president trump says he's ready to recognize israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights. from syria in nine hundred sixty seven. and road initiative which is widely seen in the west as a vehicle for chinese power project. finds that many in the u.s. are now less concerned about sexual harassment in the workplace than they were the height of the me to campaign change. the rules have changed and we're not playing that game anymore and that's what's happening. and they want to go back to how things used to be real now with categorizing our cast. as one whole massive violent group.

live from moscow this is a national holiday with the world this is now one of them on friday in the russian capital first to president wade into a fifty two year dispute between israel and syria saying the us is ready to recognize the occupied golan heights as part of israel turkey's condemn the announcements accusing the u.s. of supporting israel's so-called occupation policy as the details. donald trump's support for israel has taken some new heights and that would be the golan heights and it now seems that despite the un and syria and others recognizing this territory as belonging to syria donald trump wants it to be recognized as part of israel let's take a listen to what he tweeted out of the fifty two year time for the united states to fully recognize israel so vincy over the golan heights which is of critical

strategic and security importance the state of israel and regional stability now this announcement on twitter came as mike pompei o the top diplomat of the united states secretary of state was meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he expressed a huge amount of gratitude for this gift of recognizing golan heights. and it's time when the run cease to syria as a platform to destroy israel trump boldly recognize israel is sovereignty in the golan heights thank you president trump now in its annual human rights report the usa described palestinian territories not as israeli occupied but rather as israeli control and we recently saw mike pump aoe take the unprecedented move as u.s. secretary of state and actually visit the western wall in jerusalem now at this point the world is well aware that benjamin netanyahu is facing an election that will determine whether or not he remains the prime minister of israel and some have

interpreted donald trump's moves as essential trying to help netanyahu showing u.s. support for netanyahu taking unprecedented steps in pro israeli stances by the united states as a whole and people wonder if this could lead to an escalation in the region i lost our talk to journalist brick standing who's a member of the syria solidarity movement he says donald trump's move consentual quavers across the middle east. what this decision and this move from the trumpet ministration is going to do is instead of increasing regional stability it's going to undermine it it's going to prolong the conflict in syria it's going to d.c. stabilize the region rather. than helping you know basically he seems to do take moves that or in line with what benjamin netanyahu wants in the casino mogul show that they also want so this is just a continuation where they move the u.s.

embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem where they have the u.s. to stop funding of the nations relief and works agency where the united states would through unilaterally from the iran agreement and this is continuing a very dangerous trend under not undermining international law and agreements. concern is growing in western capitals over italy's apparent intention to sign up to china's belton road initiative a bold one trillion dollar infrastructure project in the twenty first century re-imagining of the road president xi jinping is in italy to discuss the details of a possible deal his outings medina culture of the bad boy or the godfather of euro skepticism it's really it's once again tasking relations with the e.u. with rome now pushing to join china's road and ballot initiative that's reportedly setting off alarm bells and brussels and getting back 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 as got the italian press already speculating over a once forgotten port becoming trying as

a gateway to europe the poor 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 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 species in a systemic rival especially allies on the other side of the atlantic it's called one bill one road and it's global and if you look at the spots where there are who are there there are a 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 trying as cutesy promos have been helped change americans' minds cannot. barry lynn made every. sound. after it see the chinese leader is planning his next stop in paris but here the expectations of talks are not as promising italian historian paolo byrne a d.d. told us he believes rome should be free to pursue its interests and bolster ties with china. while i think peter is going to achieve a lot i mean when you go. back to a large part of me i mean that we. strong go in the export relation with china a lot all the major states and you. think of the state you know you. are

in the relations. we are stocking. or now on the well now or the nation we are. in need and i think it's a positive thing. and the united states. that. made you can't win the war and must. think. on the walk to. the center. and. 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 harish once 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

people today are more aware of the issue kind of suggested that the way the story's been 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 discussed it here on r.t. and found division over whether me too is proving helpful or 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 them woman 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 up to when women first enter 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 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 very curious engaged and actually the gross platitudes that your guest is using i take i take real exception with categorizing our castigating men as 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 great hearing that you're not at all well idea that 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 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 facts 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 women. after weeks of intense fighting us backed kurdish forces say they've taken control of islamic states final sliver of territory in syria and scouring the area for fleeing eisel fighters it's expected that they'll officially announce victory in the coming hours. the syrian democratic forces encircled the villages but who is in eastern syria earlier in the year and in recent weeks launched a final push to drive out the geisel fighters around thirty seven thousand civilians have reportedly fled the area since early january. and the fall of ourselves self declared caliphate marks a small step towards progress for syria despite that though for many the trauma inflicted by the group will last a lifetime here's the story of one year cd woman who spent three years as an eyesore slave.

