it's subtle by indicating it will endorse beijing's ambitious and road initiative which is widely seen in the west as a vehicle for chinese power projection. a new poll finds that men in the us are now less concerned about sexual harassment in the workplace than they were the height of the me to come we ask what's changed. 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 how things used to be real accept said with categorizing our castigating as one whole massive violent group. tensions flare in russia's far eastern city where the central asian migrants fearing for their safety after the rape of a local woman is blamed on

a man from. going to turn here in moscow. news this hour starting in europe where concern is growing in western capitals over its unease apparent intention to sign up to china's belton road initiative a bold one trillion dollar infrastructure project and a twenty first century re-imagining of the silk road president xi jinping is in italy to discuss the details of a possible deal his artie's medina cotton of the bad boy or the godfather of euro skepticism it's really it's once again tough thing relations with the e.u. with roe now pushing to join china's road and balance and this is if it's reportedly setting off alarm bells in brussels and getting backs up in washington to. italy's a major global economy in 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 the gateway to europe the pool to treat us to is 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. 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 biting and would just represents the initial framework everything to calm their european partners who have labeled species in 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 go out trying to develop its so-called one road strategy even trying as cutesy promos have been helped change americans' minds can access. the.

after it's see the chinese leader is planning his next stop in paris but here the expectations of talks are not as promising telling his story i'm going to do you told us he believes rome should be free to pursue its own interest both to toys with china. while i think peter is going to achieve a lot i mean the new golden initiative is a major factor in a large part of italian economy i mean that we. go in the export relation with china a lot all the major states and you. think. you know news. in the relations. we are starting on our own now or the nature of the.

chinese immediately and i think is a positive thing. and the united states. that still a major in the war and mass. shootings was. thinking to. walk to. the center. and see. american men are apparently less convinced now that sexual harassment in the workplace is such a big issue as compared to twenty seventeen when the me too movement started a survey by gallup found that fifty three percent of men see workplace harassment as a problem but that's down from sixty six percent when the me too movement exploded after a series of sexual assault allegations against powerful men however it does appear that people today are more aware of the issue gallup suggested that the way the story's being covered in the media may have altered 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 put men on the defensive we discuss it here on our taken from division over whether me too is proving help for has been politically hijacked. 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 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 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 still they don't want to

acknowledge the fact that. sexual harassment is still a very pervasive issue and since twenty seventeen. 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 gradient you are doing that you're not at all where i did we're having a rational earthiness placement if we're going to have if we're going to have a rational conversation you have to read me we're having a congress that i'm bitter 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 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 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 women. after weeks of intense fighting us back to kurdish forces say they've taken control of islamic states final sliver of territory in syria and the scouring the area for free and i still fighters it's expected that they will officially announce victory in the coming hours. the syrian democratic forces encircled the village of bug who is in eastern syria earlier in the year and in recent weeks launched a final push to drive out the arsenal fighters around thirty seven thousand civilians have reportedly fled the area since early january. the fall of isis self declared caliphate marks a small step towards progress for syria despite that for many the trauma inflicted by the group will last a lifetime is the story of one year's eve the woman who spent three years as an eyesore slave.

but. you know. there was a good look up as i got the. this incredible indiaman the. good from the school. and the scenes. and despite ourselves apparent defeat as a military force its terrorists are still putting up a fight sporadic clashes have been reported with some of the group's members said to be in hiding along the euphrates river the american president though has already declared victory and not for the first time as more because they have explained it was only a matter of tahn before isis is lost on klav stronghold was destroyed

liberated and it is happened isis has been cleansed from the village of but it's lost cause and syria has crumbled say some others say that that isn't true and that they're still fighting but what the heck trump says he wasn't so what happens is this is all isis now on the bottom that's as of today this is i says there's no one the caliphate is gone as of tonight. boiled what can you say mission accomplished again the strangest thing they keep beating isis destroying its last stronghold again and again and again the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred

percent of the territory we're doing a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis we have one good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly the isis caliphate. has been decimated in another short period of time like hours you'll be hearing hours and days you'll be hearing about the caliphate it was one hundred percent defeated so is this it or are we going to see another epic final battle between the forces of good and isis no one seems to know my gut feeling having been in iraq in syria for so long seen what i've seen of isis is no not even close they're out in the desert they're in holes hiding underground there in baghdad in damascus licking their wounds but that's just my opinion and a whole lot of other reporters and experts for now though if we believe that the

