forces turning general jeff sessions who initially rallied against his nomination. against his removal. i like. most of the people that. are you protesting now. because i'm. white women in. this. midterm votes in favor of the republican candidate. i'm very tired of being

castigated as a racist simply based on my skin color who are you who interests are you representing your only as a white woman. other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolute. thirty people go on trial in germany accused of brutally mistreating refugees. the world this is our international my names you know me a warm welcome to the program our top story protesters across the united states have rallied in the wake of donald trump's decision to fire attorney general jeff sessions they fear the motor probe into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election could be sidelined in an unexpected twist some of those who initially opposed his nomination have now taken to the streets over his

departure but. they don't seem to care much for the moment. jeff sessions the u.s. attorney general who just stepped down has got some new friends liberals and progressives across the country are taking to the streets to protest his removal it's over nine hundred cities that are having protests a major mobilization but was jeff sessions a friend of progressive's hardly jeff sessions that i was a zero rating for the human rights campaign on gay rights a guy who asked the department of the national council of manny's why they were buying so many books on islam the zero tolerance policy means it was zero humanity and it makes zero sense for his politically motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws back in two thousand and sixteen when jeff sessions was first nominated the liberal organization known as move on dot org issued a petition opposing him they accused him of making racist comments opposing equal

pay for women immigration and opposing hate crimes legislation this is how jeff sessions confirmation hearings went dear friend. oh yeah there are air. but now the very same organizations that protested against his nomination are now protesting his departure they fear that the removal of sessions could pave the way for an end to the bob muller investigation into alleged ties between trump and russia the recent nothing i like about most of the people they found with trump appointed. i mean but you're protesting his departure right well actually now as he keep on uli's physician and investigating until he finishes it takes a month or takes two years so this isn't really about jeff sessions about

a mole or. knowing snow in supposed to look that's what i'm here for what did you protest when he was appointed. i protested the immigration policy on the families that gathered day and are you protesting now. because i'm mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore move on very very definitely protested and had a petition going which i signed with regard to the appointment of joe of social as attorney general given his track record as a racist but the point is at this stage of the game i'm not but and i don't think move on is protesting his removal but raul there who would use who is before steve outside of the constitutional provisions to be his replacement very deplored this thing back in two thousand and sixteen jeff sessions was public enemy number

one as far as lots of liberals were concerned but now that he's been removed it seems that jeff sessions has joined an elite group of people who've been fired by donald trump it seems like in twenty eighteen in the united states politics isn't so much about principles but rather about who is your friend and who is your enemy . marty new york. well the u.s. is still reeling from its fiercely disputed midterm elections which saw the democrats win control of the horse but failed to take the senate and dede some key states that they had high hopes for us well such as texas with the republican count of the ted cruz one after a tight battle their accusations of those women who voted for cruz betrayed feminism with their vote a prominent sports journalist set off the debate. fifty nine percent white women voted for ted cruz fifty three percent of white women voted for donald trump so given this numbers who is the real face of feminism. is just the

latest criticism of republican voting women by liberals and progressives here's a few more examples. what is happening why are women even voting for him yeah i don't get you ladies i meant the countries. i mean the country was pretty. well we have tons of black presidents when i see women doing that i think why are they publicly disrespecting themselves voted against hillary clinton voted against their own voice. and by you know for anybody nobody you are a woman and you are never going to have it and hillary clinton so i. don't get it. she scared me. excitable stuff only probably usual feminism in politics all for debates with the women's rights advocates on firstly the media commentator the tradition of women just voting independently as they think and not

based on their gender or their skin color or those kinds of things that is true independence i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of racist simply based on my skin color and especially and especially because i happen to be the mother of a child with brown skin and so to decide that based on my skin color that i as i sounds are only what are you voting for the best interests of the hearings the person accusing makes the person accusing me the actual racist. no it's true there's no such thing as reverse racism will start there but here's the issue if you're not voting in the best interest of that but if you are in the rule i don't see a child that you have then here's the question what type of mother are you because here's the question at the end of the day we want children to be protected so we need gun laws that reflect that if you're voting against the interest of your own

child in school then we have to raise the question what are you voting for the second red yeah i don't care how many are you in do you have other women and their reproductive rights when you know that ted cruz is not interested in protecting protecting reproductive rights when you know that ted cruz is not interested in equal pay for other women and you know that women who are brown skin and women of other ethnicities are paid what why women are paid then i have to ask you the question who are you who interest are you representing if you're only as a white woman were present in the best interest of other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolutely it is the republicans by the way it is the party of abraham lincoln that actually fought for civil rights and won over the democrats so if you want to vote in accordance with what is civil rights then you would want to vote republican now. thirdly she brought up the issue and we don't know that those are how to split someone and we they when i was it was partly sealed in there that's my stance and that's the feminine stance on that now thirdly when she's talking about

