you know almost a 100 years later history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. and probable worst time to go anywhere why not me. what if i come here. but the group of republican patently have no option because they were afraid to defend their job as u.s. democrats cry foul over donald trump's acquittal we are all skills impeachments are becoming the new norm. to activists space assault charges after

a group of black climbs lancer protesters are tied to trump supporting journalists covering ballot. i feel that being conservative media is now a very physically threatening to journalists. decision to cast a black british actress as queen anne boleyn in a t.v. series called sister on line we put the issue up for debate it's about correcting the wrong black people who have been systematically disenfranchised from participating in hollywood i don't know african queens if you could where you read it in the white queen. and we look back at the last 10 some ultra she is in libya following the our great. a very warm welcome this is r.t. international with me nikki erin it's great to have you with us our top story this

hour as u.s. democrats blame what they call a cowardly group of republicans for the acquittal of former president donald trump as he goes donna looks at whether peach wins the 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 kerry wordly 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 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 he'd 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 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 dis 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. now waktu black life not the activists have reportedly been charged with harassment and attempted assault that's off their top to trump supporting a reporter covering at the level. i don't think that well there was something she didn't know about me she. should work with her are a good girl easy supports her was very true she's a pushover you better the trust of the. tense 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 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 a process that even appears to rub be used to not pay in her face and report they claim she lost nearby police offices by standing by for help 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 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 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 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. occur. for 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 then 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 media going to ignore. joe biden every day into the stadium economy going to be i don't see this sort of a distraction and 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 is 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 is a 14 time 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 or 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 battling trump on a daily basis have lost their main attraction meaning that a slumping viewership is very likely it's got no 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. the 1st pictures have emerged of british actress jodie turner smith there's a queen anne boleyn in a new t.v. mini series to be the 1st black woman to portray the monarch 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 for 3 white people use your story 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. and similar clash of opinions emerged a leading 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 musketeers in france the original story by alexander dumas however doesn't include characters of african descent my colleague colum bray 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 weren't even 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 soon 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 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. race and the embarrassingly white which 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 talking about subsaharan africa roma groups is not to look at a lot like me that's just a fact now you could say they could be more racially ambiguous and that's why i mean come on but in the payers we can look at the past and say ok some of the movies are right that's fine there's courageousness who already has had a steve robinson over the pace of some of the movies once all the right there's a 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 stealth to then reimagine a world where a person who's black in play any character pursed the simply a queen and to see what it 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 queens or other new african queens if you could larry rub it in a white queen. after this short break we look at the last 10 tumultuous years in libya following the arab spring stay with us. and when else so seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to see how does the attic. and in detroit it was betrayed.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with. dares thinks. we dare to ask.

welcome back now it's been 10 years since the arab spring griefs libya where antigovernment protests grew into a full blown civil war which led to a massive nato led military intervention on the smart galaxy of 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 brics 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. of the. gadhafi held power for 4 decades he had outsmarted the intellectuals beat

the ease limits to a pulp trash the liberals and the 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 would look any of my grandfather's remains in here i will die with him as a mother that i didn't and sowed begad one of the 21st century's worst geopolitical calamities it was careless rather against brother towns and villages for and 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 docks the wooden full what ultimately led to his dead myths 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 un they filed the resolution to establish quote a new fly zone over 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 as 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 curious rebels which she helped get rid of gadhafi stormed the american consulate the next year and mudded 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 flyers 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 disaster disaster. that is. under the new truth thank you and jihad is wonderland this displacement and destruction is it fair to say libya was better off under the duffy. 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 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 dollars 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 slavers

still lasted you know and the oil giants italy's any francis' 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 at potentially nationalizing all the oil production but no that's crazy talk isn't it. and now to the u.k. where british travel agencies have reported a surge in demand for trips away and thus despise conflicting holiday advice from the u.k. government. 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 where. compared to. let me try to fit in the right way i got. this far too lovely 1st against the yanks about and he very dangerous for income instance again when you know she is making comments about people someone who thinks i am 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 to mystically 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 right different instancing totally different things the british government has not made terence yet how british people should make money from the summit in principle the prime minister barak's chung's move announced 22nd. what the situation will be but the phantom menace isn't saying different things even the health minister is saying he's booked a whole day in. cornhole already. saying there should be no summer holidays even in britain means that basically there's total chaos not surprisingly people are very

confused and also very angry because they want to know. decisively what is the situation. asone is newly elected prime minister kayak how this is called on the european union to hurry up and impose more sanctions on russia e.u. leaders are scheduled to meet in march to discuss imposing more sanctions callus believes the process should be fast tracked in response to what she calls russia's repression of its opposition russian foreign minister sergey lavrov hit back threatening to break off ties with the bloc we heard from a russian arms producer to see what the threat of sanctions means to them i found it on the choice to import substitution didn't begin just yesterday but the tendency has been there since the last decade with 100 percent of what we do is import substitution clearly national defense is a rather sensitive secure and you need to have everything of your own for civilian products we actually started in 2008 when we began making materials for civil

aviation and in just 7 or 8 years we managed to substitute all foreign made systems at this point everything but some small computers are made in russia by this group of companies. 3 years ago we started diversifying our production to try selves across the sectors where you can see a compressor which simply speaking fuels cars with natural gas which is both more ecological and cost effective it's already go into cereal production over there is a central part of the subsea gas production system also in serial production potentially the market capacity is enormous and only 3 companies in the world are producing this. well if it you can have your say on our stories by following a 3rd media and leaving oil comment that we're back at the top of the thing either .

join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. this is a speculative attack that iran must is making on the fan right so he's already going to war with the staff the f.c.c. is already going toward the scene he's shown them to be in capture now he's gone to war with fish and sand like i buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy it quite like michael sailors do and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 all like you know it that's a darn good idea. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings homelessness 1st it was my job it

was my field building was my savings i have nothing i have nothing to lose now i go to withdraw alou for resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. annoying the doing is. the road to the american dream paved with did refute it's this very idealized image of our america needs americans look possed the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the usa my america. started my interest i should say in black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i knew going to grad school for the master's degree in russian literature i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late eighties finding this portrait was was

a stunning development for me how did i not know.