would be twenty four hours a day this is coming from moscow top stories now the two security guards were short to gain access to a hundred in lawsuit republic of korea where bombs were later settled to all the people also injured on the generators put out of action. an iraqi american is drawing attention to the war in iraq on his own skin he's had represented the campaigns many victims to to only say he's angry at the events in his motherland barrett by the media. and l.t. is looking at whether pharmaceutical companies are cashing in on aids patients scientists from around the world putting the disease under scrutiny at a conference in vienna heard about some breakthroughs in treatment. about the uptake for innocent fifteen minutes from now in the meantime. dennett's an american attorney who's in bucking on a campaign to force big corporations and high ranking us politicians to take responsibility for their actions. next.

attorney and author charlotte dennett joins me now to talk about her current book the people first bush and the possible aura of impunity that surrounds american presidents thank you very much for sitting down to speak. mr that you have been on an on line campaign to prosecute george w. bush members of his administration for what you call violations of international law domestic law the constitution. why have you not given up on this because the administration of george w. bush was particularly lawless i don't think there's ever been a time in american history when we had the highest officials in government so flagrantly break the law and show no respect at all for the rule of law they just

created laws just out of whole cloth they created laws in secret behind closed doors that were in them a cold to american democracy and and shameful to our international image some of those laws for instance redefined torture so that it made it ok for the c.i. a to brutalize prisoners and detainees. supposedly even doing it legally for instance allowing waterboarding to be done legally one in fact it is a violation of international law and u.s. law but it didn't matter provided that they did these laws in secret do you realistically with all due respect i think you're going to be successful. i take the long view i think that to do nothing is a travesty because of the damage that's been done to our country and to our reputation around the world we the people we the american people. have to come

forward and say enough is enough we've had enough of the impunity in the law breaking and it's in every same single facet of our society now it seems as a giant corporations rule the day the government seems to be incapable of stopping them and that our elected officials are not acting in our interest where do we begin someone has to stand up and say i'm not going to get a war and we do have the rule of law so what we have to do is impress upon them what the rule of law is and hope that the will of the people will carry the day u.s. president barack obama has said several times this is an era of looking forward and not looking backwards bronco pramod said when he got elected he said it's not just up to me it's up to you so i'm taking him on challenge i realize that there are

very powerful people who are telling him to move forward and not look backward because really what that's become of the code word for i will not prosecute but the fact of the matter is there was enough public pressure so that his own attorney general finally had to appoint a special prosecutor last summer to look into some of the worst criminal alleged criminal behavior by cia interrogators not even i when i was running for attorney general insisting on the prosecution of bush did i realize that we would have a special prosecutor that soon afterwards so you have to have hope and you have to take the long view in other countries a man who ordered nuclear bombing or oversaw the vietnam war would arguably be seen as a villain would essentially be taken to task why is it in the united states that presidents are never prosecuted for the whole notion the president is accountable once he leaves office is new to the american people strangely enough one of the. things i

argue is that you can prosecute any president once he leaves office for a crime look at what happened with nixon he was pardoned nixon our previous president had not been pardoned then he could have been prosecuted for the crimes that he committed while in the white house but you know americans have a short term memory i'm sad to say and need to be reminded i would also say the role of the media. is a factor here that is the quote unquote mainstream media the corporate media. doesn't deal with this issue at all i have not been on one television show other than this one for instance and doesn't surprise me the media tries to keep the status quo and it's very much corporate owned so therefore the american people are not informed they don't know what their rights are and that's what i'm trying to do

and others of us who are part of this very small but growing accountability movement we need to get the word out every way we can to the american people that everybody has to abide by the rule of law and no one not even the president of the united states is above it do you think that there's just an aura around u.s. presidents in this country that they're just untouchable it may be it may be this concept of. the president as being the big protector and people feel i do think that people feel uncomfortable about going after the president in a court of law they would feel ashamed the way the rest of the world would see it when they just i suppose they feel that you know you have to accord the president and a certain respect the point is that bush fell into such disrespect disrepute that it's a less difficult for people to begin to accept the notion that the president is not

