european leaders used the munich security conference ongoing this weekend to warn of the west's political fragmentation but the u.s. secretary of state speaking there is says he sees no threat to the current global order in time the french president also calls for a strategic dialogue with russia too and gives his thoughts on the economic penalties imposed on moscow beginning 2040. i don't think we should lift the sanctions because i'm just saying that the sanctions and counter sanctions didn't really work out. of the headlines this weekend attack is the best forward defense holds a major pentagon project over claims of a multi-billion dollar contract that went to rival microsoft was. the border france's equivalent of the oscars quits on mass over director roman polanski

sweeping the nominations despite still being wanted in the u.s. for statutory rape we ask if actions speak louder than. defeat various as united artist and man he's an adult 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. very good afternoon just 24 pm on saturday the start of the media about international plenty to talk about this weekend starting with this then political disunity in the west is dominating this year's munich security conference on going this weekend where officials from around the world are tackling the biggest questions in international affairs among those addressing attendees this saturday

with the u.s. secretary of state pompei o and france's president mccrone reporting from bavarian capital his peter all of. security conference started on friday with german leaders the german president frank focused on my on foreign minister heiko mass saying that the role of western nations on the world stage has changed and at this is being brought about by the united states buttoning its obligations. the international stage show on saturday the french president emmanuel mccall addressing the conference said that europe needs more defense ptolemy so that it's able to act independently from the united states in a more noble mood to put that we can see that there is a certain weakening of the west that's has been observed that 15 years ago we thought of ronnie's would be universal values that would always ruled world i think we facing the hour of truth we have a lot in common with the united states freedom and so on and so this is why we fight to give the numerous was but it is not quite what america wants we need to

develop our own strategy putting forward the united states as points of view as secretary of state mike pompei o p rejected the idea that the rests relationship with the wider world needs to evolve happy to report that the death of the transatlantic alliance is grossly over exaggerated. the west is winning we are collectively winning the west is winning freedom and democracy are winning or winning the west will win let's keep at it let's keep winning according to secretary problem peo the woes of the world can be blamed on the usual suspects russia iran and china away another chinese state backed tech companies are trojan horses for chinese intelligence. rushes to fit this information to pace try to turn our citizens against one another. iranian cyberattacks plague middle east computer networks secretary of state pompei o.

island the secretary of defense u.s. 60 defense that is mark s. but i think in quite a bit of china bashing during their time at the podium here at the munich. security conference they were followed to that podium by the chinese minister for foreign affairs huang he described the claims made by the united states partners as lies that they always say the same thing wherever they go and that these accusations weren't based on facts are still plenty to come from here in munich on saturday including an address to the conference by the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov will be keeping an eye on all of the latest as it happens here in munich and of course i bring it to you but i'll take here so many big names there this week where the french president also offered his thoughts on the economic penalties imposed on russia beginning 2014 and identified several areas where he said there was scope for greater cooperation with moscow. i don't think we should lift the sanctions i'm just saying that the sanctions and counter sanctions didn't really

work out we european suffer as much from the sanctions as the russians do in order to teach it dialogue with russia you must take the opportunity to fall through some conflicts address cyber issues and talk about space and the militarization of space and we also need to be able to talk about addressing conflicts like syria i'm not pro russian or the russian i'm just pro european if you look at the geographic facts we need to build a security architecture based on mutual trust and. the use trying to find a new role in the euro should know the world which is north all the while of the. world were so certainly europe to open talks to all powers in the world is the only way to exist to china russia and the united states and be a sort of a neutral police dealing with all these larger. one of the biggest

digital defense contracts in american history has been put on ice online retail giant amazon is taking on the pentagon in court now after washington gave the $10000000000.00 deal to rival microsoft the lawsuit argues donald trump was biased in his decision against amazon supreme jeff bezos in a feud stretching back to trump's 1st presidential campaign. he wants political influence so that amazon will benefit from it if i become president oh do they have problems they get outside my view is that's not an appropriate way for a presidential candidate to behave or using the washington post for power so that the politicians in washington don't tax amazon like they should be taxed finally tracked by donald trump will still reserve him a seat on the blue origin rocket send donald to space so sorry to hear about the news about jeff bozo being taken down by competitor reporting i understand is far