this is his home. but. he lives taken. another. there was a good look up wasn't at the. prison guards couldn't demand the. goods on this. and this seems. despite how it was apparent a feat of military forces terrorists 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 i was already declared victory and not for the first time as americans to have explained it was

only a matter of four ice this is lost on klav stronghold was destroyed liberated and it is happened isis has been cleansed from the village of but its last car still in 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 none 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 isis we have just absolutely decimated isis we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten him 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 out in the desert there and holds hiding underground there in baghdad in damascus leaking 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 in question that america's allies such as france really want a non-citizen. 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 contours 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 will determine the possibility of a french contribution on top of everything else and 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 say this 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 are you not he likes to extend the tool for our in the lies the thought and he wants he always wants to compare himself with barack

obama and think that he was there one day. in a very short time but it still hasn't finished and. this is not finished finished in the land of syria in iraq our thought but this period off is this continues i think in other places such as afghanistan. is there are lifting about his relation . with the european union is reportedly about to offer the u.k. two options for a short delay that information comes from the french news agency a.f.p. citing french officials now we're waiting for a formal announcement which will come after to resume talks with the e.u. leaders in brussels let's go to daniel horgan the postponed and who's across the us over the past few hours to reason i was hoping to get to the end of june so she can get a deal through parliament but now it looks like he was not willing to give that. that's right it's certainly been a long night in brussels and there's been so many options coming out of that e.u.

council meeting chop and chopping and changing plans almost every single hour the twenty second of may was the initial extension that was touted as an option before pushing that forward to the seventh and go back to the drawing board really very much showing the divisions in that meeting from which of course the reason may is conspicuously absent now and showing the myriad of opinions there from the french or playing a hardball the no deal bricks the germans or the merkel who is being more conciliatory but that breaking news as you say coming out they're going back to that date of the twenty second of may before providing for a further extension until the twelfth. should the u.k. want to do that and providing the u.k. can come up with some sort of plan and way forward to some wording put in there by the french side apparently we see now this is quite clever actually because of

course it gives the reason their charts to put her deal through parliament and if it doesn't go through parliament which is why the widely expected to be the case she's already been defeated twice with large majorities it gives her time and breathing space to work out what to do next so that effectively takes the option of a no deal bricks it off the table or at the very least moves moves it's about reducing the chances of a hard no deal bricks at now is the reason why i was in that room for ninety minutes trying to convince your leaders to provide her with what she wanted. and as we mentioned very different opinions on what to do president mark called for one willing to very much play hardball on this stating that a no deal breaks it was very much there on the table if the u.k. failed to get its act together this is what he had to say earlier. because of a truce a few verses lee we've been negotiating with your agreement for two years it cannot be renewed. secondly in the event of another no vote in britain we will be heading

towards a new deal everyone knows except. the german chancellor angela merkel striking a slightly more sympathetic tone of course stating that no deal breaks it would be highly damaging politically and economically not only for the united kingdom but also for the whole of the european union urging some sort of compromise on those red lines which all the leaders seem to have drawn out over the past few weeks and months and urging really some sort of progress here some sort of unity on that decision making telling leaders to tread carefully before making any rash decisions . i believe everyone must be and is aware that this is an event of historic significance and so we must proceed carefully and above all do everything in our power until the very last hour to ensure that britain can leave the european union in an orderly manner this means that we take their

respective interests into account on the one hand ours but also those of the british side. the reason may has got her breathing space or at least some breathing space depending on how you look at it but it's certainly not taking the pressure off and indeed the bricks and go sheets michel barnier has said the onus once again as it has been for the past three weeks is firmly on london to make that decision as to what to do next with the you president to jani saying that the no deal breaks it is a last resort a last deal that nobody wants to see so really now is the reason why almost between a rock and a hard place she faces an e.u. council is rapidly running out of patience for now all of the camp of merkel and denmark has one providing effectively an unconditional almost extension. go against the wishes of leaders such as micron but she does face a hostile grief i doubt parliament back home including many of her own m.p.'s as

