come tonight from the russian capital this week's top stories now here in r.t. the final report on last april's plane crash that killed poland's president sparks debate as the findings point to pilot error warsaw has accepted part of the blame lies with the polish side but said some of the questions have been left. to oil giant. b.p. shares in a multi-billion dollar deal the company's will now join forces to explore the potentially huge deposits of oil and gas buried on the continental shelf. and the. treaty between moscow and washington has been approved by russia's

parliament in the second of three readings that has been given the go ahead by the u.s. senate just before. about with another update on this and fifteen minutes from now in the meantime one band is rising up against one day and protesting against its music being used during torture we talked to grammy award winning guitarist tom morello of rage against the machine who wants to bring about social change through his out that's our interview next. 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. parties sits down with tom morello tom morello thanks so much for joining us and happy to be putting 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 immigration debate well i was happy to join the immigration debates and the boycott of arizona through the sound strike which was founded by zach to the road show 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 everything 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 handcuffs to 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 word inactive. and so. what sounds trite does is we were asked by. denies there's within arizona who are fighting against as pretense 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 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 compromises that have to be made you know there are no dr king's or. malcolm x.'s are gone these that are going to make or you know rage against the machines that don't make it that far because of the compromise that has to occur so it's basically what i expected i mean it's 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 heads 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. do you think they absolutely live up to their directives of helping developing nations and ending world conflicts or do you think they actually 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 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'd expect president obama has been the commander in chief now for. true years then everyone hoped they would assurance a new wave of multilateral negotiations and policies toward the rest of the world but 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 it's 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 it's still illegal and immoral war as well as still being gauged in iraq not closing down guantanamo bay. one thing 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 now it's like all anyone says is obama at least the face of united states foreign relations has had a million rating effect on some parts of the part of the world i think that 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 get your music as a form of you know the worst techniques that some people consider torture blasting your music for seventy two hours nonstop to sensually 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 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 our 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 used to be a member of a very well known group of rage against the machine 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. what i categorize as the machine of today i know that the. i think the overarching message of all of my projects whether it's rage against machines street sweeper social club or the nightwatchman 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 for the boy every four years and cross your fingers and hope for the best but some magical president is going to sprinkle fairy dust 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 feel in this country how we got the eight hour day how we got children out of coal mines how we got. how we got a weekend 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. it's omnipresent you have had the opportunity 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 is 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 to the right you know buy agra pill to succeed in romance and you know these things are you know so in that regard capital is very successful what i would say is also see as successful you have to. is that there's a there's. there's a balance to that if 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 indigenous people in power you're seeing the economic you know the 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 latin america right now you're seeing

a lot of those developing nations collaborate with each other to throw off these very strong influence the u.s. as you know had and that region for decades i think of the movement in south america towards a. the people democracies and a democratization of those economies really was able to occur occur because the you know the idea 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 spread through south america but really both economic i think political capital was 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 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 a social club is one because we're a very social unit and there's a very low bar for entry into the social club well you got to do is listen and. are jams are coming to show in your and also 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 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 here thanks so much thanks very much for having.

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this week's top stories in the follow to 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. left unanswered. two oil giants. deal. forces to explore the potentially huge deposits of gas buried arctic. between moscow and washington has been approved by russia's parliament and the second of three readings has been given the go ahead by the u.s. senate just before. with more news in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime natasha joins us next with the latest sports.

thank you william welcome to news here is what's coming up on the program floods in a track and was a record breaking several trucks action while not and mark o'mara secure the car and bike crowds respectively. in the n.f.l. green bay shows they can do it without far romping past the top ranked atlanta in the divisional playoffs. and also a recap of the latest winter action including victory number of fifteen for the young stoppable if it's a good style and change the manslaughter in switzerland. and wish for both the women to stay united all taken on told him in the premier league game him to return to top spot and the table. and the leaders there's still male male in this second

hall i would see united overtake cross-town rivals man city as it's all elsewhere a close match felt as noble entertained everton mean can. take home games in challenged everton words to one up made way through before due to it converted from the spot in the sixty eight minutes to the two all draw living both sides just four points above relegation earlier sunderland to drew with newcastle on the same score between lowly seed to birmingham and aston villa one. that brings us to international football and the asian cup where iran have become the first side to qualify for the quarterfinals in qatar the irradiance seeing off north korea by a single goal in their last group pouncer a month murri the man finishing off a lightning move just after the alamo so one nailed the final school iran into the last eight. and iraq avoided an unwanted piece of history on the night a loss against the united arab emirates would have sound the defending champions

home first. i'm a title holder would have departed the asian cup at the first round but a wall of a boss own goal right at the death and left iraq to fight another day. now is becoming almost predictable but nonetheless an amazing achievement. is seventh the car really title on saturday a record tally the russian virtually unstoppable throughout argentina and chile winning eight of the thirteen stages on all four remarkably jug and also had a home we won two three for his country with competitors for those beautiful and added a lot of nikolai a second and third it's a town gold for team come on. so aberration time as well. here the clay pigeon shooting a limp and mulching his first card title behind the will a great event for folks walking over all with a german manufacturer sweeping the podium the year was second stage when and last

