me every thursday on the all excitement sure and i'll be speaking to get us to the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you the. headlines this hour u.s. democrats cry foul over donald trump said of course on twitter ask if impeachments are becoming the new norm. i feel that being conservative media is is now very physically threatening to journalists. my clients monson activists face charges of harassment and assault led to the attacking of trump supporting journalists. the decision to call 3 black british actresses queen anne boleyn in a t.v. series called sister online but the issue up for debate. in the wrong black people who have been systematically disenfranchised from participating in

play other nowhere brick in queens if you could where you rub it in a white screen. and we look back at the last 10 tumultuous years in libya on the anniversary of the arab spring. a very good morning to you this is dotty international with me and care and our top story this monday morning with impeachments featuring more commonly on the u.s. political landscape was easy dong of looks at whether that as a means to convict a public official or more tool to settle old schools. donald trump no he's the most acquitted president in the u.s. history and no one worked harder to win him the title than the democrats and the realization is doing on them but what we saw in that senate today was that

cowardly group of republicans who patently have no options because they were afraid to defend their job respect the institution in which they served. eastenders have decided to hang their hat on jurisdictional grounds which are not based on evidence which are not based on the facts and they will have to be. a ballistic meltdown is not something you'd expect to hear from a party whose candidate won the presidential election a democrat ego side which even stung through joe biden psyche and it'll take more than a few cute white house lawn decorations to heal that wound what was meant to be a tool of checks and balances system transcended into one party's vendetta against a political opponent the order call of the pietschmann now before the senate is an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional of political vengeance i hope i

will be proven wrong but it seems that impeachment based on partisan differences seems to be becoming the norm not the exception i hope against hope all you want but impeachment articles against joe biden were filed less than 30 hours into his presidency it is the norm but when it comes to trump haters impeachment is the least they want for him some would much rather see him swinging from the gallows and if you dare to defend them oh boy your personality will be reduced to being a racist a white supremacist a traitor there are reports your house was graffitied. my entire family my business my law firm are under siege right now it's also feared now that after impeachment humiliation take 2 never trumpeters along with the democratic chums simply won't let their grudge against the former president slide one of the

most bizarre things it's happened senator tim kaine of virginia my own state senator has proposed the democrats since the. i have never been able to introduce a shred of evidence to implicate the president and i need crime or misdemeanor what they should do is introduce a bill of attainder based. on the 14th amendment in which they could simply a boat and punish and sort of convicted punish. tromp for whatever they want and they wouldn't have to go through all of the business of a stab moshing guilt or having proof or having due process this is the agent tool of despots like henry be a penguin who executed all of his enemies with bills of attainder it just shows the

desperation that they have and it also shows you know this is a former president he's not a sitting president and it shows the tremendous visceral fear of the democrats over this man trump may feel like he's out of the woods but with the dems now holding both the oval office and congress they have the power to drag him right back into the swamp. of its new york now where 2 black lives matter activists facing charges of harassment and attempted assault as author they allegedly attacked a trump supporting reporter covering b.l.m. rally. i don't think that there was something going on that he she was going to write the program are all these reports was that really she's a pushover you that it's wrong. that translates. as

you can see with what had happened to me it is very trying times initially when i saw they were harassing other journalists there and videographers and i went to stand with them as well and they they wanted everybody to turn off their cameras with our 1st amendment rights which is freedom to the press and also being a public space i kept my camera on and i said no this is public space and i'm reporting the news so my camera will stay on and that's when they started attacking initially or being media and then the 2nd time they came around to attack me when they identified which media i was i feel that being conservative media is is now very physically threatening to journalists. he was filming a black lives massa rally when demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter at one point support us to even appears to run a used to not pay in the journalist space the reporter claims that she also nearby a police officer standing for assistance but to no avail. now in order for true

