most u.s. robbers were embracing their new popular president with problem which was great but you still pick your book. for some hip hop artist who has worn away. general c.e.o. of rap smith and wesson is among the few cutting against the grain confronting issues like social injustice and government corruption. and they were one of. the brooklyn born rob 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 folks like myself. we're 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 supposed to 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 and we're all we all have responsibilities but i think that no one human being can say the world i think 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 a corporation called america the united states and i think when we start dealing with the reality of that we can start to find what our position is and how we play . there's

a 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. us president barack obama can change the system the system that you say is led. 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 come in and said you know anything you can get. but the big star to interrupt you but the reason that 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 for our country wherever we are you know. and we will 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 in 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 calm before the storm so to speak i think that obama is a good way to keep people at bay i think that his his demeanor is so they call him the president you know it's like this card the wrist exam almost like it reminds me of red 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 things. that pass the buck to give something right. i'm saying yes jobs. give us better health care open more schools for our children like what we see that

we have as a unified and this is our symbol of if occasion will just say. we have to know where the power came from initially came from the people who were elected as individuals 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 i don't know if they understand what's really going on in the world and how it effects 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 standard maybe new people that that don't know that much about your music that will now go watch that video and listen to your earlier what message are you saying their hip hop has been given to us. like to give respect so who hurt an african baden's who nation

i think that hip hop can be used for good or for evil. i'm a kid who grew up in brownsville oh she'll brownsville in 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 the people why they're there their position is important or their participation is important and know that the power comes from the people you know black panther said 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 really seem like you've 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 a 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 and some of the children who. economy does pose

an economy forcing us pause and jobs for a second let's talk about the opportunity for for children even know when it is there's 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 has 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 this just this you know 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 there needs to be action order to change what you call is a nightmare is the action and in 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 was because i might be a science and what i would say is that 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 rules 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 we've got to make sure he can do the work we want to push him to see if you 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

a lot of kings will poison because they were. it was they were loving of their this subjects and a lot of times you know there's just wickedness and you have to know that there's wickedness 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 community is 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 want to 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. agent of speech always

enough 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 it has to be unless i'm just aid for destruction and then i probably need to be with the rest of the spies and you know by us on a blow up stuff. and that no general steele thank you very much for sitting tank you is been a pleasure and honor thank you. for sure is that so much different to each musician playing on your lives and the mark westfield bombing has publicly mended fences with israel african children released is enough to restart what is called the peace process. for. some.

u.s. senator studying the faltering campaign in afghanistan even as another thirty billion dollars extra funding is approved for the war that's despite the leak of thousands of documents detailing among other things the cover up of civilian deaths. the czech republic has introduced a hotline for senior citizens in need of help outdated health care system poverty

mannie of the country's elderly are at severe risk of both physical and mental abuse. russia suffers from the worst heat wave in some areas of the country haven't seen rain since may with crops being destroyed by fire forest blazes have also gone several villages in russia and causing. anger over the count . those are the top stories here in our sports news is next week and. i am sure you have perhaps more gold medals for russia's athletes today so here. european championships enough for gold and a bronze yesterday that could be another win on its way in a couple of time for the russians i've got worn that in the sport which is next.

so that's thanks for joining me and these are the sporting had done. so many a setback as they failed to crack in the champions league qualifier. plus marathoners twenty one one ryan is argentina coach comes to an end. all russia arranged to boost his medals tally in barcelona after the teenager strolls to victory. first those anita had a frustrating time in romania last night unable to break down. in the third qualifying round of the champions league although. describing it. as a good result for st petersburg i believe had a man advantage after. two was sent off to the home side after just thirty six minutes and still couldn't find a way through afterwards but that he's saying his side had faced a team that fought well at the first by the return leg will be in st petersburg next week elsewhere belgian champions and the leg the welsh league side in the same three one but also wins for the nominee of prague cypriot side nicosia drew one one

with red bull salzburg and it finished all swear between gina and the text or turn legs of these gangs will be on that tuesday and wednesday of next week for the small third round qualifying tonight i accept them as they take great care in amsterdam after new york remains the i.x. manager despite speculation he was on his way to for them and wants to get a good win at home this evening to effectively settle the tie in the first leg. again with the board for sure. she. joins you only which you can better play away first but also in this situation. it is better for us to go home. to. very good to. especially at home hopefully we can. try to get a very good result. to finish it off in the. well as for salonica it's an uphill

task having only won one of their last seven champions league matches they've also got a new manager from exactly is just brought in after mario better left the post after just twenty three days and the current boss isn't fazed by the task see. significant go to this team i feel very good and if i have the same i have to make a start to some other coach so why not with an important game like this are to me i'm not worried about anything else as a place to my availability and believe in a good reason. it's a good style more than you but here look elsewhere thought about open their champions league encounter third ranked qualification much for then swiss league runners up burn young boys the turkish side lost both their only games of the season but have come back with a couple of wins including one over got a task and their coach knows what his team have to do the moment we know that we

