Kevin owen here in the studio earlier. The classic bonds have been out there for ages and we know what theyre usually used for that is sending out spam messages in some cases performing hacking attacks but it seems that uncle sam is after something much more sophisticated here if you go online and check out the us federal Business Opportunities website you will come across a pentagon request from earlier this week and this was something that really caught our attention well the u. S. Army wants right now is a Software System that will be able to translate between languages most notably russian korean farsi in arabic and we all know which countries these languages are spoken in this kind of technology of this kind of translation technologies radio there was no hold on because for now im far from giving you the full list of requirements the tool is meant to understand and know how to use correctly dialects slang and even a mode g. s plus it must be a tool that is capable of analysis all these millions of posts comments and replies and we all that these things can be really dodgy are to be at a loss for emotion and sentiment thats how complicated it gets key question is again its probably overused but whats it going to be used for potentially they want the software to be able to communicate with users online maybe not one hundred percent like a human being but somewhat close to that just take this requirement that i have printed out right here it is the ability to generate at least three or up to ten unique statements derived from the original social Media Statement while retaining the meaning and the tone of the original again the software will monitor and adeline as its own impact from the messages that it sends then a just plus it also needs to be selftaught in a way that it can learn from its own mistakes and then improve an upgrade which provides potentially unprecedented. Opportunities for influencing opinion on life company are going to notice the irony of this big plan is that its on the heels of the u. S. Leaders complaining about all the potential fuss about online interference from other parties other countries rather than in the case when russian troll farms and bots there are all over the media news about that the first question that i asked the pentagon what is your intention guys for this particular new projects we sent them out or request to comment they didnt get back to us for now but the languages are either regions will give you a hint and also some experts have already told us that its part of the u. S. Campaign could be to expand their online influence in capabilities something that they have been up to for years but really the sophistication of this new project machines being able to analyze the emotions and the sentiment of comments online thats something alarming now as you heard him mention there we asked of the pentagon to comment on the story they did not confirm the use of bots but described the program as a translation tool which is needed due to the sheer volume of Data Available today on the internet and we talk to and if they whistle blower William Binney and former m i five agent any mush on about the push to develop advanced bots outlined some of the implications of using such technologies. What they really want to do is be able to monitor Royce Communications or any kind of Communications Text and be able to assess it and. Check it for threats or things like that or even. From some of the manipulation programs even respond. And try to manipulate the other person at the other end so i mean all intelligence agencies have had this is one of their objectives white papers are generally circulated among contractors who do business with the government so it is a little unusual to see these things out in the public as far as i know the most obvious interpretation would be that this is a pushback against the allegations that have been made consistently for the last eighteen months about socalled russian troll phone influencing elections across the west and its interesting to see that the languages that theyre advertising for are the language of iran and of course north korea and russia so that would be a bit of a sort of give away about which countries they want to be targeting. A school in the u. K. Has decided to stop referring to its peoples as girls any move to adopt more gender neutral language altering a Grammar School for girls defended its policy saying that they are trying to break in grained habits to help students with gender identity issues adding that we welcome and celebrate diversity you know its meant to ridicule online with users pointing out that the schools name violates its own policy. Meanwhile Grammar School says it has no plan to drop the word girls from its name we ask the locals what they think of the new gender neutral policy. The majority would be happy to be called its ridiculous i think girls are girls and boys are boys theres too many pressures on pupils too much attempt to move everything towards gender neutrality i think it actually leads to more confusion rather than clarification this is a girls school and its extraordinary that children are being encouraged to go along the path were going to have more and more children with Mental Health problems who are confused and unhappy by all means support children who have gender issues but dont do it at the expense of the majority do not rob them of their gender identity we only need to apply those basic principles of religion so that we treat other people how we wish to be treated and we saw with the problem we need to stop pushing adult neuroses onto these young children. Because of the pentagons Nuclear Development plans has been it leaked to the press the Nuclear Posture review was due to be released in february and the sixty page draft document describes plans to upgrade and replace outdated Nuclear