tree's image is just a facade. it's not that long ago. most of us robbers were embracing their new popular president with problem which was great but you still a big gamble. for some hip hop artist who has worn away behind the scenes just be a. great general c.e.o. of rap duo smith and wesson is among the few cutting against the grain to confronting issues like social injustice and government corruption. and they were one of. the brooklyn born rapper and sat down with our team to discuss his new album america's nightmare partit watching children of war i would say first that. i think that most people regular force like myself. are interested in what we can

do. and vironment to make it better. and a lot of times we are. we we are we're giving this this horse and we're just like was a pulse of believe in this thing what is person and. we've seen it done over and over and over and at times you have to realize like the truth is the truth you know like we're all human beings are all we all have responsibilities but i think that no one human being can save the world i think that people get involved like doing something like getting obama elected i think in a spirit of. the sixty's when they spoke out about injustices that was going or you had the elders had to come down and now say ok we hear that now we're going to be the faces for this thing so now we can catapult it across the nation i think that for centuries. people have known that the president

has been the face of. corporation called america the united states and i think when we start dealing with the reality of that then we can start to find what our position is and how we played this great position you know it's been said that the people out of government you know and i don't think people realize that so. do you mean to tell me you don't think that. u.s. president barack obama can change the system the system that you say is lead and structured by the corporations of the united states in my opinion i think he means well and i think that there are there are there are people who are going to run in this country way before brock graduate and probably thought about running for office or coming in senegal and you know and yet. but the it started with the reason the most so many americans rallied around him is because he promised to change that pattern he vowed to as a matter of fact in two thousand and eight i think in october two thousand and

eight you put a video up on you tube a letter to barack obama where he said we need a president that knows how to react. we stand with you. has he reacted to any of the injustices you've seen in some forms he has because he cannot stand and do nothing like was crazy about the people by the people we have love walk on to where we are you know. and we we we will support the people that are in office if they have the. interests of the people. sometimes it takes longer than other places because as you look at greece right now it's crazy in greece right now. and what we see is the media telling us how things are going so we're kind of like we're kind of call before the storm so to speak i think that obama is a good way to keep people that day i think that his his demeanor is so they call

him the cool president you know it's like these characteristics are almost like it reminds me of rap almost like you want to make this cool guy appeal to people but then the people who are there are some people that's looking at the issues and they're like they're not really happy with the performance of the president right now issues being unemployment like what we were speaking about before how unemployment among african-americans at least here in new york city is four times higher than that of white americans and there's a similar pattern like that in the majority of states throughout the country do you think that having a black president in office or did you think it would have changed or help change that problem or combat the problem just the problem in a way i think that's an excellent question and i think that's one of the one of the things that i think about most when i look at the people in the community i think that people have to realize that they are the government the people who elect the government officials and i think it's important that people are informed about this

is. to pass the buck to give something right. i'm saying yes jobs. get us better health care or open more schools for our children like we see the apollo that we have as a unified and this is our symbol of an occasion to just say that. we have to know where the power came from and the power initially came from the people who elect this individual i think that. the need for change is what set this whole thing in motion and it's going on all over the world it just seems like america or the americans. american citizens are just kind of sleeping right now i don't know i don't know if they understand what's really going on in the world or how it affects affects them or affects us because i'm an american citizen tell me about america's team and tell me about. what you want. your fans gender statter maybe new

people that don't know that much about your music that will now go watch that video in this into your earlier what message are you saying are hip hop has been given to us. like to give respect so cool her african baden's with nation i think that hip hop can be used for good for evil. i'm a kid who grew up in brownsville oh she held brownsville brooklyn not texas a lot of my peers they are not politically afford they don't even vote you know feel the necessity to be involved in that process because it doesn't really protect them often and i think that hip hop has given us a stage to open up this dialogue on this dialogue to inform people why their their position is important or their participation is important and know that the power

comes from the people you know black panthers a power to the people power to all people. we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know we've become just like people in third world countries. look to america and say you know you guys are really seem like you got it together you know yet. it's not really together it's just a facade of you know everybody is to make up is there but behind the make up is kind of like kind of like chaotic if it's not a democracy here in the united states what is it that's a good question it's a good question. when people can speak up when they can have a peaceful protests. about injustices that's in the community is for something as small as from police brutality to what's going on and with the oil spill. and be active when you have the people dissatisfied what was going on with the policies

then you have to wake up in the morning president obama has to we're going to morsi i what am i going to do about what's going on in. detroit all fifty fifty five schools it's called harm are going to deal with this like we're talking about the future that was some of the children who. the economy has poisoned economy forcing us pause on jobs for a second let's talk about the opportunity for for children even know when it is there is a hole in their country to create more jobs so it gets a little tricky when you start getting close to sort of red tape what is america's nightmare because that's what your album is called america's nightmare part two children of war right now it is america's nightmare i think america's nightmares a mirror. a reflection of the ugliness and i think that america the beautiful like the song goes i think that america is a beautiful place but i think that it's been covered with so much turmoil in oil so much turmoil and i think that. if we shake loose we can begin to

