it's. indicating it will indorse. which is widely seen in the west as a chinese power projection. coming up in the program a new poll finds that men in the us are less concerned about sexual harassment in the workplace and they were at the heights of. 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 helping youth to be real. with tatic arise in our castigating as one whole massive pilot group. also coming up

tensions flare and russia's far eastern city of crude squit central asian migrants fearing for their safety for the rape of a local woman. every year tuning in from right around the globe this hour a warm welcome to moscow and to r.t.u. international i mean to know neal their top story concern is growing in western capitals over its alisa parenti intention to sign up to china's belt on route and mission of a bold one trillion dollar infrastructure project on twenty first century re-imagining of the silk road president xi jinping is jus in italy this thursday afternoon to discuss the details of a possible deal with more on what we know. the bad boy or the

godfather of euro skepticism is silly as once again tasking relations with the e.u. with rome now pushing to join trying this road and ballot initiative as reportedly setting off alarm bells in brussels and getting backs up and wash on a few projects. and dosing boat initiative lends legitimacy to china's predatory approach to investments a moving no benefits the italian people and so he could become the first member of the so-called group of seven the most powerful nations to join trying this ambitious plan to boost connectivity between asia europe and africa. local businesses will likely view the project as the positive with major ports being referred to an investment into the millions of dollars it's got the italian

press already speculating over a once forgotten port becoming trying as the gateway to europe the pool to returning to the logistical world for europe that it had for the old austria-hungary an empire business opportunity is the site of the italian prime minister will be forced to explain his decision to remove the outline of the belt and rolled memorandum between italy and china is primarily economic and commercial it does not put into question our european and 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 calm 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 a gauging 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 trying as cutesy promos have been helped change americans' minds cannot. after it see the chinese leader is planning his next stop in paris but here the expectations of talks are not as promising to tell you his story and polo bernardine told us he believes rome should be free to pursue its interests with china. while i think peter is going to achieve that i mean when you go. back to a large part of the colony i mean that we. strong go import export relation with

china local all the major states and we were happy about that but i think. you know . in the relations. we are stocking or now own well now on the nature of the. chinese immediately and i think it's a positive i think. in the united states. that . made you can't win the war. thinking to. walk to. the center. and say. an american men are partly less convinced that sexual harassment in the workplace is such a big issue as compared to back in twenty seventeen when the meet to movement started that's according to

a new poll the gallup survey found that fifty three percent of men see workplace harassment as a problem but that is from sixty six percent when the me too movement exploded after a series of sexual assault allegations against powerful man but it does appear people today are more aware of the issue gallup suggests about the way this story has been covered in the media may have altered man's out a changed. 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 put men on the defensive or maybe they had a strong reaction in the immediate wake of the once you know occasions 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 does seem to me to move on that is still very much a polarizing topic 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 the moment events 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 in 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 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 hear it there were engaged and i was elated at the gross platitudes that your guest is using i take i take real exception with categorizing our castigating 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 gradient going on here not at all where idea really how irrational our team is placement if we're going to have if we're going to have a rational conversation you have not read me we're having a congress that are bad and yes some women have made false 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're ready to have a conversation like that we're going to be caught up in all the same hypocrisy that many on the side of the me to the movement that has become so radicalized that they think all men are evil and all women are victims my life experience has taught me that when you speak in black and white like that you make a big mistake and it's been it's bigotry frankly to talk that way about men or about women. to a story we're closely following racial tensions have flirt in the far eastern russian city of you could scupper a central asian migrant was accused of kidnapping and raping a local woman many migrants are now an age the shops and market stalls where they

work were attacked. the. this is the reality for central asian immigrants in the far eastern russian city of uku. they've coexisted with locals for years peacefully but they say they no longer feel welcome so did i might not get that we should give usual but it was more of the 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 and that's it 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 in the city snaps 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 the guest insulting the 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

statistics 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 are we quick and transparent investigation and members of the migrant community support this call for justice to the rapist must be brought into the street 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 . u.s. hopefuls are already setting up their campaign strategies for the twenty twenty

