Conversation to clearly define its a global issue and since were hollywood people its in the spotlight so lets talk about it now thats happened and the policy not been easy. If its all through the ramifications the feed into other industries i thought that i would have to teach my daughter how to navigate in a dangerous world and now i feel like i can be part of handing her i think. Also coming up half a world away a british journalist calls it quits over unfair pay saying she to earn more if she were he. I dont want to be remembered as the woman who complained about head pay i want to be remembered for my fine china. We begin the day with hollywood seeing red and dressed in black and wanting the world to take notice last nights Golden Globes in los angeles was the first major Industry Award since what they called the reckoning began last year several women went public with allegations of Sexual Harassment against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein it set in motion an avalanche of similar claims against scores of the most powerful men in media allegations of decades of unreported sexual misbehavior how the woods biggest open secret finally exposed well last night black was the color of protest and solidarity and it became the color that many women including the women that you were about to see right here wore to send a signal to the world along with the words the spokes see them right here and were going to start with meryl streep the oscar winning meryl streep she told the audience people are aware now of a power imbalance its led to abuse in our industry its everywhere and the actress Frances Mcdormand also weighed in and she added that it was really great to be in this room tonight and to be part of the tectonic shift in our industrys power structure and les lights recipient of the cecil b. Demille Lifetime Achievement award Oprah Winfrey the first africanamerican female to win that award she offered a speech and quotes that really owned the evening she said i want all the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizon and were going to have more on that in just a moment our first report tonight takes us to l. A. Arm in arm women from the wilds of film t. V. And music on addictions of sexism and Sexual Violence and declared change had arrived. This years Golden Globes it was their night. Where i was out there were drawing up a big black law and the three yesterday and tomorrow i said the way things used to be done the way bill refused to. Talk to me that way if youre a millionaire and remaining a gentleman this was the first major award show since a slew of Sexual Harassment allegations wrecks the industry workin female driven t. V. Series Big Little Lies about sexual abuse and female empowerment one big. I felt alive. In thirty three billboards outside ebing it centers on a mother struggling to avenge the rape and murder of her daughter. This reporter for one hopes this finally put the handmaids tale about women fighting to survive in a Dystopian Society one best t. V. Drama but it would seem women. They were slightly sick while german film in the fade won best Foreign Language film that stars diane kruger as a woman forced to cope with the death of her husband and son. Oh im joined now from all sanjay by k. J. Matthews whos a Hollywood Reporter reporter with the Hollywood Reporter she has been covering the global the Golden Globes good evening to you i should say good afternoon to you k j its good to have you on the show so lets talk about what we just saw last night this. Hash tag me too clearly dominated the awards ceremony last night and as we said the beginning of the show you know close made a statement but can we expect any of this to really make a difference long term you know that is the Million Dollar question on the part that before the show even started everybody had on their minds that whats what whats what pretty much has made it topical what everybody is talking about times that were actually each line to put into practice substantial changes that they need to see and not and you know one of the actions washington on the right targets is well know whether the bot. Has in the last minute bought it a year from now and see substantial changes i might even if he says the interesting. I was reading that a lot of commentators notice that not a single mail winner last night mentioned the hash tag times up. Or anything about what has happened in the last year on on the stage how do you read that. You know thats interesting everybody was talking about that last night everybody noticed that not one of the male nominees winners. When they took the stage acknowledged the need movement or thats why im so initiatives that you know they need that was because that night was about female zero and it was about sisterhood it was about changing the power imbalance and how you get into be honest many of the male nominees and male heirs even on the great part they want to show people out. The initiative and the mitsu movement and being happy about the fact that theyre going to see a change in hollywood and they think its long overdue so i think they felt that the red carpet was the time to discuss those things when asked by various reporters from around the world and not the show you know thats an interesting take on i know what what weve heard in the past year around the world youve got people saying that maybe the men in