brotherson the hotel treat. this week's top stories now for you here on the official report last april's plane crash that killed poland's president and members of the country's political points to pilots warsaw has accepted part of the blame lies with. some points have not been addressed. to the world's major companies team up as russian. companies have struck a deal to explore the potentially huge deposits of spirit on the russian continental shelf. and the. reduction treaty between moscow and washington has been russia's parliament and the second of three readings pacts that would see the two

countries slashed third was given the go ahead by the u.s. senate just before the new. one i one band is rising up against guantanamo bay and protesting against its music being used during torture we talked to grammy award winning guitarist of rage against the machine who wants to bring about social change through his that 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. he 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 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 tiller ochoa 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 on 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 does if we were asked by poor. denies there's within arizona who are fighting against s.p. ten seventy two lend our names to the international boycott which goes beyond music it's the 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 to 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. those are gone these that are going to make or you know rage against the machines that 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 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. you can be 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 developed nations 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. 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. two years then everyone hoped there 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 be engaged 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 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 so 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 pollies like that it's a democratic president it's not a socialist president the democrats 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 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 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 in 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. how would you categorize or what would you believe them to seem to be today and 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 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 doesn't 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 i 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. it's omnipresent you have 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 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 to the right beer to be have your thirst quencher the right you know buy agra pill to succeed in romance and you know these things are you know so in that regard apple is very successful what i would say is also see us successful you have to. you know 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 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 the u.s. as you know hide and that region for decades i think of the movement in south america towards a. the people democracies and in 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 derives from all the street sweeper is a firearm it's like it's like a machine gun to shoot shotgun size 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 well you got to do is listen and. where 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 gallon 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 that do not have a 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 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 an organization 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 here tom morello member of the street scene for social club an international activist it was great to have you thanks so much thanks very much for having me.

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now in the meantime all the latest sports highlights with natasha. hello welcome to the sports news and here is what's coming up in the program. and wins a record breaking seventh colorado in the truck section while nasra like marco most secure the car in white crown so respected in the. group move joined top of the new established pro basketball league reviving hopes of being ninth street russian title. and also a recap of the latest winter action including picture number of fifteen for the unstoppable it's like a stylish in the mound slalom in switzerland. anguish for both us though where manchester united returned to top spot in the premier league despite drawing sunday's clash with told him to work out the man after all follow the silver will

sound off in the seventy fourth minute but they managed to hold spurs to goal this drooled united cross-town rivals amounts to both see them four to five points off to the weekend by the red devils have two games in hand elsewhere to close matches and filled liverpool into saying that every time the county dels the show's home game in charge everton were two one off midway through before due to converted from the spot in the sixty minutes which will draw leaving both sides just four points above the relegation zone earlier sunderland to drew with newcastle and the only other game was also a draw but when lowly see the game and aston villa one one. and that brings us to international football and the asian cup where all have become the first side to qualify for the quarterfinals in qatar uranian seeing all of north korea by a single goal in their last group counts as a minority the man finishing off a lightning move just off the. one nil the finals on the wrong end of the last

eight. iraq avoided and i'm wanted piece of history on the night a loss against the united arab emirates with the sound the defending champions her first time a title holder for the departed the asian cup at the first round. abbas own goal right of the death left iraq to fight another day. that was becoming almost predictable now but nonetheless an amazing achievement of the legend of chad could not stop a record seventh the carly title the russian virtually unstoppable throughout argentina and chile winning eight of the thirteen stages and all four remarkably also has a hole may want to three for his country with compadre. and the daughter alive second and third respectively and it's also a town gold for team cum oz. so abrasion time as well tia the full much clay pigeon shooting early in ben not change the car title behind

the will a great event for a volkswagen with a german manufacturer sweeping the podium over here will second while stage wind and loss is champion carl science finished third spot and in the bikes mark o'mara claimed this win in five years after seeing all of abba present rivals serial defrag by fifteen minutes overall. mean basketball says moscow have moved to the top of the p.b. l. standings along with or nick's following and their own victory over the mighty of the former european champions may have had a season to largely forget about as well as reports now things are beginning to look on the up in the new year. it was the peak of so today's action in the b.b.l. was looking mighty from crystal of their music to the seventeen time russian champions. and local count the same record and through envious and least the no one expected in the zero line and there is the gist of the match just to find

they expect the sions. desperate in defense getting five. seals in the opening quarter they were decent at tank and says guys 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 in says guy came in with a different team in the second half they started it was in the eleven neil run but i mean this just goes because lead his side was for free winters and eventually to begin the top score 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 arrogant in the match and it was started with scuffle for minutes remaining in the fourth quarter just costas fail to make a shot in a committee fed 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 end of the game it's a d.h.