above the law. so i think we're in new territory here and bush has only himself to blame. cheney and rumsfeld they went too far they went overboard in such actually a transparent way i say transparent because we finally were able to find out what happened but i just think it was it was too excessive and it's caught up with them and the reason why we're putting our foot down is because we see that some of what they began has been carried over into the obama administration and therefore that is proof of my claim and others that if we don't stop them for what they just to the impunity will get worse and we're going to lose our democracy you recently wrote an article called the battle for justice heats up in which you say that the united states needs to look at argentina as an example explain why because

argentina has finally had its day in court so to speak at least the mothers of the disappeared the families of all those people who several decades ago lost their loved ones during a very brutal dictatorship and the last of the dictators has been sentenced to prison for the crimes that he committed during that period and that brings us hope that shows once again that impunity will not stand so it's a stand there well it will not stand there but as i said before everything is incremental pinochet was arrested in his hospital. this dictator was sentenced to twenty five years and i frankly believe that bush cheney rumsfeld and the rest of them they're not they're not very comfortable about traveling about because we have international law on our side and the doctrine of your star in the doctrine of

universal jurisdiction so when it comes to committing war cry. work criminals have to watch their step this is just the beginning of a whole new air and international law as far as i'm concerned so moving forward how do you plan on rallying up the crowd. part as i said of a small group of people who consider ourselves part of a movement we're calling it the accountability movement it was strongest right before obama got elected and it was comprised primarily of impeachment activists who had become very frustrated with their own party the democratic party which at every turn made it very clear that they did not want to impeach and for whatever reason. was suggested it kind of boiled down to political expediency first they wanted to win over control over congress in two thousand four and then they

wanted to two thousand and six and then they wanted to win the white house and well they did win the white house but there's still a lot of accounting for that has to go on and so the people who want from impeachment and never got their wish then went to prosecution because they really do feel that accountability is an important issue so that's what we're doing we're building a movement i was out on the west coast recently at a conference which is called understanding politics the point of that is that people are now beginning to understand that there's sort of secret there's a secret government that operates behind closed doors that we are not really privy to cause a lot of the shots in our government so we're first of all we're trying to unravel in other words we're looking at the very powerful and when you look at the very powerful that would include even the people who own corporations just people who manage them and then then reality becomes clearer to us. and then we realize that

we've got to stop just doing our single issues we've got to combine together as a larger more unified force and strategize how to temper their power is a long range task but it has to be done again we're going to lose our democracy if we don't do it and i actually have a lot of faith in the american people. i was reading peter dale scott who's a fine historian and has written a number of books about what he calls the overall world and and one of the things he says is that when the american people are confronted with a crisis they often have this cammy ability to overcome it and to put us on a new and more forward path and i had still have that faith in the american people so you'll be hearing more from us very soon we're going to be putting out

a declaration on accountability we're going to break it down into all the different areas where there needs to be accountability whether it's a locked door all we need media accountability political legal. environmental in other words we've got to stay rise to the top look down at what's happening and more and more people are realizing that our country is just. going to the to the birds and we've got to step forward because if we don't the right wing is and then well i don't know what i'll do in that case i live close to canada on that notice that you so much for saying don't thank you. for the feast we've got to. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face

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other people were also injured and the generators put out of action. rocky american is drawing attention to the war in iraq body's own skin he's had representing the campaigns many victims to back saying he's angry defense of his motherland barrett by the me. analyses that whether pharmaceutical companies are cashing in on aids patients scientists from around the world are putting the disease under scrutiny at the conference in vienna delegates heard about some breakthroughs in treatment. of your top stories this back with more on those stories and more developments in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the latest from the world of sports when. hello there welcome to the sport thanks for joining me and these are the headlines