hollywood now are insecure or maybe theyre afraid that whatever they say is going to be the wrong thing do you think vatican played a part because we know a lot of women want men to be vocal and to stand up for them and to say they wont tolerate Sexual Harassment. Well you are absolutely right war has been a miner act was to this leak in the times in the sixtys where people are concerned that maybe certainly we have been axed it was made accused of doing things that were not didnt you also get is that concern but a lot of the women need me to say look we cant do this without meaning we need mean who are out there who want to what was the these changes need to be right by our son so although the meat may initiate it as a female face theyre saying standing right beside men in hollywood dont think its hed want to see more women in high places all right journalist Katie Matthews with the Hollywood Reporter joining us tonight from los angeles we appreciate you taking the time to be on the day thank you thank you or the most powerful speech of the evening came from Oprah Winfrey and as many suspected afterwards it was indeed delivered by a woman who was considering a run for the white house in two thousand and twenty now that is what sources close to winfrey confirmed earlier this evening winfrey made an impassioned statement about female and black activism as she became the first black female to receive the cecil b. Demille how awards and she won rapturous applause as she paid tribute to the women who spoke up about Sexual Harassment and a sounding some are saying very candidate like she promised quote a new day was on the horizon for too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. All right well is this the beginning of a new time for Oprah Winfrey in politics in the u. S. I want to pull in our washington correspondent carsten phenomena on that so carson this is a story isnt it weve got the nexus here of celebrity pop culture and politics in america trump was the king of reality t. V. Before he became u. S. President now bequeathing of talk shows may want his job what do you think about this. I think its a bit too much call me boring german but i tend to believe that politics is a Serious Business especially when we talk about the job of commander in chief of the most powerful nation on this planet of course we have seen things like this before on the reagan. Was president of the United States on all shots and there was governor of california we have seen former restless and singh is answering politics but what is new in this age of trump is that apparently no experience whatsoever in governing is deemed necessary anymore to do this and to be honest i simply dont get this you know even run reagan was governor of california had been governor of california before he ran successfully for president and if you have a legal problem you go to a lawyer if you have a broken bone you hope that your doctor is very qualified and only when it comes to the job of being the most powerful men on earth. Of experience is suddenly and yes it i mean i certainly would not call you boring to think that way i mean it sounds very reasonable to me carson if you compare europe to american politics and american politics really are a media spectacle of me a trump or even an Oprah Winfrey becoming head of state that is just not the norm here right. No in europe its different i mean to be fair we also had someone like Silvio Berlusconi form a show man and businessmen become Prime Minister of italy but that is clearly the exception the difference is in europe the Political Parties and their structure is a much more important so someone who wants to get to the top first has to work himself up the ladder in the hierarchy of his party has to have different positions before he gets a shot at the top job and in america of course the personality of the individual candidates is much more in the focus both systems of course have the advantages and disadvantages in europe i sometimes feel that many politicians by the time they have reached the top have forgotten why they answered politics in the first place and in america of course people can much more easily answer and bring in new ideas but the problem is of course in america then you might sometimes end up with someone who is not qualified for the job. And you know oprahs opinion and you know regardless of her credentials in politics her opinion it does matter to a lot of people in the u. S. And we saw that when she endorsed barack obama back in the two thousand and eight election what do you think carson how can her voice in no regardless of her becoming a candidate for the white house how can her voice impact americas whole arrives politics right now. She has a big following so she definitely will have an impact but she also cannot work miracles she endorsed barack obama and he won but still isnt also Hillary Clinton and she lost them and if she really will run for president again im not quite sure if she will be able to unite the country because she definitely it was a thrill and energize the liberal Democratic Base you might be able to get the support of some independents but generally i think we would have a similar situation to the one we have right now one part of the country thrilled and the other parts of the country in this may just with reversed roles im not quite sure if she is really the right person to unite the country