i thank you thank god that it was the. u.s. secretary of state mike probably uses a run of launching an unprecedented attack on saudi arabia comes in the wake of a large scale drone attack targeting a saudi oil facilities. a 1st of its kind between the u.s. and israel could be on the cards as donald trump announces the 2 nations are ready to talk over a mutual defense treaty we hear what it could mean for the rest of the middle east . telecom giant wall way says it's ready to sell the key elements of its high speed mobile internet find technology with a view to addressing concerns that its equipment poses a security risk also ahead. to

. a. peaceful picnic protest in france over declining living seas deploying tape yes. it's midnight in moscow and you're watching out international live from a studio here with me in a day or 2 to welcome to the program the u.s. has accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the world's energy supply secretary of state might prompt the iran was behind the 100 attacks on saudi arabia's oil facilities. we call on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn iran's attacks the united states will work with our partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and iran is held accountable for its aggression. or production

in saudi arabia has been harmed as a result of huge fires at 2 major statement office and it is hurting rebels in neighboring evan say they deployed nearly a dozen drones to attack the sites although secretary pompei o. claimed on twitter that none of the attacks originated there washington has repeatedly charge there are lending support to to her things. well i'm going to live by her madam a solving professor of political science at the university of tehran thanks for coming on to the program how many of these they've taken responsibility for these latest attacks in saudi arabia but pompei o seem to say that iran conducted the strikes itself directly what do you think he's basing these accusations on. how long michael has a very long history of making accusations without providing any actual evidence and you mentioned the hutus of already claimed responsibility for these attacks and

although the scale of these attacks are on precedented we have to remember that the hutus have launched drone attacks deep inside saudi arabia for months now saw i think there's no surprise there the u.s. has accused iran of sending weaponry to the hutus but we also have to remember that yemen has been under a very sea year a military blockade by the saudis with the help actually of the americans for over 4 years now making it very difficult to even send food let alone weaponry so i think he's just trying to come up with excuses to charge iran of crimes that iran is actually not committed it is also the u.s. would work to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied what actions could the u.s. possibly take in that regard and could iran be targeted. well i mean iran has already been targeted unfortunately by this american administration both

in terms of very superior economic sanctions against the country as well as severe military buildup all around iran whether in the persian gulf or in military bases near the country so the u.s. is actually already putting a lot of pressure on iran but we have to remember the larger picture here conflict and military war in the middle east is actually beneficial for the united states the americans are selling billions of dollars of weaponry to the saudis and the in mahratti which are actually the parties involved in this yemen conflict and the trumpet ministration through the sales of billions of dollars of weaponry has tried to stimulate the us economy in fact it's something that he constantly brags about so i think the americans are actually gaining from all of these conflicts in the middle east the people who are losing our civilian stitchers the people of young men over 10 thousands or who have already died by saudi airstrikes supplied by

american weaponry and american bombs. i mean how do we have seeing you know constant accusations haven't really from washington to wards to ron. and there have been escalating tensions with seizing tankers exceeding return to levels drone attacks in the persian gulf do you think this is a significant escalation or just more of the same kind of rhetoric that we've been hearing. i think it's more of the same that all we have been hearing in this is a u.s. administration the constantly comes up with like you stations i mean just a few months ago might compel openly said him solved at a cia director they constantly cheated and lied so i think they are trying to lead a matter called maximum pressure campaign against iran and they have been doing this for over a year and now now the problem with this campaign is that there is always

a chance of very severe military escalation and i don't think that would be beneficial for either party ok we'll leave it there thank you for coming on to the program her madness of a professor of political science at the university of toronto great to have on the program. now as well in the u.s. are simmering the can to cement their longstanding friendship further with donald trump announcing the 2 nations opposing the way for a new significant 30 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 alliance between our 2 countries. it comes just days before parliamentary elections in israel with openly voicing his support for current prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel has long been a major non nato ally for washington but there has never been a fully fledged military alliance in place we spent

a former pentagon security analyst michael maloof who believes the pact would allow the u.s. to be more involved in middle eastern affairs. in one sense it will commit you know the 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. but that is because it a should even with out a piece of paper the united states probably would come to israel's assistance if it was physically attacked. if it was just invaded for example or certainly would be united states certainly would come to their assistance regardless because of the existing commitments we already have. but i'm concerned about is that it that from the sort of like netanyahu they were busy actually committed to see even more to. go into

a conflict there he may drag us into. tiny telecom giant while white says it's prepared to sell the core code of its 5 g. technology to any prospective western buyer firms or indeed nations could then rican think of it and prevent any possibility of a security breach the news comes amid continued kinds by washington that while the works in cahoots with the chinese government and its equipment could be used to spawn uses donna hawkins takes a closer look at the company itself. 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 huawei 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 that 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 with all teach and make sure that even if there were that it would be very difficult i think want to persist with. absolute there is no. exist and i think what we're going to see is continued patching of the abilities that people continually seeking. to take it on to. but if they don't go. they're going to be the hackers they're going to get a massive disadvantage to the fact. of 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 one act as the source code will hamper beijing spying it will be an equal blow for

