hardly workbook for a public hearing patently have no option because they were afraid to defend their job as u.s. democrats cry foul over donald trump the quits old when asked if impeachment becoming the new norm. to activist space assault charges off to a group of black life sponsored protesters attacked a trump supporting journalists covering the rally in january. i feel that being conservative media is now very physically threatening to journalists. the decision to cast of black british actresses queen anne boleyn in a t.v. series causes a stir online we put the issue up to debate. digital correcting the wrong black

people with been systematically disenfranchised from participating in other north african queens if you could read it in the white queen. we look back at the last 10 term the choice she is in libya following the hour of her. very good morning to you this is r.t. international with me niki erin it's great to have you with us our top story as u.s. democrats claim what they call a cowardly group of republicans for the acquittal of former president donald trump as he calls dollars looks at whether impeachment so turning into a tool to settle old schools 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. the senators 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 well 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 goings 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 convicted and punish. trump 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 to 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. that's new york now where 2 black lives the activists have reportedly been charged with harassment and attempted to sell it as off their top the trump supporting reporter covering a big rally. i go to bed like there was something she didn't know about

me she. should write her drugs are a good girl easy supports her was a pleasure going to bed early she's a pushover you better know it's wrong or. right. because 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 be turning 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 is now very physically threatening to journalists. japan's key was filming a black life massive rally when demonstrators identified her as

a conservative reporter at one point to protest even appears to rub a used nappy in her face the reporter claimed she often nearby police officers special 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 assad of unity or peace but it's at 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's 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 conservatives because because terrorism and and and destruction and what is going on that has no place in

america and i do feel that we are seeing more attacks and violence actually occurring from the left onto the right we see censorship that's going on and it's not even really being. occurring. pro-democratic party media are expressing concern the president biden may just be too boring compared to his predecessor donald trump and this private networks profits depend on the view and numbers that are now in a bind as to whether to keep showing the controversial but profitable for malaysia . 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 you know the state going to come july move who's going to be i don't see this sort of intersection of boring contention 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 mention 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 tories have 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 c careful what you wish for. the 1st pictures have emerged of british actress jodie turner smith queen album live in a new t.v. mini series so be the 1st black woman to portray the mother the creators say they wanted to quote challenge conventions about the queen's life but the costing 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 silly so instead of making stories drawn through a new treaty 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 emerged over a leading black character and 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 however doesn't include characters of african descent my colleague colleen bray debated the issue earlier. pick 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 per train type 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 we 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 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 though 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 that was redressed isn't it anthony oh it will roll me agrees i mean i'm talking about subsaharan africa roma greece is not to look at a lot like me that's just a fact now you can say they could be more racially ambiguous and that's fine but i mean come on but this in the past 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 has had a rabbit and it's only 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 wrong black people who have been systematically disenfranchised from participating in hollywood and not allowed to be in their loans across the board that's what we're attempting to correct in south today and reimagine a world where a person who's black in play any character pursed 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 were looking at the societal but i don't know everything queens or other new african queens that you could play a rabbit in a white queen. but off this show break we look at the last 10 to mulch or she is in

libya following the arab spring say to. you.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development the only really engaging loses i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back that was been 10 years since the arab spring greece and libya where anti-government protests grew into a full blown civil war which led to a massive that nato led military intervention on seems more ghastly have examines the fallout of the last to mulch a 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. was no no. no no and i will

look leave my grandfather's remains in here i will 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 forward against gadhafi regiments and warlords gags and tribes juki it out hoover who controls the oil in the cities the roods and the ports and still good dasi wouldn't 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 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 u.n. they filed the resolution to establish quote a new flood exude in libya to protect civilians and they 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 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 a new truth thank you and 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 and the gadhafi standard of living is down there is no press freedom and there's even more corruption it's a den of islamist terrorism of narco traffic and the world's capital of slave markets you can buy a black male refugee as an orchard for as little as $200.00 and this

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 it's gangs and drugs traffickers and slave was still latin it you know and 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

gadhafi had hinted it potentially nationalizing all the oil production but no that's crazy talk isn't it right now to flip flops in the u.k. and not the type to take on holiday but his travel agencies africa have reported just such a in demand for trips away enough to buy conflicting holiday advice from the u.k. government. thanks. i'll fold my 1st holiday of 2021. summer holidays. i'm going to gold. you know 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 when. compared to. let me try to not live right here i got. this far too early for us to begin stuff that's about i mean you'd be very dangerous going come in instance again when you making comments about people someone who thinks i am all too hasty and i'll just on the reasons for being altruistic put some things have got to go right for us people should be completely lace 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 instancing totally different things the british government has not made it to aaron's yet how british people should make money from the summit in principle the prime minister barak's jones move announced 22nd of what the situation will be the phantom menace is a saying different things even the health minister saying he's booked a whole day in. cornhole already while others are saying there should be no summer holidays even in britain means that basically there's total chaos and not surprisingly people are very confused and also very angry because they want scenario. and decisively what is the situation thanks for care thing altria international went back at the top of the hour with the latest headline for fear that.

the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest or you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific. this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture of the cia disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and how the victims say they still live with the consequences today. crackers financial survival guide i don't buy any i've got on a futures. think of the friday as the last of my eggs in the future

cracker was kaiser. 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. being at the basilica no no rush for us though up at last yes it got worse one things on their way to set their child on the darkness back home but i can merican suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. of the real. one by elsa store on her 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 some of the. ground great secret. moulay. know prone to horror. and now almost

a 100 years later history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. probable worst time to go anywhere why not me. when i come here. oh and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered. russia e.u. 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 and analyst and author of the new book a rise of the mature and of russia 2 world politics and in budapest we have george semi well he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube. ari channeling oh stop was an effect that music can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it is going to budapest 1st george we saw something quite remarkable at the end of last week we had the high commissioner from the european union 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 remarked.