after these three point play jr for them then to the army man to with this three pointer and local head the ball was doing to seconds to go in overtime but they turned it over feeling to pass it out of bounds it says god brought the game to win hands more concentrated all four minutes and. it's impossible. to stop ever though by a soul wrist and it builds on the big guys from their shot and what they made those shots so if the game was tight all four or five minutes so it was a tough one i mean we played hard we played good played 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. didn't force them to win eighty nine to eighty seven in charge in week three of what say a scot who seem to be starting to stamp their birdie in the domestic league but a mr rock our team. over the winter sports now at all says andras cough likely his

fall. world cup win of the season that the large hail ski jumping in support of the twenty seven year old completing one hundred thirty one and one hundred sixty two point five meters for a total score of two hundred thirty two point nine points to be severed from wind the german who dominated said today's event for his maiden victory had to settle for second with world cup leader told mortgage that of wall street. elsewhere even suggest continued his divination of this slopes posting in korea world cup win but fifteen in the men's small up in the croats peeping marcel here shot into second with his second drawn while gianbattista clinched the bruins castello also extending his small and overall world cup lead in the process. to hear any and one of the big areas at the start of the snowboarding world championships in barcelona a combined school fifty one point seven points and off to clinch the first gold of

the tournament ten of those zach stone and belgians smiths posted the same scores with stone eventually it would have the silva due to high a single jump mark. and freestyle tonight and spears both goals in the world duel moguls at their home stage in mon gabriele alexander below door out the home to everyone in the men's event while sixteen year old just steamed up lands claimed victory coming and only her world cup performance in the women's. now and the cage shalwar janov a moscow south of the town's defeat in a row losing this time to say to rival spartak constantin but of reports. the friends of sport in the know it didn't have to wait for another course she did battle just him days before the written words beat their rivals wife this marriage was the wolf and the season in general were still one with up in the opening period

both teams were thinking of defense for. until stephan mukesh this is way past and i was defense meant to send the blockbuster netminder and four minutes later spawn a double billy durham a just don't believe there's own for a minute and finally you're right me question was the quick assume the rebound after the nice bugger off spouse will select to nothing by the end of the first. do not mar still short of players because of injury and sign the stanley cup winner and world champion you know slot shot them how even the thirty six year old forwards couldn't help his new team this night spartak seemed to be a little overconfident in the second wasting scoring opportunities and then you come out of give generally a chance to get back into the spot failed to score in the paul play and the twenty three year old forward who had just left the penalty box found himself on more and one back to one before the decisive period the game stayed very tight but six minutes before the final buzzer sparks romelu to the crease the crucial to two

goals and it became clear who will get three points in this match we are just honest about that at all i'll just let my partners gave me a chance to score that goal i was extremely happy and i would say that we're playing better and better and if we keep improving our game we'll get to the playoffs and we'll be able to be home well the interim extended their losing streak to ten matches however they still sit second in the conference. of atlanta shooters . were not playing well in the first period especially as we didn't give a rule however we tried to fight back and nearly equalise the school but the third goal was decisive do not expect us to panic the team is working hard and we hope we will soon of a come that the red and whites have won five games out of six this year and they can expect to climb even a high in the standings if they keep up their motivation is a mother of a r.t. . elsewhere in the cage challenge and i'm

a man squared to good for several styles they belorussians edging out their opponents three want. and skoll st petersburg came from two bills down to the denominator and the last man capital. to the greens finally went successfully defended his job open title saying off overnight leaders and fellow south africans golfball roy and thomas a can leaving his rivals no chance in sunday's round that saw him open up a three stroke lead going into the last he held onto post a fool's consecutive very day of the eighteenth to finish four shots ahead of molloy a can eventually settle for an eleventh korea victory for schall so will be looking for more success in twenty eleven off the joining the p.g.a. tour for this season. and that city you can check out our you tube channel which is r t sports news for some of those stories and come up short after this is the weather.

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