presidential election they're using it seems every means at their disposal to be voter friendly even revealing personal details like drug taking. and yes most i have and i john de mayo i gave him i dated him. forty years ago i smoked marijuana and i made it my mom's not happy that i just did . it when i was a teenager i used drugs i drank when i was. experimented with marijuana with the wife of a i. mean

you know but i don't know you know if you look at the. presidential candidates senators bragging about their pot to use what their kids who can't get a job because it's not by the defense for doing things to the last two presidents there is a privilege to do is not to worry about it i'm just really glad that cory booker has come out and really laid it out how have seen it is for the other candidates including one sanders to be joking about marijuana while people are locked up still and having it on their record so they can't get jobs we have this thing we're taught in school that everybody in america is equal under the law and you're treated the same it's simply not true the marijuana charges can keep people from getting student loans you can actually murder somebody you go to jail do your time and then get a student loan from the federal government to go to college but if you're on a drug charge you can't ever get a loan to go to college plenty more stories after the break this is twenty four

seven our international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president and you. want. to go right to be close this is what the three of them will be good. interested always in the water. there should. be. a low again the british prime minister is back in brussels this time to convince the e.u. leaders to approve an extension to the brakes that deadline on whedon's they treason may formally requested a three month delay to the u.k. exit from the union pushing it back to the thirtieth of june let's cross live now

to see a church in london yet another pivotal day for breaks in the trees in may we've said once or twice on the way she's faced her impeach she's now in preparing to convince e.u. leaders big day ahead. oh definitely you know now all eyes are on brecht. brussels indeed and that's because that just in a week from now. the way things stand britain is out of the european union without a deal unless some kind of alternative is found and so today our theresa may is in brussels along with her e.u. leader counterparts for a crunch delay a brac said summit now the british prime minister has indeed presented her case on wednesday for short extension of article fifty until june thirtieth she says it's time for m.p.'s now to get together and find common ground as soon as

possible. which is important is that parliament delivers on the results of the referendum and that we do little tricks it for the british people i sincerely hope we can do that with a deal i'm still working on the ring the parliament can agree a deal so that we can leave in the orderly way what matters is that we do so on the face of the british people. well at the same time we have seen a german chancellor angela merkel and european council president donald tusk say ok to the extension as long as the withdrawal deal that has been agreed upon between theresa may and the european union is supported by m.p.'s here in westminster and of course that is a problem because that's a deal that's been voted down twice by m.p.'s already in any third such possibility despite theresa may saying she is still planning on bringing back the vote on her deal to the house of commons we know that house speaker has said this wouldn't

really make any sense unless the deal was dramatically different but for today indeed all eyes are on brussels waiting to see what is announced throughout the day because all member states of the european union have to have some kind of coleman agreement on whether or not they support the idea of an extension until june thirtieth if they support a longer extension what is it that they support and then all of that is indeed expected to come out today and another problem there is of course the elections to the european parliament that are due to take place on may twenty third which is clearly for this new potential june thirtieth deadline so a lot of politicians have been saying the that in britain eyes are needs to leave the e.u. before those elections take place in order to avoid creating less chaos and confusion or stick around for much longer and then partake in those elections so whether or not this is going to be underscored many times. is

a very real possibility. the show to. people should be. booked to have the condition the. vote. in the house of. well whether or not there will be more clarity today remains to be seen and we're certainly watching that summit very carefully. i'll see it you're going to bring us right up to date on all the big twenty four hours ahead in brussels and in all. german politicians have lashed out at the u.s. ambassador to the country calling for him to be expelled it came after richard grinnell openly criticized berlin's plans to reduce its defense by. 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

i'm acceptable commitments to military readiness is why are some signal to germany's twenty eight nato allies mr grunow is a total fear over deployment all this because is rather boring with his repeated gloms it broke asians mr grunow is coming transatlantic relations since mr grinnell took on his post as a berlin he has on several occasions quite conspicuously interfered in the international affairs of the federal republic of germany his behavior in the hills gantries anything but diplomatic and rather ruminants and over the governor of an empire well let's just flesh that last comment by the involves euro was referring to go or set up a nato summit five years ago he's repeatedly been accused of trying to pressure german politicians and business leaders mr going to has also urged germany to pull out of the nord stream to gas pipeline project with russia former u.s.

