A gathering of the detained at least a dozen people there. Britains Top Army Official has claimed russia represents the biggest threat since the cold war general nick carter called for more funding to bolster u. K. P. Capabilities the arch exponent of this is russia i believe it represents the most complex and capable state based threat to our country since the end of the cold war they represent a clear and present danger they are not thousands of miles away they are now on europe store step i believe our ability to preempt all respond to these threats will be eroded if we dont match up to them now we cannot afford to sit back. Well military chiefs are asking for more money for new equipment is hardly groundbreaking is pretty Standard Practice however this time it was the acting head of the army normally its retired generals so nick carr said was risking annoying his paid masters with this plea for more funding the purpose of the speech was to warn of the dangers of underinvestment in the u. K. s military especially the dangers of failing to keep up with the Russian Defense spending he spoke of what he called russias orthodox and hybrid warfare and one thing in the speech that was certainly an orthodox was this video clip take a listen no indication of the scale of the ship its clear from a three minute video clip im not going to show you this was run on russian t. V. A couple of years ago you dont need to understand the russian just the sense of the tone of the commentary uses the movie going to be used you see that you do you lose the use of the movie so you have him there saying take a listen to this audiobook ordering of a Russian DefenseMinistry Video talking about investment for new weapons but certainly in our news room which may not be a good indicator we are arty after all but it caused a few people to scratch their heads wondering what they were playing on whether they were playing into this sort of stereotype of russian being aggressive and of being hell bent on World Domination after all nobody could understand that video clip other than hearing the russian language now nick carter isnt the first person to talk about russia as a threat in military terms just in december the head of the u. K. s Defense Staff was also rallying for more money when he was talking about the threat of russia cutting vital undersea cables now none of this is really ruffled downing Street Vendors including this speech today a spokesperson for downing street allows the prime. Office said that the u. K. Defense budget is the highest in europe and the issues are outlined by already being addressed its also worth pointing out that when theyre not asking for more money members of the u. K. Military tend to be somewhat more blahs a about the whole russia thing lost some of the venues and secretary michael found and he joked that most was probably jealous of the princes new state of the art as frost carrier because russias is pretty dilapidated and at the same time today youve got the u. K. Foreign secretary Boris Johnson hes meeting for talks with his u. S. Counterpart Rex Tillerson theyre going to be talking about iran north korea and syria russia isnt on the agenda. Security analyst a troll troubridge told us the biggest threat facing the u. K. Military is under investment not russian aggression. What weve got here is a situation where interestingly today even those sections of the u. K. Media play up the socalled russian threat amongst their headlines much deeper insight that analysis on this speech from that car today theres some degree of cynicism about what it is that hes actually saying and the reason for that is because of this conflict this below the surface conflict that is going on and particularly acute at this time what a defense Spending Review is underway about to get under way yet another phase of the British State of the British Military in terms of the number of its personnel the number the amount of its equipment and the quality of that quitman is at a picture for you know nothing is bad is a situation entirely of the u. K. Defense establishment is making because they have instead of opting for equipping soldiers or the best equipment numbers they have chosen very expensive Capital Projects such as the two oclock hour that is now the support that will be the pride of the navy despite what i want to have across to you known them for some years and of course the try to Nuclear Deterrent both of which eats up a vast proportion of the defense budget. Prison officers across france have blockaded dozens of jails and protest over a lack of security thats after numerous attacks by inmates on staff. As latest repairs this is a nationwide strike of prisons across france with the union saying that around one hundred thirty one hundred eighty eight prisons took place in a particular strike now europes largest prison which is just south of paris the protesters there actually blockaded the prison with tires with wooden pallets they burnt them off to something that we have seen at other prisons across france as well quite a normal tactic to block those prisons now this is now the eighth stay over these nationwide blockades and this comes just over a week ago there was an attack on three security. Guards out of prison in the north of france by a man whos a convicted terrorist now that sparked off these latest process but since then in the last week or so they have been several other incidents at prisons in france including an incident on sunday in which two guards were assaulted again now the unions and the Prison Guards themselves say that they want more working conditions to be more secure for the dangerous prisoners for those prisoners whove been radicalised to be isolated in the jails. We continue because today there is nothing if you things that have been announced by the chancery in the trade unions the staff of rejected entirely were blocking everything were blocking a prisoner. We will block all of france in terms of security we want concrete things including materials that allow prison staff to work in safety well of course Prison Guards and Police Officers are normally on the same side of the fence defending justice but in this occasion there are actually on different sides of the fence different sides of the opinion and what we have seen is conflicts and clashes between the two including tear gas being used at times take a look at some of whats been happening outside the prisons in france was. Was. Was. Was. The president himself has offered to unveil a radical reform of prisons across france that is due to be unveiled at the end of next month but its going to come a long way away from this process which looks set to continue unions again on monday night called for yet another day of blockades outside frances prisons. President trump has just approved a short term funding plan to end a Government Shutdown publicans and democrats have been locked in a standoff over the fate of undocumented migrants and has more. Well after three days it looks like a bill has now been signed into law that will keep the u. S. Government once again up and running the u. S. Government has been shut down for the past three days but we now understand that donald trump has gone ahead and signed the bill that was passed first by the u. S. House and then the u. S. Senate that would bring the u. S. Federal government into motion once again for at least two weeks as negotiations continue regarding the dhaka immigration debate the votes that came down in the house of representatives it was two hundred sixty six two hundred fifty and in the senate it was eighty one to eighteen now we also want to further illustrate exactly what it means that the u. S. Federal government is being shut down so take a look at what this really means right. America knows this is that from shutdown figures those who were shut down so they took that nice little ring to it doesnt it Senate Democrats shut down this government a big fat failure and. At the moment in the