Weapons that includes the creation of new low yield Nuclear Warheads for submarines document highlights the need for counter threats from russia china and north korea and proposes a doubling of Nuclear Weapons found and the u. S. Already has more than one thousand low yield Nuclear Warheads according to the federation of american scientists the expansion of u. S. Nuclear capability comes despite president earlier pledge to seek a global denuclearization. Number one i would like to do you know the world i would like russia and the United States and china and pakistan and many other countries that have Nuclear Weapons get rid of them i stated americas intention to pursue the peace and security of a World WithoutNuclear Weapons but i put forward a comprehensive agenda to pursue it to stop the spread of these weapons to secure vulnerable Nuclear Materials from terrorists and to reduce Nuclear Arsenals. I discuss this further we are joined live by Robert Naiman from the just Foreign Policy organization thanks for being with us here on our international so as we just heard the u. S. Is expanding its low yield Nuclear Arsenal does this point to a strategic shift. Well first of all this is a planning document so this isnt necessarily going to happen its a Troubling Development that they would put this out but the administration doesnt get to do this by themselves congress will have to approve it and hopefully there will be pushback and what is. Obvious lee and outrageous and foolish idea the United States already has more than enough Nuclear Weapons and. The idea. Building more is foolish and dangerous and unnecessary and robbery of other priorities trump ran as a president or says all kind of thing but he talked about you know America First rebuild america people thought that you know were going to fix the roads and bridges now were going to build more Nuclear Weapons so i hope that this will be contested and this will not automatically have been just because the administration is putting this out in a plan dr so if we look at the leaked draft it singles out russia and china specifically do you think that these countries really do pose such a threat to the u. S. Well look obviously russia and china are strategic competitors to the u. S. Everybody knows that but the idea that it. Then means we need to produce more Nuclear Weapons doesnt follow it off you know the russia is going to do whatever its going to do in china is going to whatever to do whether we double our Nuclear Weapons are not nobody really thinks that anything personal is going to use Nuclear Weapons in a strategic competition then the point of having these things if there is any point at all is you know so that the other person will be deterred suppose. Its using your new girl out there you know there are bins because then you might use yours how doing more Nuclear Weapons doesnt change that we could get rid of all of our land based i. C. B. M. s all of our land based Nuclear Weapons we still have the Nuclear Weapons in the planes and the submarines so a huge driver of this is the pentagon into secure complex that you know people contractors are going to make money off of producing a Nuclear Weapons there are u. S. Military bases that would close in you know wyoming now would close we got rid of our land based i. C. B. M. s to then create parochial interests there are pushing these things there are not something that is not in the interest of the world its not in the interest the majority of people in United States what about other countries do you think that this report could prompt other countries to follow suit. I hope other countries wont be so stupid as to take the big because the same thing is true in russia and china thats true in the United States that every you know every billion dollars that has spent their Nuclear Weapons is the first problem education and health care and medical advances and roads and things that. People need we cant eat Nuclear Weapons we cant educate ourselves or dont care whether its its a rip bot eisenhower was right you know every billion dollars that spend more military weapons that we dont need is a billion dollars that stolen from human needs needs our tax dollars you know the government officials didnt grow this money themselves they took it from taxpayers under the pretext of defending the United States were already spending more than anybody else in the world so are the case they had their majority of our federal income tax dollars. Go to the pentagon industrial complex. Were not going to be more safe if we spend more money weapons than we do Robert Naiman interesting to hear thoughts from the just Foreign Policy organization thanks for being with us here on our two International Good to be with you. I clashes between anti austerity protesters and police have broken out next to the Parliament Building in the greek capital. The it was. Officers used tear gas to disperse demonstrators on friday crowds gathered to voice their anger over pay cuts and restrictions on strike action thousands of people from labor unions joined the rally in athens disrupting the public transportation. For i wanted it criminal using social media might not be a good idea that lesson was learned the hard way by a former japanese gangland boss who had been on the run for more than a decade. There you have it careful what you post it will haunt you in the future youre watching Arch International ill be back about thirty five minutes of the news. Unfortunately it appears that once people learn that youve reported in a Sexual Assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared if you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. The central bank especially theres a lender of last resort or to provide liquidity case theres a credit freeze the fact that you have such a bank becoming the buyer of first order and that theyre printing money to buy stocks is a complete inversion of what their role is supposed to be in the economy and they become a giant hedge fund. In the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. Opposite it is from his office the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i cant boards and sold inside this warehouse thats where the report comes in it covers up deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet because they concern fraud. Some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the Geneva Freeport says for youll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the worlds black box of the art business. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle its being called an olympic truce after months of over the top rhetoric the two careers are talking again the first time in two years is this a serious diplomatic opening or merely a ploy south korea appears to welcome this opening as the same apply to washington. Cross talk in the koreas im joined by my guest Michael Maloof in washington hes a former Senior Security policy analyst in the office of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and a former u. K. Army and Counter TerrorismIntelligence Officer origin across the girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this olympic truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the North Koreans are trying to wedge the u. S. Away from south korea whats going to be our the whole idea thats whats called a political and diplomatic gambit let the games begin at least the diplomatic ones here really the question is how the americans are actually going to respond to it not that its a wedge because it is go ahead charles. Yes undoubtedly north korea is quite skillfully taking advantage of events such as the olympics that doesnt mean they dont generally want to and i suspect many in north and south korea would welcome that theyre going to take part after all theyre all koreans at the end of the day america could have perhaps seen this coming perhaps did but they way they were acting in immediate run up to this decision suggests that many of them werent for example nikki haley and of course in the un very loudly i said its often the case and fortune not just on this issue but so many others who have a very largely pronouncing that talk simply wouldnt be taking place that very first of all north korea had to denuclearize. Abandon their program before any talks would happen and then almost as if the world has been pulled underneath but to be fair as well donald trump himself has welcomed these talks hes tweeted i think has of course where we find policy coming from he has tweeted that its welcome and of course it is of course if we went on to claim credit for it actually it may be that in some ways credit is due to his charitable it may be that for example not necessarily his tough approach but hes very unpredictability and perceived irrationality not just amongst koreans but around the world among catalyze as well of course it could have contributed to i agree with you you can look at it from totally different venues and come to the same conclusion actually its very very interesting let me go to you in washington here a few days ago the very suggestion that the north korean a limping team would go to the south to participate Lindsey Graham said that should not happen and one of the interesting things that western policymakers dont give south korea much agency about their own security and i think thats again part of this wedge here i mean if the North Koreans can talk to the South Koreans where the problem is in that region you have the russians in. Chinese vouching for a process thats the way it should work thats a whole lot more competence than somebody all the way across the globe talking about is big button go ahead its you know the point about agency which you mentioned is actually the important one and it is it is that aspect of agency which the current south korean government has has has cottoned on to the center left governments in south korea always felt that they needed to exercise that agency so as to have a little bit more of a balancing role on the peninsula and rather than be completely aligned with the u. S. Because on on on peninsula issues because when youre completely aligned with the u. S. On peninsula issues sometimes things just go down the wrong way track all the military route the wrong with sensually you know one of the very important factors about kim jong uns rest of procreation in his new years speech was actually that many of those points were laid out many of the many of the points richey which he talked about were points which were listed by president in a speech in berlin in july in the hood saying please come and see and participate in the olympics and lets try to have exchanges starting with during the korean new years and have family family exchanges lets reduce tensions on the demarcation line i mean each of these has received in response from kim jong un in a positive response yeah we can talk literally as you know graham has a serious announcement its an important its interesting because if you look at the north Korean Leader of north korea his new years speech michael let me go to you here i didnt see really much coverage in the mainstream it was very interesting ok fine its the old days of prim an olive between the fine thats fine with me but i mean on the face of it it was it was very it was an overture and the south reciprocated i mean thats how you start a process ok and i think this is something thats very good i know the North Koreans are very difficult to work with but the americans dont keep their word ok so now we have to go to baby steps to start a process go ahead michael. Yeah i think that what what north korea did particularly. Kim north korea he he he made he made these overtures i think because he