look at the model you put it. into the show choose the route sort of move. you do with your. protests across the u.s. president trunk forces are turning general jeff sessions who initially voted against his nomination and i'm standing against his removal. the recent thing i like about most of the people that donald trump appointed are you protesting now. because i'm a. white woman in texas. of betraying feminist values after costing them votes in favor of the republican candidate. i'm very tired of being castigated as some sort of braces simply based on my skin color or you who

interests are you representing your only as a white woman representing the best interests of other white women then we absolutely have a problem absolutely and peace talks are underway in moscow for the first time in seventeen years the taliban are engaged in a high level multilateral negotiations. and i welcome to all the international live from. you are welcome to the program. the protesters across the united states have rallied in the wake of the trumps the signal to fire attorney general jeff sessions they fear that the moon a probe into alleged the russian meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election that was led by sessions could now be sidelined you know the mutual twist some of those who initially opposed his nomination have now taken to the streets over his departure but it's kind of open found out they don't seem to care much for

the man himself. jeff sessions the u.s. attorney general who just stepped down has got some new friends liberals and progressive's 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 progressives hardly jeff sessions of 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 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 and immigration and opposing hate crimes legislation this is how jeff sessions confirmation hearings went dear friend. 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. pointed. i mean but you're protesting his departure right will actually now see keep the new lease of physician open and investigating until he finishes if it takes a month or it takes two years so this isn't really about jeff sessions about. it

knowing snow in the pub the look that's what i'm here for to do protest when he was appointed. i protested the immigration policy on the families that gathered day 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 and i don't think move on is protesting his removal of raul there who would use who is before steve outside of the constitutional provision just to be his replacement very deep board 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 . r.t. new york well yes of course is still reeling from its fiercely disputed midterm elections which saw the mcgraths win control of the house but failed to take the senate also some key states they had high hopes for such as in texas that was one republican candidate ted cruz won offer a tight battle there are now acacias those women who voted for cruz betrayed feminism with the votes one problem in sports. and just set off the debate. fifty nine percent of white women voted for tad chris fifty three percent of white women voted for donald trump so given this numbers who's the real face of famine is this is just the latest criticism of republican voting women by liberals and progressives here's a few other examples. what is happening why are women even voting for him yeah i

don't get you ladies i mean the country's. live i mean it becomes you it's pretty specific. 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. anybody you vote for anybody nobody but you. and you are never going to have it and it will be. so i can get it. and i did it. she scared me i put the issue of feminism and politics up to debates with women's rights advocates and the media commentator the tradition of women just a 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 worry what are you voting for the best interests of their around here the person accusing makes the person accusing me the actual racist. no it's true there's no such thing as reverse racism we'll start there but here's the issue if you're not voting in the best interest of that boy you get to the rule around 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 read why don't you go how do you know you're in do you have other women and their reproductive rights when you know that ted cruz is not into. did 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 skinned and women of other ethnicities are paid what why women are paid then i have to ask you the question who are you whose interests are you representing if you're only as a white woman workers into 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 and you would want to vote republican now thirdly she brought up the issue and we don't know that those are how to is someone and we say when i was it was part of the seal there that's my stance and that's the feminine stance on that now thirdly when she's talking about how do you said of course i want to get on this is a war of the human rights i view 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 girls 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 shot 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 eating home. they. going to stay away and we need to get really come. hero 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 in one particular they hire real race and those that you know something to celebrate are for not wanting to whine about and to vote with their other white community and so we're going to forget about all of those things and just stand on white privilege is all raised to us from where he is and he wants to stand there i'd like to just say thank you notes and to mel hill for for what he said i am just the for her as a michigan state alumni i want to say go girl. russia says the west this have been the normal diplomatic protocol and adopted a pattern of publicly accusing moscow of wrongdoing and soft austria accused one of its own former high ranking army officers of spying for russia but in a question of a brings us the details i had a chance to ask russia's foreign affairs minister sergei lavrov to comment on the recent allegations coming from austria that former austrian colonel was accused of