forces of good have finally won what is next question that america's allies such as france really want an answer to mrs polly france's defense minister went to the us to get answers to various questions if by chance the american military presence would be maintained what would be the consequence of its presence what would the mission be we do not have these answers yet it is on the basis of information that we don't have yet the president might crumble determine the possibility of a french contribution on top of everything else in the murderers and maniacs that made up isis even if the organization is dead those individuals are not they've apparently gone back to their roots back where they began in mosul which the u.s. led coalition for all intents and purposes carpet bombed tens of thousands of

civilians dead in the crossfire the isis zealots have apparently gone back to basics extortionists assassins thugs and guns for hire. isis is using the same preety fourteen style and threatening people to pay by sending a message by envelope pay or die they threaten businessmen doctors etc congratulations donald you've won you've beaten i says again and bet now on how long do you think it'll be before trump declares his next last victory over isis again he always wants to be in advance he doesn't have. a very good relation with the troof you know he likes to extend that to for an hour in the light is the thought and he wants he always wants to compare himself with barack obama and think that he was the one that if he did this in very short time

but still hasn't finished and. this is not finished is the finish line in the land of syria in iraq also but this is this continues i think in other places. is the only thinking about his relation. european parliament looks set to meet the british prime minister halfway on an extension to the deadline to resume aid in brussels right now in the hope of pushing back the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. until the end of june but it looks like she'll have to settle for the day before european parliament elections on may the twenty third and with conditions of that right across a forest daniel hawkins who's in berlin hi there daniel not quite what the british pm was hoping for then it seems how do things stand this hour. well it might be a long night but anticipated in. that date of the twenty second of may of course. the final draft version of that you council may now not be the case when the stand

the rumors i'm confirmed yet of course coming out from those that were about half of the twenty seven e.u. leaders have spoken is that there may be a new date namely the seventh of maine. now we understand that the driving force behind bringing that day forward are countries such as france or president michel of belgium against countries that are perhaps more sympathetic to bringing that day back such as denmark but of course the only way we'll find out is waiting for that press conference by council president. now to reason may went into that room she spoke to the leaders for ninety minutes excuse me ninety minutes trying to convince them to grant the u.k. that extension the she was apparently quite tight lipped about what her plans would be what to continue to see was should she not be able to get that deal through the u.k. parliament of course meeting the conditions there are imposed by the. e.u. council but there wasn't any sort of automatic here you now might see amongst the

leaders here most notably france and germany two countries closest perhaps to the u.k. both politically and economically had quite different positions here president playing hardball and stating that if those conditions were not met if she was not able to get her parliament in order. that was the most likely outcome. because of a truce if it does not firstly we've been negotiating with your agreement for two years it cannot be renegotiated secondly in the event of another new vote in britain we will be heading towards a new deal everyone. and german chancellor angela merkel struck a slightly more conciliatory tone citing the historical significance of this moment and really encouraging her fellow leaders to tread carefully here and try to perhaps be more compromising and bend some of those legal red lines that have been firmly put in place for the last half a year or so because of what she had to say. oh mon i believe everyone must and is

aware that this is an adventure and historic significance in this form and so we must proceed carefully and above all this do everything in our power until the very last hour or to ensure that britain and lead the european union in an orderly manner this means that we take their respective interests into account and on the one hand cause us to do but also those of the british interests not to it implicate him. and despite the differences among your leaders i think it's fair to say that most of them do consider the new deal bricks at the worst case scenario something that would damage both the u.k. and most members of the e.u. as well but the solution really this also lies in london there's not much more they can do apart from give to resume a about little bit of breathing space however small that would be to try to get her deal passed in parliament michel barnier the chief negotiator stating that this was now firmly in london's hand and indeed to johnny the e.u.

