blocking national defense cuties amazon holds a major pentagon project over claims the multi-billion dollar contract that went to rival microsoft was biased. a plot twist in the french equivalent of this is the academy quits over director roman polanski sweeping the nomination list to find out whether actions speak louder than our. 2 figures are united artists and man season down so he should assume the consequences of his actions i believe the story of polanski is ridiculous it's existed for 30 or 40 years don't they have anything to do except. those leaders and top officials gear up for a pivotal day at one of the biggest global security conference is where the focus

is on the west and waning role of the world stage. hi there and welcome to weekend world update from international in moscow welcome to the program 1st one of the biggest defense digital contracts in american history has been put on ice online retail giant amazon is taking on the pentagon in court after washington gave the $10000000000.00 deal to buy microsoft the lawsuit argues that donald trump was biased in his decision against amazon supremo jeff bezos it's called the joint enterprise defense infrastructure project for short and it's a cloud computing storage contract at the end of last year but it's all stressed the importance of the military project but as caleb maupin reports he's now hindering the deal that was awarded to microsoft. remember when jeff bezos called out his tech rivals for not stepping up to the plate when the country needs

protecting my view is this big tech is going to turn their backs on the department of defense this country is in trouble this is how we're going to do it we are going to support the department of foods this country is important the silicon valley tech giants love to walk hand in hand with the pentagon but their employees not so much google workers protested a program using artificial intelligence for drones and microsoft employees have voiced their concerns about a $10000000000.00 contract with the pentagon to offer cloud services but lucky enough for the department of defense amazon led by just days ago so america's richest man has stepped up to the plate they say amazon is happy to do business with the pentagon we're going to continue to support the d.o.d. but this is this is a great country and it does need to be defended so it turns out that when amazon didn't get that contract and microsoft got it instead they as owes was angry he

took it to court citing bias from donald trump the preservation of public confidence in the nation's procurement process requires discovery and supplementation of the administrative record particularly in light of president trump's order to screw amazon the question is whether the president of the united states should be allowed to use the budget of the department of defense to pursue his own personal and political and now to be fair donald trump has never tried to hide his dislike for jeff bezos be using the washington post for power so that the politicians in washington don't tax amazon like they should be taxed if i become president oh do they have problems they're going to have such raw giving a subsidy to amazon. and we're talking about billions of dollars a year amazon is going to have to pay much more money to the post office there's no doubt about. so sorry to hear about the news about jeff bowser being taken down by compared to use reporting i understand is far more accurate than the reports in his

lobbyist newspaper the amazon washington post hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better and more responsible hands but the irony is that jeff bezos with his legal action as double crossed the very same entity he swore to protect as a result of the lawsuit the entire program which the pentagon says is necessary for national security has been put on a hold the military brass is unhappy we're disappointed in the ruling and believe the actions taken in this litigation have unnecessarily delayed implementing department of defense's modernization strategy and deprived our war fighters of a set of capabilities in the u.s. department of defense says it will lose $5.00 to $7000000.00 every month the program is the way these are changing is opinion in a way that serves as pocketbook is not necessarily or may serve as a pocket book is not particularly a surprise i think there's a debate to be had on the degree to which these social media tech companies and

search companies are able to sway the assuaged opinion change public opinion restrict debate these are big issues that i think the balance when people think about it are over there's going to be a drive i believe a populist drive to lessen the power of big tech the cuts across the political spectrum well apparently for the world's richest man the country only needs national security protection when he's getting a share of the defense budget. r.t. new york. has been a major plot twist at the french equivalent of the oscars the entire says our academy has quit just 2 weeks before this year's glittering ceremony a paris correspondent chatted to benfica explained why. this year's award season has been played by alec. ations from a lack of diversity in the candidates. yes the level nations yes they.