other countries as well the united states for example who are going to look for and whoever's take all do their license who are the source. you need to be able to trust the organization and there are any number of man of that result there or networking gear at this moment in time all of them have had vulnerabilities in the glass that existed and they've been patched to different islands many of them still habitable it 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 jewels 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 it always seems to have made an offer that's hard to refuse no spine full control for the companies involved and seemingly no more security concerns the ball is now firmly in the critics court. started as a peaceful picnic protests in the french city of knowledge quickly switch to chaos this saturday they have as protesters turning violent and smashing shop windows casings tear gas to disperse the crowds. i and the people joined in the planned demonstration against president emanuel mcallen's government against what they describe as poor living standards according to the authorities 35 people have been detained since that attack movement started in november against a hike in fuel tax but has since become much broader against the french

a stop instrument is the 44th consecutive returned of protests in the country. demonstrations have also been taking place just outside the french capital at all the international airport that's over the possible privatized nation of 2 airports in paris an official online referendum could yet block the sale of all e. and paris shall the girl with opposition lawmakers needing full point 7000000 signatures to prevent the deal split currently is reported over 700000 people have given their support to the petition. the british army is mulling replacing its fossil fuel guzzling equipment with eco friendly versions according to the country's chief of general staff miss polly boyko explains there's a wider 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 think hey i dunno maybe we were for some people but 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 in it for seems to be door. what do. very covert i don't know well. young people at the end of the years do you want to be put in a foreign mine and get killed you know it doesn't matter what you drink. you know

out of i've always 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 about whether it would actually work or not renewed money who's going to go inside and that's what we need to do you know. not where you have a call. now being more news after this break. you know world big partisan movie 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past

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welcome back to the program the trumpet miss ration has announced the repeal of the clean water rule by galatians that control the use of chemicals in their water sources the idea is to ease the bureaucratic burden on firms but it's 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 new wood is a definition that provides hardworking americans the ring of tory certainty 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. 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. south korea has filed a complaint with the international olympic committee. over japan's plan to use a military flag during next year's games in tokyo seoul insists the rising sun emblem is no better than the nazi swastika and represents japanese colonial rule and atrocities associated with it tokyo's top official in charge of the 2020 lympics sees no problem with flying the imperial colors of takes a look 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 at 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 solon occasions berlin speaks of its continued repent at the same time the japanese flag over. old 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. shave or whatever doesn't like that i think. they don't want to rebuild the relationship because they deny or recast i suppose. governments opinion by so for. users to say look you know little big or other or. encouraged out there to feel heard. only one to. restate their

a policy they should all pull does the sincerely to not only koreans but with. the punches. which they affect or come close i think 1st of all a job when these people have to know about the history and that the abbott government have made their forwards. and maybe we can. get better relations. with the news this hour they back around 30 minutes time with more updates and stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that.

today there are good terrorists and bad evidence the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat to the good of those who work in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding and arming death squads there's no any more because there's always a small people for a really good. profit. and . we want a catalan republic because we think it would be feared to our people and we want to contribute to the well for europe into the european values of democracy of

equality of dialogue of peace and we think that we are ready to contribute on our own to this new europe but it's part of the euro mean the european community and constituency what's the big deal what's the problem why can't we accept that possibility in the 21st century. time action or times in welcome from london to going underground in a week when boris johnson's british government was ruled to have acted. unlawfully and shutting down democracy in westminster coming up in a show that's britain tried to levy or be a union is the trading block turning into weimar germany we asked the university of

london on call and why the e.u. is being forced to print tens of billions of euros from. your would be. are being killed as i speak to you tonight killed as a direct result of policy decisions we as a body have made we ask them to help the real war crimes in the pentagon papers senator mike if donald trump firing john bolton will really make any difference to us foreign policy plus a scottish court rules boris johnson misled the queen we ask what is boris johnson is that the public on the man who was his top adviser tells us. britain's responsibilities in the fight against climate change all of them all coming up in today's going on the gravest straight to why the european union has been forced to announce it will stop printing tens of billions of euros from the vendor joining me is research head of university college london the institute for innovation and public purpose thanks for coming on how bad things if after 11 years after the

bailouts of the financial crash the e.c.b. has to do this that's previously pretty 2.6 trillion between 20152018 yeah i mean we are now i think in sort of a japan type situation where you know it's been over a decade since the financial crisis we've had these massive monetary stimulus in the u.k. in the us europe and japan and we still haven't got anywhere near the levels of growth that we had pre-crisis so the output gap between to protect what could if the growth we should have had a more we do have it remains very long yet we're we're in a bad situation i think and britain. half a trillion of this quantitative easing and even voices in the military people see committee at the bank of england saying it's not working you. well there's voices everywhere and now even some of the top acts central central bank governors raising questions about q.e. . druggy in his announcement talked about the need for governments to do more

expanding fiscal policy and that's a view that's becoming increasingly prevalent i think amongst monetary policy makers governments aren't yet getting the message that we still haven't seen expansion in fiscal policy to create demand in the economy that i think is the same need of the roots of the response problem to what we have right now are the roots to be found in postings because. i know you've been writing about the fact that we keep emphasizing household spending rather than innovation and progress and the fact that money supply may not be the most important thing here it may be money allocation as someone for the chinese communist but anyway yes i think that is exactly the problem there isn't really a supply story problem there's a.