the worst time to go anywhere why not me. when i come here. outwardly appeared patently have no option of it because they were afraid to defend their job. some republicans just that joe biden should not being paid. the legal process is becoming the new political norm to come the price of free speech. to the issue of black lives massive protest we get her take on what life is like for a reporter in a divided america i feel that being conservative media is. very physically

threatening to journalists. black or white the decision to cast a british actress of jamaican descent in a t.v. series. the wrong black. magic. in i don't know every. writer no white queen. but also. in libya following. it often and watching r.t. internationally she's gone 5 o'clock in the sky. from the acquittal of donald trump saying democrats point the finger of blame at a cowardly creep of republicans while some republicans and i were even wanting to impeach the new president joe biden so is the legal process becoming the new

political norm looking at the impact on american politics his. 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. these 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 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 grudge against the former president's slide of 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 in any does 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 despots like henry be a penguin who executed all of his enemies with bills of attainder picture 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 you're 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. not to black life matter activists have reportedly been charged with harassment and attempted assault it's claimed they attacked

a trump supporting journalist who was covering the rally. i do badly there was something going on that these people who are going to get her drugs aren't gurdeep accords was the pleasure of going to bed early she's a pushover you regarding the truth of your depth yeah that's right i think. 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 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. well as we heard then she was filming a black lives matter rally when demonstrators identified as a conservative reporter and claims to that nearby police ignored calls for help at one point to protest even appears to rub a huge snappin in her face. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that simple 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 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 and i can 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 all being. occur. the 1st pictures have emerged of british actress jodie to in a smith is english queen hamblin and a new t.v. mini series will be the 1st black woman to portray the monarch or newquay television or the creators do say that they want to challenge conventions about the queen's life but the casting decision has been met with a mixed reaction. 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 where people and color diversed in progress only a matter of time before martin luther king displayed by dominic west what a similar clash of opinions did emerge over a leading black character in the movie adaptation of the 3 musketeers the french studio producing it says the musketeer named hannibal is least 3 based on a real african prince who became the 1st black musketeer in france although the original story by alexander dumas however doesn't include characters of african descent my colleague colleen brain put the she put about. i think 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 get access 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 will we it's him 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 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. reese 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'm talking about subsaharan africa roma group says not to look absolutely me that's just a fact though you could say they could be more racially ambiguous and that's why i mean come on in the pairs we can look at the pairs and say ok some of the movies

are right best buy and those courageous nannies who already has had its do very well have been in time over the pace of some of the movies once 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 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 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 fight over there know everything recordings are there no african queens that you could play a rabbit in a white queen. that russia says that brussels is today we're really destroying ties with moscow however foreign minister sergei lavrov also added that he wants develop needs to be beneficial relations with you but he's ready for any scenario

this is tensions worsened in recent weeks over the political activists alexina valley so let's get more details on the story now don't cotton to bring things for scott often again and don't just run through them what else mr lavrov had to say hey there andy well lover of seems generally pessimistic about the current state of relations between russia and the european union after his meeting with the finnish foreign minister but he said that responsibility for this actually live with brussels so let's take a listen to what exactly he said. got accustomed to the framework of the relations between russia and the youth has been deliberately destroyed by brussels we must be a group in the developments it's up to the e.u. to choose if they decide that relations must be rebuilt or reversed will also be ready food. lover statement comes on the on the backdrop of a general disintegration or a worsening of relations with the european union last week we heard the russian foreign minister say that moscow is ready to cut ties with europe if it deployed

sanctions against it now these sanctions in question that brussels is considering are of course connected to the recent imprisonment of russian opposition activist alex a no volley who says that the russian government poisoned him now moscow denies any involvement in this but a lot of the e.u. officials are actually behind in of all these narrative here so things also didn't go so well after the after the european foreign representative just set borel visited russia his return to the e.u. was what you welcomed by pretty split european parliament there were anti russian officials who were saying they were calling for his resignation while there were others who were calling for reconciliation with russia so we're seeing a situation here really where e.u. officials can't come to an ex consensus about where to move forward from here ok thanks for the update that was a tease don't quote reporting. that has been 10 years since the arab spring made landfall in libya where anti-government protests grew into

a full blown civil war which led to a massive nato led military intervention his motive has to have examined the to moche was decades 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. of the. gadhafi held power for 4 decades he had outsmarted the intellectuals beat the easily missed 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 das he wouldn't fool what ultimately led to his death 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 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 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 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 victorious rebels which she helped get rid of gadhafi stormed the american consulate the next year and mudhead 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 delete blood to the east day marks the end of a. chapter for the people of libya. every girl living in disaster disaster disaster disaster. that is. in chaos anarchy a new true vacuum 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 as a rule should 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 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 matthew 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. what audacity of ok let's talk about libya further now with the author and historian gerald only joins is afternoon a very welcome thanks for coming on jerrold as you see it what do you think were the western motives behind the intervention. the motives were complicated 1st of all 'd is your set up he suggested it were economic and financial not only the oil but keep in mind that the oil generated a good deal of wealth you have wall street firms like goldman sachs which were involved in business deals with the khadafi regime but with the ouster of the

gadhafi regime they felt that they would be in in a position to benefit from his ouster then of course you have france friends as you know bases its power as an imperialist force on its role in africa if you look at libya's neighbors particularly chad to the south or to nisha and algeria and morocco to the west you'll see immediately that france interference interest or embed it there for instance were conflicting with libya's interest and libya had to go that is to say khadafi had to go keep in mind as well that the then president mr kohut sarkozy was accused credibly of taking money under the table from tripoli and he had an interest also in seeing that mr gadhafi would be ousted then you had the inexperience of the team in washington and inexperienced president surrounded

by inexperienced aides like secretary of state hillary rodham clinton who was trying to show and demonstrate her imperialist mettle by shedding blood in africa you could say the same for him bassett or to the united nations susan rice and you could also say the same for. other vigors who were surrounding mr obama if you stir that up you'll understand why khadafi had to go in at the time a rule claiming that it was a humanitarian need and he seemed to mention. well of course that was the fig leaf that they used to cover what was actually a parada cole attack a parabola tact that is your set of pieces suggested as lead to a human rights fiasco a human rights debacle a human rights catastrophe including slavery keep in mind as well that mr gadhafi was moving in a pan african direction he wanted to establish the town of cirque as

a kind of pen african center which would strengthen the african continent against the briton ditch of the imperialist powers that was another reason why he had to go now when you look at the state of the country now it's hard to believe that actually anybody has benefited. well no they libyan people have not benefited certainly africa has not benefit that is to say those africans from south of libya or coming to tripoli's try to cross the mediterranean and are drowning in the choppy waters of the mediterranean they are not benefiting either it's fair to say also that africa is not benefiting because the gadhafi regime was a start opponent of neo colonialism recall that it was a major supporter of the african national congress under nelson mandela when the time they said was back in the apartheid regime along with this nato friends speaking of france and britain in the 1st instance so all one can say is that

imperialism was victorious and libya the people of africa were defeated what lessons she think have been learned from this end. well one lesson we should learn here in the united states is to have more principled progressive and less experienced leaders i think also that the international community has to learn a lesson because there was a united nations resolution that authorized this heretical attack on khadafi and so in some ways the members of the united nations particularly the security council have blood on their hands for basically acquiescing to their rather transparent threadbare rationale that the united nations should authorize an intervention to stop human rights violations which fundamentally were not occur like a charity could to get your analysis and thoughts on this that was the author and historian gerald horne thank you. thank you. for watching i think national let's

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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. going at the risk of no no rush but also up most of us it got woolsack on things on their way. back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that lump us mud that he'll be a loser and show them one by else a store or 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 rear groups who were too through during the night. found great crowds. to moulay a dwarf you know going to call clues and now almost

a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. probable worst time to go anywhere why not me. why don't i come here. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle russia and e.u. relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said again lover of 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 us. 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 of russia 2 world politics and in budapest we have george samueli he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube rumpel r.-e. channeling rostock rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciative ok it's 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

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 whereby 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 have sort of said look if you want to work with us on issues of energy on issues of 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 streets you know and then what about on the vani if you want to play that game then we're not interested way you know we we we've got our own agreements with.