italy might be the first g seven nation to join china's global trade network the belt's initiative despite growing concerns in other western countries about it we're covering that there's. also the headlines this thursday morning u.k. prime minister says the twenty ninth of march deadline is. do they want to leave without a deal. or do they not want to leave which will cause it potentially irreparable damage to public trust this government has led the country. into crisis chaos and division. tensions flare in the russian far east and city of your could scare

after the rape of a local woman is blamed on a migrant from central asia police to get to confirm the nationality of the suspect . and seems men in america see sexual harassment at work as a less of a problem now that it was on the rise the me too movement at twenty seventeen a new poll reveals we ask our guests want to change. the rules have changed and we're not playing that game anymore and that's what's happening man are getting caught and they want to go back to how to be real except said categorizing our castigating as one whole massive violent group. good morning telling them first may twenty first of march my name is kevin owen hoping to stay with me for next thirty minutes for this live update from out international h.q. moscow first the new european nations and the u.s. are concerned over italy's determination to take part in china's global trade

network the so-called belt and road initiative chinese president xi jinping is jew in italy later thursday to discuss the details of a possible agreement within a question of his got more. the bad boy or the godfather of the euro skepticism is silly it's once again tough thing relations with the e.u. with rome now pushing to join trying this road and ballot initiative as report of a setting off alarm bells in brussels and getting backs up in washington to. italy's a major global economy and great investment destination no need for italian government to lend legitimacy to china's infrastructure vanity project and dosing boat initiative lends legitimacy to china's predatory approach to investments a moving no benefits the italian people it's really could become the first member of the so-called group of seven the most powerful nations to join trying this in bush's plan to boost connectivity between asia europe and africa.

local businesses will likely view the project as a positive with major ports being referred to an investment into the millions of dollars as got the italian press already speculating over a once forgotten port becoming trying as a gateway to europe the ports a tree estas returning to the logistical world for europe that had for the old austria-hungary an empire business opportunity as the site of the italian prime minister will be forced to explain his decision. of the belton road memorandum between italy and china is primarily economic and commercial it does not put into question our european atlantic position it does not put our national interests at

risk and it is on the same page as european strategy his cabinet alcoves those words saying that the deal would be non-binding and would just represents the initial framework everything to come their european partners who have labeled as beijing a systemic rival especially allies on the other side of the atlantic it's called one bill one road it's global and if you look at the spots where there are who are there there are engaging in you see some geo political and military aspects we will not allow china to develop its so-called one belt one road strategy even china's cutesy promus haven't helped change americans' minds. and. the. breaking barriers when making history in this town. after it's see the chinese leader is planning his next stop in paris but here the. expectations of tards going well are

not as promising. britain's prime minister's admitted the country will not be able to leave the e.u. with a deal in place by the march twenty ninth deadline in a statement outside ten downing street truism a pointed a finger firmly in parliament for the chaos. two years on m.p.'s have been unable to agree on a way to implement the u.k.'s withdrawal. as a result we will now not leave on time with a deal on the twenty ninth of march. this delay is a matter of great personal regret for me so let's take a step back to where this directs at saka began this week now it follows a letter sent by to reason made to donald tusk requesting and asking for an official breck extension now the letter clearly shows that with just nine days to go to west supposedly leaving the european union that deadline would be nigh on impossible to ratify a deal constructively so now june the thirtieth is what the prime minister really

wants and i'm responding to that question donal's suggested the request probably get backing for the rest of the e.u. twenty seven leaders on one condition that being that terrorism is twice rejected deal finally gets backing from across the house in parliament believe the show to extend would be possible. to have the condition of positive votes on those dollars we learned in the house of commons so if those conditions are not met well grex in that case is still just nine days away now back here in westminster theresa may has received no ray of backlash for her decision to request a delay all she's doing is running around the clock after a second heavy duty to do it was just marks one thousand days since the referendum and this government is lead the country. into crisis chaos and division so now

all eyes are on the e.u. and britain in the summit on thursday and friday off this week to try and break the deadlock that has defined the last one thousand days here in britain of course nobody really anticipated would still be in a deadlock still across the house and the public division is really the word that encapsulates the sentiments across the house international history of the first things to reason most taken a huge go for it to be threatening parliament. i think super leaves that if you are right at the last minute and duke says if the only alternative is no deal then our opponents will collapse but of course many of our opponents in the country don't want a deal they want no deal so the be quite happy for the deal to fail the fact remains that suit it goes to the dreadful deal most people don't like it most people think it's not to the british interest the public against it actively once against it

