Time's Up: Women launch campaign to fight sexual harassment

More than 300 performing artists, journalists and executives have propelled a venture to help battle inappropriate behavior in the film business and different work environments.

The activity, which is rung Time's, was reported by means of a full-page advert imprinted in the New York Times.

The Hollywood task is depicted as a "brought together call for change from ladies in stimulation for ladies all around".

It comes in the wake of sexual mishandle charges by prominent performing artists against film maker Harvey Weinstein.

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In a "solidarity letter" distributed on its site, Time's Up says the "battle for ladies to soften up, to ascend the positions and to just be heard" must end, including: "Time's up on this impervious imposing business model."

The letter, which is gone for "each lady... who has needed to fight off lewd gestures", goes ahead to state that such provocation can frequently proceed in light of the fact that "culprits and businesses never confront any outcomes".

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The crusade, which is sponsored by several on-screen characters including Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Eva Longoria and Emma Stone, has officially raised more than $13m (£9.6m) of its $15m target.

The cash raised will be utilized to finance legitimate help for both female and male casualties of lewd behavior at work.

The undertaking is pointed fundamentally at the individuals who can't meet the installments to shield themselves, for example, agrarian or assembly line laborers, guardians and servers.


It additionally calls for "sexual orientation disparity and the unevenness of energy" to be tended to, focusing on the requirement for more ladies to pick up places of expert and equality of pay.

In December, Time magazine named "the Silence Breakers" - ladies and men who stood in opposition to sexual mishandle and provocation - as its "Individual of the Year" for 2017.


A year ago likewise observed the ascent of the #MeToo hashtag, which motivated a worldwide development of ladies and men to share their stories of sexual mishandle and provocation.

The term picked up force after performer Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to solicit casualties from rape to approach in a show of solidarity.

Amongst October and December 2017, the hashtag was utilized on Twitter and Facebook more than six million times.

Russian presidential vote: Navalny 'nominated to run' against Putin

An impact of music and a burst of confetti



By Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, Moscow

This gathering in a monster tent on a frigid Moscow riverbank has secured Alexei Navalny well finished the 500 marks he should be designated as hopeful.

His supporters lined from early morning, cheering and droning Mr Navalny's name as the at long last count was reported.

The counter defilement campaigner at that point showed up in front of an audience with his better half and kids to an impact of music, giving everything a touch of the American crusade rally. There was even a blasted of red, white and blue confetti.


In front of an audience, Alexei Navalny told the group that Vladimir Putin does not have the mass help he guarantees. He demands the privilege to keep running against him, to demonstrate that.

His technique is to endeavor to compel the specialists to enroll him. So if his appointment is presently hindered, in spite of the present designation meeting, he's pledged to continue battling - calling for strikes, a race blacklist and road dissents.


Mr Navalny, 41, required 500 selections to secure his assignment.

He later tweeted that he had secured the marks, saying: "I have turned into an official competitor designated by lobbyist gatherings of voters. Much obliged to the individuals who have partaken in this battle in all sides of our nation. You are the best."

He will trust securing the marks will weight the decision commission into enabling him to run.


The commission's head, Ella Pamfilova, said prior in the month that due to Mr Navalny's conviction he would be not able stand and proposed he had a go at running again in 2028.

In any case, more as of late she has said that the commission will look at the bid of each presidential confident who takes after the vital system.

Mr Navalny said Mr Putin had amid his 18 years in control taken "from needy individuals oil, gas and metal worth trillions of dollars, sold it abroad, remunerated those individuals by diverting them from poor to down and out".

Brexit: EU leaders agree to move talks to next stage

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Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel held a joint news meeting toward the finish of the summit 

The EU has distributed its rules for stage two of the arrangements, with exchanges on future financial co-operation not prone to start until Spring. 

The three-page archive says the UK will stay under the locale of the European Court of Equity and be required to allow flexibility of development amid any change period. 

Also, concessions to the Irish fringe, the purported separate bill and the privileges of EU and UK nationals, concurred by Mrs May last Friday, must be "regarded in full and made an interpretation of reliably into lawful terms as fast as could be allowed". 

The report says: "As the UK will keep on participating in the traditions union and the single market amid the change, it should keep on complying with EU exchange strategy." 

While the EU will take part in "preparatory and preliminary exchanges" on exchange as a feature of building a "nearby organization" after the UK's takeoff, this implies any formal understanding "must be finished and closed once the UK has turned into a third nation". 

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By the BBC's political proofreader Laura Kuenssberg 

After the a half year she has had, Theresa may be qualified for inhale a moan of alleviation, as the European Committee formally proclaimed that the main period of our long farewell from the European Union is finished. 

