Forward on briggs said thats the verdict of both sides as a fourth round of formal talks and but are they really old buddies now and hugh hefner the founder of playboy dies at the age of ninety one didnt empower women or was he just a peddler of porn. I dont welcome. The latest move by iraqs kurds toward selfdetermination has thrown the region into crisis more than ninety percent of people in iraqs kurdish region in the north voted in favor of independence the Iraqi Government reacted with outrage saying the referendum was illegal neighboring turkey and iran which have also got kurdish minorities have both condemned the vote as the kurds celebrated iraqs Prime Minister threatened serious consequences. After voting for secession on monday kurds in iraq could hardly contain themselves thousands flooded the kurdish cities in north and iraq to celebrate a referendum they have been pushing for years. Today we are overjoyed weve been living under occupation and suffering for a hundred years but today we rejected that. Yes for independence and freedom for the Kurdish People although they were going to quote. Kurdistan is a radian autonomous region within iraq but minority kurds want to break away with other to retreat like the Oil Rich Region near the city of kirkuk to form an independent state. But dad has called the vote unconstitutional on tuesday iraqs Prime Minister. Said International Flights to the kurdish region would be suspended and vowed to keep iraq from breaking apart. They took advantage of the situation and violated the constitution i dont want to say that we will use force well use our heads and respect the constitution if they respond to this then its fine and therefore today i demand that they return all the areas they recaptured from the Islamic State its what parliament decided. Iraqs neighbors have rejected the referendum on tuesday turkey held joint military exercises along its border with a kurdish region and threaten to block kurdistans oil exports. Several airlines have also stopped flights to north and iraq at baghdads request. The nonbinding vote is unlikely to lead to independence anytime soon but that has not dampened the mood across the cut issue region. And so on the story im joined by detail because. Hes insulin manja in iraq a kurdish region scientific what is the mood like i read. Im written now standing one of the main streets in so many i mean you can see behind me there life is going on very normal but when you get close and talk to the people on one side they are very happy very motivated that this referendum has happened and the majority voted for yes but on the other hand you have a lot of confusion a lot of tension when you talk to them because they ask themselves whats now after the referendum whats going to happen whats whats going to be the reaction from black dots and how will the International Community deal with them but its good to mention of that same time they are motivated and they say we are ready to have a coup or dish independent state so after such a resoundingly yes of those other people are expecting that this referendum will lead to independence. They are they have a very big hope about it that this its time for them to have an independent kurdish state but also at the same time they ask a lot of different questions concerning the economical situation here if we take a very practical example like a lot of government and for years didnt get their money since months even though the government here is dependent on the imports from baghdad is dependent on the imports from iran and the imports from turkey what will happen if theres going to be a blockade these are the question is who are concerning now people because im today insulin mania but if you look to arab you see the other city to other major city i talk to some citizens there on the phone and they already talk me there are they are afraid theres not going to be enough food and theyre actually going to them are finding that inviting the necessity of things they need in their daily lives because of whats going to happen on the other and when you talk to the political side to the political experts here they say now have a legitimate ok from their people to start negotiating a lot having an independent kurdish state and what are the flies the bhandup has to kind of. Cancel a lot of International Flights to the region reacted to that. I mean the blockade will be action and concerning in not in solomon yet thats the information we have to now you already have some foreigners in our reveal who are leaving the country who are leaving the city and here in seoul and the new york people who say we should take now the last plane not the last International Plane to leave the country because after that there is a lot of question what will happen if you can have a blockade blockade will be any people who are here now be able to leave thats a lot of question and you could feel i can require even if you talk to people face its the question today whats going to happen next a will this referendum be translated into actions in daily life abdelkarim and just far from the solomon here in iraqs kurdish region thank you very much for that. Youre welcome return to europe now where both britain and the e. U. Say they have had a constructive week as the fourth round to form a big city talks come to an end in brussels britains briggss secretary david davis was upbeat saying the teams had made decisive steps forward but is european counterpart Michel Barnier warned that move progress was needed for the next phase of talks on trade and a transition period again. Correspondent was covering the stalks and joins me now from brussels. Mixed messages there what was your assessment of the fourth round of talks. I would say america the u. K. s position again today is to some extent a reflection of their negotiating position and that is the key problem is that the current government for off to reason may has to sell to its population and the bracks negotiations as some form of success something that will give them a better deal at the end of these