welcome back here with here's a look at the top stories of the week irrational an investigation concludes pilot error was mostly to blame for the plane crash that killed the polish president last year the war so calls internationally backed findings incompletely and has launched its own for. russia and the u.k. look to the north as all giants rosneft and b.p.c. will multibillion dollar deal to extract the untapped riches of the arctic to gather the two companies have swapped shares in what they're calling a groundbreaking historic venture. and russian lawmakers approved a key nuclear arms reduction deal with washington before the end of the month after counterbalancing changes made by the u.s.

senate to the new start treaty after coming into force it should slash the two country's nuclear arsenals bias third. musicians are rising up against one town in the bay and protesting against their music being used as torture next we talked to grammy award winning guitarist tom morello rage against the machine who aims to bring about social change through his talent. he's the face behind the guitar. hard hitting grammy award winning guitarist tom morello strength his beat to the sounds of social justice. from his early days as lead guitarist of rage against the machine. to the street sweeper social club tom morello incorporate social issues of the past

and present to mobilize his fans toward political change. our t. sits down with tom morello tom morello thanks so much for joining us and happy to be here something out the press question now you were a member of the class of s b ten seventy what's you to give your voice to integration debate while i was happy to join the immigration debates and the boycott of arizona through the sound strike which was founded by zach taylor roach of the singer of rage against the machine and it was a simple matter of him texting me asking what i thought i said i'm all in what can we do to help so rage against the machine reached out to many of our friends other artists to ask them to join in the boycott so it's a law which basically. makes mandatory racial profiling and as someone who's been you know i spent a lot of my life being the victim of racial profiling i was that i was i literally integrated the town of libertyville illinois i was the first person of color to reside within its borders and so growing up there i would regularly be pulled over

by the cops even recently a couple years ago i was walking home from a bar at night and i got pulled over and put a hand up the side of the road so i looked like i might be someone who was stealing cars in the area so i thought firsthand visceral experience with racial profiling so i know what what that law would mean to the daily lives of brown skinned people in arizona worried and acted. and so. what. we were asked by. organizers within arizona who are fighting against s b ten seventy two lend our names to the international boycott which goes beyond music its unions or boycott the city of los angeles is boycott to stay until the law is that awful racist laws thrown out once and for all what do you make of how bahman the banks have been handling our economy as expected you know while obama is a african-american president he's also would member of the democratic party i was for two years i was the scheduling secretary for us senator alan cranston who was

a very progressive about as progressive as any member of the you know us u.s. senate during his tenure but most of the time that i spent with him he was on the phone asking rich guys for money and there's a there's a certain. forfeiting of one's soul that has to occur in order to achieve higher office and the compromises that have to be made you know there are no dr king's or. malcolm x. those are gone these that are going to make or you know rage against machines are going to make it that far because of the compromise that has to occur so it's basically what i expected i mean it's you know maybe to a less egregious state to the you know during the bush administration the economy has been in the hands of hands of wall street but it's certainly in the hands of wall street tom what do you make of international organizations like the u.s. you can be absolutely live up to their decades of helping developing nations and ending world conflicts or do you think that they absolutely cater to the benefits of the more wealthy or developments well i mean if the question is has the you know

how successful is the u.n. been the u.n. security council is basically in the hands of the united states and its closest allies you know that. one hundred fifty countries you know around the planet can vote to that this has been a war crime the u.s. just says no it's not and that's the end of the discussion so it's not really so much a united nations as it is a. body of countries that is beholden to the interests of a few and so it behaves. much like you expect president obama has been the commander in chief now for two years and everyone hoped they would assurance a new wave of multilateral negotiations and policies toward the rest of the world and some would argue that that's actually been the opposite stance he came into power how would you rate obama's u.s. foreign policy i mean i think that obama's foreign policy is wanting but again it's not it's obama ran on a policy of expanding the war in afghanistan and that's one promise that he's followed through on in spades you know and you know continuing that illegal and

immoral war as well as still being gauged in iraq not closing down guantanamo bay. what the obama has done. which just by virtue of who he is like i've traveled in the middle east in the last in the map last year and previously you travel middle east people like you're from the usa you guys suck now it's like all anyone says is obama so at least the face of united states foreign relations has had a million rating effect on some parts of the some part of the world i think the underlying problems like that it's a democratic president it's not a socialist president the democrat you know it's like he does the things you expect democrats to do you know the u.s. government you know your music as a form of you know worst techniques that some people consider torture blasting your music for seventy two hours nonstop so you essentially convince detainees to give information how did you feel when you found out that the u.s. government had used your music to torture people when we learned that the united

states government was using rage against machines music to torture people in guantanamo bay we sued the state department to get to stop and we were unsuccessful in that suit and pursued over the course of a couple of years and i think it's a thing of the crime my only hope is that they hopefully at some point not too distant future when the war criminals of the bush administration are brought to trial are one day wearing their yellow jumpsuits and black hoods it will be the music of rage against the machine that is pumped into their cells twenty four hours a day. tom you used to be a member of a very well known group of rage against and i'm wondering how would you categorize what would you believe the machine to be today do you think people should be outraged people should people be outraged they certainly should be. but what i categorize as the machine of today i know the the i think the overarching message of all of my projects whether it's rage against the machine street sweeper social club or the night watchman is that it's every day people who have their hands on the wheel of history that you can't just wait and cast your ballot into the void

