turns down trees and maze request for a three month of bragg's a delay offering the twenty second of may as an absolute deadline with strings attached. president trump says he is ready to recognize that israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights it disputed area captured from syria in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. and western powers questioned italy's willingness to join beijing's belt road infrastructure project calling it a tool for chinese influence. or broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is r t international and

sometimes. president trump has weighed in on 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 has condemned the announcement accusing the us of supporting israel's so-called occupation policy artie's killam up and as more donald trump 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 the 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. after fifty two years it's time for the united states to fully recognize israel so vinci 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 its time when the run cease to syria as a platform to destroy israel trump boldly recognize these israeli sovereignty and the golan heights thank you president trump now in its annual human rights report the u.s.a. described palestinian territories not as israeli occupied but rather as israeli controlled 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 who 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 are

a journalist a rick sterling who is a member of the syria solidarity movement says trump's move could to send shock waves across the middle east. what this decision in this book 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 teach stabilize the region rather. than helping it basically seems to do take moves that or in line with what benjamin netanyahu wants in an empty casino mogul show that labels that war 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 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.

chinese president is in adelaide to discuss rome's participation in the belt and road initiative it is in ambitious trillion dollar infrastructure projects spanning three continents and italy's role has drawn criticism from western allies or has been you know a question of reports the bad boy or the godfather of euro skepticism it's a yes once again tasking relations with the e.u. with rome now pushing to join china's road and ballot initiative has reportedly setting off alarm bells and process and getting back sap 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 but road initiative lends legitimacy to china's predatory approach to investments a moving no benefits the italian people and so he could become the first member of

the so-called group of seven the most powerful nations to join china some vicious plan to bust connectivity between asia europe and africa. local businesses will likely view the project as a 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 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 come their european partners who have labeled specie 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 road strategy even china is cute see promos have been helped change americans' minds next to. the. breaking barriers when making

history and. after it's see the chinese leader is planning his next stop in paris but here the expectations of talks going wow are not as promising. all right italian historian paulo bernardine believes rome has plenty to gain from strengthening its ties with china. while i think peter is going to achieve a lot i mean the new golden initiative is a major initiative of fact a large part of the value in column e. i mean that we need to have a strong go import export relation with china local all the major states and you were happy about that but i think the state you know newsroom. in the in the relations that itself we are starting to or now own or now or the nation we have a biggest chinese immediately and i think it's a positive i think. in the united states last

accepted. and they took on from the war in moscow. things with. thinking to. walk to. the center of gravity and say. the european union has rejected it teresa mayes that request for a three month delayed to bragg's it after a summit in brussels the us offering a shorter postponement and only on of the condition that the british parliament approves the unpopular withdrawal deal painstakingly negotiated by the british prime minister and the e.u. and he's done your hawkins is in berlin with the latest. it was a very long night of chopping and changing plans draft documents they have been surely though those twenty seven eager council leaders managed to come up with a decision a final offer two to reason may and the u.k.

for its bricks of plans for spoiling that they had line article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional on to resume a passing up plan in parliament of course it's already been rejected twice by big majorities humiliating defeat for the conservative government and it's probably for that reason that the e.u. council added these conditions of the condition that you pass is that through if not they've added the option of a second extension up until the twelfth of april now if the u.k. chooses to go for that second extension of the reason may fails to put our plan through parliament as is widely expected the u.k. will have to come up with some sort of plan was some sort of offer to continue that process in which case they will have to agree to participate in the european parliamentary elections but of course that would be rather silly rather pointless because the u.k. is of course leaving the european union as threes and may stated in her press conference that the atmosphere in the meeting was better than expected the it was

positive and the discussions had been very constructive. is a long extension please. yes or no yes. on to the very end. i think to our poll. and there's still empty and it means the lot of spaces and i and somebody showing signs of strain was of course the prime minister herself to resume a she came out to give a speech at the end of that conference as well and some questions from journalists really not giving much away there from her previous speech last night which was. so badly slated by m.p.'s by pundits by journalists all over stating that the british public had voted for bricks that it was now her job and the job of the house of commons to deliver that and she would be getting on with that job i hope we can

all agree we are now at the moment of decision and i will make every effort to ensure that we are able to leave with a deal to move our country forward will the deal of living with the option rather leaving with no deal next week seems to be off the table for now to resign my house got her breathing space this first leave her though with four options the deal option of leaving with a deal should parliament accept our plan next week leaving with no deal which is a scenario of a living with no deal which is a scenario that both the reason why and all the e.u. leaders unanimously have agreed is a worst case scenario for the u.k. it will be highly damaging politically and economically for the u.k. and for the e.u. getting a longer extension or revoke article fifteen now getting a longer extension and revoking article fifty something to resume my has said she will not consider so someone else moves today that were obviously expected the

