chinese telecom giants a long way says it's ready to sell the key elements of its high speed mobile internet ip technology with a view to addressing concerns of his equipment because of the security risk also ahead. leaked it. to. appease the picnic protest over declining living standards descends into violence with demonstrators damaging property and riot police deploying to take us. a feud between south korea and japan caso a shadow over the upcoming 20 trying to win the games in tokyo over the use of

japanese minutes to fly it says recalling who climbs a thanks koreans. and the british army an eco friendly technology to an environmentally conscious generation of new recruits we asked people in london what they think of the plan. b. and going to use do you want to be put in a foreign morning get killed. over what you've done this money down and really money and who's going to go. that's what we need to know. not where you love the girl. it's 8 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from austin to with me in a day or 2 to into the program chinese telecom giant wall way says it's prepared to solve the core code of its. 5 g.

technology to any prospective western via firms or indeed nations could then reconfigure it and prevent any possibility of a security breach the news comes amid continued claims by washington that weiwei works in with the chinese government and that its equipment could be used to spy on uses daniel hawkins takes a closer look at the company's offer. it's one of this year's biggest spy scandals hallway the chinese telecoms giant accused of using cutting edge 5 g. 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 so 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 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 is no security concern the concern will only be the u.s. 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 door access keyword anyone once you open the source code you can actually make changes to it that are actually going to keep you would have and make sure that even if

there were that tools it would be very difficult for anyone to persist with obviously absent there is no exist and i think what we're going to see is continued patching with all the abilities that people continually seeking. to take it on to. but if they don't. have a license they're going to be the hackers are going to get 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

code using you need to be able to trust the organisation and there are any number of man of that result they're all working here 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 touched yet and possibly haven't been discovered but the question is are all the 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 equipment 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 the critics court. what started as a peaceful picnic protest in the french city of knowledge quickly switched to chaos this saturday with a yellow vest protesters turning violent and smashing shop windows police used tear gas to disperse the crowds i am i. hundreds of people joined in the klan demonstration against president emanuel maicon on his government against what they describe as for living standards according to the authorities 30 people have been detained so far yet a vast movement started in the against the hike in fuel types but it's since become much broader against the french establishment it's the 44th consecutive weekend of protests in the country. demonstrations have also been taking place just outside

the french capital at orly international airport over the possible privatizing sion of 2 acts in paris an official online referendum could yet not the scion of the only and our shall tickled with opposition lawmakers point 7000000 signatures to prevent the deals going through currently unsupported of a sudden and people from mexico to the petition. the british army is a mulling replacing its fossil fuel guzzling equipment with the eco friendly versions according to the country's chief of general stealth and is probably going to explain there's a wide a trend of western armies trying to attract minority and green conscious new recruits to. 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 that give his considerable operational benefits reducing logistic drag but it will show you get the army on the right side of the environmental argument especially in the eyes of our next generation of recruits who increasingly make career decisions based on a prospective employers 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 us 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 in effect a one my plan prove all 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 groundwater 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 know maybe we were some people aren't. sure it would be better for some people. i've never thought about. but i don't consider the right thing but i think to be a need for seems to be door but. what do. very covert i know well going green should go to. young people at the end of it do you want to be put in a foreign more and get killed you know it doesn't matter what you drink you call. it out of i am all for eco friendly and being sustainable and all 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 or not really money who's going to go. and that's what we need to do you know. not very well have across. the us a seemingly looking to cement their long standing friendship further with donald trump announcing the 2 nations of paving the way for a new significant treaty. i had a call today with prime minister netanyahu to discuss the possibility of moving forward with a mutual defense treaty between the united states and israel that would further anchor the tremendous a minus between our 2 countries. that comes just days before parliamentary elections in israel is trying to open the force in his support for current prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel has long been a major unknown that nato ally from washington has nothing of life military alliance in place common law will go straight live to my comedy former pentagon

analyst to discuss this further michael flights coming into the program now what exactly are the changes to tell of even washington if the mutual defense stand assigned. well it in one sense it will commit you know to states to israel's defense even if israel decides it wants to attack let's say for example iran then we would be committed to back them up. without any hesitation that it already we have what amounts to a defense arrangement with them as you pointed out earlier there are one step below that of being a nato member and they do work they do joint u.s. and nato countries in military exercises now that's how they coordinate these activities of theirs so that if there is a conflict in actual conflict. and all the sides are are working together they make

and. they will have that experience of coordinating a military military maneuvers and in operations but we're already providing the intelligence that would just takes they're getting more than $3000000000.00 a year from the united states i don't know what much more we can give them except a piece of paper this is we're going to do what we're already doing i mean what does this mean though the wider implications what could this mean for example for syria and the rest of the middle east. well. again if even without a piece of paper the united states probably would come to israel's assistance if it was physically attacked. and must if it was just invaded for example that certainly would the united states certainly were come to their assistance regardless because of the existing commitments we already have. when i'm concerned