except because this deal is all brussels and does nothing for the united kingdom if i see if the speaker allows the deal to come back if it does come back i think it will fail again then two groups use the shorter. and i mean at that stage the european union might just say it will goodbye its new deal. american men are apparently less convinced now that sexual harassment in the workplace is such a big deal as compared to back in twenty seventeen when the me too movement started according to a new poll a gallup survey found that fifty three percent of men see workplace harassment as a problem that's down than from sixty six percent with a me too movement exploded after a series of sexual assault allegations against powerful men but the other side of this it seems people are more sensitive to the problem gallup suggested that the way the story's been covered in the media may have changed men's attitudes. during

that time a torrent of sexual misconduct allegations have been leveled against well known men and widely covered in the media this preponderance of news coverage may have men on the defensive or maybe they had a strong reaction in the immediate wake of the weinstein allegations and the start of the meeting movement but they may have become somewhat desensitized to the issue since then we put the new findings up for debate and it seems the need to move it is still a polarizing topic whatever the numbers say. what they said in their in their study was simply that there is a discrepancy between men who are democratic as well as men who are republican and it seems as though that drop is more heavy leaning towards the republican man maybe it has something to do with the hearing on brett kavanaugh i think that a lot of men right now are a little concerned that this situation could happen to them and it's got them only deepens cavanagh hearings brought to light how false accusations

going back years and years that have zero evidence can actually be used against someone later in their career and i think we've seen so many false accusations that many americans especially constitution loving americans fear rightly so perhaps that due process could be undermined if it's a if it's a she said it and we have to believe it scenario dating back to when women first entered the workplace the forty two fifty s. and sixty's the seventy's there have been women who have not said a word why because the culture and the temperature in the climate was never an acceptable place and time for them to present their issues and so the old boys club or old boys network was allowed to function in this in this way were met with four million were able to do what they wanted to do and women weren't respected in the

workplace and they were able to take advantage of women the rules have changed and we're not playing that game anymore and that's what's happening men are getting caught and they want to go back to hell things used to be and so they don't want to acknowledge the fact that. sexual harassment is still a very pervasive issue and since twenty seventeen you know i. am actually the gross platitudes that your guest is using i take i take real exception with categorizing our cast. hating men as a one whole massive violent group while casting women as some sort of one whole massive group of victims that is just not true there is a grey area in that you're not at all where ideas were having a rational earthiness placement if we're going to have if we're going to have a rational conversation you hunter i read me we're having a congress i'm good or bad and yes some women have made false out of it and yes some because you were going on yes some women have made false accusations it is an absolute provable fact and so until you are ready to have

a conversation like that are going to be caught up in all the same hypocrisy that many on this side of the me too movement that has become so radicalized that they think all men are evil and all women are victims. here racial tensions are fled in the far east of russia the city if you could scroll through a central asian migrant was accused of kidnapping and raping a local woman protests across the city accompanied by verbal and physical threats left many migrants fearing for their lives it goes down or school bus story this morning. but for. what. this is the reality for central asian immigrants in the far eastern russian city of you could see they've coexisted with locals for years peacefully but they say they no longer feel welcome so good i might not get that we should give you but. one of them you could you could do worse

will salute and while they don't want to leave their lives and little businesses they have behind they're scared to stay because they came here and threatened us with a gun they said shut everything down and go home you won't live here anymore. xenophobic sentiment surged in the sabeer in city after a local woman was abducted and raped the media outed a migrant from kyrgyzstan as the key suspect and the city snapped sporadic protests violent attacks and an attempt at storming a mosque many now want the whole day asper to make amends for the crime of a few individuals the local authorities while saying the crime has no nationality also said exactly what the morgue wanted to hear a guest insulting a host in his house is no longer a guest but an enemy. we are in our homeland in our city we're the

masters of our land and we need to make sure everyone understands that officials have also promised to hunt down and deport everyone who's moved into the city illegally they've called on people not to take matters into their own hands the police have been detaining those delivering mob justice and charging them with administrative offenses also to quell the hatred law enforcement have published official thing for some and have published a first. the to stix showing that out of almost three hundred cases of rape in the region last year only four were committed by foreigners the key demand now is that if we quick and transparent investigation and members of the migrant community support this call for justice or the rapist must be brought into the streets and punished publicly so that others never do the same. but the damage has been done already and there's no obvious way of defusing tensions at this point most

immigrants still choose to keep their shops cafes and market stalls shut in fact dozens of city buses stayed in their depos following the riots immigrant drivers were too afraid to show up for work for them it's better to lose some money rather than their lives it goes down of reporting a good time to live without international of the break polar but it is on the line he's a professor of early modern european history will get the lowdown from him in our top story italy go against the grain with expanding cooperation with china it's coming up.