Remain once again from the day by day shows and maybe it was will undoubtedly happen. 

The two sides are focused on getting an assention. 

The EU and the UK both need an arrangement to be done, and keeping in mind that there has, definitely, been cantankerousness on the two sides, they have, in the principle, managed each other in compliance with common decency. 

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The report "approaches the UK to give advance clearness on its position on the structure for the future relationship". 

Be that as it may, in a section included amid the previous week, it welcomes the EU's Brexit arbitrator Michel Barnier to "proceed inward preliminary discourses" on future relations instead of waiting until Spring to do as such.

Jerusalem: Trump's emissary Haley chides 'crazy UN threatening vibe'

Jerusalem: Trump's emissary Haley chides 'crazy UN threatening vibe'

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The US emissary to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has blamed the UN for harming the prospects for peace amongst Israel and the Palestinians.

The association "has ludicrously been one of the world's principal focuses of threatening vibe towards Israel", she said.

Mrs Haley was tending to a crisis meeting of the Security Council called after President Donald Trump's choice to move the US government office to Jerusalem.




The move has been broadly denounced and started conflicts in the West Bank.

Israel has completed air strikes against focuses in the Gaza Strip, harming various individuals, after Palestinian activists let go rockets into Israeli region.


Two Palestinian men kicked the bucket after Israeli troops let go on packs in Gaza amid conflicts prior on Friday.

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Strains stay high over the Middle East after Mr Trump reported the US would perceive Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, turning around many years of US lack of bias on the issue.

Israel has dependably viewed Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians assert East Jerusalem - possessed by Israel in the 1967 war - as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

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Mrs Haley said the choice "perceives the self-evident; that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel".

She said the US kept on being "focused on accomplishing an enduring peace understanding", and blamed the UN for inclination.


"Israel will never be, and never ought to be, harassed into an assention by the United Nations or by any accumulation of nations that have demonstrated their nonchalance for Israel's security."

Trump-Russia: Flynn's dealings were 'lawful'

Donald Trump has reacted to a blameworthy request by his previous national security guide Michael Flynn, saying Mr Flynn's activities as an individual from his change group "were legal".

Mr Flynn has entered a request arrangement and consented to co-work with an investigation into asserted plot with Russia.

The arrangement, for a lesser allegation than he may have confronted, provoked theory that he has implicating proof.

The president composed on Twitter on Saturday that he didn't have anything "to cover up".

Under the terms of the request bargain - offered to Mr Flynn by Uncommon Direction Robert Mueller as a feature of his examination concerning the Russia embarrassment - Mr Flynn conceded putting forth false expressions to the FBI.

Investigators say the arrangement proposes that the previous general has confirm involving at least one senior individuals from the Trump organization.

Reacting to Mr Flynn's prosecution, Mr Trump tweeted: "I needed to flame General Flynn in light of the fact that he misled the VP and the FBI. He has pled liable to those untruths. It is a disgrace since his activities amid the progress were legitimate. There was nothing to cover up!"

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In the tweet, he seemed to concede that he knew before he terminated Mr Flynn that the previous general had misled the FBI, repudiating his own record of the sacking from the time and by and by raising hypothesis that his activities could add up to obstacle of equity.


Mr Flynn has conceded lying about his contact with the Russian represetative Sergei Kislyak in December 2016 - after Mr Trump was chosen yet before he moved toward becoming president.

The charging reports against Mr Flynn express that he was coordinated to reach Russian authorities by an "extremely senior part" of the Trump progress group.


A few US news associations report the exceptionally senior authority now under the spotlight is Jared Kushner - Mr Trump's consultant and child in-law.

US insight organizations say Russia's Leader Vladimir Putin guided a state push to impact the US race for Mr Trump.

Mr Trump has over and over denied that his crusade or progress group connived in Russian activities. Addressing columnists on Saturday, he stated: "What has been demonstrated is no conspiracy, no plot. There has been positively no intrigue. So we're exceptionally upbeat.

Mugabe will play elder statesman role in Zimbabwe, says mediator

Robert Mugabe will keep on having a part to play in Zimbabwean governmental issues, the Jesuit cleric who arranged his acquiescence has told the BBC.

Father Fidelis Mukonori said he would give "guidance" as a senior statesman, including to the new president.

Mr Mugabe, 93, surrendered on Tuesday following a military mediation and days of mass dissents.

Mr Mukonori said he couldn't affirm reports that the ex-pioneer was allowed $10m (£7.5m) to back him out of office.

