which i could this weekend still in

a part of the world pro and anti-government protests erupted again you know i'm calling for yet another week and scuffles have broken up into the opposing sides. the shopping center of the city. today. seemed to deal with the instant the initial demonstrations of course was sparked by that extradition bill forward earlier this year but they quickly grow into a wider pro-democracy movement while it was announced that the bill will be withdrawn most recently protesters nonetheless still waiting for their other demands to be met including the investigation of police brutality jeering rallies and the release of people who have been arrested the protests started at the end of march that is since then activists have been blocking key sites every weekend i own they've mostly targeted the territories airports subway stations as we saw there shopping malls a major roads it means locals as well crucially as foreigners are no avoiding those

places no talking about that it's affecting tourism the unrest has severely hit hong kong's tourist trade if you look at the map the look at much has dropped a 40 percent drop in visitors in august compared to last year over the past few months the local social unrest particularly the continued vandalism and disruption to the airports and roads has damaged hong kong's image as a safe city the tourism retail and hotel sectors are suffering the most the finance minister we heard from just there also noted that hotels had seen occupancy rate drop to about half in some places some of the city's busiest districts and a half empty contrast to compare those pictures that was now to previous years when it was crowded local business owners say they have been really hard hit by this unrest. and when it's a night this industry has indeed been he has all of us minds only medium sized travel agency but it still has quite a few to a gross handle so the most important thing is that this is not how will we don't

want these rights to destroy our society we hope things are resolved as soon as possible and then we can work to try and win back the confidence of tourists to visit hong kong my drivers have made no money for 3 consecutive months and i hope things can be settled as soon as possible so peace can be restored to hong kong then our tourism industry can get back to normal we should promote hong kong and get it back to what it was before so that people feel hong kong is the safest city and the best this nation for tourism stay with us if it can ride ahead fears for us water security bubble to the service of the donald trump stroke regulations away chemicals could be used new water sources. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and 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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on scaring dramatic developments only and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

ministrations announced the repeal of what's called the clean water rule regulations that control the use of chemicals near water sources the idea is to try to greatly ease the bureaucratic burden on firms but at the same time it's brought to the surface fears it's going to undermine u.s. water security. like most of us donald trump enjoys the occasional refreshing glass of clean water. but he doesn't seem as keen to keep the water clean as his predecessor truck has recently lifted obama era restrictions and regulations on the spraying of chemicals and pesticides near streams wetlands and other bodies of water in new wood is a definition that provides hardworking americans the ring the tories certainly the

need to invest and develop and build new projects that improve lives in the environment so what has changed well during the obama era if you wanted to use certain chemical pesticides and sprays in your body of water you need a permit now you don't there's certainly going to be a lot of rejoicing about this from certain sectors many american farmers and manufacturers felt that they were being crushed by the obama era regulations intended to curb water pollution it would be great if farmers didn't have to hire an army of consultants and lawyers just to be able to farm now the new rules are being criticised as overly vague with the decision about what bodies of water get protected being decided on a case by case basis now the farmers are overjoyed but that feeling is not being shared by people in communities that depend on streams and rivers many seats in town sell even with unsafe. and it's very important to us that now it's not the

time to cut back on clean water protections that the american farmers haven't been too keen on donald trump lately due to his trade war with china so perhaps rolling back these clean water regulations will help when i'm some point with the agricultural sector regardless environmentalists are up in arms but as many gamblers have said before you can't win it all up and r.t. new york talking to which the outgoing president of the commission. was success regarding migration with details about. younger might be on his way out as he used commission president but that hasn't stopped him from giving his $0.02 on issues of migration one of his latest statements assured the continent that migration is not a threat to europe's way of life. to oppose the european way of loath to migration you have to respect. independently from the independent from the. younger was responding to his successor ursule of on their

lay and her initiative to make several government titles of positions more creative and a bit less formal now the most controversial of which was the vice president for the protection of the european way of life and this this position was intended to address how migration affected life on the continent the european way of life is built around solidarity peace of mind and security we must address and they legitimate fears and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and society younger might have come out publicly in opposition to their lns initiative to rename these government positions but in the e.u. parliament there are larger divisions at play some are saying that this is helping the right wing might even amount to fascism while others are saying what's the big deal and the wide european commission claiming to protect our european way of life is

