not that long ago. most of us were embracing their new popular president. problem which was great but you still big gamble. for some hip hop artist who has worn away behind the scenes just be a. great general theo of rap duo smith and wesson is among the few cutting against the grain to confronting issues like social injustice warring government corruption beats and they were one of my focus the brooklyn born robin sat down with our team to discuss his new album america's nightmare partit watching children of war i would say first that i've thought of her bra. 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 right horse and we're just like was a pause a 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 to the youth in 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 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 come in and set it all in here and yet. but the exciting chapter but 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 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 that day i think that his his demeanor is so they call him the cool president you know it's like this card the wrist exam 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 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. to say 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 we'll just say that. we have to know where the power came from initially came from the people who elected 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 standard maybe new people that that don't know that much about your music that will now go watch that

video in this into your earlier what message you think their hip hop has been given to us. like to give respect so cool her african bottoms of nation i think that hip hop could be used for good for evil. i'm a kid who grew up in brownsville oh she'll brownsville brooklyn not texas a lot of my peers they are not politically afford they don't lott i'm going even vote you know i don't 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 or this dialogue to inform the people why they're there the position is important or not 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. yet it's not really together it's just a facade of you know everybody is the 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 this small is 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 poison economy forcing us a 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 so 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 what 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 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 that 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 action by the administration action ministration will not do anything for us. kids tell you what the action because i might be a science something 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. and i was going to what china would google. is a lot of. changes going on in the constitutions across the world and i think that when the people because we outnumber. we outnumber the senator the representatives outnumber these people that if we 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 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 can't because 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 will 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 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 it's really like this explosion of cultures meshing together one a worldwide global scale we're seeing it in america we're seeing what they possibly

happen in america on a global scale it can happen in just being. you know speech always enough information like you so 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 an aide for destruction and then i'll probably need to be with the rest of the spies and in that blow up stuff. that no general still thank you very much for sitting down and q. is been a pleasure and on thank you. soo

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care system in poverty many many of the countries elderly. vulnerable both physically and mentally. and russian scorched by the hottest summer in dan caves where the heat wave and even the normally called climate of same period crops are being destroyed by fires and forest blazes for several villages in central russia to be evacuated again causing heavy smog over moscow. well it's time now for a sports update and a farmer joins us now in the studio and i guess you've got all the latest on sports there is the usual and of course russia's athletes are off to a perfect start in barcelona this morning winning gold silver and bronze in the women's twenty kilometer walk at the european championships a great. achievement by them i have all the details just after this.

hello there thanks for joining me thanks for watching the sport this is what is coming up over the next few minutes. strides ahead russia's walking wonders grab a clean sweep of medals in barcelona. while a setback in romania as they failed to crack you know ray in the champions league qualifiers. marathoners twenty one month reign is argentina coach coming to an end. with celebrating a clean sweep of medals at the european athletics championships all the leading a russian one two three in the women's twenty kilometer race walk limping champion striding to a convincing victory in barcelona her time of twenty seven minutes and forty four seconds was more than a minute faster than competitors and he couldn't get through to silver. came home to complete an impressive one two three for the russians and their success follows

that astonished. who won the men's event on the day although from the same training camp he stood and spins. central russia the nineteen year old was the youngest in the field and afterward said the win had made him very happy you mean you know the thing is these olympic champion. by twenty eight seconds. is also bronze rush from monday now. getting it will be short nineteen point three nine meters preventing a clean sweep of medals by better race that italia still plays goes in the blistering round after twenty point four eight meters her teammate and defending champion italia because of it got the silver. hand on the trunk with my fair i won the men's ten thousand eighties he broke play in the last three hundred for a comfortable finish her becoming the first british man to when the european time not event crossing the line in twenty eight minutes twenty four point nine nine seconds this compound treat chris thompson got the silver after beating italian daniele meucci and the finnish. well russia's race warchest will definitely be

among the favorites come the london olympics studies in two years' time in the city has the kind down with a series of activities across london the official mascot a one eyed monster called when love was on hand that dylan picked stadium to help unveil a temporary track the venue will host a track and field events as well as the opening and closing ceremonies meanwhile four time olympic cycling champion so chris hoy became the first person to ride a bike at the brand new london valid drawing which he helped to design and former n.b.a. player john amaechi showed off his slam dunk schools in the past with the arena the first official merchandise still was also by opened in the city on tuesday and the mare of london boris johnson promised the british capital one fail to deliver continuous time. but believe me it is going to be it's going to look a small talk it is going to be is going to be i think the reason the big games ever but it's very very important that we have lots of people who could. help provide

the local. football manzanita had a frustrating time in romania last night unable to break down ten minute in the third qualifying round of the champions league. describing it as a good result for st petersburg side as any how to manage vantage after the last round was sent off for the home side after just thirty six minutes we still couldn't find a way through after with a letter saying his side had faced that it for well all the vital return leg will be in some papers back next week elsewhere belgium champions. league side three one also wins the konami kiev and sparta prague cypriot side nicosia three one zero with red bull salzburg and finish all square between. takes over ten legs of these games will be on changes day on wednesday of next week. or third ryan qualifying tonight among them as they take on pikes only in the dam watching euro remain

p.i.x. manager despite speculation he was on his way to full on i want to get a good win at home this evening to effectively settle the tie in the first leg. game is important for us. as you. can better play away from. situation. it's better for us to go. through. very. special. drive to get a very good result. to finish it off in the. us for so long i care it's not till task having only won one of their last seven champions league matches they've also got a new manager pablo's to make that case when he was brought in after mario better left the post after just twenty three days and the current boss isn't fazed by the task he faces a save me. sick you know simple go move i'm new to this team i feel very good move

. seem to make a start to some point like every other coach so why not with an important game like this to me i'm not worried about anything it's good players to my availability and believe in a good result to good style anybody. else worth and in their champions league can't a third ranked qualification match for them away it's swiss league winners up burned young boys by the turkish side lost both games of the season but have come back with a couple of wins including one a big gala tasa right and their coach knows what his team has to do. we know that we have a big responsibility in this matter and you played like that so much it's a knockout system with two matches to be played so it's wrong it's a political stance and wednesday it's going to. take our inaction to the s.p.l. runners up had a lot training session in portugal ahead of their clash with sporting braga by the

portuguese side have a huge list of injuries with half the first team sidelined a good opportunity that the celtic coach neil lennon he's preparing for his first year at the match as a manager. eventually. chad stand the game keeper constitution you know but ultimately you know we would like to create chances will think it's important to see if we can make in a way cool that. will be very very important for us. you know early on will be. you know respect and brotherhood not sure too much respect and we've got to go and play as well you know we've got to have a belief in ourselves and i think there's a good focus about the school at the moment there's a confidence about them as well now let's go to latin america where it's the semifinal stage of the copula bit of dora's mexican side is drawing one one with universidad truly in that first leg defender rafael a lot and given the way side the lead at the ass texas stadium but the home fans were in silence for a long. lasting an equaliser moments later ten legs in santiago said

well it's not like there's an intense international inside paolo played there for the sake of this. another bit of footballing news maraton is right as argentina coach is coming to an end the country's football association voting unanimously not to renew his contract he's been in charge for twenty one months on the forty nine year old had led argentina to the quarterfinals in the world cup where they were beaten by germany after that donna said. as coach but only if he was allowed to keep his entire backroom staff that was a sticking point for his bosses who want to trash the system. the manager seizure of the key staff will be interim coach for the friendly against ireland in dublin next month possible long term successes into the studio a one hundred percent there are so of racing in. the lobby for delegation has been interested in during the three day evaluation of the strategic world cup bait fish will store the suncor stadium which could be one of the venues to host the

tournament in twenty twenty two other arenas in the state of queensland we're showing off an exhibition visiting officials also met young local players the six small countries to inspect including russia before announcing their verdict on december the second and the strains say they'll be on tenterhooks until lead. we'll. see if we're successful to get the twenty twenty to thirty 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 but here in queens the. one man felipe massa says he is looking forward to this weekend's and gary graham pray despite returning to the track which almost killed him last time around a loose spring from the car a fairly brazilian rubens barrichello hit master on the head at full speed he sustained a skull fracture and i injury which was almost fatal however after successful surgery he has made a speedy recovery and was even on the brink of winning last weekend's race in

germany here the benefit to be told by ferrari to let team mate fernando alonso overtake him however the brazilian seems unfazed by the controversy and is raring to go and. definitely looking for two 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 to show how i am now you know and. so thinking about nice feeling 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 in the event will see eighteen teams competing over three days all trying to dethrone the reigning champions ukraine after winning the first two torments russia will be looking to bring back their crown from any neighbors. but the teams are made are made up of

professionals rather they are made up of university students and amateurs but the sport really has taken off in russia and especially in moscow over the last with an estimated ten thousand people in the game in the russian capital and that's the president of the country street basketball association says this is down to the schools. of course street basketball has a lot of similarities to classical basketball but the tactics are completely different here be emphasis on individual playing the players often going up a new one on one but of course it's a lot quicker than the game last just eight minutes to get twenty one points first . the end of the sport for the moment we've got more few bit later on. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get

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