i mean. older. americans look past the debt stuff but every single day this is a history of the usa. partly group of british public. patently have no option because they were afraid to defend their job as u.s. democrats crying foul over donald trump's acquittal we ask if impeachment start becoming big new norm. 2 activists face assault charges after group of black lives matter protesters attacked a trunk supporting the journalist covering a rally. i feel that being conservative media is is now a very physically threatening to journalists. the decision to cast a black a british actress is queen anne boleyn in a t.v. series cause this is why 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 where brick in queens if you could read it in the white queen. and we look back at the last 10 tumultuous years in libya following the arab spring. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky erin that was the u.s. democrats playing what they call a cowardly group of republicans for the acquittal of former president donald trump artie's a gold star of looks at whether impeachment so turning into a tool 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. 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 judge that 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 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 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 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 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 who is 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. over to new york now way to black lives not activists sever portably being charged with harassment and attempted assault that's off they it's not the trunk supporting reporter covering a b.l.m. rally. i'm getting better there was something going on that the secret

rug your brother would never drug in our food guruji accord was a pleasure bar your bed truly she's a pushover you regarding the truth of her yeah that's right you're carrying it out there 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 now 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 just because now very physically threatening to journalists. chiffons he was filming a black lives matter rally when demonstrators identified her as

a conservative reporter at one point a protest even appears to rob a used to not be in her face the reporter claims she would she asked nearby police officers 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 boyce's are shut off and so is it may give up a start 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 being. occur. pro-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 they're now in a bind as to whether to keep showing the controversial but profitable formulator. joe biden is so 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. joined by. you know the. job i mean who's 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 out 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'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. i see enormous 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 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. careful what you wish for. the 1st pictures have emerged of british actress the jodi turner smith as the english queen and by live in a new t.v. mini series she'll 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 cost of 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 through a neutrino 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 the merged leading blank character in the movie adaptation the 3 musketeers the french studio producing it is the musketeer an intangible it's 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 or less the representation of that particular person there real person in history let's make it a little bit more accurate shall we an exile is 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 we'll be at soon soon to tell the stories with actors based on their qualifications in their ability and you know their skills to burst is just looking at the color of their skin and it's up and about cleopatra i mean i'm not necessarily just want to go around the world by a clear path or 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 at a particular 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 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 greece i mean i talking about subsaharan africa roma greece is not the look absolutely me that this effect now you could say could be more racially ambiguous and that's why i mean come on in the pay as we can look at the past and say ok some of the movies are right best buy and let's create it's not a story is a path is to be a rabbit in china over the pace of some of the movies or it's all the 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 south to the end reimagine a world where a person who's black in plate any character purse 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 the societal but i don't know everything queens or other new african queens that you could play a rabbit in a white queen. after this short break we look at the last 10 some of the 2 issues

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or unmaidenly shallowness. welcome back it's been 10 years since the arab spring reached libya where antigovernment protests grew into a full blown civil war which led to a massive nato led military intervention more galaxy of examines the fallout of the last 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 easily missed 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 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 das he wouldn't fool what ultimately led to his dead mitts 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 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 in we saw that he 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 flyers that they lit blood to the east

day marks the end of a. chapter for the people of libya. every girl living in disaster disaster disaster disaster. libya's. in chaos anarchy a new truth thank you and jihad is wonderland 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 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 atom auction 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're 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 a 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 isnt it. a 10 day mandatory quarantine has come into effect for travelers returning to the u.k. from covert hotspots but despite the ongoing pandemic and sometimes conflicting holiday advice from the u.k. government british travel agencies have reported a surge in demand for trips away. thanks. i'll fold my 1st holiday of 2021. summer holidays. i'm going to go move. except before 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. he tried to not live right here i guess. is far too early for us you're against the future about i mean you'd be very dangerous growing government instance again you know she's making comments about people summer holidays but i am optimistic that i was down the reasons for being optimistic but some things are going to go right for us people should be completely always right now not domestically or internationally but i've got 2 months ago i would say yeah that's what i'd really hoped that we could do it.

on house or agree that the government has been sounding very mixed messages with different instance saying totally different things the british government has not made it to aaron's yet how british people should make money for the summit in principle the prime minister barak's john's mother announced the 22nd the favorite what the situation will be but the phantom menace isn't saying different things even the health minister saying he's booked a holiday in. cornwall already has a saying there should be no summer holidays even in britain means that basically this is total chaos not surprisingly people are very confused and also very angry because they want is now. and decisively what is the situation and you have something you'd like to say about any of our stories and to get in touch by following those on social media and leaving all of your comments that that's all from me for today but i'm sure fama will be with you with the latest in that scene

minutes. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confirmed asian let it be an arms race is on often spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. show seemed wrong. but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become educated and in gains from it because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i'm after a fancy welcome to another lockdown edition of going underground so-called mainstream media in nato nations is warning people not to invest in bitcoin the currency not controlled by government backed central bank regulators it comes after bitcoins value surged a little in the spike in some stocks sparked by grassroots activists seeking to damage the portfolios of established hedge funds joining me now from st barts in the caribbean is the founder of bitcoin dot com raj of a thanks so much roger coming on i've got to tell you that over here in britain as the spike in bitcoin that's bt see numbers have been happening there's been

scathing articles written here telling people this is not the future all are powerful elites terrified of cryptocurrency. the incumbent the incumbents are always scared of the new upstarts that are going to take away market share from them and that's exactly what we're seeing happen with digital currencies all over the world they're threatening be the status quo in the sense that it's easier faster cheaper more reliable to send or receive payments using crypto currencies than it is with traditional legacy banking systems and so that's that's a threat to the current business model of the traditional financial system but just like the internet was unstoppable and netflix was unstoppable compared to blockbuster and you know the apple i phone camera was unstoppable compared to kodak film cameras the same is going to be true with digital currencies the incumbents are going to like it but they're going to keep going more and more people are going to keep using them and it's going to spread to more more people around the world

and before you know it everybody will be using digital currencies just like everyone uses their i phone state of kodak to take pictures today. well the financial media are far more interested in what funds are doing what stock markets are doing that kind of thing not really talking about the credit codes and all the other elements of the financial architecture now now use crypto however central bankers must be realizing something what advice would you give to jerome powell at the fed under bailey or at the bank of england the god of the european central bank presumably they know what's going on. i don't know maybe you think they don't know what the what's going on but if they do recognize this renaissance in currency and renaissance and capitalism what should they be doing now yeah closing your eyes and plugging your ears and ignoring something isn't a solution to the change that's coming so you have to educate yourself and learn about it and the best way to do it is to start using it center received some

digital currency with one of your friends or make a.