u.s. secretary of state might bump a accuses iran of launching an unprecedented attack on saudi arabia problems in the wake of an all scale drone attack dogs in saudi oil facilities. cost of its kind pact between the u.s. and israel could be on the cards as donald trump announces the 2 nations are ready to talk over a neutral defense treaty we hear what it could mean for the rest of the middle east . chinese telecom giant huawei says it's ready to sell the key element of its high speed internet 5 g. technology with a few to addressing concerns that its equipment purchases a security risk also ahead.

a. peaceful picnic protest in france over declining the things descends into violence with demonstrators damage to property and riot police deployed to gusts. 27 live from the russian capital this is international with meat sauce potato welcome to the program the u.s. section of states might compare has accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the wild energy supply saying that tehran is behind attacks on saudi arabia's oil facilities. we call on all nations to publicly 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 oil production in saudi arabia has now been hogged as a result of fires at 2 major state run oil facilities eyewitnesses to video on twitter capturing a huge blaze and gunshots in the background yemen's who think rebels claimed responsibility for deploying nearly a dozen drones to attack and oil processing facility in saudi arabia on a major oil field they say the strikes were in response to the saudi led war in yemen and demand an end to riyadh's 4 year long intervention in the country backed by the us washington has also previously charged iran with lending support to the who thiis ahmed mousavi professor of political science university of tehran believes the us accusations are most likely baseless. i want my current hero has a very long history of making accusations without providing any actual evidence as you mentioned there who deserve already claimed responsibility for these attacks in

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 so i think there's no surprise there and the u.s. has accused iran of sending weaponry to know who to use but we also have to remember that yemen has been under a very severe 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 you on of crimes that iran is actually not committed. israel and the us a seemingly looking to cement their longstanding friendship further with donald trump announcing the 2 nations are paving the way for a new significant treaty. i had a call today with prime minister netanyahu to discuss the possibility of moving

forward for the mutual defense treaty between the united states and israel that would further anchor the tremendous alliance between our 2 countries that comes just days before parliamentary elections in israel with trump opening a voice in his support for current prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel has a long been a major non nato ally for washington but that has never been a fully fledged military alliance in place before we spoke to former pentagon security analyst michael the new flu believes the pact would allow the u.s. to be more in full in middle eastern affairs. in one sense it will commit 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 with without any hesitation even without 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 it certainly would the united states certainly would come to their assistance regardless because of the existing commitments we already have. but i'm concerned about is that if that from the with someone like netanyahu it will busy actually commit a see even more to go into a conflict there he may drag us into. the. chinese telecom giant qual way says it's prepared to sell the cool coat of its 5000 technology to any prospective western bya farms or indeed nations could that reconfigure and prevent any possibility of a security breach the news comes amid to continue to claims by washington that quote way is in cahoots with the chinese government and that its equipment could be used to spy on you says daniel hawkins takes

a closer nut at the company's office. is 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 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 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 and make sure that even if there were that tools it would be very difficult for anyone to persist with obviously absent there is. exist 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 the source code they're going to be the hackers are going to be 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'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 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. what started as a peaceful picnic protest in the french city of non too quickly switched to chaos

this saturday with yellow vests protesters turning violent and smashing shop windows police used tear gas to disperse the crowds. who joined in the demonstration against president emanuel mark crawley and his government against what they describe as poor living standards according to the authorities 35 people have been detained so far the other fast movement started in november against a hike in fuel tax but has since become much against the french establishment it's the 44th consecutive weekend of protest country demonstrations have also been taking place just outside the french capital only international airport thoughts over the possible privatization of paris an official online referendum could yet block the sale of leon. with opposition lawmakers and 4700000 signatures to prevent