negotiations and that is why david davies again was rather more upbeat about how things went and lets listen what Michel Barnier the chief negotiator for the e. U. Had to say it is going to run we have to construct a week yes but we are not yet there in terms of achieving progress so as you can hear hes a little more. Has it and two to call this really brock rest and i would say that if you if you put all in a nutshell the e. U. And the u. K. Still remain divided on key issues in these talks now if this is a fourth round of talks british Prime Minister is that we went on a major Charm Offensive what did back to did that have on these talks it had to some extent the impact that it installed a little more dynamics as michelle money has put it in his press conference at the same time he said it it remains clear that one of the key stumbling blocks in the negotiations is that david davis his counterpart would like to mix together the talks about the current divorce so the commitments the u. K. Has to honor and a future relationship and that is where mr benn year set for talking about a future relationship which only can be done if there is sufficient progress is still weeks even months away yet not just in brussels thank you. This article look at some of the stories making news around the world Spanish Police have sealed off a warehouse storing ballot boxes for catalonia as an unauthorized independence referendum the move is the latest by madrid authorities to block sundays vote which catalonian Authorities Say they are determined to hold officials have called on the European Union to mediate as tensions with madrid threaten to boil over. Even puerto rico are pressing u. S. President donald trump to send more aid more quickly the u. S. Territory has been paralyzed since Hurricane Maria hit a week ago and everyone on the island some three point four Million People are without power nearly half of them dont have Running Water and fuel is also scarce. A u. S. Airstrike in afghanistans capital kabul has claimed a number of civilian casualties Officials Say the strike missed its intended target to do what they called a missile malfunction it had been aimed at militants who launched rockets at kabul airport on wednesday shortly after the u. S. Defense secretary jim artis arrived on a visit and just days after a worse than expected result in germanys general election unlamented is back on the campaign trail this time helping out ahead of a snap election in the state of lewis saxony of the german chancellor is lending support to her conservative partys candidate who is trying to win back the state from the social democrats doing so would give machall and her conservatives a much needed boost as they try to forge a new governing coalition in berlin. A forming a new government isnt the only challenge facing politicians in the german capital with six different parties in a Record Number of deputies in parliament theyre going to have to be creative to find space for everyone. Space is now a scarce commodity in this prime location in central berlin the new German Parliament is going to be the biggest and most costly ever in postwar history instead of four now six parties have to divide up the photo is where the meeting rooms are but who is going to share with whom. Probably the a if you will be far away from us if i can choose nobody wants to sit next to the a. F. D. In the Parliament Chamber either some are worried that if the far right party sits on the right theyll be uncomfortably close to where the government sets of d. Itself is relaxed on the issue. Is about if they treat us in a way that makes us look like the victims of the voters will say thats on fan and then even more people are going to vote for us next time. The number of parliamentarians has swollen from six hundred thirty to seven hundred and nine making space is not going to be easy but there is precedent when the greens first entered parliament in the eightys there was no room for them they even held meetings in the open air the new bundestag is the third most populous parliament only the European Parliament and the Chinese Peoples Congress has more members. The bigger the parliament gets the more difficult it gets to enter the base and to keep the government in check because such a Big Parliament cant act as an independent institution anymore. Because argonne again khan the Parliament May have grown but the percentage of women has shrunk the new bundestag has the lowest percentage of female politicians and more than twenty yes a deficit which is particularly acute in the a. F. D. The f. T. P. And surprisingly enough christian democrats. Youre watching d. V. D. s still to come here you have the founder of the adult magazine playboy has died at the age of ninety one he launched playboy in one hundred fifty three it was a all the night success but critics say he objectified women. But first when i was here with Business News and President Trump is unveiled his long awaited tax reform plans thats right amrita what we do know is that it could well stand to benefit corporations and middle income families what we dont know is whether that money would then trickle down to the lower income American Workers many analysts say that the plan lacks detail one of the biggest changes we do know about though is that drastic tax cut for corporations so lets take a listen now to the president outlining that part of his proposed tax overhaul were doing everything we can to reduce the tax for you and your family by eliminating tax loopholes we will ensure that the benefits are focused on the middle class the working men and women not the highest income earners under our framework we will dramatically cut the business tax rate so that American Companies and American Workers can be our foreign competitors and start winning again. We will reduce the Corporate Tax rate to no higher than twenty percent thats way down from thirty five and thirty nine. And to unpack the president s tax plan and now im joined in the studio by professor from the Free University of berlin lovely to see this morning