this is. from berlin puritanical and driven by a hatred of men tonight the french actress catherine didn't move attacks the hash tag mean. she accuses it of conducting a witch hunt against men and she writes have the accusers of abusers have they gone too far or has and she simply missed the point also coming up to borders journalists face up to fourteen years in prison in myanmar for trying to reveal what they say is the truth about the military's crackdown on the. mark uses them of

breaking the law and says they must now be called to account plus political parties here in germany are stepping up efforts to reach an agreement to start a coalition talks but they say there's still a lot of work to do. and some of the obstacle. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with the french actress catherine and at least another one hundred women have signed an open letter criticizing the hash tag me to movement they accuse its supporters of under estimating women's ability to simply say no and of ruining the lives of innocent men and its critics have called her an apologist for rape but is she right has it gone too far in a moment we're we'll try to hear both sides of the argument we begin with this

report. should be free to head on women this response to recent feminist social media campaigns comes from catherine deneuve seen here portraying an attractive housewife half a century ago. with them circulating french actress at the men have been some really punished or forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone psni or try to still the kids. and the other women's target the me too movement which emerged from the rape allegations against hollywood producer harvey weinstein in october they say the movement amounts to puritanism and poses a threat to sexual freedom. their opinion trickett fetus reactions from french feminists who denounced aletta exhibition like the all quit work clique and knowing who doesn't understand what's happening. does it could really in this letter

published in le monde you find all the stereotypes that we have to deal with every day by the office coffee machine or at family dinners and. the letter also prompted a backlash on social media. actress a gentle one of the first accused weinstein wrote that the women who signed it telling the wote how their interiorized to massage any hazlitt bottom ice them to the point of no return. strong views on both sides and that means to debate could still have a long way to go. now those are some strong words maybe we've got some strong analysis to go with that to talk about it i'm joined here in the studio by smart she is from our news desk she has reported on women's issues and via skype from washington d.c. christina hoff sommers joins us she's a resident scholar at the u.s. conservative think tank the american enterprise institute to both of you welcome to the show does here want to start with you i mean you heard that report strong

language there are we in the middle of something that's equivalent to the french revolution and it's off with their heads they're being the men while oh if it's a revolution that brings equality liberty equality fraternity or that in this case instead of brotherhood sisterhood then i would say that's great pets. is being a little like marie antoinette when she was asked but why then your majesty the poor are starving and she said i mean to take a position of great privilege i think does not help you understand those who really are disempowered and we've heard you say they have the nerve understands the people who are not empowered and she also is in a position of. privileges and she's chosen a position of great privilege and i think as an actress. her pink has been in the twentieth century when women were empowered to buy them beauty by their

sexuality this was really one of the easiest ways to empowerment and she has benefited from hugely now we have access to other ways and i think that's what the me two campaign is trying to spread through the well let me pull in because you know let me ask you christina what do you make of what we're hearing from france well i'm very interested in what happened in the has to say and i think she's she's a one of the great artists she just it wasn't merely because she was beautiful she was also a very talented and it's hired actress and a very feminist much a feminist and you know was never a shrinking violet and it's interesting to hear her speak because i too i welcome the need to reckoning i think that we have to bring the workplace up to twenty first century standards but we don't want

a witch hunt and we do not want to. restore a kind of a tory and where is where is the where's the bench is that we're going to look up and we're on skype so there's a delay but i go ahead if you could where's the witch hunt. we have have for example lists names of men who are in journalists. circulated on social media it's called the well i can't say the word but there's something that men list some of the men were guilty others were not there were names put there that didn't belong there so in these men have been damaged so there's a kind of culture of you know whisper campaigns now if you come to like matt damon if he wanted to introduce some distinctions between acting in an you know borish way versus the criminal predator and he was reviled and you know social media

campaigns organized him for introducing you what's if we can't have new us if we can't have distinctions we are you know flirting with fanaticism we have a lot of experience with that united states we have the mccarthy era we've had witch hunt before and i mean there's a point there to worry she says you know we we could be going from one extreme to the other and what about if someone is accused of sexual harassment or sexual abuse and they're innocent is there room for due process right now. i think they do these men and i'm not career annihilation and there's. you sometimes you don't even know who the accusers are and there's and it's scary now having said that i there's a lot that i agree with and there were many look at harvey weinstein and others

