BBC HARDtalk (2016): Julian Assange 4th Year in Ecuador Embassy Highlighted by Foreign Minister (Guillaume Long) Interview

BBC HARDtalk interview with the Ecuador Foreign Minister Guillaume Long.

Trump Has Total Meltdown over Viral Photo Showing His Tan Lines

The online community erupted in hysterics this weekend as a photo of Donald Trump went viral. The photo showed his horrid combover and his obviously fake tan lines, prompting ridicule from every corner of the internet. But Trump insists that the photo is fake, even though the authenticity of it has been verified. This is the kind of thin-skinned person we have in charge of our nuclear arsenal. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

Photo Credit: U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn to the Oval Office as he returns from a day trip from North Carolina at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2020. - Joshua Roberts | Reuters

US Sanctions Venezuela Again to Prove Socialism Doesn't Work

Shortly after Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaidó got a standing ovation at Trump's State of the Union address, United States officials promised more sanctions on Venezuela. Why?

Arab League Rejects Trump's Middle East Plan

The Arab League has rejected US President Donald Trump's Middle East plan. At an emergency meeting in Cairo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attacked the proposal, saying his people will never accept it. Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim reports from Ramallah, the occupied West Bank.

The 200-year-old Diary That's Rewriting Gay History

BBC: A diary written by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is being hailed as providing remarkable evidence of tolerance towards homosexuality in Britain much earlier than previously imagined.

Historians from Oxford University have been taken aback to discover that Matthew Tomlinson's diary from 1810 contains such open-minded views about same-sex attraction being a "natural" human tendency.

The diary challenges preconceptions about what "ordinary people" thought about homosexuality - showing there was a debate about whether someone really should be discriminated against for their sexuality.

"In this exciting new discovery, we see a Yorkshire farmer arguing that homosexuality is innate and something that shouldn't be punished by death," says Oxford researcher Eamonn O'Keeffe. » | Sean Coughlan | Monday, February 10, 2020

Why a Young Former Mayor Is Surging in US Election

BBC: Pete Buttigieg has surged towards the top of the pack ahead of New Hampshire's Democratic primary on Tuesday. He's drawing more attention from voters - and more attacks from presidential rivals who view this newcomer to national politics as a serious threat.

There's an old saying about the way the two parties pick their presidential nominees - Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line.

After a 2016 election that turned conventional wisdom on its head by producing iconoclastic Donald Trump and establishment-favourite Hillary Clinton as the nominees, that nostrum could be reasserting itself. While the Republican Party is closing ranks behind the president, there's nothing logical or expected about the early success Pete Buttigieg is having in the Democratic fight to take on Trump in November.

He's the former mayor of a modest-sized Indiana city, the 306th-largest in the US - a college town like Oxford in the UK, only smaller.

He's 38 years old, which would make him the youngest president in US history.

He's also the first openly gay major-party presidential candidate, a historic candidacy that would have seemed inconceivable just a few decades ago, when Republicans were campaigning - and winning - on opposition to gay marriage and mainstream Democrats, by and large, avoided the issue. » | Anthony Zurcher, North America reporter | Sunday, February 9, 2020

Brexit : De Gaulle "La Grande Bretagne et l'Europe" | Archive INA

Charles de GAULLE s'interroge sur la candidature de l'entrée de l'Angleterre dans le marché commun. Il pointe du doigt le refus de l'Angleterre, naguère, à participer à la communauté qui se construisait. Il met en relief le caractère "insulaire, maritime, et lié par ses échanges, ses marchés, son ravitaillement aux pays les plus divers et souvent les plus lointains". Il ajoute que "la nature, la structure, la conjoncture qui sont propres à l'Angleterre diffèrent profondément de celles des continentaux"

Simon Wallfisch ist einer von 3000 britischen Juden, die einen deutschen Paß nehmen

Seine Großmutter hat Auschwitz überlebt und schwor, nie in das Land zurückzukehren, das ihre Eltern und sechs Millionen weitere Juden ermordet hat. Doch jetzt hat der Brexit Simon Wallfisch gezwungen, etwas für sie Undenkbares zu tun: Er beantragte die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft.

