The morning here in moscow this 25th of november welcome to the program live from the World News Center its this update for you hope you stay with me too for about 25 minutes or so as we go through it so if theres one thing amazon doesnt like to start with it appears that thats losing the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u. S. Defense department after rival microsoft beat the firm to clinch a very lucrative dated contract the decision surprised. In the bag but the route was about more than money taylor explains. Amazon and White Christmas oft 2 giants that have changed the way we experience the world. Yes warm and fuzzy ads to appeal to our pockets over the Holiday Season but it turns out the real money that goes softer is the pentagons own given the u. S. Military spent over 600000000000. 00 annually its unsurprising theres a battle for the big contracts so head to head and microsoft have been vying for the pentagon prize of 10000000000. 00 over the next
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Im phil gal welcome to the program the European Parliament has declared a Climate Emergency the resolution passed with a clear majority in strasbourg lawmakers hope the move will send a powerful signal to the u. N. Climate summit which begins in the trade next week and also way to put pressure on the incoming executive to take a leading role in the global fight against Climate Change so what effect will this declaration half. Show us who is professor of environmental and Climate Policy of the Technical University of munich welcome to. The declaration itself doesnt propose any concrete measures so how significant is it. Well whats important about this measure is that its joining a number of other countries and cities and states that and said the Climate Change problem is really very serious and its so serious we want to make make this aware to everybody and really say this is a Climate Emergency so i think it has symbolic power and it can have Agenda Setting power the European Parliamen
The monday morning here in moscow this 25th of november welcome to the program live from the r. T. World news center is kevin though in with his update 1st not just mentioned in those headlines a whistleblower is casting doubt on the way the International Chemical weapons watchdog handled last years alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma you may recall it made so many headlines that a leaked internal email now from an unnamed employee at the o. P. C. W. Claims the organization cherry picked and misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks coincides with the o. P. C. W. s 5 Day Conference in the hague which starts in a few hours time will be across but. Correspondents easier for us he goes down of a morning what is this o p c w stuff a claim that in a bit more detail. Well kevin 1st of all just to. Just to not misrepresent anything myself the o. P. C. W. Meeting in the hague they will not be discussing this whistleblowers at least this is not on the age
Is casting doubt on the way the International Chemical weapons watchdog handled last years alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma a leaked internal email from an unnamed employee at the o p c w claims that the organization cherry picked and misrepresented facts in its official report the released by wiki leaks coincides too with the o p c w 5 Day Conference in the hague which starts in just a few hours time lets go to europe our correspondents for cissie goshdarn off today a go morning youd think this might have a renewed focus to the o. P. C. W. s imminent conference is it raising eyebrows in the hague this thing weve mentioned theyre starting in a few hours. Well karen even if it does theyre trying to keep a straight face there on the agenda of this annual meeting is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in the room because it was compiled by one of. The co authors of the o. P. C. W. s report into o