lead up to the voting hour we heard in both the house and the u. S. Senate we heard democrats and republicans blaming each other for the shutdown now this Government Shutdown has not been without an International Reaction we actually heard from china an article was published in Chinese State media. Talking about how essentially there appeared to be kind of a spirit of noncooperation in washington d. C. Now the article that was published in Chinese Media went on to talk about how the Government Shutdown was kind of a slap in the face to donald trump and from there it went on to talk about how the you know the trumpet ministration has undone many of the key policies of trumps predecessor barack obama now the article went on to point out that around the world the usa and their political system is upheld as kind of an icon is a system that is just ideal its the best way for countries to operate and this is kind of the view of what they call the developed world of the u. S. Political process but they pointed to the Government Shutdown and the extreme disagreements and the kind of gridlock in washington and in the Chinese Press it was widely argued that this was a sign of political chaos and a chaotic system being in place in washington d. C. Americas National Security agency has the power to identify people by the sound of their voice the n. S. A. Is thought to be using Technology Much more advanced than that of apple or amazon thats according to a report based on documents leaked by the agencys former contractor Edward Snowden involved picks up the story for us however from the top of my voice there isnt much i can gather up my identity or you can tell im female and based on my accent youre going to im american i love your life the n. S. A. However could do a lot more easily using my voice to identify who i am what language im speaking my gender and my dialect according to cost by documents from the archives the n. S. A. Has been developing technology to identify a speaker using just their voice for years when sigyn to transcribers work the same targets for a long time they sometimes can identify a certain individual in recorded conversations just by the sound of his voice and by his unique way of speaking this process was traditionally known as voice identification now. Rapidly improving technology is available that can do the same job mathematically the Technology Works by analyzing your voice is unique features to create an individual voice print and once the n. S. A. Has that a single speaker can be almost instantaneously pinpointed even among massive databases now in two thousand and sixteen alone the n. S. A. Horded more than one hundred fifty one million records of americans phone calls and that was after their bulk collection abilities were limited by congress so theres no telling how many boyfriends they could have at their disposal and theoretically a person could be instantly located and tracked down as long as a microphone is somewhere nearby and as Edward Snowden pointed out theres almost no escaping mix these days i dont think anybody would dog the police. Chase terrorists paedophiles who dont so clearly about trust just because he says i what were talking about is everybody everything piece of data the value for people to be collected and scanned by software they he would look steve you and he could Start Talking see people involved in very legitimate things like demonstrations stroy x. Even you know people who vote the wrong way this was the American Government is considered another fear is that speaker recognition could end up discouraging people from speaking out it has the potential to unmask Anonymous Sources or tracking journalists or whistleblowers and according to the intercept this technology isnt only in american hands either it looks like interpol the European Union and china have their own version as well among others so you can run but you definitely cannot hide. Germanys drawn out wait for a new government could be on the verge of a breakthrough so as democrats leader martin short has persuaded his Party Members to vote in favor of reestablishing of the grand coalition with chancellor Angela Merkels party however this could see the migrant alternative for Germany Party become the main Opposition Force in the country as artist put her over explains. All this was the result that Martin Schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for but it was a visibly very worried martin childes waiting for those results that came in he gave a speech just before the ballots were cast he said that there were only two options it was either go into coalition with Angela Merkels conservative bloc or theyd have to be another election and he was very clear on which one hed prefer that you do you know you everyone should realize the question is Coalition Talks for new elections my take on this is very clear i dont think new elections are the right way for us but what would a coalition do for the bundestag and how would the book to stagg look if a new grand coalition can be formed what it would do is it would mean that the social democrats who are no longer the Largest Opposition Party that would go to the new kids on the block of target of germany they would be the Largest Opposition Party they would also get all of the or perks and traditions that come along with that including being the chair of the Bundestag Budget Committee all new ground for the right leaning and tea Establishment Party a party in fact in which Martin Schultz and many other senior members of the social democrats have decried as racist before the election in september and said that they shouldnt be taking up seats within the bundestag well in an attempt to try and hang on to power for himself may well catapult them up into the position of being germanys largest opposition. The push for a second grand coalition has had a polarizing effect on s. P. D. Members of the parties on the left are also warning the social democrats they are jeopardizing their future as of yet. There is no more appropriate term than political suicide to describe this because if the s. P. D. Really carries on like all the things they were punished for in the last election then i dont know what will be left of them in two or four years time and thats just thats the vicious circle been trapped in for so many years now and that we should break it really a. Democratic party another coalition with another four years of government government. Bring us to this point i think that the peoples body is thinking long term and that the party will be destroyed by the grand coalition. Martin. M. P. From via left wing party. Believes the social democrats have long been drifting away from their core values there is a long term process which is followed by this decision when we see the social democrats just since ten or fifteen years. Original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. The interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population is just. This process. Which appears completely now household chores can take on a whole new meaning when you are floating in zero gravity a russian cosmonaut was filmed using a vacuum cleaner on the International Space station. You know. All the things they do for fun in space space is cool watch my International Back with headlines in about thirty one minutes to. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business im showbiz most ill see you then. You know order to overthrow a regime it does take popular discontent and Popular Mobilization but it also requires actors with in the leadership of the regime who feel that the regime is no longer serving the National Interest you need people in the military or the bureaucracy or both who are willing to see the regime change otherwise they would be able to put down a popular revolt that did not have support at higher levels. This is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d. C. Im part shelton. 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