do a lack of the fairer sex i'm not sure if everyone here is across the country to see that d.c. there has been a distinct lack of nominations to feed lines. the criticisms i'm a have been like water off a duck's back of the boards of the british and american academies but here in france they take it it's hot 2 weeks before the french oscars are due to take place in thai board has resigned to honor those men and women cinema happened in 2019 to find call and ensure that the festival film remains just that a festival the board has and then must we decided to resign this collective decision complete renewal of the board this is a. here in front of come under fire off it was revealed that convicted child rapist and fugitive from the us justice system polanski topped the nominations list the

director who fled to france in the 1970 s. received the nords for his historical drama but. she says it's only. because. the film has received rave reviews from the critics and it even had a standing ovation to its premiere at the venice film festival the feminist groups have picketed some of those premiers after they found out that if this is up they would be reus to celebrate an abuser like polanski is to support the system of a punitive for male violence and silence the voices of the victims the riaa would then deepen when hundreds of actors directors movie producers and personalities demanded profound changes the says to me they were unhappy off to a female director and the field writer was snubbed in open letter to the academy they did not state it as being dispensed with just gruesome tightening the board

took the decision to disband but even that decision has come under fire. imagine what happens next new college of voters with all male self-esteem opacity and sexism who will eventually stop cheering the rapist peter criminals on the run so how has it gone down here in paris but is a film more important than those who make it it's the same with the kids i believe the story of polanski is ridiculous it's existed for 30 or 40 years don't they have anything to do except protest is there nothing else in france now really. more so. in my opinion the 2 figures are united artists and men she's an adult so he should assume the consequences of his actions. this is to me this is a board resigned rate for them and maybe these resignations can fix the issues and

this is what i'm hoping for the actors the artists or the directors for everyone. may think he has an artistic side beyond comparison with other artists from to human point of view it's not good what he did but it's past and we can't mix the aspects of. the university of virginia in the us has come into sharp criticism online after one of its students claimed that too many white people were getting a multicultural community center on campus but it was posted on social media where it's garnered nearly 4000000 views. partly there's just too many white people in here this is a space for people of color so let's be really harm is that of the space that you're taking because it does make some of us feel seen comfortable and easy to anyway one hears the whole point of multiculturalism is for diversity that includes all cultures but the university of virginia's new multicultural student center is apparently just for people of color that's not multiculturalism that's racism.

imagine if a white person stood up an announced there were too many black people in the room and they make other white people uncomfortable how is this not considered traces of . too many white people so this is why so many of our ancestors fought and died for freedom and equality just so we can have a blacks only area really the center was opened in late 2016 with a view to supporting under represented and marginalized communities but conservative students say the video document a clear case of racial intolerance forcing the university to clarify that everyone is welcome at the facility here's some of the reaction from legal and social commentators. the video is crazy but what it is it shows to me is that a multicultural just means quote unquote people of color now why is it doesn't really mean cultures which is what i would think that it means it should be a space for everybody in college but it is not really seemed to be that way at

least to some students that were right there in the center even if we were not a multicultural center and it were less a black area or an asian area or an expanding area you see a b. star and so exclude certain people everybody should be welcome in these particular spaces of cuckoos we say because if you're not welcomed them are going back to time in a pass of segregation and jim crow and separation and i don't think we want to go backwards in time we want to go forwards into if you want to have a place where people learn to be more tolerant one of the key am's of such a place is supposed to be explaining everyone can come here and everyone is going to be tolerated it apparently is the case that not just this center but the university communicated that there are places that are preferred for some racial groups over other racial groups and that is in fact not

a marketing problem not only which problem but a fundamental rejection of what our country stands for every american is local regardless of their racial group and as long as the u.p.a. is a taxpayer funded institution it not only must adhere to that it ought to be championing that. top officials from around the world are converging on bionic this saturday for day 2 of the annual security conference is the biggest event of its kind and among the talking points of the west losing its role of the world stage the situation in syria and the tensions with iran our europe correspondent peter all of a look at what we might expect. it's day 2 of this year's munich security conference and there's plenty for world leaders to be discussing here at the bavarian capital what this is the overarching theme of this year's conference described as the declaiming role of western nations on the world stage and the

shaking up of international relations in defense but choice for a theme they catch some by surprise but when you listen to the participants at the conference it's clear that it struck a chord with those here in munich. in the era of american global police and it is over think of syria africa afghanistan not because of the lack of military or economic power but because the commitment of those responsible in the white house has changed when it comes to the world older more open a new different relationship between the e.u. and russia and russia in the european union and the security conference always draws an a list crowd let's have a look at work expect coming up on saturday the. french president a manual micro is understood to be set to make a big statement on the way he sees the future of european defense last year mr with

