alex the pentagon through their research arm darpa launched a program to advance quantum computing earlier this year it feels a little bit behind the curve considering the development that we've just seen how would you assess the u.s. and china sort of technological race that we're saying alex. so so what we will see melissa is we will see more and more r. and d. be shifted under the military industrial complex so stuff that might have been happening you know r. and d. that might even save the place exclusively companies and maybe universities and specialists to sions you will see more of that being shifted under the military got a sort of if you will. demetrius angle lockets and alex capri thank you so much for joining us. according to recent studies pakistan has the highest rate of deforestation in asia with losses of natural woodlands almost doubling in the last 2 decades experts warn that the country risks losing all its forest within the next 50 years now a new project has been launched to repair some of the lost and anyone can join the effort. in the mountains above islamabad new for

alex the pentagon through their research arm darpa launched a program to advance quantum computing earlier this year it feels a little bit behind the curve considering the development that we've just seen how would you assess the u.s. a china sort of technological race that we're seeing alex. so so what we will see melissa is we will see more and more r. and d. be shifted under the military industrial complex so stuff that might have been happening you know r. and d. that might even save the place exclusively companies and maybe universities and specialized institutions you will see more of that being shifted under the military got a sort of if you will. to me case and a la kiss and alex capri thank you so much for joining us. according to recent studies pakistan has the highest rate of deforestation in asia with losses of natural woodlands almost doubling in the last 2 decades experts warned that the country risks losing all its forests within the next 50 years now a new project has been launched to repair some of the lost and anyone can join the effort high in the mountains above islam a

the top u.s. general creates a questionable new buzzword for pentagon achievements in afghanistan you want he says after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallows. welcome back to brothers have sustained horrific injuries after israeli soldiers apparently detonated an explosive device at their refugee camp poem one of the men who was still in hospital shared his story with us but for us at the so the army came at around 6 am while me and my family were asleep the soldiers placed an explosive device at the door and blew it up i woke up from the pain in my legs and found out that my brother was injured as well that's what i remember i was injured and then arrested while i was on the stretcher i was in a coma for 18 days i had surgery 9 time

the top u.s. general creates a questionable new buzzword for pentagon achievements in afghanistan or tell you what he says after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports i'm sure i'll see you then. welcome back. criminal proceedings against employees all the russian affiliated bolt news on sputnik latvia news agencies for alleged violation of e.u. sanctions we can go to calls or if you joined me in the studio now thanks for coming in this morning and good morning to you ramanan what exactly are they being accused of well that remains unclear and of course we're trying still trying to find out following amassed attentional for russian speaking journalists in. the about what we do know already is that they accuse journalists and they're called leagues are absolutely outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictments and the journalists are now being persecuted for coal parading with a russian affiliated to the news outlets or russian speaking news outlets the crackdown on these russians being allowed in. all of the intimidating attributes if you will there were searches follow

what is worth all this time and energy to get into all the top jobs in the pentagon, every lunatic junior varsity qanon alex jones my pillow guy, who thinks aliens speak to him through his fillings, so he needs to wrap his head in tin foil because he crawls under his mattress to sleep? why bother? why are they doing this? what are those guys supposed to do there in these last few weeks in the pentagon before biden takes over? well, maybe at least in part they're there so that the biden transition has nobody sane at the pentagon who will talk to them about what's going on right now in some of the most sensitive and important national security stuff that is potentially exploitable by foreign adversaries during presidential transitions, right? i mean biden's transition team is not getting briefed, we now know, on the spy versus spy stuff that happens between us and russia and us and china and iran and all the rest of it. the nsa can't brief the incoming biden administration because the new trump appointees at the pentagon have decided that can't happen. the new trump appointees at the pentagon, not a distingui

information that the incoming administration, alex, will need to hit the ground running, but our colleagues courtney and kara report that that's not necessarily the case when it comes to the pentagon, and the defense department. and that a trump loyalist named kash patel has established himself as essentially a go between and effectively a bottleneck for information that needs to go to the biden transition about national security and defense matters. patel is a longtime trump loyalist, used to work for congressman devin nunes when he chaired the house intelligence committee and was sent over to the position atop the defense department chief of staff role after the election, and, according to the reporting from our colleagues from two current and two former officials, he has been taking the requests for information from the biden transition and instead of allowing for career officials moo have the best and most up-to-date information about what's really happening on the ground with a lot of these defense matters and allowing them to speak directly to the biden transition, he's been directing those requests to political appointees instead. often taking some of the paper documentatio

alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports i'm showbusiness i'll see if that. moreover it is impossible to undertake any inspection of bio labs set up by the pentagon near russia and form a serviette republics as required by the defense threat reduction agency. it's claimed that the labs are for medical purposes but they're financed by the us defense budget. raising valid concerns that their activities are not just medical but military. the look at the military jury is one example. but the level of duty of the way no one as in the chain. judges former minister of state security left on a general duty godsey he's talking about reliable documents that fell into his hands. knew more knew was what but doesn't mean it was me surely in the site but then to so you know that the media can let silly it out is julie the daughter in the new coke user so mystique. chipman put out systems we use he was an inmate is in the threshing impulse plus learning it begin me such him of us and i say to you well but i don't think you do. but they want them to spill what they let that only about up but it must not let us believing it was the sort of wrongness you call me l