president says he is ready to recognize it is really solvent to over the occupied golan heights a disputed area captured from syria in one nine hundred sixty seven. request for a three month. offer in may the twenty second as an absolute deadline with strings attached. western powers criticizing italy after it agrees to join. and road infrastructure projects. are broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is r t international and

john thomas glad to have you with us. the european union has rejected teresa mayes request for a three month delay to bragg's it after a summit in brussels the e.u. was offering a shorter delay until the twenty second of may and only on the condition that the u.k. parliament approves the withdrawal deal that they have already rejected twice we can cross live now to daniel hawkins who is in berlin for us all right daniel it's been an interesting run up to this whole thing and it's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out as i understand it treason may did not get what she was asking for could you tell us what happened at the summit and what it means for. yeah it's been a long night certainly a double edged sword as well for prime minister the reason why you are quite right in saying the initial request was for that delay until the thirtieth of june you're also right in saying that has not been granted just the news coming out in a press conference over the last five minutes or so that the extension has been

granted until the twenty second of may and that is conditional as equal rightly say . the reason why passing the deal which has already been defeated twice by very big majorities in the house of commons passing that deal the upside to it though is that seemingly this could effectively extension or that plan is not approved there is a further extension until the twelfth of april it is at that point that the u.k. will need to let the european council know if it intends to participate in the european parliamentary elections or not now if it does choose to participate which would of course be well rather silly given that the huge k.'s intending to leave the european union this could mean an even longer extension and just the cow to try is this for you. and don't want to ask some questions at the end of that press conference and one journalist is beyond the twenty second of may and beyond the twelfth of april to which you replied until the very end you can interpret that

however you want but seemingly use patience on this is deeper than anticipated now where does this leave the reason why exactly this does give her the breathing space she wanted but really it does leave her between a rock and a hard place because. also said that this is a legally binding clarification and assurance they've done all they can this is the full and complete package there will be no more leading will be no more room for negotiation so the reason is to go back to the house of commons which is increasingly hostile increasingly fed up increasingly angry including. many of our own m.p.'s many of whom are already calling for a resignation come the twenty eighth of march the twenty ninth of march is still legally technically at least when the u.k. should believe in the european union that lore is now going to have to be changed

of course and now that those extensions have been granted there could be a whole number of options if of course that deal goes through the u.k. leaves as expected if it doesn't go through we're faced with this double extension which according to you at least could go on forever so as we say the breathing space from how much does it give her she faces problems at home domestically with the house of commons who faces a european council which has already been very much divided these assurances have not been unanimous and automatic even though to accept that the atmosphere was better than expected and there are countries their leaders there notably micron belgium as well that have not been so patient that have said that no deal breaks it could still be on the table if the u.k. fails to get its act together so if the reason if the reason why doesn't pass these . this plan if things do go beyond the twelfth of april perhaps no deal could be back on the table this is all speculation for now of course we'll have to wait and

see what happens next week all the twenty eighth of march can to reason may go back and get that deal through parliament and what happens next with that extra extension. will have to wait and see indeed it will be a tense week ahead of us daniel hawkins who's in berlin for us thanks for staying across the story. here's now president trump has weighed in on a fifty two year old dispute between israel and syria saying the u.s. is ready to recognize the occupied golan heights as part of the israel turkey has condemned the announcement accusing the u.s. of supporting israel's so-called occupation policy archies kilmer. 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 ceased to you see rigaud in height 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. journalist rick sterling who is a member of the syria solidarity movement says trump's move could send shock waves across the middle east what this decision and this move from the front that 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 hoping it basically seems to do take moves that or in line with what benjamin netanyahu wants and in the casino mogul show that enables that 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 united nations relief 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. the chinese president is in italy to discuss rome's participation in the belt and road initiative it is an ambitious trillion dollar infrastructure project spanning three continents and italy's role has drawn criticism from western allies artie's many and question of a point. the bad boy or the godfather of euro skepticism is really as once again tasking relations with the e.u. with rome now pushing to join trying this road and ballot initiative as reported a setting off alarm bells in brussels and getting backs up in washington to.

italy's a major global economy and great investment destination no need for italian government to lend legitimacy to china's infrastructure vanity project. and dosing boat initiative lends legitimacy to china's predatory approach to investment i'm moving no benefits the italian our full 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 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 that's the stem a cry of all 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 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 next to land. on the ground. is joined by. greedy barry lynn to make. sure that. after it's see the chinese leader is planning his next stop in paris but here the expectations of talks are not as promising italian historian pablo bernardine believes rome has plenty to gain from strengthening its ties with china. while i think peter is going to achieve that i mean when you go to the nation. the fact. that he didn't follow me i mean that we need. a strong export relation with china local all the major states and you were happy about that but i think. you know you. in the relations.