spying for russia for decades the ministry said that he has just found out about the news and that he was unpleasantly surprised he added that russia's western partners have recently started to publicly accuse russia and publicly demand to explanations its common practice within international law just to directly ask for clarification but recently our western partners have started using nontraditional megaphone diplomacy they purposely accuse those they publicly demand explanations of the monsters we know nothing about and we've officially some industrial ambassador to the ministry to explain how his country should if they have any questions austrian chanceless about broke the news this friday he said that this may lead to worsening relations between the two countries and he also added that he plans to discuss possible further steps with e.u. partners if these suspicions prove to be true if this is specious. regardless

of where they take place will not improve relations between russia and the european union russia. are inacceptable and condemning the country's defense ministry said that they obtained in for a mediation with the friend the intelligence service without providing any concrete details on who was behind this now as for austria various ministry of the minister was quick to cancel her upcoming trip to russia and she also some russian representatives to discuss the matter and meanwhile there is still very little information regarding the former austrian colonel in question we only know that he was accused of spying for russia for over twenty years and here in moscow the australian ambassador was summoned to russia's foreign affairs ministry and the meeting is expected to take place later in the day. in other headlines

a trial in germany has been launched this friday thirty people stand accused of brutally abusing refugee asylum sent to the shocking revelations first claims about four years ago with some of the worst incidents filmed. lead. yet. the incidents allegedly took place in the town of buddha bar in the western part of the country prosecutors claim a staff tormented asylum seekers both physically and psychologically images of the abuse were leaked to the media sparking an outcry social workers security guards and others thought. facing charges of assault and false imprisonment one of the accused however disputes 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. has denied claims that management. to be

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 this completely acceptable one word. police have to follow the constitution and have to. have an office will be engaged in human rights abuses and fortunately those senators are not just staff and under funded and it's like i'm just saying that you know we're not going to manage. what's happened is that angela merkel that she had no vision and she had no actual politics you're to refugees and so this is a sign of complete and utter chaos. i think it's. coming up if you don't like how old you are simply that i'm as i saw one man and the little devil

and what's to it turned back the clock we'll have more story after this short break . most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest trade in truth to stand out on the news business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer.

question. when you are not that is if you should when you are not a government. you'll force is your voice belongs to you and use it. in your voice zen people accept who seems it would look like that was a secure should we use it if this is a difference between diplomacy and zero she should go and see. welcome back swati international other beloved english breakfast could be facing a price hike for searches from oxford university get their way this is just going to almost double the taxes on bacon and sausages to come up people eating too much meat sporty to the taste test. 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 peaches eggs baked beans and of course also has added bacon but the healthy eating brigade is ruining all the fun we've known for a few years now that breaking news is perhaps the healthiest food back in twenty fifteen the world health organization to credit to be a carcinogen apparently that increases their 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 press crowd has to say about that are you very committed you're not very clear on average processed meat but at the end of the berries the true story has got a lot of things that it's quite a price increase somebody can for instance mark felt's like if it's

a good probably growing food sort of genetically modified so always better. for you which and all. of us get everything bad all you need too much. attention he's not really going to make much of a difference looking to boil coal drug abuse a figure far more serious than the people in their plight story keep their hands off your bacon you definitely definitely critics of the idea say it's a nanny state intervention perhaps just for a quibble the best things in life bacon is best enjoyed responsibly and in the moderation but the jury's still out on whether it's up to the government to tax britain to better health. the highly anticipated peace talks on afghanistan were held today in moscow dozen countries were invited to participate a taliban was also represented let's go live now to what if and who was the peace

talks. a lot of expectation that historical talks for the last couple of decades. we've seen. i will have to say that this is for the purchased time that to taliban movement particularly the political office based in qatar door. office members appeared. in international conference of such a level nine countries have been participating in today's talks and when the talks were all we had a chance to talk to the members of the delegate to the members of the delegation that political office of the taliban movement in cart i was sent here to say to participate in this discussion and they have told us that they are happy with how these talks when they have told us that to. totally. met their

expectation is but they also have told us that they will be no direct contact from their part with the of gani government in kabul right now this is something that to us so many have been hoping for but we've heard from the taliban delegation that they are not planning to have any contact with the official government aid in kabul we'll have to say that kabul has decided not to send its diplomats here to this moscow conference but the members of the country's high peace council this is the government's body government appointed body that is responsible for overseeing the peace process in afghanistan have agreed to participate and i had a chance also to talk to the head of the of ghana delegation and among other things