the wealthy in america decided we're all playing anymore we're going to just grab as much as we can of the cash out there in the system and put it offshore and that's why there is now twenty two trillion offshore and battle of credit in the system the central bank instead of punishing the banks just flooded the system with more of the fia money and then those who are the paranoid yachts versus the mob decided you know we're going to put more offshore so they just keep trying and shipping it off shore and it's completely bypassing the economy and so the economy is getting more starved for credit and the people are getting more rest.

did round the world good morning from me kevin international this morning but to a top story that has promised italy's looking to join a chinese trade initiative much the annoyance of washington and other western partners let's bring in poland but a daily professor of european history university in coastal italy lovely part of the world of the morning sir taking the time to be with us so what's it lee hoping to achieve here with this deal that's going to ruffle some feathers in europe certainly isn't it and america. while i think it's going to achieve the i mean you know that. this is major. affecting a large part of italian economy i mean we need. to have strong going for the export of relation with china and china is actually. probably a revamp and given new life for some time and they're going to have him to have been a you know and also my own cd jane over there are involved more or less to to wire

less we yeah but i do the tell you can china has unilaterally a part of the european club like it or not and you should be doing this really at the behest of the rest of the european clubs in u. . well yes yes i mean not not not all the major states knew of or happy about that but i think it is only staking a new path in the relations a little itself as with the european union part of it means we are getting more freedom and there we are large the. economy is stagnant and we had a sever problem with the relation with the other you part of this is the show for migration problems and so we start we are starting to act on our own on our own initiative and i think this is going that's going to lead to trouble again i'm sort of but i am but i mean i have been given this freedom by brussels are you taking this freedom if you like from. more taking than giving i mean we are taking the

freedom i mean we are we are taking the single because we desperately need to give a new fuel to our economy italy is in this equation which is called a recession certainly speculation and i think china can be a really major problem for anybody and if you see what italian scene is now the second surname amount of the surname in the probably somewhere around of four point four million people used for the first this is also a typical italianate that they go into so we have already a strong chinese immediately and i think it's a positive presence the. people who are the working and respectful of the locals and i mean. and i very much praise the state that whichever it is that we need should be before these are general feeling on the street from hardworking people whereas in strategists just the other day i've got a friend they call joe he's a builder e works really odd he says you know despite it all taxes are so high he wants out

of the european union i was quite surprised to hear that joe's a sensible guy what's the general feeling on the string of hard work in italian that i've had enough of europe they want to look eastward they want to look elsewhere broadly risings. we are looking to i mean it and a new. initiative that we will also affect the all the central asia will affect russia because it is actually all these six lines six lines of all of way the. passing of the land the land lines are passing through central asia and so on and so i think these were the revamp and the relation between that you are in asia and the and you will be just western off the people of asia and we have to think about that in the very timing your aunt eunice in could you in saw i will but relations with america i mean it's really an american who's had strong contacts. visit

a lot of italians over in america officially washington says they're going to be consequences if italy goes ahead and does this what are those consequences and if italy worried. no i don't think it's a worry i don't think there really is i don't like this way of threatening states a little state like that in the u.s. ok jalali does and i mean i think i think. we have a peaceful relation with the united states that we have a huge input there with the united states but i don't see the point at all even sex where relations with china i mean we are in the global economy we have to think only global scale and west brom things not always thinking this way ok julie you must it doesn't so what i personally think that i think that you do. seem to say we follow the good stuff with the station to get entire world we will have an effort positive balance in the world well we'll follow the story carefully thanks you're in for this morning appreciate opponent but

a deep professor of any modern history learned from como in a silly have a good day. and i say thank you. german politicians have lashed out at the u.s. ambassador to the country calling for him to be expelled as our next story richard grenell is openly criticize berlin's plans to reduce its defense spending. nato members clearly pledged to move towards not away from two percent by twenty twenty four that the german government would even be considering reducing its already an acceptable commitments to military readiness is some signal to germany's twenty eight nato allies mr grant always a total failure of a diplomat all of this behavior is rather boorish with his repeated clumsy provocations mr grenell is harming transatlantic relations since mr greenwood took up his post as ambassador in berlin he has and several occasions quite conspicuously interfered in the internal affairs of the federal republic of germany