maybe a more experienced a moderate politician might be better but then again what do i know im not even american so my vote doesnt come through but youre not boring and we appreciate the insights is a good way is a good way to look at this too will have to see what happens as we move closer to two thousand and twenty thats for sure our correspondent in washington tonight personnel are saying thank you. On the other side of the world a story about money respect and yes men and women the b. B. C. s china editor carrie greece has resigned from her post over what she calls unlawful pay discrimination gracey a fluent mandarin speaker with thirty Years Experience reporting for in china for the b. B. C. She quit her beijing post and says that she will be returning to the london newsroom now her decision comes after last years revelations of a huge gender pay gap at the b. B. C. I had never lost before money in fact i dont think in fact is that the b. B. C. That ive also put more money and nor advice on this occasion in the six months since we had to pay disclosures in july i have been trying to say to my bosses equal pay is very very important to me its not about giving me a pay rise its about equality between men and women and i thought aits a kid that when i went out to china it was only in july that i discovered that i had an all in the statement the b. B. C. Said there was no quote systemic discrimination against women a spokeswoman said that fairness and pay was vital and that the corporation was working to improve transparency on pay levels dozens of prominent female journalists and politicians in the u. K. Well theyve taken to social media to express solidarity with kerry greasy many of them using the hash tag i stand with kerry now here is her colleague b. B. C. As europe editor cut you are saying huge loss to b. B. C. International news i will miscarry grazie by my side as only other female editor in foreign news labor member of Parliament Harriet Harman tweeted tip of the iceberg in the b. B. C. And most other organizations equality act two thousand and ten means no hiding place for shameful discrimination against women ending it long overdue another female politician here the conservative. Praising kerry gracie for her courage what a brave lady she is absolutely no way any woman under any circumstances should be paid less than any man for doing the same job and finally the b. B. C. Presenter samir ahmed saying equal pay for equal work of equal value is the law if its happening to b. B. C. Women its happening to you. And lets pick up on that notion of it happening to a lot of people around the world im joined now by the journalist and delicate she reports on gender in gender pay gap issues here in germany she joins me tonight from munich its good to have you on the show this case with the b. B. C. Journalist i mean its Getting International attention in just like the hash tag me two continues to dominate the headlines and do you think that we could be looking at the start of a new invigorated push for Wage Equality around the world well that would be lovely actually because. The wage gap has not lessened. The last years ok same then there have been quite Strong Movement inside and as an equal pay day and. Once that societies are on the same day as we see change lets talk a little bit about what the situation is here in germany i mean you focus a lot on gender equality here in this country how does germany compare with the rest of europe when it comes to pay equality well sadly not very good actually it were now on top of the list and then. They dont they go up and you. Roughly at sixty percent when i ask in the u. K. In austria on the czech republic. You know twenty and that is going to surprise a lot of people because people consider germany the largest economy in europe also the head of state is a woman a female chancellor those things really dont fit together. Al yeah actually they do because its a still me tell you part of the story but you see like the best the countries will actually do in best are italy. Poland comes close and so on and they are roughly up to five percent but that doesnt really mean that women get quite better there that might be the case for instance that child care might be those who still women dont that much anyway they tend to leave the post workforce and then its only the better paid german women who actually work and and then you get better statistics you know or a give. The wages are generally well then that percentage difference as lower so actually where there are there when theres money in the march on the market and usually. Inequality seems to be bigger actually which is that we. Think is it is let me just before we run out of time iceland has just made it illegal for men to be paid more than women is legislation is is that the answer do we have to put it in the wall books it could be actually it is unlawful all over the European Union feels that you are the law of the conflicts dont let anything about tits and for instance in germany we only have a little transparent and usually it is. The job of the women to prove that there is discrimination and iceland has turned the tables and now the Company Actually has to prove that it doesnt dissuade me night and thats a huge step and that could be quite a good idea yeah maybe iceland is leading the way here have to see our journalists and the other question of joining