Emmerson Mnangagwa was confirmed to supplant Mr Mugabe as president on Friday.

Mr Mnangagwa, long a nearby partner of Mr Mugabe, was sacked not long ago, setting off the political emergency that inevitably observed his manager's defeat.

Father Mukonori, 70, who is near Robert Mugabe and went about as an arbiter amongst him and the military, said the new president would go to his antecedent for political guidance.

"In the African world, senior nationals are there for exhortation," he told the BBC's Richard Galpin at a congregation outside the capital, Harare, in the wake of driving an administration that included supplications expressing gratefulness for the quiet exchange of influence.

He alluded to what Mr Mnangagwa said in regards to his ancestor at his introduction.


"When he says 'he's my dad, he's my pioneer, he's my tutor', you disclose to me he will remain off from his dad, from his guide, from his pioneer? I don't think so."

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The cleric said that Mr Mugabe and his significant other Elegance stayed at their home in Harare and had no plans to leave the nation.

The military takeover came in light of Mr Mugabe's choice to position Beauty as his successor and sack Mr Mnangagwa from the bad habit administration.

Father Mukonori said he couldn't affirm reports that the ex-president was conceded a large number of dollars and guaranteed that his advantages would not be touched to induce him to advance down.


"We didn't offer him anything... He surrendered for the benefit of Zimbabwe," he said.

He included: "What I have perused in the daily papers is about insusceptibility [from prosecution], and that he will be cared for like some other previous head of state."


Mr Mugabe leaving power, he included, was the best thing he had ever done.

Brexit: Irish border won't be resolved until EU-UK trade deal struck - Fox

There can be no official choices on the eventual fate of the Irish fringe until the point when the UK and the EU have achieved an exchange assention, Liam Fox has said.

The UK's worldwide exchange secretary likewise rebuked the EU for Brexit delays.

The remarks came after the Irish Republic's EU magistrate said Dublin could veto Brexit exchange talks.

The EU has said "adequate advance" must be made on the Irish fringe before transactions on a future relationship can start.

Bringing down Street has said the entire of the UK will leave both the traditions union and the single market when it leaves the EU in 2019.

"We don't need there to be a hard outskirt however the UK will be leaving the traditions union and the single market," Mr Fox disclosed to Sky News.

He included: "We can't go to a last response to the Irish inquiry until the point that we get a thought of the end state. Also, until the point that we get into discourses with the EU on the end express that will be exceptionally troublesome - so the snappier we can do that the better, and we are still in a position where the EU wouldn't like."

'Play intense'

Mr Fox blamed the European Commission for having a "fixation" with nearer and nearer union between EU part states, which was deferring progress in Brexit talks.

Phil Hogan, the EU's farming chief, told the Observer that remaining in the traditions union would invalidate the requirement for a hard outskirt - with traditions posts and conceivable identification checks - on the island.

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He said Dublin would "play intense to the end" over its risk to veto exchange talks until the point when it had ensures over the outskirt.

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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was "concerned" by Mr Fox's remarks, including that Labor would not take proceeded with enrollment of the single market and the traditions union off the table.

"I think the one thing that we would prefer not to do is endanger any development rapidly, in light of the fact that we require development to empower us to get into the correct exchange transactions," Mr McDonnell revealed to ITV's Peston on Sunday.

"So I'm trusting that isn't a Downing Street-endorsed articulation that is he's made."

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By Chris Mason, BBC political reporter

It's 310 miles (499km) long - a squiggle on the guide that wanders from Carlingford Lough in the east to Lough Foyle in the west.

The outskirt between Northern Ireland and the Republic is the prospective boondocks between the UK and the European Union.


Furthermore, at this moment it is the most troublesome wilderness between Brexit transactions slowing down or advancing.

London and Dublin each say they are focused on keeping up an open outskirt. However, Ireland considers how that will be conceivable.

Gracious and one other thing to toss in with the general mish-mash - after all the discussion of how unstable Theresa May's legislature is, so is Ireland's.

There could be a general race there before Christmas.

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The EU has given Prime Minister Theresa May until the point that 4 December to concoct promote recommendations on issues including the fringe, the Brexit separate bill and residents' rights, if European pioneers are to consent to proceeding onward to exchange talks.

Be that as it may, Mr Hogan blamed some in the British government for having what he called "daze confidence" about securing a thorough facilitated commerce bargain after Brexit.

He said it was an "extremely basic reality" that "if the UK or Northern Ireland stayed in the EU traditions union, or better still the single market, there would be no fringe issue".

In these conditions controls on either side of the outskirt would continue as before, thus a close undetectable fringe would be conceivable.