What does it mean to be a woman in todays workforce . On International Womens day, we ask how asia is faring. And meet the families who spend as much as a quarter of their income on their kids education. Good morning, asia, hello, world. Glad you could join us for Asia Business report. It is wednesday, i am rico hizon. This year, for International Womens day, the call is to be bowled for change. But what does that mean for business and government . Bold. What changes would make the world a better place, and work towards equality. We have been talking to women across the region about the challenges they are facing today. Definitely the pay packet has to change. That is where the discrimination comes in. They need to prove themselves 100 at home and 100 in the office so basically every single day they are proving themselves 200 . Translation the biggest problems are when your Childs School drop off powers and pick up ours dont fit your work hours. Translation now the world has changed a
Over the reins and retire. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. With severe thunderstorms on the horizon, the course at augusta has been cleared ahead of this the start of this years masters. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. A service of hope and reconciliation has been held in Westminster Abbey a fortnight after the attack near the houses of parliament. Khalid masood drove a car into pedestrians on westminster bridge, killing three people, and fatally stabbing a Police Officer, before he was shot dead. The duke and Duchess Of Cambridge and prince harryjoined families and the Emergency Services attending the multi faith service. Ina in a moment we will be for the first time from Melissa Cochrane who was injured in the attack and whose husband was killed. But first. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. You lot, get undercover now get undercover two weeks ago the area around the abbey At Westminster was caught up in the chaos of that afternoon. Nearby on
Rebels and government. And assad will control the four major cities. Alep aleppo and others. But he doesnt control the whole country. He says he wants it back. Certainly in the days ahead, we can expect many more. Hours of fighting. And an increasing death toll, sadly. Im joined now by bob corker of tennessee. Senator corker, if you had to give advice on an intimate basis with the colonel president , or the incoming president , what would you tell him to do to try to stop this horror . Well, look. Weve been giving advice for four or five years, chris. This was said to be on the front end of the conflict. It is a blight on human kind. At this point, the story as it relates to Western Syria is mostly written. And what will happen will be determined by russia who stepped in, and iran. And certainly assad. So this is a disaster weve known he is torturing his own people. Youve seen the Holocaust Museum of caesar who was documenting this. Cutting peoples genitals off. It has been going on fo
Dastardly enemy, and anyone who questions that, is probably a tool of Vladimir Putin and therefore, a traitor to our country. One current member of the House Intelligence Committee put it this way. Why were the russians in the white house . And i mean that seriously. They had just attacked our democracy. They are being there is exactly what we have all feared all along, is that donald trump would Say Something to them that is not really in line with u. S. Policy. They are not our friends. We should share nothing more than pleasantries, certainly not National Security secrets. Tucker congresswoman stephanie murphy, a democrat from florida, went a step further than this. She demanded the u. S. Government stop speaking to russia at all in any way. There is no such thing as appropriate contact with a hostile foreign government. No word on whether she applied that same standard to barack obama recent deal with communist cuba. Nobody is arguing here, even a
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A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
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