now this document has been billed as a framework more than a plan and hes promised relief for companies what does that mean specifically. The companies are interested in the net that theyre getting from increased sales in the future when Economic Growth brings about new sales its going to be in the first instance the net income coming to the corporation that will be important for making these Investment Decisions if youre willing to invest more if you know theres going to be more sugar if we can call the extra profits sugar if thats offered so thats the theory behind everything but corporations are not people theyre owned by people Corporate Income goes to people who own stock and. Roughly the top. Thirty percent of the population own the very overwhelming majority of stocks so one looks at that as as much a redistribution as it is an incentive for further increased investment indeed and we know that we could see the Corporation Tax potentially go from an average of around thirty five percent down to twenty percent potentially guaranteed food for the wealthy the middle class could or save be lifted through some of these tax proposals but my question is im wondering what about lower income people and families in america right now it looks like theres going to be essentially a sop a little bit could be coming out but when you hear a doubling of the standard deduction what is happening is a merger of whats called the personal exemption with the standard deduction so from the point of view of the small. Poor family there might be a fifteen percent increase in this deduction which means a tax saving but its its peanuts compared to dropping for instance the personal tax rate for these socalled passthrough companies by the way the Trump Organization is a passthrough company and that would be an income tax rate of twenty five percent what are the chances that this reform well that shed be implemented. Lets just say better than i think the repeal of obamacare with the repeal of obamacare was possible to mobilize people who directly suffer the cuts the way this is all packaged is the necessary spending cuts will come in the future so the victims if you will or those people paying the cost of this tax reform will be mobilizing yet oh and from the Free University of berlin thank you very much ryanair hasnt pulled out of its tail spin just yet in fact things have got even worse for the budget as a line its announced its counseling another eighteen thousand flights between november and march will early this month you may well remember ryanair announced it was pulling up to fifty flights every day through to the end of october after a quote messed up the planning of pilot holidays. Football fan William Turner frequently flies with ryanair to see his club when theyre on the road he said five Flights Canceled shared it makes things difficult its just not what you need you just want the big things and have them and in place and theres obviously pilots that range things for the holidays and i understand thats a difficult you have that it doesnt help anybody whos straight gets at their station even relieved passengers whose flights havent been axed and the latest wave of cancellations might think twice about booking ryanair in the future the carrier announced it was scrapping another eighteen thousand connections this coming winter as it continues to struggle with pilot shortages caused by what the company says are scheduling problems what started as a debacle has turned into a Public Relations nightmare for Founder Michael oleary at a press Conference Last Week after the first round of cancellations he admitted to making serious mistakes that doesnt mean that from time to time we dont make methods and we do it is clearly a myth i take responsibility for the mess that it is my messed up and therefore i have to clean it up a good place to start would be with the Airlines Pilots for many of them the relationship apparently isnt a cordial one in an attempt to cut fewer flights ryanair offered Twelve Thousand euro bonuses if pilots would agree to work just ten extra days and sign on for another year a significant number rejected the request the Irish AirlinePilots Association says that should come as no surprise big claims ryanair has fostered a culture of disrespect and fear among staff. Rita now taking a look at the life of a divisive figure thats right helena playboy founder hugh hefner has died at the age of ninety one hefner gained instant fame when playboy was launched in the one nine hundred fifty s. The publication of the adult magazine came in deeply conservative america and created a sensation hefner spun the brand into a publishing empire but his predicts accused him of degrading and objectifying women hugh hefner and his giant media and entertainment empire from his elaborate mansions often clothed in so pajamas it takes a. Special. Yeah it was. Perhaps. We did smiths of nude photos highbrow articles and fiction by well known writers have to hit the nerve of the time when he started publishing playboy more than sixty years ago the mens magazine became a roaring success and instantly made having a famous for some hefner his magazine and his lifestyle or symbols of the sexual revolution credited with helping break down puritanical morals in the United States the. Resources that would normally. Come. In the sixtys change the world who could pose. For others have an integrated women treating them as objects of male fantasy at a time when women were fighting for basic rights such as equal opportunity and equal pay in the past decade or sorry playboy circulations have plummeted and the brand seemed outdated but have now leave the playboy lifestyle to the very end. And to talk about you have to have with me to Sudhir Mishra of stock montes from the newsroom and a culture correspondent Scott Roxborough welcome to both if you let me start with you scott did you read playboy and was it just for the article obviously dont actually i have to admit i was the big reader of playboy because im like so but the men of my generation my father