cowardly. patently have no option because they were afraid. of their job. democrats tried. to quit a republican suggest that joe barton should be we asked the legal process is becoming the new. become the price of free speech. and assaulted and she covers a black massive protest we get her take on what life is like for a reporter in the america. i feel that being conservative media is. very physically threatening to journalists. black or white the decision to cast a british actress jamaican descent as a t.v.

series causes a stir. it's about the wrong black people who have been systematically disenfranchised from participating in i don't know africa. but also to come we look back at the. issues in libya following the arab spring. and i welcome just gone 6 o'clock here in the evening in moscow me watching r.t. international the fallout from the acquittal have done the same democrats point the finger of blame at a cowardly group of republicans while some republicans and i were even wanting to in page the new president joe biden so was the legal process becoming the new political norm looking at the impact on american politics his. donald trump

is 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 i hope against hope all you want but impeachment articles against joe biden were filed less than 30 hours into his presidency it is the norm but when it comes to trump hate his impeachment is the least they want for him some would much rather see him swinging from the gallows and if you dare to defend them oh boy your personality will be reduced to being a racist a white supremacist a traitor there are reports your house was graffitied. my

entire family my business my law firm are under siege right now it's also feared now that after impeachment humiliation take 2 never trumpeters along with the democratic chums simply won't let their grudge against the former president slide one of the most bizarre things it's happened senator tim kaine of virginia my own state senator has proposed. the democrats since they have never been able to introduce a shred of evidence to implicate the president and i need crime or misdemeanor what they should do is introduce a bill of attainder based. on the 14th amendment in which they could simply a boat and punish and sort of convicted punish. tromp for whatever they want and they wouldn't have to go through all of the

business of a stab washing 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 it just shows the desperation that they have and it also shows you know this is a former president he is 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. black life matter activists of a political being charged with harassment and attempted assault it's claimed that they attacked a trump supporting journalist who was covering that. i don't think that there was something going on that he says. she's wrong with her drug czar who heard these

reports was it was her body that really she's a pushover to the border patrol. that translates. as you can see with what had happened to me it is very trying times initially when i saw they were harassing other journalists there and videographers and i went to stand with them as well and they they wanted everybody to turn off their cameras with our 1st amendment rights which is freedom to the press and also being a public space i 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 now very physically threatening to journalists so as we had then she was filming a black lives matter rally when demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter and claims by police ignored her calls for held one point

to protest the even appears to rub a used nappy in her face. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that civil discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is boyce's are shut off and so is it may give up a start of unity or peace but it's act the detriment of you know $75.00 plus 1000000 americans who had voted and do support donald trump at the expense of basically shutting their voices out so that is not true unity when you're taking out your opponent it's not a fair fight america is descending into something that you know i would never have imagined 3 experiencing in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol and i can i condemn them along with other republican conservatives because because terrorism and and. and destruction and what is going on there

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. now the 1st pictures have emerged of british actress jodie turner smith this english queen anne boleyn in any t.v. mini series she will be the 1st black woman to betray the monarch or u.k. television now the creators do say that they wanted 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 reproduce is just going to keep casting black actors to play where people and color diversity in progress only

a matter of time before martin luther king displayed by dominic west while a similar clash of opinions emerged over a leading black character in the movie adaptation of the 3 musketeers the french judea producing it says the musketeer named handle is loosely based on the real african prince who became the 1st black musketeer in france although the original story by alexander dumas doesn't include characters of african descent my colleague colum bray put the issue up for debate. 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 exxon's good in

a vacuum however if we look at this from a historical lens will remember things like movies like cleopatra and how they were told with elizabeth taylor as cleopatra who was very much a person of african descent and stories like jesus who is played by mel gibson also a person of african descent and so what we find is that historically everyone's been ok we were going to eat the the tower of white supremacy has been ok with the stories being told by white curators however it seems like there's some fragility issues happening will be it's him soon to tell the stories with actors based on their qualifications in their ability and you know their skill set burst is just looking at the color of their skin it 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 and that is 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

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. 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 group says not to look absolutely me that's just a fact though you could say they could be more racially ambiguous and there's brian 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 let's create it's not a story is an ad is due to a rabbit in time 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 wrong

black people who have been systematically disenfranchised from participating in hollywood and not allowed to be in films across the board that's what we're attempting to correct in so to then reimagine a world where a person who's black in plate any character 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 this is fight over there know everything according to the other no african queen is that you could play a rabbit in a white queen. in other news tonight russia says that brussels is deliberately destroying ties with moscow however the foreign minister sergei lavrov did say too that he wants to develop mutually beneficial relations with europe but he's ready for any scenario this is tensions worsen to recent weeks over the political activist alexina valmy one quarter as more details. 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 of developments it's up to the e.u. to choose if they decide that relations must be rebuilt or burst will also be ready food level statement comes on the backdrop of a general worsening of relations with europe last week the russian foreign minister said that moscow is ready to sever relations with europe if it deploys sanctions against it now these sanctions in question that brussels is considering of course are connected to the recent imprisonment of opposition activist alex a new volley who was arrested for violating parole and accuses the russian government of poisoning him now moscow denies any involvement in this but many e.u. officials are behind in of all needs narrative things also didn't go so well after