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Die Schwulenheiler | Panorama - die Reporter | NDR

Christian Deker, schwul und Panorama Reporter, besuchte Ärzte, die offenbar seine sexuelle Orientierung ändern wollen. Eine Reise in die homophoben Winkel der Republik. Nicht nur christliche Hardliner lehnen Homosexualität ab, auch in den evangelischen Landeskirchen glauben einige, Homosexualität sei Sünde und ließe sich therapieren.

Der "Schwulen-Paragraf" | Doku

Man nannte sie "die 175er". Nach Schätzungen wurde gegen 100.000 Männer ermittelt, 64.000 hat man verurteilt. Der Paragraf hat Leben zerstört, Existenzen vernichtet.

Verbrechen: Liebe - Seltene Bilder aus der NS-Zeit | Kontrovers | BR Fernsehen

Die Fotos rufen Beklemmung hervor. Zwei junge Frauen mit Schildern um den Hals. Darauf steht: "Wir sind aus der Volksgemeinschaft ausgeschlossen - wegen Verkehr mit Kriegsgefangenen". Welche Geschichte steckt hinter diesen Bildern? Kontrovers-Reporter auf Spurensuche.

Verbotene Liebe - Homosexualität im NS-Regime

Gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe war in den Augen der Nazis entartete Sexualität. Tausende schwule Männer kamen in den Konzentrationslagern ums Leben. Das schwul-lesbische Filmfestival Pink Apple in Zürich widmete im Mai 2015 diesen verboteten Liebesgeschichten einen Schwerpunkt.

Joe Scarborough Reads Bible to Critique Trump’s Prayer Breakfast Speech | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Joe Scarborough discusses President Trump's remarks at Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast and why he says Trump mocked the words of Jesus Christ and got away with it. Aired on 02/07/20.

Interview with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch in conversation with Norbert Meyn.

In this interview the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch discusses her childhood in Breslau, studying cello with Leo Rostal in Berlin, being imprisoned for trying to escape to France, playing cello in the camp orchestra in Auschwitz, being liberated in Bergen-Belsen, arriving in Britain in 1946, starting to work as a musician in London, becoming a founder member of the English Chamber Orchestra and being part of a community of musical émigrés in London. She also speaks about her husband Peter Wallfisch, his career as a concert pianist and his time as a professor at the Royal College of Music, and about other émigrés including the violinist Maria Lidka and the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer.

This interview is presented as part of the ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "Singing a Song in a Foreign Land", which focuses on musicians who emigrated from Central Europe because of Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s.

Jewish Survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Testimony

Romney, Breaking With Republicans, Will Vote to Convict Trump of Abuse of Power

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, grew emotional on the Senate floor as he pronounced President Trump “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.”

WASHINGTON — Senator Mitt Romney of Utah announced on Wednesday that he would vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power, making him the first Republican to support removing Mr. Trump for his bid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.

“I think the case was made,” Mr. Romney said in an interview in his Senate office on Wednesday morning, ahead of an afternoon floor speech in which he grew emotional as he explained his decision. He declared Mr. Trump “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.”

Mr. Romney said he would vote against the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, arguing that House Democrats had failed to exhaust their legal options for securing testimony and other evidence they had sought. But the first-term senator said that Democrats had proved their first charge, that the president had misused his office for his own personal gain. » | Mark Leibovich | Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Mark Littlewood In Conversation with Simon Clark

On 16th May 2019, to mark the 40th anniversary of the smokers' group FOREST (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco), Mark Littlewood, director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, spoke to Forest director Simon Clark.

Rep. Tim Ryan Walks Out of State of the Union: ‘Give Me a Break!’ | The Last Word | MSNBC

Rep. Tim Ryan tells Lawrence O’Donnell he had to leave during Trump’s speech because of the countless lies Trump was telling. He asks, “how much can a guy take?” Aired on 2/5/20.

Highlights (and Snubs) From Trump’s State of the Union Speech

Assured of Acquittal, Trump Makes Case for a Second Term »


State of the Union: Pelosi expresses her disdain as Trump pitches for re-election »

A Very Stable Genius: A Conversation with Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker

Watch as The Washington Post’s White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker and National Investigative Reporter Carol Leonnig discuss their new book, "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America."