peace to occur you need to have people to have that civil discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is voices are shut off and so is it may give up a saga of unity or peace but it's act the detriment of you know $75.00 plus 1000000 americans who had voted and do support donald trump at the expense of basically shutting their voices out so that is not true unity when you're taking out your opponent it's not a fair fight america is descending into something that you know i would never have imagined 3 experiencing in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol i condemn them along with other republican conserved. it's because because terrorism and and and destruction and what is going on it has no place in america and i do feel that we're seeing more attacks and violence actually occurring from bill left onto the right we see censorship that's going on and it's

not even really being. occur. it's been 10 years since the arab spring spread to libya where anti-government protests grew into a full blown civil war and massive nato led military intervention artie's more gas you have examines the fallout of the last to multi with decade in the country. 10 years ago the arab spring made its impact in libya back then libya was a wealthy country ruled by a strong man yes but rich and one of the most prosperous states in africa but people wanted more they wanted freedom democracy and they were willing to fight for it was us. who the. gadhafi held power for for decades he had outsmarted the intellectuals beat

the ease limits to a pulp trash the liberals and ground down every rival he knew how to survive plus he had millions of people on his side and. it was. you know you and i were lucky of my grandfather's remains in here i would die with him as a mother but i didn't and so did gad one of the 21st century's worst geo political calamities it was careless rather against brother towns and villages for and against gadhafi regiments and warlords gangs and tribes juki it out hoover who controls the oil in the cities the roods and the ports and still good das the wooden fool what ultimately led to his devotees was his independence it was

a pain in the backside for europe for america it wasn't that he was a dictator that he sponsored terror will that he suppress dissent look at saudi arabia obama crave close allies of the west was that he wouldn't play fetch a given in the middle finger to sue many decades and gotten away with it until march 2011 we will deny the regime arms cut off its supplies of cash assist the opposition. and work with other nations to hasten the day when gadhafi leaves power off what happened in iraq and afghanistan everyone was naturally a little concerned about nato rushing in guns blazing so they tricked the u.n. they filed the resolution to establish quote a new fly zone over libya to protect civilians and state go to the proved they then said that gadhafi was the threat to civilians not just the jets q goggins

blazing some of the 1st u.s. tomahawk missiles had been launched on libya we are at war once again and this 1st phase is to take out gadhafi air defenses we've just learned that the u.s. has fired its 1st missiles at libyan air defenses nato conducted almost $10000.00 on libya dropped thousands and thousands of bombs that another late had proved gadhafi forces that were also killed dozens and dozens of civilians according to human rights watch gadhafi was eventually caught he was tortured and murdered right there new cool that new trial. we came we saw that he died. she wasn't laughing when the same victorious rebels which she helped get rid of gadhafi stormed the american

consulate the next year and murdered the u.s. ambassador that is perhaps when they finally realized what they had done it was another rock another of cadmus star and the flyers that they lit blood to the east day marks the end of a. chapter for the people of libya. every girl. having a disaster a disaster disaster disaster. that is in chaos anarchy you need true vacuum jihad is wonderland this displacement and destruction is it fair to say libya was better off under gadhafi. 10 years of the endless war chaos war crimes today libya's g.d.p. is a 3rd of what it was in 2010 that's democracy school is the same as it was under

gadhafi the standard of living is down there is no press freedom and there's even more corruption it's a den of islam it's terrorism of narco traffic and the world's capital of slave markets you can buy a black male refugee as an auction for as little as $200.00 and these day and age what we know is that migrants who fall into the hands of smugglers face a systematic malnutrition sexual abuse and even murder we are hearing about mass graves in the desert migrants are being sold in the market as a commodity if you go to the market and you can pay between $2500.00 to get a migrant that will work with you on your daily jobs or support your work. the war still rages warlords and islamists gangs and drug traffickers and slave was

still lasted you know in the oriel giants italy's and the france's total today my few new problem pumping oil in the middle of a civil war i did forget to mention did not libya also happens to have the largest oil reserves in africa and that few years before they bombed libya into the ground good does he had hinted at potentially nationalizing all the oil production but no that's crazy talk isn't it. british actress jodie turner smith is that to become the 1st black woman to portray english queen anne berlin on screen in a new t.v. miniseries the creators say they wanted to quote challenge conventions about the queen's life but the casting decision has been met with a mixed reaction online black people shouldn't portray white people if you start a color white stories and vice versa we have our own stories it's not empowering

