an army so the u.s. says i'm going to create another force to patrol and control and secure syria's border with turkey what does this mean turkey is not an enemy or syria turkey is not an enemy of to us turkey is a member of nato so it didn't make sense and i think turkey was a quite right in person having this step as a direct threat to its national security in light of the recent events the us state department issued rather measured statement the department spokeswoman said turkey should ensure that its military operations were limited in time and scope after the turkish president earlier today accused allies of providing military support to the kids with washington first and foremost in the line of fire as bullets leah now explains. president added one has come out with guns blazing and some pretty harsh rhetoric for the trump administration loves us all good about america do not

encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience i told brock obama the same unfortunately i don't get any response. those who say they are the backing of the us will not stand turkish nation it is our national struggle is essentially turning on and has allies he's accused the west of providing weapons and ammunition to the kurdish militia he says that aside from five thousand trucks weapons and ammunition from some two thousand planes has been provided the turkish president also saying to quote that his allies are dishonest when they do not admit to the fact that they have been supplying weapons to terrorists and of course he's referencing the kurdish militia known as the y.p. g france is calling for an urgent item nations security council meeting while at the same time germany has expressed that it is extremely concerned with these

developments particularly saying that the culture later risks that could result from this confrontation between turkey and the kurds is something that might mount at the same time we are hearing from meet turkish foreign minister who says that anyone who does not support took his actions in the african region essentially is siding with the terrorists and will be dealt with accordingly so what we see is some pretty harsh rhetoric coming from ankara particularly towards its allies essentially saying that it will not support that they get involved in warning them that they could potentially take further action or turkey's military action against the kurds in syria has triggered protests across europe people took to the streets of a number of capitals to denounce the incursion and to demand a deescalation of the crisis the following developments on the turkish syrian border throughout the day.

this week the two koreas agreed to march together under a single flag during the upcoming winter olympics the north will now send twenty two athletes to compete in three sports at the games the international olympic committee president thomas barr praised the agreement calling it a milestone in a long journey the two koreas will also form a single team in women's hockey that will be for the first time in the limbic history they will also have a korean folk song as their common and from. officials from both countries have been meeting throughout the week to discuss peace efforts the seemingly approach more between the koreas hasn't convinced the u.s. president who said that he's not sure talks can lead to anything meaningful also this week the u.s. and allies of the one nine hundred fifty s. korean war gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis and they agreed that more pressure is the only solution but. north korea

the sciences to do nuclear and i think what you're clicking now is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure disclose that include cutting off diplomatic ties there is north korea we spoke to human rights lawyer eric serapion he says washington fears dropping out of the spotlight in the korean crisis. president trump somehow believes that this pressure approach is the this is something different than that has been applied before which it isn't and in reality he wants to pull back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u.s. is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it once to have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the

other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u.s. power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver. so over to germany now where the s.p.d. party convention has voted in favor of launching coalition talks an anglo merkel's party and even though the result is what s.p.d. leader martin chills have been campaigning for it's been anything but an easy ride for him as peter oliver explains this was the result that martin schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for but it was real heart in mouth stuff as the leader of the social democrats waited for this result to come in he was visibly nervous waiting for the what was certainly not a forgotten conclusion it ended up being three hundred sixty two votes in favor two

hundred and seventy nine votes against joining the coalition with angela merkel so they are going to go forward with that but what schultz did lay out in a speech there to delegates board members before the vote it was really a speech that was more pleading than it was inspirational he said there was only two options you either go into coalition with angle. merkel we have fresh elections and it was very clear which one he preferred you don't you know you everyone should realize the question is coalition talks for new elections my take on this is very clear i don't think new elections are the right way for us. well it was a visibly relieved martin schulz that received those results he definitely doesn't want another election in the region for that is because of just how badly the last election went for the social democrats and there's no sign of the turning around

anytime soon last time around in september they lost forty seats in almost dipped below twenty percent of votes cast for representatives in the german parliament he's also going to have to look course though if he's going to form this coalition is going to cross some social democratic party red lines namely on quotas for refugees that his party opposes also on social spending which he's party want to see increased and that's why this whole campaign to decide whether the social democrats would go into coalition with angela merkel's conservatives has a vision it's so unwell and truly within the social democratic ranks we saw a big campaign launched by their youth wing saying that they didn't want to be part of government they wanted four years of opposition in order to try and get the party back to the roots where they believe it comes from so how look if this goes as it's being put forward on sunday evening well what it would mean is that the