now realizes that his nuclear and missile capabilities are in play that they are sufficient to deal with any u. S. Threat i dont think he would have done anything before he was assured and felt confident that his arsenal was well as it was was prepared and ready to go if hes not going to use them against the south and i thought and i think that he has good strategic thinkers and by making the overture to south korea president move to south korea was very has always been involved in wanting to have closer discussions the question that arises for the United States is does this then make the United States influence on the peninsula. Less and less relevant as a consequence but it still doesnt take care of the issue or address the issue of kims nukes and i think that those are not going to go away and i think that what happened is that but you know south Korean Initiative has taken yeah but when it gets a go big or go to china things here because i mean this is a deterrent i mean i can no logical person with knowledge of this long going conflict can convince me that north korea wants to use these weapons and offensive matter because if they do they will be incinerated in a matter of minutes it is for security it is for him this is what the North Koreans want they want the americans the sit down at the same table and the korean war thats right folks it has never been ended they want legitimacy and they want economic aid and they want to be part of the International Community as they see fit i think those are interesting talking points ok its better than war go ahead charles yeah i think we need to look at this from the perspective of no. Koreans or rather because this is whats relevant in this case the north Korean Leadership. North korea like other countries around the world has seen a decade and a half getting on for two decades now where countries were persuaded to give up their weapons of mass destruction and countries such as iraq countries such as libya on the promise that they wouldnt then be interfered with that they didnt need to defend themselves against countries such as United States and those countries were then destabilized on their leaderships deposed by force of arms of course talk about iraq and libya and arguably of course that may well be an issue with syria as well theres also of course given up that day and we may see results of that in the future but nonetheless this is a message around the world to smaller countries in particular particularly those countries of course ive been on the list of the axis of evil United States promulgated of its plans widely known to topple what it sees as any me or unhelpful regimes around the world i say use of the word regimes we would say governments and of course north korea is and has long been on that list and so the only way that it can prevent an attack from the United States from its perception or from its perspective is of course to go the opposite way of these other unsuccessful countries and actually not just maintain its to be indie but actually acquire and refine them and with the previous speaker who says that actually now north korea has arrived at that situation it has arrived at a point at which it now almost certainly is too late for the United States to take military action from military generals charlie or i think really interesting if you look at the history of the ups and downs negotiations here i mean its or its kind of a golden bluff nobody really wants to test it at this point right now ok and i think thats really quite interesting i mean i am not a technical expert in these things here when they tell me this is an i. C. B. M. Or maybe its just an. Immediate missile with extra fuel i mean i i remain agnostic about these things i dont believe the Intelligence Services and i dont believe north korea ok but i do believe in bluff so what do you think ok good sort of in washington before the break. I completely agree with you on that point. He is deterrent is not completely in place but he seems to be sufficiently adequately confident and comfortable in this regard and there is some element of bluffing because we do need to know that he does need some additional testing to to refine that if the parent but that he hasnt played its sufficient for him to book deter the us for it and him for him to feel confident to reengage in a diplomatic process i think he has actually been waiting to see where the trumpet ministration was going when trump was president elect he saw trump to be going more in a hawkish and oppression maximum pressure direction he felt he needed to have the deterrent hes got that deterrent hes now willing to open conversations and so i think theres something fairly pragmatic not just strategic were fairly pragmatic about his approach you know michael right before the break hasnt is back and for the the great Korean Leader interim just highlighted the significance of north korea a way out of proportion because i think it has go ahead michael well it showed that the small guy can stay there the deva can still beat the guy. Happened here is that hes outsmarted the u. S. And and the u. S. Is left hanging dangling and he holds he retains his Nuclear Weapons and at the same time he makes nice with with the south which is fine and brings a little more calm through the situation the problem and i see an emerging within the Trump Administration to send some neocons want to bloody do a bloody nose approach yet and him in a. Target just. To show him that they mean business that could just absolutely ill get you im going to jump in here and on that note gentlemen i jump in here were going to go to a short break and after a short break well continue our discussion on the Korean Peninsula stay with r. T. Young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million doing so today. 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