about is that it that from the with someone like netanyahu it will actually commit a sea even more to go into a conflict that he may drag us into as it was he and both john bolton when he was national security adviser almost did just that and truncated off within 10 minutes before launching. an attack on iran a few about a month or so ago i mean this is how dangerous it can be and we've got to have. it we've got to have good information and we've got it even that we have what amounts to now a security arrangement with them in effect as a defense treaty or really we still have to be concerned about being limited into a conflict we don't want and and i think that try hopefully trump is aware that now what he's tried also to try to do is send a message that he wants

a netanyahu reelected and you know this is coming just a few days before ready the new. israeli elections on the 17th of september so i and i think that it's similar to what netanyahu did in saying that if reelected i'm going to annex parts of the west bank where the administration actually blew cool on that and what would happen if the palestinians decide to launch attacks on the israel as a consequence of that that the united states almost would be committed even now. not with. really late and the actual. written treaty in effect so. this is i think it's more of an election ploy at this point but if you know also be a very dangerous thing for us in the united states if israel has that agreement because it would give them even more reason to get us to gauged it's not

that we made out what i want to be involved in ok we have to leave it there michael michael really full of panic and security honest great to have you on the program thank you michael thank you. south korea has filed a complaint with the international olympic committee of the japan's plan to use a military flag during next year's games in tokyo so insists the rising sun and them is no better than a nazi swastika and represents japanese colonial rule and atrocities associated with it take his top official in charge of the 2020 1000000 pixies no problem with the flying of the imperial colors because a ton of takes a look now at the long running feud between south korea and japan. 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 will if you or anyone up please do so and use the flags which he said were whatever doesn't like that i think. they don't want to rebuild the relationship because they deny our forecasts i suppose the. government's opinion i so for. you says that. you know little or other are. encouraged out there to feel heard. the only one to receive

a poll if they should all pull dies sincerely to not only koreans but. to. the countries. which they affected or come close i think 1st of all people have to know about the history and the object over months that made their forwards. and maybe we can. get better relations. still ahead on the program face for us what's a security bubble to the surface of the tongue from like a nation from my chemicals can be used in a war to sell says a soft. this

is our last show in paris and then we go on to other countries who are so excited you know that you've heard about it we're going to talk about it we're going to talk about the french economy yesterday i want to.

welcome back to the program pro and anti-government protests have erupted in hong kong for yet another weekend the 15th in a row scuffles have broken out between the opposing sides as a shopping center in the city. i. was people were at the scene for some time and dealing with the incident and initial demonstrations months ago were sparked by a proposed extradition bill that quickly grew into a wanted to make this an infant when it was announced that the bill will be withdrawn protesters still wait for the other demands to be met that includes investigation into alleged police brutality to rallies and the release of those arrested. the process started at the end of march since then the activists have

been blocking key sites every weekend they've mostly target the territories at ports subway stations shopping malls and major roads locals as well as foreign as and now avoiding those areas on an additional note the unrest has severely hit hong kong's tourist trade there's been a 40 percent drop in visitors in august compared to the same last month. 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 minister we just heard from also noted that hotels have seen occupancy rates drop to about half in some places some of the city's busiest districts and a half empty compared those pictures now to previous years when it was bustling and fairly busy and hong kong local businesses ernest say they've been hit hard by the

unrest. this industry has indeed been he has all of us mines only medium sized travel agency but it still has quite a few to a gross to handle. the most important thing is that this is not our will so 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 the 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 destination for tourism. trumpet mispricing has announced the repeal of the clean water rule regulations that control the use of chemicals water sources the idea is to ease the bureaucratic burden on but it also brought to the surface fears that u.s.

water security could be compromised. 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 trump has recently lifted obama era restrictions and regulations on the spraying of chemicals and pesticides near streams wetlands and other bodies of water in a new world is 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 criticized 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 drinking water 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 them all up and r.t. new york if i need this i'll be back in around 30 minutes time with more updates

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century global economy fund in your very own washington christiane is on assignment in singapore today we have a very special show on deck for you as a zone in on asia for the whole show the change up on kong where we go behind the headlines of the protests to break down the rising cost. of housing and hong kong r.t. correspondent michelle greenstein fresh off her visit joins the show to break down what she managed to find then we had over to the world was just a mockery has seen its auto sales but it is lots more takes a car coach is standing by to give a terse outlook as to why the sector is celebrating and we talk. to the point where she stands to catch up with song saying one cia and you are the rankings for what could be in store for asian economies in the near future the only way to get from china to india and back in 27 minutes is the watch the show let's go. a rejection by the london stock exchange of a takeover bid from their counterparts at the hong kong exchange leads our global

report today as the board of the l.s.e. unanimously rejects a $36600000000.00 offer from hong kong exchanges and clearing ltd the l.s.e. cited what they termed fundamental concerns about the deal and specifically rejected the condition on h.p.a. axis offer that would have required london to back out of the previously announced deal to acquire financial information firmer affinity for $14500000000.00 the l.s.e. board seem to firmly closed the door saying it sees no further merit in furthering gauge went on the offer the share price of l.s.e. stock went up by 2 percent after the board's rejection letter was published even after having risen 6 percent on the day before on reports that negotiations were in process bella seaboard letter expressed disappointment as well the hong kong decided to go public about the talks after just 2 days but the longer history of failed bids for the l o c and up other similar planned international stock exchange mergers.