this concept and more as well as reappraising the legacies of figures like rudyard kipling and nelson mandela and i sat down with him before the police killings of nigerian protestors and before the introduction of jihad to coronavirus restrictions here in london i started by asking him what he thought of the u.k. government's apparent suggestion that those in the arts should retrain to defacto help capitalism that was disheartening for people in my industry i work in theatre as well so. many orcs run deep right across every every exit on every level of the sector from the writers to the musicians to the directors and the ripples the effect has been horrendous because. what we think when we think about the conservative party one of their icons is churchill right and during the war he talked about fighting for the arts like what else are we fighting for he was a noble in the it exactly as a hedge it's pathetic to see them got themselves to got their own founding principles of course they have robust denials and i think they're backtracking they got a tweet deleted saying no that's not what the

when i speak, i quote nelson mandela often. nelson mandela said something that i think is very profound and timely. he said and i quote, everything is impossible until it is done. in other words, people will tell you when you want to fight for decent wages, when you are engaged in a fight for universal health care, a fight to make sure all of our people can afford to go to college or have high quality affordable childcare or that we can create millions of good paying jobs, they say, that's not realistic. what is realistic is that a handful of billionaires have more than the bottom half of america. that half a million americans are homeless. what's realistic is half hour people are paycheck-to-paycheck. starvation wages. that is realistic. we have to get out of that mindset, this is the richest country in the history of the world. people should not have to work hour andto make $15 an not get health care they need. antrying to survive on $11 hour. win thishere is to election, and then build a kind of political movement that we ne

you know, yeah, we would get lines like that in this country if we ever had a candidate like nelson mandela, but it turns out we're getting lines like that in this country because people are getting to the polls to vote against a candidate who they want to stop. >> right. well, let's not forget we had lines -- big, long lines in 2008 for barack obama, and that was a -- drew comparisons to the mandela election. you know, i think one of the things that, lawrence, there are two things that are going on that is true. one is that there is an unprecedented early vote right now. i think the number is now close to 11 million people have voted early so far that have been tabulated. at this time four years ago, the number was under 1 million, all right? so you're talking about an exponential increase in early vote and we know why that is. it's -- some of it's driven by a desire to get donald trump out. there's no doubt there's a lot of democratic enthusiasm to get donald trump out. some of it has to do with people being concerned about covid and they're switching to the early vote, but the problem wi

controversial statue of cecil rhodes outside an oxford college should be joined by a sculpture of nelson mandelae peer. the call was made by the independent — or crossbench — peer lady deech, as she urged the government to stop the destruction of important historical statues. in june, protesters in bristol toppled the statue of the 17th—century slave trader edward colston. the wish on the part of some to eradicate our past in the belief that it's evil does not justify vandalism. i'm dismayed to see reevaluation, often uninformed, of the contribution of historicalfigures — most of whom have both good and less good elements. she turned to the row around the statue of cecil rhodes. i maintain that he did more good than bad and should not be sacrificed to current concerns to bejoined by a statue of mandela. will the minister do all she can to stop the destruction of important historical statues ? there are approximately 12,000 outdoor statues in england. in the region of 3,500 statues are protected as, or as part of, listed buildings, of which 473 are of historical figures. the future of the vast ma

murder at a bus stop in south florence and the determination of his parents with the support of nelson mandelato accept that the metropolitan police was institutionally organization. one x officer in the met for three years is not surprised. yes, the officers were racist. they didn't know the communities they were policing. how do we break down that anger between the police and communities? the relationship between the police and young boys is so fragile. in fact it's nonexistent not only fragile, totally nonexistent. you have the situation where communities are suspicious of the police and in some circumstances the police are suspicious of the communities. and when we get to that situation there is a breakdown in trust. they think ok, there's always been someone or a group of people that estate or up to no good. so automatically they think the next generation of kids are going to be exactly the same. there seeing the matter is really an occupying force. they are feeling over police and under protected. we got to break down those barriers. but we need investment and that's financial investment