we all start looking well no no well now on the nature of the. chinese you need and i think it's a positive i think that. you and the united states. that didn't major conflict the war in moscow. things we. think you can see. american men are apparently less convinced now that sexual harassment in the workplace is such a big issue as compared to two thousand and seventeen when the me too movement started a survey by gallup found that fifty three percent of men see workplace harassment as a problem 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 gallup suggested that the way the story

has 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 asked our guests whether they think 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 the woman deep in the 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 and 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. 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 that you're not at all where you are going to have a rational or things placement if we're going to have if we're going to have a rational conversation you hunter not read me we're having a congress that i'm bitter 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 are going to be caught up in all the same hypocrisy that

many on the 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 it's bigotry frankly to talk that way about men or about women and more news after big watch not huge national. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted

a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not be or else you can sink i was going to go. by the way ways of the. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. americans are to international now after weeks of intense fighting us back to kurdish forces say that they have taken control of islamic states final piece of territory in your ear.

the syrian democratic forces encircled the village of goods in eastern syria earlier in the year and in recent weeks launched a final push to drive out the eisel fighters thirty seven thousand civilians have reportedly fled the area since early january. now the fall of the so-called caliphate marks an important milestone for syria but people who lived under eisel rule are still recovering from the trauma here's the story of one woman who spent three years as an ice will slay. them. this is his home. where. he lived another. there wasn't it couldn't look up as i got the.

vision god is now is kinda. good from this. distance. despite i suppose apparent to defeat the remaining terrorists are still putting up a fight some of the group's members said to be in hiding along the euphrates river the u.s. president though has already declared victory and not for the first time as artie's my comments. it was only a matter of before i say this is lost on klav stronghold was destroyed liberated and it is happened isis this era 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. well 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've done a great job with those as 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 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 in question that america's allies such as france really want a non-citizen. mrs polly france's defense minister went to the u.s. 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 that president macron will 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 most threatening people to pay by sending a message by envelope pay or die they threaten businessmen doctors etc congratulations . 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 the true for the lies of the saw and he wants he always wants to compare himself with barack obama thing that he was the one that if he did this in a very short time but it still hasn't finished and. this is not finished is finished in the land of syria in iraq also but this is this continues i think in other places such as afghanistan. about his reelection. iraqi officials say that at least eighty three people are known to have died after a ferry sank in the river on the city in the city of mosul on thursday

a signifiant people have reportedly been pulled from the water it is feared though that the number of deaths will rise it was it not immediately clear what caused the accident but reports suggest that there were far too many passengers on board the ferry rox prime minister has called for an investigation into the disaster. and that doesn't mean i'll be back in about thirty five minutes with an international. there are calls to end the electoral college lowered the voting age to sixteen allowing non-citizens to vote and to pack the supreme court with more internecine judges 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. like. a shadow to get afghan soldier that just makes me. sad left and i thought that was another one. that i was a. little just. here's the downside i just had a mission as secretary how you get yourself a prisoner and then i will tell you who committed to test it comes out the boys and never seen them post that.

welcome to the alex salmond show and the second of our programs on the fate of the sheik us islanders in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and early one nine hundred seventy s. the u.k. forcibly to move the entire population of the sickest archipelago and it is that for colonial administration purposes have been part of militias i don the largest island to diego garcia it's allowed the us to build a strategically important to military base and our first. mission covering the story we're told some of the human impact on the ship go since cleared from the indian ocean homeland now but our first second and indeed three generations in exile and malicious but also here in the u.k. with a three thousand strong community still gripped in the towns around got to airport

where they first landed in this country today a look at some of the international ramifications of the u.k. being in the dock not just of world opinion but that of the international court of justice we stick to allan could have been nominated as president in exile of the islanders until former you can boss it or about the diplomatic impact of the u.k. being five have acted unlawfully by the international court but first alex a few tweets your messages and emails for sure couple of weeks ago in the trigger silence provoked quite a bit of reaction force from to people who appeared in the show two of the islanders isabel and beth truong isabel said home is where your heart belongs my heart belongs to the chigger silence and beth long said i forgot to mention we have not after compensation we should do seasons just one one thing to the time but to our violence amid a quiet center a serious of messages and facebook the u.k.

government does not even recognize it did anything wrong and i hope to speak about isabel obviously will merely says lovely lady i hope of people get to go home and then my nephews to work there when he was in the navy he said was propaganda succulents did saying it was all necessary. come aboard and see the says the empire as they called themselves have a lot to answer for the only good thing about all empires is that they fall and finally come martin says martin friday's and there comes a failing to the description found of in the official documents of how form of his officials describe the should lucien's manfredi is that description alone tells us all we need to know about the mentality that was enough of a break in the european storm clouds to let the public see to shine on the international court of justice decision reeling that the u.k. had acted illegally as a colonial power and depopulating the islands and instructing dollars be returned to malicious as

a step to allowing fulfill the terminations this is what the hague court at the court was of the opinion that the united kingdom's continued administration of the shakers archipelago constitutes a wrongful act and tailing the international responsibility of that state that the united kingdom has an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the shake us archipelago as rapidly as possible and that all member states must cooperate with the united nations to complete the decolonization of marie. since respect for the right to self-determination is nobly geisha in this all states have a legal interest in protecting that rights the court found. it considered that while it is for the general assembly to pronounce on the modalities required to ensure the completion of the decolonization of nourishes all member states must cooperate with the united nations to put those modalities into effect. as regards the resettlement on the shakers archipelago of mauritian nationals including those

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