president also stating that no deal breaks it was in deed something to be avoided at all costs which would have negative consequences for the entire block and i'll come next week of course we could be sitting here discussing any number of options or rather a fitting number of options for to reason may she is now waiting we are waiting for that press conference with little to ask to see what that card of finally will be the reason they will then head back to parliament a hostile frustrated increasingly angry parliament to try to get that deal passed if that does not happen it's anyone's guess what could happen next ok any more developments on the continent will be right back with you for now though daniel hawkins in berlin thanks for that. iraqi officials now say that at least eighty three people are known to have died after a ferry sank in the tigris river in the city of mosul on thursday and significant number of those who drowned or thought to been children rescue operations are

currently underway fifty five people have reportedly been pulled from the water and feared though the number of deaths will rise further and wasn't immediately clear what caused the accident but reports suggest that there were far too many passengers on board the ferry iraq's prime minister has called for an investigation into the disaster. racial tensions have flared in the far eastern russian city of your could scare after a man from kurdistan was accused of kidnapping and raping a local woman it's led to a wave of violent reprisals against migrants from central asia leaving the community there feeling deeply onesie. 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 usual but. it's more than 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 any more 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 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 where 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 there are 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 . school bus drivers being arrested near milan in italy after he hijacked and set fire to his own vehicle with fifty one children on board the driver's been quoted as shouting no one will survive police managed to smash the windows of the back of the vehicle and pull the students to safety before the bus was engulfed in flames no one was badly hurt but around a dozen youngsters were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation or bruising and 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 italy. but. the suspect made no reference to ice still nor to propaganda in favor of islam he said it was his personal choice because he couldn't bear to see children torn by sharks

and drowned pregnant women. and the dr has been identified as a forty seven year old man of senegalese origin in two thousand and four he received italian citizenship he was already known to police over previous convictions for drink driving and sexual misconduct and one of the people on the bus told reporters that the suspect had lost his three children after they drowned in the mediterranean while trying to reach italy but their information has not been verified and only twenty three hundred migrants trying to reach european shores died or went missing in the mediterranean last year alone according to un estimates for many has been and still is the first destination of choice even despite the current government pushing hard to prevent an influx of refugees arriving by closing ports to rescue ships former u.k. counter-terror chris phillips told us the screening process for the suspects employment and clearly failed. really important an incumbent upon all businesses to make sure that they're there they're dealing and 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 of course terrorism usually means about. politicians and the politicians and the people to change the laws now of course you could say that what he's trying to do is bring bring the focus of this attack through what's happening on the seas of the mediterranean but of course it does appear that he alone actor someone that already got a bit of a checkered past and as most done this horrendous act to these children. ukraine's general prosecutor has called out the u.s. ambassador in the country on allegations of corruption. option care's top lawyer says he was provided with a list of untouchable people in the country after his appointment in the spring of twenty sixteen the u.s. embassy has called the claims total fabrication. unfortunately from the first

meeting with the us embassy doing with your vantage gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute my response of that is that is inadmissible nobody in this country neither our president nor our parliament nor our ambassador will stop me from prosecuting whether there is a crime the statements of the prosecutor general of ukraine are not true and are intended to weaken the reputation of embassador you have an overage such attacks deep in our determination to help ukraine achieve victory in the fight against corruption the u.s. state department backed their ambassador in kiev saying that no support is currently being given to ukraine's prosecutor office however it did admit supporting the reforms in the wake of the twenty fourteen revolution in ukraine journalist and political commentator martin summers says the timing of the claims is significant. the u.s. has played a big role in the creation of the new regime in kiev going back to twenty fourteen and you know that the u.s. has hardly made a secret of its goals in ukraine so in

a sense it's not unlikely that such things once have been said and done to get that u.s. some bus that is all political appointees they're not professional ambassadors like british ambassador's or russian ambassadors there's going to be questions about what motivations the law be on both sides don't forget there's a presidential election coming up in ukraine and poland entry election in october and therefore the might be some pressure on the ukrainian side soon as stubbies independence from you know outside forces and on the other hand the americans may very well have made such threats as it were to the prosecutor because they've got their their own process j.s that they're looking after and that are r.t. news for now your next update follows world.

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hello and welcome to well it's a part of the american policy in iraq was never a smashing success but apparently there is still a lot of room to make it worse the secretary of state's recent visit to the region all in the name of curtailing the iranian influence was full of bold proclamations and quiet reversals what does the trump policy in iraq ultimately come down to will to discuss that i'm now joined by mayor should have done far an iranian israeli middle east analyst and lecture at the into disciplinary center. mr gemma done for thank you very much for your time and sort of for bungling your name so. i guess i'm not the first one to do that correct.