inequality became law under the notorious apartheid regime which lasted for nearly 50 years until nelson mandelasident. by that time, decades of industrial design and international sanctions had damaged johannesburg public economy and crime was widespread. —— johannesburg's economy. it became known as one of the most dangerous places on earth. previous abandoned neighbourhoods like this one are now on the tourist trail. perhaps the most visible symbol ofjohannesburg? regeneration, though, is in berea, a few miles away. —— johannesburg's regeneration, though, is in berea, 80 miles away. towering over the skyline is the continent's largest residential skyscraper, ponte city. at more than 500 feet tall with an iconic circular design, ponte offers stunning views overjohannesburg. now tourists can visit a converted apartment on the 52nd floor. all right, morning, everyone. dlala nje, the social enterprise that operates the tour, is run by a former resident. i moved here in 2012 after doing a story on what is this infamous landmark on the johannesburg skyline? ponte opened its doors in 1975. and you k

have to look at the long arc of history it does lean toward progress i talk about what i met nelson mandela and thought about how he sat in jail 27 years as some of his colleagues along the neck and they did change the democratic principles in south africa not their konami so i was got yes i think you got to deal with the fact that. age does not happen overnight but if you can start making the change happen and continue to build on it change will come and is understandable people apathetic and pessimistic and think that one of the things that all people that are leading the change movements are on the vanguard of them have to do is keep giving people who have a hole because despair and conceding only helps those that are oppressing you they want you to get book and whatever you do you can't give up just finally. whatever the past 3 and a half years of trump have done would you accept and you mentioned clinton the clinton crime bill area do you think that crime bill costs along a shadow over the communities of color in the united states and i know you talk about the roots of racism in law en

in my journey i have seen that upward fighting all the way to up ultimately seeing nelson mandela walk obama becoming president. and then i see this challenge where donald trump won on denying that barack obama was a real american. he's not one of us. and governing in that way. and i'm saying we where at a crossroads. we've got to decide, are we going to continue the traits that dr. king and mandelas all the way to my generation and the generation behind me were headed or are we going to let this-- take us another way. and ironically it couldn't have been more plain than in last night's debate where you have a president refusing to denounce white supremacy, even saying when he says who are we talking about and the fox news anchor who is the moderator says the proud boys, he says stand back, stand by. well, i don't say stand by, i say rise up, that is the name of the game. >> trevor: let's talk about rising up. 2020 has seen a slew of protests like never before. i would think in the united states. now you are the one person without could almost say that definitively because you have bee

words, if you voted foe or ever supported trump you are no better than the people who through nelson mandelan prison. the intimidation squad has been hard at work in recent days. check what happened that day free speech rally in san francisco. [shouting] >> backup! >> laura: the handiwork against the african-american organizer was all messed up front teeth.ca they beat him in the face. these are the nice people supporting joe. now biden -- i think he sold, he sold as a guy who cares about the kids. the teacher union allies fight to keepp these kids locked in virtual learning that is a real world disaster. including when a student has a trump flag in the background during one of those hideous zumba classes. >> anthony ribeiro says he logged into chemistry class last week from home when what's behind him quickly became a problem. the chemistry teacher asked them to remove his trump flag. >> he said if you will not take it down, unacceptable and i will have to ask you to leave the classroom. at that point i waved goodbye waved goodbye. >> he said it happened a second time in a different class t

there was a scary gang guy called corn pop, then i went to south africaas to free nelson mandela froml but a bunch of arrested me at the airport but i fought them off -- okay, you say to yourself. you're embarrassed for the guy, it's so transparent and dumb. but biden isn't embarrassed,- he assumes you believe him, maybe he's so deep in his internal fantasy world he doesn't care what you think. either way, he keeps going, tall tale after a tall tale -- then i blacko segregated college, the guys there loved me. the whole thing is weird, it's a little sad. what's interesting are those moments in which joe biden doesn't lie, he decides to tell the truth in the face of criticism. that's not an easy thing to do for a man who's desperate to be loved, you have to ask yourself why is he doing it? it's happening right now -- it's interesting. repeatedly he's been asked in recent weeks whether he plans to pack the supreme court with partisan democrats if he's elected. the answer is obvious of course i would never do that, i'm notua radical, i moderate, i'm from scranton -- you can trust me. tha