his behavior in the host countries anything but diplomatic and rather reminiscent of the governor of an empire they're referring to a goal which was set of the nato summit five years ago he's been repeatedly accused of trying to pressure german politicians and business leaders mr goodnow also used germany to pull out of urged rather joni to pull out of the north stream gas pipeline project with russia former u.s. diplomat jim jeffords things perlin is starting to question its alliance with washington. mr grinnell does have president trump's personal support now there was talk that mr going l. might be moved to the united nations when nikki haley left but that didn't happen so i think it would be very embarrassing for the administration to withdraw him the problem is is that we have now have an american ambassador who is throw on polish about it especially with demands about spending more money on nato and you can't have five g. from walk away and you must not be buying russian gas in complete the north stream

to pipeline that it's starting to get on their nerves and maybe beginning to dawn on some people in germany that maybe this american relationship is not all it's cracked up to be now some people want to say this whole question of style but i think it's becoming clear that it's really more a question of substance ten twenty four the morning here in moscow thanks to what she ought to international for me kevin owen and the rest the team on judy and have a great day. yes. it. breaks it countdown. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were working class there wasn't

it was bad you know much worse objectives listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solidarity engineer elections manufacture consent another prince holds according to no on chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite several from poor . that's what happens when you put her into the hands of narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

welcome to the alex imus show and the second of our programs on the fate of the sheik us islanders in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and early one nine hundred seventy s. the u.k. forcibly to move the entire population of the sickest archipelago an area that for colonial administration purposes had been part of marisha i don't the largest island to diego garcia it's a like the us to build a statistically important to military base and our first edition covering the story we told some of it. human impact on the should go since cleared from the indian ocean homeland now that our first second and indeed three generations in exile and

malicious but also here in the u.k. with a three thousand strong community still gripped in the towns around got to airport where they first landed in this country today we'll look at some of the international ramifications of the u.k. being in the dock not just of world opinion but that of the international court of justice we speak to alan could have been nominated as president in exile of the islanders and to former you can't boss it or about the diplomatic impact of the year keeping five have acted unlawfully by the international court but first alex a few tweets your messages i get e-mails for sure couple of weeks ago in the trigger silence provoked quite a bit of reaction force from to people who appeared in the show two of the islanders isabel and beth truong isabel said home is where your heart belongs my heart belongs to the chigger silence and beth long said i forgot to mention we have not after compensation we should do seasons just want one thing to the ton but to

our violence amid a quiet center a serious of messages and facebook the u.k. government does not even recognize it did anything wrong and i hope to speak about isabelle this little baby says lovely lady i hope of people get to go home and then my nephews to work there when he was in the navy he said was propaganda succulent did saying it was all necessary come aboard and see the says the empire as they called themselves have a lot to answer for the only good thing about all empires is that they fall and finally come martin says mon fridays and they have cartons of felling to the description found of in the official documents of how foreign office officials described the ship goes eons manfredi is that description alone tells us all we need to know about the mentality of successive u.k. governments. with briggs it dominating the political bands with a few other issues that present are breaking through in the media however last

night there was enough of a break in the european storm clouds to let the public see to shine on the international court of justice decision ruling that the u.k. had acted illegally as a colonial power and depopulating the islands and instructing the islands be returned to malicious as a step to allowing fulfill to terminations this is what the hague court had to see the court was of the opinion that the united kingdom's continued ministration of the shakers archipelago constitutes a wrongful act and tailing the international responsibility of that state that the united kingdom has an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the shake us archipelago as rapidly as possible and that all member states must cooperate with the united nations to complete the decolonization of maria hsia. since respect for the right to self-determination is knobloch ation or go on is all states have a legal interest in protecting that rights the court found it considered that while

it is for the general assembly to pronounce on the modalities required to ensure the completion of the decolonization of nourishes all member states must cooperate with the united nations to put those modalities into effect as regards the resettlement on the shakers archipelago of mauritian nationals including those of should go see an origin the court was of the view that this is an issue relating to the protection of the human rights of those concerned which should be addressed by the general assembly during the completion of the colonization of mauritians alex asked leading to go to representative whether this is a major step forward in their campaign for return or whether the court while finding against britain i defectively sidestep the issue of the right of return of the islanders themselves and the like you to be joined by on the patterson press the next twelve to go garcia the trigger sailors welcome mr president thank you.