us tonight from munich im going to thank you very much we appreciate your time. Well it is the stuff of spy novels in vietnam the trial of twenty two businessmen accused of corruption has begun and one of the defendants is a top Oil Executive who germany says was kidnapped from a berlin park last year by his countrys secret service of the case of strained relations between germany and vietnam. The vietnamese government says the high profile trial is part of a sweeping crackdown on corruption foreign media bought from the courthouse. On time is one of twenty two former Oil Executives accused of economic mismanagement and corruption tung was also a rising political star in vietnam victims vietnam has the Death Penalty its a country where the legal system is unpredictable its not about having proof that someone has committed a crime. Should kuantan had applied for political asylum in germany but in july twenty seventeen he suddenly disappeared German Authorities believe tom was abducted while walking in berlin often park from that the trail led them to the Vietnamese Embassy the German Government later expelled to vietnamese diplomats. Vietnam tonight kidnapping tommy he later appeared on state television admitting guilt and saying that he had returned to vietnam voluntarily. We have condemned this abduction this completely unacceptable this is a breach of the law. We have said very clearly that it has damaged the trust between our two governments and did vietnam must act to restore trust. Some observers say the trial comes as part of a power struggle within Vietnams Communist Party between staunch socialists and reform as including tahn. And with me here in the studio the attorney for mr to on the german lawyer isabel snog in health its good to have you on the show we just saw you in that report youre sitting here with me why arent you at the trough three reasons first recent doesnt let me in i traveled last week to vietnam with the intention to is saying my colleagues in riyadh now about the situation and i wasnt i wasnt allowed to come in to have a reason now all i asked for reasons they gave me none at least i got a copy of the disk decision they made at all only because i made instance in that and it says that because of article twenty one of Immigration Law but none of the points that this article mentions gets to me so i heard we have not missed talking between the officers this is the lawyer this was the reason so you think that the immigration officials had instructions not let us as a country just second point yeah go ahead a lawyer in germany im not a lawyer vietnam so i cant defend my client in vietnam in this process in vietnam yes and thirty four and. As im not. Studied in vietnamese law is no sense so this is the. Work of my vietnamese colleagues ok so theres that but i think a bit you can still even if you cant defend it mr john you could at least advise right in your not being allowed to do that what do you say then to people who say that this is this trial and whats happening to you for example is politically motivated yes true absolutely true the kidnapping was for me a politically motivated yes my client. Went from written on to germany to look for protection because he knew that. Things going on against him all that well things going on against him which are due to conflicts inside the communist party and its a struggle for power inside the communist party yes and all what happened afterwards is in this lion ok so what can germany do that because what were looking at here is a case of someone being kidnapped from this country and taken to vietnam is there any recourse germany in germany took position and spoke with strong and put on ice the Strategic Partnership between vietnam and germany that means no new projects stopped it took a lot of other messages kicked out to off the embassy of vietnam and said we have other points on the table yes and they are obviously conversations between vietnam and germany how to solve tours of auteuil to calm down this political conflict theres nothing during that would directly impact the earth even helped the case one hundred not part of this conversations but i support everything germany has done is doing and will do in the future for my client do you have a confirmation or have you heard from the German Government at all that they are doing anything that they can to help mr tung. I have confidence in what dimon is doing why i cant comment ok very good well we appreciate you taking the time to come in and talk with us is a bill so i can help the attorney for mr tague. All the day is nearly done but as always the conversation continues on. T. V. And remember the matter what happens between now and it tomorrow is another day well see than ever. These attractions the main ingredients on the snow ice. Jam are us. Trying. To scam everything about spice cold. Seriousness move on. Your. Next. Refugee policies. Many countries feel they have reached their limits a common european solution is nowhere in sight meanwhile thousands of Asylum Seekers are enduring inhumane conditions why cant the e. U. Get the refugee crisis under control the limits of your the e. U. And the refugee crisis. Close up in forty five minutes on a d. W. I. This you know i mean in your mind. What im going to miss you know what im like why didnt work and i said ive got. As it then. 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