that were getting away with just reprehensible in some cases criminal behavior of prisoners it up the creeps there's not we're not rule of the workplace and not let me jump in here for just a second still me as did also about this due process what about the safety and the names that if the names that have come on and they say lists this is not one woman accusing one man these are always multiple complaints and he's ations i don't know what ten use. i think they say use of the word which count is really incredible because the witch hunt was very very powerful main when the name of religion. seeking out women who had very little power perhaps the power to heal perhaps some sexual power and pesach in taking those women so what chance has got a certain irony to it and that's why you bothered on monday night at the golden

globes that not a single male nominee or winner mentioned these movements or or what's been going on many of those men will black and that was enough for you that was enough for me ok before we're running out of time here let me go back to christina and let me ask you this christina isn't it possible though that we're in a place right now where we need to have this catharsis and that things will stabilize and most people i've talked to most stories i've heard have been so horrible that you know the men involved needed to be fired immediately but isn't it possible that the pendulum will swing a little bit and that won't reach a normal see where sexual harassment maybe hopefully doesn't happen yes that's my hope but then that means that they are mind women and i have heard in the that category and many many american women have spoken out written in just in the new

york times several articles by women reaching back and saying let's not forget about basic fairness let's not push best not forget about it let's move forward let's not let's not push back let's move forward because i giving a voice to women who have been silenced for too many centuries islands women. don't silence women who want to introduce a note of. reason and restraint and what will what about the walls christina the walls are already there and in all of us and all companies now there are rules there are workshops we know how to behave already so if people misbehave then shouldn't they be punished yes and but we should have some sort of understanding in the workplace of what sort of punishments that there would be one of the rules you know the standards for evidence can you challenge

your accusers we haven't answered these questions and so there are going to be this is going to be a lot of people who are we've already seen this in the united states people who appear to have been falsely accused wrongly accused i mean even concerned about al franken senator al franken being driven out of office why couldn't he have gone through a process you know why couldn't the voters decide you know those are various thrown out and that's a very good point because they definitely were out of time but i'm sure we'll be talking about this again christina hoff sommers joining us tonight from washington from the american enterprise institute and also smart here from our news desk thinking of the side that we need more me to both of you you thank. i did other news tonight myanmar's military says that its soldiers summarily executed ten rohingya muslims in september referring to those killed as terrorists

or was the first public admission of wrongdoing by the army since it began a crackdown on ethnic written job last august the admission appears in a statement on the facebook page of the military's commander in chief senior general meaning along now more than six hundred thousand were hinge or have fled their homes into neighboring bangladesh by the violence in brookline state meanwhile prosecutors in me and maher have charged two journalists from reuters the borders news agency with violating the country's official secrets act and that's despite widespread international condemnation the pair say that they were trying to report on the military's crackdown on revenge of muslims. journalist milo managed to smile as a so just paraded him outside the courthouse but he and colleague charged scene here in aggression that a facing serious charges prosecutors allege they collected secret documents related to the military situation remains tight. but according to wile alone they're

actually in jail for trying to tell the truth about what's happening in a cane or not lemme go over this is unacceptable i want to tell you that they are charging us like this to stop us finding the truth their actions are wrong and unfair. and so do a bevy where you've got to get a few journalists have ventured into wrecking state since last summer they are images of what the united nations coast the textbook ethnic cleansing going on there they show burning writing give villages and locals fleeing the violence. the me and my army strictly controls access to read. it is allowed few journalists in and only under the conditions it sets the reuters journalists say they were there to report ethically and truthfully but they were arrested under the old laws on secrecy after visiting regain their families have been devastated by the arrests they convinced their loved ones they innocent. every minute to get out and he told

me not to worry because he didn't do anything wrong. he voted for this government so to get i know he strongly believes that he will be released soon. i hope that also the only way that you know get them out of your family i mean to sit in on the jailing of the reuters journalists is caused an outcry both inside and outside me and my colleagues gathered outside court the fear among many myanmar is stepping up its crackdown on those who try to report a great humanitarian crisis. britain's chris froome has been urged by the director of the tour de france to dispel rumors of a doping violation christie said the thirty two year old must provide an explanation as quickly as possible for his blood was found to have twice the legal amount of an album a drug spain's twenty seventeen. tour which he went on to win explain

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