ramon the close of the on the main. road isn't punished for paper cuts. it's now past the hour here in moscow we are covering the week's top stories here on our. final report on last april's plane crash that killed poland's president sparks debate as the findings point to pilot error also has accepted part of the blame lies with the polish side but said some of the questions have been left unanswered. to all team up. in a multi-billion dollar deal the companies will now join forces to explore the potentially huge deposits of oil and gas buried under russia's continental shelf.

treaty between moscow and washington has been approved by russia's parliament in the second of three readings the pact has been given the go ahead by the u.s. senate from just before the new year. well rising up against guantanamo bay and protesting against its music being used during torture we talked to grammy award winning guitarist tom morello of rage against the machine he wants to bring about social change through his music stay with us. 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. r t sits down with tom morello tom morello thanks so much for joining us and happy to be 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 today well 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 ask me 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 of 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 inactive. and so. what sounds trite does is we were asked by. i 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 the state 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 a 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 compromise that have to be made you know there are no dr king's or. malcolm x. or gandhi's that are going to make or you know rage against the machines or 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 directives of helping developing nations and ending world conflicts or do you think that the absolute cater to the benefits of the more wealthy or development 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 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 millis 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 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 it's a democrat you know it's like he does the things you expect democrats to do you know the u.s. government you use 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 him 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 on that day 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 i categorize as the machine of today i know that 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 you know 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 and make everything all right that's not how progressive radical or even revolutionary change has ever occurred 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 you 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 world's it's a. it's omnipresent you haven't had the opportunity to work 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 is 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 il to succeed in romance and you know these things are you know so in that regard capital is very successful. well i would say is also c.s. successful you have to it is 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 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 an

election and so there is some some reason for hope what do you make of what's happening in latin america right now you're seeing a lot of those developing nations collaborate with each other to throw off 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 and a 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 is it's as that virus spreads or south america but really both economic i think political capital is so invested in the middle east that there was this window of opportunity for south american 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 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 derived from all the street sweeper is a is a firearm it's like it's like a machine gun that shoots shotgun shells the idea is that our music is. a weapon for social change the reason why it's a. 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 or come to show when you're in all so we're trying to avoid litigation because someone else on the name streets with what role do you think musicians should play as far as social justice and political change goes you think that they should take on a more like role and work towards different issues or do you think they should get 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 the musicians to do not have

a you know sort of social conscious but adopt one because i suggested you know i mean 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 so 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 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 why i recommend just don't to 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 scene for social club and international activist it was great to have you thanks so much thanks very much for having.

you know the military ninety sixty six i don't know because it's the things i saw the things i was doing in this reason we were given for doing it was a personal protest. during the vietnam. the war movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in barracks and on ships penetrated military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. after the army will we set free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant we are.

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he's available in. the week's top stories here on our. plane crash that killed the president spot the findings point pilot. has accepted part of the blame lies with the polish side but such some of the questions still have to. to all giants team up. b.p. swap shares in a multi-billion dollar deal companies will now a joint forces to explore the potentially shoes deposits of oil and gas buried under russia's arctic continental shelf. and a landmark nuclear arms cuts treaty between moscow and washington has been approved by russia's parliament in the second of three readings of the package has been given the go ahead by the u.s. senate just before the new year. and more news in less than fifteen minutes time

but for now it's the sports with the. 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 a moscow movie joint top of the newly established p b l reigniting hopes of a ninth straight russian title. three kings bloodier chagnon wins or record breaking seven the car rally in the truck section. colma secure the car by crunch respectively. and brett who green bay show they can do it without far wrong playing to their divisional playoffs against top ranked atlanta. going on the hardwood where c.s.k. 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 reasons to the seventeen time russian champions boasts a sky and local how the same record and during these clash and on paper at least the home side should have no one 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 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 came in with a different team in the second half they started it was an eleven neil run but i'm