didnt collect playboys hes a doctor and i think looking at naked woman was too much like work for him so he never never had a playboy cover it much much later life on the sleeve board for the articles additionally. It was the same story ok even so what about you i mean what do you feel about playboy and heck now what do you think what did that magazine actually do for women well you know hugh hefner did put his money where his mouth is in terms of he said he was a feminist so he did support some court cases that tried to promote abortion rights and also to fight against states that were banning Birth Control so he did. He did he was a feminist in some ways but we got to talk about the elephant in the room this magazine objectified women and the millions of mattresses this that this was stuffed under and in the garages where this was hidden there were a lot of young men and young women who were introduced to the ideal image of who should participate in the sexual revolution what this woman should look like and that was often women with big breasts big hair you know perfect body and i think that had a damaging effect especially on women. That they felt like they had to live up to this ideal im sure it lined the pockets of many plastic surgeons also psychologists who are trying to counsel women who might have developed eating disorders out of this kind of objectified image they were supposed to look to so his his legacy is mixed. So i have to say after all the credit for that or all the all the blade by being thats the entire. Cosmetic. Industry the entire fashion industry i mean you almost blame capitalism itself for first some of those things that his critics would argue that he got is that i want to read out a quote quote from wife to you he said everybody whos got their heads on straight wants to be a sexual object object is the ability used among other things they want to be attractive otherwise what a sad and pathetic life should he was encouraging this kind of thing is what his critics would say yeah but i think thats thats probably justified i mean you can look at have to his life and seemed quite progressive figure when he started out in the fiftys sixtys seventys i mean he did a lot to both introduce things like Birth Control support for abortion rights sexual liberation in general gay rights as well a big big supporter of gay rights but hes not really what we consider a two thousand and seventeen progressive i mean the man was ninety one he came from a completely different era was very revolutionary at the time i think its firstly justified to criticize him for some of his views and opinions but i think its not quite fair to try to judge him by our standards now and expect him to live up to how many grandfathers do you know who were as progressive or as liberal as you have in fact a lot of women you know he or she lot of women is curious to his magazine a lot of women have come out in support of him say and thank him for that was a hugh hefner more than just playboy did he mean more to people than we would limiting him too much by just seeing him as the publisher of playboy well people have many sides and you look at the quotes coming out on twitter from people who he made famous he launched to stardom he described him as someone who was very warm very loving who really helped them. But on the other side we have to look at is you have there was a businessman he started playboy with eight thousand dollars now it draws in one billion dollars annually so if he was this man who was trying to launch women to stardom it was basically because he wanted to make money he wanted to take away the shame of looking at. Worn and making it ok for women to feel like i can participate in this as well and so its a complicated picture. How do you feel about this obviously he talks about being a liberal and a feminist and all that sort of thing but is that all just hogwash it is a brand that he was setting was a bad pull and i dont know what you know i look for would you consider playboy porn i think i think playboy as eroticism which i would just make a distinction of but i dont think it was disingenuous on have part of me came from a fairly conservative. Christian family he talked a lot about feeling very repressed as a kid and not being you know emotionally dollar kissed as a child i think that was genuine and his sort of embrace of the sexual of racial but was not just to make money it was a genuine thing you see also the other issues the support and the other political causes he supported what i think is interesting though but have to is he also create a different type of man a different type of sort of role model for men in that he created a man that was a static statically interesting interesting culture i mean look at the have to her image you know the silk pajamas the cocktail the. Pipe compared to what used to be the male image which also was either a father or a soldier essentially he was not of those things he was not an athlete or a warrior he was a guy who liked clothes he liked design he did like women you could say its not that progressive definitely was if youre from the one nine hundred fifty s. Perspective michel i have to leave the final word with you do you accept a scots description of hugh hefner as whos emancipated women and also what a new dimension to the men i dont know i mean you can say that he took this much off of porn or made it more eroticism as you said but you know the devils in the details. There are a lot of women who still feel objectified by at night when scott writes well wonderful to talk to both of you on who is if. He was in need of it hes out of my. I have more for you in half an hour with your then. Entered the conflict zone fronting the powerful. This week conflict zone is in berlin and my guests are junk politicians on the news hes a member of the European Parliament and the social democrats who have just suffered us dummies defeat know that the votes are counted. Many had. Double. Theirs. Palins off the wall street from the band. 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