it quite like michael saylor stuff and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 like you know what that's a darn good i bet you. never leave group or a public cared passionately have no option of because they were afraid to defend their job as u.s. democrats cry foul over donald trump said quote so we ask if impeachment is something coming to new norm. black lines matter activists face assault charges over attacking a trump supporting journalist with the day to not pay. i feel that being conservative media is now very physically threatening to journalists. the decision to cast a black british actress as queen anne boleyn in a t.v. series called sister on line we put the issue of the debate. it's a complicated thing the wrong black people who have been systematically

disenfranchised from participating in hollywood i don't know where prick in queens if you could where you rub it in a white green. and we look back at the last 10 to moche with spears in libya following the arab spring. so very good morning to you this is r.t. international with me the key hour and it's great to have you with us now our top story this monday morning as u.s. democrats blame what they call a cowardly group of republicans for the acquittal of former president donald trump don of looks at whether impeachment saw turning into we're told to settle old scores especially as they seem to be cropping up more frequently on the u.s. political landscape. 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's 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 hate his 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 they 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 convective 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 this are all 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 it's in new york now let's say black lives not activists have reportedly been charged with harassment and attempted assault as they attacked the trunk supporting reporter covering a big rally. i don't think that like there was something going on that he

says. to the right of the current drug czar who heard these reports was that really she's a pushover that i do trust. 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 had 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 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 to protest even opposed to rub

a used to not pay of her face the reporter claims she also lived by police officers to help but to no avail and. 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 boyce's are shut off and so is it may give up a start 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 and i can condemn them along with other republican conservatives 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 rumble left on to the right we see censorship that's going on and it's not even being. occur. pro-democratic party media are expressing concern that president biden may just be too boring compared to his predecessor donald trump and there's the private networks profits depend on the internet and numbers then i want to find 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 media going to ignore. it joined by every day into the stadium economy going to be i don't see this sort of distraction we. should all 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 important 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's 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 going to. i see enormous pain 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 tori's 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 entered the political arena. now with

biden in the white house the networks have spent the last 4 years battling 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 octopuses or bridges in timbuktu may be about to increase. as well as job cuts in. careful what you wish for. british actress jodie turner smith is set to become the 1st black woman to patrol the english queen anne boleyn on screen in a new t.v. mini series creators say they wanted to quote challenge conventions about the queen's life but the cost and decision has been met with a mixed reaction online black people shouldn't portree white people if you store

a color wide stories and vice versa we have our own stories it's not empowering it's really so instead of making stories drawn 300 trillion lives of black historical figures across the world human to reproduce is just going to keep casting black actors to play where people and cordoba are still in progress only a matter of time before martin luther king displayed by dominique worst. a similar clash of opinions among a leading black character in the movie adaptation of the 3 musketeers their french studio producing it says the musketeer name tangible is loosely based on a real african prince who became the 1st black muscatine in france the original story by alexandra dumas however doesn't include characters that african descent my colleague holly employee debated the issue earlier. pick at the end of the 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 tigers who it would make any sense at all i would be like ok come on let's get it more or less 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 are you talking about north africa people like gadhafi who was a lab recently he does not look like you and me so a clear pattern was more accurate of the mediterranean and i kind of stove 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 the generations of moviegoers of being 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 which just isn't true either is it so it's about time that we got was redressed isn't it antony oh well rome agrees i mean i talk on the boat subsaharan africa roma greece is not the look

guys look like me that's just a fact now you could say they could be more racially ambiguous and that's fine but i mean come on in the past we can look at the past and say ok some of the movies are right that's by and let's create it's not a story is a path is due to a rabbit in china over the pace and some of the movies morally right this is kind of silly it's not about living in the past 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 are there no everything in queens or are there no african queens that you could play a rabbit in a white queen out of the show a break we look at the last 10 to mull to if she is in libya following the arab

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me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back and it's been 10 years since the arab spring spreads to libya where anti-government protests grew into a full blown civil war which led to a massive nato led military intervention ozzy's war against the of examines the fallout of the last tumultuous 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. a good duffy held power for 4 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. who was. no yahoos and what i would look any 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 gags and tribes jew he had out hoover who controls the oil in the cities the roods and the ports and still good docks the wooden full 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. after what happened in iraq and afghanistan everyone was naturally a little concerned about nato rushing in guns blazing so they tricked the un they filed the resolution to establish quote a new flood exude in 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 gardens 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 need to conducted almost 10000 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 mary died and. 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 iraq another of cadmus star and the fires that they lit blood to the east day marks the end of a. chapter for the people of libya. every

year living in disaster disaster disasters for. libya's. in chaos anarchy you need to take your jihad is wonderland this displacement and destruction is it fair to say libya was better off under gadhafi. 10 years of endless war chaos war crimes today libya's g.d.p. is a 3rd of what it was in 2010 that's democracy scores the same as it was under gadhafi 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 2 $100.00 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 islam its gangs and drug traffickers and slave was still latin it low in the oil giants italy's any france is to tell 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. now to tripoli based political analyst. thank you for joining us on the program and we witness to the events of 2011 if so could you describe what it was like back then for us. people were. waiting for godot you or. your report talks about that money or oil and so on but it doesn't say so of our living standards you know for example that libya has no mail system place people who get sick leave here. egypt jordan. education is so bed that people graduate from college and they don't know how to write a one page letter so so the thing is that they waited 40 years and

nothing happened so we'll know when the arab spring started people took off to the streets and they. brought down the system now what happened the since then the aspirations of the libyan people were not the realized after tell you is this true but you have also to think about what a partially. a political desert in libya would get their feet even his own people are not in the scene now good as he has been gone for k.v. those who are the leaders of who are believed in his system there is nobody because he made sure that there is no 2nd line behind him let alone a position so that's what we are all facing now we are facing a very very best to a should do to her cover the situations get out of it go he said that is not the

president he said to people who are by themselves. they arms and their money and their and their and power political power is in the hands of the people and everybody knows that the joke. recent poll is saying that the quality of life has deteriorated in 9 countries in the region including libya following the arab spring is that something you would agree with oh yes yes but that but that this is. you see the this is due to lack of institutions we inherited a system that has no institutions there are 2000000 topic employ we is in a country of 6000000 people. there's no private business and it's shops and so on that the deficit people get out of college like $30000.00

or $40000.00 a year and everybody is looking for a government job the country is relying on oil do you know for example that libya that's been exporting oil for 60 years produces only 20 percent of its gasoline. so when when when some mr merton groups shut down due oil there's nothing not to know about income so they're talking about increase in g.d.p. an increase and this this this thought maybe make it good for our you know for if we are sitting and talking about world bank numbers and so on but the fact is 98 percent of the of the g.d.p. is produced by oil exports. and desperate deuced only by 60 percent of the

labor force in libya the situation is really bad i mean you have nothing 40 look i think your country example the sovereign fund of the united arab emirates has about 1.3 trillion and they spent a lot of money and the country out. libya has 35000000000 and a sovereign wealth. so where did the money go. or russia was more than before it's not backed up by it's just ticks or anything like that i mean you could ask for years of oil 3000000 barrels a day where did it go. for lab. thank you for your time on r.t. international we appreciate you speaking to us today thank you thank you. and like you for joining us here on r.t.

international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spanning dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by a dream shaped by.

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