. glad his side was for free. pointers 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 and it was started with scuffle for minutes remaining in the fourth quarter just cost us fail to me case shown in a committee for the last possession was three seconds to go they didn't score as well and the game went into overtime where it was very close again and jeremy may still level the game in a.d.h. after these three point play. hold and then to the army man too with this three pointer and local had the ball was doing to seconds to go in overtime but they turned it over breathing to pass it out of bounds this is the game to wean and concentrated all forty minutes and. it's impossible. to stop every little.

little bitch from a big. shot and so. the game was tight all four or five minutes so it was a tough play hard we. played special in the second half and. last but. 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 ard. 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 d. 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 u.a.e. would have sent to the offending. the first time a title holder would have parted the cup at the first draw and put a bus only goal right out the death left iraq to fight another day. it's becoming almost perfect but nonetheless an amazing achievement after 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 and also heading home a one two three for his country. to be bored nicholai a second to third cool. so gratian time as well for the former clay pigeon shooting a limpy in notching first a car title behind the wheel a great event for volkswagen with the german manufacturer sweeping the podium south african. stage winner twenty ten champion carlos finished in third spot.

while in the bike smart coleman his third victory in five years seeing off ever present rivals to pray by fifteen minutes overall. to the greens where it's set to go to the wire at the first full field p.g.a. event of the season in hawaii. maruyama sharing the lead off to run three of the sony open some pitch perfect efforts on the day especially from the front per maruyama kneeling at forty two foot putt here one of four. nine for the japanese but overnight leader aapl bay 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 starts the honolulu tournaments. the first half of the hard hitting n.f.l. playoff weekend is in the books two thoughts in the nets super bowl champions the

pittsburgh steelers on the green bay packers producing knockout punch is moving on to the a.f.c. and n.f.c. conference championship games respectively evens of course watch the action unfold . two thousand a defensive player of the year james here seen in the steelers holding down the fort in pittsburgh it was the off in the miscues in the early stages of the game the ravens score you reading the only one realizing there was no stoppage of play returning a phone bill to make the score fourteen to seven steelers coach mike tomlin challenged but to no avail. baltimore all twenty one seven in the second short field for the ravens thanks to another steelers turnover the steelers collected themselves at halftime he familiar cutting the lead to twenty one fourteen after ray rice for bill to drive away for the ravens in the third baltimore quarterback joe flacco turned the ball over once more and his counterpart ben roethlisberger

found the fiery temper veteran hines ward to tie the game ross was. again that pressure situations are his comfort zone the fifty yard bomb. putting the home side into favorable territory rashard mendenhall got to score the forest and the last down of the game. 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. eric shining the spotlight on the often overlooked special teams the longest kickoff return in playoff history seen the back cover one hundred in two yards in no time at all that second quarter. fourteen seven and send the local crowd to its feet but it also awakened the beast

in the packers aaron rodgers the quarterback for john couey. to tie the score then found. twenty one of fourteen the twenty six year old hired as an advantage to elevate over smaller grinds matt ryan failed to silence those criticizing his postseason play c'mon williams speaking of the quarterback making it twenty eight to fourteen green bay and the break the falcons defense got a much needed breather but the relentless rodgers 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. archie.

continue the cinderella run as they march into soldier field in chicago to take on the birds on the new york jets preparing for a huge battle with new england also on sunday jets cornerback antonio cromartie earlier used a few choice words to describe patriots quarterback tom brady and they weren't the only fire remarks ahead of the fox spring country expect crocker. the first grand slam of the tennis year meanwhile is now less than twenty four hours away the australian open getting underway as usual at melbourne park does usual this short odds on the rafael nadal and roger federer to collect the men's crying but the doll who won three of four majors last year says he doesn't see it as a two horse race. for sure. less favorite than him and not more. than a joke which. so the being this is kind of.

that's the that's what i think. on the levy side of things the bookmakers are treading more curfew after five time champion stringer williams rule herself to a foot injury but to thaw and i need a winner maria sharapova says it's more about who comes good on the day rather than the favorites. and guess you can see it tomorrow. and some other years from other people. you can approach them first rounders and have a chance to play. in their best times to go on when the turnaround. are now open or not i don't think. a big fortnight of tennis lies ahead with all these all your sports i'll see you soon the world weather is coming up in just a tick. hungry

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