social democrats would no longer be the largest opposition party they would be part of the government again and that would mean that the main opposition party well that role would go to the alternative for germany the right leaning anti establishment party they would get that role it would be new ground for them and they would get everything that comes with it including the traditional role of being the head of the blood. committee. which is quite interesting when you look at it because in the lead up to the previous election martin schultz amongst all the senior members in the social democrats said a f d have known this issue that was so well versed in the bundesliga should have no position in the part of the star in trying to hang on to power he may well put them into the main seat in german opposition. geo political analyst. who says that the social democrats are losing much of their working class support to the right leaning f.t. . d.m.

has already a greater appeal to the work. then that of the s.p.d. which was the original. historic basis for the s.p.d. lead over a century not the s.p.d.m. for example a lot of these very strongly for bringing into germany more refugees. house more in mind the rights of reference he's banned the workers' rights that's at least what a f d portrays the s.p.d. like and what all sort of to perceive. and capitalize on this voyage of the blank space left by the s.p.d. . now on to the university in england has sparked controversy by increasing the length of its exams how women get better grades that story and more after the break .

we're calling mind your area eric out there because like nine hundred talk to brock there said this was their year twenty saturday to go to all kinds of their crazy hours and yeah it sure did barack very thing a bit of a fall back. predictable . you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to go right to proceed with the work of three of the more people. interested in the walk.

or should. welcome back oxford university has extended some of its examinations by as much as fifty minutes to give women the opportunity to achieve better grades apparently women are more quote sensitive to time pressure and stress the men the subjects affected are mathematics and computer science exam times have been increased from an hour and a half to one hundred five minutes that's to allow students to double check their results according to oxford university and the a fifth of women get first in their math finals that compares with almost half of that the new rules were adopted last summer on top of the university's history faculty spot controversy with its decision to scrap traditional exams in favor of take home once again in order to close the perceived gender gap. let's discuss this

in a bit more detail now bring in a couple of guests first of all comedian political activist. and also took to gina loudon who's an author and a psychology expert but for your opinions ladies a lot to come to you first gina from a very interested in your toe you called me stupid sort of this move to be sexist. it sounds completely sexist to me i wouldn't myself want to graduate from a score that everyone would know that i needed remedial time or that the school deemed that i might need it based solely on my gender i think the natural consequences of just being a school that you know except the best in expects the best i think that's the kind of school that most women would want to go to because i believe women can compete. so you got something to say there. well here first of all you're misquoting the story what actually happened is that oxford university decided for certain subjects

to make the exam allocated time longer they didn't decide this for reasons to do with gender they decided this because they thought they wanted to give students more time to double check their results and then what happened they noticed that this led to women doing better and i mean guess what i guess it's not all that surprising to discover that little girls are not brought up brought up to be told double check make sure you're right you know you might not be great at this and boys are told hey you're great you'll be great at this so it's interesting i would ask the question whether it really benefits us to have these super time constructed exams it seems obvious to me that when we do things in real life we do them until we're done you know if you've got a math problem in real life you haven't got three minutes to do it you've got until you figure it out to do it so it seems to me that this sort of constricted time exam is probably not giving us a very good measure of how things work in society if i'm going to hire someone to do math problems for me i would much rather hire the person who does it slowly and

works it out and double checks and makes absolutely sure they got the right answer than the person who writes down the first thing they think of as a guest finishes that are probably fine i mean you know especially if you're an engineer for an airline or you know something like this i would much rather have the person who wants the extra time to double check so i think it's very misleading to suggest that women are being given special extra i just want to pick up on what you. just produced notice that benefits women just getting back to oxford university again if we go back six month this was the history department at the times published a document that included comments from members of staff there where they were saying that women were getting lower marks. that was the reason for then deciding to allow students to take home exams because of this gender gap so surely there's a good reason for people to sit there and think they are. the trying to fudge the results where the you know the motivations are good to try and help more women get better moms what. whatever is happening what is certainly where you get is that