. big deal russia ice hockey star signs the longest contract in n.h.l. history. class it's a true story of france contador put an end to their war of words. all the action from the russian premier league in this week's. russia says money was not the main reason he signed the longest deal in n.h.l. history the twenty seven year old has agreed a seventeen year contract with the new jersey devils worth one hundred two million dollars that means he'll be tied to the club until he's forty four years old he had played thirty two games from the end of last season after spending eight years with the atlanta thrashers and made the decision to sign a long term view on saturday the fourth anniversary of his father's death the seventeen years covered to jersey number figure for the russian who has scored

three hundred thirty eight create goal so far the most in the n.h.l. since he joined lee and says he hopes not too many more while sitting out the full length of his new contract believing is a great opportunity to instill the wear with the devils. have committed the rest of my career seventeen years. to this team. who have won the stanley cup here. is business. that was the biggest reason. why i decided to stay here now at the tour de france and the schleck says he settled his route with the yellow jersey holder alberto contador the spaniard took the overall lead after seizing the chance to power pass with his chain. they morph which is against cycling etiquette that was on monday and the pair were riding side by side in the palace on yesterday's stage sixty saying that contador had apologized for exactions and that they were now back on good terms with at the front of the race seven time champion lance armstrong who is

trying to end his last tour with some glory he was part of a fifteen man breakaway and although that was whittled down as the pace picked up armstrong was still in the shadow couldn't quite fun sprint needed to cross the line first branch said it could be go with the legs to claim the stage win but afterwards it was shrek and contador and that rumpus that people were still talking about and the pair were quick to put it to bed. just. brought us to you know we could do. it give me your. tribute. to me at another day but you don't want your relationship to be as bad as it was yesterday i think your relationship is very good. this is that day and the riders will be preparing for what could be a deciding stage tomorrow which finishes on a massive climb in the cold all my way and that could shake up the general

classification which looks like this contador and schleck separated by just eight seconds and the russian made dennis menchov is just a few seconds off spot. to france footballers have been questioned by police about an alleged under-age prostitution ring carrying ben zimmer and frank were detained in paris yesterday but a very seen here is alleged to have paid for sex with an under-age prostitute as a birthday present to himself the buying munich stars accused of flying to hit the germany when she was just seventeen although he says he thought she was over the legal age of eighteen real madrid star kevin benz members also quizzed by officers investigating an underage prostitution ring both plays deny wrongdoing but if found guilty could face three years in jail. german coach jurgen love believes his side will get even better the fifty year old has agreed to stay in charge for another two years and that we're taken through to the twenty twelve european

championships nerves just lead germany to third place at the world cup in south africa and two years ago his men were runners up at the european championships but he thinks there is still room for improvement. vice mundus only knows everyone knows that we have a very good basis that we have a lot of young players who can become even better with time so we see a lot of potential and want to stay together this way i think the circumstances are good for us to develop. meanwhile the pre-season is in full swing for european clubs the defending the league champions barcelona held their first training session ahead of the new campaign but only a handful of first team players with their as many did take part in the world cup and and back until the end of july the likes of iniesta pull your p.k. endeavor dear enjoying some time off but they will be back for the pre-season tour of scandinavia south korea and japan while easily man finds to that their stars

train the time they finished third last season and fail to win silverware they brought in a new manager massimiliano allegro you can takes over from leonardo and have brought new plays matter yet this market and socrates puppetmaster populous club owner and italian prime minister silvio berlusconi arrive for a news conference after the session and pretty much call the shots saying he would not be spending huge amounts on new plays and did not intend to sell the club. although it is pre-season it is not all all toil and sweat now and again this time for a bit of sightseeing to manchester united players visited the steps of the philadelphia art museum a site made famous by the film rocky they play major league soccer side the philadelphia union right to today on their top of north america. well here in russia with the team weeks into the season on the sofa twenty two goal was flying as an. inside in the premier league anything missed any of the action they worry

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each different call base but what does your speedboat. however be. when it comes to. maybe people just don't understand what makes you what makes you why you. like them to why should i join and all this stuff but. once we can all start to work with the understand that this is not true so this will just you know some thoughts behind that in order to change people's lady of youth sports where it has all been ten running clubs and bars and you efforts can get professional rugby union and some boys to the boys. are in the park there is a big risk of getting injured with the. can recommend to all around the some special shoes and give a few tips about this technique. is trying to prove running can be easy and

exciting for everyone from the very young to olympic medalists. of course so do most of my running indoors but i enjoy running in parks as well there's a very special atmosphere there and it's easy to green we have some small streets but no there is a better chance to get some fresh air and to get feet to water but it was artsy. and i can make to the good weather that so from a. wealthy british style. market i now. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two crimes

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