scathing in his criticism of nato and while his position has softened somewhat he still adamant that europe shouldn't rely too heavily on begin night it states when it comes to defense. france is convinced that long term security in europe is possible through a strong alliance with the united states but our security is olds who are cheve inevitably through a larger capacity for autonomy a section in europe. later on saturday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is expected to address the conference it's still unknown exactly what the focus of his address will be but you get short odds on him talking about syria he's also expected to. hold talks with his counterpart from turkey as they try to find a compromise following a standoff between russia and to keep it in syria coming after angry woods from the turkish president instead on the syrian regime as well as the russian forces

and the iran backed militants acting with them and it lives are continuously attacking civilians committing massacres and causing bloodshed important libya talks are also on missed a lot of probes to do list for some day. when the conference will also be looking to tackle the tensions in the persian gulf in the worsening of relations between washington and tehran in fact there's a much anticipated address set to come up later today from the iranian foreign minister both away from that we're also expecting talks on the role of social media in democracies and the tents that are being made to contain the coronavirus whatever happens i'll be keeping you abreast of all of the latest developments that come out of the bias your health hotel here in munich at this year's security conference peter all of munich. still ahead for this saturday china cries foul

accusing washington of playing dirty and it's better battle against telecoms giant white with a whole new set of criminal allegations as we reported 90 seconds. lovely

mexico on the beach with the palm trees swaying in the monkeys chattering special guest with us today alex see i. fury they're rocking it out in the mining. china is accusing the united states of deliberately forcing its companies out of the global market as washington ramps up the pressure on telecoms giant wall 16 new charges including conspiracy to steal trade secrets. the u.s.

has been misusing its national power to oppressed chinese companies with no proof of any wrongdoing such practice is disgraceful and immoral and it is beneath the status of the u.s. as a major come true when u.s. prosecutors now allege that while ways engaged in systematic campaign to steal intellectual property from its own tech firms since 1999 they also claim the staff were encouraged to actively obtain sensitive information from competitors including codes and manuals fresh charges were made under a federal law which has been historically used to prosecute members of the mafia way has long been under pressure from the trump administration which accuses it of spying on behalf of beijing however while away all throughout its long denied any wrongdoing it's also said that the latest charges are without merit suggesting that the united states is simply trying to remove a serious competitor despite that u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi doubled down on the new american allegations. china is

seeking to exploit its digital autocracy to its telecommunications telephone. giants while a threatening economic would tell the nation against those who deny. their technology this is the most insidious form of question this is a major development that's going to have far reaching implications it's very clear that trump administration the department of justice wants to implicate. broadly as a criminal organization and one has to ask what what are the what are the broader implications does that mean if it's part of the chinese government is the is the u.s. claims that the chinese government is a criminal organization or that if you do business with wall way that you are doing business with a criminal organization what we're looking at here is it is a new step forward in terms of great power competition or cold war 2.0 or decoupling what do you know flick agents for these major global companies that are

doing business in china in other words the united states costly makes allegations that the chinese judiciary is highly politicized what happens if it becomes tit for tat it could have a very compelling. outcome for both you know at the international level but at the at the economic level in terms of the specific industries. the legal bid to ban transgender athletes from girl sports it's been fun filed in the u.s. state of connecticut by the families of 3 female high school run as we spoke to the lawyer christiane holocaust who told us that identity has nothing to do with sport . girls deserve to compete on a level playing field and the policy that's at play in connecticut allows males to infiltrate the female athletics category which has had the result of depriving girls of championship titles of opportunities to advance to the next level of competition and the potential to even compete for scholarships biology is what matters in athletics not identity. the plaintiffs 3 high school students