have a big responsibility in this match and played like that which it's a knockout system with two matches to be played so we have to try and get to put some results on wednesday. and celtic are in action to the s.p.l. runners up had a light training session in portugal ahead of their clash with sporting braga the portuguese side have a huge list of injuries but after the first thing sidelined a good opportunity for celtic coach neil lennon is preparing for his first european much as a manager. initially. chad stand a game keeper constitution you know we're all timidly you know we would like to create chances as well think it's important to see if we can make an away goal in that. will be very very important for the sport you know early on will be. you know respect and brother have not shown too much respect and we've got to go and play as well you know we got to have a belief in ourselves and i think there's a good focus about the squad of the minute there's a confidence about them as well. well staying with football

a marathon is ryan is argentina coach has come to an end the country's football association voting unanimously not to renew his contract he's been in charge for twenty one months in the forty nine year old had led argentina to the quarterfinals of the world cup where they would be confirmed by germany after that marathon they said he would stay on as coach but only if he was allowed to keep his entire backroom staff that was a sticking point for his bosses who wanted to change his assistants thing manager says you have to teach there will be the interim coach for the friendly against ireland in dublin next month on possible long term success include a studio on ten studio until coachella hundreds of bear and miguel russo of racing . to mark the delegation has moved on to brisbane on day two with their three day evaluation of a world cup bid the officials told the sun core 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 shown off for the next of bishan the visiting

officials also met young local plays fifa team has six more countries to inspect including russia before announcing it on december the second and they strongly and say they'll be on tenterhooks until lead. was exhorting charming cowards of the same of the sea for a successful get the twenty twenty two feet for world cup the biggest show in town the biggest show in the world for that matter and what better place to host the world cup than here in queensland russia has the chance of more gold at the european athletics championships today double world and limpy champion. is the strong favorite in the women's twenty kilometer race walk and she's hoping to repeat the success of stanislav you mean gandalf he won the men's event on the opening day the nineteen year old was the youngest in the failed or ran the front from the beginning and by the midway point he had opened up an eight second lead and by the end he came home twenty eight seconds ahead of italian alex ways a portuguese vieira took the bronze you know you know it does come from the hills

around training school which has produced a line of race walking champions announced it would said the win had made him very happy branch elections to him meanwhile like you say i give to bronze an illusion that her throat nineteen point three nine metres was enough to complete the podium and deny better race the clean sweep of medals than italia to claim gold with the push for the first round after twenty point four eight needs is a compulsory in defending champion italia the cleavage got the silver. only ranking lifeguard won the men's ten thousand meters he broke play in the last three thousand meters but from the finish there are becoming the first british man to win using title crossing the line twenty eight you need twenty four point nine nine seconds he's cranky and sometimes still back to b.c. and you know you cheat in a photo finish. now there are two years to go before the start of the london

olympics and the city is mark the countdown with a series of activities across london the official mascot a one eyed monster one log was on hand at the limping stadium to help him violent temper reached. back at the venue will host track and field events as well as getting and closing ceremonies meanwhile four time olympic cycling champion sir chris hoy became the first person to ride a bike at the brand new london bella dr who she helped design and former n.b.a. player john make change showed off his slam dunk skills in the basketball arena for the first official version jastrow was also opened in the city on tuesday a mare of london boris johnson promised the british capital won't fail to deliver on saying it's time. monday believe me it is going to be not right it's going to look this is going to be is going to be i think the greatest living games ever but it's very very important that we have lots of people who could. help provide a welcome. for me one man felipe massa is looking forward to this weekend's

hungering grand prix hoping he won't get caught up in the sort of situation he did last year when he was involved in a life threatening freak accident a loose spring from the car a fellow brazilian rubens barrichello if you remember hit massa on the head of full speed he sustained a skull fracture nine jury which not only threatened to jeopardize his f one career but was almost fatal however he didn't go successful surgery and return this season after a surprisingly speedy recovery massa was on the brink of winning last weekend's race in germany he appeared to be given coded instructions from ferrari to let teammate fernando alonso overtake him however the brazilian seems unfazed by the controversy and is raring to go in hungary. definitely looking for tool to achieve a 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 feeling but also a good result which is the most important thing good luck to you now in the meantime the fourth world treat basketball cup gets underway in moscow on stay in the event will see eighteen teams competing over three days all trying to dethrone the reigning champions ukraine after winning the first to russia will be looking to win back their crown for many neighbors the teams are made up of professionals rather a mix of university students now matters but the sport really has taken off 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 street basketball association says this is down to the sport's dynamism. of course three basketball has a lot of similarities to classical basketball but the tactics are completely different here be emphasis on individual player with players often going up against each other one on one but of course it's

a lot quicker than the game lasts just eight minutes over team to get to twenty one points first we. see it from a film that is all the sport if you're interested in these stories have a look at our web site r.t. dot com well. it. could come to the future. it's just really. a scheme from a cinema and landed in your living room shot on specimens is streamed straight to your stereo display a life no glasses no problem general rule of three d. constantly updating your own on. the country.

senate looks at the faltering campaign in afghanistan with billions more of funding approved by the league of thousands of documents detailing cover ups and the military using its way. an outdated healthcare system in a comic 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 climates with people in siberia heading for the beaches to stay cool in the scorching sun. watching r t it's eleven am here in moscow i'm marina josh and welcome to the program now the u.s. is preparing to pump another thirty three billion dollars into 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 artist christiansen's out has more. of a glimpse into the way it really is on the battlefield now made more clear by the release of more than ninety documents thousand secret.