diplomat jim judd trysts thinks berlin is starting to question its alliance with washington. mr grinnell does have president trump personal support now there was talk that mr grenelle 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 who would draw him the problem is is that we have now have an american ambassador who is throw unpolished 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 is all a question of style but i think it's becoming clear that it's really more a question of substance. to. the u.s.

the partment of a culture is facing a scandal over experiments on animals some of the tests reportedly including feeding potentially infected dead kittens to healthy ones the scientists spent more than twenty million dollars to buy cats and dogs from abroad for the experiments. the cultural research service saying it conducts experiments according to strict ethical standards they are researching talk so plus most essay part acetic infection that some scientists believe could affect hough the world's population

cats play a significant role in its spread we spoke to justin goodman from the organization behind the report he shared some details of the crew something test that. we were viewing several reports that contain basically just the challenge of how many animals are each laboratory united states and we saw at the u.s. the a there were several chats a list it being used but no other information about what their use involves so we submitted a freedom of information act request and were able to get some details initially about the fact that the u.s.d.a. is breeding under kittens here feeding them parasite infected meat collecting their feces for two weeks and then incinerating the cats you know they're perfectly healthy and adoptable fractionally in the middle of a lawsuit to obtain documents about this research because obviously now that we know they've been going around the world and rounding up dogs and cats for meat

markets and people's tax killing and feeding them to cats in these cannibal experiments they don't want people to know about that and they seems like they've got to great lengths to keep this project is secret. well last september congress issued a resolution calling for improvements an animal protest but mr goodman again believes that it's just an example of the government's hypocrisy we found it incredibly hypocritical that while the u.s. government is taking steps to not only ban cat and dog states but also condemn nations that are doing it abroad. the u.s. government was sending people over and sending money over to these countries and subsidizing these very kind of neat farms in markets that congress is so disgusted with and then virtually everyone in america wants to see end it so it's incredibly ironic and hypocritical and i think that is a testament to the incredible lack of accountability at the u.s.d.a.

on one hand you have the entire nation working to stop the practice that the u.s.d.a. is helping people live truth is that virtually any experiment on animals in the united states is legal as long as the right paperwork is filled out. ok the very latest news updates can always be followed remember on or twitter page developments literally by the minute there to keep you fully up to date this thursday you're watching r.t. international. breaks it countdown tonality. during the great depression which old mr remember there was most of the family were unemployed working. there wasn't

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how do you hi this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm bart chilton in washington and we are sure that you're on board with us today we've got a great show coming up pacifically the u.s. federal reserve the open market committee just finished literally not long ago there tuesdays the meetings look at what they did and what they didn't do and what to expect going forward with the author of that common sense told eddie gabor who is standing by and bear the owner of months santos which produced the troubled

killer roundup has taken the largest ones a drop in stock price in more than six years years r t three charges has the latest lost its official disney has acquired twenty first century fox the seventy one billion dollars deal so what does this mean for the future of adam national be out of mesh trading groups joins us to break down the deal and take a long look at some other stocks in the news today and later we take a closer look at the application of blood in the food supply chain friendship or spoke with allie haji about it of all things mango mangoes can believe it you don't want to miss this all that directly ahead but first let's get some headlines let's go. another european final fine for google leads our global report today as the european union hits the global tech giant with a sanction of one point five billion euros e.u.

competition commissioner margaret best to gird announced the fine equivalent to one point seven billion bucks dollars telling reporters in brussels quote today's decision is about how google abused its dominance to force websites using brokers other. then ad sense platform and this best singer said the google's ad sense platform has captured more than seventy percent of european online ad revenue since two thousand and six and accuse google of acting illegally to capture that dominant market share ms best interest cited two hundred contract with advertisers containing clauses which she says kept business from google's competitors between two thousand and six and two thousand and sixteen for ten years there google may face more losses in the future even though the targeted practices are believed to have ended in two thousand and sixteen experts say the competition commission's findings could be the basis of lawsuits by google in the.