get into this. you know build a better quality of life with not such a separation of races and. ethnic backgrounds are we going to we're going to have to deal with. religion but how does that go beyond just rhetoric i mean that there needs to be action order to change what you call is a nightmare is the action ending wars is the action cutting the military budget is the action i don't know recognizing muslim holidays i mean you're talking about religion you're talking about race relations what kind of action action. action by the administration action ministration will not do anything for us. kids tell you what the action without my being a science what i would say is that our our ability to connect with each other is the power that the government can't control and they're working very strongly on

controlling it even when you look at what's going on with the internet and trying to find you know with the f.c.c. and different rulings and stuff. you know what's going on with china with google. it's a lot of. changes going on in the constitution's across the world and i think that when the people because we outnumber. we outnumber the senator the representatives outnumber these people like if we're really dissatisfied i think that we can say that in a manner that will change and i think that when we have when we put our children to school to college in one of them might want to be the next obama we've got to make sure he can do the work we want to push him to see if he can do the work is a lot of it's a lot of things that. obama has to face you know i'm not. totally disappointed in him i think that as a as a as a person you have to do your best job and then you working with the united states

government it can't be it can't be easy see your message to your fellow americans i gather is open your eyes open your eyes don't sleep don't don't fall for whatever they feed you you know most kings are lot of kings will poison because they were. it was they were loving of their subjects and a lot of times you know there's just wickedness and you have to know that there's wickedness and in the world you have to know that there are people who are just here to profit and to put their foot on the back of people who are poor who don't know any better and i think that most of our communities like when you look around in the communities if you just left them alone for like a week you would see how rich these communities were a lot of people had to go outside of the community to make their money and they always bring it back so it's not really like this crazy thing like crime is not really crazy in new york a city like this explosion of cultures meshing together one a worldwide global scale we're seeing it in america we're seeing what could

possibly happen in america on a global scale it can happen in just being. asian of speech or asian of information like yourself like i can communicate with people. across the world so what i say has to be important it has to be helpful has to be unless i'm just aged for destruction then i. with the rest of the spies and. blow up stuff. that no general still thank you very much for sitting down q there's been no pleasure thank you. from the future. job a sleazy. speech from the cinema movement. specialises in the streets or stereo displays

a life filled glass is no problem for the church of st lucia. the central issue. is why do citizens with. heights of birds of celtic with hundreds of. others like. them when the government since time. like left. right. up i'm going to be killing and. the u.s. senate is studying the folder in campaign in afghanistan even as another thirty billion dollars is approved for the war that's despite the leak of thousands of documents detailing among other things the cover up of civilian deaths in. the

czech republic has introduced a hotline for senior citizens in need of help and outdated health care system and poverty mean many of the country's elderly are at severe risk of both physical and mental abuse. and russia suffers from the worst heat wave in decades some areas of the country haven't seen rain since may the props being destroyed by fires for the blazers have also involved several villages in central russia and caused a heavy smog over the capital. thus we have light sports next with andrew farmer. hello there welcome to the sports thanks for joining me on this is what is coming out. and start rush reign from all medals on day two the european championships are for teenager. struggles to victory. while so many failed to crack ten minute

in the race to reach the champions league. and the marathon is twenty one month reign is in argentina comes to an end. russia have the chance of more gold at the european athletics championships today world and the limpy champion. is the strong favorite in the women's twenty kilometer race walk and she's hoping to repeat the success. of who won the men's event on the opening day the nineteen year old was youngest in the field and was at around or at the front from the beginning by the midway point had opened up and i'd say by the end he came home twenty eight seconds ahead of italian alex while portuguese joe took the bronze million off coming from the runts training school which has produced a line of play spoken champions and afterward said when i had my very happy. i. didn't show up for nine two point three nine liters that

was enough to complete the podium and deny batteries. of the medals then that's how you start to play goal of the fish the first round after the twenty point forty eight meters compacted. time because of it got the silver. and on track. no fire won the men's ten thousand make this he broke clear in the last three hundred meters to come up in the air of becoming the first british man to going to europe a time event crossing the line in twenty eight minutes twenty four point nine nine so. interesting patrick chris thompson kind soon after beating the taliban in a photo finish. london has marked the milestone of tea before the twenty twelve summer olympics with a series of activities across the city official mascot a one eyed when low was on a temporary track the venue will host track and field events as well as the opening