well should she failed to get that deal through parliament next week we could be seeing a new emergency e.u. council summit to decide what to do next perhaps even a resignation from the prime minister to resign may she was fiercely criticized just last night for a speech after submitting that letter to john there are so many options here in both the u.k. domestic politics and in that relationship with the e.u. now remember all these dates are for now speculation we're still waiting for the official confirmation from little to come in the next two hours. for that although it does look like that twenty second of may deadline does remain with that option of a further one until the twelfth of if of course the u.k. depending on if the u.k. decides to participate in those european parliament elections which of course will be quite well what silly really given that they want to leave the european union we're going to get that official confirmation and bring you that as it comes or

a lot of dates to juggle with daniel thanks very much for that for now. so as things stand then the u.k. is still legally on course to leave the european union in just over a week from now but a week is a very long time in politics and as danny was saying there are still plenty of roadblocks ahead. a defined prisoner and saudi national held in the infamous quantum obey detention center has surprisingly heaped praise on the united states and lashed out at the

saudi monarchy my faith in many u.s. politicians and media outlets has recently risen dramatically because of their courage to stand against the saudi royals the saudi royal family overtly fights terrorism to please the west while covertly supporting it to please the clerics and others they also do this so that they are always desperately needed by the united states and the west. has spent seventeen years in guantanamo after being captured at a pakistani military camp the u.s. dropped the initial charges against him to conspiracy to commit terrorism but still the client is released over security fears. admits to being an interpreter in the camp and receiving training to use explosives i'm proud of what i did and there isn't any reason for hiding my force against the united states i took up arms i did what i did and i'm willing to pay the price no matter how many years you sentence me even if i spend hundreds of years in jail that would be a matter of honor for me. i talked to lawyers ramsey kasem who's representing gas

and al shelby who told me that there's no justification for keeping him in prison it's really an extraordinary situation because when you think about it here in the united states if he had been charged with the most common terrorism related offense material support for terrorism he would be a free man by now the sentence for that is usually ten to fifteen years and so the question really is why is the united states continuing to hold on to these men and the answer unfortunately is that it's politics it's just the perception of having a place like guantanamo and what that represents symbolically to a certain portion of the electorate and to a certain part of the political class in the united states it's far too convenient a political football unfortunately there are no charges pending against mr one point he was charged before a military commission with a crime of conspiracy that crime was subsequently found by u.s. courts not to constitute a war crime so that crime or that charge was dismissed he like many of the forty

remaining prisoners at guantanamo basically since there are guantanamo without charge or a fair process well mr al surely was very clear eyed about why he wanted to speak out in this moment and he's also cognizant of the possible consequences that would that might carry for himself but for him it's more important to speak the truth in this moment to cast a critical light on on his home government and to let the chips fall where they may he is hopeful that you know the truth will set him free and that he will eventually regain his freedom and remain safe but but he also understands that you know the saudi government does not take to all to criticism. iraqi officials say that at least eighty three people are now known to have died after a ferry sank in the two groups river in the city of mosul on thursday a significant number of those who drowned assault have been children rescue operations currently underway fifty five people have reportedly been pulled from the water in fear that the number one. oh right the it wasn't immediately clear

what caused the accident but reports suggest there were far too many passengers on board the ferry iraq's prime minister has called for an investigation into the disaster. that's information thomas i'm sure next on three international news in half an hour if we've caught up with max and stacy for your latest kaiser report. there are calls in the electoral college lower the voting age to sixteen allowing non-citizens to vote and to pack the supreme court with more in part to sit in judgment what is happening here well it would seem if you can't win on the merit of ideas but all you need to do is to radically change the system.

oh i am max keiser this is the kaiser report let's find out what's happening in the world with stacy. max you know on the last episode you mentioned that bankers didn't go to jail ok and i want to pick up on that theme because it is quite an important story to think about while you know we've been covering this sort of demise of the us empire and you know of course it's nothing out of the ordinary every every every single empire eventually collapses. partly for the same reasons but one thing that always enters this space is corruption and the pie begins to shrink and the viciousness for the various powerful families the names of people

you know in the system start to fight viciously for control of a shrinking pie and i think we see that with with what happened to paul manna for it when he was found guilty in the two federal charges in two federal cases and then the state of blue states very democratic state of new york decided that they're also going to try him for mortgage fraud and and they've got after him hard and they're valuing that we're going to be vicious and violent and aggressive and then dick do with you so it really made me think of these sort of corrupt systems. that we're going to see because obviously then a red state is going to start to fight back and militia slaying capriciously target somebody well known in the democratic party and of course new york in particular the audacity of this i want to point out as you and i have covered the mortgage fraud crisis of two thousand and seven through two.