racially biased as a situation to tell the story. here in philadelphia lore african-american men have been put on death row than in any other us city hundreds of thousands of mia supporters in the united states and the across the world believe this case of mars the image of the latest status as a symbol of justice hundreds of people are cheering outside the courthouse protest here complicity of. an execution or a lifetime until the old man who's going to. turn from the other. to me a new jersey and there are some other luxuries there certainly will not give up the fight until money is a three way chris and i you came out here all the way from albany why did you decide to come out for this cause for me i feel i've been coming out to support the mayor for twenty years it's over time overdue that we release him from the he's an innocent man and what is the main message you're trying to send out today that.

trial the trial. with the third you didn't try the media has been avoiding the trial with the exception of a couple of satellite trucks here almost all of the mean stream television networks have been sticking with the official party line and supporting the position of the authorities there's only a couple of lonely photographers here. at a time when more death penalties take place in the west than anywhere else in the world jamal's hearings could get in execution time for more on his life case and struggle for freedom let's now turn back around the corner not an honorary citizen of over twenty cities around the world but a prisoner in the u.s. the voice of the voiceless for millions on death row for half of his life. this is mumia abu jamal fighting the established american system. from behind bars

this was a police frame up against a revolutionary journalist and activist very well known organizer in philadelphia spoken against police abuse the event that changed the life of me forever happened almost three decades ago back in one nine hundred eighty one when a police officer was shot and killed immediately self was wounded and had to spend the night at a hospital the next day he was charged with first degree murder and since then he has become one of the most well known political prisoners in the world i mean teens his innocence to this day to me as case is one of the most debated in modern legal history with big name politicians scholars and celebrities among his supporters. is a civil rights issue that's. several spectrums race class and definitely the political power structure of america kicked into the black panther movement after being beaten by police in his teens mia claims that his work

has been monitored by the f.b.i. since he was fourteen years old his analysis is a revolutionary analysis that this system is rotten to its core that it's race is class is six is evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist. domination of the world they want to people to hear their supporters believe convicting mumia was an attempt to silence him he's somebody who is extremely effective in reaching people this is a program intelligence. run by the united states government but money is imprisonment simply amplified his voice and reach across the world the holder of honorary memberships and awards his writings distributed across the planet when we have had a street named after him in france a move condemned by the u.s. congress the death row prisoners defense claim. mia did not receive

a fair trial from witnesses being police informants to the prosecution knowingly withholding evidence many issues of the case are being disputed. police divider mourning the deaths among the unanswered questions ballistics they claim that media shot down an officer walker at least three times in the same mess but there are no in the pavement the crime scene photos show that those remarks are are there new evidence and witness accounts that the defense says would prove me is innocence have consistently been dismissed the courts really haven't investigated many leads amid calls for a new investigation countless appeals to the u.s. president and justice department have gone unanswered. the media has also chosen to largely stay away from me as case it's

a deliberate. attempt here deliberate action on their part to keep the story suppressed because it's so vividly exposes the nature of the system the november ninth hearing in philadelphia decides whether me a good jamal is to be executed or get life in prison without parole according to his former attorney who is in the greatest danger since his arrest and it's the party new york. american foreign policy saw some big changes during the george w. bush era especially following the nine eleven attacks have been going out of the public eye since leaving office almost two years ago the forty third american president has published his memoirs on his years in the white house the decision points reveals his thoughts on the most historic and controversial moments of his presidency president bush claims that iraq's like a weapons of mass destruction came as a shock to him but that he still believes the u.s. wasn't right to debate the book also discusses what president bush believes to be

his lowest moment when rapper kanye west accused him of not caring about black people but former congressman tom andrews says there were much darker about mithun the bush presidency including the authorization of torture. first of all it is illegal you can get an attorney to say anything you want but the fact of the matter is it is illegal secondly it violates international law it violates the geneva convention and thirdly it puts american soldiers at risk so that when they find themselves god forbid in an enemy's hands then you are faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to to to those who were the united states brought into custody it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake is not surprising but but again unfortunate you know it's rather extraordinary for president bush was on national television last night here in the united states and

he said that his lowest moment the lowest of the low as he described it was when a rap artist kenya west accused him of not caring about black people during the katrina debacle of the failure of the federal government to respond to the horror came disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq a violation of international law an invasion that killed five. thousands of american soldiers over one hundred thousand iraqis all to go after weapons of mass destruction that did not exist at the make it worse you had american soldiers seven hundred of whom lost their lives in iraq because in this war of choice ministration did not think it important enough to provide them with the protective armor but if they had it they would be alive today this is also us and ahead for you in the program could be home and dyslexic today

a big get now with many living with dreadful sickness and deep form a tease after american agent all returned for that poisoning for which not a cent of compensation has been paid by the u.s. government or company. while politicians are desperately trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living like refugees in their land a separation barrier almost seven hundred thousand seven hundred kilometers long has been divided the west bank for eight years although israel insists it's not for security it sees for security measures only also has put a severe look behind the peace of assad. honey a mare lives on a hot piece of real estate but it's not because of his view seven years ago the israeli army both had sworn in front of his house and behind it and to the sides of it so that now he's completely closed in this gate his only contact with the outside world and he's the only one with the key bridge over all the soldiers try

different ways to get me to move they tried to force and also by offering me money indirectly they offered me an open check and told me how my life would change for i took the money and left the country construction on the wall began eight years ago along the nine hundred forty nine armistice line between israel and the palestinian west bank israel insists it's for security but palestinians complain it's a part of hate and the international court of justice has said it breaches international law since the wall was built so i want to clear as well as keeping people out it's also been bringing others in business man abu his son runs what he calls alternative to is and brings tourists to see israeli settlements checkpoints and border fences but he's highlight the wall of the mill mine mainly the work he was shot i have a lot of people been occurring in the polls you know on the i have like some jewish

people come with an office of jewish americans but jewish israelis aren't allowed to sign up to go into the palestinian territories it's shutting this well we i mean i as a fan of pink floyd that i thought that this world belongs to belong to the past so this is these people here cannot get inside jerusalem no way some of them there but they have to go through checkpoints. you know what's the what's like. israel insists the walls kept suicide bombers out army spokeswoman avatar leibovich says most of its nearly five hundred kilometers is infected feigns with less than four percent. concrete in the entrance to bethlehem you will see a concrete wall because in two thousand and four fifty percent of the suicide bombers that entered israel came from bethlehem so only in those places that has extra security sensitivity that's where the concrete wall was built elsewhere as

you can see here we're talking about a regular fence with electronics but there's nothing regular about caging people in say this israeli couple who are taking the wall on to a goal to gussy is leaving for america which she's arranged to give talks and raise money to help palestinians you know surrounded by a wall and that she can't leave without having certain candidates. live in poverty but the wall means money for some travel agencies winning business from showcasing or perhaps revealing in israeli security measures. if you're planning a trip to the holy land gone are the days of visiting traditional religious sites now if you go online you'll find two is like the ultimate counterterrorism mission a tour with the army territories and a true if it involves a palestinian raid but it's no holiday for honey because while tourists can come and go he's stuck here him didn't buy an israeli wall pulis here r t israel.

president dmitry medvedev has voiced concern over north korea's nuclear program ahead of the g twenty summit in seoul where he's expected to discuss the issue with barack obama and china's hu jintao the russian leader said. our challenge to the entire nonproliferation regime and pose a greater threat than iran north korea has carried out several nuclear tests since two thousand and six with some just around one hundred kilometers from the russian border the event of how i was trying the problem must be resolved through diplomatic means alone and pyongyang was drew from the six party talks on design and last year raising international concern present that if the remarks come ahead of the imminent publication of a un report on the issue if the jest that north korea may have supplied syria iran and with nuclear technology. and you can read the whole interview with president medvedev and get in-depth analysis on other stories we're covering the website and

here's what i can find there right now. with at least seven million citizens living below the breadline in iraq some have resorted to smuggling hold in neighboring new zealand risking their lives across the border where bruisers trigger for a bit of. a treat going to your ass over a mystery missile launch to all california crowds public puzzlement as the american government says nothing about the roadblock at sea want to accept sale trade on. the plight of the ugly side of the beauty business customers buying cheap prices faced serious health risks from counterfeit cosmetics and fake fragments is flooding the russian market all the details at r.t. don't call. it. has been over thirty five years since the end of the vietnam war but it's a grim legacy remains today in the form of the suffering endured by innocent victims of american poisoning around eighty million lives liters of the toxic

herbicide agent orange sprayed by u.s. forces destroyed vegetation left many with dreadful illnesses and newborns with her renders genetic conditions and disabilities and human fight some images and capturing hours out of his report disturbing. vietnam may be one of only five socialist states in the world but its economic progress is notable business is booming hirees offices sprout up everywhere and the people have opportunities to improve their lives but the housing is a vietnamese struggle and not for financial reasons. that saying all is fair in love and war has been used to justify many military decisions but when during the vietnam war the united states began deploying a chemical weapon a claim agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those all suffer from that most will be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most at home or even more at a time. hootie whom is thirty four years old but you'd never guess by looking at or

born blind and with many severe physical difficulties her parents feed and bathe her to this day her life was taken away from her before she was even born. my daughter was born blind and we didn't know why until would soakers of the hospital in one thousand eight hundred one and the doctors did some blot says that's when they said she was affected by agent orange it's very difficult to get care of her because she's completely helpless completely dependent. for a decade american jets dispersed eighty million liters of the then brand new herbicide over the territory of vietnam operation ranch ranch did not win the war but did achieve its goal of destroying millions of hectors of agricultural fields and expose nearly five million people to its deadly poison. half a million children in vietnam were born with severe physical and mental disability

all because of agent orange. no u.s. government nor the chemical companies that made the herbicide have paid a single cent in compensation to those whose lives were destroyed by their work their only relief has come from the vietnamese government and various international organizations like the red cross who have set up so-called peace villages their affected children get their chance to live a life with as much normality as their conditions allow one who can treat and then detain them at the same time we only get fifty cents per child from the government but we need more of course to help the children. they study in a school on site play with friends living in the village and get medical and physical treatment from the doctors but not many of them will ever grow to be fully independent and self-sufficient adults and that is the harshest of all their burdens. even if the united states some compensation for what they did no money can give my daughter her life back nothing can pay for this pain.

guess who knows r t vietnam. doctors hope a russian journalist who was savage that talks to moscow just days ago will be able to speak again soon after undergoing a third operational. was rushed to hospital after two men nearly beat him to death on his way home in the early hours of saturday morning russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft law to allow stiff a punishment for attacking journalists investigate a suspect cautions what they call their sun newspaper and his internet blog as possible much motivations for the vicious assault the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials present dmitri medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice cautions assault follows series of attacks on reporters in russia in recent years. let's now take a look at some other international news u.k. prime minister david cameron is on his first official visit to china taking with

him the largest ever british delegation on an official visit to the country the chinese premier said talks were fruitful but added that britain could do more to help chinese companies investing there including making these an easier top ten cameron hopes to double trade between the countries with his today visit but he faces pressure from home to raise concerns over china's human rights record. iran has stage interest in a new dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with major powers pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week islamic republic faces four sets of you are sanctions with the latest round of talks stalled last year the international community it still has serious the suns i will whether iran is developing a nuclear weapon but tehran insists that its atomic program is only for peaceful purposes. and the first caller a case has been confirmed in haiti's capital port au prince threatening an epidemic

among up to three million people more than five hundred have already died from the disease as the country was more suspected cases to health workers are urgently trying to stop the break or the water borne infection following flooding caused by hurricane to mars the risk of the spreading is worsened by around one point five million people living in desperate conditions in the capital they were made homeless after january's earthquake which killed three hundred thousand. it could only tensions between the u.s. and china is expected to dominate the tree twenty summit in south korea later this week america is pushing china its biggest creditor to revalue the yuan that as the focus for today's interview as u.s. economist michael hudson speaks to our lord liston in just a moment. dr

michael hudson is a renowned economist he's a wall street analyst he's a professor and he's an economic advisor to countries he's also the author of super imperialism the economic strategy of the american empire recently he's been outspoken on the global currency tensions what some are calling a currency war and this will be a key issue for world leaders at the g. twenty summit which is coming up in south korea so we wanted to get his input i

want to thank you for joining us dr hudson now we recently saw last month g. twenty leaders come to some kind of an agreement on not competitively devaluing their currencies with details to come later at this g twenty summit but with no details and with no real way to enforce this do you think it will be possible for them to reach a deal and would it even matter there is no possibility of any agreement when the united states is declaring a financial war on other countries the united states is going to china and saying we want you to commit their comic suicide just like japan did we want you to follow the same thing we want you to revalue your currency we want you to squeeze your companies and we want you to go bankrupt so we can make a profit at your expense we want you the chinese to a low to gamble on. your currency make a huge gain on foreign exchange speculation sort of our banks can get out of the

problem that we've got them into will you please help us by going bankrupt for our benefit well you can imagine what the chinese are saying they're laughing they're thinking you know you guys jochen countries don't work like that so the american policy is not only to devalue the dollar but to flood the global economy with money and this means that other economies are facing an onslaught of american money coming in to buy their land their buildings real estate companies their currency. you have. this financial system and the banks acting as an army to raid foreign currencies you don't have a deal unless you have penalties for breaking an agreement if you don't have a penalty for breaking an agreement there is no agreement there is yet another broken promise that unfortunately the united states has been conducting the plumber say for the last fifty years deals for other people to follow the united states

that puts itself over and above the agreements the g twenty reached by giving more voting power to emerging nations you know clearly there's been a shift in the balance of power in the world that is starting to be reflected in global governing bodies giving a country a voice in the i.m.f. is like telling an ambassador you can go to times square and you can get a megaphone and you can yell to times square it doesn't make any difference at all i am a philosophy is a very pro-u.s. philosophy. states has veto power within the i.m.f. . is that in order to increase the economics or plus you have to reduce living standards and you have to impose austerity what about the g twenty then where does that fit in that doesn't have a body of theory that is based on economic cost. parity for the rest of the world and a free lunch for the united states u.s. president barack obama will meet with chinese leaders who jintao on the sidelines

of the summit and one of the main issues the u.s. has been pressing for is for china to revalue its currency saying that it's been undervalued its currency to boost exports can the u.s. even make this argument big fiction is that the united states balance of payments is caused by a trade deficit is caused by a capital outflow of money managers here putting their money abroad and the military deficit and china says look we've been financing your budget deficit with our two and a half trillion dollars of foreign exchange you're spending your budget deficit on military bases. to take aggressive action against us so put your spy planes for the bump into our spy planes to. interfere in our waters you want us to pay for your military budget. to make us do what you want us to do you must be crazy what leverage does the us even have it's the largest debtor nation in the

world china is the largest creditor nation in the world the us relies on china to finance its fourteen trillion dollar debt how does president obama have any leverage problem obama doesn't really have any leverage at all because he needs a favor from china and from other countries from brazil from. russia from india saying please accept our ious our paper dollars even though we have no way of paying for it and even though we can never pay off these steps please accept them and let us buy your real estate and your companies with dollars that will never repay other countries don't want dollars what is the point of accepting more dollars so then what is the future of the us dollar as the reserve currency it means that it's mixed other countries and basically all the countries at the g. twenty meeting that are coming up. korea realize that the dollars over the question is how do you bury it in a way that is polite you want to do what slowly you don't want to do it suddenly

but very politely they'll tell us your time is over and what does this mean for the future of the u.s. as a global power slowly shrink because how can it. support its military bases abroad if nobody will accept that stars how can it import from other countries that people won't accept dollars in excess of what the united states earns the united states won't be able to buy other or invest in other countries abroad because the countries will not let other american or other investors using dollars by their domestic currency to pay for exports or to pay salaries of these companies so essentially the dollar will be a paper currency that can't be used so the irony of this is that the federal reserve in order to save banks that got into trouble by running crooked dishonest

operations to save these banks they're sacrificing america's position in the world and when does this all come to a head in korea. meetings i want to thank you so much for talking to us about this has been a real pleasure thank you very much for having me on your show. wealthy british. life. really happening to the. economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to conjure reports on.

the official altie obligation to on the phone called touch from the shops to. launch all g.'s life on the go. video on demand all cheesemonger old girls and streets now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. again this is coming to life from moscow to headline. mumia abu jamal the month supporters call america's top political prisoner has been on death row for the addicted to get away to decision an execution only trial now after his conviction from madrid up and they suffer so was internationally condemned as

a racist and and it's clear by as. a kid being out of the public eye since leaving the white house george w. bush tried something to do with his memoirs with no regrets about invading iraq all personally also rising to watch him. and another barrett pains israel refuses to pull down its west bank separation wall insisting it's called security purposes but the palestinians say isn't so says apartheid like conditions. and covering most times in high finance it because its report next. i have nice guys or this is the kaiser report markets finance and scammed all i'm max kaiser this is stacy herbert get a good shot of states ever get. stay send him the rarest.