the deals going through carney it's reported over 700000 people have given their support to. the british army is mulling replacing its fossil fuel guzzling equipment with eco friendly versions according to the country's chief of general staff and as party boy who 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 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 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 in effect a one my plan would improve 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 where we were some people aren't. sure it would be better for some people. i've never thought about. but i don't consider that right but i think right to be a need for seems to be door but. what do. i know well going to go to. school you know trot young people at the end of it do you want to be put in a foreign morning and get killed you know it doesn't matter what you drink or what you go this minute out of i've always where ecofriendly i'm going to the scene of a lot of that book prince community the fact that during an army doesn't kind of speak to me in theory it sounds like a good idea about whether it would actually work related money who's going to go. and that's what we need to do you know. nobody's you have

a cold. still ahead on the program japan and south korea are crossing swords over fact being used to the 2020 lympics which critics say at the expense of these war crimes more details i'm not break. this is our last show in paris and then we go on to other countries oh my so excited you know that you've heard about it we're going to talk about it talk about the french economy the other day i want to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be rich. but you want to be for us this is what before 3 of them all can't be good. i'm interested always at the water's edge.

there should be more. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race in his own spearing dramatic development only mostly on. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back the trump administration has announced the repeal of the clean water rule regulations that control the use of chemicals no will to sources the idea is to ease the bureaucratic on farms but it's also brought to the surface fayez that us want 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 definition to provide 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 needed 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 see to some towns to live in 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 it all up and r.t. new york. south korea has filed to. plaint with the international olympic

committee over japan's plan to use a minute you flag during next year's games in tokyo seoul insists the rising sun is no better than the nazi swastika and represents japanese colonial rule and atrocities associate with it but tokyo's top official in charge of the 2020 lympics says he has no problem with flying at the imperial colors 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 over. 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 told if you or anyone up please do so and use the flex. to sever whatever doesn't like that i think they. saved on the once so rebuild the relationship because they deny or recast i suppose the koreans korean government's opinion i so for. you know little or other are. inferior they're still heard. the only one to receive a polish they should all pull dies sincerely to not only koreans but.

the countries. which they affect or concords i think 1st of all a japanese people have to know about the history and the abbott government that's made their forwards. and maybe we can. get better relations. a chef and food best in canada is creating a stop over alleged racism and weston table manas softer initial call was told she was not allowed to eat rice with the huns in a 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 her thoughts have been hard to

digest and some quarters though the article by joshua was published in a canadian parenting magazine she argues that table manners should be updated to be more diverse including in schools but it's left a sour taste with many. another nail in the coffin 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 berate 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 that's how our news roundup looks for now i'll be back with more in 30 minutes time to tell me that coming away there now it's the kaiser report.

today there are good tennis and bad evidence the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the looked at it is 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 right away military windows funding an army of death squads there's no any more because there's always a small people for really good that's. a profit. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

well you know the fires they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small boat sniffs at a hard pull of ships and you stand. up and. the little self did big told fish already 90 percent of the dot and it won't be calmer. concept 15 scoops $75.00 tons tonight and they do it several times a day with a big fleets of power you get an idea of why the ocean is the fish. we have to understand we could not stay still and just. be with miss the deal boy because. i'm doing this because i want the future

world to the future can generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. yes there's the kaiser report i'm out of kaiser this is our last show in paris and then we go on to other countries almost so excited you know that if i heard about it we're going to talk about it and go talk about the french economy yup they have one here saying hey yes 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 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 on the phone this globalization of not only protest but also globalization of police military tactics police surveillance tactics national nation state surveillance tactics and here is an image from hong kong this before kerry lamb back down but this is a poster this is a nurse with a eyepatch and sir you forgot your conscience it says hong kong police attempted to

murder hong kong people so one young woman had her eye taken out by being hit by the equivalent of an l b d or a flash bang as they are flash ball as they call them here and france where 24 people have lost their i right you know it's interesting this trickle down military . zation and targeting of civilians that we see in global conflicts is now happening more on a local protest so you know we normalize the idea that civilians are targeted in a war now they used to be against the geneva convention and used to be against the rule of the war but now this is been normalized and so now on the every day protests. you know you also see the militarization protests in the targeting of civilians with the military grade weapons well actually what you see with robert chalmers piece in g q is there not specifically randomly necessary targeting ordinary civil.