how do you say of course i want to go this is a war of the women's rights i mean all of that i'm all that has made me girls who were aborted what about their rights if you're going to talk about women's rights what about the baby girl's rights who are killed ten thousand per day every day you know i know you're blowing my mind about republicans you talk about abortion but do you protect the children while they're here if it's ok for you to lead a school full of children be sure i do because you as a woman want to have the right to bear arms but you don't protect those children who can't carry guns inside those school i mean it's insane and so when you talk about oh will i support a man who you know ted cruz but he doesn't support by with when you're a conservative woman you celebrate the things that you've actually accomplished based on your own you know own drive and your own freedom and your own will and your motivation and those kinds of things that's what i would rather be judged for the rather than things like going backward to things like religion and skin color

and gender to me those in the home and they those are the ones that we say he's. going to stay with and we need to get really come over here and basing things on merit and accomplishment because because no matter what skin color or what gender you are you can be anything you want to be we are the freest best country want to put in the heraldry race and this that you are some thing to celebrate and for not i want you to whine about it and to vote with their other white community and so we're going to forget about all of those things and just stand on my privileges i don't really do you resent it where she is and she wants to stand there i'd like to just say thank you to jim l. hill for for what she said i just support her as a michigan state alumni i want to say go girl. ok to another story generating a lot of interest today the trial of thirty people accused of brutally abusing refugees at an asylum center in germany opened four years after the shocking

revelations first came to light some of the worst abuses were still. leadership but i don't have a small leadership decided yet. the incidents allegedly took place in the town of burbach in the western part of the country prosecutors alleged offbeat terminated and humiliated asylum seekers or lock them up for days at a time images of the abuse were leaked to the media sparking cry the shocking pictures include a security guard posing with his faults on the neck of a refugee social worker security guards and other stuff for among those not facing charges of assault on faults in prison and one of the accused however at this the gravity of the claims. how do you feel about the fact that you're being accused of this. it's an exaggeration again and say more than that. the company operating the migrant center has denied claims that moments when turned

a blind eye to the abuses saying instead that a group of security guards had gone rogue a member of germany's left party was quick to point the blame at the country's migrant policy in libya said anyone who works. as police have to follow the constitution and have to do everything that all of human rights have not with the. human rights abuses and treasury those senators are understaffed and underfunded and it's like i just said you know we're not going to manage. what it is that angela merkel at last she had no vision and she had no actual politics here to take care refugees and so this is a sign of. chaos. i guess. they

beloved english breakfast could be facing a price hike if research shows from oxford university get their way they're suggesting to almost double the taxes on sausages and bacon to combat people eating too much meat took the taste. who doesn't love the smell of bacon in the morning and for british cuisine it does not get much more iconic than the full english breakfast. poll suggests that teaches the eggs baked beans and of course us hostages and bacon bought the healthy eating brigade is ruining all the fun we've known for a few years now that breaking isn't perhaps the healthiest food back in twenty fifteen the world health organization declared it to be a carcinogen apparently that increases the risk of heart disease stroke and diabetes and so researchers in oxford have come up with a plan which case they could prevent up to six thousand deaths per year and the

idea is to make these solti. bits of meat up to seventy nine percent more expensive i want to know what the breakfast crowd has to say about that are you ready to move your lot or you could on average processed meat but at the end it varies more to story has got a lot of things on its price price increase somebody can for instance mark felt's like if it's a good probably quality food to sort of genetically modified and say oh it's better for you which it's not that's where you have the more money out of us again if we used back well you need too much. attention he's not really going to make much of a difference look it's a boil call drug abuse of it now far more serious than the people in their plight still wait keep their hands off your bacon you definitely definitely critics of the idea say it's a nanny state intervention perhaps just like with all the best things in life bacon

is best enjoyed responsibly and in moderation but the jury's still out on whether it's up to the government to tax question to better health. the f.b.i. probes a ukrainian military units links to white supremacist groups in the u.s. if you don't like how old you are simply change the numbers those stories and more right ahead. seems wrong but we're all just don't. get

to stamp out these things become active. engagement because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with an institution when you are not a government. you'll voice is your voice belongs to you and. your voice people accept to seize it wouldn't accept was a situation. it was is a different. diplomacy and zoo officials good to see. you're back with our t.v. international a former t.v.