every four years and cross your fingers and hope for the best that some magical president is going to sprinkle fairy dust to make everything all right that's not how progressive radical or even revolutionary change has ever heard change happens because you and me and people watching this and listening to this act and stand up for their rights where they live in their time that's how we know in this country how we got the eight hour day how we got children out of coal mines how we got. how we got to weekends you know how we got the segregated lunch counters that didn't come from the pontification of some brilliant supreme court justice that became that came because the people forced it to happen how would you say capitalism has affected the worlds. it's omnipresence you have had the opportunity to to tour in many countries around the planet. even over the course of my tour in history which has been about eighteen years now. you know perth starts to look like lisbon starts to look like berlin start to look like mexico city they all the same dunkin

donuts the same benetton shops you know capitalism it's the job is to remake the world in its image and to create. and to create wants to create unnecessary wants so there's products to sell to newly dissatisfied consumers that's why you have to have the right pair of jeans to be attractive the right beer to be have your thirst quencher the right you know by a group ill to succeed in romance and you know these things are you know so in that regard apple is very successful. well i would say is also see as successful you have to. see that there's a there's there's a balance to that and you look at the progressive change that happened a lot of south american countries of the course of the last last decade while u.s. while u.s. aggression was pointed at the middle east but there really has been. a resurgence in people's democracies that are not that are not dictators but you know you're seeing sort of you know indigenous people in power you're seeing the economic domestic policy of south american countries geared towards helping the poor like saying out loud they're helping the poor some you can never say in the united

states in an election and so there is some some reason for hope what do you make of what's happening in line in the aca right now you're seeing a lot of those developing nations collaborate with each other to throw these very strong influence to us and you know hide in that region for decades i think of the movement in south america towards a. the people democracies and. democratization of those economies really was able to occur occur because the you know the eye of sauron was pointed at the middle east you know and the the it was the wars in iraq and afghanistan to divert the united states attention which i'm sure they would have been twenty four hours a day trying to put the hammer down on you know the spawn of venezuela and all that you know as it's as that virus spreads or south america but really both economic i think political capital so invest in the middle east that there was this window of opportunity for south america and the people of south america to make their own choices free of the normal dominating u.s.

influence where the name street sweeper social club come from street sweeper social club is the name of the group that i share with boots we have a new record out called the ghetto blaster e.p. and we're currently enjoying our time on the rock the bells to where the name derives from all the street sweeper is a is a firearm it's like it's like a machine gun to shoot shotgun shells and the idea is that our music is. a weapon for social change the reason why it's a show social. club is one because we're a very social unit and there's a very low bar for entry into the social club all you got to do is listen and join our jams are coming to show in your in all so we're trying to avoid litigation because someone else on the name street sweeper what role do you think musicians should play as far as social justice and political change that they should take on a more like role and work towards different. on the ground to work with movements to implement that's. what i would say first of all i would never what musicians need to do is is what is honest to themselves you know i would never suggest that

musicians to do not have a social conscious but adopt one because i suggest you know me but but on the other hand i think that not just musicians but people in any profession whether they're journalists or cameramen or you know groundskeepers but they don't divorce their lives from their politics and their beliefs and that's you know what i didn't choose to be a guitar player that shows me i'm stuck being a top player and it's my job to weave my convictions into my work into my vocation and so i try to do that through you know the music that i create my interaction with the audience and the nonprofit you know groups and organizations i support you know through my music so that's what i recommend just don't do musicians at whatever level whether you're playing stadiums or whether playing in basements to not be afraid to weave your convictions into what you write about and what you do with your art tom morello member of the street club an international activist it was great to have you thanks so much thanks very much for having me.

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sports and says game moscow are at last coming good in the new russian basketball arena you're so right at the twenty ten well they just wanted to forget all about it jumped out of europe domestically but that's all changed we'll show you why in just a second. thanks for joining us this is sports today i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. hardwood holds. joint top of the newly established p.p.l. reigniting hopes of a ninth straight russian title. three kings wins a record breaking seven in the car rally in the truck section. colma secure the car by crunch respectively. and brett who green bay sure they can do it with i'd far

rather playing to their divisional playoffs against top ranked up a lot. less and going on the hardwood where sask in moscow have at last lived up to their preseason billing in the new p.b.s. the army men top the table alongside unix following an overtime win against luck motif may have had twenty ten to largely forget but as the team reports things are beginning to look on the up in the new year. it was the peak of saturday's action in the b.b.l. was like a mighty from curse of the armies of the seventeen time russian champions boasts a sky and local how the same record entering the splash and on paper at least the home side should have not expected an easy life and there is the gist of the match just to find their expectations were desperate in defense getting five steals in the opening want to be with decent at taken says gus basket as well and finished