year's champion carlos finished third spot and in the bikes mark caldwell claimed in five years after seeing all the ever present rivals serial do prayer by fifteen minutes. the first half of the hard hitting and of weekend is now in the books to thousand a champion steelers green bay packers producing knockout punch is moving on to the a.f.c. and an of c. conference championship games respectively if you watch the action. two thousand a defensive player of the year james harrison and the steelers holding down the fort in pittsburgh. miscues in the early stages of the game the ravens score in reading the only. stoppage of play returning a fumble to make the score fourteen the seventh steelers coach mike tomlin challenged but to no avail tired 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. found the fiery temper veteran hines ward the tie the game. once again the pressure situations are his comfort zone the fifty yard bomb the rookie antonio brown putting the home side into favorable territory rashard mendenhall got to score the forest and the last down of this game. here for the thirty one to twenty four final score either the jets or the patriots nextel 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 there eric weems shining

a spotlight on the often overlooked special teams the longest kickoff return in playoff history seen the back cover one hundred in two yards and no time at all that second quarter effort made to score fourteen seven and send the local crowd to its feet but it also awakened the beast and the packers aaron rodgers the quarterback for john couey. to tie the score he then found james jones who made a twenty one to fourteen. the twenty six year old using his hide as an advantage to elevate over a smaller brain to grimes man ryan failed to silence those criticizing his post-season play tramon williams speaking of the quarterback making it twenty to fourteen green bay and the break the fountains 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 with green bay. archie. sunday's fixtures the seahawks shockingly golf to defeating reigning super bowl champions new orleans in the wild card drought and they're now gearing up to continue the center aileron as they much march into a soldier field in chicago to take on the bears and the new york jets are preparing for a huge battle with new england also on sunday. let's talk hockey and they came chel now does not have that sounds defeated in the rose in this time to say to rivals spar thought they start back. down three one from to the home crowd elsewhere. belorussians all their opponents by the same school line and finally. came from two goals down to the big three in the time in the last ten capital. basketball

says moscow have moved to the top of the prevail standings along with or knicks following in their a window overlooking my sea of the former pm champions may have had a season to largely forgets but as reports now things are beginning to look on the up in the new year. it was the peak of sun today's action in the b.b.l. was like a monkey from. the seventeenth time russian champions. and local count. the same record entering the splash and on paper at least the home side should have known expected in easy a line and there it is the gist of the match justified they expect the sions looking mighty for desperate in defense getting five steals in the opening quarter and they were decent at taken says guys basket as well and finished the first half leading by field 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 in says guy came in with

a different team in the second half they started it was in the eleven neil run and i mean this just goes because lead his side was four three pointers and eventually begin the top score of the night it was twenty six the visitors stayed in the game courtsey of mike wilkinson went two points for them arrogant in the match and it was tied with scuffle for minutes remaining in the fourth quarter just because this failed to make a 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 it was very close again and jeremy may still have a big game it's eight each after these three point played jazz for them then through the army man up by two with base three pointer and local head the ball was twenty seconds to go over time but they turned it or failing to pass it out of bounds it says god brought the game to ween hands more concentrated all for a minutes and. it's impossible. to stop ever though by

a soul wrist a little bitch from the big guys from their shot and demand a shot so. the game was tight all four or five minutes so it was a tough one i mean we played hard we played good just to play and play good especially in the second half and you know it's tough to come away after a game like that with a loss but double teams play well both teams are didn't for sale wanting to win eighty nine to eighty seven and in guard. and week three fleets is gone we seem to be starting to stamp big bird in the domestic leak but it must be wrong ard. so we dispose now where also as andras call for claimed is false a world cup winner of the season of the large scale ski jumping in supper all the twenty seven year old completing weight solve one hundred thirty one and a hundred and thirty two point five meters for a total schools two hundred thirty two point nine points to beat seven freud the german who dominated seven days of employes made in victory had to settle for

second with wealth of leader thomas mortgage down of australia in said. in a while even suggest that which continued his divination of the slopes boasting in korea world cup win number fifteen in the man slalom and then get the growth of keeping marcel his shot into second with his second run while shabazz he's gone clinched the bronze castello also extending his small of an overall world cup lead in the process. pitch appearing in one of the big areas and to have the start of the snowboarding world championships in barcelona a combined score of fifteen one point seven points enough to clinch the first gold of the tournament canada zach stone and belgian seps mates posted the same schools with still and eventually it will do the so budget to hire single job mark. and in freestyle canadian peers both els in the world cup dual moguls at their home staging brail alexander will go out the home that everyone in demands of them while

sixteen year olds are steamed difficult up by and claimed the first victory coming in only has said world cup the former finance part of the competition. that says you can always check our you tube channel which is r t sports news for some of those stories and coming up shortly after this is the weather followed by the top headlines stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on r t.

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