they are asking what do they think about american generals from one head saying that there is no military solution to have got in problems of at the same time promising to go on ways offensive against taliban's in afghanistan by the way the american side was invited but was not attending today's talks and this is what the head of the of getting the geisha has told me. in his coming this is a new photo that you do not want to see ok first piece should come of merced americans should leave who is to do it. coming in the room is going to stand ready to talk directly to taliban with us yes or this do they do not hear so you really don't you haven't heard think. again frighted talks basically first open and public appearance of the taliban

movement or particularly its political office. carter at an international conference said many had made that this is a great achievement of a russia's policy the foreign minister sergei lavrov has opened the conference today by thanking all the participants for coming stressing that afghanistan's people deserve peace and multisided efforts to bring aid to these war torn country let's take a listen. but we will reduce the afghanistan's problems can only be resolved by political means through nationwide concerned with the participation of all warring parties the people of afghanistan advised with concern in the first place. so at least so you many sides have gathered here in moscow today and many see it as a pleased initial steps towards a long awaited peace in afghanistan it's too early to say but we all hope for that

. indeed more if a national there were to stop dates from those afghan peace talks in moscow thanks for that. a man has been shot dead by police in melbourne australia after he killed one person injured two others in what authorities say was a terror attack police received reports of a car fire in a busy shopping area in the city center when they arrived they were confronted by a man brought michigan to life threatening them in already attacked bystanders the suspect who is of somali origin was shot in the chest by police and died later in hospital police say the burning car was packed with gas canisters but fortunately not exploded islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack but provided no evidence. at all for t.v. host in the netherlands thinks his love life is suffering due to age discrimination and the sixty nine year olds to turn to turn back the clock attention believes his real age is forty nine he wants it to be official. you can change your name you can

change your gender why not your age no where are you so discriminated against as with your age i mean what russell hantz describes himself as a young godson thinks that being legally younger will help him get more work camel matches on dating apps the father of seven promises to give up his pension for dusk or to prove 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 cheer thirty years younger most of us do it by again phil losing a bit of weight 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 got into this position and this chap whether he likes it or not he's seventy odd he's not twenty years younger i mean where we're at and oh i'd like to identify as so vesta stallone but i think i've kind of been able to

say this is just modernise we need to start dressing no doubt some people are in their own body i can understand this but the whole idea of self identification is just crazy absolutely crazy. that's it for the saw for myself and it seems like things you did on teams the national do join us again and often offer that i just global news updates. on the.

stock buybacks are basically corbridge you know the circling of money totally in a way that doesn't reflect the business they're not in the business of except for the business of fraud and this is rampant throughout the entire s. and p. five hundred it was that day of reckoning comes as it seems to be happening now you could see it air drop of the market down forty or fifty percent you know in a way can people like oh my god what happened well it's going to building for years because they're engaged in massive open the town across. 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 four to you know bloody revolution to to correct. demonstrations went from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still we're here. with video a. new school a needle. president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took. this to do over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic you. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to the world of politics sport i'm sure. i'll see you there.

one more turn. a work of theirs in the shadows who are bringing the pieces together is often ignored and officials take the credit but not today i talk to a french businessman who takes noble ory in saving lives and conflict shown here. today. when international mediation politicians and career diplomats failed to it conflicts come into play working quietly as private citizens out of the spotlight

grinding away mistrust and blood feuds patiently bringing warring parties to the table why does parallel citizen diplomacy work will. give to all the people willing to work in the show those. without the promise of nobel peace prizes or t.v. fame and how do they get the job done so don't you think you very much for being with us today thank you for having. 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 the united nations at least you're getting these guys to sit down and talk. economics is a template exists was that you did the issues as he would need united nations but also somewhere somehow i needed those or it's a combination of two forces which. working palette 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. knowledge of the country and i knows of. my first trip to libya was and then sixty nine. and. also respect was a condition and always a completely leaves and. going to one. why it all off i think where all countries affected over libya why not giving. to exist as a voice and to jointly.