and closing ceremonies meanwhile full time limp exciting kris boyd became the first person to ride a bike at the brand new london velodrome which he helped design program be a player drawn on making showed off his skills in the basketball arena the first official still. in the city on tuesday and the mare of london boris johnson promised the british couple won't fail to deliver in ten years' time. but believe me it is going to be it's going to be it's going to be is going to be i think the greatest games ever but it's very very good we have lots of people who could. help provide the. senate simply to spearhead a frustrating time in romania last night they were unable to break down ten man universe in the third qualifying round of the champions league last night it finished over some caressed but the spine. to being sent off to the home side after

just thirty six minutes might seem can only call missing a golden chance to cause any to head at the death of vital return leg injury and some pages next week elsewhere belgian champions and electric welsh league side the new same three one who also wins for the sparta prague cypriot side. drew one one with red bull salzburg in the early game and it finished all square between the. return legs of these games on change day and wednesday of next week. staying with football are marathoners drains argentina just come to an end the country's footballing side. voting unanimously not to renew his contract he'd been in charge of twenty one months and the forty nine year old had led argentina to the quarter finals of the world cup where they were beaten by germany after that marathoners said he would stay on as coach could only he was allowed to visit entire backroom staff but that was a sticking point for his bosses who wanted to change the system you see the team manager says you will be the interim coach for the friendly against ireland from

dublin next month possible long term success is include a studio on tis a one hundred to bear and a bracing. meanwhile the fever delegation here has moved on to brisbane one day on day two with their three day evaluation of australia's world cup bid the fishers tour the suncorp stadium which could be one of the venues to host the tournament in two thousand and twenty two while other arenas in the state of queensland were showing off at an exhibition of his officials also met young local players the fee for team six more countries to inspect including russia before announcing their verdict on december the twenty second in the strain say they'll be on tenterhooks until lead. similar to see if we're successful to get the twenty twenty to thirty four world cup the biggest show entails the biggest show in the world for that matter and what better place to host the world cup with here and. meanwhile russian premier league strugglers chris of yet of have brought

back coach alexander tucker off to help them fight off relegation talking of returns after seven years to take up an ailing korea he registered a nearly all draw against spartak in the last match however all of the other weekend games did produce goals here they are these goals school. live live live live

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. not a formula one and felipe massa is looking forward to this weekend's one carrying grand prix hoping he won't get caught up in a situation like he did last year when he was involved in a life threatening freak accident if you remember a loose spring from the fellow brazilian rubens barrichello hit massa on the head of full speed he sustained a skull fracture and eye injury which not only threaten to jeopardize his f one career but the most fatal however he underwent successful surgery and returned this season after a surprisingly speedy recovery massa was on the brink of winning last weekend's race and yet here paid to be given instructions from the ferrari stable to let him make fernando along the way to take him however the brazilian seems unfazed by that controversy and is raring to go in hungary. definitely looking for tool to

achieve good result you know to to present myself to the people. who was in the hospital you know when i arrived in a difficult condition you know just too sure how i am now you know and. so thinking about nice feely but also a good result which is the most important thing and in the meantime the fourth world street basketball cup gets underway in moscow on thursday and the event will see eighteen teams competing over three days all trying to dethrone the reigning champions ukraine after winning the first two teams russia will be looking to win back their crown from many in neighbors the teams are made up of the fashion world rather a mix of university students and it is a sport has really taken off there in russia especially in moscow over the last few years with an estimated ten thousand people playing the game in the russian capital and as the president of the country stick street passable satiation says this is

down to the sport's dynasty. of course st basketball has a lot of similarities to classical basketball but the tactics are completely different here. the emphasis on individual playing with play is often going up against each other one on one one of course it's a little quick come through the game last in just eight minutes of a team that gets twenty one points first wins. i think you'll find a court in the shade because it's boiling in moscow the weather is coming up next they are not. quite sure is that so much different and there's a huge musician on your democracy feel bombing is probably mended fences with israel african children really isn't enough to restart what is called the peace process. wealthy british style.

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u.s. senate looks at a faltering campaign in afghanistan billions more in funding despite the leak of thousands of documents detailing cover ups and a military losing its way. out the health care system and economic poverty leave the czech republic's elderly at risk of abuse despite the

intervention of politicians and activists. and russia's heat wave reaches some of the country's oldest want people in siberia heading for the beaches to stay home in the scorching sun. now i am in moscow you're watching r t r marina joshua welcome now the u.s. is preparing to pump another thirty three billion dollars into the afghanistan war and that's despite the massive leak of classified documents giving a bleak picture of what's actually happening there and critics suggest it's not more money that's needed but a massive turnaround strategy artie's christian friends out as more. of a glimpse into the way it really is on the battlefield now made more clear by the release of more than.