road initiative which is widely seen as a vehicle for chinese power projection. also coming up on the program are you sorry. men in the u.s. are no less concerned about sexual harassment in the workplace. to pay. the change 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 helping. out with. one whole massive violent group. tensions russia's far eastern

squit central asian migrants fearing for their safety after the rape of a local woman is blamed on a. good to have your company this r.t.e. and news are aplenty ahead over the next thirty minutes or so i'm going to fit in especially. o'neill our top story this hour concern is growing in western capitals are part and intention to sign up to china's belt road and mission of a bold one trillion dollar infrastructure project on twenty first century re-imagining of the silk road president xi jinping is in italy today to discuss the details of a possible deal with the build up to all vote here. the bad boy or the godfather of euro skepticism it's really it's once again tough thing relations

with the e.u. with rome now pushing to join trying this road and ballot initiative that's reportedly 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 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 a gateway to europe the poor through tree esta is 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 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 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. that. is different to. breaking barriers when making history in this town. after it's me the chinese leader is planning his next stop in paris but here the. expectations of talks are not as promising. in historian paulo bernardine told us he believes rome should be free to pursue its interests and boaster tellings with china. while i think people are going to achieve that i mean when you go. back to

a large part of the colony i mean that we. export that relation which i am not states and. i think. we are starting all now own well now on the nature of the. chinese immediately and i think it's a positive thing. and the united states. that. made you can't win the war. and walk to. the center. and see. american men are apparently less convinced now that sexual harassment in the

workplace is such a big issue has come paired to back in twenty seventeen when the meet to movement started according to a new poll the gallup survey found fifty three percent of men say workplace harassment was a problem. significantly from sixty six percent when the me too movement exploded after a series of sexual assault allegations against powerful men it does appear however people today are more aware of the issue gallup suggested the way the story has been covered in the media may have altered men's out achievements. 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 we put the new findings on for the bait and that those appear the me too movement is still very much a polarizing tell for. 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 women 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 are actually 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 eroding that you're not at all where idea really having a rational earthiness 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 contract that i'm good or bad and yes some women have made false out of it and yes some because you were going on a 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 this side of the me too 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 its bigotry frankly to talk that way about men or about what. racial tensions have flared in the far eastern russian city of your coots after a kurd geese man was accused of kidnapping and raping a local woman it's led to wave of violent reprisals against migrants from central

asia leaving the community feeling deeply onesie. this is the reality for central asian immigrants in the far eastern russian city of you could see these coexisted with locals for years peacefully but they say they no longer feel welcome so did i move you that we should give you but you must. you could you could do worse and while the. you 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 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 . moving on now a school bus driver has been arrested near milan in italy after he hijacked and set

fire to his own vehicle with fifty one children on board the driver has been quoted as shouting no one will survive police managed to smash the windows on the back of the vehicle and pole students to safety before the bus was in gulf in flames no one was badly hurt but around a dozen children were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation or bruising some appeared to be tied up at the time of the rescue it's thought the suspect was acting in revenge for the deaths of migrants at sea on route to it. but. the suspect made no reference to i still want to propaganda in favor of islam he said it was his personal choice because he couldn't bear to see. torn by sharks and drowned. the driver has been identified as a forty seven year old man of senegalese origin in two thousand and four he received the talian citizenship he's already known to police over previous convictions for drink driving and sexual misconduct one of the peoples on the bus

told reporters the suspect lost his three children after they had thrown in the mediterranean sea while trying to reach italy however adult information is still verified nearly twenty three hundred migrants trying to reach european shores died or went missing in the mediterranean last year alone not as according to u.n. estimates for many italy has been and still is the first destination of choice even the spike the current government pushing hard to prevent an influx of refugees arriving by closing ports to rescue ships. let's go live go to chris phillips chris is a former u.k. terror chief very welcome on the program it is believed the driver as we were saying there chris was acting in retaliation for migrants drowning out sea there may even have been a personal angle to this would you label this a terror attack. well it is very difficult because of course terrorism usually

means about. politicians politicians and the people to change the laws now of course you could say that what he's trying to do is bring the focus of this attack through what's happening on the seas of the mediterranean but of course it does appear that. someone that already got a bit of a checkered past. on this horrendous act to these children how would a country terror officer react to this in terms of preventing another attack or even putting somebody in the position where they could carry out an attack like how much of the focus shifts to looking into who or what this. good influence. well this is this is one of the big things i've just been today actually to talk about insiders in organizations and organizations not doing the required work on people's backgrounds before they allow them to drive coaches full of children and potentially to their deaths so it's really important and incumbent upon all

