the medieval town center of coker is certainly worth taking a stroll through or in this case a ride. the narrow alleyways old houses and splendid palaces bear witness to the town's past under venetian rule. the longest section of the route runs along a former railway line it's known as the patents on or the path of health and friendship. the one hundred sixteen kilometer trail connects the italian city of trialist with slovenia and croatia first stop. now amy. as you can see it's an old fishing town. and fishing have always dominated life in this town meant traveled out to sea and brought fish and other foods back to. their wives stayed at home to preserve and sell the fish. the tour continues. even on hot days there's usually a pleasant sea breeze blowing across the cycle over. the town of piranha slowly comes into view many consider it the crown jewel of the slovenian coast. it's also the setting of a popular love story when a wealthy venetian fell for a poor local beauty the locals gossiped about the disparity in their social standings this upset the young woman and so the venetia

public relations strategy to conceal the same old economic approach joining us now from london is david coker david is a lecturer of finance at the university of westminster in london good to have you with us again david so you've got the world's brightest and best financial minds meeting this weekend in washington d.c. the world bank and i.m.f. meetings they don't exactly have the greatest record when it comes to predicting trouble ahead today. they don't and particularly we see their forecasts their g.d.p. forecasts are very volatile when there is political instability. the world bank the i.m.f. a reputation severely dented after failing to predict the economic crisis the last economic crisis in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight that they smart enough a wee small governments our institutions smart enough to avoid another catastrophe like that of the systems are very complex i think i think we understand the mechanisms and we've got a good feeling of what has to be done i'm not convinced the political will is there so even though some of the best minds at the i.m.f. and the world

toronto thirty three in baghdad it's just slowly cooling down the chances showers being repeated of the cokers or maybe the caspian coast of iran well the chances there is just off to the high one at the moment is largely sunshine and watch the wind directions even the eastern med things across and done as his sort of fairly warm twenty seven in beirut and. on the arabian peninsula and we saw the monsoon bringing briefly a bit of the heavy back to solid there's still a lot of cloud around in the forecast and when you see cal you think well i might well be well into showers in the empty quarter or some parts of amman but that's probably it is maybe an increased chance as that cloud drifts over the mountains in the south of saudi to get a shout out of it otherwise we look to the wind direction once more as a northerly coming down so the gulf surge get quite breezy in die hard and probably abu dhabi and dubai was temp she's in the middle to high that when turns around it's rather dusty time and probably windy time in both mecca and medina at forty degrees. welcome back undermined at the top stori

over the european union and we will need legislative steps in order to combat this problem or donna coker is a law professor at the university of miami and she says there are a number of contributory factors that can lead to harassment in the workplace. it is the case. very often when women are sexually harassed their primary objective is to succeed in the work that they have set out to do to not allow the harassment to stop their career and so it's very understandable that when you don't have cultural change in place when when you feel that you are isolated when you don't have the kinds of reporting structures that work and you don't have the kinds of investigation and chain of command changes in place that women even powerful women. are relatively powerful women are unlikely to come forward and i think that what you see and what's needed is both a kind of cultural change and then you need structural changes wow so in the united states of course many of our workplaces are at will employment. and when you have those kinds of workplace rules in place then it makes all workers very vulnerab

they can and thoughtfully and contextual the give a viewpoint into identities when the push back coker's and happily engaged in that conversation because i'm not just talking about what my books are about talking about who i am. and the book i had written that was not. but that is because of your own identity. >> but it seems so exhausting to defend that is the only thing criticized. and to live in the inner city. that is do they are afraid of for gore really? then you are afraid of me. so not just based on the of content or who it is about it just it's really frustrating after a while. >>. >> with the diverse book is similar experiences to have that conversation over and over. bid to say they're happy to do with. >> so low that frustrating and fucked up conversation juror having 99.9 percent of adults when you're actually talking to the teens that are reading the book reading different voices and those that are protecting them. and that gives me hope so i'm going in talking about my book every day to the gymnasiums of 2,000 kids to talk about by a married gender -- by gary gender but bu

coker was a generous man and he will be greatly missed. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new jersey seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. >> day after day the president and congressional republicans have sought to bring their tax -- frame their tax pr posal as a tax cut for hardworking, middle class families and not a tax cut for the wealthiest americans, even going so far as to say it will not add to the deficit. quite simply, they are trying to sell the american people a dream that will not become a reality. in new jersey alone, 25% of the residents will see their taxes increase by $2,400 annually. that means one in four new jerseyans are affected by this failed strategy of trickle down economics. these aren't the very rich. i'm talking about new jersey's regular working families. these new jerseyans are a part of the 47 million americans that will see a tax increase. this tax reform plan and the rhetoric my republican colleagues are

it's the exact dynamic around the president senator coker described in his interview with the "times." i know for a fact every single day at the white house it's a situation of trying to contain him. john kelly already implemented new systems to control the president. now reportedly moving to lock things down on the president's own turf. "vanity fair" reporting kelly has a new strategy to restrain trump at mar-a-lago, the florida resort he likes to call the winter white house. the president has been known to mingle freely with guests and discuss matters of the absolute highest national security at dinner. amid rumors that plan could backfire. we've seen how this president responds to being reined in. in awe interview with "the washington post", "whistling tea pot" saying when he does not blow off steam he can turn into a pressure cooker and explode. i think we're in pressure cooker territory, the confidant said. gabe sherman broke the story for "vanity fair" and he joins me now. what have you learned? even the fact that there is a mar-a-lago strategy says something about where things

concerned of that many republicans getting knocked out of primaries, and the two i respected, flake and coker, were outstanding members and i am sad and disappointed they are leaving. >> at the same time, they vote with trump 94, 93% of the time, and they are not against him on policy but on style. to the point that was just made, the base of the republican party likes trump, his style, and they don't like the fact that in their view members of congress won't back him up 100%, and i am not sure how donald trump, even with his base with him, it doesn't help republicans in the midterms at all. >> if you look at what happens, we are talking about the base of the republican party, it has been shrinking. between december 2015 and march 2017, we lost 23% of republicans aged 18 to 29. they left the party. that's almost 1 in 4. that goes hand and hand with the demographic crisis. they see us as the old white guy, and while there are people trying to fix that caricature, donald trump is doing the opposite and proving that caricature true. the one group that keeps polling worse among generations millen

legislative steps in order to combat this problem let's get more on this now we're joined by donna coker law professor at the university of miami that's where she's joining us from very good to have you with us on al-jazeera muskoka what did you make off the debate at the european parliament i mean how significant is that that we're hearing these stories and this debate there. i think it's terribly significant the parliament obviously has tremendous reach and to hear these stories from very powerful members of the parliament both regarding their own experiences but also the experiences of their staff i think is tremendously important as the as well as the changes that are contemplated and as you mentioned these are powerful people and you get none of them have felt they can come forward with allegations of rape or sexual abuse we are hearing these stories now but the committee that actually investigates allegations of harassment says that of the ten cases that have been brought before it since two thousand and fourteen not women have been of a sexual nature so just how much of a problem