more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper the amazon washington post at the end of last year bezel stressed the importance of the military project with the pentagon but next is kellam open reports he's now entering on the deal one by microsoft. remember when jeff bezos called out his tech rivals for not stepping up to the plate when the country needs protecting and 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 jeff bezos 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 support to do this is a great country and it does need to be defended so it turns out that when amazon didn't get that contract 8 and microsoft got it instead they as ows 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 but the irony is that jeff bezos with his legal action has 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. the u.s. department of defense says it will lose $5.00 to $7000000.00 every month the program is delayed users changing as a pin in a way that serves as pocketbook is not necessarily or base ervice 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 are the balance when people think about it or 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 kaleb up and r.t. new york. there's been a major plot twist to the french equivalent of the oscars we can report the entire series our academy is quit just 2 weeks before this year's glittering ceremony of paris correspondent charlotte do bensky explains why. this year's award season has been plagued by allegations from a lack of diversity in the candidates we've been using that as tag over the last couple years has to ask us so why this year the oscars they have a new house a oscars wider than ever do a lack of the fairer sex hollywood is stuck in the 1970 s. the criticisms a may 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 hard to weeks before the french oscars are due to take

place the entire board has resigned to honor those men and women cinema happened in 2019 to find calm and ensure that the 1st of all a film remains just that a festival the board has and then it must be decided. to resign this collective decision complete renewal of the board this is as they are known here in france of come under fire off it was revealed that convicted child rapist and fugitive from the u.s. justice system polanski had topped the nominations list the director who fled to france in the 1970 s. received the nords for his historical drama. and just boldly. 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 premieres after they found out that it this is up and

they would feel 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 deepened when hundreds of actors directors and movie producers and personalities demanded profound changes of the same academy they were unhappy off to a female director and the female writer was snubbed in an open letter to the academy they did not state it as being dispensed with the screws 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 is a film more important than those who make it it's the 1st on the street if 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 . in my. and it is figures are united artist and man season indulge so he should assume the consequences of his actions lead to action and this is art 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 for the directors for everyone what. do you 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. that's where the university of virginia in the u.s. has come in for sharp criticism online after one of its students claimed that too many white people were using a multicultural community center on campus but it was posted on social media words

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 willing karla's they are the space that you're taking because it does make some of us feel seen. too many way to work here . 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 and announced there were too many black people in the room and the mc other white people uncomfortable how is this not considered racism. to 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. well a bit more about this center is open to late 2016 with

a view to supporting the representative marginalized communities but conservative students say the video you just saw documents a clear case of racial intolerance forcing the university to clarify that everyone is welcome at the facility is some of the reaction more of it from legal and social commentators but the video. but video is crazy but what it is it shows to me is that multicultural just means quote unquote people of color now why is it doesn't really mean cultures which is what i would think they mean as it should be a space where everybody in college where it is not really seems 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 there were let's say 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 as a say because 'd if you're not welcomed them are going back to a time in attacks of segregation and jim crow and separation and i don't think we

want to go backwards in time we want to go forwards in south if you want to have a place where people learn to be more tolerant one of the key aims 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 anguage 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. international law i must go on to something i hope your weekend is going good i hope you stick around to among the stories ahead china cries foul accusing washington of playing dirty as it's about to long go against telecoms while away with a whole new set of criminal allegations and we're going to tell you about. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own personal those great. dares thinks. we dare to ask.

you. again thanks been with us this weekend so while russia appeals a 4 year ban from the olympics and global sport that ongoing now to buy athlon athletes a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting have been found

guilty of doping violations by their sports international body roman culture of scot the story. well russia's biathlete says that a lot of the slip and say you have guinea have been both handed to you you're banned from sport despite the fact that they have already been retired for several years by the way these to athletes they have won olympic gold medals during their careers now this is the 2nd. pair have been accused of doping violations and they were cleared back in 2018 on the same charges however the case was reopened in february this month here's an official statement from the international biathletes union the anti duping hearing at the international last known union has issued its decision in the cases of russian bashfully who are charged with anti doping revile asians based on analytical findings recorded in the most credible or a tree information management system database in respect to sometimes connected