a million women certainly is that under the lame conditions so i don't i don't see what your point is you know. the point is that many women are being sent the same exam now what i would if i was going to say that parents should what's a really good test of someone. i can't . there are if you if you are in grad school what you're doing is you are training most likely to be in the workplace and to compete in the workplace if you're going to compete in the workplace then you're going to lose productivity if you can't do different equations or do things as quickly so that's generally speaking the purpose of time to exams so there is a place and a time for a time to exam now if you are an employer and you want to test those students and i said ok we want to know when that goes back and checks their work a whole lot of times and comes up with their i really tried not to interrupt you

and i'd appreciate if you'd let me finish my thought and so if you want to say well we want somebody who goes back several times and finishes their work he gets everything exactly precise whatever but the point was it was it to do better than them and it was to do as well as that then let's just let the marketplace sort it out with actual diversity and actual competition. isn't there an argument here that just what women are told are also are things than men and men are better at some things the women is not that not sure. well ha ha ha. i'm sorry it's two thousand and eighteen i mean i mean what next to going to be telling me the earth is flat no nobody wants woman run faster than women in the olympics already little different areas why can't there be other differences. well if you'd let me finish my sentence i would have got to that point we absolutely know in the twenty first century that differences in fields like these across gender lines are not to do

with biological imperatives they're to do with the way that young people are raised and we know that because we look at different cultures for example there are parts of the world where mathematics is considered a feminine subject and women out before men in it so we know that it's about the way people are raised and it's not about the way that biology preemptively forms and i might add that i have amassed a great remarks and so i absolutely am certain that women are absolutely capable of doing that sort of thing and what we need to do is to look at the system and say what is it about the system that is making women feel uncomfortable in this subject and it might be about numbers and it might be about the way that things are taught and what can we do to make sure that they achieve their full potential and you know if we're looking at the exam system it's not a question of saying you know how can we make the exam system better for women we need to make an exam system that's really fair and test something really good and useful i'm not saying that we should never have a timed exam i think they're a useful way of measuring things but we should also accept that that's not the only way of measuring people's ability that actually

a bit of flexibility that check me things out and find the best way of making sure that the strongest candidates get the best result because that's surely the society we want to live in to the most things in the in the world move on the evolve they get better with technology and time and yet we're still doing this very old fashioned system of of the written exams to a certain time time notice also some just need to be updated. you know perhaps i think it's always good to update things based on technology that we have but but i think that there is a really big problem here that we're not addressing and that is the politically correct correct presumption of those very often in academia in fact who want to say things like you can't point to differences between men and women it's not ok for you to suggest that there might be a difference between a man and a woman when is fact true diversity is not diversity of skin color that's precisely

what martin luther king for example lobbied against true diversity is diversity of thought and neal you should be allowed to say yes in twenty eighteen that perhaps there may be gender differences that should be ok that should be considered diversity and that should not be laughed off our sloughed off or immediately your called a sexist of some sort that's the problem i have with the way the left wants to define what our gender differences in this in this decade we know come on go ahead because the thing is the thing is to know that of course come on but you know what i mean i mean it's it's not sexist let me say. what a finish is of course it's not sexist to discuss real differences between the genders but the fact is the science has been done on this as a fantastic book by continue to find cool delusions of gender goes through the actual science on this so when people saying all women just aren't as good at least subject that is a scientifically untrue fact and if you want to go now and claim that people from

one group on to students something is another group when that is not in fact true that's not about freedom of expression that's about the freedom to tell a lie that perpetuates discrimination that's already out there and that's not about free expression in the slightest that's about people with outdated old fashioned views you haven't learned the science feeling like they somehow have a right to push it on other people and i'm sorry i have not. confort it is twenty i think you know the discussion about whether the earth is flat and there's no discussion to be had about whether women are capable of it every day out in clear we go in fairs now in afghanistan and i knew when i saw you there that i was going to make but i know that there is fighting is going to allow means gosh in. it's not over and not about only that it was there are differences like we know that men and women women have when they have little doubt about whether or not as men i have learned how to say women don't have that oh ok and it should not be for forbidden for someone to actually out are no nearer to me why is it to say that no one can

talk about other studies that might perhaps be something different than the study or the book that you read i'm not saying that the science you working title is wrong i'm saying if you are lacking in art when you're only on it because it's twenty eighteen as if he's not allowed to say it and it talks over me the entire show while i'm trying to make my point that in and of itself is exactly rejection you know just growing all i feel like i'm calling and that will get no one anywhere because you're just you're you're wanting to limit speech and i ask the question because gina believes that there are obviously differences between it's a city of opinion. you know clearly that the numbers are saying that no there's a million women are getting first in certain and certain areas of study why do you think bodies and will this extra time is not going to make the difference is not the reason. the way that young people are treated based on their gender there's a really serious issue there we know there's a really serious issue there we know from a very young age people based on the gender of