a far cry from the idea of unity in diversity on which this union is built when we talk about the european way of life what we're talking about is asylum and integration the european way of life is about those coming from war from hunger from climate change and integrating all those who want to come and live with us now this row is only one part of europe's larger migration situation especially because 1st arrival countries like italy and greece are finding it increasingly difficult to stem the tide of illegal migration on to the continent while from a far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better we debated with our guests where they supported the policy of no. from her perspective of course you have to. keep a certain relation to the far right not just to use a certain language in order to try to do some support on the road and keeping them from going to basically all of the wrong or have representatives like this which.

are certain leave. their use of language in words the protection of the european way of life is more against let's say let and let's face the problem is more against islamic countries and they stand people because most of them they come here they want to they want to keep their way of living their way their way of. them of their religion when it comes to the question of migrants. our basic position is that we support to the migrants and we with. our international solidarity because they are fleeing from basically the capitalist system most of these immigrants come for economy called reasons and as europeans we cannot handle this and we cannot give them the better their situation or a better life because we have a lot of we have another unemployment here so it's going to be it's going to be very difficult for us european to force them all these immigrants as a as

a one. way of life so i can see you know it really exists because it covers the fact that all of the european nations are divided into classes. support. for unity between the press around the exploited and exploited within the european companies and i think. do you follow the way of describing the situation in europe european life evolved during the years it has changed a lot a european life is the the unity within the diversity but the only issue here is what do you gonna do with all these make grants coming to europe. are we as european are able to horse them as a. greatly haase them are not. what we're talking about western values and integration next to share from the food activist in canada is creating a stir over alleged racism in western table manners is after she was told

a little girl was not allowed to eat rice with their hands in the school cafeteria suggesting that a child who eats with their hands has no manners is an echo of european colonial powers looking to tame the wildness out of the people they controlled these european table manners were imposed on conquered people in an attempt to civilize them the idea of a single standard of acceptable table manners is just one of a host of strategies used to grow and promote racism hard to swallow in some quarters though the article by josh no mirage was published in a canadian parenting magazine she argues that table manners should be updated to be more diverse particularly in schools the sheriff's article caused outrage online. another nail in the caffein of the word racism having any meaning left whatsoever shame of colonization food activist stick a fork in us we're done no wait not a fork that's racist culture isn't a race when will people learn the difference between culture and race. you know we

all have different cultural norms and certainly if when you come from a certain from a certain country there are variations of customs depend on where you live children they learn their customs and culture a city in that their own table so when they travel someplace else especially young children they are not going to know now as adults we do our homework and if we are conducting business in another country we certainly want to learn customs and we all have basic rules of conduct at the table when you visit another country you always want to do your homework in advance much like the way that we drive much like the way that we tip in different society in different cultures because it all varies if someone comes to another country and they have a different a different mannerism or a different custom we don't want to be rate them for using their customs we as as guests at a table always want to be accommodating to fellow guests and we want to treat

everyone with respect and i think that's what it boils down to is being respectful of another person all of your thoughts about supermodels whose national recovery known so far more and from. well you know the cars they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small ball and sniffed at harpoon ships and it's still very. much up in. the little self to be told fish already 90 percent of it don i need to call in with connor. cons of 15 scoops $75.00 tons to $100.00 do it several times a day with

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the reject. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press as it was before 3 in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the hottest. first signal. yes there's the kaiser report on america kaiser this is our last show in paris and then we go on to other countries almost all excited you know that if word about it we're going to talk about it they're going to talk about the french economy yup they have one here 6 u.s. well in fact this is black september that is what they are promising there are also

many people out there who say well nobody covers this relation anymore and that this is a conspiracy one thing you do notice is that this year they did not appear on the day anymore because the police have successfully kept them from there so paris is a sprawling city and there are continuing to be protests despite you know having been august and they don't come back from summer vacation until mid september but one thing i wanted to note is that there is a lot of attention that has been paid to the ongoing you know unrest in hong kong the protesters there and something remarkable happened that really stood out to me because it reminded me of what is happening here in the g. the asian on this globalization of not only protest but also globalization of police military tactics police surveillance tactics national nation state surveillance tactics and here.