extension with conditions attached what could happen next week of course it's anybody's guess so the saga assuming you does continue. for more on this we can now cross alive to robert naiman who is the director of just foreign policy thanks for being with us here on r.t. international a lot to unravel here i'm a as been given very little time to get her deal through parliament and if she fails as many are predicting then the u.k. is facing a so-called no deal bragg's it how much damage could this inflict on the country. you know. you. are that big. you exaggerate the damage you as in the intent to divert them with three from a dozen of the vege read them and. so we don't really know

what the real cause was movie because the world has never been in this situation before and we know her sure then every afternoon this drama has lied in the balance in order to get what they want and to recently has used her mind to my way or the highway strategy try to force your deal through in the u.k. parliament has been boiling in the face of that intimidation so i think the most important thing to focus on is that the u.k. is still the monsters they voted for this that's what should happen the second thing that people should do it's not got enough that. he says a huge. hole or in this situation the. is that the question of northern ireland that's the most if you look at the debate in the british parliament if you look at the rejecting. it the most salient thing

is the fact stuff will so why is the bad stuff because of the question of northern ireland well why is there this lingering question of northern ireland because the legacy of british colonialism and imperialism in ireland so this is kind of a payback for eight hundred years of british colonialism and imperialism and i know and it's on resolve questions of this status of no there arlen right there was a deal the there was an accord or an agreement a compromise on the status of northern ireland which was premised on the assumption that the you know you would remain in the e.u. and so the republic of ireland and northern ireland would be in this overall framework that the e.u. will fundament or in the attempt of the u.k.

to exit the european union northern ireland voted against lead right now in voting to leave england voted overwhelmingly early so these people want different things now obvious that you ation the obvious solution to this would be to have some accommodation to allow northern ireland to go with the republican right robert robert. in you they've made it clear that that's not going to happen in fact theresa may have still urging parliament to approve her deal which she's already gone to them a couple times and they've resoundingly said no they've rejected it twice in record numbers if they do cave in and she manages to override the will of lawmakers could that have worrying implications for democracy in the u.k. you mentioned that democracy still reigns there but right now it seems that they're trying to strong arm things through. they are but they've built the course so what should we expect is the most likely outcome so far the british parliament has

rejected all of the read semi's ultimatum why should we expect them to any of the like the most likely outcome which is expected the awful day. after all you know we the british people voted for bread that the british parliament has voted you know besides the question was not in the main criticism of the reason made bright that is not real bright right and the parliament interjected that so i don't see why we should be timid in our nation of the british parliament given that so far they've helped their heads up by then the same british and robert i'm going to vote any. unfortunately we're out of time at this at this juncture but i'm sure that we're going to be talking about this a lot of the next coming days thanks for your thoughts on this with all right

kurdish forces say they have liberated islamic states last piece of territory in syria much more after a short break this is our international. breaks it down. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've matter us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar foreign tempi each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old bridge with six percent of the world market rose thirty percent somewhat four hundred five hundred three first circuit per second

and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business you know ford the mint the one and only boom but. welcome back 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 me two movement started let's take a look a survey by gallup found that fifty three percent of men see workplace harassment as a problem that is 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 people what they thought. 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 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 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 great area that you're not at all where 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 not read me we're having a contract i'm good or bad and yes some women have made false and yes some because you were going on yes some women have made false accusations it is an absolute provable fact and so until you're ready to have

a conversation like that we're going to be caught up in all the same hypocrisy that many on 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. so weeks of intense fighting us back to kurdish forces say they have taken control of islamic states final piece of territory in syria. the syrian democratic forces encircled the village of bugaboos in eastern syria earlier in the year and in recent weeks launched a final push to drive out the isis fighters around thirty seven thousand civilians have reportedly fled the area since early january. despite i suppose apparently defeated the remaining terrorists are still putting up a fine some of the group's members are said to be in hiding along the fraser river the u.s. president though has already declared victory not for the first time in years

archies by gusta. it was only a matter of tahn before isis is lost on clave stronghold was destroyed liberated and it has happened isis has been cleansed from the village of but it's lost costal 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 won. so what happens is this is all isis now on the bottom that's as of today this is isis 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 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 will 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 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 that president 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 donald you've won you've beaten isis 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 r. in the lies 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 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 period after isaac's continues i think in other places such as afghanistan. is the only thinking about his relation to international. centers financial planning guide i don't find any i'm on if you. think it's not a muslim society that's not some of my ex from the future trucker watch kaiser. you

know world is a big part of the market and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. oh my gosh do we have a huge impact show priya today this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and

covering the world of business and finance and that impact upon all of us you me the guy behind the tree everybody we're so pleased that you're with us today coming up cryptocurrency is a receiving more and more attention international recognition but what does that mean going to forward christi i a town or part acting great throat or a arco dot i standing by to break it all down plus the term mainstream media gets tossed around quite a bit these days but what is the reality of media in the main. holland could coast to the big picture help us understand the big business of mainstream media and global rankings are out on the most and least expensive cities in the world and it's got a few surprises buried in the details but more importantly for all of you boom busters what does it mean for international business in travel especially with regard to those urban ecosystems malls are and help us take a spin around the globe and later most people know that obesity is a major pull blammo in other places around the world not just in the u.s.

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