from them in 2013 you get used to go for was found guilty of using as steroids in the season 2030 minutes once a year for its even you will now have to relinquish his olympic gold medal that he won in tsotsi in 2014 now with this new ruling russia lost its 1st place in the official medals sally had its 114 olympic winter games in sochi and now moved to 3rd behind canada and norway not that long a slipped solo who's also been a retire from sport for quite a while was also handed year ban for doping violations in the same period as. however it will not be stripped of her gold medal as she wanted back at the vancouver olympic winter games in see. both athletes will now have 3 weeks to appeal the decision at the court for betrayed for sports and russia's

biathlon union. i have already commented on the situation as well saying that they 1st need to examine all the new information before they will let us know what their next move will be meanwhile guinea you go off already commented on the situation as well saying that he will appeal this decision this morning i received the i.b.u. anti-doping panel's decision i'm not surprised lawlessness means low listeners i've been living this way for 6 years i'm not surprised that in 2018 the i didn't dope but that this has happened again i will fight to be and i've already gone to the austrian court and will go to any other so i will show who's right i will insist on a public trial and the participation of journalists once again both of these by athletes have been retired from the sport for a few years already and are now no longer part of russia's biathletes union what

that could mean is that they could face the entire appeals ordeal on their own. or a roman cost of their will from $1.00 spot to another spot no china is accusing the u.s. of deliberately forcing the companies of the global market as washington ramps up the pressure on telecoms giant weiwei with 16 new charges including conspiracy to trade steal trade secrets it would go the us has been misusing its national power to oppress chinese companies with no proof of any wrongdoing such practice is disgraceful and immoral and it is beneath the status of the us as a major country. so us prosecutors allege that well as engaged in a systematic campaign to steal intellectual property since 1999 is the charge they also claim staff were encouraged to actively obtain sensitive information from competitors including codes and manuals the fresh charges were made under

a federal law which has been to store a cli used to prosecute mathy of members no less always along with under pressure of course from the trumpet ministration which is accused of spying on behalf of beijing however well way has repeatedly to denied any wrongdoing and also said the latest charges are without merit suggesting indeed that the u.s. is simply trying to remove a serious competitor despite that u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi doubled down on the american allegations. china is seeking to exploit its digital autocracy to its telecommunications telephone giants while threatening economic retaliation against those who deny their technology this is the most insidious form of the 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 as the as the u.s. claims that the chinese government is a criminal organization or the if you do business with wall way that you are doing business with criminal organizations 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 are the implications for these major global companies that are doing business in china right in other words the united states costly makes allegations that the chinese tradition here 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. let's take a minute now to go around the world israeli soldiers were filmed attacking worship is in occupied east jerusalem on friday as palestinians attempted to make their way

to the other ask a mosque. i.d.f. offices also reportedly prevented an activist from handing out food calls have been widely circulated for a solidarity campaign in response to the actions of israeli forces during morning prayers that. supporters of former lebanese prime minister saad hariri future movement faced with anti government protest. in downtown beirut on friday a scuffles broke out between the groups of thirty's was forced to step in this is just the latest round in a series of protests at the time the country's been hit by its worst economic crisis in decades and the current government winning a vote of confidence earlier this week. pictures is now you're seeing from the iraqi capital where thousands of women have been rallying against the u.s. military presence in that country it comes after an influential cleric called for social rules to be observed following mixed sex demonstrations and indeed all that

separates male and female protests 1st a snapshot of what's going on around the world right now and the way things are looking for more skin to penning away you're watching us we've got various programs lined up for your part of the world not to be missed coming up but finale is kevin owen here at the arts international usually center back in just over half an hour and for all of us here have a great weekend. just open your culpable more than other movements through law but in your circles one has to. get. into the much for the privilege of a little of 3 minutes to 2 more of them do. not.

look quite in good sort of produce your order in the least in some but never know might it seems the choice. to be. that bad. the world is determined by shaped by phone person to those. military thinks. we dare to ask. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must store in 9093 this man was

sentenced to death. they could charge kenny with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for that week with just under $23.00. i doubt that had to. get abby very. confined within 4 gray walls he'd find it seems it. can also help him to leave death row. here in kiev in recent days it might dawn independence square has turned into

a full scale war zone. full clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. there is absolutely no. hard to tell what. are the characters. now on the brink of a civil war at least 70 dead so far and the death toll rising. a new music. hall we saw here today was a revolution. 7 to. have invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals. nato has expanded into 13 countries up to the borders of russia 13 countries. focus

has to be on not allowing the fight to halt between ukraine and russia. in the city would just look when the new buildings to be truthful. the. elite.