it's silly so instead of making stories drawn through and intriguing lives of black historical figures across the world human to be producers are just going to keep casting black actors to play when people and good diversity in progress only a matter of time before martin luther king displayed by dominic west. a similar clash of opinions emerged over a lead in blank character in the movie adaptation of the 3 musketeers the french studio producing it says the musketeer named hannibal is loosely based on a real african prince who became the 1st black musketeer in france the original story by alexandra dumas or however doesn't include characters of african descent my colleague colleen bray debated the issue earlier. pic at the end of a day it just makes sense to have the actors portraying the people in a more realistic way we're talking about amber lane the queen of england i mean

this is not a black woman it would be the exact same thing if you hate chris pray the guy who plays captain america portraying hikers who it would make any sense at all i would be like ok come on let's get it more really the representation of that particular person in their real person in history let's make it a little bit more accurate shall we axons good in a vacuum however if we look at this from a historical lens will remember things like movies like cleopatra and how they were told with elizabeth taylor as cleopatra who was very much a person of african descent and stories like jesus who is played by mel gibson also a person of african descent and so what we find is that historically everyone's been ok we were going to eat the the tower of white supremacy has been ok with the stories being told by white curators however it seems like there's some fragility issues happening will be it's him to tell the stories with actors based on their qualifications in their ability in you know their skill set versus just looking at

the color of their skin and up and about cleopatra i mean i'm not necessarily just want to go around the world by a clear pattern was more of a greek a north african i mean africa is not just one place you get different parts of africa you talking about north africa people like gadhafi who was a lab recently he does not look like you and me so clear patrick was more accurate of the mediterranean and i kind of stuff at a particular time van this woman who is clearly of african descent or caribbean descent whatever it is trying to portray the queen of england you don't think that when it comes to historical representation though the generations of movie goes have been brought up on those films which will be regarded as classics and mustn't be interfered with in any way and we look back at them and you see these images of ancient roman of ancient. greece and the embarrassingly white was just isn't true either is it so it's about time that that was redressed isn't it antony oh it will roll me agrees i mean i'm talking about subsaharan africa roma greece is not the

look guys look like me there's this effect though you could say they could be more racially ambiguous and that's fine but i mean come on in the papers we can look at the past and say ok some of the movies are right that's by and there's a great it's not a story is a had is do robinson it's over the pace of some of the movies or it's all the right this is kind of silly it's not about letting it pass it's about correcting the wrongs of black people who have been systematically disenfranchised from participating in hollywood and not allowed to be in films across the board that's what we're attempting to correct in so to then reimagine a world where a person who's black in plate any character pris the simply a queen and to see what that does for a young african-american girl to see a black woman play a queen that's what we're we're looking at this is filed i don't know everything in queens or other new african queens that you could play a rabbit in a white queen. as british officials flip flop on their holiday advice during the pandemic travel agencies in the u.k.

has reported a surge in demand for trips away well here's how the official advice has changed over the last month alone. 3rd. film the 1st holiday of 2021. summer holidays. i'm going to go. acceptable i think we're going to have a great british summer. i'm afraid it is just too early for people to be certain about what will be able to do this summer they want to book a holiday i thought where. compared to. let me try to not live here i got. this far too

early for us to be stuff that's about i mean you'd be very dangerous for income instance again when you making comments about people someone who thinks i'm all too hasty i'll just on the reasons for being optimistic but some things have got to go right for us people should be good to the old days right now not domestically or internationally but i'd put 2 months ago i would say yeah that's what i'd really hoped that we could do it. on house agree that the government has been sounding very mixed messages with different instance and totally different things the british government has not made yet how british people should make money for the summit in principle the prime minister barak's chung's move announced 22nd of what the situation will be