a child treat them differently we know even as versus meant to place before the child is born people right where happy to announce the perfect girl and we're proud to announce the birth of a boy the child hasn't even set foot on this earth and people have decided you'll make us proud your make us happy the way that young boys and young girls are treated there's a real it real clear difference there and as long as young women and young men are treated differently we can't be in the least bit surprised that we get different outcomes and they have different scales and that there are things where some groups are left behind what we need to do is to challenge the sexism at every level and of course what we need to do is make sure that we're building an education system so that everybody can participate in it and that we make sure that in terms of the styles of how we teach we make sure that we teach in ways that both girls and boys can get on board with and get involved with and you know the way that we teach it should be evolving over time and the way that we teach what it shouldn't do is allow for people wandering in and claiming in the name of debate the right to keep

perpetuating things which we just know aren't true and especially when those things are so damaging to young people growing up hearing these messages is really nasty and sinister and i think it's a real shame that this idea that this is some sort of debate that we have a right to have the debates over it's finished we shouldn't be wasting our time debating things where there's nothing left to debate twenty eighteen can women compete in the fields yes they can and if you're a young woman thinking about getting involved in that brilliant go for it and please please don't let people act like you know like like gina put you are so you know i just want to play devil's advocate here and so that you know is it possible that oxford university is seeing that you know the women aren't getting as many first as the men they want to fix it they're not quite sure what the problem is but the kind of fumbling in the dark to try and fix the problem rather we don't get to see cambridge university other universities going on the numbers are up we need to do something to try and boost the numbers of women getting top marks.

look i think it's the right of any university to operate the way they want to and if they want to do that fine i'm simply saying that as a well woman with three post-graduate degrees who has raised two daughters i can say that i would not want to be put in a position where i graduated from a school that used some sort of special means to get me through that to me is not helping me that to me is putting me in at a disadvantage going into the workforce i want to be able to compete i believe in my own abilities to compete i always have i work in a male dominated industry and i've always done fine competing i want to be able to compete based on my own merit my own competition and yes frankly using the things that are different about me that make me uniquely a woman that i happen to be proud of and i don't want to be on a par with mint at every arena i want i want to be able to compete free and clear yes that's for sure but i don't need to be given special advantages or or special enablement to to get through and to be able to compete in the workforce that's not

something that concerns me it's not something i would want to associate myself with and it's not something that i think benefits women in the long run and i want to make well you know do the whole a judge is going to have to interrupt just said that women are not equal vote a really good long good massage and i wish we could continue fortunately the clock has beaten at this point many thanks to you contributions them to gina loudon also the psychology expert comedian and political activist case misled you both could you do well thanks so much guys. and that's with time full even off them. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the

ruling classes project themselves. the final merry go round lifts only the one person. doing all middle of the room sick. the real news is with the world. today there are four million students studying abroad a trend is on the rise in the game of global competition international students are very much coveted the best research graduates are entirely taken care of as for the huge number of students that can afford studying abroad they represent an irresistible financial honeypot the expression global student market has become a household term among university head offices. in france and germany

foreign students don't pay tuition fees just yet but it changes soon to come in england they contribute fourteen billion euros ten billion pounds a year to the national economy a foreign student pays between twenty and thirty thousand euros a year twice as much as the european student and it represents an additional consumer in the country a dream client. so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds. of course they also bring income to the university which is important the largest community chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international

student body. the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester. the president visited we knew it was. during his visit president. matters. not to say demonstrating. the thinnest lightest material. right. state. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of the eighteen years the number of students grew from seven million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chinese new benefiting from the economic boom this year

over seven hundred thousand young chinese studying somewhere in the world a four hundred percent increase in fifteen years and the trend is unlikely to reverse. a new business is multiplying worldwide. companies enrolling students in international universities in terms of commercial office universe does in the u.s. u.k. and australia clinch first place. shop aren't tricky. kernal only adding about it offer our point if it is just out of a competent earn trish what are you going to go up. i don't even want to watch audio where the bulk of your true since you wash your own i don't jim. we are but

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