participating in state championships that lawsuit directly targets to transgender sprinters who have consistently outperformed the peers and since 2017 recently one of those bringing the case forward finished 3rd behind to the 2 athletes in question on an indoor track event here's how those against the lawsuits reacting. the complaint is a dangerous distortion of both law and science in the service of excluding trans youth from public life the language of the complaint is an assault on the basic dignity and humanity of transgender people and a threat to the privacy and equality of all students so it comes down to basic biology males have inherent physiological advantages over females i mean both science and commonsense tell us that males are generally bigger faster and stronger and that's the entire reason that we have women's athletics as a separate category in the 1st place i also want to underscore the policy in connecticut does not require anything outside of simple identification with the

female sex in order to compete in the female category why do you think that the lawsuit filed by alliance defending freedom to protect women's sports could be precedent setting that we certainly hope to restore fairness in a level playing field not just for connecticut but for young women and female athletes across the country. israeli police have been filmed pushing worshipers off the storming through slums al aqsa mosque early on friday. 0 7. they also reportedly prevented a palestinian activist from hunting out food calls have been widely circulated for the solidarity campaign in response to the actions of israeli forces during the morning prayer. supporters of former lebanese prime minister saad hariri future movement faced off with anti-government protesters in downtown beirut on friday scuffles broke out between the groups the authorities were forced to step in and this is just the latest round in

a series of protests at the time the country's been hit by this blast economic crisis in decades the current government winning a vote of confidence earlier this week. pictures now from the iraqi capital where thousands of women have been rallying against the u.s. military presence in the country becomes offer an influential cleric called for social reforms to be observed following mixed sex. in stray sions in order to separate male and female protests. and more great altie programs on the way will be back in about 37 minutes or so to update you on all the stories we're across here this saturday the 15th of february wherever you're watching thanks for checking in with.

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time after time so we're going underground 17 years to the day of the repeated largest protest in history when around 10000000 people in 600 cities around the world peacefully demonstrated against tony blair's war in iraq his history shows elites largely ignored that can see coming up in the show we speak to the 3rd biggest pharmaceutical company in britain j.f.k. about the chances of a vaccine amid an epidemic of misinformation about the rotavirus and the evidence

code until december the british m.p. for one of the richest places on earth. speaks to us about grenville the day after another silent march to commemorate a defining emblem of the cost of bailing out the city of london buses mafias across the e.u. are accused of using the block to loan the dirty money we speak to the director of a new film the traitor about real life mafia boss turned informant so master was about the cost of betrayal of its socialist beginnings and collaborations with the f.b.i. told us of all coming up in today's going on the ground 1st ahead of the u.k. cabinet reshuffle outgoing labor leader german corbin this week effectively demanded the resignation of our strengths and foreign secretary over alleged misinformation linked to the cia after johnson appeared to concede that processes of extradition of a cia spy accused of killing were one sided corben said this this disparity with the u.s. is about to be laid bare when the courts decide whether the wiki leaks publisher julian a song will be extradited to the u.s.

on charges of espionage for exposing war crimes the murder of civilians and large scale corruption will the prime minister agree with a parliamentary report that's going to the council of europe that this extradition should be opposed and the rights of journalists and whistleblowers up held for the good of all of us johnson didn't answer the question and then in a week they u.k. corporate media has been continuing arguable support for is the mystic stream ism in syria the scottish national party came out all guns blazing lamenting syrian coalition attacks on groups affiliated to al qaida occupying areas of it live some 300 kilometers north of damascus and 2017 that's foreign secretary this prime minister and not to the policy of accepting the city and assad's rule over the country assad has delivered death and destruction on his people

a man who has gassed his own civilians. the humanitarian situation has reached crisis point and there are no conserves of all it war it wasn't clear whether the s.n.p. leader in westminster then wanted u.k. military action defacto on the side of al-qaeda linked groups in syria even johnson seemed confused i really think that the right on the gentleman need to consult his memory better because he will find that this country and this government has persistently called for the end of the sad regime crucial to britain's reasons for bombing syria were allegations of chemical weapons used by the syrian government now it is the o.p.c. w. that is the specter of a conspiracy after whistleblower testimony but today the word conspiracy is arguably more so seized with this information about coronavirus joining me now via skype from brussels is the chief medical officer of britain's 3rd biggest pharmaceutical company g s k dr thomas brewer thanks so much thomas for coming on

how confident is yes k of getting a vaccination.