businesses to make sure that they're there and then they know who they're dealing with i mean this guy already appears has a background in crime and also convictions so should he have been driving children in the first place but but this is a big problem because of course these people that want to do harm can come out of the blue and something like this could have been so much worse yet on monday you alluded to there another rescue ship was blocked off the coast of italy in a fresh migrant while rome stresses its ports are no close to asylum seekers. will this put the issue back in focus frankly will it be under some sort of pressure is even though of course they're not to blame but something has to be done if such it incident is leading to where children are being put under. lit on fire on a bus on a school bus. what the issue is should we be encouraging people

to get in boats and come across a really dangerous a bit of ocean in order to get to italy i feel so sorry for italy and greece and other countries that are suffering with this because actually the problem is the other side of the other side of the ocean effectively dead that's under the sea where these people are being encouraged to do this we've got to find a way of stopping that because you will get people drowning if they get into boats and go into the into the sea like this and of course someone's got to pick up the pieces and this man was obviously reacting to that in a way that was likely to kill lots of other innocent people as well so this is a horrendous problem but we've got to stop them getting on the boats in the first place to have any hope of dealing with this just finally there was a separate incident the law in the netherlands three people lost their lives over the past week or the ruling party in that country's just lost its majority in the dutch send a team to euro skeptic parties and immigration some of them others not how much do

you think tara is playing a role in the rise of populists politics today. well what we've seen and if you link this as well to what's happened in new zealand what we're seeing is one set of terrorists effectively stirring up another group which then makes it worse and it's a bit of a it's a bit of a cycle that we've got to get out of because with every terrorist attack that we have from the islamic fundamentalists the extremists we're likely to have something back from the right wingers and also this all plays on each other and makes the whole continent the whole world less safe we need to find a way of prevent teen this from growing and becoming a worldwide issue which we can't control chris thanks for your time and thoughts this hour chris phillips former head of the u.k.'s counter-terrorism security office. with just over a week left until breaks it there. pm is in brussels requesting more time but will

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. again the british prime minister is back in brussels this time aiming to convince e.u. leaders to approve an extension to the brags that deadline on wednesday treason may formally requested a three month delay from the u.k. his exit from the union she wants it by spoke to the thirtieth of june. as all the latest details all eyes are on brussels today. for this crunch breck's

a delay summit where considering the way things stand now britain is on course to essentially leave the european union without a deal come of next friday unless an alternative is found so we have to rescind may and her e.u. leader counterparts getting together in brussels throughout the day today to discuss what happens next indeed on wednesday we saw the british prime minister present her case for what she thinks is now best to move forward she suggested and asked for a three month extension to the bracks a deadline that would last until june thirtieth she has pled not just with the european union but also with m.p.'s back home to still reconsider and support her on her deal which is important is the parliament to dishes on the results of the referendum on the digital bricks 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 usually way what matters is that we did this was on the stage the british people well despite the fact that this is a deal that has been voted down twice by m.p.'s at the house of commons still it seems to reset may and her colleagues at the european union are calling for support of this deal we have heard today in brussels for now the dutch prime minister has spoken saying that first m.p.'s need to support the deal for any extension to take place to implementing it we have heard the french president also follow this line of thoughts nickel to the crucifix the deal is north of the renegotiation so if the deal is voted down there will be no deal of course the european union council president donald has also said let's see approval from m.p.'s first so that now is the big question whether or not first of all if. leaders can find common ground

because they all need to agree to an extension how exactly teresa mayes going to be able to get that deal through parliament is a huge huge question now another problem is that there are european parliament elections taking place on may twenty third and a popular opinion there is the that britain either needs to leave by than in order to avoid more confusion and chaos or partake or principled position is to allow some flexibility due to the idealism of the situation you create but also the debate which would be also here now is called do we ensure that there is a legal clarity before the utopian elections and the date of course is the twenty third of may well there should be some more clarity in the hours to come on whether or not there is common ground reached in brussels and we'll certainly be watching all of that very closely from here. u.s. hopefuls are already sending our third campaign strategies for the twenty twenty

presidential election they are using every means at their disposal to be voter friendly even revealing a lot of personal details like drug taking. have you no smokes i have a gun and i jammed i inhale i gave in i didn't hear nothing but. 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 the one i experimented with marijuana the time with the wife and. we used to. read about you when you took me

a little. presidential candidates senators bragging about their pocket use what their kids who can't get a job because it would not buy the defense for doing things to the last two presidents their privilege to do break laws not to worry about it i'm just really glad that cory booker has come out and really laid it out how to 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 . were 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 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 ok collins here and thirty with all the latest global news

updates this thursday stay close though for more great program starting in the. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising and i saw what else do you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways that that's life here. during the great depression which i'm old mr

remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective 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 where shape by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack so low down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm chums to one set of rules for the rich offices. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of wilf which 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.

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