Their welcome to weekend round up from international in moscow by name calling bright 1st then top officials from around the world are converging on munich this saturday for day 2 of the annual security conference its the biggest event of its kind and among the talking points is the wests a losing its role on the world stage the situation in syria and iran tensions our europe correspondent peter all of a look at what to expect. Its day 2 of this years Munich Security Conference and theres plenty for World Leaders to be discussing here at the bavarian capital what this is the overarching theme of this years 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 theyd catch some by surprise but when you listen to the participants at the conference its 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 afg
Morning at 9 here. Watching thanks for making our senior political news this hour 1st to germany where top officials from around the world converging on munich this saturday for day 2 of the annual security conference is the biggest event of its kind and among the talking points is the west losing its role in the world stage the situation in syria and tensions with iran our europe correspondent peter all of a look at what to expect. Its day 2 of this years Munich Security Conference this plenty for World Leaders to be discussing here at the very capital. This is the overarching theme of this years conference described as the declaiming role of western nations on the world stage and the shaking up of International Relations and defense choice for a theme the catch so by surprise but when you listen. To the participants at the conference its 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 be
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 its called the joint enterprise defense Infrastructure Project for short and its a Cloud Computing storage contract at the end of last year but its all stressed the importance of the military project but as caleb maupin reports hes 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 were going t
Pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew but also to have cspan with us this evening. We are also Live Streaming this on the udc facebook page. For those of you who want to find it later, you can go to our page, i think. We are going to upload it on youtube, as that correct . So, again, i am sharon pratt, the founding director of the institute of politics, policy, housed aty, which is the university of the district of columbia. We were launched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a very strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the history of this country. Because unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. While we have topics of contemporary interest, we always try to drill down on
Is on the wests waning role of the world stage. Welcomes your weekend world update from r. T. International in moscow with me 1st to the battle of the billionaires then and 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 after washington gave the 10000000000. 00 deal to rival microsoft the lawsuit argues that donald trump was biased in his decision against amazon supremo jeff bezos in a feud between them stretching back to trumps 1st president ial campaign. He wants political influence so that amazon will benefit from it if i become president oh do they have problems take it outside of my view is thats not an appropriate way for a president ial candidate to behave or using the Washington Post for power so that the politicians in washington dont 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