host in the netherlands thinks his love life is suffering age discrimination on the sixty nine year olds determined to turn back the clock the pensioner believes his really age is forty nine and he wants it to be officially so you can change your name you can change your agenda why not your age no where are you so discriminated against as with your age. a meal out russell describes himself as a young gold things that being legally younger will help him get more work and more matches on dating ops the father of seven promises to give up his pension if a dutch courts approves his request after his local authority rejected changes to his birth certificate radio host and journalist john gaunt believes the whole thing is ridiculous they would all like to identify as tread joe thirty years younger most of us do it by getting film losing a bit of white you're born on a certain day and as the years go by you get older it's just seems to me to be

obvious i don't know how we've got into this position and this chap whether he likes it or not he's chevon tiahrt he's not twenty years younger i mean where we're and oh i'd like to identify is so vesta stallone but they're going to be able to say this is just madness we need to start dressing no doubt some people in their own body i can understand this but the whole idea of self identification is just crazy absolutely crazy. a military units in ukraine with neo nazi links is suspected of training american white supremacist groups some members were arrested for inciting violent attacks during protests in the u.s. last year the f.b.i. is investigating the allegations. the azoff but sally in is a paramilitary units of the ukrainian national guards which is known for his association with neo nazi ideology and use of nazi symbolism and which is believes

have participated in training and radicalizing united states based white supremacist organizations this was a quote from a criminal complaint and the man who wrote it was behind investigating terrorist groups in america for the f.b.i. and right here you will be able to see the photos posted by the defendants he was trying to bring to justice they are members of the white supremacy rise above movement just recently a number of charges have been brought against them and clued in conspiracy to start riots the men were involved in the deadly twenty seventeen charlottesville riots was.

so the f.b.i. agent found that the rise above movement members toured europe and went to countries like germany italy and ukraine and there they met with the members of the local extremist neo nazi groups besides this according to the f.b.i. operative the defendants were seen on a photo with one of the leaders of a ukrainian far right party which was founded out of a regiment of the military but tally and that is the battalion that was mentioned and the quote that i showed you earlier now as of was seen on the front lines of the conflict in east ukraine which broke out when a number of the regions there refused to accept the results of a bloody coup in kiev which led to the government being over thrown in there now. you don't have to be an f.b.i. agent to prove that absolve is actively using neo nazi symbols you can just

look at their insignia their emblems and neo nazi salutes or even just slogans are a common thing now i just want to show you what rather frequent marches of members of such organizations and their supporters look like in the ukraine. i. i. i i i i i i i i. i i i i i so this criminal complaint could be important because it appears to be the first instance

of f.b.i. actually looking into claims that ukrainian neo nazis could have been involved in the training of extremists across the atlantic just in addition to peace there they as all of battalion officially became part of ukraine's national guard back in twenty fourteen after a decree signed by the country's interior minister. environmental group greenpeace is sunday in the alarm in russia they claim thirteen killer whales are going to be a legally sold to oceanarium in china more than a dozen of the globally threaten marine mammals have already been exported there over the past five years.

zookeeper orcas he cages is true torture for them it's. just. people's courage to me and. to make it just because the decision was really. just. oceanarium straining process is frequently based on food deprivation give the orcas don't do what they are told they are simply not being fed the conditions the mammals are held in their shortened their life expectancy in captivity to the early five six years versus eighty years in the wild.

life from moscow this is r.t. international i'm back with the big stories affecting your friday in just over a half an hour's time in the meantime let's get a check in with sophie shevardnadze and discover he's in the hot seat today.

through. route through. the roof blew. both the republicans and democrats claim victory in the wake of the midterm elections but it seems the election settled little if anything now there is a dueling investigation warfare gridlock on steroids is this what the voters voted for. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful protest to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it. is. spilling into the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who

took the lead invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. seemed wrong. to me that he's yet to stamp out. the conflict that's occurred and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground.

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welcome to sophie and co i'm not saying one more turn to a work of those in the shadows who are bringing the pieces together is often ignored and officials take the credit but not today i talked to a french businessman who takes no glory in saving lives and in conflict shown here expert in peril diplomacy of brazzaville foundation guests today. with international mediation politicians and career diplomats for. conflicts come into play quietly as private citizens. mistrust blood

feuds patiently bringing warring parties to the table. diplomacy work with. the people. with the promise of nobel peace prize. and they get the job done. thank you very much for being with us today thank you for everything. to be in such an interesting profession i want to know all about it so you are a noted negotiator lots of success stories in africa i know that you're now trying to get sites in libya to sit down and talk i mean in a way you're more successful than united nations at least you're getting these guys to sit down and talk. as you would need united nations but also somewhere somehow i needed those. two forces which. so you are right now talking about

putting down the barriers of mistrust in libya but those barriers are were actually put up way before you and for the reasons that are beyond you what makes you think that an outsider can bring them down. over the country and i goes across. and bed also so he spect was a tradition and always a completely leaves and. going to one. she's while all easy to show off i think where all countries affecting over libya why not giving really begin to proceed to have to exist as a voice and to jointly.