the phantom menace is a saying different things even the health minister is saying he's booked a whole day in. cornhole already well there's a saying there should be no summer holidays even in britain means that basically this is total chaos and not surprisingly people are very confused and also very angry because they want she's no. decisively what is the situation. her democratic party media are expressing concern that president biden may just be too boring compared to his predecessor donald trump and his private networks profits depend on viewer numbers that now in a bind as to whether to keep showing the controversial but profitable former leader . gary biden is so 6 boring in a competent i suppose i trust this guy a little bit more with the nuclear codes shined of way which is why the media is

clinging to donald trump it's kind of ironic because in talking about how much the media can't let go of donald trump i'm demonstrating just how much the media can't let go of donald trump my hunch is that the orange one twitter less new to isn't leaving the public psyche or the news cycle for that matter is the door. also joined by. you know the stadium economy going to be i don't see this sort of distraction with. more conventional that is a good question the news media is staring down the barrel of a boring ok a more conventional 4 year is that means less advertising revenue less importance and in order to keep the ratings up the media needs donald trump. because the media's way of keeping you dear of you with entertainment is with stories

about donald trump. they are a proven method of getting your attention in the 1st weekend of february for example headlines in the opinion section of the washington post website mentions trump or trump has them 14 times compared with just 11 for biden other things are getting better we can't afford to sit back and be either do or do not do long term that's not. i see enormous in this country while in january stories about trump on websites one is said by the advertising and analytics company to boot got nearly 4 times as much traffic as stories about joe biden so i'm going to i'm going to. trance doris' how at least double the amount of traffic almost every single day in january.

ratings of news outlets like c.n.n. skyrocketed when trump ended the political arena. now with biden in the white house the networks have spent the last 4 years but telling trump on a daily basis have lost their main attraction meaning that a slumping viewership is very likely it's gotten or news competitors all excited the c.e.o. of the discovery channel has reportedly told his investors that news might go back to normal which means that ratings for shows about purses or bridges in timbuktu may be about to increase. as well as job cuts in media news or c careful what you wish for many thanks for joining us here on r.t. international this morning we hope you have a great start your day we're back at the top of the hour with the latest.

in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. again at the risk of long no rush but us though up of stuff yes it got woolsack on things and us at the national scale back home but i can merican suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that not the smug the real. one by elsa store on the by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all and some of the african americans who were too through during the night if you heard round great crowds.

to moulay a dwarf you know gone to the oakland you. know almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. probable worst try to go anywhere why not me. why don't i come here. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation will kill unity. are you going the right way or are you being

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relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said again love it off read the riot act to the blog also washington never ceases to lecture the world about democracy and the rule of law how are both doing in the u.s. . to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london is a historian analyst and author of the new book arise to make sure no russia 2 world politics and in budapest we have george semi well we use a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube rumble ari channeling rostock was an effect that music can jump any time you want and i was appreciative of it is going to budapest 1st george we saw something quite remarkable at the end of last week we had the high commissioner of from the european union erm. with the

foreign policy portfolio basically got his blank handed to him here in moscow the tone of this relationship despite my lot of relationship has changed remarkably what accounts for it george well i think the russians have really got fed up with the attitudes of both the european union and the united states whether they think that they can get some kind of agreements and deals with the russians a whole host of things that they want agreements with. the russians of sort of said look if you want to work with us 1 on issues of energy on issues of 1 vaccine issues of migration drugs and so on we have to to work with you but if you want to play these games and constantly use us as a football and say well you know you're interfering our elections you will be behind a coup in montenegro. you know you would poisoning people in our streets using

chemical weapons on our street you know and then what about on the felony if you want to play that game then we're not interested you know we we we've got our own agreements with our own relationships with other countries we'll get to do it so he pretty much said to doral and through him to europe what do you want you what do you want to working relationship or do you want confrontation we're ready for either i think that this came as a shock because at the europeans are just not used to this kind of talk in russia and i think there is now a new tone coming from moscow you know mark is this something that we've all noticed over the last few years i think it's been only since the overthrow of the legal government in job and in the spring of 2014 is really an overt hostility and we have to point out the bike and ministration is the 1st incoming american administration that has not talked about a reset since the end of the cold war so very hostile very hardline as i'm.