the first half leading by four points but to find a recipe against their man is just home of the deal you have to play this game throw the whole match and says i came in with a different team in the second half they started it was an eleven neil run but i'm english goes because slade his side was for free. enters and eventually became the top scorer of the night it was twenty six the visitors stayed in the game court to see of mike wilkinson going to two points for them eric in the match indeed was started when scuffle for minutes remaining in the fourth quarter just cost us failed to meet his short in a committee for the last possession was free seconds to go they didn't score as well and the game went into overtime where into a very close again and jeremy massillon of the game it beat each after these three point play. hold and then threw the army man to with this three pointer and local had the ball was to end it seconds to go in overtime but they turned it over to

pass it out of bounds mrs carr brought the game to ween hands concentrated all four minutes and. it's impossible. to stop after the first. big. shot and so. the game was tight all four of five minutes so it was a tough play hard we. played special in the second half and. unfortunately . eighty nine to eighty seven in charge in week three of what say is scott who seem to be starting to stamp their birdie in the domestic league but a mystery rock our team. all right let's move on to international football in the asian cup where iran has become the first side to qualify for the quarter finals in qatar they are rainy and seeing off north korea by

a single goal in their last group the encounter pay money or even on finishing off a lightning move just after the hour mark so one will the final score a run into the last eight. iraq avoided on wanted piece of history on the night a loss against the usa he would have sent to the offending chair. the first time a title holder of the part of the couple of the fish but a boss only goal right up the death left iraq to fight another day. it's becoming almost none the less an amazing achievement. not stop his seven car rally title on saturday a record tally the russian virtually unstoppable throughout argentina and chile winning eight of the thirteen stages on offer remarkably chargen also heading home a one two three for his country but come. on ed ward nicholai a second to third it's a. protein. so gratian time as well for the former clay

pigeon shooting a limp in notching first a car title behind the wheel a great event for volkswagen with a german manufacturer sweeping the podium south african general de villiers was second while stage winner twenty ten champion carlos sun's finished in third spot while in the bikes mark his third victory in five years respond seeing off an ever present rival to pray by fifteen minutes overall. to the greens where it's set to go to the wire the first full field p.g.a. event of the season in hawaii. should get maruyama sharing the lead after run three out the sony open some pitch perfect efforts on the day especially from the front per maruyama kneeling at forty two foot here one of four birdies the back nine for the japanese but overnight leader appleby beverage with a monster effort off the rough on the seventh both men said ten on the par ahead of

the final round which will be over thirty six holes because of a rain delay and start the honolulu tournaments. the first half of the hard hitting n.f.l. playoff weekend is in the books two thousand and eight super bowl champions the pittsburgh steelers on the green bay packers punches moving on to the a.f.c. and n.f.c. conference championship games respectively events. unfold. two thousand a defensive player of the year james harrison and the steelers holding down the fort in pittsburgh often miscues in the early stages of the game the ravens score you're reading the only one realizing there was no stoppage of play returning a fumble to make the score fourteen to seventh steelers coach mike tomlin challenged but to no avail timed he put baltimore all twenty one seven in the second short field for the ravens thanks to another steelers turnover the steelers

collected themselves at half time keith miller cuttingly to twenty one fourteen after ray rice fumbled the drive away for the ravens in the third baltimore quarterback joe flacco. moore and his counterpart ben roethlisberger found the fiery temper veteran hines ward to tie the game rock. pressure situations are his comfort zone the fifty yard bomb to rookie and brown putting the home side into favorable territory rashard mendenhall got to score the forest and the last down of this game running in and here for the thirty one to twenty four final score either the jets or the patriots next up for pittsburgh in the a.f.c. title showdown the n.f.c. divisional game wasn't as even the mashed on paper with a top seeded falcons hosting the packers the six seeded visitors struggled on the road while atlanta excelled at home year eric weems shining the spotlight on the

often overlooked special teams the longest kickoff return in playoff history seen the back of receiver cover one hundred in two yards in no time at all. that's second quarter. fourteen seven and send the local crowd to its feet. and the packers aaron rodgers the quarterback for john couey. to tie the score then found. the twenty six year old hired as an advantage to elevate smaller. and failed to silence those criticizing his post-season play. quarterback in making it twenty eight to fourteen green bay and the break the found. a much needed breather but the relentless had more to offer in the second half the twenty seven year old reminding everyone he can make plays with his legs to forty eight to twenty one packers and an even bigger underdog in

seattle or the chicago bears are up next for green bay. seahawks. the first grand slam of the tennis year meanwhile less than twenty four hours away they australian open getting underway as usual at melbourne park. short odds. but nidal who won three of four majors last year says he doesn't see it as

a two horse race. for sure feeling less favorite than him and not more. than drug coverage. so the this kind of play is not so that's the that's what i think. the ladies side of things the bookmakers are treading more curfew after five time champion stringer williams rule herself fight to a foot injury but two thoughts on the need to win or maria sharapova says it's more about who comes good on the day rather than the favorites tike i guess you can see it tomorrow. and some other years from other fields. you can approach some of the first round doesn't have a chance to play some of their best tennis and go and win tournaments. are now

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