you for request for was the last week and in the words of nelson mandela and to work out for children and families every step of the way. host: $20 million allocated to improve last year and yet we have a spike for people waiting for her psychiatric it is heartbreaking why we still this problem money on this issue one person said we don't have the money issue it's a timing issue what's the holdup? >> just before the pandemic the way in emergency rooms was he will. but making those investments doing the right thing to create a whole variety of issues the isolation issues for kids and adults to use the pandemic as the example to show we have the model to get that number with those investments across the communities and transitional housing we inherited one of the worst crises in 2018 than any other in history and with the suicide prevention to allow teachers to get that training because it's such a big part of the solution moving out of new hampshire hospitals to have a more kid friendly environment and then talks about one contract that went out last week the 25 to talk about all of th

he said he was arrested in south africa trying to visit nelson mandela when the country was under apartheidappened. he said the marched in the civil rights movement. that didn't happen. he was arrested in as undergrad of university of delaware wandering into a woman's dormitory. i kind of believe that but didn't happen. the president called coronavirus a hoax. know didn't. he said the exploitation from a political perspective was the hoax. not the coronavirus itself. you don't stop travel from china when you think something is hoax. keeps pushing fine people on both sides lie. the president was referring to neo-nazis. he said that during speeches. joe biden does lie. cnn bottom line when they didn't check fact him during the democrat national convention. chris cuomo said we don't fact check depth crass. democrats are not lying like the republicans. give me a break. elizabeth: joe biden is ripping off, plagarizing the uk's boris johnson june speech. that is what the criticism is. let's watch this. >> we owe it to future generations to build back better. >> we have a great opportunity to buil

in the word of nelson mandela.ill hold those up and look out for children and families every step of the way. >> same question to you, governor sununu, 20 million allocated to improve it last year and we have a spike as senator feltes said waiting for beds and many of them children. it's heartbreaking, why are we seeing given years of attention and money on this issue, one person said we don't have a money issue, we have a timing issue, what's the holdup? >> just before the pandemic the wait in emergency rooms was zero, the team, and the pandemic has seen issues. numbers spike up again, but you can't use the pandemic as an example. we've shown we have the model to get to zero and made the investments drf beds across the county and transitional housing. we inherited one of the worst crises in 2017 in history. and we passed legislation on suicide prevention. we've passed intervention to let the teachers get training on mental health issues because they're a part of the solution. and moving children out of the hospita

don't want to be examples of hitler or mugabe's but what we need to follow is the example of nelson mandela so essentially there is concern hopefully. not for good reason but that is to be seen ok thank you miss mel fernandez with the update from colombo just want to give you a quick bit of background to the rajapaksa as political dynasty before we speak to our guests go to the parks are elected president last year was the defense minister in the final days of the civil war leading the crackdown on the tamil tigers separatists he has appointed family members to important positions in the new administration he picked his brother to be both prime minister and finance minister mahinda was the president for 10 years during which time his brother who was the speaker of the parliament he's now the irrigation minister in got the presidency so there's a lot of rajapaksa is there and they were going to talk to the sort of on the move to new. political analyst executive director of the center for policy alternatives in colombo i think michelle summed it up really well when she said it is a lot of pow

the end of the cold war were affecting southern africa very very dramatically it's a time when nelson mandela was released from prison it's a time when the former colony of namibia became independent a lot of changes like this happened throughout africa so from that perspective looking at germany and what was happening in germany was just one of many events in those years that changed the world for me as a german person of course that was something that was still of significance that was fascinating and when i came back to germany at that time i would try to spend time in east germany and in fact studied in berlin at the time when the war was still up on you in the east of burden to some extent from short term visits then about coming back afterwards i've always been fascinated by how these 2 different parts of germany developed and how they're growing together now and being here in berlin obviously one does spend quite a lot of time in the former east germany even simply by going to eastern and eastern parts of berlin itself. let's go to thomas sparrow at the front of front of the gate said

he lied about being arrested when he went to south africa to visit nelson mandela.rely fabricated series of lies about pinning a silver star on the chest of a navy captain. none of it took place. biden lied about finishing in the top half of his law school. who even cares about that? but biden lied. so the question is, is he also lying about ever meeting with anybody from burisma, because he says he never discussed burisma with his son hunter, and no appropriator's digging into that. the debate really showed -- and this is where the president needs to stay -- is on policy. and policy after policy biden's moving left. the public option on health care? that was rejected by the obama administration for being too far to the. [laughter] it's government-run health care for everybody, no choice. if you want the public option, you have no choice about being in the private sector. biden's moving to the. [laughter] this is an opening for the president. biden is a typical politician with no results, moving left. brian: here's one moment that was key where the president has got