the european union's foreign representative joe also borel visited russia his return to the e.u. was greeted by a split european parliament with anti russian representatives calling for his resignation and others pushing for more reconciliation with russia so what we're seeing really is a situation in which officially can't come to a consensus about where to move forward from here. now it has been 10 years since the arab spring made landfall in libya where anti-government protests creep into a full blown civil war which led to a massive nato led military intervention against examines the to moche was 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. of the. 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 and. god was no no. no no and i would look any of my grandfather's remains in here i would die with him as a mother but i didn't and so did gad one of the 21st century's worst geo political calamities it was careless rather against brother towns and villages for and

against gadhafi regiments and warlords gags and tribes juki it out hoover who controls the oil in the cities the roods and the ports and still good das the wooden fool 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 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 gardens blazing some of the 1st u.s. tomahawk missiles had been launched on libya we are at war once again and this 1st phase is to take out gadhafi air defenses we've just learned that the u.s. has fired its 1st missiles at libyan air defenses nato 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 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 rock 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. in chaos anarchy you

need to take your jihad as a wonderland to 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 islam it's 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 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'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 drug traffickers and slavers 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 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. ok let's get the thoughts now of it and get

a piece of political analyst the focus on middle eastern affairs you very welcome thanks for your time tonight thanks for coming on. has anybody benefited from the a the friday of colonel gadhafi 10 years of. about a lot in the long term i don't think too many people benefited from it except some individuals who. became sort of warlords and benefitted. others well plundered also libya's currency reserves. destroyed the country in many ways vention by nato to. civilians it turned into a regime change operation and instead of bringing as was claimed to be. an order and progress and development and democracy to the people of libya what we have seen. you mentioned in your report several years of. which

are still going on on a much lower level now because of the agreement but we saw the devastation of libya institutions libya's infrastructure. social institutions we saw violence we saw the rise of extremism we saw intervention by different foreign countries each one of them has its own interest in libya and of course libya's oil is an important factor it's due to graphic position is another one. for the libyan people. actually return to the periods even perhaps in some areas worse than it was and the early days of. we have seen also refugees leaving that we saw libyan weapons which were under the

control of the government going to other arenas in the middle east iraq syria. parts of africa where different parties are taken. that. are sort of part of it or sold to the fighters in other areas we saw. mercenaries coming from different parts of the world for syrian fighters going in to being struck by them and lorries explicit it's a very long list on how you could go on and on and it but it's very good that you just rattled all last off because what i was going to say next is isn't this or was that they so predictable given what had happened in iraq. well let's. hope what's happened in iraq would have been less and that foreign interventions not necessarily the best way to deal with already tarrying government especially when. countries which are involved have their own interests and that

while we get we're lucky talk about promoting democracy and bringing military order are so often many times received that they are mere words and so what up an example afghanistan for a start would have been an example of what you see in syria today with rishi and other parts of the world it seems that sometimes the parties involved don't learn the lessons whether they are people on the ground or. external. regional or international the war still guys on doesn't it in the hall the chances of paying. that have been some there was an important development. bringing trying to establish in a president president's council. and president interim prime minister. holding elections coming up participants from the various factions in libya that is

a significant step a very important development but of course still a lot of challenges and these challenges are real and serious 1st of all are we is this government likely to be able to bring about reconciliation to try to hold an election that's going to be fair and presented to basically. which takes into account the interests of the various forces we have libya we have 2 governments we have 2 other bodies. government bodies or grabbing areas that are still under control of militias what will happen down the road right. think there will be a need for outside support the u.n. here monitor the fair election outbursts and from government if that takes place that might be at least an important step nevertheless there are still a lot of parties who up their own interest and who are not represented also and so

they want representation that is a problem also for minorities whether it's the. community whether it's the rebel or or other groups in their country and in addition we need to see that the difference parts of libya are also represent it whether it's east south or the west and so i think the challenges are real and that's why it's very important the wildest step that was recently taken there's a significant climate certain maybe a historic wrong nevertheless i think it needs a lot of support both from will then and from without there's also a need for a real ceasefire and for removing the militias external forces. ok we're going to leave it really good to get your thoughts on this even that was adamant that a face a political analyst and any terrorist acts but thanks for coming on. before we go i

this i would just show you some of these pictures from the center of moscow because this scaffolding collapse reportedly injuring 4 people initial reports to say that a 50 year old woman was taken to hospital while at this received minor injuries it is believed that the white of snow on the structure was to blame in a moscow has seen some of the heaviest snowfall in 50 years i've of recent days just been a top atsic since watching us international back again at the top of the. this is a speculative attack then elon musk is making on the right so he's already going to want to sell the s.e.c. he's already going toward yes you see he's shown them to be in capture now he's

gone to war with fish and sam like a buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy it quite like michael sailors and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 a like you know what that's a darn good idea. join me everything on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport this list i'm showbiz most i'll see you ben. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings. first it was my job it was my field bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing it is not like i don't trust aloof or 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 its this very idealized image. makes americans look hostile the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa my america. started my interest i should say black americans in the soviet union in a thirty's was finding this portrait even though i hadn't gone 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 about this. i didn't know that this was a phenomenon that there were many. african-americans who went to russia in the in

the thirty's. 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. and the name of the post because you know no rush but i thought up it was a case you've got. to point things on your bios at each other and. the rest of that i meet here the 1st day like hey you're foreigner that i want to speak russian and then like wait wait wait. they mash it all. back home black american suffering from racism and a complete lack of prospects. now as the. news that the lump us what the real not be a losing after all really means where we're smart 3 of them be able to see a show and we won by also store or by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind.