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dot com. more news today violence is once again flared up the phone these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day. thanks now here in moscow very welcome back to poland riyadh the official investigations are for the pilot arrows of mostly to blame for the plane crash which killed the country's president the global legs the findings all sound. and

mulch of poland's political elite in the lens design for. russia's foreign minister is that he reflected on the kremlin's international policy of zero in the highlights of twenty ten out of a press conference in moscow a. united states prepares to kick the hundreds of haitian immigrants back home to a country still struggling to keep its people alive to being strong by a massive earthquake washington suspended deportation after the quake but since results it's. sex in spanish these papers designed to protect women is leaving prostitutes seeing red they say it's not stopping people trafficking but is instead depriving them of their own income. next to man he would one time was responsible for flooding california streets with most

of its haul of drugs he sells all see why he's changed direction. freeway ricky ross is a street legend he went from being a poor illiterate aspiring tennis star to one of the biggest drug dealers in los angeles history after being part of an international drug ring and making up to two million dollars a day he's starting over from scratch and trying to build another empire this time the legal way twenty years of prison have turned this former kingpin into a fully literate activist who is trying to make a difference by keeping kids from following in his footsteps today he sits down with our t.v. to talk about his rise and fall and to discuss his connection to the cia contra oversea ricky ross thank you for joining us today

a lot of poor neighborhoods here in los angeles have suffered from gangs and drug abuse and a lot of people blame you for that now how do you think that you can help and rebuild these communities when i think i'm the perfect one for this job that needs to be done because i mean if you haven't lived this life. it's like an experiment you know my life has been an experiment and had i not been through this experiment then i would know what happened you know most people don't know what happened in south central they don't know how you get started selling drugs they don't know how you get out of selling drugs they don't know how you can go from being an inmate of it twenty years ago to being as literate as i am now you know basically i do a lot of work you know like i said i'm fond of my paperwork today and my lawsuit what do you think about the rapper rick ross taking on your persona. he's never sold drugs he's never been involved in any type of crime you know he was

a college boy play football from what i understand and it was a prison guard you know and you know to be a prison guard your record has to be spotless you know so he's definitely crave the fried and. you know he's perpetrating a lot what role does the u.s. government play in bringing crack cocaine into l a's poor black neighborhoods the government needed this money to fight this war over nicaragua we're going to send a nice to russia hey gave the senate leases hundred million dollars to fight with congress they cut off all the money from the contras so now the sandinistas had an advantage. reagan and bush had made the contras did pay pete they felt that if russia took over nicaragua they would be too close to america they would be in our backyard. i believe that they felt it

was more valuable to sacrifice. particular secular sector of america and a race of people in america and order to save the whole country so of course they let these guys open up pipelines in their low blando on norman messes and the rest of the crew to work within the ground connection because i knew about ten to fifteen different ago rod ones that was all inside of this organization of their efforts that was seven drugs so by the am allowing these guys or basically turning a blind eye because i don't think the government necessarily gave them the drugs or not but in a sense they sanctioned it because they turn a blind eye they knew that these guys were selling drugs but they did absolutely nothing about it i also believe that had they not let these guys sell drugs.

is possible i would have never become a drug dealer but what does that say about our government when they're looking the other way while a deadly substance is coming into our communities for the sake of fighting a communist regime in central america. says that our government will sacrifice of people to accomplish to go and this is not the first time that they've done that we've known numerous times history would have sacrificed expressing a black man in that case it's tough to hear that the ends justify the means they felt it was more valuable for them to keep russia out of america you know and for america to keep its way of life do you think that the cia or any other sort of government agency is still helping to funnel drugs into america. well i mean if we look at afghanistan you know when taliban controlled. afghanistan

the flow of heroin was was almost zero point three and now it's you know one hundred percent more than it was at that time so. makes you wonder i mean you know what is really going on how can the taliban control drugs and now america can't you know control you know heroin is on a rising. and it's afghanistan heroin and they see a connection to the contras and the huge influx of drugs into los angeles wasn't exposed wasn't made public until journalists k. web started to report on it gary was on a mission you know. he didn't approve what i did but he said that if i was in prison all other players should be in prison right there with me and that i should be used. you know he felt that justice should be. leveled you know what i'm saying not to where. you got political poor you got

money or. that you can excuse justice that's how gary felt everything that gay webb said was eventually proven to be factual so why do you think that it was so controversial when he was actually coming out with it and why do you think that his attack so much by the mainstream media when they really tried to attack him on is it they tried to say he said it the government deliberately. put the drugs into black community you know they took his words and twisted i mean i never saw where he said did he think that you know the bush administration or the reagan administration anybody went into office and say hey you know we don't. put these drugs into the black community to destroy the community that's not what he said he said is that what i understood him to say is that they knew it was taking place and that their workers because the didn't become true was on the cia payroll only was their employee and they did nothing about it now in some speeches gay web

talked about how the da told them that what he was reporting on would put people's lives at risk now do you think that was just a scare tactic and are there parallels from what was happening then to what is happening right now today in the news we hear about we eat leaks exposing all these u.s. military secrets and we also hear on the news that these secrets are supposedly putting people's lives at risk i mean talk about the similarities i mean our government is really out of control you know. we're really out of control nobody. i mean like we fine line wrong doing in our cases and stuff there was nobody that we could run to and say you know this guy's doing such and such and such that you know even with the crooked cops it was nobody we could go to to. to express what was going on in these cops were beating us you know these cops busted my hero opened with

flashlights they were a dog bite me what i was hank up but there was nobody that we could go to and express what was going on you don't even know how to read when you got out of high school yet you were still able to run a multimillion dollar business i mean how is it that you're able to go to school and never how to read where the teachers really weren't interested in teaching me they were interested in getting a paycheck which is another one of america's we're thinking see america is not thinking about getting smart good thing about getting a check and when you think like that you know you want is the money and the hero with the product you know so what i've learned is that the product is the most important thing you know being in the game is more important than get no money out of the game tell me about your involvement in the hip hop game. my pet project is a social network website that i started right now it's called free win

a prize dot com. with the biggest social network on the west coast. we just broken side of one hundred thousand and ranking in the united states a team with three hundred thirty thousand in the world so it's growing i think we reach those numbers fast in facebook and my space did so making some progress. with that it's a platform where artists can come on put their music and be discovered by a different an artist come on you're looking for artists i've myself looking for it is the sign of my label back in the day rappers used to talk about real issues in the ghetto what happens is hip hop watered down they don't know what's going on in the streets they don't know about the struggle. because when rap first got out you know it talking about i mean you know the ones that i first started with was rapper's delight the guy talked about his son was time the dad he didn't want to go

to school said the teacher was a jerk she must think he was a food and not a kid small we've i think would be cheaper to get a job and to be a street sweeper. i don't want to go to this good mostly ignore the. i think you'd be cheap if i just got a job in the streets so he was talking about. what he was gone do you know what he thought about school what he thought about his teacher you know what he thought about all of the people around me. that's not happening now these guys just found somebody that was grammars you know which was a drug and that's almost impossible right now when you talk to young people what is it that you really want to dig to make sure that they don't follow in your footsteps you know i don't care if you know nothing else in school with learn how to become a critical thinker and learn how to. what is right and what is. former

drug kingpin hip hop entrepreneur and multimedia executive thank you so much for joining us today thank you for having me i mean it's wonderful you know and you know hopefully we get this message. to. the. wealthy british style it's not. time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kinds of reports.

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for the fall we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. posted to react to the official investigators are pulled the arrow walls most seats in flames of the plane crash which killed the country's president. say the findings all sounds like a chance. in this new landscape designs and last april. russia's

foreign minister to put off has been giving a news conference in moscow he reflected on the kremlin's international policy of twenty ten. the reset as a correlation with the west and working towards european security as among the highlights. united states prepares to cape cod hundreds of haitian immigrants back home to a country still struggling to keep its people a lot i want to being struck by i'm not a washington that suspended deportation after the quake but in since we started so it's. selling sex in spanish newspaper has been since designed to protect women is moving a prostitute seeing red they say is not stopping trafficking but is instead depriving them of their own meeting. with more news out top of the hour right now that is check on all the latest in the world of sports with angie.

hello there you're watching the sport and this is what is coming up by the next few . olympic chiefs threaten to put the brakes on russia's first ever formula one race . it's life already tough at the top russian usually loses to hewitt ahead of you should really you know. love me tender it's all smiles and hugs for the title fight of the year. now russia could be forced to spring its first ever formula one race in sochi to avoid any clash with the twenty fourteen winter olympics at the black sea resort the international olympic committee says it has the power to delay the race for a year if necessary f one chief bernie ecclestone signed a six year deal with russian officials in october to hold grand prix races starting in twenty forty but i.o.c.

executive director gilbert fairly says we don't want to have the facility built for the grand prix put in construction or preparation of the games at risk he says there is a clause in the f one contract which allows the i.o.c. to spoiling the race by a year. now from the racing track over to the ice rink and k h l hockey no big match ups on wednesday shojo with the only top ten clubs garson paid is winning four one dinar marie get a visit and he did first then school for an answer goals earlier but he speeded up north for two more coming back to read to you after being three nil down and got the fourth of bodies to wrap up when another lost the ts to moscow for two at home just to have the style the army man at eighteen in the table at the moment just eleven wins in forty two games. scored the most on the night holding off spot at moscow five one while there was a lot of action to enjoy over the last week in the shell time now it's a look back at some of the highlights.

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. it may fall into twenty three in the ten it will rankings but he's beating czech thomas burdick in a warm up for the next week's strain open to two sets to one victory at the kooyong classic in melbourne but compared with me cole youzhny has risen to tenth in the world lost to lleyton hewitt after hewitt took the first set the game was delayed

ging to rain and the momentum changed with usually coming back to win the second but the home crowd favorite regained his form in the decider winning the rally of the match to break said to me and so i. took the seven five four six six four to get a light but the majority in the stands i mean while all three came from a set down to be defending the translation and if it does go for six seven six. of the tournament i mean well one martin del potro his comeback has been cut short in the second round of the sydney international the two thousand and nine us open champion be. but couldn't handle ferrari myre del potro losing the first set then raising his game in the second but was unable to draw level maia closing out a valuable six three seven five win with a slip for. the to start the place in the next day.

also suffering the side where he became the first top save in seven years to crash at this event in sydney the american knocked down by ukraine's examine the. race day six six three. two out of his russia because less of a cheeky fourth seed samantha stosur in the previous round but couldn't overcome a million and her call. the final the chinese coming back to set down three six six six six we. could rely on every time u.s. open when i came close and she was in sync and looked exhausted but they were lanky christ is into the semifinals an easy six hundred sixty one. football and at the asia cup postcard beacon china to neil to keep alive their chances of making the quarter finals why is becky stang guaranteed their progress from a group after two one win over keyway knew they had to win or face it in their elimination from the tournament while their potent new three point then took the

companions inspect the stand to believe record goalscorer must seem shot ski but it deflected free kick just before half time his thirty third international go i q i got back into it just after the break how much i was brought down to. do with the pen and say and then a terrific goal for the winning is pakistan's depart of exchanging passes for a final. q i'd had a great chance to equalise but i meant i jabbed scented a back and sent you a packing they can progress any further and respect the stuff i remodel around but death is bottles and defending champions iraq to one correct scored first after just twelve minutes in slick passing cutting through the around the fence and one with the poor man but around then found the shooting bridge just before the bright color would be allies after some luckless the families. really thank you thank god they mahmood bali's long before you came into the box of

a day everyone and then moved up in the. one to rant and i took begging the manager to stop catching his breath. were. sure. now apart from the asia cup qatar found out last month it will host the twenty twenty two world cup and faces a plane that is now likely to be held in the european winter continues to attract criticism england's football chiefs the latest to voice their concern with their general secretary alex horne saying it would be a logistical nightmare adding the notion of playing in katha just leaves me in

a cold sweat at the moment in contrast faith or vice president michel platini agreeing to appear in the real world cup but says he wants to keep the twenty twenty tournament with its gulf neighbors adding it's ok to alter world cup plans after winning hosting rights to moto g.p. where it is a big year for to karting in november the company publicly unveiled their new bike the diet while riding a key hayden will partner one of his oldest rivals valentino rossi and the doctor maybe putting on a brave face ahead of his first season with the catty italian pain maestro struggle through all of last season of the shoulder injury problems not to be over yet. the bigger issue we know is my shoulder my may feel. i'm not one hundred percent of fortunately the surgery or the shoulder was there was a very big a sore need some more time for beck and i x i expect to be in a better shape this moment of the of the of the only but unfortunately is the lever

. so we have to walk very much for a for be ready in the first that there is we needed to improve the bike to modify a little bit the bike about they need also a primer forward for modify my riding style and adapt to this proceeding. in one find it makes a nice change to boxer. laughing and hugging is they talk of their next world champion band and wife and and among t.l. faces challenger anita dunn and next month the first world title fight of the year but despite what's at stake both refused to be bad boys instead it's all greens and embraces and glowing praise. now for this fight i've known for not for a long time not only that we're friends outside but you know throughout his career i've watched him and this is how good this man is you know throughout since i turned pro he's been a world champion and. this is a big test.